[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QechjvJ8qoU ] Part 13
friends, dato and tansri,
ayat 35 is very very special, not only because of its cadence and melodic beauty, even in english and any language, let alone in arabic.
but also specifically, the feminine gender is used, and this is rare in the qur'an.
allah generally chooses to address humanity in the 'masculine' form.
here in ayat 35 of surah al ahzab, HE chooses both 'male' and 'female'.
the divine speech/letters were there from the very beginning, etched in loth mahfuz , time before time.
revealed from time to time, to our nabi, within a period of 23 years during his prophetship, as and when necessary.....that is the understanding of us, ahlil sunnah wal jamaah.
some mufassirun said it was 50,000 years before the earth was formed that the 'event' in loth mahfuz took place.
i humbly think this is rather academic and superfluous assumption, as 'time' itself is also allah's creation, and man's limited conceptualization of time is only tied to the movement of the moon around the earth and the earth around the sun.
we are very 'limited' in our cerebration,despite what proud secularists thinkers think otherwise.
mufti waseem goes on to discuss each quantum of the ayat:
wal muslimin wal muslimat [ external actions suggesting submission ];
wal mukminun wal mukminat [ internal conviction, 'the hearts', the al qulub , plus the external manifestation of submission..] ;
wal qhanitin wal qha nitot [ fully devoted to allah; constantly in allah's obedience ]
was sadikin was sadikot ; [ truthful in their faith ; truthful in words and actions; no pretenses ]
was sabirin was sabirot; [ patience; forebearance; endurance..sabr at the 1st encounter of calamity ]
wal qhasi'in wal qhasi'at [ humble, humilty, haya, modesty out of fear of allah ]
wal mutasaddikin wal mutasaddikot ;[ kindness to the poor and needy, sadaqah..... ]
was sau'imin was sau'imat ; [ fasting..]
wal hafizhin wal hafizhot ; [ take good care of their 'modesty' ]....
[ my old tok guru, hamka, is more direct and explicit in his understanding.." laki2 dan perempuan yang menjaga faraj mereka" ]
[ my old tok guru, hamka, is more direct and explicit in his understanding.." laki2 dan perempuan yang menjaga faraj mereka" ]
was zakirin was zakirot ; [ remember allah in abundance...]
all these essentially, in a gist , is to be close to HIM.
that in essence is the pivotal objective.....you want to be close to HIM, fullstop.
all these reminded me of a recent conversation i had with a card carrying member of secular humanism, a long time dato':
' you guys do thing out of fear of allah....what a lowly stance....we do good because of goodness itself! '
a very proud man he is!
there is one young punk, malay chap, [ i have now forgotten his nom de plume, i think it is zuhariapakahnamadiadah ] who writes regularly in the secular press here in kuala lumpur.
he is proud about this motto as well.
'doing good for goodness itself'.
to these poor,pompous,arrogant and ignorant souls, to put god in the bottomline, in between the lines, and in the 'underlined' reveal a certain weakness in thinking!
'doing good for goodness itself'.
to these poor,pompous,arrogant and ignorant souls, to put god in the bottomline, in between the lines, and in the 'underlined' reveal a certain weakness in thinking!
pompous, arrogant,ignorant beings, these people.....
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