- Interpretation Of Quran / The long version
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- (004) Al Nisaa
The vast universe refers to the Creator:
With the 28th lesson of Al Nisaa chapter (The Women), and with the verse 56 that says:﴾Those who reject our Signs, We shall soon cast into the Fire: as often as their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the penalty: for Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise.﴿
Dear Brother Allah Almighty says:﴾Those who reject our Signs...﴿
You all know that our visions as creatures comprehend not Allah Almighty, but yet this entire vast-edged universe points to Him, the poet says:
And in everything He (Allah Almighty) owns a sign
That guides to an only One true divine.
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So if a person sincerely wanted to believe, perhaps a piece of dung might lead him to the creator of the universe, as the Bedouin once said:
Disbelievers don’t want to know the truth:
Cattles are found when there is manure,Humans are found when there are footprints,
Springs are found when there are streaming waters,
How could a heaven full of zodiacal signs and an earth full of ravines lead not to One Who is Wise, One Who is All-Aware?
There is a certain matter in the holy Qur'an that is really remarkable,
Allah Almighty says:
﴾Those who reject our Signs, We shall soon cast into the Fire: as often as their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the penalty: for Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise. (56)But those who believe and do deeds of righteousness….﴿
Do we believe in this verse? And if we do, how do we benefit from it?
It seems that if a person wanted to believe, really wanted to know Allah Almighty, really wanted to know the truth, and really wanted to understand and comprehend, then everything in this universe shall lead him to Allah Almighty. But if he wanted the lusts, the material benefits of this lower life, and the superiority & ego on earth; then he shall not believe even if he was working in the biggest space station on earth seeing hundreds of galaxies everyday!! Even if he looked into an electronic microscope that magnifies the tiniest creatures of Allah Almighty 400,000 times, then he shall not believe, for he is exactly like a highly complicated camera, extremely expensive, with unbelievable specifications, but yet this camera has no film inside of it!! Thus, it's completely worthless.
So this intelligent human being that has been diving into the seas of sciences, and has obtained the highest scientific degrees - if the purpose behind obtaining all of this knowledge was a lust, a material profit, a reputation, a wealth, or even for the sole sake of remembrance or mentioning, then he shall not believe, regardless of how surrounded he is by extremely clear and noticeable signs that might lead him to Allah Almighty. On the other hand, the one who seeks the truth, the guidance, the faith, and wanted to know, then the smallest things in the universe shall lead him to Allah Almighty; his own son will testify for him how he himself was created, as will as the Sun, the Moon, his food, his drinks, his wife, his sleep, his wakefulness, the rain water, sparrows, birds, fish, seas, or mountains.
Allah Almighty has said:
﴾Let man consider his food﴿
Considering his own food is enough, considering his own marriage is enough, it is enough if he considered the stages of creation of his own children. These are all enough signs for him to know Allah Almighty.
So the disbeliever is a person who did not want to know the truth in the first place. He wanted the lusts of this lower life. He wanted to soak in the cheap pleasures; he wanted wealth, and his own god is his own desire.
Visions can’t comprehend Allah, but His deeds, and speech refer to Him
﴾Those who reject our Signs…﴿
There are a lot of signs that lead to Allah Almighty, and it has been said that there are universal signs that lead to Allah Almighty, and there are readable signs as well. So, even if creatures' visions do not comprehend Allah Almighty, His deeds are obvious and clear. It's true that visions do not comprehend Him, but still His words are amongst our hands, that's why it has been said before: “If you want to talk to your lord then pray to Him, and if you want Him to talk to you, then read the Holy Qur'an.”
﴾Those who reject our Signs…﴿
Some people never minded these signs at all. They're like a person who has flooded water all over his house, where it has ruined all of his furniture - so he rushes outside his house to find a piece of clothe to ban the water from reaching the edges of the house as a reaction!!!
Why? For he is gaining benefits from buying this piece of clothe, so he minds not any other solution, even if it was cheaper and better. That's why loving this lower life makes one blind and deaf. Indeed, when someone loves this lower life he sees nothing but his interests…loving this lower life is the torch for every sin.
﴾Those who reject our Signs, We shall soon cast into the Fire﴿
All the creatures refused to undertake the Trust, when Allah Almighty offered it to them, the Heavens, the Earth, and the Mountains, all of them refused.
Man accepted to undertake the trust but other creatures refused:
﴾We did indeed offer the Trust to the Heavens and the Earth and the Mountains; but they refused to undertake it, being afraid thereof: but man undertook it;﴿
For that reason, animals do not get tortured, since they're not charged or responsible, having refused to undertake the Trust that they were afraid of. And, Angels were to be with Allah Almighty without being charged or responsible, while animals chose lusts without being responsible. But, the human race has undertaken it:
﴾We did indeed offer the Trust to the Heavens and the Earth and the Mountains; but they refused to undertake it, being afraid thereof: but man undertook it;﴿
That's why Allah has combined the Mind power and the Desire power in the structure of a human being, a grip from the dirt of the earth, and a breath from the spirit of Allah. Thus, a human being holds extremely opposite needs and desires, ones that are extremely high and noble, and ones that are extremely low. So if he (the man) satisfies his desires upon the orders of Allah's method then he is on the safe side and no sins shall reach him:
﴾And who is more astray than one who follows his own lusts, devoid of guidance from Allah?﴿
Thus, if a person follows his desires upon the method and set of orders of Allah Almighty, then he holds no sins. So even though man holds within him lusts and mind power, if his mind power transcends his lusts, then he is in a degree beyond angels, and if his lusts transcend over his mind power, then he is in a degree below animals. This is mankind who undertook the Trust, and said "I'm for it", but when he came to this life his lusts has overcome him, and thus he has breached his commitment with his Lord. And for that, he deserved the hell fire.
Abuse is the act of those who move without an approach:
Dear brother, when man believes that he might be awarded with a heaven that contains within it what never an eye has seen, what never an ear has heard, or what has never came across a human's heart, and if he chooses not to believe, then he shall pay the price for his deviation fair and square. For, he has set his lusts loose to get satisfied by prohibited means, that doesn't follow Allah's method, but follows his own method and desires. And, if someone moves without a guided path, then it's obligatory for him to commit abuse as a result. Allah Almighty has said:﴾Have you considered him who calls the judgment a lie?That is the one who treats the orphan with harshness﴿
﴾But if they hearken not to thee, know that they only follow their own lusts﴿
﴾Those who reject our Signs…﴿
Whether they were universal signs, creational signs, or readable Signs (from the Qur'an).
﴾We shall soon cast into the Fire﴿
This is a threat from Allah Almighty of this hellfire. But this fire burns the skins, and in this case the disbeliever might think that the suffering shall end once the skin is roasted and fully burnt, and by that he can't feel through it anymore. He might think, "I've spent my whole life in forbidden pleasures and lusts, and once our skins are burnt, the suffering shall end". But this is completely not the case, for when Allah Almighty promises the disbelievers with torturing, then His promise is a certain truth that shall happen; that's why Allah Almighty say has said:
﴾As their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the penalty﴿
The approach of Prophet Muhamad is his miracle
As a matter of fact, what is being tortured is the self within, but this man's self is attached to a physical body. Consider it as if you were at the dentist, and he wants to treat one of your teeth without using an anesthetic. At the moment when his tools start reaching the nerve, think of the enormous pain you shall feel, where you might scream from it and even attempt to grip the dentist's hand for him to stop! Why would you do that? You do it because the pain signals have moved to the brain.And sh3er see that the pain has reached the self within, and the skin and the other parts and organs are just tools that transfer the pain to the self within. That's why when the skin or these organs are anesthetized; the pain is not transferred to be felt by the inner self.
In the afterlife, Allah has promised to burn the disbelievers until infinity and since the skin burns and get roasted through, Allah Almighty has said:
﴾As their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the penalty﴿
Dear brother, there is a very delicate truth about the previous prophets and messengers. That is that their prophecies and miracles were specified and exclusive for their own people, and their miracles were something different from the method itself they came with. For example, Prophet Moses’ miracle was the Rod, but his method was the Torah; same with Prophet Jesus, his miracle was reviving the dead with Allah's permission, and his method was the Bible; but for the prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, his miracle matched his method. That is the Holy Qur'an, where the miracle is the same as the method itself, and that is a privilege that was only given to the prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him, since he is the last prophet, and he was sent to all the nations inhabiting this earth. Thus it's a miracle that shall continue till the Day of Judgment.
You can describe the miracles of the previous messengers as a matchstick that has illuminated only once, and then burnt out to be news that any person can believe or disbelieve in. But Prophet Mohammad's - peace be upon him- miracle is amongst people's hand until the day of the resurrection.
Scientific miracle in the creation of gnats:
There is a verse in the "Cow" Chapter in the holy Qur'an that says:﴾Surely Allah is not ashamed to set forth any parable-- (that of) a gnat or anything above﴿
I have viewed a scientific research study about gnats (mosquitoes), and I used to talk on some occasions about this insect: that it has three hearts, of course each heart has four hollowed chambers, two ventricles and two atria, each heart has its own valves and blood vessels, and each heart contracts in a shifting movement. That's what I've read, that it has three hearts: a central one and one heart for each wing. And, it has its own radar-like organ that is used to determine the victim, such as the little child's forehead. It also has its own blood analysis organs, its own anesthetization device-like organ, its own blood dilution organ, and it has its own pads that it uses when standing on a smooth surface, and claws for standing on a rough surface. Also, its wings move so rapidly in a manner that leads to the buzzing sound we hear.
After several years I saw another article about gnats (mosquitoes), and I discovered that they even have the power to smell a human being's sweat odor from a 60 kilometers distance!! And today, I saw another article that has really astonished me. It includes a paragraph from a brand new scientific encyclopedia, discovering that a mosquito has 1 hundred eyes covering its head. You shall find them distributed as bee cell blocks once you magnify its head. Each block has an eye, and the mosquito has, as well, thermal receptors that sense heat remotely. It has 1:1000 thermal sensitivity ratio per degree, so if you have one Celsius degree divided by 1000, then these thermal receptors can detect that thermal variance (upper or lower), in units of 0.001 of degree.
It has its own thermal coloring vision, where objects are colored depending on their output temperature, and their smell, using its one hundred eyes. That is, if this mosquito is in a dark room, it can see the little child sleeping through its infra red vision, since infra red waves are of thermal nature, and not of a photic nature. And as I said before, it detects temperature variances in units as small as 0,001 of a 1 Celsius degree, where it spontaneously moves towards a child's forehead, as an example.
Have you ever considered who has created this anesthetic substance in its body?
Imagine if this substance did not exist. Then, a mosquito would be squashed every time it attempts to bite a human being to suck his blood. After the anesthetization is done, the victim feels the sting on his body, and tries to squash the mosquito, but at that time it's too late, where the gnat (mosquito) has already flown.
But the unbelievable thing in a mosquito is that its hose has six knife-like pieces, four of them to cut the skin, and the remaining two combine together to create the blood sucking tube. Each of these two knifes is shaped as a convex cross sectioned tube, where one is placed over the other to create a circular tube injected in the sleeping person's flesh, after having the four previous knifes cut the skin from the four angles.
All of these qualities are found in a single mosquito or gnat: thermal receptors, six knifes in its hose, four of them to cut the skin, and the rest form together a tube for sucking the blood, one hundred eyes.. Who has created all of this? Who has created the anesthetic substance? Who has created the blood-dilution substance? Who has created for it the thermal receptors? Who has given it the ability to locate its preys directly? Who has created three hearts in its body? Who has created its pads and claws?
Scientific development shows more aspects of Allah’s Greatness:
What does Allah Almighty say?﴾Surely Allah is not ashamed to set forth any parable-- (that of) a gnat or any thing above﴿
This verse is indeed a scientific miracle; there is no creature lesser to a human being than a gnat, but now when you say the word gnat, remember everything it has from the one hundred eyes, up to the radar, the thermal receptors, the Anesthetization device, and the blood dilution device. It is extremely amazing!!
Dear brother, in the holy Qur'an there are numerous verses mentioning scientific miracles, for as long as science is improving and discovering new things, you shall discover new signs of the greatness of Allah Almighty. This is why the method of the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, is his same miracle.
﴾Those who reject our Signs, We shall soon cast into the Fire: as often as their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for fresh skins﴿
In a very recent scientific research study speaking about the nature of pains in the nerves, they have discovered that nerves are flatly distributed through human skin. For example, if you stick a needle at any place through your whole body you shall feel it for a short while, then it disappears, which means that your body is covered with a full network of nerves, of very delicate measurements that can extend up to 0.01 of the millimeter. This wide-covering network of nerves is responsible for tasting the penalty. It’s the one that tastes the pain of burning, and when the skin itself is burnt, then by default these nervous receptors shall burn as well, thus the tasting of pain shall end as a result. Well, the miraculous verse states this fact, informing that the skin shall be replaced with a new one, so that the suffering can continue.
﴾As their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for fresh skins﴿
The Quran is a continuous miracle:
However, imagine you have poured hot boiling water into someone's bowels. He shall feel nothing, for there are no nerve cells in the bowels; however, it can feel pressure, and that's why Allah Almighty said:﴾And be given, to drink, boiling water﴿
Where He Almighty didn't say: "that has burnt them" (this boiling water)
However He Almighty said:
﴾So that it cuts up their bowels (to pieces)?﴿
Bowels are cut to pieces, and what hurts in bowels is the cutting process. That's why sometimes a little disturbance in someone's intestines can lead to unbearable pain, not the burning pain, but the cutting pain in this case.
Another Verse:
﴾Their eyes streaming with tears﴿
Tears that run in the eye get drained through two drain-spots located at the bottom of the eyeball. Therefore the moisture we feel from our noses comes through our tears. So, in certain cases where there are excess tears in the eye, where it exceeds the limits of the drainage capacity, tears start to stream out from the eye towards the outside, and this is a scientific proof of the miracle in the Qur'an.
So, we are standing in front of a book of a method, and a book of miracles, where the method and the miracles were combined together for the Prophet Muhammed, peace be upon him. The previous miracles for the previous prophets were merely of a physical manner, and that's why they ended once its nations vanished, and ended up as news to be heard. And, since the Prophet Muhammed, peace be upon him, was sent to all the nations of this world, it needed to have a continuous miracle, and that is the Holy Qur'an.
Allah Almighty says this:
﴾Soon will We show them our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth.﴿
Allah’s approach controls man’s desires:
﴾…that they may taste the penalty: for Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise.﴿
The meaning of "Exalted in Power" is the One who is needed severely by his servants, and Exalted in Power means the One Who can not be defeated, and the One Who disappoints not creatures who seek hope through Him. Thus, Allah Almighty is Exalted in Power, Wise.
There are two teams: the first one has chosen to disbelieve, and belied the signs of Allah Almighty, and never got to know Allah Almighty neither through His universal signs, nor His readable signs. They have rejected the Method of Allah as a result, and thus they have started to move in life without method. Their movement in life in this way has resulted in their abuse.
A nice explanation for that would be when considering someone who has chosen to disbelieve without hurting anyone. This sort of scenario is a problem itself, since he cannot disbelieve without hurting anyone, for disbelieving means to not follow Allah's method that controls your lusts. So, without following it, your lusts shall be set loose, and abuse shall never stop. Therefore, it’s absolutely impossible to ignore Allah's method and then attempt to straighten yourself and manners.
So consider a man who is very smart. He is so smart that he convinced people around him that he is perfect, while in reality he is the exact opposite. Now imagine if Allah Almighty has examined this person by hitting his own interests. What would you think his reaction would be? He shall turn into a monster and actually, you see this sort of behavior every day. We all know this powerful, rich country that everyone has dreamt of reaching. People have dreamt of reaching this astonishing country that dazzled the human race with its liberty, justice, democracy, human rights, animal rights, filthy richness, and its beautiful nature. This country has pretended to be perfect; they have spoken a lot about human rights, human liberty, and people's right of having trials. They spoke and spoke a lot, and when they were hit through a murder of their own people, they turned into monsters. And that's the lesson we need to learn: no perfection without faith, and no faith without perfection.
Allah Almighty says:
﴾For Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise﴿
Visual things are limited, imagination is unlimited:
And, Allah Almighty has said about the second team:﴾But those who believe and do deeds of righteousness, We shall soon admit to Gardens, with rivers flowing beneath,- their eternal home: Therein shall they have companions pure and holy: We shall admit them to shades, cool and ever deepening.﴿
Not only one Garden, but Gardens…
Man in this lower life lives in deep worry. He might be healthy, but it is impossible for this good health to go on forever. There must come a day in a man's life where he discovers something new in his body that never existed before. This might be the sign of the approach of his death, so there is a deep worry in a man's life. This worry is simply because this lower life never lasts for anyone - it is never stable, it's always changeable, but in Heaven that’s not the case. The Prophet, peace be upon him, says in the Hadeeth speaking the words of his Lord:
﴾I've prepared for my good servants in heaven, what never an eye has ever seen, an ear has ever heard, or even came across a human's heart﴿
The Circle of the seen objects is limited. For example, I have travelled to Australia, Malaysia, America, Britain, Morocco, and Egypt, and this is what I've seen with my own eyes. This is a very limited list, but when it comes to the circle of the hearing, it can be a lot wider. For example, I have heard about Moscow, or about a city in Africa. Therefore, the circle of your seen objects can be very limited whilst the circle of your heard news can be much richer than it. But the circle of thoughts and what comes across your heart is endless. Anything that comes across your mind can be listed in that circle. Imagine anything; for example, imagine a pen that has a length of 1000 Kilometers !!! That could be a thought.
﴾I've prepared for my good servants in heaven, what never an eye has ever seen, an ear has ever heard, or even came across a human's heart﴿
We need deeds based on faith:
This Garden, that has the width of both heavens and earth, that one shall be in forever, and shall never be asked to leave, has within it everything the souls can desire and all that the eyes can delight in. It has within it no sickness, no worry, no fear, no constrictions, no bad wife, no disobeying son, no severe illness, no threatening enemy, no envying hypocrite, no seduced soul, and no whispering Satan. Remember, it has within it everything the souls can desire…Dear Brother that's why the sanest person is the one who seeks this Garden that has the width of both heavens and earth. This is indeed the sane person. That's why the Prophet, peace be upon him, is amazed at those who know that heavens' gardens are true, and hell fire is true, then never work to enter these heavens, and protect themselves from that hell fire.Therefore, it has been said before: "Work for your lord as much as you need him", and you know that you need him in everything; "And protect yourself from the hell fire by the amount of patience you can bear"; "And work to enter heavens for as long you shall stay in them"; "And work for this lower life for as much time as you shall stay in it".
Usually a person reaches his stability between the ages of thirty and forty. Then his life attributes start growing slowly and slowly, till he reaches the peak of obtained experiences in his life, and reaches the maximum income he can ever gain. His life is stable. He has his own connections' network, and then suddenly the angel of death surprises him at the most critical time!! This is life; what he has collected through his whole long years has vanished in one second. All his properties are attached to the pulses in his heart, all his huge wealth is attached to the blood flow in his veins, all his interests are related to the growth of cells in his body, all his prestige is connected to his health status, to the diameter of his artery. Death is so close to him, that indeed, this man who works for this lower life, is taking a huge gambling risk… So dear brother, these two verses:
﴾Those who reject our Signs, We shall soon cast into the Fire: as often as their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the penalty: for Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise. (56)But those who believe and do deeds of righteousness….﴿
The sentence "believe and do the deeds of righteousness", is repeated numerously in the Holy Qur'an, for believing is completely worthless without good deeds, and good deeds without believing is worthless as well. Thus, there has to be good deeds based on believing.
Everything in Heaven is absolutely perfect:
﴾But those who believe and do deeds of righteousness, We shall soon admit to Gardens, with rivers flowing beneath…﴿
Of course these Gardens, have within in them, what never an eye has ever seen. After all, the descriptions of these gardens are merely approximations to its true nature. For example, the Heavens' Gardens have rivers in them, but these rivers hold incorruptible sparkling water, so palatable and so sweet. They have rivers of milk of which the taste never changes, and rivers of wine which are a joy to those who drink from it. This means that in these Gardens it's the whole meaning of perfection in life - eternal youth, permanent life, while in this life the fear of the ghost of death is beheading the bodies.
If you're afraid of poverty then you are living the poverty, if you are afraid of sickness, then you are living the sickness, if you are expecting a disaster, then your expectation itself is a greater disaster, while in the hereafter Gardens it’s the complete opposite, where the inhabitants are never asked to leave:
﴾And We shall join them to Companions, with beautiful big and lustrous eyes.﴿
﴾The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.﴿
﴾And when thou lookest, it is there thou wilt see a Bliss and a Realm Magnificent.﴿
This is Heaven…
Dear Brother, it is so unfortunate that the concepts of Heaven's Gardens and Hellfire are out of people's standards. What you find in their standards are: the currency exchange rates, how to seize lusts' opportunities, their disputes with people, or their indulgence in lusts, but the last thing that they ever consider is the shocking death. It's completely out of their formulas. That's why Allah Almighty says:
﴾So leave them to babble and play (with vanities) until they meet that Day of theirs, which they have been promised.﴿
Death comes suddenly and the grave is the box of deeds:
This is the day that we've all been promised to meet. It must come. In a glimpse of an eye, Allah changes a situation to a completely different one. Remember those around you from your relatives who have died? Each one of them had his own house, his family, his wife... he used to visit you, look at you, greet you, smile at you, laugh, earn money, spend it, sleep, and eat, but in one single second he is turned into an obituary news hanging on the walls. Every creature must die one day, and the Exalted in Power and Might and the Irresistible Allah Almighty, shall abide forever.For regardless how long the night is, the dawn shall eventually emerge, and regardless how long a man can live, his entrance to the grave is a must.
So remember always, that every human being, regardless of how healthy he is, shall reach a day where he is carried dead on shoulders. So, when you're walking in a funeral carrying a dead man, remember that next time it is you who shall be carried on shoulders.
One of my brother who prays in one of the mosques of Damascus, told me the story of one of the men who used to pray with him and had a nice sense of humor, and always used to tell them jokes whenever they were leaving out of the mosque at dawn. One day, this man finished praying the morning prayer in a very normal condition, at the Duhur (Noon) prayer he was seen in one of the parking lots, and at the Asr (afternoon) prayer this person was dead, and the one telling the story was praying the funeral prayer to this man... he died suddenly, and he was buried under the ground.
Another respectable brother of ours was eating a sandwich one day, and while eating it, he suddenly died, just like that. He was eating at noon, and buried in the afternoon. That's it, it's over, a closed file.
For death comes quickly, and does not recognize an old person from a child, a healthy man from a sick man, a resident from a traveler. Death could simply reach anyone at the most critical time.
﴾But those who believe and do deeds of righteousness, We shall soon admit to Gardens, with rivers flowing beneath,- their eternal home: Therein shall they have companions pure and holy﴿
There are wives in this life that are very troubling, but in the hereafter Allah Almighty says:
﴾Therein shall they have companions pure and holy: We shall admit them to shades, cool and ever deepening. ﴿
