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Surah ANKABUT
(Consists of 7 Ruku; MK-6)
ANKABUT-The First Ruku
1. ALIF LAAM MIM.
2. Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, ‘we believe’, and not be tried?
3. And certainly We tried those before them, so Allah will certainly know those who are true and He will certainly know the liars.
4. Or do they who work evil think that they will escape Us? Evil is it that they judge!
5. Whoever hopes to meet Allah, the term appointed by Allah will then most surely come; and He is the Hearing, the Knowing.
6. And whoever strives hard, he strives only for his own soul; most surely Allah is Self-sufficient, above (need of) the worlds.
7. And (as for) those who believe and do good, We will most certainly do away with their evil deeds and We will most certainly reward them the best of what they did.
8. And We have enjoined on man goodness to his parents, and if they contend with you that you should associate (others) with Me, of which you have no knowledge, do not obey them, to Me is your return, so I will inform you of what you did.
9. And (as for) those who believe and do good, We will most surely cause them to enter among the good.
10. And among men is he who says- ‘we believe in Allah’; but when he is persecuted in (the way of) Allah he thinks the persecution of men to be as the chastisement of Allah; and if there come assistance from your Lord, they would most certainly say- ‘surely we were with you’. What! is not Allah the best knower of what is in the breasts of mankind.
11. And most certainly Allah will know those who believe and most certainly He will know the hypocrites.
12. And those who disbelieve say to those who believe- ‘follow our path and we will bear your wrongs’. And never shall they be the bearers of any of their wrongs; most surely they are liars.
13. And most certainly they shall carry their own burdens, and other burdens with their own burdens, and most certainly they shall be questioned on the resurrection day as to what they forged.
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This Surah descended at the sixth year at Makkah and like its previous three Surah and its next three Surah, it starts with MUQATTA’AAT; Allah asks all Muslims at its beginning to remain most patient at these trying times when they were facing extreme rivalry of the disbelievers at Makkah; if they have such thoughts that they would be spared, only because they have verbally claimed that they have believed, they ought to see that this is not so; Allah intends to bring at fore all those persons among the Muslims who are true to Islam and all those persons who are liars among them, so they need to go through this phase because it is the manner of Allah to examine all such persons who claim to be believers in the Truth; they must see that He has examined the persons at previous peoples too who had claimed to be among the believers; AAYAT-3 reads, “and certainly We tried those before them, so Allah will certainly know those who are true and He will certainly know the liars” so the notable thing here is that “to know” means that Allah would test all such persons who claim to be among the believers to distinguish those who are true to Islam from those who are not; Allah certainly knows the inside of all persons and that is why AAYAAT-4 & 5 ahead read, “or do they who work evil think that they will escape Us? evil is it that they judge! whoever hopes to meet Allah, the term appointed by Allah will then most surely come (when they would meet Him); and He is the Hearing (of all speech that men manifest), the Knowing (of all which men conceal at their insides)”; so the disbelievers will be unable to run away to avoid the punishment that they are liable to get at the grounds of HASHR and also, it would certainly happen that the believers would get the pleasure of Allah when He would declare the results of all persons at the grounds of HASHR; AAYAAT-6 & 7 tell that whoever strives hard to get nearer to Allah, the true Lord, by his righteous belief and good deeds according to it, with resistance to temptations that ask him to fall in sinful activities, he does good to his own self as he certainly would find at AKHIRAT; Allah certainly does not need anything from any person because He is Self-sufficient, above (need of) the worlds; those who truly believe in Islam and do good deeds accordingly with SABR in their attitude, Allah would eliminate all their evil deeds and He will most certainly reward them the best of whatever good they did; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the Ruku tells ahead how such persons around whom the Satan has led away from the right path, may pressurize a Muslim to leave the teachings of Islam in practice; firstly, the challenge to his belief may come from his parents and though Islam asks to respect them highly yet it guides clearly that if they ask to commit SHERK (to take any of Allah’s creation as equal to Him in authority), he shall not obey them; the Muslims shall always remember that they are answerable to Allah, the true Lord, so they shall never take-up anything that is against His commands; note that some of the good Muslims who had accepted Islam at those trying times, were being much forced by one or both of their parents to leave Islam and it was only when those became convinced that they would not leave Islam for certain, did they stop this provocation; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Allah declares that He would provide such persons who resist such adverse efforts of their parents to mislead them, TOFIQ to make themselves most righteous so that they get highest of good returns at AKHIRAT; secondly, the challenge to his belief may come from those disbelievers who have some authority at the place where he dwells, when they torment him much so that he leaves Islam; note that the Muslims were facing hard times at Makkah when this Surah came to the Prophet PBUH; this AAYAT tells about such Muslim person, who is not firm in his belief upon Islam, that he takes the persecution of men that he faces in the way of Allah, to be as the chastisement of Allah and comes to leaving Islam; but however, if the Muslims gain power somewhere, he says that he also is included in them so for all his convenience, he claims his belief in Islam and when he finds the goings highly rough towards him due to his commitment to Islam, he comes near to leaving it; it reads, “and among men is he who says- ‘we believe in Allah’; but when he is persecuted in (the way of) Allah, he thinks the persecution of men to be as the chastisement of Allah; and if there come assistance from your Lord, they would most certainly say- ‘surely we were with you’; what! is not Allah the best knower of what is in the breasts of mankind (so they may hide their wrongs from persons around yet they are unable to conceal anything at their insides from Allah, the true Lord, Who would judge their doings most justly at the Day of Judgment)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Allah declares that such trying events come upon all persons that He truly “knows” (i.e. brings at fore) those who believe and those who are hypocrites; Al-Hamdu Lillah; this is the only place in the Quran where the term “MUNAFIQIN” (hypocrites) occurs at a Surah that descended at Makkah, as hypocrites had come at fore at Madinah where Muslims were getting strength and these persons intended to get benefits of the world by their verbal claim; Surah AHZAAB, that descended at Madinah, has this term at six places that includes its first and last AAYAAT while Surah MUNAFIQUN also relates their wrongs; Surah NISAA-138 asks the Prophet PBUH, “announce to the hypocrites that they shall have a painful chastisement” and tells about them ahead at that Ruku that they are such persons who befriend the disbelievers leaving the Muslims; it tells that if they intend respect from the disbelievers then they ought to know that respect, all of it, belongs only to Allah; so it guides the Muslims well in clear terms not to worry about what the disbelievers say about how the Muslims ask for practicing Islam in the setup of the world as of now and/or what they say about the attitudes of the Muslims towards life at the world; we Muslims take this life as the means to achieve the pleasure of Allah by adhering to the KITAB (the Quran) and the SUNNAH of the Prophet PBUH, and it has no value other than that; those persons who prefer the life at the world over the life at AKHIRAT, they are given-to idiocy as they try to disrespect Allah by not taking Him as the true Lord; certainly, the Muslims need to avoid the disbelievers in the world as of now and leave them on their own; as Surah ANKABUT descended at Makkah, its AAYAT-11, though its connotation shows such persons who are not true in their words about Islam, does not denote them to be as organized as they were at Madinah to challenge the teachings of Islam in practice; at this Surah ANKABUT, we also find the term “JAHADA” (to strive hard) at its sixth AAYAT which reads, “and whoever strives hard, he strives only for his own soul; most surely Allah is Self-sufficient, above (need of) the worlds”; and at its last AAYAT too, which contains its plural form to tell about such striving persons, that reads, “and (as for) those who strive hard for Us, We will most certainly guide them in Our ways; and Allah is most surely with the doers of good”; note that the root word for this term is JEHAD which is usually taken to denote the armed fight against the enemy of Islam yet that is just an aspect to it as JEHAD has three aspects that are MUJAHIDA and TABLIGH (to spread the teachings of Islam) and QITAL (armed combat of the good Muslims against the enemy who challenges Islam in the most mischievous manner); in all its aspects, it relates to striving hard of Muslims by aid of the Quran, in the best manner possible against all wrongs to gain the pleasure of Allah; Al-Hamdu Lillah; at Makkah, Muslims were disallowed to challenge the disbelievers by the armed combat and they were permitted for it only at AAYAT-39 of Surah HAJJ which descended at the last year in Makkah and the first year in Madinah; Surah ANKABUT, as it descended at Makkah, has this term in the meaning of MUJAHIDA which relates to fighting such desires inside at the individual level that incite the Muslim person to challenge Islam in his practice; there is provocation to wrongs inside due to satanic temptations but he resists all such temptations by his total attention towards Allah; this resistance with care to Islam relates to SABR (i.e. keeping to Islam with total patience at averse situations without any care to worldly assets) and as such, it relates most highly to MUJAHIDA; he is at JEHAD at the individual level as he practices SABR and as he asks Allah for safety from all wrongs; his MUJAHIDA does manifest beautifully at such times where the sinful persons ask him to leave care to virtues and to come towards wrongs too to enjoy by them; MUJAHIDA leads the good Muslim person to become able to guide all persons towards Islam by the blessing of Allah so it is obligatory upon each and every good Muslim (as it means for him to obey sincerely the commands of Allah in the individual capacity), though all good Muslims would fulfill the liability of TABLIGH and QITAL too as required, with high caliber, when there is a significant quantity among them for each of these both; Al-Hamdu Lillah; if there are many of such Muslim persons who adhere to MUJAHIDA at some specific place together by keeping themselves away from wrongs and then they call towards Islam, Allah provides them ample peace and gives them TOFIQ to become even better; Al-Hamdu Lillah; see also the supplementary note at AAYAT-39 of Surah HAJJ which comes after the note at its sixth Ruku; the term JAAHADAAKA (they both strive hard) which relates to the root word JEHAD, has also come at AAYAT-8 of this first Ruku which denotes the efforts of parents against the son who accepts Islam totally so here it only has its connotation by dictionary as it states, “and We have enjoined on man goodness to his parents, and if they contend with you (which occurs by words “WA-IN-JAAHADAAKA”) that you should associate (others) with Me, of which you have no knowledge (because on the contrary, you have the true knowledge that certainly there is none equal in authority to Him), do not obey them; to Me is your return, so I will inform you of what you did”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; so challenge to the good belief of a good Muslim may come from his parents and from those disbelievers who have some authority at the place he dwells; thirdly, the challenge to his belief may come from such persons who would say anything to mislead the Muslims by trickery that the outcome to go against Islam would not harm them in any averse manner; the last two AAYAAT of the Ruku state, “and those who disbelieve say to those who believe- ‘follow our path and we will bear your wrongs’; and never shall they be the bearers of any of their wrongs; most surely they are liars; and most certainly they shall carry their own burdens, and other burdens with their own burdens (but that would fall upon them due to their own verbal efforts to mislead the Muslim persons so in actual, their other burdens also shall be due to their own doings), and most certainly they shall be questioned on the resurrection day as to what they forged (to mislead the Muslim persons); Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ANKABUT-The Second Ruku
14. And certainly We sent Noah to his people, so he remained among them a thousand years save fifty years. And the deluge overtook them, while they were unjust.
15. So We delivered him and the inmates of the ark, and made it a sign to the nations.
16. And (note about) Ibrahim, when he said to his people: Serve Allah and be careful of (your duty to) Him; this is best for you, if you did but know:
17. You only worship idols besides Allah and you create a lie; surely they whom you serve besides Allah do not control for you any sustenance, therefore seek the sustenance from Allah and serve Him and be grateful to Him; to Him you shall be brought back.
18. And if you reject (the Truth), nations before you did indeed reject; and nothing is incumbent on the apostle but a plain delivering (of the message).
19. What! do they not consider how Allah originates the creation, then reproduces it? Surely that is easy to Allah.
20. Say: Travel in the earth and see how Allah makes the first creation, then Allah creates the latter creation; surely Allah has power over all things.
21. He punishes whom He pleases and has mercy on whom He pleases, and to Him you shall be turned back.
22. And you shall not escape in the earth nor in the heaven, and you have neither a protector nor a helper besides Allah.
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This Ruku narrates about Noah-AS, by whom the mankind spread again upon the earth after the flood that drowned all other of them, and about Ibrahim-AS, by whom the golden chain of Allah’s Prophets (Salam on all of them) came ahead; in AAYAAT ahead at the Ruku, Allah declares how He punished those persons at the world and how He would punish them at the Day of Judgment who, besides other of disbelief, did not have true belief in AKHIRAT, which goes on to the first AAYAT of the third Ruku; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the beginning AAYAAT of the Ruku state, “and certainly We sent Noah to his people, so he remained among them a thousand years save fifty years, and the deluge overtook them, while they were unjust; so We delivered him and the inmates of the ark, and made it a sign to the nations”; Surah SHUA’RAA that we all have studied recently, Surah AARAAF, Surah HOODH and other of Surah have provided detail for this; however, here we find that Noah provided the message of Allah to his nation for nine hundred and fifty years while his total age at the world is mentioned as more than one thousand years as he became the Messenger of Allah at the age of maturity and as he lived on ahead too after that notable flood; this is to tell all of Muslims that they need patience to provide the teachings of Islam to all peoples and they need to bear what comes in that process as Allah would certainly examine them all at the world to prove their claim to Islam; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that after sending any of the Messengers to some nation, Allah appoints such time where that nation would ultimately accept the fundamental Islamic teachings or face certain death; we all have studied at Surah AARAAF in its second Ruku about Adam & Eve (Salam on both of them) explicitly that the life at the world is an examination to the mankind so all persons must keep to the three fundamental teachings of Islam that all the Messengers of Allah have guided to; these fundamental teachings of Islam are TAUHID (Allah only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord) and AKHIRAT (Allah would judge all peoples of the world at the Day of Judgment) and RISALAT (Allah had sent His Messengers to the world to provide the Guidance to the right path); Al-Hamdu Lillah; each of the Messengers of Allah said to his respective nation that “I am a faithful messenger unto you so keep your duty to Allah, and obey me”; so all the Messengers did try their best to guide their nations as Allah has asked them; however, their nations did not comply to their call and so Allah destroyed them completely at the world and they certainly would be among the severely punished peoples at AKHIRAT; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the next three AAYAAT from 16 to 19 state, “And (note about) Ibrahim, when he said to his people- serve Allah and be careful of (your duty to) Him; this is best for you, if you did but know; you only worship idols besides Allah and you create a lie; surely they whom you serve besides Allah do not control for you any sustenance, therefore seek the sustenance from Allah and serve Him and be grateful to Him; to Him you shall be brought back; and if you reject (the Truth), nations before you did indeed reject; and nothing is incumbent on the apostle but a plain delivering (of the message)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; these AAYAAT give the message of Islam clearly that Allah, the only Creator of life, only has the true authority so all persons shall obey Him only as that only is the aim of life; if He intends to provide benefits to anyone, nobody is able to stop those benefits from him/her and if He intends to stop something from anyone, nobody is able to provide that to him/her so all persons need to be most grateful to Him only; those who worship idols besides Allah, they have given themselves to lies only as they take these idols as providers of their security while they are totally unable to provide any security to their own selves even; all persons certainly have to answer Allah for all their doings so if they reject the fundamental teachings of Islam then the Messenger of Allah has done his job by providing that to them, as he only has the liability to deliver the message of Allah plainly; note that Ibrahim-AS was the Messenger of Allah but not particularly towards any of peoples and the difference manifests here by the respective statements “and certainly We sent Noah to his people” (AAYAT-14) & “and (note about) Ibrahim, when he said to his people- serve Allah and be careful of (your duty to) Him” (AAYAT-16); the notable thing here is that after sending any of Messengers to some nation, Allah appoints such time where they would ultimately accept the fundamental Islamic teachings or face certain death; the people of Ibrahim (Abraham) did live on after he left them and there is a very high probability that some of them had accepted the Islamic teachings that he had provided to them and from them, it did reach on to other of peoples too; however, as it is only a probability, the best thing to state is that certainly, Allah knows better; Al-Hamdu Lillah; so Abraham-AS refuted the belief of his nation at Babylon where he was born at the city of UR and where the people worshipped idols and took stars even as objects to worship, whereas their king asked unconditional obedience from them; Abraham challenged these aspects of their belief at different occasions as we find the mention at BAQARAH-258, at ANBIYA-the fifth Ruku and at AN’AAM-the ninth Ruku; he argued by the signs of heavens to guide his nation towards TAUHID of Allah (that Allah only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord); he even showed them by practical demonstration by destroying their idols that they are totally helpless to save them and even themselves; Al-Hamdu Lillah; he said in clear terms that denoted his true belief that he has set his face firmly towards Him Who created the heavens and the earth, being upright, and never shall he be of the polytheists; Al-Hamdu Lillah; he told them to take his word for it that those who do believe in Allah righteously and do not mix it up with the heavy injustice (SHERK), then for those only is the security as they certainly do have the true guidance; only that true guidance has the worth to lead to security at AKHIRAT which for certain, is the true success; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that SHERK means to reject Allah as the only Creator of all the creation or/and challenge His authority by doubts about His attributes that are QADEEM (He is from all times to all times with all of His attributes that are of Him from all times to all times), ASL (all of His attributes are His Own), LA-MEHDUD (all of His attributes are limitless) or/and to reject Him as the only true Lord of all the creation Who actually has to be obeyed, so any of His creation shall only be obeyed when his/its directions do not challenge the obedience to His commands in principle in any way; Al-Hamdu Lillah; from AAYAT-19 to AAYAT-23 (the first AAYAT of the next Ruku), Allah tells the disbelievers that they need to see how everything manifests and asks them through the Prophet PBUH to see how the cycle of life goes on; Allah has total authority and nobody is able to stop Him from anything He intends; Al-Hamdu Lillah; these AAYAAT read, “what! do they not consider how Allah originates the creation, then reproduces it (as the process of birth and death manifests well in His creation so the life goes on)? surely that is easy to Allah; say (to them O Prophet PBUH), ‘travel in the earth and see how Allah makes the first creation, then Allah creates the latter creation (as there are stages in creation of everything, so Allah would provide life to all persons at the Day of HASHR as that also is one of stages in the life of mankind)’; surely Allah has power over all things; He punishes (wrong persons at life at the world too) whom He pleases (as He eliminated many of peoples who challenged the fundamental teachings of Islam) and has mercy on whom He pleases (as He gave more space of time to the people of Abraham), and to Him you shall be turned back (at AKHIRAT to see the final outcome of all your doings where He would spare no wrong person and where He would provide every righteous person his due good returns); and you shall not escape in the earth nor in the heaven (on that specific day), and you have neither a protector nor a helper besides Allah (on that specific day); and (as to) those who disbelieve in the AAYAAT of Allah and His meeting, they have despaired of My mercy (at life at the world), and these it is that shall have a painful punishment (at AKHIRAT)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ANKABUT-The Third Ruku
23. And (as to) those who disbelieve in the AAYAAT of Allah and His meeting, they have despaired of My mercy, and these it is that shall have a painful punishment.
24. So naught was the answer of his people except that they said: Slay him or burn him; then Allah delivered him from the fire; most surely there are signs in this for a people who believe.
25. And he said: You have only taken for yourselves idols besides Allah by way of friendship between you in this world's life, then on the resurrection day some of you shall deny others, and some of you shall curse others, and your abode is the fire, and you shall not have any helpers.
26. And Lot believed in Him, and he (Abraham) said: I am fleeing to my Lord, surely He is the Mighty, the Wise.
27. And We granted him Isaac and YAQOUB (Jacob), and caused the prophet-hood and the book to remain in his seed, and We gave him his reward in this world, and in the hereafter he will most surely be among the good.
28. And (We sent) Lot when he said to his people: Most surely you are guilty of an indecency which none of the nations has ever done before you;
29. What! do you come to the males and commit robbery on the highway, and you commit evil in your assemblies? But nothing was the answer of his people except that they said: Bring on us Allah's punishment, if you are one of the truthful.
30. He said: My Lord! help me against the mischievous people.
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The third Ruku of ANKABUT continues the narrative of Abraham-AS and tells about Lot-AS; it states that as the people of Abraham were unable to answer his argument, they decided to burn him alive but Allah saved him from that which certainly tells how Allah saves those who truly do strive hard in his way with utmost patience (see ANBIYA-69); Al-Hamdu Lillah; Abraham told his people in clear terms that they have taken worship of idols due to their relations with each other but at AKHIRAT, some of them shall deny any relations to the most evil persons among them, and some of them shall even curse others, and the abode of all of them is the hell-fire for certain while they shall not have any helpers on that day; his nephew Lot accepted the message of Islam at that most trying time and later on, Allah chose him too as one of His Messengers; Al-Hamdu Lillah; seeing that his people would not believe in the fundamental teaching of Islam, Abraham migrated from Ur with his wife and Lot towards the ancient area of Syria (that included Palestine too) as ANBIYA-71 states, “and We delivered him as well as Lot (removing them and Sarah-AS) to the land which We had blessed for all people”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAT-27 tells that Allah gave Isaac-AS to Abraham, who was his son, and Jacob-AS, who was his grandson; it reads, “and We granted him Isaac and YAQOUB (Jacob), and caused the prophet-hood and the book (Torah) to remain in his seed (i.e. his descendants), and We gave him his reward in this world; and in the hereafter, he will most surely be among the good”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; as for the nation of Lot-AS, they were the people living at Sodom and Gomorrah at south of the dead sea; they were extremely filthy persons who used to commit the heinous sin of sodomy among the men and looted travelers whenever they found the chance for it; they had become so perverted in sexual matters that they even talked at their gatherings about their filth as they found pleasure in such talks so their living manner has made them oblivious of any sense of good morality; Lot actually did not belong to that nation but Allah sent him as His Messenger to them and he tried his best to reform them of this heinous sin but to no avail; in fact, they intended to expel him from their city just because he challenged their filth; then Lot-AS made a plea to Allah to punish these heinous wrong-doers so Allah rained stones upon them to eliminate them totally; Lot had taken his wife from amongst that nation and she did not disapprove of their heinous sin so she was most disobedient to Lot and so she was punished too with that extremely sinful nation; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ANKABUT-The Fourth Ruku
31. And when Our apostles came to Ibrahim with the good news, they said: Surely we are going to destroy the people of this town, for its people are unjust.
32. He said: Surely in it is Lot. They said: We know well who is in it; we shall certainly deliver him and his followers, except his wife; she shall be of those who remain behind.
33. And when Our apostles came to Lot he was grieved on account of them, and he felt powerless (to protect) them; and they said: Fear not, nor grieve; surely we will deliver you and your followers, except your wife; she shall be of those who remain behind.
34. Surely We will cause to come down upon the people of this town a punishment from heaven, because they transgressed.
35. And certainly We have left a clear sign of it for a people who understand.
36. And to Madyan (We sent) their brother SHOAIB, so he said: O my people! serve Allah and fear the latter day and do not act corruptly in the land, making mischief.
37. But they rejected him, so a severe earthquake overtook them, and they became motionless bodies in their abode.
38. And (We destroyed) AAD and THAMUD, and from their dwellings (this) is apparent to you indeed; and the Satan made their deeds fair-seeming to them, so he kept them back from the path, though they were endowed with intelligence and skill,
39. And (We destroyed) QAROUN and Pharaoh and Haman; and certainly Musa came to them with clear arguments, but they behaved haughtily in the land; yet they could not outstrip (Us).
40. So each We punished for his sin; of them was he on whom We sent down a violent storm, and of them was he whom the rumbling overtook, and of them was he whom We made to be swallowed up by the earth, and of them was he whom We drowned; and it did not beseem Allah that He should be unjust to them, but they were unjust to their own souls.
41. The parable of those who take guardians besides Allah is as the parable of the spider that makes for itself a house; and most surely the frailest of the houses is the spider's house did they but know.
42. Surely Allah knows whatever thing they call upon besides Him; and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
43. And (as for) these examples, We set them forth for men, and none understand them but the learned.
44. Allah created the heavens and the earth with truth; most surely there is sign in this for the believers.
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At this Ruku, we find that Allah had sent angels to punish the filthy people of Sodom & Gomorrah but these angels had visited Abraham-AS before coming to Lot-AS to provide him the good news that he would get Isaac as his son and YAQOUB (Jacob) as his grandson; at that occasion, they had even told Abraham the manner of the punishment to the people of Lot as Surah ZAARIYAAT states, “they said - surely we are sent to guilty people that we may send down upon them stones of clay that are sent forth with markings from your Lord for the wanton people” (AAYAT-32, 33 & 34 of ZAARIYAAT); Abraham worried about Lot who believed sincerely in the Truth, so they told him that they had the task to deliver him and his followers except for his wife by the command of Allah; when Lot saw them, he was disturbed as he took them to be such men who were visiting the area whereas the people there had extreme filth in their attitudes; but they told him that they are angels so he does not need to grieve as they have no issue that the filthy people there may affect them adversely; they told him that they will deliver him and his followers except his wife as she shall be of those who remain behind; so Allah sent down extreme punishment to them (that was the rain of stones of clay) through His angels because they had transgressed the moral limits in which the man needs to remain for certain, and then He made them lesson ahead that He would punish all such persons who commit any of major sins together of the most shameful nature, even at the world most severely; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-36, 37 & 38 read, “and to Madyan (We sent) their brother SHOAIB, so he said- O my people! serve Allah (by believing in His true authority) and fear the latter day (of Judgment) and do not act corruptly in the land, making mischief (by usurping the rights of each other); but they rejected him (as the Messenger of Allah), so a severe earthquake overtook them, and (the outcome of that was that) they became motionless bodies in their abode; and (We destroyed) AAD (i.e. the people of HOODH-AS) and THAMUD (i.e. the people of SALEH-AS), and from their dwellings (which you see while traveling, this) is apparent to you indeed; and the Satan made their deeds fair-seeming to them (that they thought them to be virtuous though those deeds were utterly wrong doings), so he kept them back from the (right) path, though they were endowed with intelligence and skill”; note that the man inclines naturally towards righteousness as he knows well inside him that his true benefits are only at that and the Satan is aware of it so he tries to lead a person to misconception that his doing is surely right when he is committing a wrong, so that there remains no chance that he recompenses for that except when Allah gives him TOFIQ to realize his error clearly; Al-Hamdu Lillah; even today, we do find that many such persons, who are most aware of astronomy, which tells many of the amazing principles by which Allah has set the heavenly bodies in amazingly vast area of the universe, are not prepared to revise their living manner and are most oblivious of making their deeds better for AKHIRAT; AAYAAT-39 & 40 tell explicitly that Allah destroyed QAROUN and Pharaoh and Haman; Allah had sent Moses as His Messenger to all of them besides the Bani Israel, with clear arguments (i.e. miraculous things) to believe in the Truth, but they thought themselves as righteous and behaved haughtily in the land; yet they could not do any harm to Allah Who punished each of them for his sin according to that sin; so in them were AAD on whom Allah sent extremely fierce violent wind that roared at their area for seven nights and eight days (and the people of Lot are also included here as Allah destroyed them too by such violent stormy wind that rained the shower of clay-stones over them); and in them were THAMUD and the people of SHOAIB whom the rumbling of earthquake overtook, and of them was QAROUN whom Allah made to be swallowed up by the earth, and of them were the disbelievers in the people of Noah, and also Pharaoh and his men, whom Allah drowned; and certainly, Allah was not unjust to them as He does care most highly for all of mankind but this all happened to them as they were most unjust to their own souls due to their rejection of the Truth; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT 41, 42 & 43 at the Ruku read, “the parable of those who take guardians besides Allah is as the parable of the spider that makes for itself a house; and most surely the frailest of the houses is the spider's house (which is unable to bear anything that falls upon it), did they but know (that their shelters against the punishment of Allah are even weaker than the web of the spider); surely Allah knows whatever thing (they take as equal to Allah in authority and) they call upon besides Him; and He is the Mighty, the Wise; and (as for) these examples, We set them forth for men, and none understand them but the learned”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; as the web of a spider is frailest of all shelters that insects take, so Allah gives its example to show that guardians that the disbelievers believe-in that they would save them from all troubles at the world and torments at AKHIRAT, none of them has any worth to save them as they have no power against Allah Who is AZIZ (Mighty; so He keeps all His creation to work for His will only by His true authority and destroys those peoples who challenge Him) and HAKEEM (Wise; so He indeed cares well that all works of all His creation affect in such way that they fulfill only His will); Al-Hamdu Lillah; whenever Allah sends some destruction by some calamity to disbelievers, those whom they take as their shelters, prove totally useless against it as they certainly have no authority to do anything against the will of Allah; those whom Allah has given TOFIQ to become learned in Islam, their good deeds totally show their bond to this righteous concept that Allah only has the true authority and whatever happens, it only happens by the will of Allah, the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last AAYAT at this Ruku presents this fact most explicitly that Allah has created all of His creation in such beautiful manner that all do fulfill His command only, though the jinn and the mankind have the task to fulfill this, the only aim of life, by their own freewill or else, they face total elimination from the world; then Allah would resurrect them all at the Day of Judgment where they would face the ultimate result to their doings at life at the world; it reads, “Allah created the heavens and the earth with truth (i.e. the principle to fulfill His will only); most surely there is sign in this for the believers”; most surely, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ANKABUT-The Fifth Ruku
45. Recite that which has been revealed to you of the Book and keep up prayer (Salah); surely prayer keeps (a person) away from indecency and evil, and certainly the remembrance of Allah is the greatest, and Allah knows what you do.
46. And do not dispute with the followers of the Book except by what is best, except those of them who act unjustly; and say: We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you, and He, in Whom we believe and in Whom you believe, is One; and to Him do we submit.
47. And thus have We revealed the Book to you. So those whom We have given the Book believe in it, and of these there are those who believe in it, and none deny Our AAYAAT except the disbelievers.
48. And you did not recite before it any book, nor did you transcribe one with your right hand, for then could those who say untrue things have doubted.
49. Nay! these are clear AAYAAT in the breasts of those who are granted knowledge; and none deny Our AAYAAT except the unjust.
50. And they say: Why are not signs sent down upon him from his Lord? Say: The signs are only with Allah, and I am only a plain warner.
51. Is it not enough for them that We have revealed to you the Book which is recited to them? Most surely there is mercy in this and a reminder for a people who believe.
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The fifth Ruku of ANKABUT guides attention that it is Allah Who has revealed both Torah (the five initial books of the old Testament) and the Holy Book Quran; though there have been alterations at Torah according to us Muslims, at ancient times, yet as they both have come from Allah to the mankind (by Moses-AS and Muhammad PBUH respectively) so in essence, they both teach about TAUHID (Allah only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord) and AKHIRAT (Allah would judge all peoples of the world at the Day of Judgment) and RISALAT (Allah had sent His Messengers to the world to provide the Guidance to the right path); Al-Hamdu Lillah; the first AAYAT at this Ruku tells the virtues of reciting the Quran and keeping firm upon Salah (the virtuous manner of prayer to Allah) as it tells that “surely Salah keeps (the person) away from indecency and evil, and certainly the remembrance of Allah is the greatest, and Allah knows what you do”; so the AAYAT asks all Muslims to remain most aware of the Islamic teachings by understanding of the Holy Book Quran and to remain most attached to practice of Islam, of which Salah is most significant which shapes the daily routine of a Muslim person; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that the mention of Salah here at this Surah which descended at Makkah, implies that the Muslim person has to engage in remembrance of Allah at all times for which, Salah is the most significant command to practice in the daily life; it had not become obligatory at that time yet it certainly was the most significant command to practice even at that time; note that the AAYAT clarifies that it keeps the person away from FAHSHAA (most shameful behavior; extreme indecency) and from MUNKAR (most evil acts; extreme injustice); so the practice of Salah with utmost attention towards Allah, the true Lord, leads to the practice of all Islamic teachings in all matters of life because commitment to it is the initial practice to keeping away from all major sins which may be the most shameful behavior or may be extreme injustice; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that the woman has to see keeping to HEJAB, that nothing averse to Islamic values takes place by her natural beauty that attracts men as that has high potential to lead to occurrence of the shameful behavior and the man has to see that nothing objectionable by Islamic values takes place by the strength he has (and that might be his official strength) that leads to occurrence of injustice; the Islamic administration needs to give attention at the environment for both of these matters by EHSAAN (i.e. by the good traditions set to fulfill tasks related to decent morality) and by ADL (i.e. by commitment to the law of the land) respectively so the actual work to do is to guide attention towards the Holy Book Quran getting it into practice totally instead of working for material gains and/or the worldly status but caring most for reading of Salah; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note also that the Muslims do not need to take actions that are sudden or imposed by force as the Islamic values command natural respect that do not need any forced manner to manifest them; insha-Allah (if Allah wills) the current environment would change into the Islamic environment as all Muslim persons in authority influence it with utmost care to eliminate wrongs, while the necessary good attitudes would develop-on for the consolidation of Islamic values as that is the natural inclination for all men certainly; this authority is AMANAT (trust of Allah in mankind) which means that it is such liability that Allah provides to persons so that they fulfill it to put Allah's commands into practice as much as is possible for them; Al-Hamdu Lillah; there are many of AAYAAT in the Quran that target these two extreme wrongs (most shameful behavior and extreme injustice) together which include Surah BAQARAH-168 & 169, AALE-IMRAN-135, SHURA-37, NAJM-32, AN’AAM-151, NISAA-110 & 111 & 112, BANI-ISRAEL (whole of its third Ruku), MUHAMMAD (PBUH)-14 that ask the avoidance of Injustice and the avoidance of all shameful behavior at one place; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the Holy Book Quran has targeted each of these both individually too at places yet I, MSD, have indicated at this place only those that are among AAYAAT that target them together; note that all major sins either fall into the most shameful behavior or either into extreme injustice; even SHERK, the greatest of all major sins, is named as the most extreme injustice at Surah LUQMAN-13 which presents the words of LUQMAN, who was one of the most intelligent men at ancient times, “Behold, LUQMAN said to his son by way of instruction- ‘O my son! join not in worship (others) with Allah; most surely SHERK is tremendous injustice’-“; ULAMA (the learned persons) in the Islamic teachings mention that it is highly praiseworthy for the Muslim men in general to learn Surah-MA’EDAH good as it teaches the Islamic law that targets injustice directly while it is highly praiseworthy for the Muslim women in general to learn Surah-NOOR good as it commands about HEJAB that targets the shameful attitude directly; Al-Hamdu Lillah; it is fair to say that based on the teachings of the Holy Book Quran and the Sunnah of the last Prophet Muhammad PBUH, Islam is the only worthy challenger even today (as at all times) to all injustice and to all of the shameful attitude because Islam asks to keep attention towards Allah only; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Surah NAHL indicates, “surely Allah commands ADL (justice) and EHSAAN (natural goodness) and the giving to the kindred, and He forbids shameful behavior and injustice and rebellion (to Allah); He admonishes you that you may be mindful” (Surah NAHL-90); Allah commands for three things here and forbids three other things; the message here is that taking-up three good things in practice that comprise of all the righteousness would eliminate the three bad things that represent all the Satanic misguidance; here, an indication is given that EHSAAN eliminates all the shameful behavior and ADL eliminates all of injustice; the spending towards the needy among the near ones for the pleasure of Allah counters any thought that might lead towards hypocrisy that in turn, leads towards challenging the commands of Allah; the message for this part is that “INFAAQ” (spending in the way of Allah from what Allah has provided) keeps away “NIFAAQ” (hypocrisy) from the Muslim person for certain and the first AAYAT of this Ruku of ANKABUT notes too that the remembrance of Allah in practice is the greatest of all good acts as it keeps away NIFAAQ from the Muslim person for certain; Al-Hamdu Lillah; then this first AAYAT ends by the comment that Allah knows about all persons who among them, really do good deeds for the pleasure of Allah when they do them and about all persons who do not; so in recitation of the Quran and in reading of Salah, as in all good deeds, the Muslim person needs to have all attention towards Allah, the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAT ahead at this Ruku tells how to present the message of the Quran, which relates to the fundamental teachings of Islam, among the people of the Book; note that AAYAT-125 of NAHL had stated, “(O Muhammad PBUH)- call to the way of your Lord with wisdom (those learned persons who are most studious yet in need of getting the Islamic teachings) and with goodly exhortation (by addressing the good emotions in those persons who value the good feelings among the fellow beings), and have disputations with those (who would not even listen properly to the good Islamic teachings due to their negative manner to challenge everything that comes their way, even when the true Muslims provide all good reasoning for them to accept Islam in their own benefit), in the best manner; surely your Lord knows best those who go astray from His path, and He knows best those who follow the right path (so you have the liability to providing the message of Islam to all peoples of the world and Allah only would decide who gets the true guidance)”; note that HIKMAT (i.e. wisdom) means such high intelligence that tells how to put the Islamic commands into practice at any given situation, so the Muslims would call the studious persons among the disbelievers by the manner of HIKMAT (as that is the asking of ADL); and they would call those persons who have the sense that the world needs to live in peace where all persons care about the fellow beings, by the manner of goodly urging (as that is the asking of EHSAAN); these both manners comply to the guidance of AAYAT-46 here which tells, “and do not dispute with the followers of the Book except by what is best (which may be the manner of ADL or the manner of EHSAAN)”; AAYAT tells ahead that the Muslims shall say to those of the people of the Book (Torah) who act unjustly towards the message of Islam that they believe in the Quran which has been revealed to them through the Holy Prophet Muhammad PBUH, the last Messenger of Allah, and they also believe in those virtuous teachings of Torah which it still presents even after its alteration at the ancient times; and they shall say this too clearly that He, in Whom they believe and in Whom the people of the Book believe, is One; but the difference between them is that the Muslims take Him as their true Lord and live in accordance to His commands so to Him only, they do submit; Al-Hamdu Lillah; from AAYAT-47 to the last, the Ruku mentions about the Holy Book Quran that Allah has revealed this Holy Book Quran to Muhammad PBUH like He had revealed Torah to Moses-AS and among those whom He had given the Book (i.e. Torah), there are just persons who do believe in it, and also of these (i.e. residents of Makkah), there are such persons who do believe in it; and none deny AAYAAT of Allah when they are recited to them with clarity, except such disbelievers who do not reflect on them; the significant thing for all persons to observe is that the Prophet PBUH did not recite any book before he received the Quran, nor did he write any book (as he could neither read nor write), as then could those who say untrue things, have doubted; in fact, they are AAYAAT that remain secure by the command of Allah in the breasts of those who are granted knowledge; note that this is an indication that there would always remain such good persons among the Muslims who would do such related tasks in service of the Quran that would keep it most secure by the command of Allah; there would be those who would memorize it totally, those who would recite it time & again, those who would write it strikingly and publish it beautifully, those who would remain most aware of its teachings, those who would keep the meanings of its text intact, those who would express its guidance to all peoples of the world and others who would serve it in some way or other, by the will of Allah, the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; so its AAYAAT are totally clear which only the unjust denies adamantly when he becomes aware of it; there are such persons among the disbelievers who, seeing that they are totally unable to challenge the Quran on the scholarly level, ask why are not miracles sent down upon him from his Lord?- so the AAYAT asks the Prophet PBUH to answer them that Allah sends miracles whenever He wills for it, and he is only a warner to them that if they do not accept the Truth, they would fall into extreme trouble at AKHIRAT for certain; the last AAYAT of the Ruku refutes them by the argument that they do hear the teachings of the Holy Book Quran which Allah has revealed to the Prophet PBUH; it truly is miracle, if they do care to learn it, as it guides them to the right path so it is mercy of Allah to all of mankind so that all peoples accept the fundamental teachings of Islam and save themselves from torments of the hell-fire; and it is reminder for all Muslim persons who truly believe in it to remain firm upon Islam and put it into their practice so that they get the virtuous character at life here and achieve JANNAH at AKHIRAT, when Allah gives life to all persons again; that only is the true success; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ANKABUT-The Sixth Ruku
52. Say: Allah is sufficient as a witness between me and you; He knows what is in the heavens and the earth. And (certainly) those who believe in the falsehood and disbelieve in Allah, these it is that are the losers.
53. And they ask you to hasten on the chastisement; and had not a term been appointed, the chastisement would certainly have come to them; and most certainly it will come to them all of a sudden while they will not perceive.
54. They ask you to hasten on the chastisement, and most surely hell encompasses the disbelievers;
55. On the day when the chastisement shall cover them from above them, and from beneath their feet; and He shall say: Taste what you did.
56. O My servants who believe! surely My earth is vast, therefore Me alone should you serve.
57. Every soul must taste of death, then to Us you shall be brought back.
58. And (as for) those who believe and do good, We will certainly give them abode in the high places in gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein; how good the reward of the workers:
59. Those who are patient, and on their Lord do they rely.
60. And how many a living creature that does not carry its sustenance: Allah sustains it and yourselves; and He is the Hearing, the Knowing.
61. And if you ask them, Who created the heavens and the earth and made the sun and the moon subservient, they will certainly say, Allah. Whence are they then turned away?
62. Allah makes abundant the means of subsistence for whom He pleases of His servants, and straitens them for whom (He pleases) surely Allah is Cognizant of all things.
63. And if you ask them Who is it that sends down water from the clouds, then gives life to the earth with it after its death, they will certainly say, Allah. Say: All praise is due to Allah. Nay, most of them do not understand.
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This Ruku emphasizes that the true success is getting the pleasure of Allah at AKHIRAT and the disbelievers to the Truth are in extreme loss, both at life at the world and at AKHIRAT; it asks the Prophet PBUH to tell the disbelievers that Allah is sufficient as a witness between him and them; He knows what is in the heavens and the earth, so when He is aware of everything in this amazingly vast universe that He has created beautifully, what makes the disbelievers think that they would escape all situations that are adverse to their safety when they challenge the authority of Allah; all those who believe in the falsehood that they would not have to face the account of their doings which they had done at the world, at the certain day and disbelieve in Allah disregarding His authority to raise them from dead, these person are certainly among the extreme losers; they even demand from the Prophet PBUH to bring some disaster upon them, but Allah has set the timing for their chastisement if they do not accept the fundamental teachings of Islam; this is His mercy as He does not intend to inflict any punishment to disbelievers until they are aware of the Truth and the time for its acceptance passes away; but when that specific time elapses, He certainly would put an extreme disaster upon them and that would fall in the most sudden manner upon them; and they would see extreme punishment for them at AKHIRAT too when the hell-fire encompasses them and they would get its punishment from above of them and from beneath their feet; Allah would tell them to taste that for which they had been working at the world and to which, they had shown their extreme haste; from AAYAT-56 to AAYAT-60, the Ruku tells that if the true believers find hardship in remaining to the Truth and in the fulfillment of its asking in practice, they ought to migrate to some land that is complementary to their Islamic living as Allah has made the earth a vast place to live-on; they must not care that they would lose their relatives as when the death comes, which is inevitable, they would lose them certainly; and every person has to return to Allah where he would face his doings individually; Allah would provide the true believers, who live doing all good deeds at the world even in adverse situations for them, wonderful residing rooms in the high places in gardens beneath which rivers flow where they would live forever; Al-Hamdu Lillah; such is the beautiful reward for those who are patient without any care to accumulate wealth at the world and on their true Lord do they rely that He would certainly provide them the outlet to live-on their lives truly upon Islam in all situations; Al-Hamdu Lillah; if they have worries about how would they get their sustenance besides leaving their relatives behind as they migrate to some land for the righteous living, they must see around and note all such creatures, specially birds, which do not keep any of edibles with them yet Allah provides for them all and He would certainly provide for the true believers too; He hears all those among them who ask Him for their needs and even without that, He certainly knows about their needs; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last three AAYAAT of the Ruku state that there are many of disbelievers who are aware that Allah only has created the heavens and the earth and has made the sun and the moon serve the life of the mankind; so why do not they see that Allah only is their true Lord in Whom they have to believe truly and then fulfill only His commands totally; Al-Hamdu Lillah; if someone gets more of assets at the world, it is not the sign that he has achieved the true success and if someone has barely his sustenance, it does not mean that he has lost his worth but Allah examines all persons in different situations and He certainly knows whom to test with plenty and whom to test with scarce means for his sustenance; it is the success in the examination of the life that the man gives at the world by remaining to the commands of Allah, which certainly leads to his true success as every person has to face his/her doings at the certain day of HASHR; that is the time & place where his/her success counts; Al-Hamdu Lillah; they see that Allah sends rainfall on the land which is seemingly barren, and then it provides its fruits by that rainfall but in spite of this clear observation, they still have doubts in getting life after death when they would have to account for all their doings at the world; it is highly clear that they are obsessed with issues of their lives at the world and do not understand how Allah has set matters at the universe; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ANKABUT-The Last Ruku
64. And this life of the world is nothing but a sport and a play; and as for the next abode, that most surely is the life- did they but know!
65. So when they ride in the ships they call upon Allah, being sincerely obedient to Him, but when He brings them safe to the land, lo! they associate others (with Him);
66. Thus they become ungrateful for what We have given them, so that they may enjoy; but they shall soon know.
67. Do they not see that We have made a sacred territory secure, while men are carried off by force from around them? Will they still believe in the falsehood and disbelieve in the favor of Allah?
68. And who is more unjust than one who forges a lie against Allah, or gives the lie to the Truth when it has come to him? Will not in hell-fire be the abode of the disbelievers?
69. And (as for) those who strive hard for Us, We will most certainly guide them in Our ways; and Allah is most surely with the doers of good.
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The last Ruku of ANKABUT expresses clearly that the true success is the success at AKHIRAT and such persons who do not realize it, are most unjust to their own selves; this life of the world is nothing but a sport and a play and as for the next abode, that most surely is the true life; note that Surah HADID-20 tells explicitly, “Know that this world's life is only sport (at childhood) and play (at the teenage) and gaiety (at youth) and boasting among yourselves (as the age advances from youth to old age), and a vying in the multiplication of wealth and children (at the old age and this attitude stays till death); (it is) like the rain, which causing the vegetation to grow, pleases the husbandmen, then it withers away so that you will see it become yellow, then it becomes dried up and broken down; and in the hereafter is a severe chastisement (for evil persons) and forgiveness from Allah and (His) pleasure (for righteous persons); and this world's life is naught but means of deception”; the duration of these ages might vary at individuals yet generally the first three stages pass as the person, obsessed with issues at life at the world, reaches forty; the example of vegetation divides the ages in two phases in which, the first three are of growth and the last two of decline; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the next couple of AAYAAT tell that when the disbelievers face some difficult situation, they ask Allah only to remove it from them; these AAYAAT give the example that when they ride in ships that come near to sinking, they call upon Allah only as if they are most sincere in obedience to Him, but when He brings them with safety to the land then they associate others with Him in authority; so they are most ungrateful for the safety that Allah grants to them and all blessings that He provides to them; it is only short time that they would enjoy whatever they have at the world as ultimately they would get the deadly punishment even at the world that they truly deserve; Allah has granted them peace at Makkah which all of Arabia respects and that is why their caravans go safely to places and return safely while other of caravans are often looted at route; it is not because of those whom they associate with Allah in authority but it actually is because Allah has provided sanctity to Makkah among all of Arabia; Al-Hamdu Lillah; so what idiocy they show by believing in the falsehood that they would never be asked of their wrong-doings and disbelieving in the favor of Allah that He has bestowed upon them by creating everything in such manner at the world that they provide their examination with ease here to get the true success at AKHIRAT and by providing them the true guidance by the Holy Book Quran; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Allah consoles those true believers who face troublesome situations around with utmost patience at the world, at the last AAYAT of the Surah that whatever troubles come to them at the world, Allah would show in each of them the respective virtuous manner to answer them and save themselves from all adverse impressions that they try to put upon them; it also tells that by the blessing of Allah, the good righteous persons among the Muslims are always able to show all Muslims in general, some virtuous manner to live upon the Islamic teachings at the most troublesome situation; it is notable that there may be more than a single virtuous manner, keeping to principle, to deal with some trouble by Islam; note that MUJAHIDA (to strive hard) denotes the resistance of the good Muslim person to provocation to wrongs inside due to satanic temptations, by his total attention towards Allah; Islam terms this resistance as SABR which means to keep to Islam with total patience at averse situations without any care to worldly assets so this SABR actually relates highly to MUJAHIDA; the Muslim person is at JEHAD at the individual level as he practices SABR and as he asks Allah for safety from all wrongs; it is possible that a person does not have any of weapons yet he is engaged in JEHAD as the term is not confined to war; his MUJAHIDA does manifest beautifully at such times where the sinful persons ask him to leave care to virtues and to come towards wrongs too to enjoy by them yet he turns down such temptation outright; certainly, Allah only has the true authority, Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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Surah ROUM
(Consists of 6 Ruku; MK-6)
ROUM-The First Ruku
1. ALIF LAAM MIM.
2. The Romans are vanquished,
3. In a near land, and they, after being vanquished, shall overcome,
4. Within a few years; Allah's is the command before and after; and on that day the believers shall rejoice,
5. With the help of Allah; He helps whom He pleases; and He is the Mighty, the Merciful;
6. It is Allah's promise! Allah will not fail His promise, but most people do not know.
7. They know the outward of this world's life, but of the hereafter they are absolutely heedless.
8. Do they not reflect within themselves: Allah did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them two but with truth, and (for) an appointed term? And most surely most of the people are deniers of the meeting of their Lord.
9. Have they not travelled in the earth and seen how was the end of those before them? They were stronger than these in prowess, and dug up the earth, and built on it in greater abundance than these have built on it, and there came to them their apostles with clear arguments; so it was not beseeming for Allah that He should deal with them unjustly, but they dealt unjustly with their own souls.
10. Then evil was the end of those who did evil, because they rejected the AAYAAT of Allah and they used to mock them.
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Surah ROUM begins by prediction about the Romans that though they have been defeated at present, they would soon overcome their victors; note that at 615 AD, when these AAYAT descended, the Romans had suffered series of devastating defeats by the Persians, who had reached near to borders of Egypt conquering many of lands that were in control of the Roman empire; these both were the two strong empires of that time who used to challenge each other to gain the upper hand at issues of the world; note that the Muslims were able to break the power of both of them by the blessing of Allah within some years of the departure of the Prophet PBUH from the world when they completely ended the strength of the Persian empire and utterly demoted the power of the Roman empire; note also that the year for this prediction was the sixth year from the time when Allah provided the Prophet PBUH the task of spreading His message to all peoples of the world counting from 610 AD that was the first year for it as the years at that time are counted by their current values and not when they elapse; the disbelievers at Makkah were pleased at this turn of events as they took the Persians, who worshipped fire, as nearer to them and the Romans, who claimed to be followers of the Christian faith, as nearer to the Muslims; at that time, Heraclius was the ruler of the Roman empire and his dreadful defeat was such that it seemed that the Romans would not stand against the Persians under him for many of years ahead; in fact, he even tried to strike a truce with the Persians but they rejected any such treaty and went on with their campaign to conquer the lands that were under the control of the Roman empire; however, it happened that the Romans started their series of victories against the Persians under Heraclius within a few years that started from 623 AD and ended at 627 AD when they defeated the Persians at Nineveh decisively; the news of one of their initial victories against the Persians reached Madinah when the Muslims were celebrating their win against the forces of Makkah at BADR and that was in complete accordance with the prediction at the beginning AAYAAT of Surah ROUM that read, “ALIF LAAM MIM; the Romans are vanquished, in a near land, and they, after being vanquished, shall overcome, within a few years; Allah's is the command before and after; and on that day the believers shall rejoice, with the help of Allah; He helps whom He pleases; and He is the Mighty (so He eliminates those who challenge Him by His direct command), the Merciful (so He gives ample time to all persons to see the Truth and accept it truly); it is Allah's promise! Allah will not fail His promise, but most people do not know”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that the term used at “within a few years” for their count is BIDHE-SINEEN which denotes the period till nine years and it was the ninth year from the descent of these AAYAAT to the Prophet PBUH when the Romans started taking their territories back from the Persians; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note about Surah ROUM that it asks all for much deep observation of matters which relate to their own selves and which concern the universe around to understand that it is certain that AKHIRAT would take place; due to this, AAYAAT ahead at the Ruku state about the disbelievers that though they are good at observation of the universe around when it comes to detection of the manifest rules of different issues, yet they need to give some thoughts to the inside of themselves too (that everything which relates to their physique has necessary rhythm in its works) and they need to ponder upon the universe around in this context too that when everything is running-on by some regulation and not at chance, then there is He Who is guiding that for certain to certain destination; Al-Hamdu Lillah; everything is in progress to its destination so this insight into affairs around would give them the true awareness of AKHIRAT where they have to answer for all their doings here at the world; they need to see the history of men too that when they challenged the authority of Allah, it caused harm only to their own-selves; Allah eliminated such people or punished them most severely even at the world and He is never unjust to any person but they had asked for an extreme punishment by their own doings so they were most unjust to their own-selves for certain; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the true awareness of psychology of the man and of his history does lead the man to see that Allah only is the true authority Who certainly would judge all persons at the certain day of HASHR; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last AAYAT of this Ruku tells the outcome to their doings, “then evil was the end of those who did evil, because they rejected the AAYAAT of Allah and they used to mock them”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ROUM-The Second Ruku
11. Allah originates the creation, then reproduces it, then to Him you shall be brought back.
12. And at the time when the hour shall come the guilty shall be in despair.
13. And they shall not have any intercessors from among their gods they have joined with Allah, and they shall be deniers of their associate-gods.
14. And at the time when the hour shall come, at that time they shall become separated one from the other.
15. Then as to those who believed and did good, they shall be made happy in garden.
16. And as to those who disbelieved and rejected Our AAYAAT and the meeting of the hereafter, these shall be brought over to the chastisement.
17. Therefore, glory be to Allah when you come across the time of the evening and when you come across the time of the morning.
18. And to Him belongs praise in the heavens and the earth, and at the decline of the day and when you are at mid of day.
19. He brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living, and gives life to the earth after its death, and thus shall you be brought forth.
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The second Ruku of Surah ROUM guides attention to the authority of Allah to bring forth the Day of Judgment and give all persons there what they truly deserve according to their doings here; Al-Hamdu Lillah; it tells that He has created all creation which is going on to its destination by His will and there is movement for change in all His creation by His will which denotes the cycle of death & life; the destination for all persons among the mankind is that they would stand at front of Allah to answer for all of their doings at life at the world; Al-Hamdu Lillah; at the Day of Judgment, the disbelievers would see that they will receive their punishment for certain and their hopes in all those whom they took as equal in authority to Allah that they will save them from His wrath whatever they do, if they had to answer Him for their doings, would prove completely futile; those whom they took as associates to Allah in His authority, would not become their intercessors there and it would happen that they would deny there that they ever took them as associates to Allah in His authority; the Quran has told us that the disbelievers take even highly good persons as associates to Allah in His authority by their own, that they would save them from the hell-fire whatever they do, which include angels and highly righteous persons who had departed from the world which include even some of Messengers of Allah; they would then clearly see that undoubtedly, all their hopes in them were totally useless whereas these good ones would say most clearly that they certainly are not responsible for their disbelief; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-28, 29 & 30 of Surah YOUNUS read, “and on the day when We will gather them all together, then We will say to those who associated others (with Allah)- keep where you are, you and your associates; then We shall separate them widely one from another and their associates would say- it was not us that you served (that is the answer of angels as they would give their defense that the disbelievers served Jinn; and they have their attention only towards Allah, the true Lord; see also Surah SABA-40 & 41); therefore, Allah is sufficient as a witness between us and you that we were quite unaware of your serving (us; that is the answer of the righteous persons among men which include the Messengers of Allah; see also Surah MA’EDAH-116); there shall every soul become acquainted with what it sent before (as their doings would only count there), and they shall be brought back to Allah, their true Patron, and what they devised (by their own thoughts that they would save them from the hell-fire) shall escape from them”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the answer of the righteous persons tell explicitly that they had no idea how the persons behind them were taking them at the world; note that Ahadith have explicitly told about the peace or the chastisement at the life that relates to grave yet seemingly the peace or the chastisement there is much long in time for some by the will of Allah but very short in time for others by the will of Allah (and that certainly does not imply that they are conscious about what is going-on at the world that they had left behind); this life at grave is named as the life of BARZAKH that starts immediately after death though that most certainly does not mean that the person is physically alive at his/her grave though he/she does have some connection to that; however, we do not know the nature of that life and how much period of consciousness that any person has there after his/her death; the best to say at this matter is that certainly, Allah knows better; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-14, 15 & 16 state about AKHIRAT that there would be two main groups of all peoples there that would be of believers in the Truth and the disbelievers in it; then each group would have sub-groups according to standing and so there would be categorization of all persons by standard how persons related to the Truth at life at the world; so these AAYAAT relate explicitly that though at the world, people live together with difference in belief yet there at AKHIRAT, the basis to categorization would be the acceptance or the rejection of the Truth; Al-Hamdu Lillah; and these AAYAAT relate the respective results of these groups, “then as to those who believed and did good, they shall be made happy in garden; and as to those who disbelieved and rejected Our AAYAAT and the meeting of the hereafter, these shall be brought over to the chastisement”; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-17 & 18 ask all Muslims to remain firm in remembrance of Allah at all times and at all places as that would keep them all steadfast upon the Truth; these AAYAAT read, “therefore, glory be to Allah when you come across the time of the evening (in which the Muslims shall say the Salah of MAGHRIB) and when you come across the time of the morning (which is the time for FAJR); and to Him belongs praise in the heavens and the earth and at the decline of the day; and when you are at mid of day (where lies the time for ZUHR & ASR)”; so by addressing the Muslims here at three places, these AAYAAT mention four of Salah whereas Surah NOOR-58 mentions the fifth of Salah that is ISHA (with FAJR & ZUHR) which the Muslims read later at night after MAGHRIB; note that Salah was not compulsory at the time when these AAYAAT descended as it actually became obligatory at HIJRAT (the migration of the Prophet PBUH from Makkah to Madinah) though it had achieved much significance at the last period of his residing at Makkah when he achieved MIRAJ (the ascension to heavens where Allah provided him the command of Salah clearly); though these AAYAAT mean that the Muslim person would remain engaged with remembrance of Allah at all times yet they also set clearly the timing for Salah beforehand; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that by the words “HEENA-TUZHIRUN”, the AAYAT mentions ZUHR & ASR together and that is an indication that they do overlap at a certain time that is between ZUHR to MAGHRIB; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last AAYAT of the Ruku states in the praise of Allah that He only has the complete control over all things; He brings forth the living from the dead and the dead from the living; note for this statement that AALE-IMRAN-26 & 27 read, “say (O Prophet PBUH)- O Allah, Master of the Kingdom - You give the kingdom to whomsoever You please and take away the kingdom from whomsoever You please, and You exalt whom You please and abase whom You please, in Your hand is the good; surely, You have power over all things; You make the night to pass into the day and You make the day to pass into the night, and You bring forth the living from the dead and You bring forth the dead from the living, and You give sustenance to whom You please without measure”; these words imply that there is comparison of sleep at night to death because here at this AAYAT, the latter part of it clarifies the former part of it; this tells that as the person rises from his sleep so he would rise similarly from the dead when Allah wills for that; Surah ZUMAR-42 states, “Allah takes the souls at the time of their death and those who die not, during their sleep; then He withholds those on whom He has passed the decree of death and sends the others back till an appointed term; most surely there are signs in this for the people who reflect”; so this clarifies that “He brings forth the living from the dead and the dead from the living”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the AAYAT tells ahead that He gives life to earth (by the good rainfall) after its death where it seems barren to cultivate and that is the manner by which He would raise all persons from dead at the Day of Judgment; note that Allah has stated at different places in the Quran that He would raise the dead at that certain day as He brings the earth to life after its death; Al-Hamdu Lillah; among them is NAHL-65 which tells, “and Allah has sent down water from the heaven and therewith given life to the earth after its death; most surely there is a sign in this for the people who would listen”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Surah FURQAN-47 to 50 mention, “and He it is Who made the night covering for you, and the sleep a rest, and He made the day to rise up again (so all persons would rise in this manner at the Day of Judgment); and He it is Who sends the winds as good news before His mercy (i.e. the beneficial rainfall to the earth); and We send down pure water (i.e. the rainwater) from the cloud (i.e. from the sky near to earth); that We may give life thereby to a dead land and give it for drink, out of what We have created, to cattle and many people (so both get the same water to drink yet the cattle develop better than those who ignore the teachings of Islam); and certainly We have repeated this (i.e. the statement about the rainfall upon the dead land at different places at the Quran) to them that they may be mindful (that they would be raised-up from the dead at the Day of Judgment where they would have to account for all their doings), but the greater number of men do not consent to aught except denying (that they would be raised-up from the dead at the Day of Judgment)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; so the Quran has related the rain upon the land as an indication to raising-up of all men from the dead as the angel blows the trumpet for that by the command of Allah; Surah AARAAF-57 relates, “and He it is Who sends forth the winds bearing good news before His mercy, until, when they bring up a laden cloud, We drive it to a dead land, then We send down water on it, then bring forth with it of fruits of all kinds; thus shall We bring forth the dead that you may be mindful”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Surah HAJJ-5, 6 & 7 relate, “and you see the earth sterile land, but when We send down on it the water, it stirs and swells and brings forth of every kind a beautiful herbage; this is because Allah is the Truth and because He gives life to the dead and because He has power over all things; and because the hour is coming, there is no doubt about it; and because Allah shall raise up those who are in the graves”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that Surah ROUM that we are studying presently, states too at AAYAT-50 at its fifth Ruku ahead, “look then at the signs of Allah's mercy, how He gives life to the earth after its death; most surely He will raise the dead to life; and He has power over all things”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ROUM-The Third Ruku
20. And one of His signs is that He created you from pure sand (TURAB), then lo! you are mortals (who) scatter.
21. And one of His signs is that He created mates for you from yourselves that you may find rest in them, and He put between you love and compassion; most surely there are signs in this for the people who reflect.
22. And one of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your tongues and colors; most surely there are signs in this for the learned.
23. And one of His signs is your sleeping and your seeking of His grace by night and (by) day; most surely there are signs in this for the people who would hear.
24. And one of His signs is that He shows you the lightning for fear and for hope, and sends down water from the clouds then gives life therewith to the earth after its death; most surely there are signs in this for the people who understand
25. And one of His signs is that the heaven and the earth subsist by His command, then when He calls you with a (single) call from out of the earth, lo! you come forth.
26. And His is whosoever is in the heavens and the earth; all are obedient to Him.
27. And He it is Who originates the creation, then reproduces it, and it is easy to Him; and His is the most exalted attribute in the heavens and the earth, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
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The third Ruku of Surah ROUM asks all those persons to observe their own-selves (ANFUS) and the universe around (AAFAAQ) who really do want to live upon righteousness by believing truly in Allah, the true Lord, and by believing truly in AKHIRAT; the Ruku after this too asks all persons by relating different aspects of the psyche of the man to observe that only the virtuous manner of living leads to safety at the world and leads to the total salvation at AKHIRAT; Al-Hamdu Lillah; this Ruku comprises of eight AAYAAT and Allah asks to observe His AAYAAT (in the meaning of signs) in six of them and as it is mentioned in plural, it tells that each of these observation may reveal more than two things to those who are specifically mentioned by their attributes at these AAYAAT, because the plural in Arabic for something takes place from three of it; the last two AAYAAT at this Ruku express His authority over all His creation; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the first of His signs for the man to observe for his true belief is that He created the man from TURAB and then with time, he was able to inhabit all areas of the earth; this denotes the material by which Allah created the man that was the pure sand at first (TURAB that is mentioned here); then He mixed it with pure water to change it to muddy clay (TEEN); then it changed to extreme black mud (HAMA-EM-MASNUN) that had taken place by alteration of the muddy clay by His will with extreme period of time and finally the sounding refined clay (SALSAAL) by which Allah created Adam-AS by His will; these are not the stages of the man during his creation but the material of his creation had passed through such stages whereas each stage had most extreme period of time by the will of Allah; see also the note at the third Ruku of HIJR; many AAYAAT at places in the Quran present this explicitly but with this, the most significant thing to mention here is that most certainly, Allah knows better; so it was only a couple of the mankind at first but then Allah set matters in such manner that the mankind scattered all over the earth; Al-Hamdu Lillah; as from the second to the fifth sign at these AAYAAT, they relate to living at the world of the mankind for which Allah asks observation so the second of His signs for the man to observe is that He created mates in the mankind, the male to the female and vise-versa (with such proportion that life at the world goes on smoothly), so that they may find rest in each other by marriage, not only physically but also spiritually because He put between them such love that relates to physique and such compassion that relates to caring of each other; these both are such outlets to the psyche of the man that they affect him to live away from crimes at the society and to live with high responsibility to provide for the spiritual development at home, respectively; most surely there are signs in this for all those persons who reflect to understand that Allah intends ease for them so that they live with specific care to Allah, the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the third of His signs for the man to observe is that He has created the heavens and the earth with numerous of His creation in it by principle and as for the mankind, there is diversity of tongues (i.e. vocal-difference, difference in manner of speech and different languages) in them and also diversity in color of their skins which provides them ease to live at their specific places; most surely there are signs in this for the learned persons that Allah has created all men, though having similar physical features, different to each other in appearance for their distinct identity; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the fourth of His signs for the man to observe is the sleep by night in which he finds the guidance by dreams, if he is righteous, to make his inside better by the teachings of Islam and the search for His grace by day which are all such things that are utmost necessary for his physical sustenance at life at the world; most surely there are signs in this for the people who would hear; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the fifth of His signs for the man to observe for his true belief is that He shows him the lightning for fear and for hope and this denotes the issues at life at the world which goes on by different situations that may cause fear or/and may cause hope by which Allah examines all persons here; and He sends down water from the clouds then gives life therewith to the earth after its death so in this manner, He would raise all persons from the dead at the certain day of HASHR, the first day of AKHIRAT, so that they account for all their doings at life at the world and receive what they truly deserve at that true life of AKHIRAT; most surely there are signs in this for the people who do understand that they are in examination at this life at the world; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last of His signs for the man to observe is that the heaven and the earth subsist by His command, then when He calls all persons by a single call (of KUN i.e. happen) then from out of the earth, all persons would come forth to the grounds of HASHR without any delay; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that the first AAYAT and the sixth AAYAT of the Ruku do not assign specific persons by attributes for observation as they denote all persons who have inhabited the earth at any time & at any place and certainly, Allah would raise all of them from dead at the Day of HASHR; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last two AAYAAT denote that the true authority is only of Allah which read, “and His is whosoever is in the heavens and the earth; all are obedient to Him; and He it is Who originates the creation, then reproduces it, and it is easy to Him; and His is the most exalted attribute (MATHAL-UL-AALA) in the heavens and the earth, and He is the Mighty (Who eliminates all those from the face of earth who challenge His true authority), the Wise (Who directs the issues at the world by the doings of the man as He wills, because He certainly has all the true authority)”; note that the terms MATHAL and MITHL have delicate difference in the Quran though these both do have the meaning of “similarity”; to get the usage of the term “MITHL” at the Quran, note that it means similarity only, and AAYAT-11 of Surah SHURA notes most explicitly that “(Allah is) the Originator of the heavens and the earth; He made mates for you from among yourselves, and mates of the cattle too, multiplying you thereby; there is nothing like any similarity of Him (the sentence is LAYSA KA-MITHLEHE SHAYE-UN); and He is the Hearing, the Seeing”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Surah FAATIR-14 tells by using the term MITHL, “none would tell you anything like Him Who is the Most Aware”, so this too denies any similarity to Him as it means that when there is none as His MITHL “so none would tell you anything like Him”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; now, keeping in mind that MITHL means “similarity” only, the difference between MATHAL and MITHL needs noting few points here to understand that better insha-Allah; the first point here is that whereas the term MITHL totally relates to the meaning of “similarity”, the term “MATHAL” also has the meaning of “the attribute” besides “similarity” in the Quran, and in this meaning of “the attribute”, it occurs here at ROUM-27 and at Surah NAHL-60 too that “for those who do not believe in the hereafter, is an evil attribute, and Allah's is the most exalted attribute (MATHAL-UL-AALA); and He is the Mighty, the Wise”; the second point here is that where “MATHAL” has occurred in the meaning of similarity in the Quran, it has expressed the similarity of some of His creation to some other of His creation only, because its usage in the meaning of similarity for Allah is totally incorrect; the Quran has forbidden the use of this term in this meaning as it says, “invent not similitudes for Allah; Allah certainly knows but you know not” (NAHAL-74); here the word AMTHAAL is used that is plural for both MATHAL and MITHL; so the Muslims are most disallowed to use these both terms in the meaning of “similarity” for Allah; the third point here is that it is most feasible that they avoid using MATHAL for Allah even in the right meaning of “the attributes”, as that would give them safety insha-Allah from any inclination to any wrongs in their virtuous speech; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ROUM-The Fourth Ruku
28. He sets forth to you a parable relating to yourselves: Have you among those whom your right hands possess partners in what We have given you for sustenance, so that with respect to it you are alike; you fear them as you fear each other? Thus do We make the AAYAAT distinct for a people who understand.
29. Nay! those who are unjust follow their low desires without any knowledge; so who can guide him whom Allah makes err? And they shall have no helpers.
30. Then set your face upright for religion in the right state- the nature made by Allah in which He has made men; there is no altering of Allah's creation; that is the right religion, but most people do not know-
31. Turning to Him, and be careful of (your duty to) Him and keep up prayer and be not of the polytheists
32. Of those who divided their religion and became sects; every sect rejoicing in what they had with them
33. And when harm afflicts men, they call upon their Lord, turning to Him, then when He makes them taste of mercy from Him, lo! some of them begin to associate (others) with their Lord,
34. So as to be ungrateful for what We have given them; but enjoy yourselves (for a while), for you shall soon come to know.
35. Or, have We sent down upon them an authority so that it speaks of that which they associate with Him?
36. And when We make people taste of mercy they rejoice in it, and if an evil befall them for what their hands have already wrought, lo! they are in despair.
37. Do they not see that Allah makes ample provision for whom He pleases, or straitens? Most surely there are signs in this for the people who believe.
38. Then give to the near of kin his due, and to the needy and the wayfarer; this is best for those who desire Allah's pleasure, and these it is who are successful.
39. And whatever you lay out as usury, so that it may increase in the property of men, it shall not increase with Allah; and whatever you give in charity, desiring Allah's pleasure- it is these (persons) that shall get manifold.
40. Allah is He Who created you, then gave you sustenance, then He causes you to die, then brings you to life. Is there any of your associate-gods who does aught of it? Glory be to Him, and exalted be He above what they associate (with Him).
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Allah guides attention of all persons at the beginning of the Ruku that no person takes his slaves as partners to him in whatever Allah has provided him and does not fear any challenge from them that they would ask some part of it, though he may fear some of his near ones about it; so all persons need to see this very clearly that Allah only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord; He has no fear of any challenge to His true authority by any person as all persons among His creation are His slaves only who need to obey Him totally; certainly, there is no one in His creation who has any worth to challenge His complete control over His creation and He only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; certainly, Allah has stated all facts explicitly for all such persons who really intend to be mindful of them yet there still are among the mankind, such unjust persons who follow their whims i.e. their low desires; they follow that without any care to facts so there is no person who is able to guide them to righteousness; Allah would make them err even more at life at the world and when they come at the grounds of HASHR, they would have no one to assist them; Allah asks the Prophet PBUH (and with him all of true Muslims) to remain totally steadfast at the teachings of Islam as that only is the virtuous manner at which Allah has created all of mankind; note that AARAAF-172 has told clearly that all persons had accepted Allah as their true Lord before coming to the world so there is no way that any of persons may change this aspect of creation that it naturally inclines to the virtuous manner of living yet there are many of peoples among them who are not mindful of this; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; all persons need to remain attentive to Allah only which asks them to read their Salah with fervor so that they do not ever incline to SHERK which leads to divide the virtuous manner of living into sects whereas every sect rejoices in whatever it has with it; this tells in clear terms that Islam is DEEN (the complete code of life) which asks to take it whole and not in this manner that someone takes some of its significant teachings and leave other of its significant teachings; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-33, 34 & 35 tell about the psyche of the man, “and when harm afflicts men (that threatens his life), they call upon their Lord, turning to Him (sincerely), then when He makes them taste of mercy from Him (that saves their lives), lo! some of them begin to associate (others) with their Lord so as to be ungrateful for what We have given them (i.e. His mercy at their utmost need); but enjoy yourselves (for a while), for you shall soon come to know (what happens by remaining ungrateful to Allah); or, have We sent down upon them an authority so that it speaks of that which they associate with Him? (that certainly is not the case so this explains the statement at AAYAT-29- ‘those who are unjust, follow their low desires without any knowledge’)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-36 & 37 read, “and when We make people taste of mercy (by providing them gains in finances) they rejoice in it, and if an evil befall them (that they face extreme losses in finances) for what their hands have already wrought, lo! they are in despair (unable to live with normalcy as if they have reached the end of their world); do they not see that Allah makes ample provision for whom He pleases, or straitens?- most surely there are signs in this for the people who believe”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that AAYAT-33 and AAYAT-36 both state that Allah provides His mercy to persons in situations that are life-threatening so He saves them by it and He provides His mercy to persons by giving them much of finances by His will, respectively; Al-Hamdu Lillah; at both places, these AAYAAT do not mention that He afflicts any of persons, rather AAYAT-36 explicitly mentions that affliction falls upon men because of their own doings; so note here that Allah provides those things only to the man by His mercy that are blessings to him but He afflicts him only as an outcome to what wrongs he commits so He does not put afflictions to any of persons unless his doings do ask for it though it is He only Who provides His mercy to the man and afflicts him for certain; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAT-41 of this Surah ROUM, that is the first AAYAT of the next Ruku, states that “FASAD (the situation due to corruption in deeds of persons having some status that makes the practice of Islam become extremely difficult there) did appear on land and sea because of what the hands of men have committed, that Allah may make them taste some part of that which they have done, in order that they may return (to the virtuous manner of living)”; this AAYAT tells clearly that He afflicts wrong-doers because of wrongs that they commit and then also, not fully at the world but just to rouse them to come to the virtuous manner; He cares that everything remains to the order that He has set for the world and He sees that nothing gets out of that order so the Muslims need to be attentive to Him only, with all efforts to keep to the virtuous manner of living collectively, without care to anything else; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the next couple of AAYAAT state that whatever the Muslim person gets as surplus in his finances, he needs to provide it to the near of kin who needs it, to the needy and to the wayfarer who has spent all his amounts and is stranded at the foreign land in need of some amounts; this is the best thing for all those who truly desire Allah's pleasure, and these it is who are successful at AKHIRAT; the person who intends to increase his finances by extending his surplus amounts on rates of interest, it does not increase any of his good deeds in front of Allah though Zakat, when it is provided to the needy sincerely for the pleasure of Allah, does increase his good deeds manifold, in front of Him; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that AAYAT-31 at this Ruku asks the Muslims for Salah and AAYAT-39 at this Ruku asks them for Zakat and both of these became obligatory to them after the elapse of some period to the descent of these AAYAAT; however, all Muslims did have them in practice even then in some manner whereas Salah saved them from facing any of life-threatening situations and Zakat, from incurring heavy losses in finances; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last AAYAT of the Ruku tells explicitly that Allah has not only created all of mankind but He also provides sustenance to them so all persons need to see that it is not their task to get more of finances at the world as Allah would see to their financial security well in accordance to their need; and they need to see that even if they do not die by some fatality which occurs to them by the will of Allah, He would bring death over them by His will as the period of their examination ends at the world; death is inevitable after which, He would raise them up again to life so that they account for all doings at life at the world; the AAYAT implies that even the disbelievers know that none of those whom they take as associates to Allah in authority, are able to provide anything to them or to lead them to their natural deaths or to raise them from dead; Allah only has the true authority as He only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord; glory be to Him and exalted be He above what they associate (with Him); Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ROUM-The Fifth Ruku
41. Corruption did appear on land and sea because of what the hands of men have committed, that Allah may make them taste some part of that which they have done, in order that they may return.
42. Say: Travel in the land, then see how was the end of those that were before; most of them were polytheists.
43. Then turn thy face straight to the right religion before there come from Allah the day which cannot be averted; on that day they shall become separated.
44. Whoever disbelieves, he shall be responsible for his disbelief, and whoever does good, they prepare (good) for their own souls,
45. That He may reward those who truly believe and do good out of His grace; surely He does not love the disbelievers.
46. And one of His signs is that He sends forth the winds bearing good news, and that He may make you taste His mercy, and that the ships may run by His command, and that you may seek of His grace, and that you may be grateful.
47. And certainly We sent before you apostles to their people, so they came to them with clear arguments, then We gave the punishment to those who were guilty; and helping the believers is ever incumbent on Us.
48. Allah is he Who sends forth the winds so they raise a cloud, then He spreads it forth in the sky as He pleases, and He breaks it up so that you see the rain coming forth from inside it; then when He causes it to fall upon whom He pleases of His servants, lo! they are joyful
49. Though they were before this, before it was sent down upon them, confounded in sure despair.
50. Look then at the signs of Allah's mercy, how He gives life to the earth after its death, most surely He will raise the dead to life; and He has power over all things.
51. And if We send a wind and they see it to be yellow, they would after that certainly continue to disbelieve
52. For surely you cannot, make the dead to hear and you cannot make the deaf to hear the call, when they show their backs and turn away.
53. Nor can you lead away the blind out of their error. You cannot make to hear any but those who believe in Our AAYAAT so they shall submit.
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The first AAYAT of the Ruku implies that the situation becomes averse to Islamic living at a place in general where there is general disobedience to Allah and He punishes all persons there due to wrongs that the influential persons commit there, by putting extreme difficulties in living of their lives smoothly; He intends by it that they get the good lesson to revise their attitudes and live by His total obedience as He only is the true Lord; it reads, “FASAD (Corruption due to wrongs in deeds of persons having some status) did appear on land and sea because of what (wrongs) the hands of men have committed (as Allah is not unjust that He punishes them without any of their wrongs but it is so) that Allah may make them taste (only) some part of that which they have done in order that they may return (to the virtuous manner of living by it)”; note in this context that SHURA-30 states, “and whatever affliction befalls you, it is on account of what your hands have wrought, and He pardons most (of your wrongs)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the second AAYAT of the Ruku asks the Prophet PBUH to tell the disbelievers to travel to places and see how the end came upon those who lived at extreme disbelief before them as that may cause them to revise their wrong attitudes; at the third AAYAT of the Ruku, Allah asks the Prophet PBUH (and with him all of true Muslims) to remain totally steadfast at the teachings of Islam as that only is the virtuous manner at which Allah has created all of mankind; Allah would bring the Day of Judgment which cannot be averted and on that day they shall become separated in groups as AAYAT-14 has stated and AAYAAT ahead at this place also clarify; thus, AAYAAT 44 & 45 state, “whoever disbelieves, he shall be responsible for his disbelief, and whoever does good, they prepare (good) for their own souls; that He may reward those who truly believe and do good deeds out of His grace (so the Day of Judgment would most certainly take place); surely He does not love the disbelievers”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT ahead at the Ruku guide attention to observe how Allah sends the winds that provide the good news that the rainfall would take place soon and that also carry on ships ahead by their respective sails to destination which the travelers by sea intend to reach to get their physical necessities (which the AAYAT mentions as the grace of Allah); they also guide attention to observe how Allah sent His Messengers to provide His message to their peoples so that they all accept the Truth and take-up the virtuous manner of living; so He cared for the physical necessities of the man and He also cared for his spiritual need to get the true guidance towards the right path; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAT-48 tells about how the rainfall takes place as it tells, “Allah is he Who sends forth the winds so they raise a cloud, then He spreads it forth in the sky as He pleases, and He breaks it up so that you see the rain coming forth from inside it; then when He causes it to fall upon whom He pleases of His servants, lo! they are joyful”; so He guides attention of all persons to observe how He has planned His works at the world around and how the rainfall causes happiness where it falls as it brings forth fruits and crops from the earth whereas without it, they were confounded in despair; AAYAT-50 tells that Allah would raise the dead to life as He gives life to the earth after its death; the Quran has told this at different places and we all have studied about this at AAYAT-19 of Surah-ROUM too; note that Surah AARAAF-57 relates, “and He it is Who sends forth the winds bearing good news before His mercy, until, when they bring up a laden cloud, We drive it to a dead land, then We send down water on it, then bring forth with it of fruits of all kinds; thus shall We bring forth the dead that you may be mindful”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAT-51 discloses an aspect of the character of disbelievers that they care only for life at the world and that has brought selfishness in their character for which they do not have any shame; it reads, “and if We send a (disastrous) wind and they see it (i.e. their fields) to be yellow (that tells them that they had lost all its fruits), they would after that certainly continue to disbelieve”; so they are never grateful to Allah on His blessings but upon their loss, they complain bitterly; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last couple of AAYAAT console the Prophet PBUH that he has done his best to spread the message of Islam yet the disbelievers are like dead persons and even deaf persons, so he is unable to make them hear the message of Islam; in fact, they are similar to such deaf persons, who have shown their backs and have turned away, so at this situation, good gestures even would not make them aware of the message of Islam; this is to say that they are totally oblivious to getting it and in them, there are such disbelievers too who have decided not to take it from the Prophet PBUH so they are oblivious to getting it by their own choice; he can bring those only to the right path who soberly hear the message of Islam that he provides to them and then take it into practice with high fervor; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ROUM-The Last Ruku
54. Allah is He Who created you from a state of weakness then He gave strength after weakness, then ordained weakness and hoary hair after strength; He creates what He pleases, and He is the Knowing, the Powerful.
55. And at the time when the hour shall come, the guilty shall swear (that) they did not tarry but an hour; thus are they ever turned away.
56. And those who are given knowledge and the true belief will say: Certainly you tarried according to the ordinance of Allah till the day of resurrection, so this is the day of resurrection, but you did not know.
57. So on that day no excuse of theirs will avail the extremely unjust persons, nor will they be invited to seek grace;
58. And certainly We have set forth for men every kind of example in this Quran; and if you should bring them a sign, those who disbelieve would certainly say: You are naught but false claimants.
59. Thus does Allah set a seal on the hearts of those who do not know.
60. Therefore, be patient; surely the promise of Allah is true and let not those who have no certainty hold you in light estimation.
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The first AAYAT at the last Ruku of Surah ROUM relates about the progress of life that Allah creates a person in such manner that he/she is extremely weak at birth; then that person achieves strength by the blessing of Allah and then again goes to weakness where his/her hair turns white; so in this manner, He created the mankind which He has decided by His will; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the second AAYAT implies that death is not the end to life because Allah would raise all persons from dead; at that specific day, the Day of Judgment, the guilty persons would swear that from their death to this specific day, they did not tarry but for an hour; note that this AAYAT presents their statement about the count of time to denote that this was their manner at life at the world too that whenever they saw that they are in trouble, they tried to avert it by fibs; they would intend to present the situation in such manner there that it is unjust to them that they did not get the utmost time assigned to them for stay after their death and they have been raised up early from dead; AAYAT-52 of Surah YA-SEEN reads, “they (the disbelievers) shall say- O woe to us! who has raised us up from our sleeping-place?- (they would be told that) this is what the Beneficent Allah promised and the apostles told the truth”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the Ruku tells ahead that the righteous persons would answer them that this is the Day of Judgment which certainly has come at its specific time and as for their stay, they have certainly received their due stay after their respective deaths; AAYAT-56 & 57 of this last Ruku read, “and those who are given knowledge and the true belief will say- certainly you tarried according to the ordinance of Allah till the day of resurrection, so this is the day of resurrection, but you did not know; so on that day, no excuse of theirs will avail the extremely unjust persons, nor will they be invited to seek grace (by repentance as the time for it has elapsed)”; the next couple of AAYAAT state that Allah has presented many examples in the Quran for all peoples to understand the virtuous manner of living by Islam and it tells about the disbelievers that they have reached to that stage in hostility of the Quran that even if the Prophet PBUH presents a miracle to them, they would reject it by some lame excuse; these AAYAAT read, “and certainly We have set forth for men every kind of example in this Quran (so that is sufficient if some person does intend to accept the virtuous manner of living by Islam); and if you should bring them a sign (i.e. a miracle), those who disbelieve would certainly say (even with that)- you are naught but false claimants; thus does Allah set a seal on the hearts of those who do not know”; the last AAYAT of the Ruku, which also is the last AAYAT of the Surah, reads, “therefore, be patient (i.e. keep away from giving preference to the life at the world over the life at AKHIRAT); surely the promise of Allah is true (that the Day of Judgment would take place where certainly all persons would account for their doings) and let not those who have no certainty, hold you in light estimation (that they have such thoughts that they would be able to shake any of true Muslims, by their continuous fibs to them)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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Surah LUQMAN
(Consists of 4 Ruku; MK-7)
LUQMAN-The First Ruku
1. ALIF LAAM MIM.
2. These are AAYAAT of the Book that has wisdom
3. A guidance and a mercy for the doers of goodness,
4. Those who keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and they are certain of AKHIRAT.
5. These are on guidance from their Lord, and these are they who are successful:
6. And of men is he who takes instead frivolous presentation to lead astray from the path of Allah without knowledge, and to take it for mockery; these shall have an abasing chastisement.
7. And when Our AAYAAT are recited to him, he turns back proudly, as if he had not heard them, as though both his ears have deafness, therefore announce to him a very painful chastisement.
8. (As for) those who believe and do good, they shall surely have gardens of bliss,
9. Abiding in them forever; (this is) the promise of Allah that certainly is true and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
10. He created the heavens without any such pillars that you see, and put mountains upon the earth lest it might convulse with you, and He spread in it animals of every kind; and We sent down water from the heaven nearby, then caused to grow therein (vegetation) of every noble kind.
11. This is Allah's creation, but show Me what those besides Him have created. Nay, the unjust are in manifest error
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The first five AAYAAT of this Surah, like the first five AAYAAT of Surah BAQARAH, tell about those persons who truly are successful as they take the true guidance that they receive from the Quran; note that Surah BAQARAH came to the Prophet PBUH at Madinah whereas Surah LUQMAN came to him at Makkah, the seventh year; the next couple of AAYAAT tell about those persons who are total failures as they do not take the true guidance even when that is clearly presented to them; AAYAAT-8 & 9 elucidate the ultimate result for the truly successful persons, who never preferred the life at the world over the life at AKHIRAT, that they would have blissful gardens to reside forever; this is the promise of Allah to them Who is leading all matters by His true authority, and even by His true wisdom, towards that destination that every person gets his/her due result ultimately according to his/her doings that he committed at life at the world; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last couple of AAYAAT at the Ruku tell about the manner by which He has created the heavens and the earth that favors the man physically to live his life with ease; so He provided the true guidance to him and also all physical ease to him so that he may live by his total concentration to all commands of Allah, which certainly is the only aim of life; then Allah challenges the disbelievers to show Him what those have created, whom they take as equal in authority to Him and for whom they leave the practice of His commands; certainly, Allah only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the first five AAYAAT of the Ruku read, “ALIF LAAM MIM; these are AAYAAT of the Book (especially of this Surah) that has wisdom; (it certainly is) the guidance (to all persons) and a mercy (specifically) for the doers of goodness (who have accepted the guidance that it presents); those who keep up Salah and pay the poor-rate (Zakat) and they are certain of AKHIRAT (that it certainly would take place by the will of Allah); these are (such good persons who certainly are) on guidance from their Lord (so they are most liable to get His mercy for themselves), and these are they who are (truly) successful (and that true success would manifest at AKHIRAT for certain)”; note that Salah and Zakat were not compulsory at the time when these AAYAAT descended as Salah actually became obligatory at HIJRAT though it had achieved much significance at the last period of his residing at Makkah when he achieved MIRAJ and Zakat actually became obligatory at the second year of HIJRAT; so these AAYAAT mean that the Muslim person would remain engaged with remembrance of Allah by Salah even at this time and provide the needy with whatever SADAQAH that he is able to manage from the amounts that Allah has provided to him even at this time; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-6 & 7 tell about such evil persons who try to mislead the people around by engaging them in futile pastime so that they become oblivious to the true guidance; note that one of the disbelievers at Makkah by the name of NADHR bin HARITH brought a slave-woman who was good at singing, from Persia and also brought stories from there of those whom the persons there took as their heroes; he used to provoke such persons at Makkah who had inclination to accept the Islamic teachings, to fall into enjoyment of such shows in which the slave-woman sang and the futile stories were recited; these AAYAAT read, “and of men is he who takes instead (of the true guidance) frivolous presentation (i.e. musical shows & futile tales) to lead astray from the path of Allah without knowledge (as such negative presentations are such things that have no worth to listen), and to take it for mockery (so that the persons attending the frivolous presentation come to such state by them where they lose the realization of the actual worth of the true guidance); these shall have an abasing chastisement (at life at the world); and when Our AAYAAT are recited to him, he turns back proudly, as if he had not heard them, as though both his ears have deafness, therefore announce to him a very painful chastisement (at the Day of Judgment)”; note that these AAYAAT clearly condemn all evil persons who intend to arouse delicate emotions of the man in such manner that he falls into futile pastime which makes him oblivious to the virtuous manner of living by Islam; certainly, Islam does not appreciate singing, dancing or any type of entertainment that relates to presentation of women in mixed gathering and it also does not appreciate craze for any of sports without any care to Islamic commands; today, the futile pastime includes the inclination to fashion shows that the media develops and the craze for any of sports (especially where women are among participants) that the media develops, without any care to Islamic commands; dancing of women is one of the worst things in view of Islam, especially when taken-up in open, though even their singing by video is not appreciable with whatever splendor they present the performance; that performance might be tolerable to some fine degree when provided singly at the Radio but not at the television as their video to such performance certainly does not go well with the Islamic values; Al-Hamdu Lillah; as for the singing of men when they take it up singly, even at the television without dancing except for some walk on the music or some light exercise therein or some twist therein, it might be tolerated with number of conditions for this entertainment that relate to performance of men only, not making it routine in any way as singing to men might even be positive at times and even when in gathering though that shall never be mixed gathering certainly; the first point to note in these conditions is that words of the song would not challenge the Islamic morality in any way and this matter would be decided by ordinary Muslims at times yet with total devotion to Islam; the second point to note in these conditions is that the singers and the players of instruments would not be professionals (in-fact, it is better if the amateur singer can play an instrument or two and sings with that leisurely) as they shall have some other works as their occupations whereas music remains only pastime to them and to all those who enjoy the soft music so it would manifest without asking of any amounts to it; the third point to note in these conditions is that the music would not be a rhythmic din of some kind but it would be soft in nature as fast music is not appreciable in the Islamic set-up and the last point to note in these conditions is that total instruments used for the song would not be more than two so that the song does not seem to be some professional kind of thing and remains to softness though addition of some clapping or some soft musical beat occasionally does seem tolerable; it is even better if some computerized gadget that is able to provide different musical sounds, is used for the song with the set-up of sounds of two musical instruments that fulfill the minimum requirement of the music (yin and yang) in the song; even another condition or two might be valid here though the level of their importance may vary; the Holy Book Quran does not ban music in clear terms yet AAYAT-6 of this Surah LUQMAN, that we study presently, is generally taken by ULAMA to prohibit music; however, it relates to prohibition of indecency and vulgarity in songs as is evident but not to their prohibition outright; we do find in Sunnah (the practical guidance of the Prophet PBUH for Islam by his words, deeds or silence on some matter that came to his knowledge) some dislike to music but there is almost at all occasions for this dislike, an evident indication that relates it to such women who lack in good morals whereas at those times, singing with instruments was exclusively related to such women; as such, there is an apparent margin to relate his guidance in this matter to prohibition of indecency and vulgarity in songs as is evident and not to their prohibition outright; when the men present the music by care to its conditions, it does present rhythm with grace and so it does need appreciation to it even by those righteous persons who do have utmost care about the Islamic guidance in all their issues; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-8 & 9 relate the status of those true believers at AKHIRAT who lived firmly with good deeds at the world, even when there were many things around to provoke them to incline towards sinful activities, so they never preferred pleasures at the world when those challenged any of commands of Allah; these AAYAAT read, “(as for) those who believe and do good, they shall surely have gardens of bliss, abiding in them forever; (this is) the promise of Allah that certainly is true and He is the Mighty, the Wise”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last couple of AAYAAT at the Ruku state how beautifully Allah has created the heavens and the earth and how wonderfully He has set them to remain beneficial to the human life; they imply that He only is the Creator of all creation and He has created everything with utmost perfection; these AAYAAT read, “He created the heavens without any such pillars that you see, and put mountains upon the earth lest it might convulse with you, and He spread in it animals of every kind; and We sent down water from the heaven nearby, then caused to grow therein (vegetation) of every noble kind; this is Allah's creation, but show Me what those besides Him have created; nay, the unjust are in manifest error”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
LUQMAN-The Second Ruku
12. And certainly We gave wisdom to LUQMAN that you remain grateful to Allah. And whoever is grateful, he is only grateful for his own soul; and whoever is ungrateful, then surely Allah is Self-sufficient, Praised.
13. Behold, LUQMAN said to his son by way of instruction: "O my son! join not in worship (others) with Allah; most surely SHERK is tremendous injustice."
14. And We have enjoined man in respect of his parents- his mother bears him with travail upon travail and his weaning takes two years- saying: Be grateful to Me and to both your parents; to Me is the eventual coming.
15. And if they contend with you that you should associate with Me what you have no knowledge of, do not obey them, and keep company with them in this world kindly, and follow the way of him who turns to Me, then to Me is your return, then will I inform you of what you did-
16. O my son! surely if it is the very weight of the grain of a mustard-seed, even though it is in (the heart of) rock, or (high above) in the heaven or (deep down) in the earth, Allah will bring it (to light); surely Allah is Knower of subtleties, Aware;
17. O my son! keep up prayer and enjoin the good and forbid the evil, and bear patiently that which befalls you; surely these acts require courage;
18. And do not turn your face away from people in contempt, nor go about in the land exulting overmuch; surely Allah does not love any self-conceited boaster;
19. And pursue the right course in your going about and lower your voice; surely the most hateful of voices is braying of asses.
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LUQMAN was one of the most intelligent persons of the ancient world and he was well-known at the land of Arabia due to his intelligent remarks; it is mentioned about him that he resided at the territory of ancient Nubia near to Sudan around 1000 BC and had Arabic as his native language; Allah had granted him such amazing observation that he was quoted at Arabic poetry for his intelligent statements; also, that amazing observation led him to believe in TAUHID that Allah only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord; and that led him to believe in the Judgment that Allah would judge all peoples of the world for all their doings certainly; the Quran mentions him here to make the Arabs learn that the highly intelligent man whom they hold in high esteem, had the awareness of the most fundamental teachings of Islam by the amazing observation that Allah had granted him, even though he never met any of Prophets of Allah whereas they have the Prophet Muhammad PBUH in them and still they are not getting to the Truth by their own unworthy attitude which denotes their prejudice only; AAYAT-12 by which the Ruku begins, tells that Allah certainly gave wisdom to LUQMAN that he remains grateful to Allah; the notable thing here is that wisdom (which does need high observation of the universe around and of the attitudes inside) is such beautiful quality that leads the good person to put the commands of Allah in his practice by it and this practice decides that he is most grateful to Allah while such person who lives his life by disobedience to His commands, he certainly is most ungrateful to Him; surely Allah is Self-sufficient and truly Praised Who does not need anything, even praise, from any of His creation; certainly, He only has the true authority; AAYAT-13 states that LUQMAN said to his son by way of instruction at some crucial point in time- “O my son! join not in worship (others) with Allah; most surely SHERK is tremendous injustice-“; this indicates that all disbelievers who commit SHERK are most unjust to their own selves as the outcome of it is the most severe punishment at AKHIRAT, that is the true life ahead; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that SHERK means to challenge the true authority of Allah by taking any of His creation as having part in creating any of His creation with Him; or by taking any of His creation as similar in some attribute to Him though all His attributes are QADEEM (they are from always to always), ASL (they are of His Own, not achieved from anyone) and LA-MEHDUD (they all are limitless); or by taking any of His creation as authorized to change any of His commands that He has explicitly issued by His authority for all persons to firmly obey; Al-Hamdu Lillah; as for us human beings, even if some are highly refined persons like the Messengers especially the last of them i.e. Muhammad PBUH, we all are created by Allah - whatever we possess, physically or spiritually, has been provided to us by Allah, the true Lord - and our traits are limited that change with time & place; Allah only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord; Al-Hamdu-Lillah; Allah addresses all human beings at the next couple of AAYAAT at the Ruku that He has enjoined man in respect of his parents that he must remain most courteous to them and have attitude of EHSAAN for them; he must keep in mind that his mother carried him with travail upon travail and his weaning also took two years if she fed to maximum period, so he needs to be grateful to Allah and to both his parents; but if they contend with him that he commits SHERK because of their lack of knowledge that it certainly would lead him to extreme trouble at AKHIRAT, then he must not obey them but he still needs to show the attitude of EHSAAN for them; note that the Quran does not guide to obey the parents anywhere in it but it guides to show the attitude of EHSAAN for them at all times; so he would provide them his assistance financially and he would care for their physical safety but he would never take their direction to commit SHERK; he shall follow only the righteous persons who lead towards the Truth; all persons have to account for their doings at AKHIRAT in front of Allah where He would present to all of them whatever they had done at life at the world; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT ahead narrate other of virtuous guidelines that LUQMAN provided to his son that he must believe truly that if he does something which has the very weight of the grain of a mustard-seed, even though it is in the heart of rock, or high above in the heaven or deep down in the earth, Allah will bring it to light; surely Allah is Knower of subtleties, Aware; so nothing escapes from His true knowledge and He certainly would see all doings of men; LUQMAN told him to keep up Salah (in whatever good manner it was read at that time to praise Allah); and to enjoin the good which means that he would always remain grateful to Allah, the true Lord, and guide all persons towards His obedience; and to forbid the evil which are all acts of injustice and all shameful attitudes; and he shall bear patiently that which befalls him in TABLIGH of the virtuous teachings; surely all these acts require courage to face troubles that come due to them; and he must not turn his face away from people in contempt which would make his task relating to TABLIGH most difficult and he must not go about in the land with pride overmuch; surely Allah does not love any self-conceited boaster; and he must not walk with impertinence in the land, and he must keep his voice low in speech; surely the most hateful of voices is braying of asses, which is loud yet does not bring any appreciation; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
LUQMAN-The Third Ruku
20. Do you not see that Allah has made what is in the heavens and what is in the earth subservient to you, and made complete to you His favors outwardly and inwardly? And among men is he who disputes in respect of Allah though having no knowledge, nor guidance, nor a book giving light.
21. And when it is said to them: Follow what Allah has revealed, they say: Nay, we follow that on which we found our fathers. What! though the Satan calls them to the chastisement of the burning fire!
22. And whoever submits himself wholly to Allah and he is the doer of good, he indeed has taken hold of the firmest thing upon which one can lay hold; and Allah's is the end of affairs.
23. And whoever disbelieves, let not his disbelief grieve you; to Us is their return, then will We inform them of what they did; surely Allah is the Knower of what is in the breasts.
24. We give them to enjoy a little, then will We drive them to a severe chastisement.
25. And if you ask them who created the heavens and the earth, they will certainly say: Allah. Say: (All) praise is due to Allah; nay! most of them do not know.
26. What is in the heavens and the earth is Allah's; surely Allah is the Self-sufficient, the Praised.
27. And were every tree that is in the earth (made into) pens and the sea (to supply it with ink), with seven more seas to increase it, the words of Allah would not come to an end; surely Allah is Mighty, Wise.
28. Neither your creation nor your raising is anything but as a single soul; surely Allah is Hearing, Seeing.
29. Do you not see that Allah makes the night to enter into the day, and He makes the day to enter into the night, and He has made the sun and the moon subservient (to you); each pursues its course till an appointed time; and that Allah is Aware of what you do?
30. This is because Allah is the Truth, and that which they call upon besides Him is the falsehood, and that Allah is the High, the Great.
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The first Ruku of Surah LUQMAN stated that Allah has provided the true guidance to the man and also all physical ease to him so that he may live by his total concentration to all commands of Allah; Al-Hamdu Lillah; now, the first AAYAT at this Ruku guides attention to that as it reads, “do you not see that Allah has made what is in the heavens and what is in the earth subservient to you, and made complete to you His favors outwardly (that manifest by physique) and inwardly (that is at insides)? And among men is he who disputes in respect of Allah though having no knowledge, nor guidance, nor a book giving light (as each of these gives insight to the inside of the man yet without any of them, they argue to prove their stance)”; the AAYAT tells explicitly that Allah created everything in such manner that they serve the physical existence of the man in one way or other, whereas the past tense is used at this statement; this tells that it is not for him to try to bring any of creation of Allah under his own control by scientific pursuits; the only aim of life is to get the pleasure of Allah by living according to His commands as that only leads to the true success as we all have studied at the first five AAYAAT of this Surah whereas AAYAAT ahead at this Ruku elucidate this further; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the second AAYAT of this Ruku states their lame excuse for not taking the true guidance from the Quran as it states, “and when it is said to them- follow what Allah has revealed, they say- nay, we follow that on which we found our fathers; what! though the Satan calls them to the chastisement of the burning fire (as by rejection of the true guidance, they would certainly lead themselves to the hell-fire at the true life at AKHIRAT)”; the three AAYAAT ahead present the respective results of both persons, one who lives by the commands of Allah and the other who denies living by the commands of Allah; these AAYAAT read, “and whoever submits himself wholly to Allah and he is the doer of good (in the best of manners), he indeed has taken hold of the firmest thing upon which one can lay hold (i.e. the practice of Islam with total application of self); to Allah belongs the sequel of all things; and whoever disbelieves, let not his disbelief grieve you; to Us is their return, then will We inform them of what they did; surely Allah is the Knower of what is in the breasts; We give them to enjoy a little (at the world), then will We drive them to a severe chastisement (at AKHIRAT); Al-Hamdu Lillah; the words “let not his disbelief grieve you” are to console the Prophet PBUH that he has done his task well to provide the teachings of Islam to all persons but he certainly is not liable to bring any of them to Islam necessarily; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAT-25 reads, “and if you ask them who created the heavens and the earth, they will certainly say- Allah; say that all praise is due to Allah; nay! most of them do not know”; this tells that the disbelievers there in Makkah did believe that Allah only is the Creator of all the creation but they did not believe that He only is the true Lord Who has the true authority, Whom they have to obey unconditionally; they even challenged the belief in AKHIRAT that Allah would judge all peoples of the world, at the Day of Judgment according to their doings; many of them did not believe that the world would ever end and AKHIRAT would ever take place (see Surah SABA-3 & 4) and many of them thought that whenever it takes place, those whom they took as associates to Allah in authority, they would save them from all chastisement (see Surah YOUNUS-18); the AAYAT asks the Prophet PBUH to tell them that all praise is to Allah so when they believe that He is the Creator of all the creation, they have to believe this too that He only is the true Lord Who has the true authority, Whom they have to obey unconditionally; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAT-26 notes, “what is in the heavens and the earth is Allah's; surely Allah is the Self-sufficient, the Praised”; the first AAYAT of this Ruku has stated clearly that Allah created everything at the heavens and the earth in such manner that they serve the physical existence of the man in one way or other; now, this AAYAT tells clearly that they serve the man physically because Allah has commanded them for it and He truly has all control over them; certainly, Allah is Self-sufficient and truly Praised Who does not need anything, even praise, from any of His creation; certainly, He only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last four AAYAAT at the Ruku tell about the true authority of Allah which read, “and were every tree that is in the earth (made into) pens and the sea (to supply it with ink), with seven more seas to increase it, the words of Allah would not come to an end (because His speech is His attribute and all His attributes are limitless); surely Allah is Mighty (Who keeps everything according to His plan for them by His authority), Wise (Who keeps the impression of goodness in works of men and eliminates all evil by His true wisdom); neither your creation nor your raising is anything but as a single soul (so the disbelievers, who deny that Allah would raise all persons from dead, are totally unaware of His true authority); surely Allah is Hearing (everything that any of persons say), Seeing (all of doings that any of persons does and He would certainly provide every person whatever he truly deserves); do you not see that Allah makes the night to enter into the day, and He makes the day to enter into the night (so change is natural), and He has made the sun and the moon subservient (so that all persons do set their tasks by timing for them); each (of the lights) pursues its course till an appointed time (when they both would end); and that Allah is Aware of what you do (i.e. how all persons manage their tasks)?- this is because Allah is the Truth (i.e. all His attributes are QADEEM, ASL and LA-MEHDUD), and that which they call upon besides Him is the falsehood (as certainly, they do not have any authority), and that Allah is the High, the Great (so His true word stays and nothing of falsehood holds on)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
LUQMAN-The Last Ruku
31. Do you not see that the ships run on in the sea by Allah's favor that He may show you of His signs? Most surely there are signs in this for every patient & grateful person.
32. And when a wave like mountains covers them they call upon Allah, being sincere to Him in obedience, but when He brings them safe to the land, some of them follow the middle course; and none denies Our signs but every perfidious, ungrateful one.
33. O people! guard against (the punishment of) your Lord and dread the day when no father can avail aught for his son, nor a son avail aught for his father; surely the promise of Allah is true, therefore let not this world's life deceive you, nor let the topmost deceiver deceive you in respect of Allah.
34. Surely Allah is He with Whom is the knowledge of the hour, and He sends down the rain and He knows what is in the wombs; and no one knows what he shall earn on the morrow; and no one knows in what land he shall die; surely Allah is Knowing, Aware.
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The first AAYAT of the Ruku guides the observation to the fact that Allah has set such principles by which the life at the world remains as examination to the man; change of situations that the man faces tells about his attitudes that decide his worth in front of Allah; he shall remain most patient (i.e. firm in practice of commands of Allah without preference to life at the world) with all attention towards Allah, the true Lord, at extreme troubles and he shall remain most grateful with all attention to Him at all situations that are most favorable to him; Al-Hamdu Lillah; whenever the voyagers at sea find adverse situation which threatens their lives as the huge wave covers their ship, they call Allah sincerely with commitment that they would surely obey Him; but when He brings all of them safe to the land, it is not all of them who are sincere for His obedience; the safety that persons receive at utmost troublesome situation which is most threatening to life, is the sign that Allah only has saved them; those who deny this clear sign are such who are most perfidious (and not firm in practice of Islam) and most ungrateful (at the favorable turn of events by the blessing of Allah); at the ship in trouble, there may still be such persons who may care for the safety of their parents and such persons who may care for the safety of their children but at AKHIRAT, which is sure to come, no person would care for any other than his own self; so all persons must care that the life at the world does not deceive them as the set-up here is for their examination and the set-up there is to provide them their respective results; Al-Hamdu Lillah; and Satan must not deceive them in respect of Allah by misguiding them that though He only is the Creator of everything yet the mankind does not need to obey His commands or that though He would bring AKHIRAT yet He is so Merciful that He would forgive all sins and provide JANNAH, so they do not need to worry and do whatever they will at life at the world; note that if someone repents truly on his sins and asks sincerely for His mercy, he would insha-Allah get it here at the world and also get TOFIQ to make his life better, yet when the period of his life ends here, his repentance on wrongs is totally fruitless; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last AAYAT of Surah LUQMAN tells about those five things that are issues among the hidden matters and there are few notable points to note here to get this AAYAT in better way; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the first notable point is that these five are among those hidden matters to men (as everything certainly is manifest to Allah) in which they are most interested and it does not cover all of hidden matters; the second notable point is that it states categorically that awareness of the time when the world ends, is only with Allah and that is the answer to what the disbelievers asked the Prophet PBUH time & again; the third notable point is that the second and the third issue does not categorically deny that men are unable to get awareness to onset of the coming rainfall and awareness to what is in wombs; the fourth notable point is that both the last issues relate to matters which are most related to occurrence of those individual actions of the man for which Allah has provided some control to him and to occurrence of those upon which he has no power, respectively; Al-Hamdu Lillah; keeping these points in view and with the crucial remark that Allah knows better, we study this AAYAT which reads, “surely Allah is He with Whom is the knowledge of the hour (so nobody knows it except Him), and He sends down the rain and He knows what is in the wombs (but awareness to these two is possible for men through some gadgets which they develop, by the permission of Allah); and no one knows what (deeds) he shall earn on the morrow; and no one knows in what land (his homeland or some foreign land) he shall die (so in general, these both are hidden too yet due to careful planning for them, some exceptionally disciplined person may provide for these both though even then, they would only take place as Allah permits and as such, no person is able to say that he knows what he would be doing tomorrow and that he knows where he would die when the time of his death comes for him); surely Allah is Knowing (of the hour), Aware (of all doings of all persons)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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Surah SAJDAH
(Consists of 3 Ruku; MK-10)
SAJDAH-The First Ruku
1. ALIF LAAM MIM.
2. The revelation of the Book, there is no doubt in it, is from the Lord of the worlds.
3. Or do they say: he has forged it? Nay! it is the truth from your Lord that you may warn the people to whom no warner has come before you, that they may follow the right path.
4. Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six periods, and He mounted the throne (of authority); you have not besides Him any guardian or any intercessor, will you not then mind?
5. He regulates the affair from the heaven to the earth; then shall it ascend to Him in a day the measure of which is a thousand years of what you count.
6. This is the Knower of the unseen and the seen, the Mighty the Merciful,
7. Who made good everything that He has created, and He began the creation of man from TEEN.
8. Then He made his progeny of an extract, of water held in light estimation.
9. Then He made him complete and breathed into him of His spirit, and made for you the ears and the eyes and the hearts; little is it that you give thanks.
10. And they say: What! when we have become lost in the earth, shall we then certainly be in a new creation? Nay! they are disbelievers in the meeting of their Lord.
11. Say: The angel of death who is given charge of you shall cause you to die, then to your Lord you shall be brought back.
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Surah SAJDAH starts by MUQATTA’AAT and it is also mentioned as ALIF-LAAM-MIM AS-SAJDAH while the other Surah that has the name as SAJDAH (and it also starts by MUQATTA’AAT) is Surah-41 by the name of HA-MIM AS-SAJDAH; this Surah tells that Allah is examining all persons at the world and He has provided the mankind with the true guidance as He gave Torah to Moses-AS and He has provided the Quran to Muhammad PBUH, the last of His Messengers; certainly, He only is the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; it elucidates that the man must take this true guidance and do his deeds accordingly because if he fails to comply to it, he would face extreme punishment at AKHIRAT; even at life at the world, Allah would punish all such persons so it remains a lesson to all those who take disobedience to Allah, the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the only period in which Allah asks all persons to show their worth for the true success at AKHIRAT is this life at the world; this is the only chance that a person has and he would not be given a second chance so he must repent on his wrongs here and now, and keep his attention totally towards Allah, the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the first three AAYAAT of the Surah state, “ALIF LAAM MIM; the revelation of the Book (Quran), there is no doubt in it (which means that whatever it states, all that certainly is true), it is from (Allah Who is) the Lord of the worlds; or do they say- he (the Prophet PBUH) has forged it?- nay! it is the truth from your Lord that you (O Prophet PBUH) may warn the people (i.e. Arabs) to whom no warner has come before you (from the time Abraham-AS settled Ishmael-AS at that site), that they may follow the right path”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that Allah has appointed Muhammad PBUH, His last Messenger, as the warner to all peoples of the world but AAYAT mentions Arabs specifically as Allah chose him from among them so they were his first addressee; AAYAAT-4 to 7 tell that Allah has created all heavens and the earth whatever is between them in six periods; Allah knows better about the length of each period but here the point to note is that Allah mentions that all heavens and the earth is His creation and whatever is between them, He has created that; note about ARSH (the mighty throne of Allah) that it is among MUTASHABE (unclear matters) for which the best thing to say is that “Allah knows better”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; He has total authority and manages all affairs of all the universe all the time and He would judge the doings of all persons who lived at the world at any time and at any place; that day would have the length of one thousand years by our count; note that Surah RAHMAN-29 tells that Allah keeps everything to His will and He always sees whatever impression has occurred by doings of the peoples at the world to keep it all to His will; certainly He knows beforehand every action that anyone among the mankind and the jinn takes as He certainly is the Most Knowing of all things and the Most Well-Aware; it also tells that everyone begs of Him for needs and so every day He is engaged in the task of seeing to their needs according to His will; so He cares for His creation due to their collective need and due to their individual need according to His will; they need to show utmost gratitude to Allah for His blessings on them; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-6 & 7 at this Ruku that we study, state, “this is (Allah) the Knower of the unseen (by men) and the seen, the Mighty (Who keeps the set-up that He has arranged for the universe, most intact), the Merciful (that He gives ample time to the man to show his worth for Jannah, the gardens of paradise); Who made good everything that He has created (with the best of set-up for it), and He began the creation of man from TEEN”; note that Surah Roum-20 states, “And one of His signs is that He created you from pure sand (TURAB), then lo! you are mortals (who) scatter”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; so the notable thing here is that Allah created the man by the pure sand at first (TURAB); then He mixed it with pure water to change it to muddy clay (TEEN); then it changed to extreme black mud (HAMA-EM-MASNUN) that had taken place by alteration of the muddy clay by His will with extreme period of time and finally the sounding refined clay (SALSAAL) by which Allah created Adam-AS by His will; these are not the stages of the man during his creation but the material of his creation had passed through such stages whereas each stage had most extreme period of time by the will of Allah; so any of these is the material by which Allah began the creation of Adam but with this remark, the most significant thing to mention here is that most certainly, Allah knows better; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-8 & 9 state, “then He made his progeny of an extract, of water held in light estimation; then He made him complete and breathed into him of His spirit, and made for you the ears and the eyes and the hearts; little is it that you give thanks”; this AAYAT tells that afterwards, his progeny came to inhabit the earth by such watery substance that does not have any esteem; but Allah provided all of mankind with ears and eyes and such ability to understand issues of life that they take the Guidance to the right path and achieve the true success at the Day of Judgment; note that the Quran uses the term “FU’AD” (that means heart) as the ability to deduce results by hearing of ears and by seeing of eyes; and it has occurred with the mention of hearing and seeing at BANI-ISRAEL-36, MOMINOON-78, at the ninth AAYAT of this Surah SAJDAH that we study and MULK-23; except for the first, it tells at all places that such persons show only little of gratitude to Allah and at BANI-ISRAEL even, the AAYAT implies that all persons need to show gratitude to Allah, the true Lord, as it mentions that hearing, seeing and FU’AD would certainly be asked about the attitudes they led to; Al-Hamdu Lillah; now, AAYAAT that are ahead at this Ruku that we study, state that there are disbelievers to the fact that the life would go one even after death; they are unable to understand that when their particles are scattered at the earth, how would they rise from dead; they are unaware of the set-up with which Allah has created them and more than that, they are unaware of the total authority that Allah has; AAYAT implies by its text that it is not their concern how Allah would do it but they need to understand that Allah certainly would raise them from dead; their doubt about it only tells that they do not believe that they would ever meet Allah, the true Lord; Allah asks the Prophet PBUH at the last AAYAT of the Ruku, “(O Prophet PBUH)- say- ‘the angel of death who is given charge of you shall cause you to die, then to your Lord you shall be brought back’ (so whether they believe it or not, they would certainly meet Allah, who would see all their doings there at the Day of Judgment)-“; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
SAJDAH-The Second Ruku
12. And could you but see when the guilty shall hang down their heads before their Lord: Our Lord! we have seen and we have heard, therefore send us back, we will do good; surely (now) we are certain.
13. And if We had pleased We would certainly have given to every soul its guidance, but the word (which had gone forth) from Me was just: I will certainly fill hell with the jinn and men together.
14. So taste, because you neglected the meeting of this day of yours; surely We forsake you; and taste the abiding chastisement for what you did.
15. Only they believe in Our AAYAAT who, when they are reminded of them, fall down in prostration and celebrate the praise of their Lord, and they are not proud.
16. Their sides draw away from (their) beds, they call upon their Lord in fear and in hope, and they spend (benevolently) out of what We have given them.
17. So no soul knows what is hidden for them of that which will refresh the eyes; a reward for what they did.
18. Is he then who is a believer like him who is a transgressor? They are not equal.
19. As for those who believe and do good, the gardens are their abiding-place; an entertainment for what they did.
20. And as for those who transgress, their abode is the fire; whenever they desire to go forth from it they shall be brought back into it, and it will be said to them: Taste the chastisement of the hell-fire which you called a lie.
21. And most certainly We will make them taste of the nearer chastisement before the greater chastisement that haply they may turn.
22. And who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the AAYAAT of his Lord, then he turns away from them? Surely We will give punishment to the guilty.
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The first three AAYAAT of the Ruku state the bad condition of those disbelievers who used to deny that Allah would raise all persons from dead; they shall stand in front of Allah, their heads hung down, and they would ask Him to return them to the world for one more time so that they get the pleasure of Allah by compliance to His commands and show their worth for Jannah, the paradise; Allah would respond to their plea that if He willed, He would have brought all persons to the true guidance; but He has made the life at the world an examination to see the worth of each person and He would provide Jannah to those only who comply to His commands and He would fill the hell-fire with jinn and men together who had spent their lives on wrongs; every person has only this one chance to prove his worth and no other; Allah would put all evil persons there at the hell-fire because they had denied the meeting with Allah on the Day of Judgment; so Allah would forsake them and they would remain there forever for whatever wrongs they did because of their disbelief that they would ever pay for their wrongs that they commit at life at the world; the next AAYAAT praise the true believers how they remembered Allah at life at the world and what good results they would ultimately receive for that; these AAYAAT tell that the true believers are only those who truly believe in AAYAAT of Allah as whenever they are reminded of them, they fall down in prostration and celebrate the praise of their Lord, and they are not proud on their submission to Allah but expect mercy from Him on their wrongs; they call Allah, the true Lord, at silence of nights in fear that He has the authority to punish them on their wrongs & in hope that He is most Merciful and so He would grant them mercy and the space to make themselves better; and they spend on the needy out of what Allah has provided to them benevolently; no person among such virtuous men knows what is hidden for them of that which will not only provide most physical satisfaction to them but before that, even refresh eyes; it shall never happen that the true believer gets results like the sinful disbeliever as they are not equal in status whereas the true believer has achieved the true success; Al-Hamdu Lillah; for those who believe and do good, they would receive gardens as their abiding place for whatever good they did; and as for those who had disbelieved in the Truth, their abode is the hell-fire; AAYAT categorically tells that “whenever they desire to go forth from it they shall be brought back into it, and it will be said to them- taste the chastisement of the hell-fire which you called a lie”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last couple of AAYAAT read, “and most certainly We will make them taste of the nearer chastisement (at life at the world) before the greater chastisement (of AKHIRAT) that haply they may turn (to righteousness before the greater chastisement gets them); and who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the AAYAAT (from the Quran and from the goings at the world) of his Lord (that ask to believe in Him truly and that the Day of Judgment is certain to come), then he turns away from them?- surely We will give punishment to the guilty”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
SAJDAH-The Last Ruku
23. And certainly We gave the Book to Musa, so be not in doubt concerning the receiving of it, and We made it a guide for the children of Israel.
24. And We made of them Imams to guide by Our command when they were patient, and they were certain of Our AAYAAT.
25. Surely your Lord will judge between them on the day of resurrection concerning that wherein they differ.
26. Does it not point out to them the right path, how many of the generations, in whose abodes they go about, did We destroy before them? Most surely there are signs in this; will they not then hear?
27. Do they not see that We drive the water to land having no herbage, then We bring forth thereby seed-produce of which their cattle and they themselves eat; will they not then see?
28. And they say: When will this judgment take place, if you are truthful?
29. Say: On the day of judgment the faith of those who (now) disbelieve will not profit them, nor will they be respited.
30. Therefore, turn away from them and wait, surely they too are waiting.
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The first couple of AAYAAT tell that Allah provided Torah to Moses-AS so it guided the Bani-Israel to the Truth yet there were such persons in them who took some of its teachings and left other of it; so Muhammad PBUH does not have to worry when he finds such persons who deny the teachings of the Quran which Allah has provided to him for the true guidance to all peoples of the world; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Allah raised guides to the teachings of Torah from among them who had no inclination to pleasures of the world so He would raise such good persons from among the Muslims too who would spread the virtuous teachings of the Quran far & wide; Al-Hamdu Lillah; then He would surely judge all matters between them at the Day of Judgment and the disbelievers would see clearly then that they were totally wrong; the observation of disbelievers is so weak that they are unable to see what the history tells them and even what info the matters around provide to them; they need to put their ability of hearing and seeing to all their observation as that would lead their FU’AD to come to the Truth; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that the Quran uses the term “FU’AD” (that means heart) as the ability to deduce results by hearing of ears and by seeing of eyes; Allah destroyed so many generations, in whose abodes they go about, and most surely there are signs in this; they need to use their faculty of hearing about it in the company of those who have learnt history well; and Allah brings water to such land that has no herbage and then it brings forth its production that their cattle and they too consume; they need to use their faculty of seeing at this issue by thought on how it happens; but their disbelief leads them to ask when the Judgment would take place but they need to understand that when it takes place, it will not profit them nor will they be respited; so it is better to ignore them and wait for the ultimate result to all matters and whether they believe it or not, the most obvious fact is this that they too are in waiting for the Day of Judgment that is most certain to take place; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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Surah ANKABUT
(Consists of 7 Ruku; MK-6)
ANKABUT-The First Ruku
1. ALIF LAAM MIM.
2. Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, ‘we believe’, and not be tried?
3. And certainly We tried those before them, so Allah will certainly know those who are true and He will certainly know the liars.
4. Or do they who work evil think that they will escape Us? Evil is it that they judge!
5. Whoever hopes to meet Allah, the term appointed by Allah will then most surely come; and He is the Hearing, the Knowing.
6. And whoever strives hard, he strives only for his own soul; most surely Allah is Self-sufficient, above (need of) the worlds.
7. And (as for) those who believe and do good, We will most certainly do away with their evil deeds and We will most certainly reward them the best of what they did.
8. And We have enjoined on man goodness to his parents, and if they contend with you that you should associate (others) with Me, of which you have no knowledge, do not obey them, to Me is your return, so I will inform you of what you did.
9. And (as for) those who believe and do good, We will most surely cause them to enter among the good.
10. And among men is he who says- ‘we believe in Allah’; but when he is persecuted in (the way of) Allah he thinks the persecution of men to be as the chastisement of Allah; and if there come assistance from your Lord, they would most certainly say- ‘surely we were with you’. What! is not Allah the best knower of what is in the breasts of mankind.
11. And most certainly Allah will know those who believe and most certainly He will know the hypocrites.
12. And those who disbelieve say to those who believe- ‘follow our path and we will bear your wrongs’. And never shall they be the bearers of any of their wrongs; most surely they are liars.
13. And most certainly they shall carry their own burdens, and other burdens with their own burdens, and most certainly they shall be questioned on the resurrection day as to what they forged.
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This Surah descended at the sixth year at Makkah and like its previous three Surah and its next three Surah, it starts with MUQATTA’AAT; Allah asks all Muslims at its beginning to remain most patient at these trying times when they were facing extreme rivalry of the disbelievers at Makkah; if they have such thoughts that they would be spared, only because they have verbally claimed that they have believed, they ought to see that this is not so; Allah intends to bring at fore all those persons among the Muslims who are true to Islam and all those persons who are liars among them, so they need to go through this phase because it is the manner of Allah to examine all such persons who claim to be believers in the Truth; they must see that He has examined the persons at previous peoples too who had claimed to be among the believers; AAYAT-3 reads, “and certainly We tried those before them, so Allah will certainly know those who are true and He will certainly know the liars” so the notable thing here is that “to know” means that Allah would test all such persons who claim to be among the believers to distinguish those who are true to Islam from those who are not; Allah certainly knows the inside of all persons and that is why AAYAAT-4 & 5 ahead read, “or do they who work evil think that they will escape Us? evil is it that they judge! whoever hopes to meet Allah, the term appointed by Allah will then most surely come (when they would meet Him); and He is the Hearing (of all speech that men manifest), the Knowing (of all which men conceal at their insides)”; so the disbelievers will be unable to run away to avoid the punishment that they are liable to get at the grounds of HASHR and also, it would certainly happen that the believers would get the pleasure of Allah when He would declare the results of all persons at the grounds of HASHR; AAYAAT-6 & 7 tell that whoever strives hard to get nearer to Allah, the true Lord, by his righteous belief and good deeds according to it, with resistance to temptations that ask him to fall in sinful activities, he does good to his own self as he certainly would find at AKHIRAT; Allah certainly does not need anything from any person because He is Self-sufficient, above (need of) the worlds; those who truly believe in Islam and do good deeds accordingly with SABR in their attitude, Allah would eliminate all their evil deeds and He will most certainly reward them the best of whatever good they did; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the Ruku tells ahead how such persons around whom the Satan has led away from the right path, may pressurize a Muslim to leave the teachings of Islam in practice; firstly, the challenge to his belief may come from his parents and though Islam asks to respect them highly yet it guides clearly that if they ask to commit SHERK (to take any of Allah’s creation as equal to Him in authority), he shall not obey them; the Muslims shall always remember that they are answerable to Allah, the true Lord, so they shall never take-up anything that is against His commands; note that some of the good Muslims who had accepted Islam at those trying times, were being much forced by one or both of their parents to leave Islam and it was only when those became convinced that they would not leave Islam for certain, did they stop this provocation; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Allah declares that He would provide such persons who resist such adverse efforts of their parents to mislead them, TOFIQ to make themselves most righteous so that they get highest of good returns at AKHIRAT; secondly, the challenge to his belief may come from those disbelievers who have some authority at the place where he dwells, when they torment him much so that he leaves Islam; note that the Muslims were facing hard times at Makkah when this Surah came to the Prophet PBUH; this AAYAT tells about such Muslim person, who is not firm in his belief upon Islam, that he takes the persecution of men that he faces in the way of Allah, to be as the chastisement of Allah and comes to leaving Islam; but however, if the Muslims gain power somewhere, he says that he also is included in them so for all his convenience, he claims his belief in Islam and when he finds the goings highly rough towards him due to his commitment to Islam, he comes near to leaving it; it reads, “and among men is he who says- ‘we believe in Allah’; but when he is persecuted in (the way of) Allah, he thinks the persecution of men to be as the chastisement of Allah; and if there come assistance from your Lord, they would most certainly say- ‘surely we were with you’; what! is not Allah the best knower of what is in the breasts of mankind (so they may hide their wrongs from persons around yet they are unable to conceal anything at their insides from Allah, the true Lord, Who would judge their doings most justly at the Day of Judgment)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Allah declares that such trying events come upon all persons that He truly “knows” (i.e. brings at fore) those who believe and those who are hypocrites; Al-Hamdu Lillah; this is the only place in the Quran where the term “MUNAFIQIN” (hypocrites) occurs at a Surah that descended at Makkah, as hypocrites had come at fore at Madinah where Muslims were getting strength and these persons intended to get benefits of the world by their verbal claim; Surah AHZAAB, that descended at Madinah, has this term at six places that includes its first and last AAYAAT while Surah MUNAFIQUN also relates their wrongs; Surah NISAA-138 asks the Prophet PBUH, “announce to the hypocrites that they shall have a painful chastisement” and tells about them ahead at that Ruku that they are such persons who befriend the disbelievers leaving the Muslims; it tells that if they intend respect from the disbelievers then they ought to know that respect, all of it, belongs only to Allah; so it guides the Muslims well in clear terms not to worry about what the disbelievers say about how the Muslims ask for practicing Islam in the setup of the world as of now and/or what they say about the attitudes of the Muslims towards life at the world; we Muslims take this life as the means to achieve the pleasure of Allah by adhering to the KITAB (the Quran) and the SUNNAH of the Prophet PBUH, and it has no value other than that; those persons who prefer the life at the world over the life at AKHIRAT, they are given-to idiocy as they try to disrespect Allah by not taking Him as the true Lord; certainly, the Muslims need to avoid the disbelievers in the world as of now and leave them on their own; as Surah ANKABUT descended at Makkah, its AAYAT-11, though its connotation shows such persons who are not true in their words about Islam, does not denote them to be as organized as they were at Madinah to challenge the teachings of Islam in practice; at this Surah ANKABUT, we also find the term “JAHADA” (to strive hard) at its sixth AAYAT which reads, “and whoever strives hard, he strives only for his own soul; most surely Allah is Self-sufficient, above (need of) the worlds”; and at its last AAYAT too, which contains its plural form to tell about such striving persons, that reads, “and (as for) those who strive hard for Us, We will most certainly guide them in Our ways; and Allah is most surely with the doers of good”; note that the root word for this term is JEHAD which is usually taken to denote the armed fight against the enemy of Islam yet that is just an aspect to it as JEHAD has three aspects that are MUJAHIDA and TABLIGH (to spread the teachings of Islam) and QITAL (armed combat of the good Muslims against the enemy who challenges Islam in the most mischievous manner); in all its aspects, it relates to striving hard of Muslims by aid of the Quran, in the best manner possible against all wrongs to gain the pleasure of Allah; Al-Hamdu Lillah; at Makkah, Muslims were disallowed to challenge the disbelievers by the armed combat and they were permitted for it only at AAYAT-39 of Surah HAJJ which descended at the last year in Makkah and the first year in Madinah; Surah ANKABUT, as it descended at Makkah, has this term in the meaning of MUJAHIDA which relates to fighting such desires inside at the individual level that incite the Muslim person to challenge Islam in his practice; there is provocation to wrongs inside due to satanic temptations but he resists all such temptations by his total attention towards Allah; this resistance with care to Islam relates to SABR (i.e. keeping to Islam with total patience at averse situations without any care to worldly assets) and as such, it relates most highly to MUJAHIDA; he is at JEHAD at the individual level as he practices SABR and as he asks Allah for safety from all wrongs; his MUJAHIDA does manifest beautifully at such times where the sinful persons ask him to leave care to virtues and to come towards wrongs too to enjoy by them; MUJAHIDA leads the good Muslim person to become able to guide all persons towards Islam by the blessing of Allah so it is obligatory upon each and every good Muslim (as it means for him to obey sincerely the commands of Allah in the individual capacity), though all good Muslims would fulfill the liability of TABLIGH and QITAL too as required, with high caliber, when there is a significant quantity among them for each of these both; Al-Hamdu Lillah; if there are many of such Muslim persons who adhere to MUJAHIDA at some specific place together by keeping themselves away from wrongs and then they call towards Islam, Allah provides them ample peace and gives them TOFIQ to become even better; Al-Hamdu Lillah; see also the supplementary note at AAYAT-39 of Surah HAJJ which comes after the note at its sixth Ruku; the term JAAHADAAKA (they both strive hard) which relates to the root word JEHAD, has also come at AAYAT-8 of this first Ruku which denotes the efforts of parents against the son who accepts Islam totally so here it only has its connotation by dictionary as it states, “and We have enjoined on man goodness to his parents, and if they contend with you (which occurs by words “WA-IN-JAAHADAAKA”) that you should associate (others) with Me, of which you have no knowledge (because on the contrary, you have the true knowledge that certainly there is none equal in authority to Him), do not obey them; to Me is your return, so I will inform you of what you did”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; so challenge to the good belief of a good Muslim may come from his parents and from those disbelievers who have some authority at the place he dwells; thirdly, the challenge to his belief may come from such persons who would say anything to mislead the Muslims by trickery that the outcome to go against Islam would not harm them in any averse manner; the last two AAYAAT of the Ruku state, “and those who disbelieve say to those who believe- ‘follow our path and we will bear your wrongs’; and never shall they be the bearers of any of their wrongs; most surely they are liars; and most certainly they shall carry their own burdens, and other burdens with their own burdens (but that would fall upon them due to their own verbal efforts to mislead the Muslim persons so in actual, their other burdens also shall be due to their own doings), and most certainly they shall be questioned on the resurrection day as to what they forged (to mislead the Muslim persons); Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ANKABUT-The Second Ruku
14. And certainly We sent Noah to his people, so he remained among them a thousand years save fifty years. And the deluge overtook them, while they were unjust.
15. So We delivered him and the inmates of the ark, and made it a sign to the nations.
16. And (note about) Ibrahim, when he said to his people: Serve Allah and be careful of (your duty to) Him; this is best for you, if you did but know:
17. You only worship idols besides Allah and you create a lie; surely they whom you serve besides Allah do not control for you any sustenance, therefore seek the sustenance from Allah and serve Him and be grateful to Him; to Him you shall be brought back.
18. And if you reject (the Truth), nations before you did indeed reject; and nothing is incumbent on the apostle but a plain delivering (of the message).
19. What! do they not consider how Allah originates the creation, then reproduces it? Surely that is easy to Allah.
20. Say: Travel in the earth and see how Allah makes the first creation, then Allah creates the latter creation; surely Allah has power over all things.
21. He punishes whom He pleases and has mercy on whom He pleases, and to Him you shall be turned back.
22. And you shall not escape in the earth nor in the heaven, and you have neither a protector nor a helper besides Allah.
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This Ruku narrates about Noah-AS, by whom the mankind spread again upon the earth after the flood that drowned all other of them, and about Ibrahim-AS, by whom the golden chain of Allah’s Prophets (Salam on all of them) came ahead; in AAYAAT ahead at the Ruku, Allah declares how He punished those persons at the world and how He would punish them at the Day of Judgment who, besides other of disbelief, did not have true belief in AKHIRAT, which goes on to the first AAYAT of the third Ruku; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the beginning AAYAAT of the Ruku state, “and certainly We sent Noah to his people, so he remained among them a thousand years save fifty years, and the deluge overtook them, while they were unjust; so We delivered him and the inmates of the ark, and made it a sign to the nations”; Surah SHUA’RAA that we all have studied recently, Surah AARAAF, Surah HOODH and other of Surah have provided detail for this; however, here we find that Noah provided the message of Allah to his nation for nine hundred and fifty years while his total age at the world is mentioned as more than one thousand years as he became the Messenger of Allah at the age of maturity and as he lived on ahead too after that notable flood; this is to tell all of Muslims that they need patience to provide the teachings of Islam to all peoples and they need to bear what comes in that process as Allah would certainly examine them all at the world to prove their claim to Islam; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that after sending any of the Messengers to some nation, Allah appoints such time where that nation would ultimately accept the fundamental Islamic teachings or face certain death; we all have studied at Surah AARAAF in its second Ruku about Adam & Eve (Salam on both of them) explicitly that the life at the world is an examination to the mankind so all persons must keep to the three fundamental teachings of Islam that all the Messengers of Allah have guided to; these fundamental teachings of Islam are TAUHID (Allah only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord) and AKHIRAT (Allah would judge all peoples of the world at the Day of Judgment) and RISALAT (Allah had sent His Messengers to the world to provide the Guidance to the right path); Al-Hamdu Lillah; each of the Messengers of Allah said to his respective nation that “I am a faithful messenger unto you so keep your duty to Allah, and obey me”; so all the Messengers did try their best to guide their nations as Allah has asked them; however, their nations did not comply to their call and so Allah destroyed them completely at the world and they certainly would be among the severely punished peoples at AKHIRAT; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the next three AAYAAT from 16 to 19 state, “And (note about) Ibrahim, when he said to his people- serve Allah and be careful of (your duty to) Him; this is best for you, if you did but know; you only worship idols besides Allah and you create a lie; surely they whom you serve besides Allah do not control for you any sustenance, therefore seek the sustenance from Allah and serve Him and be grateful to Him; to Him you shall be brought back; and if you reject (the Truth), nations before you did indeed reject; and nothing is incumbent on the apostle but a plain delivering (of the message)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; these AAYAAT give the message of Islam clearly that Allah, the only Creator of life, only has the true authority so all persons shall obey Him only as that only is the aim of life; if He intends to provide benefits to anyone, nobody is able to stop those benefits from him/her and if He intends to stop something from anyone, nobody is able to provide that to him/her so all persons need to be most grateful to Him only; those who worship idols besides Allah, they have given themselves to lies only as they take these idols as providers of their security while they are totally unable to provide any security to their own selves even; all persons certainly have to answer Allah for all their doings so if they reject the fundamental teachings of Islam then the Messenger of Allah has done his job by providing that to them, as he only has the liability to deliver the message of Allah plainly; note that Ibrahim-AS was the Messenger of Allah but not particularly towards any of peoples and the difference manifests here by the respective statements “and certainly We sent Noah to his people” (AAYAT-14) & “and (note about) Ibrahim, when he said to his people- serve Allah and be careful of (your duty to) Him” (AAYAT-16); the notable thing here is that after sending any of Messengers to some nation, Allah appoints such time where they would ultimately accept the fundamental Islamic teachings or face certain death; the people of Ibrahim (Abraham) did live on after he left them and there is a very high probability that some of them had accepted the Islamic teachings that he had provided to them and from them, it did reach on to other of peoples too; however, as it is only a probability, the best thing to state is that certainly, Allah knows better; Al-Hamdu Lillah; so Abraham-AS refuted the belief of his nation at Babylon where he was born at the city of UR and where the people worshipped idols and took stars even as objects to worship, whereas their king asked unconditional obedience from them; Abraham challenged these aspects of their belief at different occasions as we find the mention at BAQARAH-258, at ANBIYA-the fifth Ruku and at AN’AAM-the ninth Ruku; he argued by the signs of heavens to guide his nation towards TAUHID of Allah (that Allah only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord); he even showed them by practical demonstration by destroying their idols that they are totally helpless to save them and even themselves; Al-Hamdu Lillah; he said in clear terms that denoted his true belief that he has set his face firmly towards Him Who created the heavens and the earth, being upright, and never shall he be of the polytheists; Al-Hamdu Lillah; he told them to take his word for it that those who do believe in Allah righteously and do not mix it up with the heavy injustice (SHERK), then for those only is the security as they certainly do have the true guidance; only that true guidance has the worth to lead to security at AKHIRAT which for certain, is the true success; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that SHERK means to reject Allah as the only Creator of all the creation or/and challenge His authority by doubts about His attributes that are QADEEM (He is from all times to all times with all of His attributes that are of Him from all times to all times), ASL (all of His attributes are His Own), LA-MEHDUD (all of His attributes are limitless) or/and to reject Him as the only true Lord of all the creation Who actually has to be obeyed, so any of His creation shall only be obeyed when his/its directions do not challenge the obedience to His commands in principle in any way; Al-Hamdu Lillah; from AAYAT-19 to AAYAT-23 (the first AAYAT of the next Ruku), Allah tells the disbelievers that they need to see how everything manifests and asks them through the Prophet PBUH to see how the cycle of life goes on; Allah has total authority and nobody is able to stop Him from anything He intends; Al-Hamdu Lillah; these AAYAAT read, “what! do they not consider how Allah originates the creation, then reproduces it (as the process of birth and death manifests well in His creation so the life goes on)? surely that is easy to Allah; say (to them O Prophet PBUH), ‘travel in the earth and see how Allah makes the first creation, then Allah creates the latter creation (as there are stages in creation of everything, so Allah would provide life to all persons at the Day of HASHR as that also is one of stages in the life of mankind)’; surely Allah has power over all things; He punishes (wrong persons at life at the world too) whom He pleases (as He eliminated many of peoples who challenged the fundamental teachings of Islam) and has mercy on whom He pleases (as He gave more space of time to the people of Abraham), and to Him you shall be turned back (at AKHIRAT to see the final outcome of all your doings where He would spare no wrong person and where He would provide every righteous person his due good returns); and you shall not escape in the earth nor in the heaven (on that specific day), and you have neither a protector nor a helper besides Allah (on that specific day); and (as to) those who disbelieve in the AAYAAT of Allah and His meeting, they have despaired of My mercy (at life at the world), and these it is that shall have a painful punishment (at AKHIRAT)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ANKABUT-The Third Ruku
23. And (as to) those who disbelieve in the AAYAAT of Allah and His meeting, they have despaired of My mercy, and these it is that shall have a painful punishment.
24. So naught was the answer of his people except that they said: Slay him or burn him; then Allah delivered him from the fire; most surely there are signs in this for a people who believe.
25. And he said: You have only taken for yourselves idols besides Allah by way of friendship between you in this world's life, then on the resurrection day some of you shall deny others, and some of you shall curse others, and your abode is the fire, and you shall not have any helpers.
26. And Lot believed in Him, and he (Abraham) said: I am fleeing to my Lord, surely He is the Mighty, the Wise.
27. And We granted him Isaac and YAQOUB (Jacob), and caused the prophet-hood and the book to remain in his seed, and We gave him his reward in this world, and in the hereafter he will most surely be among the good.
28. And (We sent) Lot when he said to his people: Most surely you are guilty of an indecency which none of the nations has ever done before you;
29. What! do you come to the males and commit robbery on the highway, and you commit evil in your assemblies? But nothing was the answer of his people except that they said: Bring on us Allah's punishment, if you are one of the truthful.
30. He said: My Lord! help me against the mischievous people.
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The third Ruku of ANKABUT continues the narrative of Abraham-AS and tells about Lot-AS; it states that as the people of Abraham were unable to answer his argument, they decided to burn him alive but Allah saved him from that which certainly tells how Allah saves those who truly do strive hard in his way with utmost patience (see ANBIYA-69); Al-Hamdu Lillah; Abraham told his people in clear terms that they have taken worship of idols due to their relations with each other but at AKHIRAT, some of them shall deny any relations to the most evil persons among them, and some of them shall even curse others, and the abode of all of them is the hell-fire for certain while they shall not have any helpers on that day; his nephew Lot accepted the message of Islam at that most trying time and later on, Allah chose him too as one of His Messengers; Al-Hamdu Lillah; seeing that his people would not believe in the fundamental teaching of Islam, Abraham migrated from Ur with his wife and Lot towards the ancient area of Syria (that included Palestine too) as ANBIYA-71 states, “and We delivered him as well as Lot (removing them and Sarah-AS) to the land which We had blessed for all people”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAT-27 tells that Allah gave Isaac-AS to Abraham, who was his son, and Jacob-AS, who was his grandson; it reads, “and We granted him Isaac and YAQOUB (Jacob), and caused the prophet-hood and the book (Torah) to remain in his seed (i.e. his descendants), and We gave him his reward in this world; and in the hereafter, he will most surely be among the good”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; as for the nation of Lot-AS, they were the people living at Sodom and Gomorrah at south of the dead sea; they were extremely filthy persons who used to commit the heinous sin of sodomy among the men and looted travelers whenever they found the chance for it; they had become so perverted in sexual matters that they even talked at their gatherings about their filth as they found pleasure in such talks so their living manner has made them oblivious of any sense of good morality; Lot actually did not belong to that nation but Allah sent him as His Messenger to them and he tried his best to reform them of this heinous sin but to no avail; in fact, they intended to expel him from their city just because he challenged their filth; then Lot-AS made a plea to Allah to punish these heinous wrong-doers so Allah rained stones upon them to eliminate them totally; Lot had taken his wife from amongst that nation and she did not disapprove of their heinous sin so she was most disobedient to Lot and so she was punished too with that extremely sinful nation; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ANKABUT-The Fourth Ruku
31. And when Our apostles came to Ibrahim with the good news, they said: Surely we are going to destroy the people of this town, for its people are unjust.
32. He said: Surely in it is Lot. They said: We know well who is in it; we shall certainly deliver him and his followers, except his wife; she shall be of those who remain behind.
33. And when Our apostles came to Lot he was grieved on account of them, and he felt powerless (to protect) them; and they said: Fear not, nor grieve; surely we will deliver you and your followers, except your wife; she shall be of those who remain behind.
34. Surely We will cause to come down upon the people of this town a punishment from heaven, because they transgressed.
35. And certainly We have left a clear sign of it for a people who understand.
36. And to Madyan (We sent) their brother SHOAIB, so he said: O my people! serve Allah and fear the latter day and do not act corruptly in the land, making mischief.
37. But they rejected him, so a severe earthquake overtook them, and they became motionless bodies in their abode.
38. And (We destroyed) AAD and THAMUD, and from their dwellings (this) is apparent to you indeed; and the Satan made their deeds fair-seeming to them, so he kept them back from the path, though they were endowed with intelligence and skill,
39. And (We destroyed) QAROUN and Pharaoh and Haman; and certainly Musa came to them with clear arguments, but they behaved haughtily in the land; yet they could not outstrip (Us).
40. So each We punished for his sin; of them was he on whom We sent down a violent storm, and of them was he whom the rumbling overtook, and of them was he whom We made to be swallowed up by the earth, and of them was he whom We drowned; and it did not beseem Allah that He should be unjust to them, but they were unjust to their own souls.
41. The parable of those who take guardians besides Allah is as the parable of the spider that makes for itself a house; and most surely the frailest of the houses is the spider's house did they but know.
42. Surely Allah knows whatever thing they call upon besides Him; and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
43. And (as for) these examples, We set them forth for men, and none understand them but the learned.
44. Allah created the heavens and the earth with truth; most surely there is sign in this for the believers.
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At this Ruku, we find that Allah had sent angels to punish the filthy people of Sodom & Gomorrah but these angels had visited Abraham-AS before coming to Lot-AS to provide him the good news that he would get Isaac as his son and YAQOUB (Jacob) as his grandson; at that occasion, they had even told Abraham the manner of the punishment to the people of Lot as Surah ZAARIYAAT states, “they said - surely we are sent to guilty people that we may send down upon them stones of clay that are sent forth with markings from your Lord for the wanton people” (AAYAT-32, 33 & 34 of ZAARIYAAT); Abraham worried about Lot who believed sincerely in the Truth, so they told him that they had the task to deliver him and his followers except for his wife by the command of Allah; when Lot saw them, he was disturbed as he took them to be such men who were visiting the area whereas the people there had extreme filth in their attitudes; but they told him that they are angels so he does not need to grieve as they have no issue that the filthy people there may affect them adversely; they told him that they will deliver him and his followers except his wife as she shall be of those who remain behind; so Allah sent down extreme punishment to them (that was the rain of stones of clay) through His angels because they had transgressed the moral limits in which the man needs to remain for certain, and then He made them lesson ahead that He would punish all such persons who commit any of major sins together of the most shameful nature, even at the world most severely; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-36, 37 & 38 read, “and to Madyan (We sent) their brother SHOAIB, so he said- O my people! serve Allah (by believing in His true authority) and fear the latter day (of Judgment) and do not act corruptly in the land, making mischief (by usurping the rights of each other); but they rejected him (as the Messenger of Allah), so a severe earthquake overtook them, and (the outcome of that was that) they became motionless bodies in their abode; and (We destroyed) AAD (i.e. the people of HOODH-AS) and THAMUD (i.e. the people of SALEH-AS), and from their dwellings (which you see while traveling, this) is apparent to you indeed; and the Satan made their deeds fair-seeming to them (that they thought them to be virtuous though those deeds were utterly wrong doings), so he kept them back from the (right) path, though they were endowed with intelligence and skill”; note that the man inclines naturally towards righteousness as he knows well inside him that his true benefits are only at that and the Satan is aware of it so he tries to lead a person to misconception that his doing is surely right when he is committing a wrong, so that there remains no chance that he recompenses for that except when Allah gives him TOFIQ to realize his error clearly; Al-Hamdu Lillah; even today, we do find that many such persons, who are most aware of astronomy, which tells many of the amazing principles by which Allah has set the heavenly bodies in amazingly vast area of the universe, are not prepared to revise their living manner and are most oblivious of making their deeds better for AKHIRAT; AAYAAT-39 & 40 tell explicitly that Allah destroyed QAROUN and Pharaoh and Haman; Allah had sent Moses as His Messenger to all of them besides the Bani Israel, with clear arguments (i.e. miraculous things) to believe in the Truth, but they thought themselves as righteous and behaved haughtily in the land; yet they could not do any harm to Allah Who punished each of them for his sin according to that sin; so in them were AAD on whom Allah sent extremely fierce violent wind that roared at their area for seven nights and eight days (and the people of Lot are also included here as Allah destroyed them too by such violent stormy wind that rained the shower of clay-stones over them); and in them were THAMUD and the people of SHOAIB whom the rumbling of earthquake overtook, and of them was QAROUN whom Allah made to be swallowed up by the earth, and of them were the disbelievers in the people of Noah, and also Pharaoh and his men, whom Allah drowned; and certainly, Allah was not unjust to them as He does care most highly for all of mankind but this all happened to them as they were most unjust to their own souls due to their rejection of the Truth; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT 41, 42 & 43 at the Ruku read, “the parable of those who take guardians besides Allah is as the parable of the spider that makes for itself a house; and most surely the frailest of the houses is the spider's house (which is unable to bear anything that falls upon it), did they but know (that their shelters against the punishment of Allah are even weaker than the web of the spider); surely Allah knows whatever thing (they take as equal to Allah in authority and) they call upon besides Him; and He is the Mighty, the Wise; and (as for) these examples, We set them forth for men, and none understand them but the learned”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; as the web of a spider is frailest of all shelters that insects take, so Allah gives its example to show that guardians that the disbelievers believe-in that they would save them from all troubles at the world and torments at AKHIRAT, none of them has any worth to save them as they have no power against Allah Who is AZIZ (Mighty; so He keeps all His creation to work for His will only by His true authority and destroys those peoples who challenge Him) and HAKEEM (Wise; so He indeed cares well that all works of all His creation affect in such way that they fulfill only His will); Al-Hamdu Lillah; whenever Allah sends some destruction by some calamity to disbelievers, those whom they take as their shelters, prove totally useless against it as they certainly have no authority to do anything against the will of Allah; those whom Allah has given TOFIQ to become learned in Islam, their good deeds totally show their bond to this righteous concept that Allah only has the true authority and whatever happens, it only happens by the will of Allah, the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last AAYAT at this Ruku presents this fact most explicitly that Allah has created all of His creation in such beautiful manner that all do fulfill His command only, though the jinn and the mankind have the task to fulfill this, the only aim of life, by their own freewill or else, they face total elimination from the world; then Allah would resurrect them all at the Day of Judgment where they would face the ultimate result to their doings at life at the world; it reads, “Allah created the heavens and the earth with truth (i.e. the principle to fulfill His will only); most surely there is sign in this for the believers”; most surely, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ANKABUT-The Fifth Ruku
45. Recite that which has been revealed to you of the Book and keep up prayer (Salah); surely prayer keeps (a person) away from indecency and evil, and certainly the remembrance of Allah is the greatest, and Allah knows what you do.
46. And do not dispute with the followers of the Book except by what is best, except those of them who act unjustly; and say: We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you, and He, in Whom we believe and in Whom you believe, is One; and to Him do we submit.
47. And thus have We revealed the Book to you. So those whom We have given the Book believe in it, and of these there are those who believe in it, and none deny Our AAYAAT except the disbelievers.
48. And you did not recite before it any book, nor did you transcribe one with your right hand, for then could those who say untrue things have doubted.
49. Nay! these are clear AAYAAT in the breasts of those who are granted knowledge; and none deny Our AAYAAT except the unjust.
50. And they say: Why are not signs sent down upon him from his Lord? Say: The signs are only with Allah, and I am only a plain warner.
51. Is it not enough for them that We have revealed to you the Book which is recited to them? Most surely there is mercy in this and a reminder for a people who believe.
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The fifth Ruku of ANKABUT guides attention that it is Allah Who has revealed both Torah (the five initial books of the old Testament) and the Holy Book Quran; though there have been alterations at Torah according to us Muslims, at ancient times, yet as they both have come from Allah to the mankind (by Moses-AS and Muhammad PBUH respectively) so in essence, they both teach about TAUHID (Allah only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord) and AKHIRAT (Allah would judge all peoples of the world at the Day of Judgment) and RISALAT (Allah had sent His Messengers to the world to provide the Guidance to the right path); Al-Hamdu Lillah; the first AAYAT at this Ruku tells the virtues of reciting the Quran and keeping firm upon Salah (the virtuous manner of prayer to Allah) as it tells that “surely Salah keeps (the person) away from indecency and evil, and certainly the remembrance of Allah is the greatest, and Allah knows what you do”; so the AAYAT asks all Muslims to remain most aware of the Islamic teachings by understanding of the Holy Book Quran and to remain most attached to practice of Islam, of which Salah is most significant which shapes the daily routine of a Muslim person; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that the mention of Salah here at this Surah which descended at Makkah, implies that the Muslim person has to engage in remembrance of Allah at all times for which, Salah is the most significant command to practice in the daily life; it had not become obligatory at that time yet it certainly was the most significant command to practice even at that time; note that the AAYAT clarifies that it keeps the person away from FAHSHAA (most shameful behavior; extreme indecency) and from MUNKAR (most evil acts; extreme injustice); so the practice of Salah with utmost attention towards Allah, the true Lord, leads to the practice of all Islamic teachings in all matters of life because commitment to it is the initial practice to keeping away from all major sins which may be the most shameful behavior or may be extreme injustice; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that the woman has to see keeping to HEJAB, that nothing averse to Islamic values takes place by her natural beauty that attracts men as that has high potential to lead to occurrence of the shameful behavior and the man has to see that nothing objectionable by Islamic values takes place by the strength he has (and that might be his official strength) that leads to occurrence of injustice; the Islamic administration needs to give attention at the environment for both of these matters by EHSAAN (i.e. by the good traditions set to fulfill tasks related to decent morality) and by ADL (i.e. by commitment to the law of the land) respectively so the actual work to do is to guide attention towards the Holy Book Quran getting it into practice totally instead of working for material gains and/or the worldly status but caring most for reading of Salah; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note also that the Muslims do not need to take actions that are sudden or imposed by force as the Islamic values command natural respect that do not need any forced manner to manifest them; insha-Allah (if Allah wills) the current environment would change into the Islamic environment as all Muslim persons in authority influence it with utmost care to eliminate wrongs, while the necessary good attitudes would develop-on for the consolidation of Islamic values as that is the natural inclination for all men certainly; this authority is AMANAT (trust of Allah in mankind) which means that it is such liability that Allah provides to persons so that they fulfill it to put Allah's commands into practice as much as is possible for them; Al-Hamdu Lillah; there are many of AAYAAT in the Quran that target these two extreme wrongs (most shameful behavior and extreme injustice) together which include Surah BAQARAH-168 & 169, AALE-IMRAN-135, SHURA-37, NAJM-32, AN’AAM-151, NISAA-110 & 111 & 112, BANI-ISRAEL (whole of its third Ruku), MUHAMMAD (PBUH)-14 that ask the avoidance of Injustice and the avoidance of all shameful behavior at one place; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the Holy Book Quran has targeted each of these both individually too at places yet I, MSD, have indicated at this place only those that are among AAYAAT that target them together; note that all major sins either fall into the most shameful behavior or either into extreme injustice; even SHERK, the greatest of all major sins, is named as the most extreme injustice at Surah LUQMAN-13 which presents the words of LUQMAN, who was one of the most intelligent men at ancient times, “Behold, LUQMAN said to his son by way of instruction- ‘O my son! join not in worship (others) with Allah; most surely SHERK is tremendous injustice’-“; ULAMA (the learned persons) in the Islamic teachings mention that it is highly praiseworthy for the Muslim men in general to learn Surah-MA’EDAH good as it teaches the Islamic law that targets injustice directly while it is highly praiseworthy for the Muslim women in general to learn Surah-NOOR good as it commands about HEJAB that targets the shameful attitude directly; Al-Hamdu Lillah; it is fair to say that based on the teachings of the Holy Book Quran and the Sunnah of the last Prophet Muhammad PBUH, Islam is the only worthy challenger even today (as at all times) to all injustice and to all of the shameful attitude because Islam asks to keep attention towards Allah only; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Surah NAHL indicates, “surely Allah commands ADL (justice) and EHSAAN (natural goodness) and the giving to the kindred, and He forbids shameful behavior and injustice and rebellion (to Allah); He admonishes you that you may be mindful” (Surah NAHL-90); Allah commands for three things here and forbids three other things; the message here is that taking-up three good things in practice that comprise of all the righteousness would eliminate the three bad things that represent all the Satanic misguidance; here, an indication is given that EHSAAN eliminates all the shameful behavior and ADL eliminates all of injustice; the spending towards the needy among the near ones for the pleasure of Allah counters any thought that might lead towards hypocrisy that in turn, leads towards challenging the commands of Allah; the message for this part is that “INFAAQ” (spending in the way of Allah from what Allah has provided) keeps away “NIFAAQ” (hypocrisy) from the Muslim person for certain and the first AAYAT of this Ruku of ANKABUT notes too that the remembrance of Allah in practice is the greatest of all good acts as it keeps away NIFAAQ from the Muslim person for certain; Al-Hamdu Lillah; then this first AAYAT ends by the comment that Allah knows about all persons who among them, really do good deeds for the pleasure of Allah when they do them and about all persons who do not; so in recitation of the Quran and in reading of Salah, as in all good deeds, the Muslim person needs to have all attention towards Allah, the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAT ahead at this Ruku tells how to present the message of the Quran, which relates to the fundamental teachings of Islam, among the people of the Book; note that AAYAT-125 of NAHL had stated, “(O Muhammad PBUH)- call to the way of your Lord with wisdom (those learned persons who are most studious yet in need of getting the Islamic teachings) and with goodly exhortation (by addressing the good emotions in those persons who value the good feelings among the fellow beings), and have disputations with those (who would not even listen properly to the good Islamic teachings due to their negative manner to challenge everything that comes their way, even when the true Muslims provide all good reasoning for them to accept Islam in their own benefit), in the best manner; surely your Lord knows best those who go astray from His path, and He knows best those who follow the right path (so you have the liability to providing the message of Islam to all peoples of the world and Allah only would decide who gets the true guidance)”; note that HIKMAT (i.e. wisdom) means such high intelligence that tells how to put the Islamic commands into practice at any given situation, so the Muslims would call the studious persons among the disbelievers by the manner of HIKMAT (as that is the asking of ADL); and they would call those persons who have the sense that the world needs to live in peace where all persons care about the fellow beings, by the manner of goodly urging (as that is the asking of EHSAAN); these both manners comply to the guidance of AAYAT-46 here which tells, “and do not dispute with the followers of the Book except by what is best (which may be the manner of ADL or the manner of EHSAAN)”; AAYAT tells ahead that the Muslims shall say to those of the people of the Book (Torah) who act unjustly towards the message of Islam that they believe in the Quran which has been revealed to them through the Holy Prophet Muhammad PBUH, the last Messenger of Allah, and they also believe in those virtuous teachings of Torah which it still presents even after its alteration at the ancient times; and they shall say this too clearly that He, in Whom they believe and in Whom the people of the Book believe, is One; but the difference between them is that the Muslims take Him as their true Lord and live in accordance to His commands so to Him only, they do submit; Al-Hamdu Lillah; from AAYAT-47 to the last, the Ruku mentions about the Holy Book Quran that Allah has revealed this Holy Book Quran to Muhammad PBUH like He had revealed Torah to Moses-AS and among those whom He had given the Book (i.e. Torah), there are just persons who do believe in it, and also of these (i.e. residents of Makkah), there are such persons who do believe in it; and none deny AAYAAT of Allah when they are recited to them with clarity, except such disbelievers who do not reflect on them; the significant thing for all persons to observe is that the Prophet PBUH did not recite any book before he received the Quran, nor did he write any book (as he could neither read nor write), as then could those who say untrue things, have doubted; in fact, they are AAYAAT that remain secure by the command of Allah in the breasts of those who are granted knowledge; note that this is an indication that there would always remain such good persons among the Muslims who would do such related tasks in service of the Quran that would keep it most secure by the command of Allah; there would be those who would memorize it totally, those who would recite it time & again, those who would write it strikingly and publish it beautifully, those who would remain most aware of its teachings, those who would keep the meanings of its text intact, those who would express its guidance to all peoples of the world and others who would serve it in some way or other, by the will of Allah, the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; so its AAYAAT are totally clear which only the unjust denies adamantly when he becomes aware of it; there are such persons among the disbelievers who, seeing that they are totally unable to challenge the Quran on the scholarly level, ask why are not miracles sent down upon him from his Lord?- so the AAYAT asks the Prophet PBUH to answer them that Allah sends miracles whenever He wills for it, and he is only a warner to them that if they do not accept the Truth, they would fall into extreme trouble at AKHIRAT for certain; the last AAYAT of the Ruku refutes them by the argument that they do hear the teachings of the Holy Book Quran which Allah has revealed to the Prophet PBUH; it truly is miracle, if they do care to learn it, as it guides them to the right path so it is mercy of Allah to all of mankind so that all peoples accept the fundamental teachings of Islam and save themselves from torments of the hell-fire; and it is reminder for all Muslim persons who truly believe in it to remain firm upon Islam and put it into their practice so that they get the virtuous character at life here and achieve JANNAH at AKHIRAT, when Allah gives life to all persons again; that only is the true success; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ANKABUT-The Sixth Ruku
52. Say: Allah is sufficient as a witness between me and you; He knows what is in the heavens and the earth. And (certainly) those who believe in the falsehood and disbelieve in Allah, these it is that are the losers.
53. And they ask you to hasten on the chastisement; and had not a term been appointed, the chastisement would certainly have come to them; and most certainly it will come to them all of a sudden while they will not perceive.
54. They ask you to hasten on the chastisement, and most surely hell encompasses the disbelievers;
55. On the day when the chastisement shall cover them from above them, and from beneath their feet; and He shall say: Taste what you did.
56. O My servants who believe! surely My earth is vast, therefore Me alone should you serve.
57. Every soul must taste of death, then to Us you shall be brought back.
58. And (as for) those who believe and do good, We will certainly give them abode in the high places in gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein; how good the reward of the workers:
59. Those who are patient, and on their Lord do they rely.
60. And how many a living creature that does not carry its sustenance: Allah sustains it and yourselves; and He is the Hearing, the Knowing.
61. And if you ask them, Who created the heavens and the earth and made the sun and the moon subservient, they will certainly say, Allah. Whence are they then turned away?
62. Allah makes abundant the means of subsistence for whom He pleases of His servants, and straitens them for whom (He pleases) surely Allah is Cognizant of all things.
63. And if you ask them Who is it that sends down water from the clouds, then gives life to the earth with it after its death, they will certainly say, Allah. Say: All praise is due to Allah. Nay, most of them do not understand.
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This Ruku emphasizes that the true success is getting the pleasure of Allah at AKHIRAT and the disbelievers to the Truth are in extreme loss, both at life at the world and at AKHIRAT; it asks the Prophet PBUH to tell the disbelievers that Allah is sufficient as a witness between him and them; He knows what is in the heavens and the earth, so when He is aware of everything in this amazingly vast universe that He has created beautifully, what makes the disbelievers think that they would escape all situations that are adverse to their safety when they challenge the authority of Allah; all those who believe in the falsehood that they would not have to face the account of their doings which they had done at the world, at the certain day and disbelieve in Allah disregarding His authority to raise them from dead, these person are certainly among the extreme losers; they even demand from the Prophet PBUH to bring some disaster upon them, but Allah has set the timing for their chastisement if they do not accept the fundamental teachings of Islam; this is His mercy as He does not intend to inflict any punishment to disbelievers until they are aware of the Truth and the time for its acceptance passes away; but when that specific time elapses, He certainly would put an extreme disaster upon them and that would fall in the most sudden manner upon them; and they would see extreme punishment for them at AKHIRAT too when the hell-fire encompasses them and they would get its punishment from above of them and from beneath their feet; Allah would tell them to taste that for which they had been working at the world and to which, they had shown their extreme haste; from AAYAT-56 to AAYAT-60, the Ruku tells that if the true believers find hardship in remaining to the Truth and in the fulfillment of its asking in practice, they ought to migrate to some land that is complementary to their Islamic living as Allah has made the earth a vast place to live-on; they must not care that they would lose their relatives as when the death comes, which is inevitable, they would lose them certainly; and every person has to return to Allah where he would face his doings individually; Allah would provide the true believers, who live doing all good deeds at the world even in adverse situations for them, wonderful residing rooms in the high places in gardens beneath which rivers flow where they would live forever; Al-Hamdu Lillah; such is the beautiful reward for those who are patient without any care to accumulate wealth at the world and on their true Lord do they rely that He would certainly provide them the outlet to live-on their lives truly upon Islam in all situations; Al-Hamdu Lillah; if they have worries about how would they get their sustenance besides leaving their relatives behind as they migrate to some land for the righteous living, they must see around and note all such creatures, specially birds, which do not keep any of edibles with them yet Allah provides for them all and He would certainly provide for the true believers too; He hears all those among them who ask Him for their needs and even without that, He certainly knows about their needs; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last three AAYAAT of the Ruku state that there are many of disbelievers who are aware that Allah only has created the heavens and the earth and has made the sun and the moon serve the life of the mankind; so why do not they see that Allah only is their true Lord in Whom they have to believe truly and then fulfill only His commands totally; Al-Hamdu Lillah; if someone gets more of assets at the world, it is not the sign that he has achieved the true success and if someone has barely his sustenance, it does not mean that he has lost his worth but Allah examines all persons in different situations and He certainly knows whom to test with plenty and whom to test with scarce means for his sustenance; it is the success in the examination of the life that the man gives at the world by remaining to the commands of Allah, which certainly leads to his true success as every person has to face his/her doings at the certain day of HASHR; that is the time & place where his/her success counts; Al-Hamdu Lillah; they see that Allah sends rainfall on the land which is seemingly barren, and then it provides its fruits by that rainfall but in spite of this clear observation, they still have doubts in getting life after death when they would have to account for all their doings at the world; it is highly clear that they are obsessed with issues of their lives at the world and do not understand how Allah has set matters at the universe; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ANKABUT-The Last Ruku
64. And this life of the world is nothing but a sport and a play; and as for the next abode, that most surely is the life- did they but know!
65. So when they ride in the ships they call upon Allah, being sincerely obedient to Him, but when He brings them safe to the land, lo! they associate others (with Him);
66. Thus they become ungrateful for what We have given them, so that they may enjoy; but they shall soon know.
67. Do they not see that We have made a sacred territory secure, while men are carried off by force from around them? Will they still believe in the falsehood and disbelieve in the favor of Allah?
68. And who is more unjust than one who forges a lie against Allah, or gives the lie to the Truth when it has come to him? Will not in hell-fire be the abode of the disbelievers?
69. And (as for) those who strive hard for Us, We will most certainly guide them in Our ways; and Allah is most surely with the doers of good.
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The last Ruku of ANKABUT expresses clearly that the true success is the success at AKHIRAT and such persons who do not realize it, are most unjust to their own selves; this life of the world is nothing but a sport and a play and as for the next abode, that most surely is the true life; note that Surah HADID-20 tells explicitly, “Know that this world's life is only sport (at childhood) and play (at the teenage) and gaiety (at youth) and boasting among yourselves (as the age advances from youth to old age), and a vying in the multiplication of wealth and children (at the old age and this attitude stays till death); (it is) like the rain, which causing the vegetation to grow, pleases the husbandmen, then it withers away so that you will see it become yellow, then it becomes dried up and broken down; and in the hereafter is a severe chastisement (for evil persons) and forgiveness from Allah and (His) pleasure (for righteous persons); and this world's life is naught but means of deception”; the duration of these ages might vary at individuals yet generally the first three stages pass as the person, obsessed with issues at life at the world, reaches forty; the example of vegetation divides the ages in two phases in which, the first three are of growth and the last two of decline; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the next couple of AAYAAT tell that when the disbelievers face some difficult situation, they ask Allah only to remove it from them; these AAYAAT give the example that when they ride in ships that come near to sinking, they call upon Allah only as if they are most sincere in obedience to Him, but when He brings them with safety to the land then they associate others with Him in authority; so they are most ungrateful for the safety that Allah grants to them and all blessings that He provides to them; it is only short time that they would enjoy whatever they have at the world as ultimately they would get the deadly punishment even at the world that they truly deserve; Allah has granted them peace at Makkah which all of Arabia respects and that is why their caravans go safely to places and return safely while other of caravans are often looted at route; it is not because of those whom they associate with Allah in authority but it actually is because Allah has provided sanctity to Makkah among all of Arabia; Al-Hamdu Lillah; so what idiocy they show by believing in the falsehood that they would never be asked of their wrong-doings and disbelieving in the favor of Allah that He has bestowed upon them by creating everything in such manner at the world that they provide their examination with ease here to get the true success at AKHIRAT and by providing them the true guidance by the Holy Book Quran; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Allah consoles those true believers who face troublesome situations around with utmost patience at the world, at the last AAYAT of the Surah that whatever troubles come to them at the world, Allah would show in each of them the respective virtuous manner to answer them and save themselves from all adverse impressions that they try to put upon them; it also tells that by the blessing of Allah, the good righteous persons among the Muslims are always able to show all Muslims in general, some virtuous manner to live upon the Islamic teachings at the most troublesome situation; it is notable that there may be more than a single virtuous manner, keeping to principle, to deal with some trouble by Islam; note that MUJAHIDA (to strive hard) denotes the resistance of the good Muslim person to provocation to wrongs inside due to satanic temptations, by his total attention towards Allah; Islam terms this resistance as SABR which means to keep to Islam with total patience at averse situations without any care to worldly assets so this SABR actually relates highly to MUJAHIDA; the Muslim person is at JEHAD at the individual level as he practices SABR and as he asks Allah for safety from all wrongs; it is possible that a person does not have any of weapons yet he is engaged in JEHAD as the term is not confined to war; his MUJAHIDA does manifest beautifully at such times where the sinful persons ask him to leave care to virtues and to come towards wrongs too to enjoy by them yet he turns down such temptation outright; certainly, Allah only has the true authority, Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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Surah ROUM
(Consists of 6 Ruku; MK-6)
ROUM-The First Ruku
1. ALIF LAAM MIM.
2. The Romans are vanquished,
3. In a near land, and they, after being vanquished, shall overcome,
4. Within a few years; Allah's is the command before and after; and on that day the believers shall rejoice,
5. With the help of Allah; He helps whom He pleases; and He is the Mighty, the Merciful;
6. It is Allah's promise! Allah will not fail His promise, but most people do not know.
7. They know the outward of this world's life, but of the hereafter they are absolutely heedless.
8. Do they not reflect within themselves: Allah did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them two but with truth, and (for) an appointed term? And most surely most of the people are deniers of the meeting of their Lord.
9. Have they not travelled in the earth and seen how was the end of those before them? They were stronger than these in prowess, and dug up the earth, and built on it in greater abundance than these have built on it, and there came to them their apostles with clear arguments; so it was not beseeming for Allah that He should deal with them unjustly, but they dealt unjustly with their own souls.
10. Then evil was the end of those who did evil, because they rejected the AAYAAT of Allah and they used to mock them.
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Surah ROUM begins by prediction about the Romans that though they have been defeated at present, they would soon overcome their victors; note that at 615 AD, when these AAYAT descended, the Romans had suffered series of devastating defeats by the Persians, who had reached near to borders of Egypt conquering many of lands that were in control of the Roman empire; these both were the two strong empires of that time who used to challenge each other to gain the upper hand at issues of the world; note that the Muslims were able to break the power of both of them by the blessing of Allah within some years of the departure of the Prophet PBUH from the world when they completely ended the strength of the Persian empire and utterly demoted the power of the Roman empire; note also that the year for this prediction was the sixth year from the time when Allah provided the Prophet PBUH the task of spreading His message to all peoples of the world counting from 610 AD that was the first year for it as the years at that time are counted by their current values and not when they elapse; the disbelievers at Makkah were pleased at this turn of events as they took the Persians, who worshipped fire, as nearer to them and the Romans, who claimed to be followers of the Christian faith, as nearer to the Muslims; at that time, Heraclius was the ruler of the Roman empire and his dreadful defeat was such that it seemed that the Romans would not stand against the Persians under him for many of years ahead; in fact, he even tried to strike a truce with the Persians but they rejected any such treaty and went on with their campaign to conquer the lands that were under the control of the Roman empire; however, it happened that the Romans started their series of victories against the Persians under Heraclius within a few years that started from 623 AD and ended at 627 AD when they defeated the Persians at Nineveh decisively; the news of one of their initial victories against the Persians reached Madinah when the Muslims were celebrating their win against the forces of Makkah at BADR and that was in complete accordance with the prediction at the beginning AAYAAT of Surah ROUM that read, “ALIF LAAM MIM; the Romans are vanquished, in a near land, and they, after being vanquished, shall overcome, within a few years; Allah's is the command before and after; and on that day the believers shall rejoice, with the help of Allah; He helps whom He pleases; and He is the Mighty (so He eliminates those who challenge Him by His direct command), the Merciful (so He gives ample time to all persons to see the Truth and accept it truly); it is Allah's promise! Allah will not fail His promise, but most people do not know”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that the term used at “within a few years” for their count is BIDHE-SINEEN which denotes the period till nine years and it was the ninth year from the descent of these AAYAAT to the Prophet PBUH when the Romans started taking their territories back from the Persians; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note about Surah ROUM that it asks all for much deep observation of matters which relate to their own selves and which concern the universe around to understand that it is certain that AKHIRAT would take place; due to this, AAYAAT ahead at the Ruku state about the disbelievers that though they are good at observation of the universe around when it comes to detection of the manifest rules of different issues, yet they need to give some thoughts to the inside of themselves too (that everything which relates to their physique has necessary rhythm in its works) and they need to ponder upon the universe around in this context too that when everything is running-on by some regulation and not at chance, then there is He Who is guiding that for certain to certain destination; Al-Hamdu Lillah; everything is in progress to its destination so this insight into affairs around would give them the true awareness of AKHIRAT where they have to answer for all their doings here at the world; they need to see the history of men too that when they challenged the authority of Allah, it caused harm only to their own-selves; Allah eliminated such people or punished them most severely even at the world and He is never unjust to any person but they had asked for an extreme punishment by their own doings so they were most unjust to their own-selves for certain; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the true awareness of psychology of the man and of his history does lead the man to see that Allah only is the true authority Who certainly would judge all persons at the certain day of HASHR; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last AAYAT of this Ruku tells the outcome to their doings, “then evil was the end of those who did evil, because they rejected the AAYAAT of Allah and they used to mock them”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ROUM-The Second Ruku
11. Allah originates the creation, then reproduces it, then to Him you shall be brought back.
12. And at the time when the hour shall come the guilty shall be in despair.
13. And they shall not have any intercessors from among their gods they have joined with Allah, and they shall be deniers of their associate-gods.
14. And at the time when the hour shall come, at that time they shall become separated one from the other.
15. Then as to those who believed and did good, they shall be made happy in garden.
16. And as to those who disbelieved and rejected Our AAYAAT and the meeting of the hereafter, these shall be brought over to the chastisement.
17. Therefore, glory be to Allah when you come across the time of the evening and when you come across the time of the morning.
18. And to Him belongs praise in the heavens and the earth, and at the decline of the day and when you are at mid of day.
19. He brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living, and gives life to the earth after its death, and thus shall you be brought forth.
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The second Ruku of Surah ROUM guides attention to the authority of Allah to bring forth the Day of Judgment and give all persons there what they truly deserve according to their doings here; Al-Hamdu Lillah; it tells that He has created all creation which is going on to its destination by His will and there is movement for change in all His creation by His will which denotes the cycle of death & life; the destination for all persons among the mankind is that they would stand at front of Allah to answer for all of their doings at life at the world; Al-Hamdu Lillah; at the Day of Judgment, the disbelievers would see that they will receive their punishment for certain and their hopes in all those whom they took as equal in authority to Allah that they will save them from His wrath whatever they do, if they had to answer Him for their doings, would prove completely futile; those whom they took as associates to Allah in His authority, would not become their intercessors there and it would happen that they would deny there that they ever took them as associates to Allah in His authority; the Quran has told us that the disbelievers take even highly good persons as associates to Allah in His authority by their own, that they would save them from the hell-fire whatever they do, which include angels and highly righteous persons who had departed from the world which include even some of Messengers of Allah; they would then clearly see that undoubtedly, all their hopes in them were totally useless whereas these good ones would say most clearly that they certainly are not responsible for their disbelief; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-28, 29 & 30 of Surah YOUNUS read, “and on the day when We will gather them all together, then We will say to those who associated others (with Allah)- keep where you are, you and your associates; then We shall separate them widely one from another and their associates would say- it was not us that you served (that is the answer of angels as they would give their defense that the disbelievers served Jinn; and they have their attention only towards Allah, the true Lord; see also Surah SABA-40 & 41); therefore, Allah is sufficient as a witness between us and you that we were quite unaware of your serving (us; that is the answer of the righteous persons among men which include the Messengers of Allah; see also Surah MA’EDAH-116); there shall every soul become acquainted with what it sent before (as their doings would only count there), and they shall be brought back to Allah, their true Patron, and what they devised (by their own thoughts that they would save them from the hell-fire) shall escape from them”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the answer of the righteous persons tell explicitly that they had no idea how the persons behind them were taking them at the world; note that Ahadith have explicitly told about the peace or the chastisement at the life that relates to grave yet seemingly the peace or the chastisement there is much long in time for some by the will of Allah but very short in time for others by the will of Allah (and that certainly does not imply that they are conscious about what is going-on at the world that they had left behind); this life at grave is named as the life of BARZAKH that starts immediately after death though that most certainly does not mean that the person is physically alive at his/her grave though he/she does have some connection to that; however, we do not know the nature of that life and how much period of consciousness that any person has there after his/her death; the best to say at this matter is that certainly, Allah knows better; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-14, 15 & 16 state about AKHIRAT that there would be two main groups of all peoples there that would be of believers in the Truth and the disbelievers in it; then each group would have sub-groups according to standing and so there would be categorization of all persons by standard how persons related to the Truth at life at the world; so these AAYAAT relate explicitly that though at the world, people live together with difference in belief yet there at AKHIRAT, the basis to categorization would be the acceptance or the rejection of the Truth; Al-Hamdu Lillah; and these AAYAAT relate the respective results of these groups, “then as to those who believed and did good, they shall be made happy in garden; and as to those who disbelieved and rejected Our AAYAAT and the meeting of the hereafter, these shall be brought over to the chastisement”; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-17 & 18 ask all Muslims to remain firm in remembrance of Allah at all times and at all places as that would keep them all steadfast upon the Truth; these AAYAAT read, “therefore, glory be to Allah when you come across the time of the evening (in which the Muslims shall say the Salah of MAGHRIB) and when you come across the time of the morning (which is the time for FAJR); and to Him belongs praise in the heavens and the earth and at the decline of the day; and when you are at mid of day (where lies the time for ZUHR & ASR)”; so by addressing the Muslims here at three places, these AAYAAT mention four of Salah whereas Surah NOOR-58 mentions the fifth of Salah that is ISHA (with FAJR & ZUHR) which the Muslims read later at night after MAGHRIB; note that Salah was not compulsory at the time when these AAYAAT descended as it actually became obligatory at HIJRAT (the migration of the Prophet PBUH from Makkah to Madinah) though it had achieved much significance at the last period of his residing at Makkah when he achieved MIRAJ (the ascension to heavens where Allah provided him the command of Salah clearly); though these AAYAAT mean that the Muslim person would remain engaged with remembrance of Allah at all times yet they also set clearly the timing for Salah beforehand; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that by the words “HEENA-TUZHIRUN”, the AAYAT mentions ZUHR & ASR together and that is an indication that they do overlap at a certain time that is between ZUHR to MAGHRIB; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last AAYAT of the Ruku states in the praise of Allah that He only has the complete control over all things; He brings forth the living from the dead and the dead from the living; note for this statement that AALE-IMRAN-26 & 27 read, “say (O Prophet PBUH)- O Allah, Master of the Kingdom - You give the kingdom to whomsoever You please and take away the kingdom from whomsoever You please, and You exalt whom You please and abase whom You please, in Your hand is the good; surely, You have power over all things; You make the night to pass into the day and You make the day to pass into the night, and You bring forth the living from the dead and You bring forth the dead from the living, and You give sustenance to whom You please without measure”; these words imply that there is comparison of sleep at night to death because here at this AAYAT, the latter part of it clarifies the former part of it; this tells that as the person rises from his sleep so he would rise similarly from the dead when Allah wills for that; Surah ZUMAR-42 states, “Allah takes the souls at the time of their death and those who die not, during their sleep; then He withholds those on whom He has passed the decree of death and sends the others back till an appointed term; most surely there are signs in this for the people who reflect”; so this clarifies that “He brings forth the living from the dead and the dead from the living”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the AAYAT tells ahead that He gives life to earth (by the good rainfall) after its death where it seems barren to cultivate and that is the manner by which He would raise all persons from dead at the Day of Judgment; note that Allah has stated at different places in the Quran that He would raise the dead at that certain day as He brings the earth to life after its death; Al-Hamdu Lillah; among them is NAHL-65 which tells, “and Allah has sent down water from the heaven and therewith given life to the earth after its death; most surely there is a sign in this for the people who would listen”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Surah FURQAN-47 to 50 mention, “and He it is Who made the night covering for you, and the sleep a rest, and He made the day to rise up again (so all persons would rise in this manner at the Day of Judgment); and He it is Who sends the winds as good news before His mercy (i.e. the beneficial rainfall to the earth); and We send down pure water (i.e. the rainwater) from the cloud (i.e. from the sky near to earth); that We may give life thereby to a dead land and give it for drink, out of what We have created, to cattle and many people (so both get the same water to drink yet the cattle develop better than those who ignore the teachings of Islam); and certainly We have repeated this (i.e. the statement about the rainfall upon the dead land at different places at the Quran) to them that they may be mindful (that they would be raised-up from the dead at the Day of Judgment where they would have to account for all their doings), but the greater number of men do not consent to aught except denying (that they would be raised-up from the dead at the Day of Judgment)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; so the Quran has related the rain upon the land as an indication to raising-up of all men from the dead as the angel blows the trumpet for that by the command of Allah; Surah AARAAF-57 relates, “and He it is Who sends forth the winds bearing good news before His mercy, until, when they bring up a laden cloud, We drive it to a dead land, then We send down water on it, then bring forth with it of fruits of all kinds; thus shall We bring forth the dead that you may be mindful”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Surah HAJJ-5, 6 & 7 relate, “and you see the earth sterile land, but when We send down on it the water, it stirs and swells and brings forth of every kind a beautiful herbage; this is because Allah is the Truth and because He gives life to the dead and because He has power over all things; and because the hour is coming, there is no doubt about it; and because Allah shall raise up those who are in the graves”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that Surah ROUM that we are studying presently, states too at AAYAT-50 at its fifth Ruku ahead, “look then at the signs of Allah's mercy, how He gives life to the earth after its death; most surely He will raise the dead to life; and He has power over all things”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ROUM-The Third Ruku
20. And one of His signs is that He created you from pure sand (TURAB), then lo! you are mortals (who) scatter.
21. And one of His signs is that He created mates for you from yourselves that you may find rest in them, and He put between you love and compassion; most surely there are signs in this for the people who reflect.
22. And one of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your tongues and colors; most surely there are signs in this for the learned.
23. And one of His signs is your sleeping and your seeking of His grace by night and (by) day; most surely there are signs in this for the people who would hear.
24. And one of His signs is that He shows you the lightning for fear and for hope, and sends down water from the clouds then gives life therewith to the earth after its death; most surely there are signs in this for the people who understand
25. And one of His signs is that the heaven and the earth subsist by His command, then when He calls you with a (single) call from out of the earth, lo! you come forth.
26. And His is whosoever is in the heavens and the earth; all are obedient to Him.
27. And He it is Who originates the creation, then reproduces it, and it is easy to Him; and His is the most exalted attribute in the heavens and the earth, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
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The third Ruku of Surah ROUM asks all those persons to observe their own-selves (ANFUS) and the universe around (AAFAAQ) who really do want to live upon righteousness by believing truly in Allah, the true Lord, and by believing truly in AKHIRAT; the Ruku after this too asks all persons by relating different aspects of the psyche of the man to observe that only the virtuous manner of living leads to safety at the world and leads to the total salvation at AKHIRAT; Al-Hamdu Lillah; this Ruku comprises of eight AAYAAT and Allah asks to observe His AAYAAT (in the meaning of signs) in six of them and as it is mentioned in plural, it tells that each of these observation may reveal more than two things to those who are specifically mentioned by their attributes at these AAYAAT, because the plural in Arabic for something takes place from three of it; the last two AAYAAT at this Ruku express His authority over all His creation; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the first of His signs for the man to observe for his true belief is that He created the man from TURAB and then with time, he was able to inhabit all areas of the earth; this denotes the material by which Allah created the man that was the pure sand at first (TURAB that is mentioned here); then He mixed it with pure water to change it to muddy clay (TEEN); then it changed to extreme black mud (HAMA-EM-MASNUN) that had taken place by alteration of the muddy clay by His will with extreme period of time and finally the sounding refined clay (SALSAAL) by which Allah created Adam-AS by His will; these are not the stages of the man during his creation but the material of his creation had passed through such stages whereas each stage had most extreme period of time by the will of Allah; see also the note at the third Ruku of HIJR; many AAYAAT at places in the Quran present this explicitly but with this, the most significant thing to mention here is that most certainly, Allah knows better; so it was only a couple of the mankind at first but then Allah set matters in such manner that the mankind scattered all over the earth; Al-Hamdu Lillah; as from the second to the fifth sign at these AAYAAT, they relate to living at the world of the mankind for which Allah asks observation so the second of His signs for the man to observe is that He created mates in the mankind, the male to the female and vise-versa (with such proportion that life at the world goes on smoothly), so that they may find rest in each other by marriage, not only physically but also spiritually because He put between them such love that relates to physique and such compassion that relates to caring of each other; these both are such outlets to the psyche of the man that they affect him to live away from crimes at the society and to live with high responsibility to provide for the spiritual development at home, respectively; most surely there are signs in this for all those persons who reflect to understand that Allah intends ease for them so that they live with specific care to Allah, the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the third of His signs for the man to observe is that He has created the heavens and the earth with numerous of His creation in it by principle and as for the mankind, there is diversity of tongues (i.e. vocal-difference, difference in manner of speech and different languages) in them and also diversity in color of their skins which provides them ease to live at their specific places; most surely there are signs in this for the learned persons that Allah has created all men, though having similar physical features, different to each other in appearance for their distinct identity; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the fourth of His signs for the man to observe is the sleep by night in which he finds the guidance by dreams, if he is righteous, to make his inside better by the teachings of Islam and the search for His grace by day which are all such things that are utmost necessary for his physical sustenance at life at the world; most surely there are signs in this for the people who would hear; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the fifth of His signs for the man to observe for his true belief is that He shows him the lightning for fear and for hope and this denotes the issues at life at the world which goes on by different situations that may cause fear or/and may cause hope by which Allah examines all persons here; and He sends down water from the clouds then gives life therewith to the earth after its death so in this manner, He would raise all persons from the dead at the certain day of HASHR, the first day of AKHIRAT, so that they account for all their doings at life at the world and receive what they truly deserve at that true life of AKHIRAT; most surely there are signs in this for the people who do understand that they are in examination at this life at the world; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last of His signs for the man to observe is that the heaven and the earth subsist by His command, then when He calls all persons by a single call (of KUN i.e. happen) then from out of the earth, all persons would come forth to the grounds of HASHR without any delay; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that the first AAYAT and the sixth AAYAT of the Ruku do not assign specific persons by attributes for observation as they denote all persons who have inhabited the earth at any time & at any place and certainly, Allah would raise all of them from dead at the Day of HASHR; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last two AAYAAT denote that the true authority is only of Allah which read, “and His is whosoever is in the heavens and the earth; all are obedient to Him; and He it is Who originates the creation, then reproduces it, and it is easy to Him; and His is the most exalted attribute (MATHAL-UL-AALA) in the heavens and the earth, and He is the Mighty (Who eliminates all those from the face of earth who challenge His true authority), the Wise (Who directs the issues at the world by the doings of the man as He wills, because He certainly has all the true authority)”; note that the terms MATHAL and MITHL have delicate difference in the Quran though these both do have the meaning of “similarity”; to get the usage of the term “MITHL” at the Quran, note that it means similarity only, and AAYAT-11 of Surah SHURA notes most explicitly that “(Allah is) the Originator of the heavens and the earth; He made mates for you from among yourselves, and mates of the cattle too, multiplying you thereby; there is nothing like any similarity of Him (the sentence is LAYSA KA-MITHLEHE SHAYE-UN); and He is the Hearing, the Seeing”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Surah FAATIR-14 tells by using the term MITHL, “none would tell you anything like Him Who is the Most Aware”, so this too denies any similarity to Him as it means that when there is none as His MITHL “so none would tell you anything like Him”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; now, keeping in mind that MITHL means “similarity” only, the difference between MATHAL and MITHL needs noting few points here to understand that better insha-Allah; the first point here is that whereas the term MITHL totally relates to the meaning of “similarity”, the term “MATHAL” also has the meaning of “the attribute” besides “similarity” in the Quran, and in this meaning of “the attribute”, it occurs here at ROUM-27 and at Surah NAHL-60 too that “for those who do not believe in the hereafter, is an evil attribute, and Allah's is the most exalted attribute (MATHAL-UL-AALA); and He is the Mighty, the Wise”; the second point here is that where “MATHAL” has occurred in the meaning of similarity in the Quran, it has expressed the similarity of some of His creation to some other of His creation only, because its usage in the meaning of similarity for Allah is totally incorrect; the Quran has forbidden the use of this term in this meaning as it says, “invent not similitudes for Allah; Allah certainly knows but you know not” (NAHAL-74); here the word AMTHAAL is used that is plural for both MATHAL and MITHL; so the Muslims are most disallowed to use these both terms in the meaning of “similarity” for Allah; the third point here is that it is most feasible that they avoid using MATHAL for Allah even in the right meaning of “the attributes”, as that would give them safety insha-Allah from any inclination to any wrongs in their virtuous speech; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ROUM-The Fourth Ruku
28. He sets forth to you a parable relating to yourselves: Have you among those whom your right hands possess partners in what We have given you for sustenance, so that with respect to it you are alike; you fear them as you fear each other? Thus do We make the AAYAAT distinct for a people who understand.
29. Nay! those who are unjust follow their low desires without any knowledge; so who can guide him whom Allah makes err? And they shall have no helpers.
30. Then set your face upright for religion in the right state- the nature made by Allah in which He has made men; there is no altering of Allah's creation; that is the right religion, but most people do not know-
31. Turning to Him, and be careful of (your duty to) Him and keep up prayer and be not of the polytheists
32. Of those who divided their religion and became sects; every sect rejoicing in what they had with them
33. And when harm afflicts men, they call upon their Lord, turning to Him, then when He makes them taste of mercy from Him, lo! some of them begin to associate (others) with their Lord,
34. So as to be ungrateful for what We have given them; but enjoy yourselves (for a while), for you shall soon come to know.
35. Or, have We sent down upon them an authority so that it speaks of that which they associate with Him?
36. And when We make people taste of mercy they rejoice in it, and if an evil befall them for what their hands have already wrought, lo! they are in despair.
37. Do they not see that Allah makes ample provision for whom He pleases, or straitens? Most surely there are signs in this for the people who believe.
38. Then give to the near of kin his due, and to the needy and the wayfarer; this is best for those who desire Allah's pleasure, and these it is who are successful.
39. And whatever you lay out as usury, so that it may increase in the property of men, it shall not increase with Allah; and whatever you give in charity, desiring Allah's pleasure- it is these (persons) that shall get manifold.
40. Allah is He Who created you, then gave you sustenance, then He causes you to die, then brings you to life. Is there any of your associate-gods who does aught of it? Glory be to Him, and exalted be He above what they associate (with Him).
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Allah guides attention of all persons at the beginning of the Ruku that no person takes his slaves as partners to him in whatever Allah has provided him and does not fear any challenge from them that they would ask some part of it, though he may fear some of his near ones about it; so all persons need to see this very clearly that Allah only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord; He has no fear of any challenge to His true authority by any person as all persons among His creation are His slaves only who need to obey Him totally; certainly, there is no one in His creation who has any worth to challenge His complete control over His creation and He only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; certainly, Allah has stated all facts explicitly for all such persons who really intend to be mindful of them yet there still are among the mankind, such unjust persons who follow their whims i.e. their low desires; they follow that without any care to facts so there is no person who is able to guide them to righteousness; Allah would make them err even more at life at the world and when they come at the grounds of HASHR, they would have no one to assist them; Allah asks the Prophet PBUH (and with him all of true Muslims) to remain totally steadfast at the teachings of Islam as that only is the virtuous manner at which Allah has created all of mankind; note that AARAAF-172 has told clearly that all persons had accepted Allah as their true Lord before coming to the world so there is no way that any of persons may change this aspect of creation that it naturally inclines to the virtuous manner of living yet there are many of peoples among them who are not mindful of this; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; all persons need to remain attentive to Allah only which asks them to read their Salah with fervor so that they do not ever incline to SHERK which leads to divide the virtuous manner of living into sects whereas every sect rejoices in whatever it has with it; this tells in clear terms that Islam is DEEN (the complete code of life) which asks to take it whole and not in this manner that someone takes some of its significant teachings and leave other of its significant teachings; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-33, 34 & 35 tell about the psyche of the man, “and when harm afflicts men (that threatens his life), they call upon their Lord, turning to Him (sincerely), then when He makes them taste of mercy from Him (that saves their lives), lo! some of them begin to associate (others) with their Lord so as to be ungrateful for what We have given them (i.e. His mercy at their utmost need); but enjoy yourselves (for a while), for you shall soon come to know (what happens by remaining ungrateful to Allah); or, have We sent down upon them an authority so that it speaks of that which they associate with Him? (that certainly is not the case so this explains the statement at AAYAT-29- ‘those who are unjust, follow their low desires without any knowledge’)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-36 & 37 read, “and when We make people taste of mercy (by providing them gains in finances) they rejoice in it, and if an evil befall them (that they face extreme losses in finances) for what their hands have already wrought, lo! they are in despair (unable to live with normalcy as if they have reached the end of their world); do they not see that Allah makes ample provision for whom He pleases, or straitens?- most surely there are signs in this for the people who believe”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that AAYAT-33 and AAYAT-36 both state that Allah provides His mercy to persons in situations that are life-threatening so He saves them by it and He provides His mercy to persons by giving them much of finances by His will, respectively; Al-Hamdu Lillah; at both places, these AAYAAT do not mention that He afflicts any of persons, rather AAYAT-36 explicitly mentions that affliction falls upon men because of their own doings; so note here that Allah provides those things only to the man by His mercy that are blessings to him but He afflicts him only as an outcome to what wrongs he commits so He does not put afflictions to any of persons unless his doings do ask for it though it is He only Who provides His mercy to the man and afflicts him for certain; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAT-41 of this Surah ROUM, that is the first AAYAT of the next Ruku, states that “FASAD (the situation due to corruption in deeds of persons having some status that makes the practice of Islam become extremely difficult there) did appear on land and sea because of what the hands of men have committed, that Allah may make them taste some part of that which they have done, in order that they may return (to the virtuous manner of living)”; this AAYAT tells clearly that He afflicts wrong-doers because of wrongs that they commit and then also, not fully at the world but just to rouse them to come to the virtuous manner; He cares that everything remains to the order that He has set for the world and He sees that nothing gets out of that order so the Muslims need to be attentive to Him only, with all efforts to keep to the virtuous manner of living collectively, without care to anything else; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the next couple of AAYAAT state that whatever the Muslim person gets as surplus in his finances, he needs to provide it to the near of kin who needs it, to the needy and to the wayfarer who has spent all his amounts and is stranded at the foreign land in need of some amounts; this is the best thing for all those who truly desire Allah's pleasure, and these it is who are successful at AKHIRAT; the person who intends to increase his finances by extending his surplus amounts on rates of interest, it does not increase any of his good deeds in front of Allah though Zakat, when it is provided to the needy sincerely for the pleasure of Allah, does increase his good deeds manifold, in front of Him; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that AAYAT-31 at this Ruku asks the Muslims for Salah and AAYAT-39 at this Ruku asks them for Zakat and both of these became obligatory to them after the elapse of some period to the descent of these AAYAAT; however, all Muslims did have them in practice even then in some manner whereas Salah saved them from facing any of life-threatening situations and Zakat, from incurring heavy losses in finances; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last AAYAT of the Ruku tells explicitly that Allah has not only created all of mankind but He also provides sustenance to them so all persons need to see that it is not their task to get more of finances at the world as Allah would see to their financial security well in accordance to their need; and they need to see that even if they do not die by some fatality which occurs to them by the will of Allah, He would bring death over them by His will as the period of their examination ends at the world; death is inevitable after which, He would raise them up again to life so that they account for all doings at life at the world; the AAYAT implies that even the disbelievers know that none of those whom they take as associates to Allah in authority, are able to provide anything to them or to lead them to their natural deaths or to raise them from dead; Allah only has the true authority as He only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord; glory be to Him and exalted be He above what they associate (with Him); Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ROUM-The Fifth Ruku
41. Corruption did appear on land and sea because of what the hands of men have committed, that Allah may make them taste some part of that which they have done, in order that they may return.
42. Say: Travel in the land, then see how was the end of those that were before; most of them were polytheists.
43. Then turn thy face straight to the right religion before there come from Allah the day which cannot be averted; on that day they shall become separated.
44. Whoever disbelieves, he shall be responsible for his disbelief, and whoever does good, they prepare (good) for their own souls,
45. That He may reward those who truly believe and do good out of His grace; surely He does not love the disbelievers.
46. And one of His signs is that He sends forth the winds bearing good news, and that He may make you taste His mercy, and that the ships may run by His command, and that you may seek of His grace, and that you may be grateful.
47. And certainly We sent before you apostles to their people, so they came to them with clear arguments, then We gave the punishment to those who were guilty; and helping the believers is ever incumbent on Us.
48. Allah is he Who sends forth the winds so they raise a cloud, then He spreads it forth in the sky as He pleases, and He breaks it up so that you see the rain coming forth from inside it; then when He causes it to fall upon whom He pleases of His servants, lo! they are joyful
49. Though they were before this, before it was sent down upon them, confounded in sure despair.
50. Look then at the signs of Allah's mercy, how He gives life to the earth after its death, most surely He will raise the dead to life; and He has power over all things.
51. And if We send a wind and they see it to be yellow, they would after that certainly continue to disbelieve
52. For surely you cannot, make the dead to hear and you cannot make the deaf to hear the call, when they show their backs and turn away.
53. Nor can you lead away the blind out of their error. You cannot make to hear any but those who believe in Our AAYAAT so they shall submit.
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The first AAYAT of the Ruku implies that the situation becomes averse to Islamic living at a place in general where there is general disobedience to Allah and He punishes all persons there due to wrongs that the influential persons commit there, by putting extreme difficulties in living of their lives smoothly; He intends by it that they get the good lesson to revise their attitudes and live by His total obedience as He only is the true Lord; it reads, “FASAD (Corruption due to wrongs in deeds of persons having some status) did appear on land and sea because of what (wrongs) the hands of men have committed (as Allah is not unjust that He punishes them without any of their wrongs but it is so) that Allah may make them taste (only) some part of that which they have done in order that they may return (to the virtuous manner of living by it)”; note in this context that SHURA-30 states, “and whatever affliction befalls you, it is on account of what your hands have wrought, and He pardons most (of your wrongs)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the second AAYAT of the Ruku asks the Prophet PBUH to tell the disbelievers to travel to places and see how the end came upon those who lived at extreme disbelief before them as that may cause them to revise their wrong attitudes; at the third AAYAT of the Ruku, Allah asks the Prophet PBUH (and with him all of true Muslims) to remain totally steadfast at the teachings of Islam as that only is the virtuous manner at which Allah has created all of mankind; Allah would bring the Day of Judgment which cannot be averted and on that day they shall become separated in groups as AAYAT-14 has stated and AAYAAT ahead at this place also clarify; thus, AAYAAT 44 & 45 state, “whoever disbelieves, he shall be responsible for his disbelief, and whoever does good, they prepare (good) for their own souls; that He may reward those who truly believe and do good deeds out of His grace (so the Day of Judgment would most certainly take place); surely He does not love the disbelievers”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT ahead at the Ruku guide attention to observe how Allah sends the winds that provide the good news that the rainfall would take place soon and that also carry on ships ahead by their respective sails to destination which the travelers by sea intend to reach to get their physical necessities (which the AAYAT mentions as the grace of Allah); they also guide attention to observe how Allah sent His Messengers to provide His message to their peoples so that they all accept the Truth and take-up the virtuous manner of living; so He cared for the physical necessities of the man and He also cared for his spiritual need to get the true guidance towards the right path; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAT-48 tells about how the rainfall takes place as it tells, “Allah is he Who sends forth the winds so they raise a cloud, then He spreads it forth in the sky as He pleases, and He breaks it up so that you see the rain coming forth from inside it; then when He causes it to fall upon whom He pleases of His servants, lo! they are joyful”; so He guides attention of all persons to observe how He has planned His works at the world around and how the rainfall causes happiness where it falls as it brings forth fruits and crops from the earth whereas without it, they were confounded in despair; AAYAT-50 tells that Allah would raise the dead to life as He gives life to the earth after its death; the Quran has told this at different places and we all have studied about this at AAYAT-19 of Surah-ROUM too; note that Surah AARAAF-57 relates, “and He it is Who sends forth the winds bearing good news before His mercy, until, when they bring up a laden cloud, We drive it to a dead land, then We send down water on it, then bring forth with it of fruits of all kinds; thus shall We bring forth the dead that you may be mindful”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAT-51 discloses an aspect of the character of disbelievers that they care only for life at the world and that has brought selfishness in their character for which they do not have any shame; it reads, “and if We send a (disastrous) wind and they see it (i.e. their fields) to be yellow (that tells them that they had lost all its fruits), they would after that certainly continue to disbelieve”; so they are never grateful to Allah on His blessings but upon their loss, they complain bitterly; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last couple of AAYAAT console the Prophet PBUH that he has done his best to spread the message of Islam yet the disbelievers are like dead persons and even deaf persons, so he is unable to make them hear the message of Islam; in fact, they are similar to such deaf persons, who have shown their backs and have turned away, so at this situation, good gestures even would not make them aware of the message of Islam; this is to say that they are totally oblivious to getting it and in them, there are such disbelievers too who have decided not to take it from the Prophet PBUH so they are oblivious to getting it by their own choice; he can bring those only to the right path who soberly hear the message of Islam that he provides to them and then take it into practice with high fervor; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
ROUM-The Last Ruku
54. Allah is He Who created you from a state of weakness then He gave strength after weakness, then ordained weakness and hoary hair after strength; He creates what He pleases, and He is the Knowing, the Powerful.
55. And at the time when the hour shall come, the guilty shall swear (that) they did not tarry but an hour; thus are they ever turned away.
56. And those who are given knowledge and the true belief will say: Certainly you tarried according to the ordinance of Allah till the day of resurrection, so this is the day of resurrection, but you did not know.
57. So on that day no excuse of theirs will avail the extremely unjust persons, nor will they be invited to seek grace;
58. And certainly We have set forth for men every kind of example in this Quran; and if you should bring them a sign, those who disbelieve would certainly say: You are naught but false claimants.
59. Thus does Allah set a seal on the hearts of those who do not know.
60. Therefore, be patient; surely the promise of Allah is true and let not those who have no certainty hold you in light estimation.
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The first AAYAT at the last Ruku of Surah ROUM relates about the progress of life that Allah creates a person in such manner that he/she is extremely weak at birth; then that person achieves strength by the blessing of Allah and then again goes to weakness where his/her hair turns white; so in this manner, He created the mankind which He has decided by His will; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the second AAYAT implies that death is not the end to life because Allah would raise all persons from dead; at that specific day, the Day of Judgment, the guilty persons would swear that from their death to this specific day, they did not tarry but for an hour; note that this AAYAT presents their statement about the count of time to denote that this was their manner at life at the world too that whenever they saw that they are in trouble, they tried to avert it by fibs; they would intend to present the situation in such manner there that it is unjust to them that they did not get the utmost time assigned to them for stay after their death and they have been raised up early from dead; AAYAT-52 of Surah YA-SEEN reads, “they (the disbelievers) shall say- O woe to us! who has raised us up from our sleeping-place?- (they would be told that) this is what the Beneficent Allah promised and the apostles told the truth”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the Ruku tells ahead that the righteous persons would answer them that this is the Day of Judgment which certainly has come at its specific time and as for their stay, they have certainly received their due stay after their respective deaths; AAYAT-56 & 57 of this last Ruku read, “and those who are given knowledge and the true belief will say- certainly you tarried according to the ordinance of Allah till the day of resurrection, so this is the day of resurrection, but you did not know; so on that day, no excuse of theirs will avail the extremely unjust persons, nor will they be invited to seek grace (by repentance as the time for it has elapsed)”; the next couple of AAYAAT state that Allah has presented many examples in the Quran for all peoples to understand the virtuous manner of living by Islam and it tells about the disbelievers that they have reached to that stage in hostility of the Quran that even if the Prophet PBUH presents a miracle to them, they would reject it by some lame excuse; these AAYAAT read, “and certainly We have set forth for men every kind of example in this Quran (so that is sufficient if some person does intend to accept the virtuous manner of living by Islam); and if you should bring them a sign (i.e. a miracle), those who disbelieve would certainly say (even with that)- you are naught but false claimants; thus does Allah set a seal on the hearts of those who do not know”; the last AAYAT of the Ruku, which also is the last AAYAT of the Surah, reads, “therefore, be patient (i.e. keep away from giving preference to the life at the world over the life at AKHIRAT); surely the promise of Allah is true (that the Day of Judgment would take place where certainly all persons would account for their doings) and let not those who have no certainty, hold you in light estimation (that they have such thoughts that they would be able to shake any of true Muslims, by their continuous fibs to them)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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Surah LUQMAN
(Consists of 4 Ruku; MK-7)
LUQMAN-The First Ruku
1. ALIF LAAM MIM.
2. These are AAYAAT of the Book that has wisdom
3. A guidance and a mercy for the doers of goodness,
4. Those who keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and they are certain of AKHIRAT.
5. These are on guidance from their Lord, and these are they who are successful:
6. And of men is he who takes instead frivolous presentation to lead astray from the path of Allah without knowledge, and to take it for mockery; these shall have an abasing chastisement.
7. And when Our AAYAAT are recited to him, he turns back proudly, as if he had not heard them, as though both his ears have deafness, therefore announce to him a very painful chastisement.
8. (As for) those who believe and do good, they shall surely have gardens of bliss,
9. Abiding in them forever; (this is) the promise of Allah that certainly is true and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
10. He created the heavens without any such pillars that you see, and put mountains upon the earth lest it might convulse with you, and He spread in it animals of every kind; and We sent down water from the heaven nearby, then caused to grow therein (vegetation) of every noble kind.
11. This is Allah's creation, but show Me what those besides Him have created. Nay, the unjust are in manifest error
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The first five AAYAAT of this Surah, like the first five AAYAAT of Surah BAQARAH, tell about those persons who truly are successful as they take the true guidance that they receive from the Quran; note that Surah BAQARAH came to the Prophet PBUH at Madinah whereas Surah LUQMAN came to him at Makkah, the seventh year; the next couple of AAYAAT tell about those persons who are total failures as they do not take the true guidance even when that is clearly presented to them; AAYAAT-8 & 9 elucidate the ultimate result for the truly successful persons, who never preferred the life at the world over the life at AKHIRAT, that they would have blissful gardens to reside forever; this is the promise of Allah to them Who is leading all matters by His true authority, and even by His true wisdom, towards that destination that every person gets his/her due result ultimately according to his/her doings that he committed at life at the world; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last couple of AAYAAT at the Ruku tell about the manner by which He has created the heavens and the earth that favors the man physically to live his life with ease; so He provided the true guidance to him and also all physical ease to him so that he may live by his total concentration to all commands of Allah, which certainly is the only aim of life; then Allah challenges the disbelievers to show Him what those have created, whom they take as equal in authority to Him and for whom they leave the practice of His commands; certainly, Allah only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the first five AAYAAT of the Ruku read, “ALIF LAAM MIM; these are AAYAAT of the Book (especially of this Surah) that has wisdom; (it certainly is) the guidance (to all persons) and a mercy (specifically) for the doers of goodness (who have accepted the guidance that it presents); those who keep up Salah and pay the poor-rate (Zakat) and they are certain of AKHIRAT (that it certainly would take place by the will of Allah); these are (such good persons who certainly are) on guidance from their Lord (so they are most liable to get His mercy for themselves), and these are they who are (truly) successful (and that true success would manifest at AKHIRAT for certain)”; note that Salah and Zakat were not compulsory at the time when these AAYAAT descended as Salah actually became obligatory at HIJRAT though it had achieved much significance at the last period of his residing at Makkah when he achieved MIRAJ and Zakat actually became obligatory at the second year of HIJRAT; so these AAYAAT mean that the Muslim person would remain engaged with remembrance of Allah by Salah even at this time and provide the needy with whatever SADAQAH that he is able to manage from the amounts that Allah has provided to him even at this time; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-6 & 7 tell about such evil persons who try to mislead the people around by engaging them in futile pastime so that they become oblivious to the true guidance; note that one of the disbelievers at Makkah by the name of NADHR bin HARITH brought a slave-woman who was good at singing, from Persia and also brought stories from there of those whom the persons there took as their heroes; he used to provoke such persons at Makkah who had inclination to accept the Islamic teachings, to fall into enjoyment of such shows in which the slave-woman sang and the futile stories were recited; these AAYAAT read, “and of men is he who takes instead (of the true guidance) frivolous presentation (i.e. musical shows & futile tales) to lead astray from the path of Allah without knowledge (as such negative presentations are such things that have no worth to listen), and to take it for mockery (so that the persons attending the frivolous presentation come to such state by them where they lose the realization of the actual worth of the true guidance); these shall have an abasing chastisement (at life at the world); and when Our AAYAAT are recited to him, he turns back proudly, as if he had not heard them, as though both his ears have deafness, therefore announce to him a very painful chastisement (at the Day of Judgment)”; note that these AAYAAT clearly condemn all evil persons who intend to arouse delicate emotions of the man in such manner that he falls into futile pastime which makes him oblivious to the virtuous manner of living by Islam; certainly, Islam does not appreciate singing, dancing or any type of entertainment that relates to presentation of women in mixed gathering and it also does not appreciate craze for any of sports without any care to Islamic commands; today, the futile pastime includes the inclination to fashion shows that the media develops and the craze for any of sports (especially where women are among participants) that the media develops, without any care to Islamic commands; dancing of women is one of the worst things in view of Islam, especially when taken-up in open, though even their singing by video is not appreciable with whatever splendor they present the performance; that performance might be tolerable to some fine degree when provided singly at the Radio but not at the television as their video to such performance certainly does not go well with the Islamic values; Al-Hamdu Lillah; as for the singing of men when they take it up singly, even at the television without dancing except for some walk on the music or some light exercise therein or some twist therein, it might be tolerated with number of conditions for this entertainment that relate to performance of men only, not making it routine in any way as singing to men might even be positive at times and even when in gathering though that shall never be mixed gathering certainly; the first point to note in these conditions is that words of the song would not challenge the Islamic morality in any way and this matter would be decided by ordinary Muslims at times yet with total devotion to Islam; the second point to note in these conditions is that the singers and the players of instruments would not be professionals (in-fact, it is better if the amateur singer can play an instrument or two and sings with that leisurely) as they shall have some other works as their occupations whereas music remains only pastime to them and to all those who enjoy the soft music so it would manifest without asking of any amounts to it; the third point to note in these conditions is that the music would not be a rhythmic din of some kind but it would be soft in nature as fast music is not appreciable in the Islamic set-up and the last point to note in these conditions is that total instruments used for the song would not be more than two so that the song does not seem to be some professional kind of thing and remains to softness though addition of some clapping or some soft musical beat occasionally does seem tolerable; it is even better if some computerized gadget that is able to provide different musical sounds, is used for the song with the set-up of sounds of two musical instruments that fulfill the minimum requirement of the music (yin and yang) in the song; even another condition or two might be valid here though the level of their importance may vary; the Holy Book Quran does not ban music in clear terms yet AAYAT-6 of this Surah LUQMAN, that we study presently, is generally taken by ULAMA to prohibit music; however, it relates to prohibition of indecency and vulgarity in songs as is evident but not to their prohibition outright; we do find in Sunnah (the practical guidance of the Prophet PBUH for Islam by his words, deeds or silence on some matter that came to his knowledge) some dislike to music but there is almost at all occasions for this dislike, an evident indication that relates it to such women who lack in good morals whereas at those times, singing with instruments was exclusively related to such women; as such, there is an apparent margin to relate his guidance in this matter to prohibition of indecency and vulgarity in songs as is evident and not to their prohibition outright; when the men present the music by care to its conditions, it does present rhythm with grace and so it does need appreciation to it even by those righteous persons who do have utmost care about the Islamic guidance in all their issues; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-8 & 9 relate the status of those true believers at AKHIRAT who lived firmly with good deeds at the world, even when there were many things around to provoke them to incline towards sinful activities, so they never preferred pleasures at the world when those challenged any of commands of Allah; these AAYAAT read, “(as for) those who believe and do good, they shall surely have gardens of bliss, abiding in them forever; (this is) the promise of Allah that certainly is true and He is the Mighty, the Wise”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last couple of AAYAAT at the Ruku state how beautifully Allah has created the heavens and the earth and how wonderfully He has set them to remain beneficial to the human life; they imply that He only is the Creator of all creation and He has created everything with utmost perfection; these AAYAAT read, “He created the heavens without any such pillars that you see, and put mountains upon the earth lest it might convulse with you, and He spread in it animals of every kind; and We sent down water from the heaven nearby, then caused to grow therein (vegetation) of every noble kind; this is Allah's creation, but show Me what those besides Him have created; nay, the unjust are in manifest error”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
LUQMAN-The Second Ruku
12. And certainly We gave wisdom to LUQMAN that you remain grateful to Allah. And whoever is grateful, he is only grateful for his own soul; and whoever is ungrateful, then surely Allah is Self-sufficient, Praised.
13. Behold, LUQMAN said to his son by way of instruction: "O my son! join not in worship (others) with Allah; most surely SHERK is tremendous injustice."
14. And We have enjoined man in respect of his parents- his mother bears him with travail upon travail and his weaning takes two years- saying: Be grateful to Me and to both your parents; to Me is the eventual coming.
15. And if they contend with you that you should associate with Me what you have no knowledge of, do not obey them, and keep company with them in this world kindly, and follow the way of him who turns to Me, then to Me is your return, then will I inform you of what you did-
16. O my son! surely if it is the very weight of the grain of a mustard-seed, even though it is in (the heart of) rock, or (high above) in the heaven or (deep down) in the earth, Allah will bring it (to light); surely Allah is Knower of subtleties, Aware;
17. O my son! keep up prayer and enjoin the good and forbid the evil, and bear patiently that which befalls you; surely these acts require courage;
18. And do not turn your face away from people in contempt, nor go about in the land exulting overmuch; surely Allah does not love any self-conceited boaster;
19. And pursue the right course in your going about and lower your voice; surely the most hateful of voices is braying of asses.
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LUQMAN was one of the most intelligent persons of the ancient world and he was well-known at the land of Arabia due to his intelligent remarks; it is mentioned about him that he resided at the territory of ancient Nubia near to Sudan around 1000 BC and had Arabic as his native language; Allah had granted him such amazing observation that he was quoted at Arabic poetry for his intelligent statements; also, that amazing observation led him to believe in TAUHID that Allah only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord; and that led him to believe in the Judgment that Allah would judge all peoples of the world for all their doings certainly; the Quran mentions him here to make the Arabs learn that the highly intelligent man whom they hold in high esteem, had the awareness of the most fundamental teachings of Islam by the amazing observation that Allah had granted him, even though he never met any of Prophets of Allah whereas they have the Prophet Muhammad PBUH in them and still they are not getting to the Truth by their own unworthy attitude which denotes their prejudice only; AAYAT-12 by which the Ruku begins, tells that Allah certainly gave wisdom to LUQMAN that he remains grateful to Allah; the notable thing here is that wisdom (which does need high observation of the universe around and of the attitudes inside) is such beautiful quality that leads the good person to put the commands of Allah in his practice by it and this practice decides that he is most grateful to Allah while such person who lives his life by disobedience to His commands, he certainly is most ungrateful to Him; surely Allah is Self-sufficient and truly Praised Who does not need anything, even praise, from any of His creation; certainly, He only has the true authority; AAYAT-13 states that LUQMAN said to his son by way of instruction at some crucial point in time- “O my son! join not in worship (others) with Allah; most surely SHERK is tremendous injustice-“; this indicates that all disbelievers who commit SHERK are most unjust to their own selves as the outcome of it is the most severe punishment at AKHIRAT, that is the true life ahead; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that SHERK means to challenge the true authority of Allah by taking any of His creation as having part in creating any of His creation with Him; or by taking any of His creation as similar in some attribute to Him though all His attributes are QADEEM (they are from always to always), ASL (they are of His Own, not achieved from anyone) and LA-MEHDUD (they all are limitless); or by taking any of His creation as authorized to change any of His commands that He has explicitly issued by His authority for all persons to firmly obey; Al-Hamdu Lillah; as for us human beings, even if some are highly refined persons like the Messengers especially the last of them i.e. Muhammad PBUH, we all are created by Allah - whatever we possess, physically or spiritually, has been provided to us by Allah, the true Lord - and our traits are limited that change with time & place; Allah only is the Creator of all the creation and He always has all His attributes and He only is the true Lord; Al-Hamdu-Lillah; Allah addresses all human beings at the next couple of AAYAAT at the Ruku that He has enjoined man in respect of his parents that he must remain most courteous to them and have attitude of EHSAAN for them; he must keep in mind that his mother carried him with travail upon travail and his weaning also took two years if she fed to maximum period, so he needs to be grateful to Allah and to both his parents; but if they contend with him that he commits SHERK because of their lack of knowledge that it certainly would lead him to extreme trouble at AKHIRAT, then he must not obey them but he still needs to show the attitude of EHSAAN for them; note that the Quran does not guide to obey the parents anywhere in it but it guides to show the attitude of EHSAAN for them at all times; so he would provide them his assistance financially and he would care for their physical safety but he would never take their direction to commit SHERK; he shall follow only the righteous persons who lead towards the Truth; all persons have to account for their doings at AKHIRAT in front of Allah where He would present to all of them whatever they had done at life at the world; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT ahead narrate other of virtuous guidelines that LUQMAN provided to his son that he must believe truly that if he does something which has the very weight of the grain of a mustard-seed, even though it is in the heart of rock, or high above in the heaven or deep down in the earth, Allah will bring it to light; surely Allah is Knower of subtleties, Aware; so nothing escapes from His true knowledge and He certainly would see all doings of men; LUQMAN told him to keep up Salah (in whatever good manner it was read at that time to praise Allah); and to enjoin the good which means that he would always remain grateful to Allah, the true Lord, and guide all persons towards His obedience; and to forbid the evil which are all acts of injustice and all shameful attitudes; and he shall bear patiently that which befalls him in TABLIGH of the virtuous teachings; surely all these acts require courage to face troubles that come due to them; and he must not turn his face away from people in contempt which would make his task relating to TABLIGH most difficult and he must not go about in the land with pride overmuch; surely Allah does not love any self-conceited boaster; and he must not walk with impertinence in the land, and he must keep his voice low in speech; surely the most hateful of voices is braying of asses, which is loud yet does not bring any appreciation; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
LUQMAN-The Third Ruku
20. Do you not see that Allah has made what is in the heavens and what is in the earth subservient to you, and made complete to you His favors outwardly and inwardly? And among men is he who disputes in respect of Allah though having no knowledge, nor guidance, nor a book giving light.
21. And when it is said to them: Follow what Allah has revealed, they say: Nay, we follow that on which we found our fathers. What! though the Satan calls them to the chastisement of the burning fire!
22. And whoever submits himself wholly to Allah and he is the doer of good, he indeed has taken hold of the firmest thing upon which one can lay hold; and Allah's is the end of affairs.
23. And whoever disbelieves, let not his disbelief grieve you; to Us is their return, then will We inform them of what they did; surely Allah is the Knower of what is in the breasts.
24. We give them to enjoy a little, then will We drive them to a severe chastisement.
25. And if you ask them who created the heavens and the earth, they will certainly say: Allah. Say: (All) praise is due to Allah; nay! most of them do not know.
26. What is in the heavens and the earth is Allah's; surely Allah is the Self-sufficient, the Praised.
27. And were every tree that is in the earth (made into) pens and the sea (to supply it with ink), with seven more seas to increase it, the words of Allah would not come to an end; surely Allah is Mighty, Wise.
28. Neither your creation nor your raising is anything but as a single soul; surely Allah is Hearing, Seeing.
29. Do you not see that Allah makes the night to enter into the day, and He makes the day to enter into the night, and He has made the sun and the moon subservient (to you); each pursues its course till an appointed time; and that Allah is Aware of what you do?
30. This is because Allah is the Truth, and that which they call upon besides Him is the falsehood, and that Allah is the High, the Great.
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The first Ruku of Surah LUQMAN stated that Allah has provided the true guidance to the man and also all physical ease to him so that he may live by his total concentration to all commands of Allah; Al-Hamdu Lillah; now, the first AAYAT at this Ruku guides attention to that as it reads, “do you not see that Allah has made what is in the heavens and what is in the earth subservient to you, and made complete to you His favors outwardly (that manifest by physique) and inwardly (that is at insides)? And among men is he who disputes in respect of Allah though having no knowledge, nor guidance, nor a book giving light (as each of these gives insight to the inside of the man yet without any of them, they argue to prove their stance)”; the AAYAT tells explicitly that Allah created everything in such manner that they serve the physical existence of the man in one way or other, whereas the past tense is used at this statement; this tells that it is not for him to try to bring any of creation of Allah under his own control by scientific pursuits; the only aim of life is to get the pleasure of Allah by living according to His commands as that only leads to the true success as we all have studied at the first five AAYAAT of this Surah whereas AAYAAT ahead at this Ruku elucidate this further; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the second AAYAT of this Ruku states their lame excuse for not taking the true guidance from the Quran as it states, “and when it is said to them- follow what Allah has revealed, they say- nay, we follow that on which we found our fathers; what! though the Satan calls them to the chastisement of the burning fire (as by rejection of the true guidance, they would certainly lead themselves to the hell-fire at the true life at AKHIRAT)”; the three AAYAAT ahead present the respective results of both persons, one who lives by the commands of Allah and the other who denies living by the commands of Allah; these AAYAAT read, “and whoever submits himself wholly to Allah and he is the doer of good (in the best of manners), he indeed has taken hold of the firmest thing upon which one can lay hold (i.e. the practice of Islam with total application of self); to Allah belongs the sequel of all things; and whoever disbelieves, let not his disbelief grieve you; to Us is their return, then will We inform them of what they did; surely Allah is the Knower of what is in the breasts; We give them to enjoy a little (at the world), then will We drive them to a severe chastisement (at AKHIRAT); Al-Hamdu Lillah; the words “let not his disbelief grieve you” are to console the Prophet PBUH that he has done his task well to provide the teachings of Islam to all persons but he certainly is not liable to bring any of them to Islam necessarily; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAT-25 reads, “and if you ask them who created the heavens and the earth, they will certainly say- Allah; say that all praise is due to Allah; nay! most of them do not know”; this tells that the disbelievers there in Makkah did believe that Allah only is the Creator of all the creation but they did not believe that He only is the true Lord Who has the true authority, Whom they have to obey unconditionally; they even challenged the belief in AKHIRAT that Allah would judge all peoples of the world, at the Day of Judgment according to their doings; many of them did not believe that the world would ever end and AKHIRAT would ever take place (see Surah SABA-3 & 4) and many of them thought that whenever it takes place, those whom they took as associates to Allah in authority, they would save them from all chastisement (see Surah YOUNUS-18); the AAYAT asks the Prophet PBUH to tell them that all praise is to Allah so when they believe that He is the Creator of all the creation, they have to believe this too that He only is the true Lord Who has the true authority, Whom they have to obey unconditionally; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAT-26 notes, “what is in the heavens and the earth is Allah's; surely Allah is the Self-sufficient, the Praised”; the first AAYAT of this Ruku has stated clearly that Allah created everything at the heavens and the earth in such manner that they serve the physical existence of the man in one way or other; now, this AAYAT tells clearly that they serve the man physically because Allah has commanded them for it and He truly has all control over them; certainly, Allah is Self-sufficient and truly Praised Who does not need anything, even praise, from any of His creation; certainly, He only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last four AAYAAT at the Ruku tell about the true authority of Allah which read, “and were every tree that is in the earth (made into) pens and the sea (to supply it with ink), with seven more seas to increase it, the words of Allah would not come to an end (because His speech is His attribute and all His attributes are limitless); surely Allah is Mighty (Who keeps everything according to His plan for them by His authority), Wise (Who keeps the impression of goodness in works of men and eliminates all evil by His true wisdom); neither your creation nor your raising is anything but as a single soul (so the disbelievers, who deny that Allah would raise all persons from dead, are totally unaware of His true authority); surely Allah is Hearing (everything that any of persons say), Seeing (all of doings that any of persons does and He would certainly provide every person whatever he truly deserves); do you not see that Allah makes the night to enter into the day, and He makes the day to enter into the night (so change is natural), and He has made the sun and the moon subservient (so that all persons do set their tasks by timing for them); each (of the lights) pursues its course till an appointed time (when they both would end); and that Allah is Aware of what you do (i.e. how all persons manage their tasks)?- this is because Allah is the Truth (i.e. all His attributes are QADEEM, ASL and LA-MEHDUD), and that which they call upon besides Him is the falsehood (as certainly, they do not have any authority), and that Allah is the High, the Great (so His true word stays and nothing of falsehood holds on)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
LUQMAN-The Last Ruku
31. Do you not see that the ships run on in the sea by Allah's favor that He may show you of His signs? Most surely there are signs in this for every patient & grateful person.
32. And when a wave like mountains covers them they call upon Allah, being sincere to Him in obedience, but when He brings them safe to the land, some of them follow the middle course; and none denies Our signs but every perfidious, ungrateful one.
33. O people! guard against (the punishment of) your Lord and dread the day when no father can avail aught for his son, nor a son avail aught for his father; surely the promise of Allah is true, therefore let not this world's life deceive you, nor let the topmost deceiver deceive you in respect of Allah.
34. Surely Allah is He with Whom is the knowledge of the hour, and He sends down the rain and He knows what is in the wombs; and no one knows what he shall earn on the morrow; and no one knows in what land he shall die; surely Allah is Knowing, Aware.
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The first AAYAT of the Ruku guides the observation to the fact that Allah has set such principles by which the life at the world remains as examination to the man; change of situations that the man faces tells about his attitudes that decide his worth in front of Allah; he shall remain most patient (i.e. firm in practice of commands of Allah without preference to life at the world) with all attention towards Allah, the true Lord, at extreme troubles and he shall remain most grateful with all attention to Him at all situations that are most favorable to him; Al-Hamdu Lillah; whenever the voyagers at sea find adverse situation which threatens their lives as the huge wave covers their ship, they call Allah sincerely with commitment that they would surely obey Him; but when He brings all of them safe to the land, it is not all of them who are sincere for His obedience; the safety that persons receive at utmost troublesome situation which is most threatening to life, is the sign that Allah only has saved them; those who deny this clear sign are such who are most perfidious (and not firm in practice of Islam) and most ungrateful (at the favorable turn of events by the blessing of Allah); at the ship in trouble, there may still be such persons who may care for the safety of their parents and such persons who may care for the safety of their children but at AKHIRAT, which is sure to come, no person would care for any other than his own self; so all persons must care that the life at the world does not deceive them as the set-up here is for their examination and the set-up there is to provide them their respective results; Al-Hamdu Lillah; and Satan must not deceive them in respect of Allah by misguiding them that though He only is the Creator of everything yet the mankind does not need to obey His commands or that though He would bring AKHIRAT yet He is so Merciful that He would forgive all sins and provide JANNAH, so they do not need to worry and do whatever they will at life at the world; note that if someone repents truly on his sins and asks sincerely for His mercy, he would insha-Allah get it here at the world and also get TOFIQ to make his life better, yet when the period of his life ends here, his repentance on wrongs is totally fruitless; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last AAYAT of Surah LUQMAN tells about those five things that are issues among the hidden matters and there are few notable points to note here to get this AAYAT in better way; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the first notable point is that these five are among those hidden matters to men (as everything certainly is manifest to Allah) in which they are most interested and it does not cover all of hidden matters; the second notable point is that it states categorically that awareness of the time when the world ends, is only with Allah and that is the answer to what the disbelievers asked the Prophet PBUH time & again; the third notable point is that the second and the third issue does not categorically deny that men are unable to get awareness to onset of the coming rainfall and awareness to what is in wombs; the fourth notable point is that both the last issues relate to matters which are most related to occurrence of those individual actions of the man for which Allah has provided some control to him and to occurrence of those upon which he has no power, respectively; Al-Hamdu Lillah; keeping these points in view and with the crucial remark that Allah knows better, we study this AAYAT which reads, “surely Allah is He with Whom is the knowledge of the hour (so nobody knows it except Him), and He sends down the rain and He knows what is in the wombs (but awareness to these two is possible for men through some gadgets which they develop, by the permission of Allah); and no one knows what (deeds) he shall earn on the morrow; and no one knows in what land (his homeland or some foreign land) he shall die (so in general, these both are hidden too yet due to careful planning for them, some exceptionally disciplined person may provide for these both though even then, they would only take place as Allah permits and as such, no person is able to say that he knows what he would be doing tomorrow and that he knows where he would die when the time of his death comes for him); surely Allah is Knowing (of the hour), Aware (of all doings of all persons)”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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Surah SAJDAH
(Consists of 3 Ruku; MK-10)
SAJDAH-The First Ruku
1. ALIF LAAM MIM.
2. The revelation of the Book, there is no doubt in it, is from the Lord of the worlds.
3. Or do they say: he has forged it? Nay! it is the truth from your Lord that you may warn the people to whom no warner has come before you, that they may follow the right path.
4. Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six periods, and He mounted the throne (of authority); you have not besides Him any guardian or any intercessor, will you not then mind?
5. He regulates the affair from the heaven to the earth; then shall it ascend to Him in a day the measure of which is a thousand years of what you count.
6. This is the Knower of the unseen and the seen, the Mighty the Merciful,
7. Who made good everything that He has created, and He began the creation of man from TEEN.
8. Then He made his progeny of an extract, of water held in light estimation.
9. Then He made him complete and breathed into him of His spirit, and made for you the ears and the eyes and the hearts; little is it that you give thanks.
10. And they say: What! when we have become lost in the earth, shall we then certainly be in a new creation? Nay! they are disbelievers in the meeting of their Lord.
11. Say: The angel of death who is given charge of you shall cause you to die, then to your Lord you shall be brought back.
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Surah SAJDAH starts by MUQATTA’AAT and it is also mentioned as ALIF-LAAM-MIM AS-SAJDAH while the other Surah that has the name as SAJDAH (and it also starts by MUQATTA’AAT) is Surah-41 by the name of HA-MIM AS-SAJDAH; this Surah tells that Allah is examining all persons at the world and He has provided the mankind with the true guidance as He gave Torah to Moses-AS and He has provided the Quran to Muhammad PBUH, the last of His Messengers; certainly, He only is the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; it elucidates that the man must take this true guidance and do his deeds accordingly because if he fails to comply to it, he would face extreme punishment at AKHIRAT; even at life at the world, Allah would punish all such persons so it remains a lesson to all those who take disobedience to Allah, the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the only period in which Allah asks all persons to show their worth for the true success at AKHIRAT is this life at the world; this is the only chance that a person has and he would not be given a second chance so he must repent on his wrongs here and now, and keep his attention totally towards Allah, the true Lord; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the first three AAYAAT of the Surah state, “ALIF LAAM MIM; the revelation of the Book (Quran), there is no doubt in it (which means that whatever it states, all that certainly is true), it is from (Allah Who is) the Lord of the worlds; or do they say- he (the Prophet PBUH) has forged it?- nay! it is the truth from your Lord that you (O Prophet PBUH) may warn the people (i.e. Arabs) to whom no warner has come before you (from the time Abraham-AS settled Ishmael-AS at that site), that they may follow the right path”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that Allah has appointed Muhammad PBUH, His last Messenger, as the warner to all peoples of the world but AAYAT mentions Arabs specifically as Allah chose him from among them so they were his first addressee; AAYAAT-4 to 7 tell that Allah has created all heavens and the earth whatever is between them in six periods; Allah knows better about the length of each period but here the point to note is that Allah mentions that all heavens and the earth is His creation and whatever is between them, He has created that; note about ARSH (the mighty throne of Allah) that it is among MUTASHABE (unclear matters) for which the best thing to say is that “Allah knows better”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; He has total authority and manages all affairs of all the universe all the time and He would judge the doings of all persons who lived at the world at any time and at any place; that day would have the length of one thousand years by our count; note that Surah RAHMAN-29 tells that Allah keeps everything to His will and He always sees whatever impression has occurred by doings of the peoples at the world to keep it all to His will; certainly He knows beforehand every action that anyone among the mankind and the jinn takes as He certainly is the Most Knowing of all things and the Most Well-Aware; it also tells that everyone begs of Him for needs and so every day He is engaged in the task of seeing to their needs according to His will; so He cares for His creation due to their collective need and due to their individual need according to His will; they need to show utmost gratitude to Allah for His blessings on them; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-6 & 7 at this Ruku that we study, state, “this is (Allah) the Knower of the unseen (by men) and the seen, the Mighty (Who keeps the set-up that He has arranged for the universe, most intact), the Merciful (that He gives ample time to the man to show his worth for Jannah, the gardens of paradise); Who made good everything that He has created (with the best of set-up for it), and He began the creation of man from TEEN”; note that Surah Roum-20 states, “And one of His signs is that He created you from pure sand (TURAB), then lo! you are mortals (who) scatter”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; so the notable thing here is that Allah created the man by the pure sand at first (TURAB); then He mixed it with pure water to change it to muddy clay (TEEN); then it changed to extreme black mud (HAMA-EM-MASNUN) that had taken place by alteration of the muddy clay by His will with extreme period of time and finally the sounding refined clay (SALSAAL) by which Allah created Adam-AS by His will; these are not the stages of the man during his creation but the material of his creation had passed through such stages whereas each stage had most extreme period of time by the will of Allah; so any of these is the material by which Allah began the creation of Adam but with this remark, the most significant thing to mention here is that most certainly, Allah knows better; Al-Hamdu Lillah; AAYAAT-8 & 9 state, “then He made his progeny of an extract, of water held in light estimation; then He made him complete and breathed into him of His spirit, and made for you the ears and the eyes and the hearts; little is it that you give thanks”; this AAYAT tells that afterwards, his progeny came to inhabit the earth by such watery substance that does not have any esteem; but Allah provided all of mankind with ears and eyes and such ability to understand issues of life that they take the Guidance to the right path and achieve the true success at the Day of Judgment; note that the Quran uses the term “FU’AD” (that means heart) as the ability to deduce results by hearing of ears and by seeing of eyes; and it has occurred with the mention of hearing and seeing at BANI-ISRAEL-36, MOMINOON-78, at the ninth AAYAT of this Surah SAJDAH that we study and MULK-23; except for the first, it tells at all places that such persons show only little of gratitude to Allah and at BANI-ISRAEL even, the AAYAT implies that all persons need to show gratitude to Allah, the true Lord, as it mentions that hearing, seeing and FU’AD would certainly be asked about the attitudes they led to; Al-Hamdu Lillah; now, AAYAAT that are ahead at this Ruku that we study, state that there are disbelievers to the fact that the life would go one even after death; they are unable to understand that when their particles are scattered at the earth, how would they rise from dead; they are unaware of the set-up with which Allah has created them and more than that, they are unaware of the total authority that Allah has; AAYAT implies by its text that it is not their concern how Allah would do it but they need to understand that Allah certainly would raise them from dead; their doubt about it only tells that they do not believe that they would ever meet Allah, the true Lord; Allah asks the Prophet PBUH at the last AAYAT of the Ruku, “(O Prophet PBUH)- say- ‘the angel of death who is given charge of you shall cause you to die, then to your Lord you shall be brought back’ (so whether they believe it or not, they would certainly meet Allah, who would see all their doings there at the Day of Judgment)-“; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
SAJDAH-The Second Ruku
12. And could you but see when the guilty shall hang down their heads before their Lord: Our Lord! we have seen and we have heard, therefore send us back, we will do good; surely (now) we are certain.
13. And if We had pleased We would certainly have given to every soul its guidance, but the word (which had gone forth) from Me was just: I will certainly fill hell with the jinn and men together.
14. So taste, because you neglected the meeting of this day of yours; surely We forsake you; and taste the abiding chastisement for what you did.
15. Only they believe in Our AAYAAT who, when they are reminded of them, fall down in prostration and celebrate the praise of their Lord, and they are not proud.
16. Their sides draw away from (their) beds, they call upon their Lord in fear and in hope, and they spend (benevolently) out of what We have given them.
17. So no soul knows what is hidden for them of that which will refresh the eyes; a reward for what they did.
18. Is he then who is a believer like him who is a transgressor? They are not equal.
19. As for those who believe and do good, the gardens are their abiding-place; an entertainment for what they did.
20. And as for those who transgress, their abode is the fire; whenever they desire to go forth from it they shall be brought back into it, and it will be said to them: Taste the chastisement of the hell-fire which you called a lie.
21. And most certainly We will make them taste of the nearer chastisement before the greater chastisement that haply they may turn.
22. And who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the AAYAAT of his Lord, then he turns away from them? Surely We will give punishment to the guilty.
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The first three AAYAAT of the Ruku state the bad condition of those disbelievers who used to deny that Allah would raise all persons from dead; they shall stand in front of Allah, their heads hung down, and they would ask Him to return them to the world for one more time so that they get the pleasure of Allah by compliance to His commands and show their worth for Jannah, the paradise; Allah would respond to their plea that if He willed, He would have brought all persons to the true guidance; but He has made the life at the world an examination to see the worth of each person and He would provide Jannah to those only who comply to His commands and He would fill the hell-fire with jinn and men together who had spent their lives on wrongs; every person has only this one chance to prove his worth and no other; Allah would put all evil persons there at the hell-fire because they had denied the meeting with Allah on the Day of Judgment; so Allah would forsake them and they would remain there forever for whatever wrongs they did because of their disbelief that they would ever pay for their wrongs that they commit at life at the world; the next AAYAAT praise the true believers how they remembered Allah at life at the world and what good results they would ultimately receive for that; these AAYAAT tell that the true believers are only those who truly believe in AAYAAT of Allah as whenever they are reminded of them, they fall down in prostration and celebrate the praise of their Lord, and they are not proud on their submission to Allah but expect mercy from Him on their wrongs; they call Allah, the true Lord, at silence of nights in fear that He has the authority to punish them on their wrongs & in hope that He is most Merciful and so He would grant them mercy and the space to make themselves better; and they spend on the needy out of what Allah has provided to them benevolently; no person among such virtuous men knows what is hidden for them of that which will not only provide most physical satisfaction to them but before that, even refresh eyes; it shall never happen that the true believer gets results like the sinful disbeliever as they are not equal in status whereas the true believer has achieved the true success; Al-Hamdu Lillah; for those who believe and do good, they would receive gardens as their abiding place for whatever good they did; and as for those who had disbelieved in the Truth, their abode is the hell-fire; AAYAT categorically tells that “whenever they desire to go forth from it they shall be brought back into it, and it will be said to them- taste the chastisement of the hell-fire which you called a lie”; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the last couple of AAYAAT read, “and most certainly We will make them taste of the nearer chastisement (at life at the world) before the greater chastisement (of AKHIRAT) that haply they may turn (to righteousness before the greater chastisement gets them); and who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the AAYAAT (from the Quran and from the goings at the world) of his Lord (that ask to believe in Him truly and that the Day of Judgment is certain to come), then he turns away from them?- surely We will give punishment to the guilty”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
SAJDAH-The Last Ruku
23. And certainly We gave the Book to Musa, so be not in doubt concerning the receiving of it, and We made it a guide for the children of Israel.
24. And We made of them Imams to guide by Our command when they were patient, and they were certain of Our AAYAAT.
25. Surely your Lord will judge between them on the day of resurrection concerning that wherein they differ.
26. Does it not point out to them the right path, how many of the generations, in whose abodes they go about, did We destroy before them? Most surely there are signs in this; will they not then hear?
27. Do they not see that We drive the water to land having no herbage, then We bring forth thereby seed-produce of which their cattle and they themselves eat; will they not then see?
28. And they say: When will this judgment take place, if you are truthful?
29. Say: On the day of judgment the faith of those who (now) disbelieve will not profit them, nor will they be respited.
30. Therefore, turn away from them and wait, surely they too are waiting.
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The first couple of AAYAAT tell that Allah provided Torah to Moses-AS so it guided the Bani-Israel to the Truth yet there were such persons in them who took some of its teachings and left other of it; so Muhammad PBUH does not have to worry when he finds such persons who deny the teachings of the Quran which Allah has provided to him for the true guidance to all peoples of the world; Al-Hamdu Lillah; Allah raised guides to the teachings of Torah from among them who had no inclination to pleasures of the world so He would raise such good persons from among the Muslims too who would spread the virtuous teachings of the Quran far & wide; Al-Hamdu Lillah; then He would surely judge all matters between them at the Day of Judgment and the disbelievers would see clearly then that they were totally wrong; the observation of disbelievers is so weak that they are unable to see what the history tells them and even what info the matters around provide to them; they need to put their ability of hearing and seeing to all their observation as that would lead their FU’AD to come to the Truth; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that the Quran uses the term “FU’AD” (that means heart) as the ability to deduce results by hearing of ears and by seeing of eyes; Allah destroyed so many generations, in whose abodes they go about, and most surely there are signs in this; they need to use their faculty of hearing about it in the company of those who have learnt history well; and Allah brings water to such land that has no herbage and then it brings forth its production that their cattle and they too consume; they need to use their faculty of seeing at this issue by thought on how it happens; but their disbelief leads them to ask when the Judgment would take place but they need to understand that when it takes place, it will not profit them nor will they be respited; so it is better to ignore them and wait for the ultimate result to all matters and whether they believe it or not, the most obvious fact is this that they too are in waiting for the Day of Judgment that is most certain to take place; certainly, Allah only has the true authority; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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