38-40 Cursory Contents of Surah Saad Al Zumar Ghafir Al Mu'min

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09 Cursory Contents of Surah Al Taubah

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Hadith Qudsi 15 I am as My servant thinks I am

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Hadith Qudsi 15:

On the authority of Abu Harayrah (may Allah [The Most High] be pleased with him), who said that the Prophet said: Allah the Almighty said: 

I am as My servant thinks I am (1). 

I am with him when he makes mention of Me. 

If he makes mention of Me to himself, 

I make mention of him to Myself; 

and if he makes mention of Me in an assembly, 

I make mention of him in an assemble better than it. 

And if he draws near to Me an arm's length, 

I draw near to him a fathom's length. 

And if he comes to Me walking, 

I go to him at speed. 

(1) Another possible rendering of the Arabic is: "I am as My servant expects Me to be". The meaning is that forgiveness and acceptance of repentance by the Almighty is subject to His servant truly believing that He is forgiving and merciful. However, not to accompany such belief with right action would be to mock the Almighty. 

It was related by al-Buhkari (also by Muslim, at-Tirmidhi and Ibn-Majah).

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To Be Continued....

Understanding SŪRAH AL-KAHF 18:54-59 TRANSLATION & COMMENTARY

Simple translation:

“Thus, indeed, have We given in this Qur'an many facets to every kind of lesson (designed) for (the benefit of) mankind. However, man is, above all else, always given to contention:”                                                         

(18:54)

Commentary:

This warning of the Qur’an has been delivered in a context in which the sacred book has demonstrated, time and again, amazing credentials that amply confirm its divine status. But stubbornness, arrogance, pride, contentiousness and a host of other human failings intervene to cause men to reject the Qur’an. Instead of humble submission and earnest endeavor in order to understand and recognize Truth, man is usually and stubbornly argumentative as he rejects, again and again, the claim of the Qur’an to be the revealed word of the God of Abraham, i.e., Nabi Ibrahim (‘alaihi al-Salam).

Simple translation:

“For what is there to keep people from attaining to faith now that guidance has come unto them, and from asking their Lord-God to forgive them their sins - unless it be that they repeat the mistakes of those who came before them, or that they would only change when the punishment is brought right in front of them?”           

(18:55)

Explanatory translation:

“For what is there to keep people from attaining to faith now that (complete and uncorrupted) guidance has come unto them (in this Qur’an), and from asking their Lord-God to forgive them their sins - unless it be that they (constantly) repeat the mistakes of those who came before them, or that they would only change when the (Divine) punishment (i.e., the fire of hell) is brought right in front of them?”

Commentary:

A stubborn attachment to tradition in defiance of reason and Truth is one of the basic causes that lead people to their doom. 

The other basic cause is, of course, blindness. When people are themselves capable of ‘seeing’ the reality of things, and can hence recognize ‘appearance’ to be different from ‘reality’, then, because ‘seeing is believing’, they change and avert their doom. But there is a world of difference between those who truly believe, and can hence ‘see’ reality, and those who do not believe at all, or do not truly believe and who, as a consequence, would ‘see’ reality only at that time when it would be too late to change and to avert doom.   

Simple translation:

“But We send (Our) message-bearers (i.e., the Prophets) only as heralds of glad tidings and to warn – whereas those who are bent on denying the truth contend (against them) with fallacious arguments, so as to thereby render the truth void, and to make My messages and warnings a target of their mockery.”           

(18:56)

Commentary:

An essentially godless world rejects the Truth sent down with the Prophets, and taught by the rightly-guided scholars of Islam while attacking that Truth with false arguments and while arguing in a manner that is hostile, mocking and condescending! 

Believers who faithfully struggle to preserve faith become the targets of a process of intense demonization and mockery. Newspapers and television stations, owned and controlled by the predatory elite, are used to wage war on Islam and to subject the rightly-guided scholars of Islam in particular to vicious attacks and even to character assassination. 

Simple translation:

“And who could exceed the wickedness of he to whom his Lord-God’s messages are conveyed, and who thereupon turns away from them, forgetting all his accumulated (evil) deeds? Behold, over their hearts have We laid veils that prevent them from grasping the truths (revealed in this Qur’an), and into their ears, deafness; and though you may call them to the (true) guidance (of this Qur’an), they will never embrace it.”      

(18:57) 

Commentary:

Believers (who read this book) ought to summon the insight with which to recognize such ‘hopeless people’ who reject the guidance as presented by the rightly guided scholars of Islam and humble servants of Allah. This becomes an absolute imperative when such people, who usually belong to the ‘predatory’ elite, hijack Muslim communities and proceed through devious, deceitful and cunning means, including the use of a checkbook, to have themselves installed as leaders of the Muslim community. Invariably they are a people who identify with, and enthusiastically support, the war on Islam being waged by today’s European Jewish-Christian alliance that rules the world. Although they proclaim themselves to be leaders of the Muslims they have effectively left Islam and have joined, instead, that Jewish Christian ruling alliance. Consider the following verse of the Qur’an:

“Oh you who believe (in this Qur’an) do not take the Jews and the Christians as (your) friends, helpers, protectors or allies (at that time when) they become friends, allies, etc., of each other – and whoever of you maintains friendship, alliance, etc., with them becomes, verily, one of them; behold, Allah does not guide such evildoers.”

(Qur’an, al-Maidah, 5:51) 

Simple translation:

“But your Lord-God is the Truly-Forgiving One, limitless in His grace. Were He to take them (at once) to task for whatever (wrong) they commit, He would indeed bring about their speedy punishment (then and there): but nay, they have a time limit beyond which they shall find no redemption –”           

(18:58)

Commentary:

Such hopeless people who wage war on Islam, and on the rightly guided scholars of Islam, are a people who strut  about the stage of the world for but a moment. They have a precise time limit – at the end of which they are consigned to the garbage bin of history. But Allah Most Kind is ever Merciful, and if they were to turn to Him in repentance before the end of their rope is reached, and desist from waging war on Islam and on the rightly guided scholars of Islam, they would find Him full of Mercy.

Simple translation:

“as (was the case with all) those communities that We destroyed when they went on and on doing wrong: for We had set  a time-limit for their destruction.”                                                                                            

(18:59)

Commentary:

Those godless people who strutted arrogantly over the stage of the world in times gone by, and who oppressed the believers, are today totally forgotten, or have been reduced to footnotes on the pages of history. In the case of those who persecuted the young believing men in this Surah, and ultimately forced them to choose between fleeing to a cave and submitting to oppression, Surah al-Kahf informs us that their reign of terror lasted for just three hundred years.

That story has delivered an ominous warning to the Jewish-Christian European alliance that today controls power in the world and uses that power to wage war on Islam on behalf of the Euro-Jewish State of Israel, that their reign of terror would be as fleeting as that described in this Surah.*

(*In fact this writer is confident that it cannot last more than, perhaps, another fifty years.)

Source: SŪRAH AL-KAHF ARABIC TEXT - TRANSLATION

To Be Continued....

Surah Kahf Unveiling The End Time By Sheikh Imran Hosein