Allah Is My Guide

Qur’aanic Verse 16.65:

 

Transliteration:

 65. WaAllahu anzala mina alssama-i maan faahya bihi al-arda baAAda mawtiha inna fee thalika laayatan liqawmin yasmaAAoona

Translation:

 65. And Allah it is Who sends down water from the sky and therewith gives life to the earth after its death. There is indeed a sign¹² in this for people who listen.

Study Note:

12. The life-reviving rain is one of the innumerable signs of the existence of the Creator Who has made adequate provisions for continuance of life on earth. The earth’s revival after rains is a sign also that the Creator can likewise resurrect mankind after it dies out entirely. Some other signs are mentioned in Verses 66 to 72 below. Such signs are mentioned elsewhere too in the Qur’aan.

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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 14.9:

 

Transliteration:

 9. Alam ya/tikum nabao allatheena min qablikum qawmi noohin waAAadin wathamooda waallatheena min baAAdihim la yaAAlamuhum illa Allahu jaat-hum rusuluhum bialbayyinati faraddoo aydiyahum fee afwahihim waqaloo inna kafarna bima orsiltum bihi wa-inna lafee shakkin mimma tadAAoonana ilayhi mureebun

Translation:

 9. Have you not heard of those before you - of the people of Noah and Aad and Samood, and those after them? None knows them but Allah. Their Messengers come to them with clear signs. And they thrust their hands into their mouths in astonishment while witnessing those signs, but said, “We do not believe in the Message that you are sent with, and we are indeed utterly in doubt about what you invite us to.”³

Study Note:

3. Those ancient peoples were astonished to see the miraculous signs Allah’s Messengers had brought to them, and yet they did not believe in the divine Message they had brought! And today’s modern peoples are no better. They too refuse to believe in the divine Message given to them through the last Prophet, even when He has opened to them a vast reservoir of His infinite knowledge of innumerable miraculous happenings, day in and day out, throughout the universe. Glimpses of these miraculous happenings are shown, inter alia, in TV channels like Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Animal Planet etc. They dismiss these discoveries as just wonderful nature, but refuse to believe in any Intelligent Creator behind their creation.

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

Mohammad Shafi
Author of ‘ISLAM & INTEREST‘

Qur’aanic Verse:

 

Transliteration:

 105. Wakaayyin min ayatin fee alssamawati waal-ardi yamurroona AAalayha wahum AAanha muAAridoona

Translation:

 105. And how many a sign, in the heavens and the earth, do they pass by? And yet they turn aside from it!²¹

Study Note:

21. The very tips of our fingers and every thing, little or big, around us in this world and in the unimaginably vast universe over us provide irrefutable signs of the existence of an Unseen, but All powerful, Being, Who can do and undo anything. And there are signs that provide proof that the Qur’aan is a Message of Guidance from that Being to the entire mankind. It is a pity that most of mankind remains blind to these signs galore.

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

Mohammad Shafi
Author of ‘ISLAM & INTEREST‘