Allah Is My Guide

Qur’aanic Verse 12.40:

 

Transliteration:

 40. Ma taAAbudoona min doonihi illa asmaan sammaytumooha antum waabaokum ma anzala Allahu biha min sultanin ini alhukmu illa lillahi amara alla taAAbudoo illa iyyahu thalika alddeenu alqayyimu walakinna akthara alnnasi la yaAAlamoona

Translation:

40. “What you worship⁶ besides Him are but fictitious things to which you and your fathers have given names. Allah has not sent down any authority for them. The absolute authority is with Allah alone. He has commanded that you shall not worship anything or anybody but Him. This is the established way of life, but most people know not.”

Study note:

6. To worship is to obey unquestioningly all commands of the authority in question. As this Verse proclaims, this authority is none other than Allah, the one and only Creator and Sustainer of the entire universe and of everything therein. But by treating the ahaadeeth to be as sacrosanct as the Qur’aanic Verses, many Muslims are guilty of contravening the dictum of this Verse. Unlike for the Qur’aan, there is no divine guarantee of genuineness for the ahaadeeth. By following and thus obeying the ahaadeeth that are contradictory to Qur’aanic teachings, the Muslims are unquestioningly obeying and thus worshipping the narrators and writers of the ahaadeeth, besides Allah Almighty.

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

Mohammad Shafi
Author of ‘Why Do I Believe In Islam‘

Qur’aanic Verse 12.2:

 

Transliteration:

 2. Inna anzalnahu qur-anan AAarabiyyan laAAallakum taAAqiloona

Translation:

 2. We have indeed revealed it as an Arabic Quran in order that you understand it.¹

Study note:

1. The Qur’aan was revealed for all the peoples of the entire world. And it was to be revealed through one human Messenger to emphasise the unity of religion for mankind. And since the All-knowing Allah had chosen an Arab to be that Messenger, the language of the divine Message had necessarily to be in Arabic. It is therefore the bounden duty of every Muslim living anywhere in the world to learn Arabic. Failure to learn it betrays a grave lack of faith in Islam on the part of the Muslims.

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