Surah Ghafir........Epilogue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INGfK3Eyw1M


friends, dato and tansri,

as surah ghafir started with an advisory about the need to travel, allah ends surah ghafir with "..have they not travel..?.''

the cadence, divine subliminal messages, and poetic beauty of the qur'anic arabic has no equal!
some 10  years ago i started several times to, learn arabic, but after several failed attempt due to the reduced 'circuitry at my age ' and the brittleness of my neurons , i have come to term with the fact that i would not reach that level of sophistication needed.....i am settled with the humble realization that there are hundreds of great teachers outside there.

my job is to bring them together under one website: this i am almost 2/3rd done.



Have they not travelled in the land to see the nature of the consequence for those before them? They were more numerous than these, and mightier in power and (in the) traces (which they left behind them) in the earth. But all that they used to earn availed them not. (82) And when their messengers brought them clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty) they exulted in the knowledge they (themselves) possessed. And that which they were wont to mock befell them. (83) Then, when they saw Our doom, they said: We believe in Allah only and reject (all) that we used to associate (with Him). (84) But their faith could not avail them when they saw Our doom. This is Allah's law which hath ever taken course for His bondmen. And then the disbelievers will be ruined. (85)

it would be appropriate for me to end surah ghafir with the late shaykh muhammad al-ghazali's [ 1917 to 1996; chairman of international institute of islamic thought in cairo; doyen of islamic scholarship during his time ] concluding remark on this surah:

"many people in the west who profess to be religious detest islam for the only reason that their fathers and forefathers had opposed it. but how genuine is their belief in moses or jesus? do they really believe in life after death and judgement in the hereafter? they are the product of a materialistic civilization that believe in the here-and-now, and belong to a society that is founded on a morality of permissiveness, injustice, and the superiority of the white race over the rest of mankind.

there is no denying that the muslims have neglected their heritage and noble mission in this world, but they should do better than to allow themselves to be led blindly into the abyss by this ungodly, heedless civilization"

allahualam.

dr nik isahak wan abdullah