Surah al Qamar, 54.......Prologue

friends, dato and tan sri,

malayisa is blessed actually.
you throw a musang king seed out of your window it will grow into a durian tree.
yellow oil  and latex exude from the malaysian soil.
gas and petrol gush out from our shores
skilled and a compliant labour is still relatively cheap.

our problem is still poor governance from the elite.....very very poor and porous as well

just take tabung haji, one of the biggest of the biggest glc.
70 to 80 % of the board are political appointees.
when numero uno walks sideway like a crab what can one expect the rest of the flock to do?

but let us leave all the cleaning up to tun dr mahatir, dsai  and their new team.
both of them were not exactly 'clean' before but both of them have had their 'painful period' of awakening and insyaallah 'repentance' as well.

for tdm, allah has given him a long life, long enough for him to have the humbling experience of having to apologise for his past mistakes in governance and his bad choice in backing the wrong candidate for pm.

for dsai insyaallah 11 years of eating 'nasi kawah'  in solitary confinement would have change the man. he was quite 'naughty' when he was in finance building up his own 'war chest'.

now is the time to 'return'for both of them.
and at 7 scores and nine respectively they have not much choice.
unlike najib and the rest of his flock who are still in gross denial state, these two seemed more reasonable.
malaysia is gifted , not with excellent leaders, executive and royal. they are all far from excellence.
the peoples are excellent and peaceful!

we leave politics for now and move on in our tafseer masterclass.


surah al qamar, denoting ''the moon", consisting of 55 ayat, is a Makkan surah.
it refers to an incident when a group of unbelieving quraish challenged nabi to split the moon.
[ the 54th surah as in the qur'an, but the 59th surah as revealed to our nabi in order of sequence.]


" split it did ".
apparent or actual is irrelevant.

modern day data from nasa showed at that exact time, there was a total eclipse of the moon.
thus an apparent 'split'.

close up photos of the moon surface showed indentation circumferentially around the moon, suggesting as evidence of a possible past 'split'.

to me apparent or actual does not really matter.
to the group of unbeliving quraish of that time, it was a 'split' no doubt but even then it did not change hearts.

" this is nothing but pure magic!! ", they surmised arrogantly.

islam does not need science to validate it.
if it does, well and good!
apparent or actual....


we muslims should take this position with respect to science.
only then would we be on firm ground.

allahualam.

dr nik isahak wan abdullah

ps:

here also we listen to prof ovamir anjum's third discourse on 'repentance', after our  two guests discourses on the opening ayat of surah al qamar.








this discourse was held at prince william islamic centre, virginia , usa,  in oct 2013....'english'
[   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3pm0DbE03Q  ]




commentary by ustad muhammad mustaffa at masjid binjal, kota bharu on ayat 1 to ayat 17.
this discourse was done sometime in 2012.....'in bahasa'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUYIIew-gMc

20:15     asma al husna

                 ya fattah , ya razak ya wahab ya ghoniy ya mughni
                 ya ghoniy ya hameed ya mubdiu ya muid ya rahim ya wadud
                 
                 ya zaljala liwal ikram
                 ya salam
                 ya latif, ya latif ya latif.......

22:50    ismullah hil a'zam....

                la ila hailla antasubha  nakainni kuntuminaz zolimun
                ya hayyu ya qayyum
                ya allah
                ya rahman ya rahim
               ya zal jala liwal ikram
               ya hannan ya mannan

32:20     children!!

42:50     people who are 'hati kering'.....

43: 20   'tok sir qur'an'...baso bengong


51:05     no cherry picking please....

57:10     resurrection

1:05:10  kelantan oil royalty






prof ovamir anjum on 'repentance part 3'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqRx9U69w6c

......on mahasabah, naf [ ego ], regrets..... and return