QURAN CHAPTER - 42
Ash-Shura - The Consultation
Revealed - Meccan
Ruku - 5
Ayat - 53
Theme - The Surah begins in a way as if to say: "Why are you expressing surprise and amazement at what Our Prophet is presenting before you?"
- What he says is not new or strange, nor anything novel, which might have been presented for the first time in history:
- That Revelation should come down to a man from God and he should be given instructions for the guidance of mankind. Allah has been sending similar Revelations with similar instructions to the former Prophets before this.
- It is not surprising that the Owner of the Universe should be acknowledged as Deity and Ruler, but what is strange is that one should accept another as divine and deity in spite of being His subject and slave.
- You are being angry with him who is presenting Tauheed before you, where as the shirk that you are practicing with regard to the Master of the Universe is such a grave crime as may cause the heavens to break asunder.
- After this the people have been told that a person's being appointed to Prophethood and his presenting himself as a Prophet does not mean that he has been made master of the people's destinies and he has come to the world with that very claim. Allah has kept the destinies in His own hand.
- The Prophet has come only to arouse the heedless and guide the strayed ones to the Right Path.
- An answer has been given to the question: Why didn't Allah make all human beings righteous by birth, and why did He allow the difference of viewpoint owing to which the people start following each and every way of thought and action?
- The answer given is this: Owing to this very fact has it become possible for man to attain to the special mercy of Allah, which is not meant for other dumb creatures, but is only meant for those endowed with power and authority, who should take Allah as Patron and Guardian not instinctively but consciously by willing choice.
- Allah supports the man who adopts this way and guides and helps him to do good and right and admits him into His special mercy.
- It has been explained what the Deen being presented by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SWS) really is:
- Its primary basis that as Allah Almighty is the Creator, Master and real Patron of the Universe and Man, He alone is Man's Ruler, He alone has the right to give Man Faith (Deen) and Law (system of belief and practice) and judge the disputes of man and tell what is Truth and what is falsehood.
- On this very basis has Allah ordained a Deen (True Religion) for Man from the very beginning. It was one and the same Religion that was vouchsafed in every age to all the Prophets.
- No Prophet ever founded any separate religion of his own.
- After the death of the Prophets, selfish people created new creeds by creating schisms for vested interests due to self conceit, vanity and ostentation. All the different religions and creeds found in the world today have resulted from corruption of the original Divine Truth.
- Now, the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SWS) has been sent so that he may present before the people the same and original Religion in place of the various practices and artificial creeds and manmade religions, and may try to establish the same.
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