Whether they know Thee or not
all creatures of the world
now and forever-without-end
bend but toward Thee.
All love for someone else
is but a whiff
of Thy perfume:
none else can be loved.
Fakruddin Iraqi
Recitation surah Maryam ayat 79 - ayat 97 ,by Shaykh Muhammad Luhaidan,
THE SURAH THEN GOES ON TO CITE some more of the futile arguments of the Makkan Arabs when they were presented with Islam. It points out that they were more concerned with the superficialities rather than the substance of the arguments.. "And when Our clear revelations are recited unto them, those who disbelieve say unto those who believe:" Which of the two parties (yours or ours) is better in position, and more imposing as an army?" "(73).
The answer comes thus: "How many a generation have We destroyed before them, who were more imposing in respect of gear and outward seeming! "(74). The arguments of the unbelievers betrays a clear bankruptcy of ideas. Here is another more revealing example:
Hast thou seen him who disbelieveth in Our revelations and saith: "Assuredly I shall be given wealth and children! " (77)Hath he perused the Unseen, or hath he made a pact with the Beneficent? (78)
We have encountered this kind of attitude before in the story of the two companions in al-Kahf, verses 32 - 46. "Coin for them a similitude: Two men, unto one of whom We had assigned two gardens of grapes, and We had surrounded both with date-palms and had put between them tillage. Each of the gardens gave its fruit and withheld naught thereof. And We caused a river to gush forth therein. And he had fruit. And he said unto his comrade, when he spoke with him: I am more than thee in wealth, and stronger in respect of men. And he went into his garden, while he (thus) wronged himself. He said: I think not that all this will ever perish. I think not that the Hour will ever come, and if indeed I am brought back unto my Lord I surely shall find better than this as a resort, and his comrade, while he disputed with him, exclaimed: Disbelievest thou in Him Who created thee of dust, then of a drop (of seed), and then fashioned thee a man? But He is Allah, my Lord, and I ascribe unto my Lord no partner. If only, when thou enteredst thy garden, thou hadst said: That which Allah willeth (will come to pass)! There is no strength save in Allah! Though thou seest me as less than thee in wealth and children, Yet it may be that my Lord will give me better than thy garden, and will send on it a bolt from heaven, and some morning it will be a smooth hillside, Or some morning the water thereof will be lost in the earth so that thou canst not make search for it. And his fruit was beset (with destruction). Then began he to wring his hands for all that he had spent upon it, when (now) it was all ruined on its trellises, and to say: Would that I had ascribed no partner to my Lord! And he had no troop (of men) to help him against Allah, nor could he save himself. In this case is protection only from Allah, the True, He is best for reward, and best for consequence. And coin for them the similitude of the life of the world as water which We send down from the sky, and the vegetation of the earth mingleth with it and then becometh dry twigs that the winds scatter. Allah is Able to do all things. Wealth and children are an ornament of the life of the world. But the good deeds which endure are better in thy Lord's sight for reward, and better in respect of hope. ( al-Kahf : 32-46)
Such people delude themselves into believing that they are getting the best of both worlds, thinking that they have no obligation to believe in God or worship Him in this life, but at the same time assuring themselves of a better status in the life to come. " Nay, but We shall record that which he saith and prolong for him a span of torment. (79) And We shall inherit from him that whereof he spake, and he will come unto Us, alone (without his wealth and children) "(80).He shall be stripped of all riches and trappings of power and will have to face God with his deeds.
" A Thematic Commentary On The Qur'an "
Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali
Reflection and commentary by Shaykh Abdul Nasir Jangda :
ayat 75 - ayat 76
0:14:00 in daawah, deal with people according to their levels, and there are levels and levels
0:23:00 leeways given to Pharaoh
0:31:15 when a person dies, his 'khiamah' has started for him...
ayat 77 - ayat 86
0:15:15 delusion of the unbelievers
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