QURAN CHAPTER - 41
Fussilat - Explained in Detail
Revealed - Meccan
Ruku - 6
Ayat - 54
Theme - This Surah is sent down by Allah in response to what Utbah said (the motive of Prophet's invitation must either be the desire to obtain wealth and political power, or, God forbid, he had lost his reason), no attention whatever was paid to the absurd proposals that he had made to the Holy Prophet.
- In the first case, he wanted to make a bargain with the Holy Prophet; in the second, he was insulting him when he said that the Quraish chiefs would have been cured of his madness at their own expense.
- They had given a clear notice to the Holy Prophet to the effect: "You may continue your mission of inviting the people to yourself, but we would go on opposing you as hard as we can to frustrate your mission."
- For this object they had devised the following plan: "Whenever the Holy Prophet or a follower of his would try to recite the Quran before the people, they would at once raise such a hue and cry that no one could bear anything."
Following has been said in answer to this deaf and blind opposition:
(1) The Quran is most certainly the Word of God, which He has sent down in Arabic. The ignorant people do not find any light of knowledge in the truths that have been presented in it plainly and clearly, but the people of understanding are seeing this light as well as benefiting by it.
(2) If you have put coverings on your hearts and have made yourselves deaf, it is none of the Prophet's job to make the one hear who does not want to hear, and the one who does not want to understand understand forcibly. He is a man like you; he can make only those to hear and understand, who are inclined to hear and understand.
(3) Whether you close down your eyes and ears and put coverings on your hearts, the fact, however, is that your God is only One God, and you are not the servant of anyone else.
(4) Do you have any understanding as to whom you disbelieve and with whom you associate others in divinity? It is with regard to that God Who has created this limitless universe, Who is the Creator of the earth and heavens, from Whose blessings you are benefiting on the earth.
(5) If you still do not believe, then be aware that a sudden torment is about to visit you, the like of which had visited the Ad and the Thamud, and this torment also will not be the final punishment of your crimes, but there is in addition the accountability and the fire of Hell in the Hereafter.
(6) Wretched is the man who gets as company such satans from among men and jinn, who show him nothing but green and pleasant, who make his follies seem fair to him, who neither let him think aright himself nor let him hear right from others.
(7) This Quran is an unchangeable Book. You cannot defeat it by your machinations and falsehoods. Whether falsehood comes from the front or makes a secret and indirect attack from behind, it cannot succeed in refuting it.
(8) Today when this Quran is being Presented in your own language so that you may understand it, you say that it should have been sent down in some foreign tongue.
- But had We sent it in a foreign tongue for your guidance, you would yourselves have called it a joke, as if to say, "What a strange thing! The Arabs are being given guidance in a non-Arabic language, which nobody understands."
This means that you, in fact, have no desire to obtain guidance. You are only inventing ever new excuses for not affirming the faith.
(9) Today you do not believe but soon you will see with your own eyes that the message of this Quran had pervaded the whole world and you have yourselves been overwhelmed by it. Then you will come to know that what you were being told was the very truth.
- The Believers were consoled and encouraged, as if to say: "You are not, in fact, helpless and powerless, for any person who believes in God as his Lord and adheres to this belief and way of life resolutely, God's angels descend on him and help and support him at every stage, from the life of this world till the Hereafter."
- The Believers were encouraged with the consolation: "The best man is he who does good, invites others to God and proclaims firmly that he is a Muslim."
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