Wednesday, July 13, 2016

[52] Surah At-Tur [The Mount]: Ayat 001-008


১. কসম তূরপর্বতের,  
২. এবং লিখিত কিতাবের
৩. প্রশস্ত পত্রে,
৪. কসম বায়তুল-মামুর তথা আবাদ গৃহের,
৫. এবং সমুন্নত ছাদের
৬. এবং উত্তাল সমুদ্রের,
৭. আপনার পালনকর্তার শাস্তি অবশ্যম্ভাবী
৮. তা কেউ প্রতিরোধ করতে পারবে না।        

Ayat 1. By the Mount;  
Ayat 2. And by the Book Inscribed.  
Ayat 3. In parchment unrolled.
Ayat 4. And by the Bait-ul-Ma'mur (the house over the heavens parable to the Kab’ah at Makkah, continuously visited by the angels);
Ayat 5. And by the roof raised high (i.e. the heaven).  
Ayat 6. And by the sea kept filled (or it will be fire kindled on the Day of Resurrection).
Ayat 7. Verily, the Torment of your Lord will surely come to pass, 
Ayat 8. There is none that can avert it;

Tafseer of Surah At-Tur (The Mount) Ayat 01 to 08. By the Mount (of Revelation); The adjuration is by five things which we shall presently explain. An appeal is made to these five Signs in verses 1 to 6, and the certainty of future events is asserted in the most emphatic terms in verses 7 to 28, in three parts, viz., the coming of judgment and the passing away of this phenomenal world (verses 7- 10); the future ill consequences of ill-deeds done (verses 11-16); and future attainment of bliss and complete realization of Allah's love and mercy (verses 17-28). 2. By a Decree inscribed See last note. The five Signs to which appeal is made are: (1) the Mount (of Revelation), (verse 1; (2) the Decree Inscribed, verses 2-3; (3) The Much frequented Fane, verse 4; (4) the Canopy Raised High, verse 5; and (5) the Ocean filled with Swell, verse 6. Let us examine these in detail. Each of them has a figurative and a mystic meaning. (1) The Mount is the sublime world of Revelation. In the case of Moses it is typified by Mount Sinai: Cf. 95:2, where it is mentioned in juxtaposition to the sacred territory of Makkah, 95:3. In the case of Jesus it is the Mount of Olives: Cf. 95:1, and also Matt. 24:3-51, where Jesus made his striking pronouncement about the Judgment to come. In the case of Muhammad, it is the Mountain of Light, where the divine inspiration made him one with the spiritual world: Cf. C 31, and n. 11 (2). The Decree Inscribed is Allah's Eternal Decree. When it becomes Revelation to man, it is further described as "inscribed", reduced to writing; and as it is made clear to the intelligence of man, it is further described as "in a scroll unfolded", that is, spread out so that everyone who has the will can seek its guidance. 3. In a Scroll unfolded; 4. By the much-frequented Fane; See the last two notes. (3) "The much-frequented Fane" (or House) is usually understood to mean the Kab’ah, but in view of the parallelism noted in the last note, it may be taken generally to mean any Temple or House of Worship dedicated to the true God. It would then include the Tabernacle of the Israelites in the wilderness, the Temple of Solomon, the Temple in which Jesus worshipped, and the Kab’ah which the Prophet purified and rededicated to true worship. These would be only illustrations. Other concrete places of worship would be included, and in a more abstract meaning, the heart of man, which craves, with burning desire, to find and worship Allah. The Fane is "much frequented" as there is a universal desire in the heart of man to worship Allah, and his sacred Temples draw large crowds of devotees. 5. By the Canopy Raised High; (4) "The Canopy Raised High" is the canopy of heaven, to whose height or sublimity no limit can be assigned by the mind of man. It is Nature's Temple, in which all Creation worships Allah-the Symbol in which the material and the visible merges into the spiritual and the intuitional. 6. And by the Ocean filled with Swell; (5) The Ocean—the vast, limitless, all encircling Ocean—is the material symbol of the universal, unlimited, comprehensive nature of the invisible spiritual world. It is expressed to be masjur, full of a mighty swell, boiling over, poured forth all over the earth, as if overwhelming all landmarks; Cf. 81:6-a fitting description of the final disappearance of our temporal world in the supreme establishment of the Reality behind it. 5042 This completes the five Signs or Symbols by which man may know for certain of the Judgment to come. Note that they are in a descending order—the highest, or most remote from man's consciousness, being mentioned first, and that nearest to man's consciousness being mentioned last. The truth of Revelation; its embodiment in a Prophet's Message given in human language; the universal appeal of divine worship; the starry world above; and the encircling Ocean, full of life and motion below—all are evidences that the Day of Allah will finally come, and nothing can avert it. (R). 7. Verily, the Doom of thy Lord will indeed come to pass;- 8. There is none can avert it. 

Hazrat Abu Dharr (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah image001.jpg [SAWW](PBUH) said, "I see what you do not see and I hear what you do not hear; heaven has squeaked, and it has right to do so. By Him, in Whose Hand my soul is, there is not a space of four fingers in which there is not an angel who is prostrating his forehead before Allah, the Exalted. By Allah, if you knew what I know, you would laugh little, weep much, and you would not enjoy women in beds, but would go out to the open space beseeching Allah".  [At-Tirmidhi Hadith # 2312] 

Lesson: as mentioned above in Surah At-Tur Ayat 4. And by the Bait-ul-Ma'mur (the house over the heavens parable to the Kab’ah at Makkah, continuously visited by the angels);
1. This Hadith also highlights the importance of fear of Allah because the more awareness a Muslim has of the Majesty and Magnificence of Allah, the greater shall be the terror in his heart for His punishment and hope of His Mercy. With this state of mind, he will perform greater acts of obedience and abstain more rigidly from sins.
2. The Hadith also mentions the heaven teeming with angels who are all the time prostrating before Allah in worship. When this is the condition of the angels, who do not slack for a moment in the obedience of Allah, how important it is for man to worship Him because he is all the time violating commands of Allah. It is, therefore, incumbent on man to obey Allah and always seek His Help and Refuge.  

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