Recitation of whole surah al-Hajj, by Shaykh Abdul Rahman al-Sudais,
THIS SURAH OPENS with an emotional appeal, highlighting the terrifying aspects of the Day of Judgement, designed to shock humans and shake their consciousness.
O mankind! Fear your Lord. Lo! the earthquake of the Hour (of Doom) is a tremendous thing. (1) On the day when ye behold it, every nursing mother will forget her nursling and every pregnant one will be delivered of her burden, and thou (Muhammad) wilt see mankind as drunken, yet they will not be drunken, but the Doom of Allah will be strong (upon them). (2)
We learn from the Prophet that the advent of the Day of Judgement will be accompanied by tremendous cataclysmic disturbances such as volcanic eruptions when the earth will be gripped in the throes of death.
This initial shocking appeal is followed immediately by a rather sober and rational one:
O mankind! if ye are in doubt concerning the Resurrection, then lo! We have created you from dust, then from a drop of seed, then from a clot, then from a little lump of flesh shapely and shapeless, that We may make (it) clear for you. And We cause what We will to remain in the wombs for an appointed time, and afterward We bring you forth as infants, then (give you growth) that ye attain your full strength. And among you there is he who dieth (young), and among you there is he who is brought back to the most abject time of life, so that, after knowledge, he knoweth naught..... (5)
Skepticism over the resurrection is a direct outcome of ignorance and lack of understanding of how life came into being. Skeptics tend to believe that resurrection is a completely isolated event, bearing no relationship to the whole cycle of creation and life on earth. We see life and life -forms being created every second, which should tell us that a second life-cycle or a new creation of the same life -form is plausible, and indeed, possible.
This lead us to ask: Who is responsible for the creation of the male sperm? Under what power does this sperm develop and find its way to the female egg to produce a fetus, carrying all the vital genetic information that will shape its future and eventually develop it into a fully formed human being? How is this creature able to leave its mother's womb and adapt almost immediately to the new environment outside where, for the first time, its lung have to breathe in air and its eyes have to cope with powerful light rays?Who has endowed human beings with these amazing genetic features and inherent capabilities?
The creation of life is not a freak accident, brought about by blind chance or by some obscure laws of probability. It is a phenomenon that has been occurring an infinite number of times, in an infinite number of ways, over an incredibly long period of time. The surah turns to yet another marvel of creation
.....And thou (Muhammad) seest the earth barren, but when We send down water thereon, it doth thrill and swell and put forth every lovely kind (of growth). (5)
This again leads us to ask: how does all this come about? How can we observe this revival taking place before our very eyes and yet fail to accept that life can be resurrected? Out of the dead soil grow crops and plants providing staple foods for animals and humans, containing starch, sugars, fats, salts, minerals, and vitamins, all of which constitute the very essential elements for sustaining life. We are bound to enquire about the power that lies behind all this. These phenomena are indisputable. Since we believe what we can see and observe, we ought not to doubt that the dead can be brought back to life again. The surah gives the only logical explanation:
That is because Allah, He is the Truth and Lo! He quickeneth the dead, and Lo! He is Able to do all things; (6) And because the Hour will come, there is no doubt thereof; and because Allah will raise those who are in the graves. (7)
A great number of people accept these facts by intuition and common sense, but there are also a great number who reject them, believing that life is an act of blind chance and death is the end of everything. It would be also wrong to give any credence to this notion, and it would also be wrong to accept the false belief that most philosophers and scientists are agnostics or unbelievers. In fact, many studies have shown the opposite to be the case. Rejection of God's existence, though widespread, does not stand upon sound scientific grounds.It often stems from sheer ignorance, arrogance, or defective and bogus ideologies. The attitude of Ibless or Satan, is a case in point: he rebelled against God precisely because he recognized HIS existence !
" A Thematic Commentary On The Qur'an "
Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali
[ 1917 -1996 ]
Reflection and commentary of the surah by Shaykh Abdul Nasir Jangda :
ayat 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_lMo_Pm0BA
ayat 2 to ayat 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR9Pnb_irEo
ayat 5 to ayat 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg93B0KoP0o
ayat 7 to ayat 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJKgEcupww4
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