QURAN CHAPTER - 77
Al-Mursalat - The Emissaries
Revealed - Meccan
Ruku - 2
Ayat - 50
Theme - The theme of this Surah is to affirm the Resurrection and Hereafter and to warn the people of the consequences which will ultimately follow the denial and the affirmation of these truths.
- In Verses:1-7 the system of winds has been presented as an evidence of the truth that the Resurrection which is being foretold by the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) must come to pass.
- The reasoning is that the power of All-Mighty Allah Who established this wonderful system on the earth, cannot be helpless in bringing about the Resurrection, and the express wisdom which underlies this system bears full evidence that the Hereafter must appear, for no act of an All-Wise Creator can be vain and purposeless, and if there was no Hereafter, it would mean that the whole of one's life was useless and absurd.
- In Verses:8-l5 their demand has been answered, saying: "Resurrection is no sport or fun so that whenever a jester should ask for it, it should be brought forth immediately. It is indeed the Day of Judgment to settle the account of all mankind and of all its individuals."
- For it Allah has fixed a specific time it will take place at its own time, and when it takes place with all its dreads and horrors, it will confound those who are demanding it for fun today. Then their cases will be decided only on the evidence of those Messengers whom these deniers of the truth are repudiating with impunity. Then they will themselves realize how they themselves are responsible for their dooms
- In Verses:16-28 arguments have been given continuously for the occurrence and necessity of the Resurrection and Hereafter.
- In these it has been stated that man's own history, his own birth, and the structure of the earth on which he lives, bear the testimony that the coming of Resurrection and the establishment of the Hereafter are possible as well as the demand of Allah Almighty's wisdom.
- History tells us that the nations which denied the Hereafter ultimately became corrupted and met with destruction.
- In Verses:29-40 the fate of the deniers of the Hereafter has been depicted.
- In Verses:41-45 of those who affirming faith in it in their worldly life, endeavoured to improve their Hereafter, and abstained from the evils of disbelief and thought, morality and deed, conduct and character which might be helpful in man's worldly life, but are certainly ruinous for his life hereafter.
In the end, the deniers of the Hereafter and those who turn away from God-worship, have been warned as if to say: "Enjoy your short-lived worldly pleasure as you may, but your end will ultimately be disastrous."
The discourse concludes with the assertion that the one who fails to obtain guidance from Book like the Quran, can have no ether source in the world to afford him Guidance.
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