Surah Ghafir.......ayat 8 to ayat 10

recitation, full surah by qari shaykh abdul basit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhNI5xUIDlw



friends, dato and tansri,


Our Lord! And make them enter the Gardens of Eden which thou hast promised them, with such of their fathers and their wives and their descendants as do right. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Mighty, the Wise. (8) And ward off from them ill-deeds; and he from whom Thou wardest off ill-deeds that day, him verily hast Thou taken into mercy. That is the supreme triumph. (9) Lo! (on that day) those who disbelieve are informed by proclamation: Verily Allah's abhorrence is more terrible than your abhorrence one of another, when ye were called unto the faith but did refuse. (10))  They say: Our Lord! Twice hast Thou made us die, and twice hast Thou made us live. Now we confess our sins. Is there any way to go out? (11]

[ translation by pickthal  ]

ayat 10 is full of 'brimstone and fire'. 
my friends have put it to me in an earlier discourse that i am full of 'brimstone and fire', lately.

coincidentally , currently and just before this we are at the makkan stage of the revelations.
surah yasin, surah az zumar and surah ghafir are all makkan surah. 
full of 'brimstone and fire'.
allah does not mince HIS words and abhorrence for HIS detractors.

supergedebe and gangsters like hamzah and umar became the epitome of faith and righteousness of their time, changed by verses like these!

some people misunderstood 'liberalism in islam to mean, as the permissibility to do everything that they think are right from their limited perspectives... 

for example irsayd manji cannot have same sex marriage in hawaii and still claim to be muslim, let alone write a book on islam .

not pray at all and still be muslims etc etc and etc.

think that all ugama are the same...masyaallah!

insists, as some of our sisters in islam locally here do, that muftis discuss with them first before coming up with fatwas. who do the think they are? great scholars!

tolerate utter nonsense in governance and abscond with billion ringgit and still insist we are still great followers of  the ugama. the perpetrator and his die hard followers have no clear understanding of their ugama. they have debased their ugama to a level it has become the laughing stock of the rest of the world! ugama , at the end of the day , the prostration, the prayers the zikr, the ablution.....is all about good characters.
what kind of character is this?

etc, etc etc and etc.


what i understand  by liberalism in islam is that one can go by the day just saying 10 to 20 selawat on the nabi, or he can say selawat the whole day and night.
one can just pray and do 33 subhanallah, al hamdullillah 33 and allahuakabar , 33 times or one can be in continuos 'witnessing of allah the whole day and night'

one can do a little  zikr, or be in zikrullah day and night, even while sleeping.

one can elect to be just average, below average, or one can aim for excellence or super excellence [ muqarrabin ]

one is free to choose one's level.
one can just choose to be a 'school prefect' or one can choose to be a 'lover', like rumi or ibnu arabi
.....or part of the large spectrum in between , where most of us posited ourselves.
it is akin to just from  39.99 british pound at harrod.
anything lower, you get it from selfridges or better still at smithfield meat market in east london

beyond islam, these  so called liberals must find their own world and universe.
go find your own universe if you want to live by your own rules and regulations!


dr nik howk




commentary by assoc prof halis aydemir, ayat 8

https://vimeo.com/30120666




ayat 9 to ayat 11

https://vimeo.com/30121485