Al Hamdu Lillah Rabbal Aalamein. الخير في أمتي إلى يوم الدين (Muhammad SAW) goodness will remain in this Ummah till the day come.
بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
A Deep Study-6
Do you know Allah?
Al Hamdu Lillah who made us Muslims, who gave us Qur’aan, and who taught us how to approach the Noble Qur’aan with polite manner as much as possible. Ya Allah keep Qur’aan in our lives, in our hearts, and teach us what is in it, furthermore help us to apply it. And the end of our Dua is: Al Hamdu Lillah Rabbal Aaalamein (Ayah 10:10).
Now that we spoke a little about the first word in the Noble book from Allah in Bism, let us proceed. The first words are:
Bismmillah Al Rahmaan Al Raheim بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
The second thing we see is the name Allah, and we need to notice, this soon, this fast the name of Allah shows up in the book. Do you know something, the name Allah is the most repeated in the whole Qur’aan; imagine, but one may ask: why? Do you know Bism with all the beauty it has, in itself it relates to Allah that came next to it, but is before it, and Bism is about Allah, while Allah is not about Bism”.
Do you remember when we said: all creation is based over the Shahadah (Testimony) of Allah is one: لا إله إلا الله? As if the Noble Qur’aan is shouting at mankind, as if it is pushing too hard to make people understand, in a hope that people will come to understand that Allah is the first, Allah is the last, Allah is the Alfa, Allah is the Omega, Allah is the beginning and Allah is the end, also Allah is everything in between. Allah is greater (Akbar) than all of His creation, including men taken for Gods like Jesus, and Krishna or whatever else. Nothing has meaning, nothing has value, nothing really should be considered, if it does not have Allah in it. O fool who do not accept Allah, if you can see what I see away from your blindness, the little Ant raises its face to the Heavens in thanks with every bit of food Allah provide it with, while you do not even know Allah, or praise Him. Small is the Ant, giant if compared to you and your kind, how amazing this is?
There is a cry in the Noble Qur’aan, a cry that never quits, a cry that shouts louder than any shouting to say: come to know Allah, this is the best among all knowledge. Come to worship Allah this is the only true worthwhile worship, every other is stupid, come and seek Allah, everything else needs help, and not worth seeking. If you take a moment, if you come to understand hundreds of times Qur’aan pages have Allah mentioned, if you can realize that Qur’aan is chanting, Qur’aan is alive and repeating the name of Allah on every page, on every turn, Qur’aan my friend is the best among those who praise Allah, can you please come and line behind Qur’aan in worship? Ayah (verse) 17:44 says:
تُسَبِّحُ لَهُ السَّمَاوَاتُ السَّبْعُ وَالأَرْضُ وَمَن فِيهِنَّ وَإِن مِّن شَيْءٍ إِلاَّ يُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدَهِ وَلَـكِن لاَّ تَفْقَهُونَ تَسْبِيحَهُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ حَلِيمًا غَفُورًا
“unto Allah praises are given from the seven Heavens, from Earth, and from all who are in them, there is nothing that does not praise Allah, and thanks Him, but you do not understand how everything does such a thing, ALLAH is patient, and He is forgiving”.
My friend, are you looking for a good imam now that we do not have Muhammad SAW with us any more, its true we are waiting for Isa (Jesus) SAW, this is what Allah promised, but today, now, with no men from the LORD, are you lost, looking at all the imams and wondering who should you choose? Ok, fine, here is my advice to you: look at all of the imams we have today, tell me who praises and mentions Allah more than Qur’aan does, I will tell you to follow him, till you find him, please take Qur’aan as your Imam today, please come to that which praises Allah more than any man/woman can or will, and you know what? Qur’aan unlike human beings is from Allah, while others are volunteers from mankind who wish to do well. We may suspect every human Imam today; would you ever have suspicions about Qur’aan, no you wont? Stop looking, Qur’aan is the best, do not leave Qur’aan waiting.
What will you do with this message; will you help me reach others, tell them about this effort, forward, or send me their E mails?
Please work for the sake of Allah, and your sake.
Is Qur’aan from Allah?
The last time we said how contrary to what this Christian from Egypt said, Allah told us how Earth is alive, and everything in it is moving. We also discussed a part relating to water from the Ayah 79:31 that says:
وَالْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ دَحَاهَا أَخْرَجَ مِنْهَا مَاءهَا وَمَرْعَاهَا
“and Earth after this Dahaa (will explain Insha Allah), brought from it its water and its vegetation”. Let us reflect over the second part, Earth Allah Dahaa, what is the meaning of this? Now, Muslim Scholars got stock at the meaning of the word Dahaa, Some say it means Allah spread Earth then brought its water and vegetation out of it, simply because bringing out the water and vegetation came after the word Dahaa, which means this is an explanation to it, which is a very strong point of view no doubt about this. Yes, those who study Qur’aan well; will see clearly how Qur’aan is so wonderful in the fact that it explains itself, then since this true, what they said here is true as well.
However, I also noticed something else, when Allah wanted to say spread, He used spread, and also when He repeated the same, He did saying spread and spread in all cases, like in Ayahs 15:19, and 50:7, He used the word spread clearly, not as we see above. I love Ayah 2:143 that says how Allah made us a nation in the middle. Therefore, let us first look at the second point of view and take something in the middle which meets with both Insha ALLAH. The other point of view says: Dahaa comes from the word Dahiyah, which is another name for an Egg, or the shape. Now, let us look at the meaning that indicates Earth was like an Egg in shape, what information this gives us first?
Looking at an average Egg, we all know how it looks like, setting it up straight gives us something special about it, yes, it has two Poles at the edges like Earth. Is it possible when Allah used the word Dahaa this is a clear indication to say: Earth has two Poles, yes Earth is round in shape, but was it always, if no, then how it was reduced to such a thing? Let me remind you how we are still answering this ignorance that said: Allah claims Earth is motionless, we all can see Allah made it clear Earth is moving in many ways, and you will come to discover this little by little Insha Allah.
Let us say: we accept this explanation how Dahaa makes Earth like an Average Egg in shape, let us say this is an indication Earth has Poles, this Allah told us 1400 years back when no one could tell about this, then we ask: how Qur’aan is man made? But how Earth became round as seen today from Space? As An Egg shape gives us Poles, it also gives us roundness to an extent, and then we read Ayah 13:41:
أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْاْ أَنَّا نَأْتِي الأَرْضَ نَنقُصُهَا مِنْ أَطْرَافِهَا وَاللّهُ يَحْكُمُ لاَ مُعَقِّبَ لِحُكْمِهِ وَهُوَ سَرِيعُ الْحِسَابِ
“haven’t they noticed how We chop the Earth from its edges, and Allah Judges, who can debate Him about this, and His punishment is fast at such a thing”. Now, in an Egg shape there are two kinds of edges, those like Poles at each end, also the round surface of the whole shape too. As we touch one point as an edge, we need to keep going around touching the rest of the edges in a complete circle. Is Earth being reduced as Allah said, and if so, is this not another form of movement in what this Christian from Egypt who has no shame claims to be motionless?
Take an Egg shape and reduce at the edges, what will you get? Yes, a ball like as we see Earth today? Please look at the figure below:
All I am doing is reducing this Egg shape from the Edges, do you see how it comes down to a complete round shape as Earth looks like today? Yes this took millions of years to happen, yes this did not happen over night, no problem. Once Earth reaches round shape, reduction start to be even over the whole surface, however, why the reduction at the Edges was/still faster than the other edges? Well, the Poles are mountains of Ice, and Ice melts faster than how solid ground may be reduced by different factors. Yes, even today, the fast melting is causing a lot of threats, also caused by the rise in temperature of our Planet.
Fine, proving Earth reduction at the edges/Poles is so easy done, Ice is melting as we speak now, but how we can prove Earth is being reduced at all the edges, in its round shape? The Reduction of Earth is done by the collapsing factor of Earth that reduces its all over size, how? It is estimated that Earth is 12742 km in Diameter, 40042 km in perimeter, the space on top of it, and more than a million, million cubic km in size within. Our Earth went through many different stages since it was separated from the Comic Smoke that was produced by the Big Bang, Earth was a huge mass perhaps one hundred times its size today. This mass was showered with meteorite made from Iron/Rocks, and still.
To Be Continued
Arabic Qur’aan
Learn how to read Sourah 1
فَإِذَا قَرَأْتَ الْقُرْآنَ فَاسْتَعِذْ بِاللّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ
أَعُوذُ بِاللهِ مِنَ الْشَيْطَانِ الْرَجِيْم
بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
The last time we spoke about the first Ayah in the Noble Qur’aan:
بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
Very well, let us start learning how to read the second Ayah 1:2 today:
الْحَمْدُ للّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
الْحَمْدُ: We have a silent ا A, we also have a silent لـ L, you will see this a lot in the Qur’aan, which brings us Al as we said in previous lessons. please notice, there is a Dash above the letter حـَ , which makes it read like Hha (please refer back to the original letter table I gave you before). We have ه above the letter; مـْْ M, and this will silence the letter making it sound like a silent M. We have a ُ over the letter دُ, and it reads; DU. The whole word reads; Al Hamdu. Take things as simple as you see, you will learn quickly Insha Allah, but please lean the Arabic, do not stay in focus over the English help here.
للّهِ: Now notice the tone ّ above the لّـ in لله, which gives double the L. We have a silent لـْ, making the sound: silent L. Then we have another لـ but this time with two tones, one for doubling the letter ّ and another for making an A sound َ , which make the L sound like LLA. Then we have the letter ـهِ with a dash at the bottom to make it sound like Hi. The name sounds like: Lillahi in continuous reading, but if you stop, then it is only Lillah without the little dash at the end. Now we need to notice the fact that the word; الحمد, is joined with the name لله during the reading, which will give us; Al hamdu lillahi. Notice also that there is a dash under the last letter in the name of اللهِ, which makes it sound like; Allahi. Then we get; Al Hamdu Lillahi.
رَبِّ: Notice the َّ on بِّ, this doubles the sound of the letter ب B, now, we have a Dash on top of the letter رَ R, which gives us: RA. Then we havethe letter بَّ with ّ and on top of it َ , all which will make the letter sounds like: Bba,
الْعَالَمِينَ: Starting with a silent ا A, and a silent لـ L, making it sound like Al. Then we have َ on top of the letter ـعـَ, which will make the letter sounds like: Aa (please refer back to the Letters Table I gave you before), we have a silent ا A, followed by the letter لـَ L with a Dash on top to make it sounds like: La. The comes the letter مـِ M with a Dash at the bottom, to make it sounds like Mi. We also have a silent يـ Ye (E), and the letter ن N with a Dash on top to read: Na, but since we will stop reading here, it will be a silent N, we do not pronounce the tone at the end. Now let us read the whole Ayah please: Al Hamdu Lillahi Rabbal Aalamein. Please do not forget the link I gave you for the recitation, listen to it now, and match what we did. May Allah accepts from all of us Insha Allah.
Please notice that when you read this Ayah correctly, this will enables you to read many Ayahs like it in the Noble Qur’aan, every Ayah is so wonderful, and a great help.
To Be Continued
رَبِّيْ زِدْنِي عِلْماً والْحقِقْنِي بِالْصَالِِحِيْن وِالْحَمْدُ لِلَّه رَبَّ الْعَالَمِيْن