QURAN CHAPTER - 56
Al-Waqiah - The Inevitable
Revealed - Meccan
Ruku - 3
Ayat - 96
Theme - The theme of this Surah is the Hereafter, Tauheed and refutation of the Makkan disbeliever's suspicions about the Quran.
- In Verses: 7-56 following 3 classes of the people whom will be rewarded and punished has been described in detail.
- (1) The foremost in rank
- (2) The common righteous people
- (3) Those who denied the Hereafter
- In Verses: 57-74 arguments have been given, one after the other, to prove the truth of the 2 basic doctrines of Islam, which the disbelievers were refusing to accept, viz. the doctrines of Tauheed and the Hereafter.
- In these arguments, man's attention has been drawn to his own body and to the food that he eats and to the water that he drinks and to the fire on which he cooks his food, and he has been invited to ponder the question:
- What right do you have to behave independently of, or serve any other than, the God Whose creative power has brought you into being, and Whose provisions sustain you And how can you entertain the idea that after having once brought you into existence He has become so helpless and powerless that He cannot recreate you once again even if he wills to?
- In Verses: 75-82 their suspicions in respect of the Quran have been refuted and they have been made to realize how fortunate they are that instead of deriving any benefit from the great blessing that the Quran is, they are treating it with scant attention and have set only this share of theirs in it that they deny it.
In conclusion, man has been warned, as if to say: "You may brad and boast as you like and may shut your eyes to the truths in your arrogance of independence, but death is enough to open your eyes."
- At death you become helpless: you cannot save your own parents; you cannot save your children; you cannot save your religious guided and beloved leaders. They all die in front of your vary eyes while you look on helplessly.
- You may or may not believe it, but every dying person will surely see his own end after death. If he belongs to those nearest to God, he will see the good end meant for them if he be from among the righteous, he will see the end prepared for the righteous; and if he be from among the deniers of the truth, he will see the end destined for the criminals.
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