Recitation of full surah by Shaykh Abdul Basit Muhammad Abdul samad, [ with translation ] :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FPSaAni25k
THE OPENING VERSES OF THE SURAH indicate that the Arabs of Makkah were, to a great extent, religiously illiterate and totally bound to materialism. Their knowledge of God was, to say the least, confused. They believed in polytheism and worshiped numerous deities. They held no belief in a life hereafter or accountability for their actions after death. They lived for the present alone. This is expressed in the following verses:
Their reckoning draweth nigh for mankind, while they turn away in heedlessness. (1) Never cometh there unto them a new reminder from their Lord but they listen to it while they play, (2) With hearts preoccupied. And they confer in secret. The wrong-doers say: Is this other than a mortal like you? Will ye then succumb to magic when ye see (it)? (3)
The surah then advances several rebuttals against the arguments of those who deny the existence of life after death and accountability in the hereafter. "We created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between them in play "(16). The Qur'an gives intuitive common sense reasons to show that life after death is a real prospect. having created the world the first time, God is surely able to bring it to an end and recreate it a second time. "Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were of one piece, then We parted them, and we made every living thing of water? Will they not then believe? "(30).
A majority of the physicists and cosmologists today subscribe to the so-called 'Big Bang' theory to explain the beginning and formation of the universe as we know it. Moreover, we know that the earth's core is molten and exist at extremely high temperatures, that the crust, the part on which we live, is solid and that three-quarters of the earth is covered with water, which sustains life on this earth. God says: "And We have placed in the earth firm hills lest it quake with them, and We have placed therein ravines as roads that haply they may find their way " (31).
But the denial of life after death is not just simply restricted to ancient generations. Modern man is also intoxicated with the love of this life and material gain, and modern civilization has no room for a belief in the hereafter. Like their predecessors, people today scoff at the very idea:
And they say: When will this promise (be fulfilled), if ye are truthful? (38) If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not be able to drive off the fire from their faces and from their backs, and they will not be helped! (39) Nay, but it will come upon them unawares so that it will stupefy them, and they will be unable to repel it, neither will they be reprieved. (40)
The surah points out that accountability in the hereafter will be meticulous and completely fair:
And We set a just balance for the Day of Resurrection so that no soul is wronged in aught. Though it be of the weight of a grain of mustard seed, We bring it. And We suffice for reckoners. (47)
" A Thematic Commentary On The Qur'an "
Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali
Commentary from Shaykh Nasir Jangdi :
ayat 2 to ayat 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_pOlcwP_yA
ayat 5 to ayat 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX1mO4_Gcc8
ayat 11 to ayat 15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-B-dfHK8OQ
ayat 16 to ayat 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukjTGup5e6s
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My Personal Journey Thru The Qur'an,
http://drnikisahak.blogspot.com/2008/05/surah-al-anbiya-big-bang-and-century-of.html
Of Agnosticism,Stephen Hawkings, Universe and The Big bang Theory.....
http://drnikisahak.blogspot.com/2010/09/of-big-bang-stephen-hawkings-and-arash.html
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