QURAN CHAPTER - 53
An-Najm - The Star
Revealed - Meccan
Ruku - 3
Ayat - 62
Theme - The theme of this Surah is to warn the disbelievers of Makkah about the error of the attitude that they had adopted towards the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad (SWS).
- The discourse starts in a way as if to say: "Muhammad is neither deluded nor gone astray, as you are telling others in your propaganda against him, nor has he fabricated this teaching of Islam and its message."
- In fact, whatever he is presenting is nothing but Revelation which is sent down to him.
- Whatever he says is not what he has himself thought out but what he has seen with his own eyes.
- Therefore, your disputing and wrangling with him is just like the disputing and wrangling of a blind man with a man of sight over a thing which the blind man cannot see but he can see.
After this, 3 things have been presented:
(1) The listeners have been made to understand that: "The religion that you are following is based on mere conjecture and invented ideas."
- You have set up a few goddesses like Lat and Manat and Uzza as your deities, whereas they have no share whatever in divinity.
- You regard the angels as the daughters of Allah, whereas you regard a daughter as disgraceful for your own selves.
- None of such beliefs that you have adopted, is based on knowledge and reason, but are wishes and desires for the sake of which you have taken some whims as realities.
- Only this world is your goal. Therefore, you have neither any desire for the knowledge of reality, nor you bother to see whether the beliefs you hold are according to the truth or not.
(2) The people have been told that: "Allah is the caster and Sovereign of the entire Universe."
- The righteous is he who follows His way, and the misguided he who has turned away from His way.
- The final judgment will not depend on what you consider yourself to be, and on tall claims you make of your purity and chastity but on whether you are pious or impious, righteous or unrighteous, in the sight of God. If you refrain from major sins, He in His mercy will overlook your minor errors.
(3) A few basic principles of the true Religion which had been presented hundreds of years before the revelation of the Quran in the Books of the Prophets Abraham and Moses have been reiterated so that the people did not remain involved in the misunderstanding that the Prophet Muhammad (SWS) had brought some new and novel religion, but they should know that these are the fundamental truths which the former Prophets of Allah have always been presenting in their respective ages.
The Surah has been concluded, thus: "The Hour of Judgment has approached near at hand, which no one can avert. Before the occurrence of that Hour you are being warned through Muhammad (SWS) and the Quran in the like manner as the former people had been warned before."
- Now, is it this warning that you find novel and strange? Which you mock and ridicule? Which you turn away from and cause disorder so that no one else also is able to hear what it is? Don't you feel like weeping at your folly and ignorance? Abandon this attitude and behaviour, bow down to Allah and serve Him alone!"
- This was that impressive conclusion hearing which even the most hardened deniers of the Truth were completely overwhelmed, and when after reciting these verses of Divine Word the Holy Messenger of Allah (SWS) fell down in prostration, they too could not help falling down in prostration along with him.
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