Surah Muhammad, ...........introduction.

friends,dato and tansri,

one would have thought that if one were born during nabi's time, one would easily be amongst the 'sahabat' or 'sohbat'. life in the hereafter would have been guaranteed!..with rivers and streams flowing under the palace, and gardens of tulips, roses, gaharus, musang king and all, as wide as the horizon!

ustad nouman ali khan, in his opening gambit of tafseer of surah muhammad, painted a different scenario. an interesting one.

in the early makkan days, your days will be overwhelmed by ostracism  and trials from your very own families and tribe.  your 'cari makan' would been very very difficult. even your life would have been endangered etc and etc.

when you decided to move along with nabi to madinah munawwarah, if you indeed   move, you will be faced by another group of so called 'believers' lead by 'sultan of all al munafikun' ,abdullah bin ubays!

....and if you are madinan, it is not difficult to join the 'sultan' and play along the politics of the day to survive and 'cari makan'. 
the scenario were very persuasive. 
afterall who is the nabi anyway, from a madinan perspective? 

.....''.a man from makkah who claims god is talking to him and you have to follow him and his ways, not a quarter way or half way.......no, no, no!  it is  100 %  of the way! ''

how can you not be an al munafikun?

so if we were to reflect on today's state of affair with us muslims, it is not surprising that even despite the fact that we think we are 1.6 billion and growing, we are really a motley group.

out of turkey's 80 millions or so and 98 % muslim, only 20 to 25 % are practising. the rest want to go back to 'kemalism'!
of indonesia's so called 95 %, they still choose pancasila over shariah.

in malaysia, we are no better.
we choose to 'cari makan' and sleep with the 'devils and the 'pelesits', instead of truth!
even the aging and decrepit tuan  guru haji abdul hadi has lost his bearings, and along the way , his balls!!

in this age of fitna even the nine royal houses have not been immune. 
many people, all mostly clever ones, opined, rightly or wrongly it does not matter now, that , that 'untouchable', 'unmentionable' institution ,  has lost a golden opportunity to put a stamp of relevancy to their continued existence.

in this days and age of superfast information and dis-information, perception is everything.
the arab spring and the whole trouble within the syrian diaspora was ignited by changing perception rather than actual facts and parameters on the ground.
the level of existence in libya, syria, and iraq, now for instance are much worse off than before during muamar alghaddafy time, saddam hussien or asad!

a golden opportunity to just  appear to have some semblance of relevancy has been flouted and wasted!

allahualam.

time, it seemed, my friends , has not changed us muslims very much!


dr nik isahak wan abdullah












[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFAKvjMnuIc  ]

recitation by shaykh mishary rashid al afasy, with full english transliteration and audio.

Surah Muhammad
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

Those who disbelieve and turn (men) from the way of Allah, He rendereth their actions vain. (1) And those who believe and do good works and believe in that which is revealed unto Muhammad - and it is the truth from their Lord - He riddeth them of their ill-deeds and improveth their state. (2) That is because those who disbelieve follow falsehood and because those who believe follow the truth from their Lord. Thus Allah coineth their similitudes for mankind. (3) 

[   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDJjXfttPwk   ]

introductory commentary by ustaz nouman ali khan.

[  39: 15 ]       the beginning of al munafikun amongst muslims.....abdullah bin ubay was the sultan of all al munafikuns.

[  44: 26  ]     rationalization and 'songeng' amongst al munafikuns. separation between surah and muhammad, does not begin only now but early on during nabi's time....'where is it mentioned in the qur'an? etc etc and etc'.
' this hadith is dhaif , that hadith gharib! ' etc and etc.
'let us forget about all hadith since these causes a lot of confusion. let us just study the qur'an contextually and leave the hadiths!', say the liberal islamists and some professors!



[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TBp24EQ5y0   ]

ustaz nouman ali khan's commentary.

still more on al munafikuns.....

' you must have lost your mind to be muslims!.... '