Thursday, December 27, 2012

[19].Surah Maryam [Mary]: Ayat 88-93



Ayat 88. And they say: "The Most Beneficent (Allah) has begotten a son (or offspring or children) [as the Jews say: 'Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allah, and the Christians say that He has begotten a son ['Iesâ (Christ)], and the pagan Arabs say that He has begotten daughters (angels, etc.)]."
Ayat 89. Indeed you have brought forth (said) a terrible evil thing.
Ayat 90. Whereby the heavens are almost torn, and the earth is split asunder, and the mountains fall in ruins,
Ayat 91. That they ascribe a son (or offspring or children) to the Most Beneficent (Allah).
Ayat 92. But it is not suitable for (the Majesty of) the Most Beneficent (Allah) that He should beget a son (or offspring or children).
Ayat 93. There is none in the heavens and the earth but comes unto the Most Beneficent (Allah) as a slave.
[Tafseer] They say: "((Allah)) Most Gracious has begotten a son!" Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous! The belief in Allah begetting a son is not a question of words or of speculative thought. It is a stupendous blasphemy against Allah. It lowers Allah to the level of an animal. If combined with the doctrine of vicarious atonement, it amounts to a negation of Allah's justice and man's personal responsibility. It is destructive of all moral and spiritual order, and is condemned in the strongest possible terms. At it the skies are ready to burst, the earth to split asunder, and the mountains to fall down in utter ruin, That they should invoke a son for ((Allah)) Most Gracious. For it is not consonant with the majesty of ((Allah)Most Gracious that He should beget a son. This basic principle was laid down early in the argument (19:35). It was illustrated by a reference to the personal history of many messengers, including Jesus himself, who behaved justly as men to their kith and kin and humbly served Allah. The evil results of such superstitions were pointed out in the case of many previous generations which went to their ruin by dishonoring Allah. And the argument is now rounded off towards the close of the Surah. Not one of the beings in the heavens and the earth but must come to ((Allah)) Most Gracious as a servant. 

Hazrat Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah [SAWW](PBUH) said, "Seek refuge in Allah against the turmoil's, attacks of misfortunes, and evil of judgment and joys of the enemies.'' 
[Al-Bukhari Book 8,Chapter 75, Hadith # 358] 
Lesson : as mentioned above in Surah Maryam Ayat 89."Indeed you have brought forth (said) a terrible evil thing" The trouble of a trial which is unbearable for a person and from which he does not have the power to rid himself is called (juhd al-bala'), translated here as `turmoil's. Some people are of the opinion that it is synonymous with poverty combined with abundant children. But Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar is of the view that it is only one of the several kinds of "Troubles of a Trial.'' "Ash-Shaqa' is the opposite of good fortune, that is, to pray for protection from misfortune. No Decision of Allah is wrong but some of His Decisions may be harmful for certain people while others are beneficial for them. This means that their goodness or badness is related to persons. What it signifies is that one should pray to Allah to keep one safe from such decisions which are harmful for him. "Shamatat'' the pleasure that one's enemy feels on one's trouble. In other words, it is prayed that Allah may protect one from any such trouble which is pleasing to one's enemy, because when a person is in trouble, his enemies feel pleasure over it. In this Hadith, one sentence was added by Abu Sufyan and during his old age he did not remember which one it was. But we learn from other Ahadith that it was "the pleasure of enemies''. (Ibn Allan). This Hadith also shows the honesty and integrity of the narrators of Ahadith. They were honest to the extent that if a few words of supplication were added to a Hadith by its narrators, they would point it out. Some scholars have regarded these words an addition in the Hadith by its narrator, who is otherwise reliable, but it is not a problem of "addition of authority'' because in that case, the addition is the saying of the Prophet (PBUH) which is mentioned by one narrator and omitted by another. But here it is quite different as the narrator of the Hadith himself is pointing out the addition made by him. Such additional words are technically called "Mudraj''

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