Extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART II:
41. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo othkuroo Allaha thikran katheeran
33:41. O you who believe!
Remember Allah much and often.
Friday, the 26th
of February 2021.
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Thursday, 25 February 2021
O Muslims - 55
Thursday, 14 January 2021
O Muslims - 49
In the Name of
Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
Extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:
119. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo ittaqoo Allaha wakoonoo maAAa alssadiqeena
9:119. O you who believe! Fear Allah
and be on the side of the righteous ones.
Friday, the
15th of January 2021.
Thursday, 5 November 2020
O Muslims - 39
In the Name of
Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
O Muslims – 39
Extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:
15. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo itha laqeetumu allatheena kafaroo zahfan fala tuwalloohumu al-adbara
8:15. O you
who believe! When you meet the suppressors of the Truth in war, turn not your
backs to them.
Friday, the 6th of
November 2020.
Friday, 25 September 2020
O Muslims - 33
In the Name of
Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
Extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:
57. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo la tattakhithoo allatheena ittakhathoo deenakum huzuwan walaAAiban mina allatheena ootoo alkitaba min qablikum waalkuffara awliyaa waittaqoo Allaha in kuntum mu/mineena
5:57. O you who believe! Do not consider
persons – from among those who were given the Book before you and from among
the suppressors of Truth – who take your religion for a mockery and fun, as
your close friends. And fear Allah if you do believe.
Friday,
the 25th of September 2020.
Friday, 18 September 2020
O Muslims - 32
In the Name of
Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
Extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:
54. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo man yartadda minkum AAan deenihi fasawfa ya/tee Allahu biqawmin yuhibbuhum wayuhibboonahu athillatin AAala almu/mineena aAAizzatin AAala alkafireena yujahidoona fee sabeeli Allahi wala yakhafoona lawmata la-imin thalika fadlu Allahi yu/teehi man yashao waAllahu wasiAAun AAaleemun
5:54. O you who
believe! If there be any from among you who turns back from his religion, then,
Allah will bring a people whom He will love and who will love Him, humble with
the believers, stern with those who suppress the Truth. They will strive in
Allah's Path and will not fear the criticism of any critic. That is Allah's
Favour which He gives to whom He wills. And Allah’s knowledge encompasses everything.
Friday,
the 18th of September 2020.
Friday, 4 September 2020
O Muslims - 30
In the Name of
Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
Extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:
11. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo othkuroo niAAmata Allahi AAalaykum ith hamma qawmun an yabsutoo ilaykum aydiyahum fakaffa aydiyahum AAankum waittaqoo Allaha waAAala Allahi falyatawakkali almu/minoona
5:11. O you who
believe! Remember Allah's Favour upon you when people had planned to raise
their hands against you, but He stayed their hands from you.8 And
fear Allah! And in Allah let the believers put their trust.
8. The reference here is obviously to events
during the time the Qur'aan was revealed. But many Muslims today may recall
instances in their own personal lives when they were miraculously saved from
attacks intended against them by others. I am aware of such instances in my own
life. Although we are guilty of disobedience to Him in many matters, Allah
still protects us sometimes so that we remember this and come back to the
blessed path of complete obedience and submission to Him, putting our complete
trust in Him.
Friday, the 4th
of September 2020.
Friday, 31 July 2020
O Muslims - 25
In the Name of
Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
144. Ya ayyuha allatheena
amanoo la tattakhithoo alkafireena awliyaa
min dooni almu/mineena atureedoona an tajAAaloo lillahi AAalaykum sultanan
mubeenan
4:144. O you who
believe! Do not take the suppressors of Truth, rather than the believers, for
close friends.75 Do you wish that you yourselves should provide for
Allah a manifest proof against you?
75. The Arabic term, which is translated here as 'close friends',
is awliya. For the comprehensive Qur'aanic meaning of wali
(singular of awliya) please refer blog post: Awliya.
Friday, the 31st
of July 2020.
Friday, 5 June 2020
O Muslims - 17
In the Name of
Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
156. Ya
ayyuha allatheena amanoo la takoonoo kaallatheena
kafaroo waqaloo li-ikhwanihim itha daraboo fee
al-ardi aw kanoo ghuzzan law kanoo AAindana ma
matoo wama qutiloo liyajAAala Allahu thalika hasratan
fee quloobihim waAllahu yuhyee wayumeetu waAllahu
bima taAAmaloona baseerun
3:156.
O you who believe! Be not like those who suppress the Truth and say of their
brothers, travelling through the earth or fighting, "If they had stayed back
with us, they would not have died or been slain", so that Allah makes it anguish in their subconscious.164 And Allah it is that gives life
and causes death. And Allah sees all that you do.
164. While the believers had come out to
fight the battle, with reference to which these Verses were revealed, there were
those suppressors of Truth who had preferred to remain back at Madina. It is
the utterance of these latter people that is quoted here in this Verse. Allah
says that the 3rd purpose for His inflicting sorrow upon sorrow on the
believers in the battlefield was to make it anguish for those incorrigible
people back at Madina, the casualties being those of their own ethnic brothers.
About the 1st and the 2nd purposes, please see Note 161 on Verse 154 hereinabove. Allah's purpose in inflicting
sorrow after sorrow in the battlefield was thus three-fold, for three different
categories of people:
1.
the believers whose Faith had entered
their subconscious,
2.
the believers whose Faith had not yet
entered their subconscious,
3. the suppressors of
Truth among the ethnic brothers of the believers.
Friday, the 5th of June 2020.
Friday, 29 May 2020
O Muslims - 16
In the Name of
Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
149. Ya
ayyuha allatheena amanoo in tuteeAAoo allatheena
kafaroo yaruddookum AAala aAAqabikum fatanqaliboo khasireena
3:149.
O you who believe! If you obey those who suppress the Truth, they will turn you
back. Then you turn back doomed!
Friday, the 29th of May 2020.
Friday, 15 May 2020
O Muslims - 14
In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
118. Ya ayyuha
allatheena amanoo la tattakhithoo bitanatan
min doonikum la ya/loonakum khabalan waddoo ma AAanittum
qad badati albaghdao min afwahihim wama tukhfee sudooruhum
akbaru qad bayyanna lakumu al-ayati in kuntum taAAqiloona
3:118. O you
who believe! Develop no intimacy with those outside your circle who leave no
stone unturned to ruin you, loving to see you suffer. Hatred spews from their
mouths, and what their hearts conceal is far worse. We have certainly made the
Signs/Verses clear to you if you could but understand.133
133. This Verse, along with the next two Verses 119 and
120, clearly spells out the description of the people who should be shunned. In
Verses 60:8 and 60:9, the Qur'aan makes it further clear that Allah does not
forbid the believers to deal justly and kindly with those who had not fought
against them because of their religion and had not driven them out of their
houses.
Friday, the 15th
of May 2020.
Friday, 3 April 2020
O Muslims - 8
In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
Excerpts from QUR’AANIC
STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:
264. Ya ayyuha
allatheena amanoo la tubtiloo sadaqatikum
bialmanni waal-atha kaallathee yunfiqu malahu
ri-aa alnnasi wala yu/minu biAllahi waalyawmi
al-akhiri famathaluhu kamathali safwanin AAalayhi turabun
faasabahu wabilun fatarakahu saldan la yaqdiroona
AAala shay-in mimma kasaboo waAllahu la
yahdee alqawma alkafireena
2:264. O you believers! Make
not your offerings of obligatory charity null and void with boastfulness/bragging
and insult, like he who spends his wealth only to show off to people and who
believes neither in Allah nor in the Last Day. His simile is like a barren rock
covered with soil; then a heavy shower of rain lashes it and leaves it bare.
Such people can do nothing with what they have earned.499 And Allah does
not guide the people who suppress the Truth!
499. Offerings of such people to needy persons is compared
here to soil covering a barren rock. Just like the soil getting washed away by
a heavy draught of rain, leaving the barren rock useless for growing any
agricultural product, the offerings of such people are useless for getting them
any reward from Allah.
Friday, the 3rd of
April 2020.
Friday, 27 March 2020
O Muslims - 7
In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
254. Ya ayyuha allatheena
amanoo anfiqoo mimma razaqnakum min qabli an ya/tiya
yawmun la bayAAun feehi wala khullatun wala shafaAAatun
waalkafiroona humu alththalimoona
2:254. O you believers! Spend
of what We have given you before the advent of the Day during which shall there
be no trade, no friendship and no intercession. And suppressors of the Truth –
those are the wrong-doers.481
·
Allah
given things – like wealth, wisdom, time – are to be made use of and not just
hoarded or wasted away.
·
Every
individual's position in the Hereafter inter alia depends on the way he uses
those Allah-given things here.
·
The
proper use of those things may make him/her eligible for entry into Paradise,
and their misuse may land him/her in Hell.
·
Evaluation
of every individual on Judgment Day shall be strictly impartial. No good man
would be able to buy a better place in the Hereafter for his friend/relative.
·
In
the Hereafter, there is no scope for any intercession – from a friend, a
relative, or even a Prophet. Beware, Muslims and Christians!
·
Those
who do not believe in all that the Verse implies are only deluding themselves
and others. And, consequentially, they are oppressing themselves and others.
Friday, the 27th
of March 2020.
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