Surah al Jathiyah.........commentary by dr daoud al nassimi & ustaz shamsuri

friends, dato and tansri,

a well known dato friend of mine commented the other day, '' why dr nik, you have to be always full of brimstone and fire?''......" can't you be nice and simple like most of us? "

i retorted back to the good dato,
  
"in actual life i am actually very nice dato. you can ask my nurses at sjmc whether i ever shouted at them over the last 33 years and you will get a resounding NO! 

but we are now 2/3rd of the way in the qur'an and heading towards more makkan revelations than madinan, so it is not my wrong doing.....makkan surah are generally explosive, philosophical, oftentimes cynical,and full of fire..."

"surah al jathiyah is one of them. but dont get me wrong dato. 
islam is not about preventing people from being creative, millionaires or billionaire, or excellent leaders and rulers. in fact it is the reverse.....it is about excellence; excellence in poverty and in wealth; excellence even when one is  'nothing' and even when one is all powerful and rich."

the stories are too many to narrate here. but let us just quote two narrative out of the many from well known sahih traditions. or may be three, if my memory of the third story does not fail me. i may be off the mark in term of exact wording, pardon me.

during umar's reign as kalifah ar rashidin, a certain jew felt his land in bagdad was wrongly taken  at low value by the then governor of the time to give space for his new istana'a extension.
a common theme in malaysia, especially now.

no amount of complain to 'mpsj' of that city could get any action from the administrators below the governor. the jew  gave up  with the local authorities and decided to travel to madinah to air his objection to the caliph himself.

at  high noon, on reaching the periphery of madinah  he saw a tall, shirtless man, having a siesta away from the hot sun, under the shade of a date tree. the jew woke him up to ask for direction to caliph umar's palace.

" why do you want to see him?......", umar asked. the jew retold his dissatisfaction.

" i am uamr , the caliph", and umar asked him to go collect some bones from a dead camel nearby. he scribbled something and asked the jew to return to baghdad and give the message on the dried bone to his governor in baghdad.

the governor was recalled immediately, pending investigation.......mashaallah!
and the complainant was not even a dato sri or tansri of that time, just an unhappy jew in far away baghdad!



2nd scenario and this must have been 15 to 20 years post nabi.

madinah was shakened by the din and noise of a massive camel train just arriving from syam.
it belonged to billionaire-extraordinaire, abdul rahman bin auf, one of nabi's [ pbuh] close sahabat. the 'caravan train' stretched from one end of madinah to the other end of the city...a 600 something long camel train, bringing goods and goodies from syam.

on hearing the din and the noise mother of the faithful, sayyeditina aisyah lookedout of her window and asked her khadam as to what was the commotion.

" it is abdul rhman bin auf's caravan, madam..", answered the khadam.

"go see him and send my regards to him....and tell him, i want  to remind him about what nabi told him years back...", or something to that effect.

after aisyah's khadam  saw abdul rahman, abdul rahman sat down on the ground and cried unconsolably

" oh no! no ! no!.....i don't want to enter heaven last amongst the sahabat, leaping like a frog..!.i want to be walking like the rest!"

abdul rahman called his  GM and immediately asked him to distribute all the goods and goodies to the have-not of madinah.

....and here in 2017, we have hereditary rulers and political numero unos all across the globe , especially from the muslim hinterland , still unhappy with their worldly loot and wanting more and more. 

especially from the muslim hinterland. the rest of the non muslim lands have gone on a better SOP.  and we wonder why after so many years the chinese in malaysia , very few revert to islam!

just the other day i was enjoying a mandi yemeni dish in downtown KL. the restaurant was on the ground floor of a brand new 40 storey corporate building.

omg! 
i was told that it belong to one of the junior ministers of the present cabinet , now retired.
he must have saved even when he was not yet in his mother's womb!
let us not ask about his boss...we will get permanent migraine.



i will bore you with a third story.

one very hot summer's day, nabi [ pbuh] had nothing to eat in his house. not even a mussel of food or cool water to even drink. as with the custom of that time, he tied a tightened a rope around his waist with a stone positioned right smack at the stomach region , to reduce his pangs of hunger.

he went out of his house in search of food, and met saydina abu bakar, along the way, also in the same predicament. along the way to the periphery of madinah they met sayyedina umar, also as hungry as them. lo and behold, a sahabat saw the three esteemed individuals and invited them into his house. the sahabat was obviously elated. he served the three luminaries some dried dates and cool water to drink, while he went out to slaughter his kibbash for a proper meal.

"gentlemen, in the yaumiddin we all will be asked and answerable for this pleasure......", nabi[pbuh] retorted.

omg! answerable for some dried dates and several sip of cool water!

we have the whole damn cabinet  and the untouchable upper than the upper crust ,'raping  and reaping the country' high and dry, like an organized gang rape, and everyone of them moving around like  there is no tomorrow! 
...and with no shame!
that is the state of 'state islam', in 2017.


gentlemen,with this harrowing intro ,we  can now move on to surah al jathiyah.

first, listen to the beautiful and haunting rendition by qari, shaykh abdul rahman al ossi.
followed up by an overview of the surah by dr daoud al nassimi, in english.
our favourite ustaz shamsuri will do his commentary of the 1st eleven ayat of the surah, as usual in 'bahasa'.

enjoy them.


dr nik isahak


















https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBP2Kp3CNRk

recitation by shaykh abdul rahman al ossi






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO-u7R6xE78

commentary by dr daoud al nassimi


.....7 : 07    no contradiction between allah's ayat from the qur'an and the ayat of allah in the 
                  universe ; the limitations of science   

...12 : 23   the big bang 

....17 : 12   chance of random process!!!  making science as parallel to disbelieve, an epidermic 
                  now 

....26 : 15  rezki as a sign of allah; rain and water; wind and air

...32 : 12  a fair hearing before one goes to hell-fire

...35 : 10  the arrogance of the disbelievers.....'oh common dr nik, you are a man of science!'

...42 : 30  on evolution.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXglH5HQnHo

ustaz dato shamsuri bin ahmad, ayat 1 to ayat 11, in 'bahasa', as usual his discourse starts with discussion of a hadith concerning scenario at the 'sirat'......

33 : 07  'let me be your partner in paradise'...... 'then do more sujud....'

36 : 05  'on your knees'..another surah full of brimstone and fire, i am afraid , dato and tansri.

56 : 15  ' kalau qur'an ni  pun hang tak percaya, hang nak percaya apa? '...

1:01 :08 'kalau hang tak mahu pakai qur'an hang jangan kata hang ni islam! '

1:15:18   'hang tak pegang qur'an hang tak ada cahaya......'