O Muslims - 37

 

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

Extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:

105. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo AAalaykum anfusakum la yadurrukum man dalla itha ihtadaytum ila Allahi marjiAAukum jameeAAan fayunabbi-okum bima kuntum taAAmaloona

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5:105. O you who believe! You are responsible for your own selves. He who errs cannot hurt you when you are on the right path.⁴³ To Allah you all are to return when He will inform you of what you did.

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43. Muslims would not be in the doldrums, they are in today, had they unshakeable faith in the divine statement of this Verse.

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 23^rd of October 2020.

Fundamental Article

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

Fundamental Article of Islamic Faith

Extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:

18. Shahida Allahu annahu la ilaha illa huwa waalmala-ikatu waoloo alAAilmi qa-iman bialqisti la ilaha illa huwa alAAazeezu alhakeemu

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3:18. Allah bears witness that there indeed is none worthy of worship but He; and so, do the angels and those with right knowledge, based on truth and justice. There is none worthy of worship but He, the Omnipotent, the Wise.¹⁶

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16. This fundamental article of Islamic Faith is witnessed and certified by Allah Almighty Himself and by the angels who are the first amongst His creations to know the absolute Truth of the article of Faith. And among mankind, only those endorse the fundamental article, whose acquisition of knowledge is the result of their quest and enquiry based on truth and justice. Their knowledge is not based on unverified guesswork like Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Had his theory been true, we ought to have seen at least some signs of monkeys/chimpanzees evolving into humans, during this historical period of well over a thousand years. Protagonists of the theory try to hide behind the anonymity and haziness of the pre-historic ages. There too they encounter their 'missing links'.

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 18^th of October 2019.

Muslims of Today

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

Extract from Chapter 3 of QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir:

139. Wala tahinoo wala tahzanoo waantumu al-aAAlawna in kuntum mu/mineena

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139. Be not weak and grieve not! And you should have an upper hand if you are strong in Faith.¹⁵¹

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151. And most Muslims of today are not strong in their Faith. So, they are weak as a community, and they grieve a lot.

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 23^rd of March 2018.

Fundamental Article of Islamic Faith

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

Extract from Chapter 3 of QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir:

18. Shahida Allahu annahu la ilaha illa huwa waalmala-ikatu waoloo alAAilmi qa-iman bialqisti la ilaha illa huwa alAAazeezu alhakeemu

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18. Allah bears witness that there indeed is none worthy of worship but He; and so do the angels and those with right knowledge, based on truth and justice. There is none worthy of worship but He, the Omnipotent, the Wise.¹⁶

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16. This fundamental article of Islamic Faith is witnessed and certified by Allah Almighty Himself and by the angels who are the first amongst His creations to know the absolute Truth of the article of Faith. And among mankind, only those endorse the fundamental article, whose acquisition of knowledge is the result of their quest and enquiry based on truth and justice. Their knowledge is not based on unverified guesswork like Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Had his theory been true, we ought to have seen at least some signs of monkeys/chimpanzees evolving into humans, during this historical period of well over a thousand years. Protagonists of the theory try to hide behind the anonymity and haziness of the prehistoric ages. There too they encounter their 'missing links'.

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 1^st of December 2017.

Declaration of Faith

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

Excerpt from Chapter 2 of QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir:

136. Qooloo amanna biAllahi wama onzila ilayna wama onzila ila ibraheema wa-ismaAAeela wa-ishaqa wayaAAqooba waal-asbati wama ootiya moosa waAAeesa wama ootiya alnnabiyyoona min rabbihim la nufarriqu bayna ahadin minhum wanahnu lahu muslimoona

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136. You say²⁰³, "We do believe in Allah. And we do believe in what has been sent down to us, and in what had been sent down upon Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the descendent Tribes. And we do believe in what had been given to Moses and Jesus, and to the Prophets from their Lord. We differentiate not between any of them. And we do submit unto Him."²⁰⁴

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203. Since the verb used here is in the plural form, the addressees of this divine command are obviously all the believers.

204. This divinely dictated Declaration of Faith, that every believer has solemnly to make, categorically proclaims the Unity of Faith. We are made to declare specifically that we do not hold any of the Prophets above the others. And yet, in practice, we do just the opposite! We hold our Prophet above the other Prophets. Just like the Jews, the Christians and the others hold their own Prophets above the others. They, of course, go to the extent of deifying their Prophets. But, alas, we are not lagging far behind them!

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 2^nd of June 2017.