[44]. Surah Ad-Dukhan [The Smoke]: Ayat 07-09

৭. তিনি নভোমন্ডল, ভূমন্ডল ও এতদুভয়ের মধ্যেবর্তী সবকিছুর পালনকর্তা। যদি তোমাদের বিশ্বাস থাকে দেখতে পাবে। 

৮. তিনি ব্যতীত কোন উপাস্য নেই। তিনি জীবন দান করেন ও মৃত্যু দেন। তিনি তোমাদের পালনকর্তা এবং তোমাদের পূর্ববর্তী পিতৃ-পুরুষদেরও পালনকর্তা।

৯. এতদসত্ত্বেও এরা সন্দেহে পতিত হয়ে ক্রীড়া-কৌতুক করছে।  

Ayat 7. The Lord of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, if you (but) have a faith with certainty.

Ayat 8. La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He). It is He Who gives life and causes death, your Lord and the Lord of your fore-fathers.

Ayat 9. Nay! They play in doubt.

Tafseer of Surah Ad-Dukhan Ayat 7. Cf. 2:4. They cannot fully realize what a tremendous thing it is that Allah is their own Lord and Cherisher (next verse), as He is the Lord and Cherisher of the whole Universe, until they firmly believe-until their Faith amounts to a certainty, secure and unshakable. Ayat 8. There is no god but He: It is He Who gives life and gives death, - The Lord and Cherisher to you and your earliest ancestors. 9. Yet they play about in doubt. The story is mainly about the Quraysh. But there is a wider meaning behind it, applicable to men generally, and at all times. As a body the Quraysh, especially in the earlier stages of the preaching of Islam, before they started persecution, received the Message with more amusement than hatred. They played about with it, and expressed doubts about it, whereas the Preacher was most earnest about it, with all his heart and soul in it, as he loved his people and wished to save them from their wickedness and folly.

Hazrat Shaddad bin Aus (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah  [SAWW](PBUH) said, "A wise man is the one who calls himself to account (and refrains from doing evil deeds) and does noble deeds to benefit him after death; and the foolish person is the one who subdues himself to his temptations and desires and seeks from Allah the fulfillment of his vain desires". [At-Tirmidhi Hadith # 2459]  

Lesson: as mentioned above in Surah Ad-Dukhan Ayat 9. Nay! They play in doubt” This Hadith highlights the importance of the accountability of one's self. Mere desires which are not coupled with practical efforts are of no avail because Allah grants reward on good deeds and not on yearnings and desires which are not supported by noble actions.