Wednesday, February 20, 2013

[21].Al-Anbiya' [The Prophets]: Ayat 1-2



Ayat 1. Draws near for mankind their reckoning, while they turn away in heedlessness.
Ayat 2. Comes not unto them an admonition (a chapter of the Qur'an) from their Lord as a recent revelation but they listen to it while they play, 
[Tafseer] Surah Al-Anbiya' which is all Meccan and consists of 112 verses, Closer and closer to mankind comes their Reckoning: yet they heed not and they turn away. Every minute sees them nearer to their doom, and yet they are sadly heedless, and even actively turn away from the Message that would save them. Never comes (aught) to them of a renewed Message from their Lord, but they listen to it as in jest,- In each age, when the Message of Allah is renewed, the very people who should have known better and welcomed the renewal and the sweeping away of human cobwebs, either receive it with amused self-superiority, which later turns into active hostility, or with careless indifference.
Hazrat Abu Musa Al-Ash'ari (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah [SAWW](PBUH) said, "The similitude of one who remembers his Rubb and one who does not remember Him, is like that of the living and the dead.'' 
[Muslim Book 04, Chapter 121, Hadith # 1706] 
Lesson : as mentioned above in Surah Al-Anbiya' Ayat 01."while they turn away in heedlessness" Lack of remembrance of Allah is akin to death. When a person dies, he is unable to do anything. Similarly, a person who does not remember Allah goes so far from Him that he cannot do anything which can benefit him.   

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