In the Name of Allah, the
Gracious, the Merciful
Extract from Chapter 2 of QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir:
286. La yukallifu Allahu nafsan illa
wusAAaha laha ma kasabat waAAalayha ma
iktasabat rabbana la tu-akhithna in naseena
aw akhta/na rabbana wala tahmil AAalayna
isran kama hamaltahu AAala allatheena min
qablina rabbana wala tuhammilna ma la
taqata lana bihi waoAAfu AAanna waighfir lana
wairhamna anta mawlana faonsurna
AAala alqawmi alkafireena
286. Allah
burdens not any being except with what it can bear. To it what it earns and on
it befall consequences of its earnings. "Our Lord! Call us not to account
if we forget or make a mistake. Our Lord! And put us not to such burden as You
had put on those before us. Our Lord! And burden us not with what we have no
strength to bear. And pardon us. And forgive us. And have mercy on us. You are
our Protector, so help us against the people who suppress the Truth."530
530. Thus Allah does Himself teach us how
to pray to Him. HE is kind and considerate, and knows us much better than what
we know about our own selves. HE articulates exactly what we would like to pray
to Him about. We wouldn't ourselves be able to express our own thoughts so
nicely. Oh! If only we had the wisdom to submit ourselves completely to the
Gracious and All-knowing Lord of all of us.
Friday, the 17th of November 2017.
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