- Interpretation Of Quran / The long version
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- (007) Al Araaf
"And the weighing of that day ( Day of Resurrection ) will be the true
(weighing). So as for those whose scale ( of good deeds) will be heavy, they will be the successful (by entering Paradise) "
The belief in Allah and the Resurrection Day are conjugated:
O respectable brother these two pillars of faith are the most conjugated; the belief in Allah and the belief in the Resurrection Day, as the belief in Allah- the All-Mighty is the origin of every type of belief, but unless you believe that Allah knows, and He will call human beings to account and He will Punishe, you won't be straighten up.Straightness is among the results of belief in Allah and the Resurrection Day:
A verse mentioned in the Holy Qura'n; forms as an origin of straightness:"It is Allah Who has created seven heavens and of the earth the like thereof(i.e. seven). His Command descends between them( heavens and earth), that you may know"
He is mentioning the reason" that you may know that Allah has power over all things, and that Allah surrounds all things in (His ) knowledge."
When you know that you're among covered by Allah's knowledge as well as His mighty and ability, and that Allah knows, and will call to account and will punish, and that in the Resurrection Day accounts will be settled, the weak will take back from the strong, and the poor from the rich and the oppressed from the oppressive, when you believe in this day (the Resurrection Day); great worries will be moved aside from your heart:" So, by your Lord, ( O Mohammad-PBUH), We shall certainly call all of them to account. For all that they used to do."
"Let not the free disposal ( and affluence) of the disbelievers through out the land deceive you. A brief enjoyment; then, their ultimate abode is Hell; and worst indeed is that place for rest."
"Indeed,they planned their plot, and their plot was with Allah, though their plot was not such as to remove the mountains( real mountains or the Islamic Law) from their places ( as it is of no importance). So think not that Allah will fail to keep His promise to His Messengers. Certainly, Allh is All-Mighty, All-Able of Retribution."
"Consider not that Allah is unaware of that which the Zalimun
( polytheists, wrong-doers) do, but He gives them respite up to a Day when the eyes will stay in horror."
" And the weighing of that day ( Day of Resurrection ) will be the true (weighing):
1- The legitimate balance:
O respectable brother, there're thousands of earthly balances, but the balance of Allah is unique ; so your heroism, intelligence, success, brilliance is to adapt your balance according to Allah's balance ;while the contrary, and the stupidity, dullness ignorance and narrow mindedness is to imagine that your balance – which is far from Allah's balance is adequate.For example: when you believe that money is every thing, a means to reach every thing, it's a firm value in every time, and whoever owns money owns everything, and his worldly life turns into a paradise; while who loses money didn't taste any of this worldly life interests, and his worldly life is a Hell fire; the person who have this thought is the most stupid creature ; because he adopted a balance which is not granted by Allah.
2- The balance of knowledge and deed:
Allah – the All-Mighty Has adapted two balances, the balance of knowledge and the balance of deeds, so He said:
" Are those who know equal to those who know not? "
And also said:"Allah will exalt in degree those of you who believe, and those who have been granted knowledge."
This for the knowledge, and the deed's balance is:"For all there will be degrees ( or ranks) according to what they did."
So, your size in the balance of Allah is the size of your righteous deed ; whereas the earthly balances, the strong person is respected and people turn and direct to him, they leave the weak and neglect the poor, people also gather around the handsome person and they neglect the ugly one.Ahnaf bin Qais was a short man, dark skinned, with bent legs, slant chin, prominent cheeks and sink eyes, he has a portion of every thing related to ugliness; yet he was the master of his tribe; if ever became angry a hundred thousand man would raise their swords supporting his anger, without even asking him for the reason of his furious, and if he ever knew that water would spoil his sense of honor he wouldn't drink it!
3- Harmony with legitimate balance is among happiness:
When your balances are equivalent with the balance of Allah- the Creator of Heavens and earth- you're then the happiest one ever, you're the one who was granted success, the clever, the wise one, the successful, and the winner, while if you adopted a balance which is wrong according to Allah – the All-Mighty- then neither your estates nor their children are good for you:" They are only like cattle –nay, they are even farther astray from the path( i.e. even worse than cattle)"
"The likeness of those who were entrusted with the ( obligation of the ) Taurat ( Torah) ( i.e. to obey its commandments and to practice its laws ), but who subsequently failed in these (obligations ), is as the likeness of a donkey which carries huge burdens of books ( but understands nothing from them)."
" They are as blocks of wood propped up."
4- People & Self evaluation according to the legitimate balance:
O respectable brother, heroism is to have evaluate yourself and sh3er according to Allah's balance, if your balance was earthly and polytheist and worldly, this is the great disaster.
Thus, the heroism is to be successful when you stand for account before Allah in the Resurrection Day. Now, according to the earthly balances; who is the rich person? Of course the one who owns great amount of money, on the other hand, who is the rich person according to Allah's balance? It is the one ho stands for account before Allah in the Resurrection Day having good deed.
" My Lord! Truly, I am in need of whatever good that You bestow on me."
When he- prophet Muses- filled water for the two girls he said:" My Lord! Truly, I am in need of whatever good that You bestow on me."
I'm in need to good deed; thus our master Ali said: [Pichness and poverty appear onlyafter being presented before Allah (in the Resurrection Day).So, Allah- the Al-Mighty- Has adopted two balances; the balance of knowledge and the balance of deeds:
The knowledge:
"Allah will exalt in degree those of you who believe, and those who have been granted knowledge."
The deeds:"For all there will be degrees ( or ranks) according to what they did."
And in your life, adopt these two balances, when evaluating yourself, if you were a believer you must have high spirits, and must not care for money. If you don't feel that gold and dust are equal then you're not a believer.The noble prophet Mohammed –PBUH- told his uncle Abu-Talib:
"O uncle, I swear with Allah that if they put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left hand ;in order to quit this mission I wouldn't give it up till Allah granted it with success or till I die defending this mission."
Search for Allah's balances in the Resurrection Day, the amount of your righteousness according to His balance, and the amount of your presenting services to His creatures makes you gain a high score by Allah; whereas according to people's balances you gain higher scores by your loyalty to strong people, praising them and laying down before them, thus a believer highly values his belief and doesn't care for worldly people."How many of gardens and springs that they [ Fir'aun's (Pharaoh) people] left behind. And green crops ( fields) and goodly places."
"Thus[ We turned them (Pharaoh's people) out] and we caused the children of Israel to inherit them."
" And the heavens and the earth wept not for them, nor were they given a respite."
So, it's very important to depend on Allah's balance when evaluating your self, and your daughter's fiancé.'If ever proposes to your daughter one whose behavior and righteousness are acceptable, then accept his marriage proposal to your daughter."
When evaluating your high experienced partner but he's not well-related to his religion, and he causes some prohibited profits. You're in great need to a very sensitive balance for every thing.5- Allah's balance is the source of justice:
This balance, in the Resurrection Day is the source of truth, to clarify it:
There's a difference between a just balance and the balance is the source of justice, it's a great difference, for example:
" Verily, the Mushrikun ( polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah and the Message of Mohammad –PBUH- are Najasun (impure)."
He didn't say they're dirty (impure) because a dirty or impure bowl may be purified, while the word (najas) indicates that it's the source of impurity, which can never be purified, the difference between a noun and an adjective is great.Verily, Allah has the greatest example: the balance of Allah- the All-Mighty is not only just, it's the source of justice, hence some divine scholars said: " the good thing is what Islamic Sharia classifies as good and the bad thing is what Islamic Sharia classifies as bad." The Islamic Sharia is the balance over every thing, so, no matter what accompanies a sin of philosophies, incentives, sweet words, theoretical basics, practical applications. They say that gender mixing is civilization and gender mixing causes feelings discipline …. So, " the good thing is what Islamic Sharia classifies as good and the bad thing is what Islamic Sharia classifies as bad."
look for the balance of Allah.
" And the weighing of that day ( Day of Resurrection ) will be the true
What's the meaning of this?The meaning of " So as for those whose scale ( of good deeds) will be heavy:
In fact a deed has a weigh:1- An example to approach the meaning of the verse:
An approach example: Someone establishes ( a circus ) in some resorts, and gains a great income, and another one living in an oppressed Islamic country, manages to invent an atomic bomb, thus his country became among the strong powerful and mighty countries ; Are these two people equal? Which weighs more in the balance? Of course the second person's deed, I'm talking in these difficult circumstances, to establish a university to graduate leaders for the nation or to establish a night club? There's a far great difference between the two things.2- Every deed has a weight before Allah- the All-Mighty:
So, every deed has a weight before Allah, to feed a human is a good deed, to guide him to Allah is better, devotion to your friend is a good deed, but devotion and piety to your parents is better, to look after your friends' children is a good deed whereas to bring up your children – who don't have other than you- is a better deed. Every thing we do has a weight by Allah, and a deed is weighed by its intention ; a man may seek sh3er admiration for a certain deed." whoever learns to be parallel with scholars, to show off against foolish people, or to make people turn towards him; Allah will put him in the Hell fire."
Every deed has a balance; first ; by its intention, secondly by its size, thirdly by its depth, fourthly by its continuity, fifthly by its wideness.For instance feeding a human being once differs from offering him a job to earn his living, averting your sight from prohibited scenes differs from guiding your wife through the Way of Allah.
3- Intention, obstacles and preventions determine a deed's weigh:
The summary is that every deed has its weight, opening a shop, in order to gain high profit enables you to buy a car, and to go to resorts on Fridays with your children wearing latest stylish clothes to show off, or to own a luxurious house; whereas there's a great difference if you open a shop to offer services to Muslims, to sell goods in average prices. The difference is great,a deed is weighed by its intention, facing obstacles, its preventions, the sacrifices made for it, the troubles you get from it, the amount of its opposing; thus:"And We shall set up balances of justice on the Day of resurrection."
A deed is measured by two scales not only one scale:
There's a nice comment: every person has his balance, and every deed has its balance, curing patients is a balanced medical deed, between curing a person and highly taking care of him, and asking about his health every two hours; if he was rich one; awaiting his great reward, either to thank you in newspapers ; praising your knowledge and skill, the other side of the matter is to take care of a poor not notable patient in a public hospital as if he was curing in the most classy hospital ; is totally different, so every person has a weight and every deed also has a weight.A deity example in Weighting people:
If a man who is over fifty years old acts as teens do then:
"I detest disobedients, and have greater detest for a disobedient old man."
A young man if ever commits a mistake, then he made wrong, but a young man is still un married, surrounded by nearly naked women, his eye sinned and enabled him from watching prohibited scene, he then repented to Allah, whereas an old man who is fifty, married and has five married daughters, yet he still acts like a teenager??? Harassing a secretary!! So every thing has a balance, it was narrated that the holy prophet –PBUH- said that Allah says:"I love the obedient,and have greater love for an obedient young man "
An obedient young man is a mass of eagerness, with burning desires, hopes,and expectations ; yet he lowers his eyes from what Allah prohibited, and Allah is praising him before the Angels saying: look at my slave, he left his desire for My sake.
So brother:
" I love humble people,and have greater love for a humble wealthy person"
A rich man who sits with his employees, eats with them, asks about them and their children, their problems, when he can completely be isolated in his ivory castle, has his secretary, and no one can reach him having a private phone number which no one can reach."I love generous people, and have greater love for a poor generous person "
Who only owns an orange, but he served it to you.And now:
" And I detest three persons, and my detest for another three is greater, I detest disobedients, and have greater detest for an disobedient old man"
I don't talk without knowledge, I receive complaints from neat believer women, against their husbands aging 60,65,70, 58 who act like teenagers, this is a great disaster." And I detest arrogant people, and have greater detest for a poor arrogant man…."
Why is all that for?"And I detest miser people, and have greater detest for a miser rich man…."
Every person has a balance and every deed also has a balance
Every person has a balance and every deed also has a balanceO brother believe me a country has 10 ranks, each rank has three degrees, 2 million employee are found within 30 degree, and Allah- the All-Mighty says:
"For all there will be degrees ( or ranks) according to what they did."
If Allah has created 6 thousand million person, then He has 6 thousand million files, every person has his degree, according to his position, youth, age, financial state.A preacher asked to donate for the health case, one gives a 1000, and he owns 100 million, another donated 50 from his 100 liras, a dirham may exceed a thousand dirhams, a dirham spent in a true intention is better than a 1000 spent for showing off, a dirham spent in your life is better than a 100 spent after your death.
Again, every person has a balance and every deed also has a balance, balances according to Allah is the absolute right:
" And the weighing of that day ( Day of Resurrection ) will be the true (weighing)."
We don't say: the balance is just, it's then the source of justice, We don't say: the balance is true, it's then the source of truth, it's the origin of the thing.
For example the municipality weight is very accurate till the milligram, so a seller's weights; if suspected for cheating; are taken to the municipality and checked according to the original weights, and the same for meters, so the original is the balance and the measure, according to every measurement a country has its balances, scales, weights, lengths, systematic measures; each of which acts as an origin for measuring any other balance.
" And the weighing of that day ( Day of Resurrection ) will be the true (weighing). So as for those whose scale ( of good deeds) will be heavy, they will be the successful (by entering Paradise) "
So as for those whose scale ( of good deeds) will be heavy, they will be the successful
If a person decorates his home, this is not prohibited, but the weight of this deed is very light in the Resurrection Day, where a person sacrifices his life for the sake of truth, is a martyr, the weight of this deed is very heavy."So as for those whose scale ( of good deeds) will be heavy "
If in the Resurrection day balance we put a persons' house, car, voyages, travels, picnics…. These things has no weight then, whereas the balance on the Resurrection day based on serving Muslims, being true to them, if I didn't cheat them, nor did I black mailed them, I didn't horrify them, I've been charitable to them, I guided them to Your ( O Allah) right path, and helped them hold tightly Your holy book, I helped them like and follow Your prophet-PBUH, I fed poor people, clothed naked ones, during nights I used to pray and make supplications to You, I performed prayers on time, I was humble to your creatures … these things have heavy weight then.
I hope I could calrify this idea well, if the deeds were great ; then:
"So as for those whose scale ( of good deeds) will be heavy "
A person who has three PHD's and a person who established a great university has a weight.I've been in the mosque once, where there was two prayers, when they end their prayer I hasted to one of them and greeted him in a highly cordiality way, my friend didn't understand what I did, as they both were wearing white summer wears and both were old, the one I greeted was the dean of our college of Arabic literature, he was the best linguistic scientist in the whole region, I was his student for four years, I know his scientific size, I know his books, his scientific position, where he simply looks as a normal old person, wearing white gown and praying in the mosque.
So each person has a balance, as his deed is great and he has great achievement, thus:
" And the weighing of that day ( Day of Resurrection ) will be the true
(weighing). So as for those whose scale ( of good deeds) will be heavy, they will be the successful (by entering Paradise) "
Ask yourself daily: What have I done?
You must ask your self daily what've you done? What've you done to your Resurrection Day? If ever been asked by Allah on the Resurrection Day, What've you done for my sake? Without reservations most people deeds' are done for their worldly life sake, to insure a high income to gain this life pleasures, a person lives with sh3er as if he was one of them, were he cares non for their guidance, neither to solve their problems, or to get them be acquired to Allah – the All-Mighty-, so, this person who: " whose scale ( of good deeds) will be heavy, they will be the successful (by entering Paradise) "
Means this person is successful, and succeed is such a great pleasure, an incomparable interest "they will be the successful (by entering Paradise)"
We all must settle a daily account with ourselves, what have I done today? Have you given charity, have you enjoined Al-Ma'ruf? have you Forbid Al-Munkar? have you fed a starving animal ? have you looked after your children? have you been dutiful to your parents ? have you visited a poor one ? have you declared a right? have you rejected a falsehood What have you done?
Levels of balances:
O brother balances have levels, a balance used to weighing cars doesn't show a slight movement if a 100 kilo of gold was put on it, it was established to start weighing 40 tons, whereas another balance is designed to weigh the ink used in writing on a paper, another one is sensitive to a hand movement over it ( even without being touched), these last two kinds of scales are very sensitive, and the more ascending a person becomes, the more sensitive his scale become.
The prophet-PBUH- once found a piece of dates on his bed, then said:
" O Aisha- I swear by Allah,if not for my fear of its being of alms dated I would have eaten it."
The holy prophet's appetite was aroused when he saw the piece of dates, but for his fear it may be of alms dates he said" O Aisha- I swear by Allah,if not for my fear of its being of alms dated I would have eaten it."
A person whose scale is very sensitive, if he didn't show sufficient welcome to a person, he blamed himself, he feels as if his sin is a mountain over his chest, whereas a person whose scale is not sensitive his crime is just as a fly in his eyes. Using a sensitive scale, tyrants are the most stupid people on this earth, they kill thousands of millions of people, how do they sleep ? how will they face Allah- the All-Mighty – nations are ended up by starvation, and they badly abuse their wealth, they rob their estates, their petroleum, they subjugate them, kill them,once by phosphoric weapon, other by smart bombs, or cluster bombs, once a burning or extraordinary bomb, or guided by laser, once by military planes, a bomb vanishes means of communication, another bomb kills people and maintains rocks, so according to the sensitive scales:" So, by your Lord, ( O Mohammad-PBUH), We shall certainly call all of them to account. For all that they used to do."
I swear that dropping a person's blood till the Resurrection Day will be a burden over a person on that day. What about demolishing whole nations!!Killing a person in a town is un forgettable crime; whereas killing a Muslim nation is a matter needs consideration.
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" So, by your Lord, ( O Mohammad-PBUH), We shall certainly call all of them to account. For all that they used to do."
"Consider not that Allah is unaware of that which the Zalimun
( polytheists, wrong-doers) do, but He gives them respite up to a Day when the eyes will stay in horror."
" the fair judge on the resurrection Day will encounter a hard hour that he wishes he had never judge between any two persons in a single date."
Regarding worshippers' rights, a judge judges according to the amount of money he was bribed of one of the adversaries.When you increase in belief, your balance gets more sensitive:
There're sensitive scales and insensitive scales, the more belief you have the more accurate your scale becomes, you set an account with yourself for a sight, a whisper, for being very friendly with a celebrity sinner, if you greet him respectively, with care, and people notice your clear care for him, whereas you may greet a humble, pietous, righteous believer but poor in haste, the prophet had never taken off his hand from any companion's hand; till the later first pulls his hand, Allah has given you a mind as your balance ; do just as you'd like sh3er to do with you, Allah also has given you the nature as balance, if you made a mistake you feel depressed. So, man's been bestowed with two types of balances the mind and the nature balance, each person commits a great mistake, must feel a pain.In a German hotel,this sentence was written on a bed's board: in case you keep turning over during the night's and you couldn't sleep, the problem is not in our bed's furnishing, it's cozy and comfortable, the problem is in your sins!
The prayer (Salat) is a scale:
Sometimes a person can't sleep at night, because he committed a sin, although he's not guilty – according to earthly balances, but he can't sleep at night. The prayer is also a scale, after doing a righteous deed you can easily be linked to Allah, but the bad deed may forbid you from being connected to Allah, so the believer is very sensitive to this, his prayer is a scale, why did I mock on him? Why did I run a hot conversation with the lady as she entered the shop? And kept staring at her, then when it was the time of the Noon prayer, you feel a veil between Allah and you because you didn't act properly."He said: What is the matter with you ? "
Only one word, the necessary words are only said, what did she reply ?"they said: We cannot water (our flocks ) until the shepherds take (their flocks)."
If you stopped after this word and asked why? The Qura'n continues:" And our father is a very old man."
Directly, she answered him briefly" Then not be soft in speech, lest he in whose heart is a disease ( of hypocrisy, or evil desire for adultery ) should be moved with desire, but speak in an honorable manner."
Thus, prayer is a balance, and it's the most accurate balance and when you do a righteous deed you stand before Allah approaching. Whereas if you are not ashamed of what you've done when you stand for praying before Allah, then do whatever you want. Thus, prayer as well as mind is a balance:" And the heaven: He has raised it high, and He has set up the Balance. In order that y u may not transgress ( due) balance."
Be aware of standards duplication:
Why when you buy a fabric you bend the meter?, whereas when you sell it you draw it tightly till it nearly torn? Why ?you have a standard duplication. why do you treat you daughter in –law totally different from the way you treat your daughter. Your daughter's sin is forgiven, whereas your daughter in –law sin can never be forgiven. Why do you treat your employee –who is as old as your son –totally different from the way you treat your son? You let him carry five heavy textile fabrics continually, but when your son carry the first one, if he intends to carry the second you prevent him saying: O my poor son it's too heavy for your back !!Realistic examples of standards duplication:
The truth is that not only might countries have two standards, three quarter of us have two standards, you weigh each one with a certain scale, if you own goods then it's the best one in the world, if a customer looks for a certain merchandise – which you don't have- you say: well you don't need this kind – it may be better than your own good, you have two scales if you don't have a certain merchandize then you belittle it in every possible way. If I want to mention examples of this ( standard duplication) then there are endless examples.A nice example that a man brought his wife a recent washing machine, his mother- in law blessed him and was pleased, but when her son brought the same washing machine for his wife – she became angry, and said "; your wife is just like a monkey ! in the same day she used two scales!
When you act in this way (have two standards) you've Allah's will look down to you. And falling from the sky is easier from Allah's looking down to you, so just treat sh3er as you'd like to be treated.
A mistake in the weight is not repeated, and the mistake in the balance is not corrected:
O respectable brother, for the second time I say, the mistake in the weight is not repeated, and the mistake in the balance is not corrected. Do your best in order not make a mistake in the balance, if the balance was incorrect, if you use it a million of times it's incorrect, but if you imagine that the single kilo is two kilos; it's a mistake in the weight,and it's not repeated. Now:" And as for those whose scale will be light, they are those who will lose their ownselves ( by entering Hell) because they denied and rejected Our Ayat ( proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, evelations, etc."
" And as for those whose scale will be light, they are those who will lose their ownselves ( by entering Hell) because they denied and rejected Our Ayat"
His deeds are all worldly deeds, for his interests, welfare, wealth for his arrogance:
" And as for those whose scale will be light, they are those who will lose their ownselves ( by entering Hell) because they denied and rejected Our Ayat ( proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, evelations, etc."
The Resurrection Day's loss is the greatest ever:
The greatest loss is not to lose all your money, your home, your business, an agency a position, the greatest loss is to lose yourself in the Resurrection Day.
This is the greatest loss:
" And as for those whose scale will be light, they are those who will lose their ownselves ( by entering Hell) because they denied and rejected Our Ayat ( proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, evelations, etc.
" Say O Mohammad –PBUH- " The losers are those who will lose them selves and their families on the Day of Resurrection."
" Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds ) will be heavy. He will live a pleasant life(in Paradise). But as for him whose balance ( of good deeds) will be light, He will have his home in hawiyah( pit; i.e. Hell)."
So, he's directing to the Hell fire:" And what will make you know what it is?. ( it is) a fiercely blazing Fire!"
To sum up, every deed has a weigh, it's weight according to its intention, size, effect, lasting, width, the obstacles encountered in its way, the things may forbid it, and there're thousands of balances for every single deed, and every deed has a weight as well as every person has:" And the weighing of that day ( Day of Resurrection ) will be the true (weighing)."
Allah is the True
