Allah Is My Guide

Qur’aanic Verse 22.8:

Transliteration:

8. Wamina alnnasi man yujadilu fee Allahi bighayri AAilmin wala hudan wala kitabin muneerin

Translation:

8. And among mankind there is such a one as disputes about Allah without knowledge, without guidance and without an enlightening book.⁴

Study Note:

4. In fact, an overwhelming majority among mankind have wrong notions about Allah. Some say He has a begotten son. Some say He has a family. Some say He is not One, but that the universe is a united kingdom of many gods. And some say there is no god at all! All such notions are man-invented, and therefore sacrilegiously erroneous. Since man himself is a creature, it does not lie within his power to define his Creator. He (man) can have the correct knowledge about his Creator only from the Creator Himself – from the Messages that He has sent down for mankind. And the Qur’aan is the last such Message that has superseded all preceding Ones. So mankind has necessarily to follow the Qur’aan to know the correct attributes of the Creator.

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Qur’aanic Verse 22.5:

Transliteration:

5. Ya ayyuha alnnasu in kuntum fee raybin mina albaAAthi fa-inna khalaqnakum min turabin thumma min nutfatin thumma min AAalaqatin thumma min mudghatin mukhallaqatin waghayri mukhallaqatin linubayyina lakum wanuqirru fee al-arhami ma nashao ila ajalin musamman thumma nukhrijukum tiflan thumma litablughoo ashuddakum waminkum man yutawaffa waminkum man yuraddu ila arthali alAAumuri likayla yaAAlama min baAAdi AAilmin shay-an watara al-arda hamidatan fa-itha anzalna AAalayha almaa ihtazzat warabat waanbatat min kulli zawjin baheejin

Translation:

5. O mankind! If you are in doubt about the Resurrection, then – to make things clear to you – We did indeed create you from dust, then from a speck of human sperm, then from a leech-like clinging clot of curdled blood, then from a chewed-like lump of flesh (foetus) with formed and unformed parts. And We facilitate what We will in the wombs till an appointed time, and then We bring you out as babies. Then We facilitate conditions for you to attain to your maturity. And of you is he who is made to die, and of you is he who is reduced to the worst part of life (very old age), so that he does not remember anything of the knowledge he had acquired earlier. And you see the earth barren, but when We send down the water on it, it stirs to life and flourishes and produces every kind of a beautiful spouse of herbage.^{2, 3}

Study Notes:

2. When Allah Almighty is quite capable of bringing about all these things, how could mankind entertain doubts about His capability to resurrect life in the Hereafter?

 3. And the different stages of embryonic development described so accurately in this Verse is yet another sign that the Qur’aan is indeed a revelation from the Creator. Man discovered these stages scientifically only centuries later. [Source]

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Qur’aanic Verse 22.1:

Transliteration:

1. Ya ayyuha alnnasu ittaqoo rabbakum inna zalzalata alssaAAati shay-on AAatheemun

Translation:

1. O people! Fear your Lord. Indeed, the cataclysm of the Hour¹ is a trmendous thing.

Study Note:

1. While rendering Verse 21.49 in English, I have given my understanding* of this Qur’aanic term (alssaAAati). It will indeed herald a completely different experience for mankind from their lives in this world. As long as they lived in this world, there was a chance for them to improve their prospect in the Hereafter; but the Hour marked the cut-off for that chance.

*(marking the end of this world and heralding the Day of Judgment in the Hereafter) 

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Qur’aanic Verse 21.107:

Transliteration:

107. Wama arsalnaka illa rahmatan lilAAalameena

Translation:

107. And We have hot sent you but as a mercy to the worlds.³⁶

Study Note:

36. The 2^nd person singular pronoun used here is obviously for the Prophet (peace on him). Now, why has he been described as a mercy for the worlds? As for the interpretation of ‘worlds’ (aalameen), please see study note 5 under Verse 1.2. We may therefore infer that the Prophet was sent as a mercy for every individual human life. In what sense was he a mercy? He was Allah’s mercy in the sense that he conveyed to us the Creator’s Own Manual (the Qur’aan) for right conduct of human life. Without this Manual, every man/woman would be just groping in the dark, not knowing what path to follow in this labyrinthine world. And how does one know that the Qur’aanic path is the right path? The distinguishing feature is: the Qur’aan contains no contradictions, and it is inimitable. It has stood this test for over 1400 years now.

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Qur’aanic Verses 21.92 & 21.93:

Transliterations:

92. Inna hathihi ommatukum ommatan wahidatan waana rabbukum faoAAbudooni

93. WataqattaAAoo amrahum baynahum kullun ilayna rajiAAoona

Translations:

92. Indeed this community of yours³⁰ is one community, and I am your Lord! So worship Me.

93 And they tore apart their (common) duty (of worshipping the sole Creator) among themselves. All shall return to Us.³¹

Study Notes:

30. I.e. the community that submits to Allah Almighty (refer Verse 2.128). Its members may be living in any part of the world, but they all belong to the same single community as declared here by the Creator Himself.

31. The Muslims are indeed divided now among themselves over their common ground of worshipping the Creator. Satan has succeeded in duping them with the idea that they need the intercession of the Prophet and the saints to take them to Jannah. The satanic deception shall be made clear to them on the Day of Judgment in the Hereafter.

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Mohammad Shafi
Author of Islamic Books

Qur’aanic Verse 21.91:

Transliteration:

91. Waallatee ahsanat farjaha fanafakhna feeha min roohina wajaAAalnaha waibnaha ayatan lilAAalameena

Translation:

91. And the lady (Mary) – who guarded her chastity, and We breathed into her of Our spirit²⁸ and We made her and her son a sign for the worlds.²⁹

Study Notes:

28. The Qur’aan uses this expression for activation of every human life right from Adam (Verses 32.7 to 32.9). With our advanced knowledge of embryonic growth, we may now say that this activation takes place, at about the end of the 3^rd week of conception, when the rudimentary heart of the tiny speck of life inside a womb starts beating. So this Qur’aanic expression should not be misconstrued to substantiate the Christians’ preposterous claim that Jesus was son of God. 

29. Mary and her son Jesus constituted a sign that Allah Almighty can do anything. HE created Adam without His now normal tools of a man and a woman. HE created Eve without the tool of a woman. And He created Jesus without the tool of a man.

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Mohammad Shafi
Author of Islamic Books

Qur’aanic Verse 21.83:

Transliteration:

83. Waayyooba ith nada rabbahu annee massaniya alddurru waanta arhamu alrrahimeena

Translation:

83. And Job²² – as he cried to his Lord, “A calamity indeed it is that has afflicted me! And You are the most Merciful.”

Study Note:

22.  Job (Ayyub) was one of the numerous Prophets of Allah. Not much has been stated about him in the Qur’aan except for what we find in these 2 Verses (83 & 84) here and in Verses 38.41 to 38.44. And from the information given, we see that Job was the very epitome of the virtue of patience. He had suffered much – in wealth, health and family – perhaps more than what any other person has ever suffered. But he never lost his faith in Allah. And in the end he got back what he had lost. The Lord was just preparing him to be set up as patience exemplified.

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Mohammad Shafi
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Qur’aanic Verse 21.80:

Transliteration:

80. WaAAallamnahu sanAAata laboosin lakum lituhsinakum min ba/sikum fahal antum shakiroona

Translation:

80. And We taught him (David) how to make for you armours that fortify you in your battles. Are you then grateful? ²¹

Study Note:

21. Like the armours inspired to David in the ancient past, every innovation that has facilitated the ever-increasing ease and convenience in any field of human activity is inspired by Allah Almighty, the real Innovator of all things. HE had inspired David. HE had inspired a number of Muslims to invent many things that heralded the renaissance of the modern age. And since the Muslims ungratefully consigned the Qur’aan for just ritual reading for occasions like death anniversaries etc., he inspired non-Muslims to make the innovations. But all the innovations are in fact His! But man, in his undeserved arrogance, thinks that it is he who has done it all by dint of his brilliant intellect. He forgets that there was a time when he was nothing. He forgets that his life started as an infinitesimal speck of matter. He forgets that it was not his brilliant brain that fashioned him (including his brain to which he gives credit for all the innovations). He is utterly and shamelessly ungrateful to his Unseen Maker.

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Qur’aanic Verse 21.74:

Transliteration:

74. Walootan ataynahu hukman waAAilman wanajjaynahu mina alqaryati allatee kanat taAAmalu alkhaba-itha innahum kanoo qawma saw-in fasiqeena

Translation:

74. And Lot – We gave him wisdom and knowledge. And We delivered him from the town that did bad things. They were indeed a wicked, transgressing people (indulging in the sin of homosexuality).¹⁸

Study Note:

18. The Qur’aan unequivocally labels homosexuality a sin. But the modern man disagrees! He thinks he is wiser than his Creator.

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Mohammad Shafi
Author of Islamic Books

Qur’aanic Verse 21.71:

Transliteration:

71. Wanajjaynahu walootan ila al-ardi allatee barakna feeha lilAAalameena

Translation:

71. And We saved him and Lot leading them to the land in which We had placed Our blessings for all.¹⁷

Study Note:

17. The other Verses (7.137, 17.1, 21.81, 34.18) mentioning the land being divinely blessed do indicate that it is Palestine and the places around, once ruled over by King Solomon. This area had been the bone of contention for Mulims and the Christians during the Crusades earlier. And now it is the bone of contention between the Muslims and the Jews. The Qur’aan tells us that it is a blessed land. The blessings were to be seen only during Solomon’s rein. The land is still potentially blessed; but the blessings are frittered away by the intransigent and warring people, who fail to abide by divine law.

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The above is extracted from yet-to-be-published Qur’aanic Studies - Volume XXXIII. It will be published, in due course, inshaAllah on the website INVITATION TO SALVATION, in continuation of Volumes I to XXXII already published and freely available thereon.

Mohammad Shafi
Author of Islamic Books