Surah Fatir...ayat 23 to ayat 26

[   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWoqXCiypgs  ]....... commentary part 10

friends, dato and tansri,

ayat 23 to ayat 25 is especially special for small time lay daie like me.

i may have started this tafseer  and pearls & gem blogs some eight years ago and eight years down the lane i have only collectively collected only 44,000 , and 100,000 hits respectively. this could have been better if all and sundry 'send' and 'resend' the tafseer to their friends and their friends to their other friends. but i can console myself that quranic understanding in 2017 is perhaps for the 'elite' only. 

the rest would like to 'oscillate and lmmerse themselves within the orbit ' of relative quranic ignorance. 

i guess majority of average malaysian muslim , the thinking is that it is much much easier to live and wallow in relative safety of quranic ignorance!...ignorance is bliss.

in their sixties and 70's still engrossed in the balaghah and the tajwid but with 'non comprehende' of the qu'ran........

mostly all choosing to be stuck in the 'ablution' phase of the ugama.

despite weekly 'local' prodding of some 500 via personal emails and what happs, main readers/listeners of tafseerkoran.blogspot.com come from the usa, alaska, india , new zealand, japan and australia, surprisingly. only 30 % malaysian......despite weekly prodding.
in some local circles , i am considered a 'spam'.

anyway i am not doing too badly despite even my own wife and children not 'listening' to all these brilliant ustazs and shaykhs from around the world brought to them at a 'finger click'.... 

many mileniums back,

prophet noah did worse!

prophet lot worst still....

so, what the 'bloody heck'...just carry on , nik....that is the content of the ayat to me

Thou art but a warner. (23) Lo! We have sent thee with the Truth, a bearer of glad tidings and a warner; and there is not a nation but a warner hath passed among them. (24) And if they deny thee, those before them also denied. Their messengers came unto them with clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty), and with the Psalms and the Scripture giving light. (25) 

ya fattah, ya razak, ya wahab , ya ghoniy , ya mughni....

dr nik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJjxeJNT6q0

Surah Fatir ...ayat 17 to ayat 22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enWESkmAwR8  [ commentary part 7 ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba5SnyQYe4U  [ commentary part 8 ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuLD395V4uQ  [ commentary part 9 ]

friends, dato and tansri,

The blind man is not equal with the seer,
Nor is darkness (tantamount to) light,
Nor is the shadow equal with the sun's full heat,
Nor are the living equal with the dead. 

ya ghaniy,ya hameed, ya mubdiu, ya muid, ya rahim ya wadud.....

dr nik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJjxeJNT6q0

[...does not matter whether you are bill gates, steve job, donald trump or any abdullah, if  you forgot allah, allah made you forgot yourselves..........]

Surah Fatir....ayat 9 to ayat 16

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64A1io2j-iI    [ commentary part 4 ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRzHw6Kwu8s   [ commentary part 5  ]

friends, dato and tansri,

i have a running argument with a friend of mine who carries a very ' muslim ' name, feels and identifies himself as a muslim bumiputra, but does not feel inclined there is  a ' day after tomorrow ', a day of reckoning.

he professed he does not believe in anything 'alghaib', but if i were to proposed that he is technically  a 'non believer' he vehemently disagreed.

unlike him though, there are thousands of muslims out there, across the globe, mainly from the  super elite class: financial, royal and political .... who live in palatial homes, oftentimes multi million of rm in cost , a couple  or two exceeding  a couple of billions rm....have wardrobes filled with dozens  and  dozens of birkins, pradas and the superbrand etc and etc, hoarded millions and billions of public fund,.... who, if you ask them, would say they are  perfect muslims.

it is as if it is their god-given right to hoard vulgarly and live lives of extreme excesses.....

technically they are muslims but their 'behavior' are symptomatic of a people who are not very confident 100 % that there is a 'day of reckoning'. 

they live lives as if there is no future reckoning or accountability.

at the exemplary end of 'zuhudness' and remembrance, we are  yet again reminded of one well known tradition ....one summer hot day in madinah, some 1450 years ago, when nabi strapped a stone to his stomach to relieve his pangs of hunger. there was not a mussel of food in his kitchen, not even water.

he went out of his house in search of food and water, only to meet two dear sahabat of his, abu bakr and umar, in the same dire strait. off they went searching for sustenance until they met another sahabat who invited all three of them into his house.

the three were given some dry dates and cool water to relive their hunger and thirst, while the sahabat went out looking for his kibbash to slaughter  and give his unexpected highly distinguished guests a decent meal.

nabi, while waiting for the meal, alluding to the nikmat obtained from the dry dates and water, said famously, 

" we  will all be held accountable for this pleasure...."

so much for  some dry dates and sips of cool water!

while his followers in 2017 immersed themselves with birkins, oneamgedebe, trophy wives, palatial palaces on the hill and that fleet of bentley turbos, mercs  and porsches in the garage!......from illicit income, not theirs!

And Allah it is Who sendeth the winds and they raise a cloud; then We lead it unto a dead land and revive therewith the earth after its death. Such is the Resurrection. (9) Whoso desireth power (should know that) all power belongeth to Allah. Unto Him good words ascend, and the pious deed doth He exalt; but those who plot iniquities, theirs will be an awful doom; and the plotting of such (folk) will come to naught. (10) Allah created you from dust, then from a little fluid, then He made you pairs (the male and female). No female beareth or bringeth forth save with His knowledge. And no-one groweth old who groweth old, nor is aught lessened of his life, but it is recorded in a Book, Lo! that is easy for Allah. (11) And the two seas are not alike: this, fresh, sweet, good to drink, this (other) bitter, salt. And from them both ye eat fresh meat and derive the ornament that ye wear. And thou seest the ship cleaving them with its prow that ye may seek of His bounty, and that haply ye may give thanks. (12).  He maketh the night to pass into the day and He maketh the day to pass into the night. He hath subdued the sun and moon to service. Each runneth unto an appointed term. Such is Allah, your Lord; His is the Sovereignty; and those unto whom ye pray instead of Him own not so much as the white spot on a date-stone. (13) If ye pray unto them they hear not your prayer, and if they heard they could not grant it you. On the Day of Resurrection they will disown association with you. None can inform you like Him Who is Aware. (14) O mankind! Ye are the poor in your relation to Allah. And Allah! He is the Absolute, the Owner of Praise. (15) If He will, He can be rid of you and bring (instead of you) some new creation. (16)           [ translation by pickthal ]

dr nik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjkDspLnBHU  [ commentary part 6 , mufti waseem khan ]

Surah Fatir...ayat 5 to ayat 8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj2tWMSq7CI
[ mufti waseem khan 's commentary on ayat 5 to ayat 8 ]

friends, dato and tansri,

i met an old time uk friend of mine at the national heart association meeting in kuala lumpur recently.

he is a world renowned professor in cardiology based in london, a new revert to islam.

we, people of the 'heart', do not waste time over minor nitty gritty, that is our bad 'attitude' so to speak.

he asked me, ' nik, what do you think ails the muslim ummah globally currently?'

'prof, do you want an honest short answer or a long-diplomatically couched non-answer from me.....?'

' an honest short one , of course nik...no hold barred!'

'.....at the very top end, political ,royal and economics/financial, we have 80 % al-munafikuns lording over the ummah for decades. you name it . from gamal nasser, feisal, sadat, mubarak, ghadafi, arafat,tonku, and a long series al qarun-clones, suharto, benazir to al asisi just to name just a few...... and down at the bottom and the great majority in the middle right towards the top end, you have 80  % almost with zero ilm, both on ugama and non ugama...that is what ails the ummah, prof, from my perspective and observation....many of my friends here will not agree of course'

our conversation ended there as the good old prof was called to chair the next symposium on 'heart failure'.

indeed our ummah is currently in severe decompensated 'heart failure'.

at the top end lording over billions are al munafikuns.

and the rest are following like cattle without ilm!

just look at the state we malaysians are in now...a perfect example of the malaise afflicting the ummah globally!
a case of too many 'pelesit' and 'devils' on centre stage.

Lo! the devil is an enemy for you, so treat him as an enemy. He only summoneth his faction to be owners of the flaming Fire. (6) Those who disbelieve, theirs will be an awful doom; and those who believe and do good works, theirs will be forgiveness and a great reward. (7) Is he, the evil of whose deeds is made fairseeming unto him so that he deemeth it good, (other than Satan's dupe)? Allah verily sendeth whom He will astray, and guideth whom He will; so let not thy soul expire in sighings for them. Lo! Allah is Aware of what they do! (8) ...............[ surah fatir, translated by pickthal ]

dr nik