Allah Is My Guide

Qur’aanic Verse 21.67:

Transliteration:

67. Offin lakum walima taAAbudoona min dooni Allahi afala taAAqiloona

Translation:

67. “Fie on you and on that which you worship besides Allah! Why do you not use your intellect?” ¹⁶

Study Note:

16. Abraham demonstrated to his people – by breaking the idols – that their so-called gods were incapable of protecting themselves, let alone protecting their worshippers. Allah has given mankind a higher level of reasoning power, especially to enable them to recognize the existence of One Super Power controlling the entire universe and everything therein. And Abraham’s people did not even use their reasoning power to understand the utter futility of their worshipping the lifeless stone idols! Abraham used his intellect to know Allah Almighty. The Qur’aan tells its followers to follow Abraham’s creed. Muslims should then use their intellect to know the Almighty. Most of them are instead wasting their time in going after the shadow of imagined miraculous deeds of dead human khwajas, dast-geers, mushkil-kushas and what not! They are being as unintelligent as those ancient people of Abraham. Isn’t Allah virtually telling them, ‘Fie on you!’ when they have now become favourite whipping boys for any Tom, Dick or Harry in this modern world?

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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

Qur’aanic Verse 16.56:

 

Transliteration:

 56. WayajAAaloona lima la yaAAlamoona naseeban mimma razaqnahum taAllahi latus-alunna AAamma kuntum taftaroona

Translation:

 56. And they set apart a portion of what We have given them for that which they do not know⁹. By Allah, you shall most certainly be questioned about that which you have been concocting!

Study Note:

9. It is a practice among polytheists to offer some material things for their deities, other than Allah, whom they worship. These deities are either fictitious things or statues of persons, dead or living. The worshippers have no invontrovertible evidences of any divine powers that are reportedly attributed to these deities. Their belief in them is based on just hearsays. The Muslims too have unfortunately fallen a prey to this shirk. They go to the graves of saints, with costly chaddars and hefty monetary donations, thinking that the saints exercise divine powers through their graves. Their thoughts and actions are utterly un-islamic, and yet they call themselves Muslims! 

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

Mohammad Shafi
Author of ‘ISLAM & INTEREST‘

Qur’aanic Verse 9.28:

Transliteration:

28. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo innama almushrikoona najasun fala yaqraboo almasjida alharama baAAda AAamihim hatha wa-in khiftum AAaylatan fasawfa yughneekumu Allahu min fadlihi in shaa inna Allaha AAaleemun hakeemun

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Translation:

28. O you who believe! The polytheists are nothing but pollution⁹. So they shall not approach the Sacred Place of Worship¹⁰ after this year. And if you fear poverty then Allah will enrich you out of His grace if He wills.¹¹ Indeed, Allah is Knowledgeable, Wise.

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Study Notes:

9. This is a strong but appropriate divine condemnation of all those who worship anyone other than Allah (or any other appropriate name He is called by), the Sole Creator of the entire universe and everything therein. Everything in the universe points to a Single Authority administering the entire show. This Single Authority, and none else, deserves to be worshipped; for, if someone else is worshipped, then that someone else could only be a created being, and it would be preposterous to worship a created being as one would worship the Creator! Such a worship of anyone other than the Creator would not only be an act of utter injustice, but it would be tentamount to perpetration of falsehood. It would be an anachronism in the True Creator’s creation. It would be nothing but pollution. It could not but pollute the human society created by that Sole Creator.

10. The Kaabah at Mecca.

11. The Kaabah was held in veneration by the Arab people even before Islam. In fact, it was a source of pecuniary benefits to Meccans from visitors from all over the Arabian Peninsula. Now if non-believers, who still constituted a great number among the Arab people, were to be banned entry to the Kaabah, it would be a financial loss to the Meccans. It is this fear that is alluded to here. And Allah promises the Meccans to enrich them by His grace. We are all witness now to the fulfillment of this divine promise and prophecy. The Arab country is not only flush with petro-money, but the Kaabah is visited now, all the year round, by millions of people from all over the world.

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

Mohammad Shafi