In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
30. Waqala
alrrasoolu ya rabbi inna qawmee ittakhathoo
hatha alqur-ana mahjooran
30. And the Messenger will say, “O my
Lord! My people did indeed treat this Qur’aan as a thing abandoned.”5
5. The Messenger (Muhammad, peace on him) might have said so,
exasperatingly, when in the initial period of his mission the people of his own
tribe would not believe him. But from the immediately preceding context it
appears that this is what he would say on Judgment Day when he comes to know of
the sorry fate of a large number of people who claimed to be his followers
after he left this world. Have not most of the so-called Muslims of today
(early part of the 21st century A.D.) indeed abandoned the Qur’aan?
Do they ever refer to it seeking guidance in the conduct of their day-to-day
lives in this world? The Qur’aan urges them to stand by and abide by the Truth
with patience and with trust in Allah. Do they do that? At the slightest
perception of danger to any of their worldly assets, they will not hesitate to
abandon the truth and thereby the Qur’aan. The Qur’aan asks them to worship
none but Allah. But they run to the graves of dead saints for redressal of
grievances and for bestowal of bounties. They fail to understand that such acts
of theirs are tantamount to worshipping the dead saints and thereby committing
the unpardonable sin of shirk. The
Qur’aan asks them to believe in the Hereafter. They do profess that they
believe, but they betray their disbelief in almost every act of theirs in this
world. They would rather abandon their morning prayer than abandon their sweet
sleep. They do not bother to study for themselves what the Qur’aan says. They
will try their best to educate their children to earn a lot and to have a good
status in worldly life, but they bother the least to prepare them for the
Hereafter. They do many, many such things to prove the prophetic statement in
this Verse right.
Friday, the 12th
of May 2017
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