Tuesday, September 24, 2013

[25].Surah Al-Furqan [The Criterion]: Ayat 49-50


৪৯. তদ্দ্বারা মৃত ভূভাগকে সঞ্জীবিত করার জন্যে এবং আমার সৃষ্ট জীবজন্তু ও অনেক মানুষের তৃষ্ণা নিবারণের জন্যে
৫০. এবং আমি তা তাদের মধ্যে বিভিন্নভাবে বিতরণ করি, যাতে তারা স্মরণ করেকিন্তু অধিকাংশ লোক অকৃতজ্ঞতা ছাড়া কিছুই করে না 
 
Ayat 49. That Allah may give life thereby to a dead land, and Allah give to drink thereof many of the cattle and men that Allah created.
Ayat 50. And indeed Allah distributed it (the great knowledge Al-Quran as rain water) amongst them in order that they may remember the Grace of Allah, but most men refuse (or deny the Truth or Faith of Quran and its Ayats) and accept nothing but disbelief or ingratitude. 

[Tafseer] of Ayat 49. That with it Allah may give life to a dead land, and slake the thirst of things Allah created, cattle and men in great numbers. The whole cycle of water-sea, clouds, rain or hail or snow, rivers, and sea again-is a remarkable illustration of the processes of nature making Allah's providence visible to us. The salts of the sea sanitize and purify all the filth that pours into it. Water action, in the form of rain, frost, glaciers, rivers, lakes, etc., is responsible for the building up and configuration of the crust of the earth, and is the chief agent in physical geography. A parched desert quickly comes to life under the action of water. All drinking water, whether derived from rivers, canals, lakes, reservoirs, springs, wells, or waterworks of any kind, are ultimately traceable to rain. The connection of life with water is intimate. The physical basis of life itself, protoplasm, is, in great part, water: see 25:54 below. Tafseer of Ayat 50. And Allah distributed the water and the knowledge of Al-Quran amongst them, in order that they may celebrate (our) praises, but most men are averse (to aught) but (rank) ingratitude. The water is distributed all over the world, in order that all life may receive its support, according to its needs. In 25:48-50, we have the argument of contrasts stated in another way. Water is life, and is made available to sustain life all over the world: this is a physical fact which all can see. But water is also the symbol of spiritual life, whose sustaining principle is the Will of Allah as made known to us through Revelation. It sometimes comes to us in our inward or spiritual storms. Many violent unsettlements of the spirit are but heralds of the refreshing showers of spiritual understanding mat come in their wake. They purify our souls, and produce spiritual Life even where there was a parched spiritual desert before. They continue to sustain us in our normal spiritual Life out of the reservoirs of Allah's Revelation, which are open to all, and well-distributed in time and space. The universality of distribution is again referred to in the following verse. 3108 In contrast to Allah's abounding Mercy is man's base ingratitude: another symbolic contrast between Light and Darkness, or Water and Drought.  

Hazrat Abu Musa (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah [SAWW](PBUH) said, "The similitude of guidance and knowledge with which Allah has sent me is like a rain which has fallen on some ground. A fertile part of earth has absorbed water and brought forth much grass and herbs. Another part, which is solid, held the water and Allah benefits men thereby, who drank and gave others to drink, and used it for irrigation. But some of it has fallen on a portion of sandy land which neither retains the water nor produces herbage. Such is the likeness of the man who understands the religion of Allah and who gets benefit of what Allah has sent me with; he learns and teaches others. It is also the likeness of the man who neither raises his head on that account (meaning he does not benefit from what the Prophet [SAWW](PBUH) was sent with) nor accepts Allah's Guidance with which I am sent".
[Al-Bukhari Book 01,Chapter 03, Hadith # 079] 
 
Lesson : as mentioned above in Surah Al-Furqan Ayat 49."Allah may give life thereby to a dead land" In this Hadith the guidance and knowledge which was sent to mankind through the Prophet (PBUH) is compared to the rain which is beneficial, because this knowledge resuscitates the dead hearts as does the rain to a barren land. One who makes use of this knowledge is likened to a good soil, and one who acquires this knowledge and imparts it to others but does not put it into practice is considered akin to a hard land which holds water and other people utilize it. A person who neither learns it nor acts upon it is like a desolate land which neither holds water nor produces anything. Such a person is the worst of all because he neither himself benefits from it nor lets others make use of it. This Hadith induces one to acquire knowledge, impart it to others, put it into actual practice and warns people from neglecting this duty.

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