So (give) glory to Allah, when you reach eventide and when you rise in the morning. Indeed, to Him be praise, in the heavens and on earth; and in the late afternoon and when the day begins to decline. It is He who brings out the living from the dead, and brings out the dead from the living, and Who gives life to the earth after it is dead: and thus shall you be brought out (from the dead).Friday, September 28, 2007
AL-RUM:17-19
So (give) glory to Allah, when you reach eventide and when you rise in the morning. Indeed, to Him be praise, in the heavens and on earth; and in the late afternoon and when the day begins to decline. It is He who brings out the living from the dead, and brings out the dead from the living, and Who gives life to the earth after it is dead: and thus shall you be brought out (from the dead).
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Masha Allah, Brother, your selection of verses is spot-on. This is one of my personal favourite verses, and the theme (bringing the dead to life) is one that runs throughout the Qur'an. These verses instruct us in how we ought to be contemplating nature and the universe. We don't contemplate nature and the universe for their own sake, rather they have been strewn with hints and clues that all point in one and one direction only - Allah and His Absolute Oneness. These hints and clues in the universe including ourselves are referred to by the Qur'an as aayaat (signs). Just as the Qur'anic aayaat (verses) point us to Allah and His Absolute Unity so do these aayaat (universaland natural signs).
It is most instructive that the Qur'an in one verse describes the People of Understanding / Intellect (who ponder over the sings in the universe) first as those who remember Allah standing, sitting and on their reclining on sides, and then only as those who contemplate the signs in the universe. The whole idea here is give purpose to his contemplate and to set it on its proper course - the only course that yield desirable results. It's like looking at a work of art and not bear in mind the artist whose work it is.
Masha'Allaah
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