Recitation of suarh al-Mu'minun, ayat 103 to ayat 111, by Shaykh Muhammad Luhaidan:
THIS SURAH POINTS OUT THAT MAN"S life in this world is short, and that he must always seek the truth and fight temptation and misleading beliefs. It reminds the reader of death and how he might react to it::
Until, when death cometh unto one of them, he saith: My Lord! Send me back, (99) That I may do right in that which I have left behind! But nay! It is but a word that he speaketh; and behind them is a barrier until the day when they are raised. (100)
This scene, where people, having died, ask to be returned to the world a second time to mend their ways appears in the Qur'an about ten times. This show very clearly that as death approaches, the wrong-doers own-up to their misdeeds and beg to be given another chance to live a clean life. In the surah we are given two scenes; one at the moment of death and one at the moment of judgement. On the latter occasion, wrong-doers will be reproached with the question:
(It will be said): Were not My revelations recited unto you, and then ye used to deny them? (105) They will say: Our Lord! Our evil fortune conquered us, and we were erring folk. (106) Our Lord! Oh, bring us forth from hence! If we return (to evil) then indeed we shall be wrong-doers. (107)
These repeated appeals might help clarify matters for those who believe that man's fate's in the hereafter is predetermined and that his pleading will have no influence on it. Islam has been grossly missundertood on this point. To answer these cynics, the surah rounds off with a passage asserting that God Almighty is fair towards all men. HE has equally blessed all human beings with the gift of life and given them senses and perception and intellectual faculties to distinguish between god and bad, right and wrong. The surah ask: "Deemed ye then that We had created you for naught, and that ye would not be returned unto Us? (115) Now Allah be Exalted, the True King! There is no God save Him, the Lord of the Throne of Grace " (116).
God has made promises and sent warnings; HE has given some people good health and inflicted others with ailments; He made life a mixture of happiness and suffering: all this in order to enrich the human experience and make people recognize the reality and value of God. People can choose either to be vigilant and prepare for their encounter with God, and invest for life in the hereafter, or they can choose to reject God and dismiss any accountability to Him. God will judge both with fairness and justice; but when it is too late, excuses will avail no one. The surah tell us that ias the time for accountability draws near, the skeptics will be flustered and will lose all sense of time:
He will say: How long tarried ye in the earth, counting by years? (112) They will say: We tarried but a day or part of a day. Ask of those who keep count! (113) He will say: Ye tarried but a little if ye only knew. (114)
The surah concludes by stressing, yet again, the value and role of enlightened faith, pointing out that authentic religious belief is not built on mythology, folklore, and superstition. True religion respect rational thought and accords the human mind its rightful place in understanding the world and shaping it. Without their power of thought and free will, humans would not be accountable for their actions.
He who crieth unto any other god along with Allah hath no proof thereof. His reckoning is only with his Lord. Lo! disbelievers will not be successful. (117) And (O Muhammad) say: My Lord! Forgive and have mercy, for Thou art Best of all who show mercy. (118)
" A Thematic Commentary On The Qur'an "
Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali
[ 1917 - 1996 ]
'Life After Death'....
[ the late , arwah Shaykh Anwar al Awlaki ]
Death Series Part 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWStTWynNlU
Death series Part 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i7MS72MWg8
Death series Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcDd8g5luM4
[ The Grave and the Journey of the Soul ]
to comprehend this discussion you have to leave this dimension and go on 'supra-worldly dimension', the belief in the al-ghaiba,
if you are forever stuck in only worldly dimension then welcome to the world of chrostopher hitchens ,stephan hawkings and richard dawkins: 'what i cant see, cannot measure and comprehend....is not there. the delusion and arrogance of the secualrist, 'modern man'
Let us return to the realities of planet earth [ where Islam is under-seige from all corners: Christendom, Jewish and the Godless ],and listen to a Hitchens-Tony Blair debate,
[ Is Religion a Force for Good In the World]
..and Tony Blair vs Christopher Hitchens....
PS : Hitchens just died last year from metastatic oesophageal cancer, remaining 'officially' to his last breath,"Godless". I wonder aloud how his 'soul' is doing now, not that I care too much about him when he was alive. Hitchens, Dawkins , Sam Harris, just to name a few, belong to the arrogance and insanity of time immemorial : 'When I die, I will be dust and that would be the end of time". How sad! To each of us, our choice.......
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