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Separa 11 (Ya-Tadhiruna)
Surah Al Bara’at (94-129)
Surah: Yunus (01-109)
Surah: Hud (01-05)
Surah Al Bara’at
(94-129)
> ” They will make excuses to you when you return to them (after the expedition of Tabuk). Say (O Muhammad): Make no excuses, we shall by no means believe you. Indeed Allah has informed us of the true state of matters concerning you. Allah will uphold your doings and (so will) His messenger; and then you will be brought back to Him who knows the hidden and the manifest, who will then inform you of that which you were doing”: (94)
> ” They will swear by Allah to you, when you return to them, that you may turn away from them; so turn away from them; verily they are scum and their abode is hell; a recompense for what they used to earn”: (95)
> ” They will swear to you that you may be pleased with them. Even if you are pleased with them, (remember) Allah is not pleased with the wicked people”: (96)
> ” The Arabs of the desert are hardest in infidelity and hypocrisy, and more inclined not to know the laws which Allah has sent down to His messenger; and Allah is all-knowing, all-wise”: (97)
Flag 1: Return from Tabuk & the hypocritic pretence: (Bara’at-9: 94-97)
> ” And of the rustic Arabs of the desert there are those who take what they spend as a fine (loss), and they wait for (evil) turns of fortune for you. The evil turn of fortune will be for them. Allah is Hearing, Knowing”: (98)
Flag 2: The Evil Wishers: (Bara’at-9: 98)
> ” And of the rustic Arabs of the desert there are those who believe in Allah and the last day and consider what they spend to be a means of approach to Allah and the blessings of the messenger. Verily it shall be a means of approach for them, soon shall Allah admit them to His mercy; verily Allah is oft-forgiving, merciful”: (99)
Flag 3: True Believers amongst Rustic Arabs: (Bara’at-9: 99)
> ” And the first and foremost among those who left their homes (migrated from Makkah to Madina-Muhajirs), those who welcomed them (in Madina-Ansars), and those who followed them in goodness: Allah is well pleased with them and they are well pleased with Him, and He has prepared for them gardens in which rivers flow where they will abide forever. That is a great achievement”: (Bara’at-9: 100)
Flag 4: Equality amongst foremost (Muhajirs & Ansars) thereby rejecting any claimed superiority of one over other: (Bara’at-9: 100)
> And among those around you of the rustic Arabs of the desert there are hypocrites, and among the residents of Madina (there are some who) are stubborn in hypocrisy. You do not know them. We know them, and We will punish them twice, and then they will be brought back to grievous chastisement”: (101)
Flag 5: Those Stubborn in Hypocrisy: (Bara’at-9: 101)
> ” And there are others who have confessed their sins. They have mixed up good action with another that was evil. It may be that Allah will turn to them (in mercy), verily Allah is oft-forgiving, merciful”: (102)
> ” Take alms out of their wealth, thereby you will cleanse them and purify them, and pray for them. Verily your prayer is an assurance (of peace) for them. And Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing”: (103)
> ” Do they not know that Allah is He who accepts repentance from His bondmen and receives the alms, and Allah is verily He (who is) the oft-returning (to mercy), the merciful”? (104)
Flag 6: Allah’s Message in respect of the Repentant Faithfuls: (Bara’at-9: 102-105)
> ” Say (to them): Act (as you will). Allah beholds your deeds, and (so do) His messenger and the believers; and then you shall be brought back to the knower of the hidden and the manifest; then He will tell you of what you were doing”: (105)
Flag 7: Who are the beholders (knowers) of your deeds besides Allah? (Bara’at-9: 105)
Note:
(i) The ‘Believers’ above refers to those thoroughly purified by Allah Himself (Ahzab-33: 33).
(ii) The presence of these the thoroughly purified) in the past and in all times to come in future has been confirmed by Allah Himself (Noor-24: 55).
> ” And there are others made to wait for the command of Allah, whether He will punish them or turn (in mercy) to them. Allah is all-knowing, all-wise”: (106)
> ” And there are those who built a masjid in order to hurt (the faithfuls) and to practice infidelity and to cause disorder among the believers; and as an outpost for him who warred against Allah and His messenger; and they will indeed swear (saying): We desired nothing but good. And Allah bears witness that verily they are liars”: (107)
> ” Never (O Muhammad) stand (to pray) there. Surely a masjid founded on piety from the very first day is worthier than you should stand (to pray) therein, wherein are men who love to be purified. And Allah loves the purified”: (108)
> ” Is he who has laid his foundation on strict observance of Allah’s laws (taqwa) and (His) goodwill better or he who lays his foundation on the brink of a crumbling bank, which crumbles with him in the fire of hell? Allah does not guide the people who are wilfully unjust”: (109)
> ” The building which they built will never cease to be a source of disquiet in their hearts till their hearts are cut off to pieces: and Allah is all-knowing, all-wise”: 110)
Flag 8: Masjid-e-Dhirar (Mosque of Mischief): (Bara’at-9: 107-110)
Note:
(i) Abu Amir was a Christian monk in Madina predicting the arrival of a promised prophet but once the Holy Prophet reached he lost his position in the community and subsequently joined the infidels. He fought against faithfuls in Uhad and Hunayn and then went to Hercules (Byzantine Emperor) to raise an army to crush Muslims. From there he coordinated with hypocrites at Madina to construct the Masjid-e- Zarrar to house subversive activities against Muslims. By the time this masjid was completed Abu Amir died in Syria. The hypocrites requested the Holy Prophet to consecrate it by praying therein and Allah commanded against it. The Masjid-e- Zarrar was subsequently demolished.
> ” Verily Allah has purchased from the faithful their selves and their properties; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of paradise). They fight in Allah’s way, and they slay and they are slain; (this is) a promise binding on Him in the Tawrat and the Injil and the Quran. Who is more faithful to His covenant than Allah? Therefore rejoice in the bargain which you have transacted; and that is the great achievement”: (111)
Flag 9: Allah the Buyer of ‘Selves’ from faithfuls: (Bara’at-9: 111-112 & Baqarah-2: 207)
Note:
(i) For seller of his ‘Self’ to protect Holy Prophet on the night of migration (Hijrat), refer to (Baqarah-2: 207).
> ” They are those who turn repentant to Allah, who worship Him, who praise Him, who fast, who bow down, who prostrate themselves, who enjoin good and forbid evil, and who observe the limits set by Allah – therefore proclaim (O Muhammad) glad tidings to the believers”: (112)
Flag 10: For whom the glad tidings are there? (Bara’at-9: 112)
> ” It is not proper for the prophet and those who believe to seek forgiveness for idolaters, even though they may be their relatives, after it has been declared (clearly) to them that they are the inmates of flaming fire: (113)
> ” The seeking of forgiveness by Ibrahim for his father was not but on account of a promise he made to him; but when it became clear to him that he was an enemy of Allah, he declared himself clear of him; verily Ibrahim was most tender-hearted, forbearing”: (114)
> ” It is not for Allah to lead a people astray after He has guided them, so much so that He makes clear for them as to what they should abstain from. Verily Allah knows all things”: (115)
> ” Verily Allah! To Him belongs the kingdom of heavens and earth. He gives life and He causes to die, and there is no guardian or helper for you besides Allah”: (116)
Flag 11: No seeking of forgiveness for Idolaters and knowing when/where to abstain: Help is only from Allah: (Bara’at-9: 113-116)
> Verily Allah has turned in mercy to the prophet and the Muhajirs and the Ansars who followed him in an hour of distress after the hearts of a part of them had nearly swerved aside, but He turned to them (also) in mercy. Verily to them, He is compassionate, merciful”: (117)
> ” And to the three also (did He turn in mercy) who were left behind until when the earth, vast as it is, became sustained to them, and their own souls became straitened to them, and they thought there was no refuge from Allah except Him, then He turned to them in mercy that they too might turn repentant to Him. Verily! Allah is oft-returning, merciful”: (118)
Flag 12: Allah’s Tribute to Participants of Tabuk Expedition & Mercy on the Repentants: (Bara’at-9: 117-118):
” O you who believe ! Safeguard yourself against evil with full awareness of Allah’s laws and be (always) with the truthful” (119)
Flag 13: Allah’s command to be always with Truthful: (Bara’at-9: 119)
Note
(i) Truthful refers to those thoroughly purified by Allah Himself (Ahzab-33: 33).
> ” It was not for the people of Madina and those around them of the dwellers of the desert that they should stay behind the messenger of Allah, nor to prefer their lives to his life. This is because, neither thirst, nor fatigue, nor hunger afflicts them in Allah’s way, nor do they tread a path which enrages the infidels, nor do they receive from the enemy (any injury), but it is reckoned to their credit as a deed of righteousness. Verily Allah does not let the reward of those who do good to go waste”: (120)
> ” Nor do they spend any spending (in the way of Allah), small or great, nor do they cross a valley (in the cause of Allah) but it is recorded to their credit, that Allah may reward them with the best for that which they have been doing”: (121)
> ” Nor should the faithful all go forth (to war) together. Why should not then a contingent from every party of them go forth, that they (who are left behind) may acquire (proper) understanding in religion, and that they may warn their people when they return to them, so that they may beware”? (122)
Flag 14: Lessons to be Learned from Tabuk & need of Guidance for Defaulters: (Bara’at-9: 120-122)
> ” O you who believe! Fight those of the infidels who are near you, and let them find firmness in you, and know that Allah is with those who safeguard themselves against evil with full awareness of divine laws”: (123)
Flag 15: Command for strong administration & fighting against penetration by the infidels: (Bara’at-9: 123)
> ” And whenever a surah is sent down, there are some of them (the hypocrites) who ask (one another): Which of you has had his faith increased? As for those who believe, it strengthens them in faith and they rejoice”: (124)
> ” But as for those in whose hearts is a disease, it adds uncleanliness to their uncleanliness, and they shall die while they are infidels”: (125)
> ” Do they not see that they are tried every year once or twice? Even then they do not turn repentant to Allah, nor do they remember”: (126)
> ” Whenever a surah is sent down, they look at each other (so as to ask): Does anyone see you? Then they turn away. Allah has turned their hearts away because they are a people who do not understand”: (127)
> ” Indeed a messenger from among you has come to you. Any distress that befalls you grieves him, (he is) most solicitous for your welfare, (he is) most kind and merciful to the believers”: (128)
Flag 16: Opposite effect of sending down of Quranic verses on the believers and hypocrites: (Bara’at-9: 124-128)
> ” But if they turn away, say: Allah suffices me. There is no god but He. On Him do I rely, and He is the Lord of the great throne”: (129)
Flag 17: Lord of the great throne (Rabbul-Arsh-il-Azim): (Bara’at-9: 129)
Surah Al Bara-at ends
Separa 11 (Ya Tadhiruna) continues
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE BENEFICENT, THE MERCIFUL
Surah Yunus
(01-109)
> “Alif, Lam, Ra. These are the verses of the book of wisdom”: (01)
> ” Is it a wonder for the people that we sent revelations to a man from themselves, saying: Warn mankind and give glad tidings to those who believe that there is a sure footing for them with their Lord”? (But) the infidels say: Verily this (man) is obviously a sorcerer”: (02)
Flag 18: Know the man and those who believed in him first? (Yunus-10: 02)
Note:
(i) ‘a man’ refers to the Holy Prophet; whereas believers refer to Khadija, Ali (& Abu Talib based on Fiqh Jafria consensus)
(ii) ‘Firm Footing’ refers to the Holy Prophet and the Ahl ul Bayt. Refer to (Baqarah-2: 256) where ‘Strongest Handhold’ (Urwatul Wusqa) also refers to the Holy Prophet and the Ahl ul Bayt.
> ” Verily your Lord is Allah Who created the heavens and earth in six days and is firmly established on the throne. He regulates everything; no intercessors (can) there be save after His leave. This is Allah, your Lord, therefore worship Him. Will you not be mindful”? (03)
Flag 19: Allah introducing His Six-Day Creation and Worship Command: (Yunus-10: 03)
Note:
(i) Refer to creation in six days (Araf-7: 54)
> ” To Him will you all return. The promise of Allah is true. Verily it is He who begins the creation then causes it to return again, in order that He may recompense those who believe and do good with equity; and those who disbelieve for them shall be a drink of boiling fluids, and a painful chastisement because they disbelieved”: (04)
Flag 20: Allah’s Promise:Creation-Return-Recreation followed by Accountability (Rewards/Punishment): (Yunus-10: 04)
> ” He it is who has made the sun a glow and moon a light, and measured for her stations, that you might know the number of the years and reckoning (of time). Allah did not create (all) this save a purpose (to demonstrate the truth of His unity). Thus (does) Allah make His signs manifest for a people who understand”: (05)
> ” Verily in the alteration of the night and the day, and all that Allah has created in the heavens and the earth, surely there are signs for a people who safeguard themselves against evil with full awareness of divine laws”: (06)
Flag 21: Science-based understanding of solar system leading to Allah: (Yunus-10: 05-06)
> ” Verily those who do not hope to meet Us, and are contend with the life of this world, and are satisfied with it, and those who are neglectful of Our signs>>>”: (07)
>>> ” Their abode is fire because of what they used to earn”: (08)
> “ Verily those who believe and do good, – their Lord guides them because of their faith. Rivers will flow beneath them in gardens of bliss”: (09)
> ” Their cry therein (will be): Glory to You O Allah! And their greeting in it (will be): Peace: And end of their cry (will be): (All) praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds”: (10)
> ” And if Allah were to hasten for men the evil (they have earned) as they would fain hasten on the good, then surely their doom would have been decreed unto them, but We leave those who do not hope to meet Us to wander blindly perplexed in their contumacy” : (11)
> ” And when any affliction touches a man he cries lying on his side, or sitting or standing, but when We remove his affliction, he passes on as though he had never cried to Us for an affliction that touched him. Thus is made fair-seeming to transgressors what they do” : (12)
> ” And indeed We did destroy the generations before you when they did wrong and messengers came to them with clear signs, but they would not believe. Thus we recompense the guilty people” : (13)
> ” Then We made you (their) successors in the land after them, that We might see how you would act” : (14)
Flag 22: The state of disbelief/infidelity as compared to faith/belief & the consequences: (Yunus-10: 07-14)
> ” And when Our signs are recited to them, those who do not hope to meet us say: Bring a Quran other than this or change it. Say: It is not for me to change it on my own accord. I follow naught but what is revealed to me. Verily if I disobey my Lord, I fear the chastisement of a great day: (15)
> ” Say: If Allah had so willed, I would not have recited to you, nor would He have given you comprehension of it. Indeed I have lived a whole life among you before (its revelation). Will you not (even then) understand”? (16)
> ” Who does more wrong than he who forges a lie against Allah or belie His signs? Verily the guilty do not succeed” : (17)
Flag 23: Compromise proposed by the infidels: (Yunus-10: 15-17)
Note:
(i) The verse (Yunus-10:15) refers to notable idol-worshippers (Abdullah bin Ubbay, Walid bin Mughirah, and others) who asked the Holy Prophet to bring another Quran which did not so vehemently and uncompromisingly denounce the idols and idol worship or to make changes therein, by way of compromise to suit their taste.
> ” They worship beside Allah that which can neither hurt them nor profit them, and they say: These are our intercessors with Allah. Say: Would you inform Allah something that He knows not in the heavens and earth? Glory be to Him. Exalted is He (far) above what they associate (with Him)”: (18)
> ” And mankind was naught but a single community, but differed (later). Had not a word from your Lord gone forth (giving respite), it would have been decided between them in respect of that wherein they differ”: (19)
> ” And they say: Why is not a sign sent down to him from his Lord? Say: ‘Verily, unseen is only for Allah (to know) therefore wait; verily I am with you, among those who wait”: (20)
Flag 24: Glory be to the Exalted (Allah: Knower of the unseen:Ghaib) far above to associating anything with Him: (Yunus-10: 18-20 & 66 & 68)
> ” And when we make people taste of (our) mercy after affliction has touched them, lo, they devise plots against our signs. Say (O Muhammad): Allah is the swifter in planning. Verily our messengers write down what you plot”: (21)
Flag 25: Angelic Forces-Allah’s Messengers! (Yunus-10: 21)
Note:
(i) Besides well-identified angels (Jibrail, Mikail, etc) all Allah’s creations consisting of atomic & subatomic entities constitute part of His angelic forces.
(ii) Each and every entity of Allah’s angelic forces carries out commands by Him; including but not limited to; being witnesses, record keeper, bringer of blessings or distress, etc.
(iii) In this perspective, these angelic forces could also be referred as Allah’s messengers at any scale such as (micro, macro or giants like solar systems, black holes, supernova, etc).
> ” He it is who enables you to travel by land and sea; so that you board ships, and they sail with them with a favorable breeze, and they rejoice thereat; then a violent gale begins to blow and there comes upon them a billow from every side, and they think they are encompassed herewith, (then) they cry to Allah, professing sincerity to him in their faith in Him, saying: If you (O our Lord) deliver us from this, we shall indeed be of those who are thankful”: (22)
> ” But when He delivers them, behold! They rebel in the earth unjustly, O mankind! your rebellion is only against yourself, – a provision for the life of this world, then to Us you have to return, then We will inform you of what you were doing”: (23)
> ” The likeness of the life of the world is only as water which We send down from the sky; and by its mingling grows the produce of the earth, of which men and cattle eat, until when the earth puts on its golden raiment and is adorned, and the people (its tillers) think that they have powers (of disposal) over it; (but suddenly) comes our command by night or by day, and We make it mowed down as though there was nothing there yesterday. Thus do We explain the signs in detail for people who reflect”: (24)
> ” And Allah calls (you) to the abode of peace, and guides whomsoever He wills to go the right path’ : (25)
Flag 26: Allah’s Mercy & Reactions of Created Beings: (Yunus-10: 21-25)
> ” For those who do good is the best reward, and more. Neither darkness nor ignominy shall cover their faces. They are the dwellers of the garden, where they will abide forever”: (26)
> ” And those who have earned evil will be punished to an equal degree as their evil, and ignominy shall overtake (them); they shall have no protector (from the wrath of Allah); as if their faces have been covered with a cloak of darkest night. They are the inmates of fire where they will abide forever”: (27)
Flag 27: Good and Evil Doers and their Proportionate Recompense: (Yunus-10: 26-27):
> ” On the day when We gather them all together, then We say to those who associated others (with Us): Keep your place, you and your associate-gods. Then We shall separate them, the one from another, and their associate-gods will say: It was not us you worshipped”: (28)
> ” Therefore Allah is sufficient witness between us and you; we were certainly unaware of your worship for us”: (29)
> ” There every soul shall realise what it has sent before, and they shall be brought back to Allah, their real Lord, and all the lies (false gods) they had fabricated will be of no avail to them”: (30)
> ” Say (O Muhammad): Who gives you sustenance from the sky and from the earth? Or who controls hearing and sight? And who brings forth the living from the dead, and dead from the living? And who administers all affairs? They will say: Allah. So tell them: Will you not then safeguard yourself against evil in the light of divine laws”? (31)
> ” This is Allah, you real Lord. And apart from truth (remains) but error? Whereto then are you drifting”: (32)
> ” Thus the word of your Lord is proved true against those who transgress, that they do not believe”: (33)
> ” Say (O Muhammad): Of your associate gods, is there any who can originate creation and (then) it to return? Say: Allah (alone) originates creation and then causes it return. Where to then you are deviating”? (34)
> ” Say (O Muhammad): Of your associate gods, is there any who can guide to the truth? Say: it is Allah alone who guides to the truth. Is then He who guides to the truth is more worthy to be followed, or he who can not find the right path unless guided? What ails you? How (ill) you judge”? (35)
> ” And most of them follow nothing but conjecture; verily conjecture can not avail (anything) against the truth; verily Allah knows what they do”: (36)
Flag 28: What ails you? Neither drift nor deviate nor ill-judge aimlessly: Allah’s command to differentiate between conjecture & truth: (Yunus-10: 28-36)
> ” And this Quran is not such as could be produced by (anyone) beside Allah, but it is a confirmation of what has gone before it, and (the clearest) explanation of the book; there is no doubt in it, (it is) from the Lord of the world”: (37)
> ” Or do they say: He (Muhammad) has forged it? Say: Bring then a surah like this, and call on whomsoever you can beside Allah, if you are truthful”: (38)
> ” Nay, they belied that which they did not comprehend with the knowledge thereof, and whose explanation did not come to them. Even so, did those before them deny. Then see what was the end of unjust”! (39)
> ” And of them is he who believes in it, and of them is he who does not believe in it, and your Lord knows the mischief-makers well”: (40)
> ” And if they belie you, Say (O Muhammad): For me my work, for you yours. You are free of what I do and I am free of what you do”: (41)
> ” And of them are those who hearken to you. Can you make the deaf hear, even though they do not understand”? (42)
> ” And of them are those who look at you. Can you guide the blind, even though they do not see”? (43)
> ” Verily Allah does not do injustice to people in anything whatsoever, but men do injustice to themselves”: (44)
Flag 29: Quran: Allah’s challenge to Mankind & those who deny: (Yunus-10: 37-44: Baqarah-2: 23-24: Bani Israil-17: 88: Hud-11: 13)
> ” And on the day when He shall gather them altogether, as though (it will appear to them) they had not tarried (in the world, or in the grave) but an hour of the day. They will recognise each other. Surely those who belied the meeting with Allah and were not guided aright will perish”: (45)
Flag 30: Recognising each other on resurrection: (Yunus-10: 45)
> Whether We let you behold something of that which We promised them (punishment) or (before that) We take you to Us, (even) then to Us is their return, then Allah is witness to all they do”: (46)
> ” To every people (was sent) a messenger, and when their messenger has come, the matter between them is decided with equity, and they will not be wronged”: (47)
> ” And they say: When will this promise (of final requital) come to pass, if what you say is true”? (48)
> ” Say (O Muhammad): I do not own (any power of) hurt or benefit unto myself, save what Allah wills. To every people is an appointed term; when their term comes they can neither put it off an hour nor go before it”: (49)
> ” Say (O Muhammad): Do you see, if His chastisement comes to you by night or by day: what is there of it that the guilty would desire to be hastened on”? (50)
> ” Is it (only) then when it comes to pass, that you will believe in it? What! Now (you believe), when (until now) you have surely been hastening it on”! (51)
> ” Then it shall be said to those who were unjust: Taste the abiding punishment! Are you not rewarded save what you have been earning”? (52)
> ” And they ask you: Is that true? Say: Yes. By my Lord, verily, verily it is the truth and you will not escape”: (53)
> ” If every soul that has done injustice had all that is in the earth, surely it would offer it to ransom itself, and they would declare their repentance when they behold the doom, and (matter) shall be decided between them with justice, and they shall not be wronged”: (54)
Flag 31: No ransom: No getting away from what a soul has earned: (Yunus-10: 54)
> ” Be it known that verily Allah’s is whatsoever is in the heavens and earth; be it known that verily Allah’s promise is true, but most of them do not know” : (55)
Flag 32: Ownership in its entirety belongs to Allah alone: (Yunus-10: 55)
Note:
(i) Allah’s alert concerning ownership of everything (All possessions irrespective of their nature) constitutes a fundamental cornerstone for mankind. The issue of ownership remains the reason for conflict between individuals, groups and nations. The resolution of the same following Allah’s guidelines is the only course for salvation of all.
(ii) Shaytanic instigated life on earth revolves around ‘Self’ (Me); whereas all acts in any sphere of life must be based on the execution and will of Allah (‘He’).
(iii) Even uttering ‘Meri Marzi’ is inappropriate as the only one who is capable of using ‘Meri Marzi’ is none but Allah Himself.
> ” He gives life and causes to die, and to Him shall you return”: (56)
Flag 33: The originator of life the terminator of the same: (Yunus-10: 56)
> ” O mankind! Indeed an exhortation has come to you from your Lord, and a cure for that which is in your hearts, and a guidance and a mercy for the believers”: (57)
> ” Say: In the grace of Allah and His mercy – in that let them rejoice; it is better than all they amass”: (58)
Flag 34: Resurrection: Gathering of all together: Allah’s Mercy or Abiding Punishment to choose from: All in your own hands (Yunus-10: 45-58)
> ” Say: See you what (things) Allah has sent down to you for sustenance! Then you made some of it lawful and some as unlawful. Say: Has Allah permitted you, or do you forge a lie against Allah”? (59)
> ” And what do those who forge lies against Allah think of the day of resurrection? Verily, Allah is the Lord of grace towards mankind, but most of them do not give thanks”: (60)
Flag 35: Think of Allah’s Bounties & the day of resurrection: Refrain from forging lies against Allah: (Yunus-10: 59-60)
> ” You are not (engaged) in any affair, nor do you recite any part of Quran, nor you (O mankind) do any deed, but We are witness over you when you are engrossed therein. And not even the weight of an atom in the earth or in the heavens is hidden from your Lord, nor what is less than that or greater than that, but it is (recorded) in a clear book”: (61)
Flag 36: Allah’s Record Keeping: (Kitab-um-Mobin & Lawh Mahfuz): (Yunus-10: 61 & Yasin-36: 12)
Note:
(i) With the will of the omnipresent and omniscient almighty Lord, the knowledge of everything (the tiniest to largest) is preserved together with His constant, effortless watchfulness. Nothing whatsoever escapes unnoticed.
Flag 37: Friends of Allah: (Yunus-10: 62-64)
Note:
(i) On the authority of Imam Ali: Ahlul Bayt (Inclusive of their twelve Imams) are the awliya-Allah and also those who sincerely follow them.
> ” Be it known that verily, for the friends of Allah there is no fear, nor shall they grieve”: (62)
> ” Those who believed and safeguarded themselves against evil with full awareness of divine laws”: (63)
> ” For them are glad tidings in the life of this world and in the hereafter – there is no changing in the worlds of Allah – that is the great achievement”: (64)
> ” And not let their discourse grieve you. Verily all glory is wholly for Allah. He is all-hearing, all-knowing”: (65)
> ” Be it known that verily, whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth belongs to Allah, and they who call upon associate-gods besides Allah do not (really) know (them). They follow nothing but conjecture, and they do nothing but lie”: (66)
> ” He it is who made the night for you that you may rest therein , and the day to make things visible (to you). Verily there are signs in this for those who listen”: (67)
> ” They say: ‘ Allah has begotten a son.’ Glory be to Him. He is self -sufficient. Whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth belongs to Him. You have no authority for (saying) this. Do you say against Allah what you do not know”? (68)
> ” Say: verily those who forge a lie against Allah will never succeed”: (69)
> ” A provision (they have) in this world, then to Us is their return, then shall We make them taste severe chastisement for what they disbelieved”: (70)
Flag 38: All attempts at forging a lie against Allah destined to fail: (Yunus-10: 59-70):
> ” And recite to them the story of Nuh, when he said to his people: O my people if my staying with you and reminding (you) through the signs of Allah is hard on you, then on Allah I rely; so marshal your design and your associate-gods and let not your design be dubious, then have it carried out against me and give me no respite”: (71)
> ” If then you turn back, (remember) I have not asked for any recompense from you. My recompense is only with Allah, and I am commanded to be of those who submit (to Allah’s will)”: (72)
> ” But they belied him, so We delivered him and those with him, in the ark, and We made them successors, and We drowned those who belied our signs. See then what was the end of those who had been warned”: (73)
> ” Then we raised up after him messengers to their peoples, and they came to them with clear evidence, but they would not believe what they belied before. Thus We seal the hearts of transgressors”: (74)
Flag 39: Allah’s Protection to Prophet Nuh: (Yunus-10: 71-74)
> ” Then, after them, We sent Musa and Harun with Our signs to Firawn and his chiefs; but they behaved arrogantly, and they were a guilty people”: (75)
> ” An when the truth came to them from Us they said: Verily this is clear sorcery”: (76)
> ” Musa said: Do you say (this) of the truth after it has come to you? Is this sorcery? And the sorcerers do not succeed”: (77)
> ” They said: Have you come to us to turn away from that upon which we found our fathers and the greatness in the land shall be for you two? But we are not going to believe you two”: (78)
> ” Firawn said: Bring the cleverest sorcerers for me”: (79)
> ” When the sorcerers came, Musa said to them: Cast whatever (spell) you have to cast”: (80)
> ” So when they had cast (their spell) Musa said: What you have brought is sorcery; verily Allah will soon make it vain: verily Allah does not put in order the work of mischief-makers”: (81)
> ” And Allah does prove and establish the truth by His words, however much the guilty be averse”: (82)
> ” But none believed in Musa – save a posterity of his people in spite of the fear of Firawn and his chiefs – lest he should torment them; and verily, Firawn was lofty in the land, and verily, he was of those who transgress all limits”: (83)
> ” And Musa said: O my people! if you (really) believe in Allah then rely on Him, if you are Muslims”: (84)
> ” Then they said: On Allah we rely. O our Lord! Make us not a trial for the unjust people”: (85)
> ” And deliver us by Your mercy from the disbelieving people”: (86)
> ” And We revealed to Musa and his brother: Provide houses for your people in Egypt, and make your houses places for worship, and establish prayer, and give glad tidings to the believers”: (87)
> ” And Musa said: O our Lord ! Verily You have given to Firawn and his chiefs splendour and riches in the life of this world; and so, O our Lord (they) lead people astray from Your path. O our Lord! Destroy their riches and harden their hearts so that they may not believe until they see the painful chastisement”: (88)
> ” (Allah) said: Surely the prayer of you two (Musa & Harun) is accepted, keep to the right path and do not follow the path of those who have no knowledge”: (89)
> ” And We caused the children of Israil to pass (safely) through the sea, then Firawn and his hosts chased them in rebellion and hostility; until, when the drowning overtook him, he said: I believe there is no god but He, in whom the children of Israil believe, and I am of the Muslims”: (90)
> ” What! Now, though before this you disobeyed, and you were of the mischief-makers”: (91)
> ” But this day We will save you in your body so that you may be a sign to those who come after you. But verily many among mankind are heedless of Our signs”: (92)
Flag 40: Recalling Firawn’s denial of Allah’s signs & modern scientific observations concerning Firawn’s body: (Yunus-10: 75-92)
Note:
(i) Scientific observations on the Firawns body have been found to be consistent with Allah’s command (Yunus-10; 92)
> ” And indeed We settled the children of Israil in a safe settlement, and provided them with good things (for their sustenance); but they did not differ until the knowledge had come to them. Verily Your Lord will judge between them on the day of resurrection concerning that wherein they used to differ”: (93)
Flag 41: Children of Israil after Firawn: (Yunus-10: 93)
> ” If you are in doubt of what We have sent down to you, then ask those who read the book (sent) before you. Indeed the truth has come to you from your Lord, so do not be of those who doubt”: (94)
> ” And do not be of those who have belied the signs of Allah, for then you shall (also) be of the losers”: (95)
> ” Verily, those against whom the word of your Lord has proved true will not believe”: (96)
> ” Even though every sign comes to them until they witness the grievous chastisement”: (97)
Flag 42: Allah’s reminder to the disbelievers: Believe in the truth (Quran) and follow the Holy Prophet: (Yunus-10: 94-97)
> ” Why then was there not a town which believed, so that its faith should have profited it, except the people of Yunus? When they believed, We removed from them the torment of ignominy in the life of the world, and gave them comfort (to enjoy) it for a (fixed) time”: (98)
> ” If your Lord had willed, verily those who are on earth would have believed, all of them, together. Will you then compel (against their will) to become believers”? (99)
Flag 43: The Exception: Repentant People of Yunus: (Yunus-10: 98-99)
> ” It is not for any soul to believe except by Allah’s permission, while He lays uncleanliness (of infidelity) on those who do not contemplate”: (100)
> ” Say: ‘Observe all there is in the heavens and earth’. But signs and warnings shall be of no avail to those who do not believe”: (101)
Flag 44: Allah’s ‘Contemplation’ Command: (Yunus-10: 100-101)
Note:
(i) Allah commands mankind to contemplate (think, concentrate and reach a logical conclusion) concerning the creations and the creator.
(ii) Blind faith is not accepted.
(iii) Allah guides, with ever-increasing magnitude, those who strive and seek logical answers based on intellect based knowledge (ilm).
(iv) On the authority of the holy Prophet: I am the City of Knowledge and Ali is its Gate.
(v) Allah declares that failure to contemplate is an indication of disbelief and such of the same shall not be able to benefit from His ‘Contemplate’ command.
> ” Do they then wait for (anything) but the like of the days of those who passed away before them? Say: wait then, verily I am with you as one of those who wait”: (102)
> ” Ultimately We deliver our messengers and those who believe. Even so, as it is binding on Us, We deliver the believers”: (103)
Flag 45: Allah’s ultimate Warning to the disbelievers and an Assurance to the Faithfuls: (Yunus-10: 102-103)
> ” Say: O people! If you have doubt about my religion, then (know) I do not worship those you worship beside Allah, but I worship Allah who takes your souls (at death); and I am (commanded) that I should be of the believers”: (104)
> ” And set your face towards religion , upright, and be not of the polytheists” (105)
> ” Nor call on any, other than Allah, that which neither profit you nor harm you; for if you do, then (beware), you will certainly be of those who are unjust”: (106)
> ” And should Allah bring you harm, then there is none but He who could remove it, and if He wishes good there is none who could take away His grace; He causes it to reach whomsoever of His servants He pleases; and He is oft-forgiving, merciful”: (107)
> ” Say: O people indeed the truth (Quran) has come to you from your Lord, therefore whomsoever receives the guidance, he receives the guidance for (the good of) his own self; and whomsoever strays, most surely, he strays to his own loss; and I am not a custodian over you”: (108)
Flag 46: Holy Prophet Recalls his true faith: dissociation from (Shirk) and finality of all actions emanating from Allah alone: (Yunus-10: 104-108)
Note:
(i) Further reference: (Anam-6: 162-164)
> ” And (O Muhammad) follow what is revealed to you, and forbear until Allah gives judgement; and He is the best of all judges” : (109)
Flag 47: Wait for the Judgment of Best of all Judges: (Yunus-10: 109)
Surah Yunus ends
Separa 11 (Ya Tadhiruna) continues
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE BENEFICENT, THE MERCIFUL
Surah Hud
(01-05)
> ” Alif Lam Ra. This is a book, whose verses are firmly arranged then separated (in revelation), from the all-wise, the all-aware”: (01)
Flag 48: The existence of whole Quran in arranged form as a complete and perfect book before its gradual revelation: (Hud-11: 01)
Note:
(i) It is confirmed that the whole Quran already in a fully arranged form was separated in the Surahs and verses in the course of its gradual revelation so that people may understand.
(ii) For further reference of the same see (Bani-Israil-17: 106).
> ” That you should not worship (any one) but Allah; (Say): Verily I am a warner unto you from Him, and a bearer of good tidings”: (02)
> ” And (to preach to you): Seek forgiveness of your Lord, then turn repentant to Him, He will provide you with a goodly provision for an appointed term, and He will bestow His grace on those who are endowed with grace; and if you turn back, then verily I fear for you the torment of a terrible day”: (03)
Flag 49: Allah’s promise of enhanced grace refers to whom? (Hud-11: 03)
Note:
(i) (dhi fazal) in the verse above refers to Ali Ibna Abu Talib.
> ” To Allah is your return; He has power over all things”: (04)
> ” Behold! Verily they fold up their breasts that they may conceal (their infidelity) from Him. Behold! When they cover themselves with their garments He knows what they conceal and what they make known; verily He knows (all) the (inmost secrets) of the breasts”: (05)
Flag 50: Hypocrites’ concealed hostility: (Hud-11: 05)
Note:
(i) This verse refers to the concealed hostilities on part of the hypocrites in wait for an appropriate time.
(ii) On the authority of the holy Prophet: Hostility to Ali Ibna Abu Talib will be openly declared and put into effect after his departure.