As-salaam wa-alaikum, brothers and sisters.
Summary
Today’s 17 Verses episode is from Surah 7, Al-A’râf or the Heights, verses 1-25. These verses assert that the Messengers of God, as well as the people to whom they were sent, will be questioned on the Day of Judgment. Next it begins the story of Iblis (or Satan), who vowed to mislead Adam and his descendants and led them away from the straight path.
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Verses
Bis-millahi ar-rahman, ar-raheem.
In the name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful.Alif L’âm M’eem Sâd.[1] This Book is revealed to you; let there be no discomfort in your heart about it, so that you may thereby warn the unbelievers and remind the believers.[2] Say: “O people, follow what has been brought down to you from your Lord and do not follow other patrons besides Him.” Yet, little do you take admonition.[3] How many towns have We destroyed for their sins? Our scourge took them all of a sudden at night or while they were taking their afternoon rest;[4] and when our scourge fell upon them, their only cry was: “We have indeed been wrongdoers.”[5] On the Day of Judgment, We shall question those to whom Messengers were sent and We shall also question the Messengers about Our message and its response.[6] Then We shall tell their whole story as an eye witness, for We were never absent at any time or from any place.[7] On that Day, the scale of justice shall be established. Those whose scale of good deeds will be heavy, they are the ones who will attain felicity,[8] and those whose scale is light, they shall find themselves in loss, for they had done injustice to Our revelations.[9] We are the One Who established you on earth, and provided you means of your sustenance therein: yet, little it is that you pay thanks.[10] 7:[1-10]
Indeed, We created you, then We fashioned you, then We asked the angels: “Prostrate yourselves before Adam.” They all prostrated accordingly except Iblees (name of Satan – Shaitân) who did not join those who prostrated.[11] Allah said: “What prevented you from prostrating when I commanded you?” He replied: “I am better than he; you created me from fire and him from clay.”[12] Allah said: “Get down from here. You have no right to brag here of your superiority. Get out, henceforth you are of the petty ones.”[13] Shaitân requested: “Give me respite till the Day of Resurrection.”[14] Allah said: “The respite you requested is hereby granted.”[15] Shaitân said: “Since You let me deviate, now I will lie in ambush for mankind on Your Right Way.[16] I Will come upon them from their front, from their rear, from their right, and from their left, and You will not find most of them grateful to You.”[17] Allah said: “Get out from here, despicable and outcast; I will certainly fill hell with you and all of them who follow you.”[18] 7:[11-18]
Allah said: “O Adam! Dwell with your wife in paradise and eat any fruit you please; but never approach this tree or you shall both become wrongdoers.”[19] But Shaitân tempted them so that he might reveal to them the private parts of their bodies which they had never seen before. He told them: “Your Lord has forbidden you to approach this tree only to prevent you from becoming angels or immortals.”[20] And he swore to them both: “I am your sincere adviser.”[21] Thus he cunningly seduced them, and when they ate from the tree, their shame became visible to them and they began to cover themselves with the leaves of the garden. Then their Lord called out to them: “Did I not forbid you to approach that tree, and did I not warn you that Shaitân was your open enemy?”[22] They both replied: “Our Lord! We have wronged our souls. If You do not forgive us and have mercy on us, we shall certainly be of the losers.”[23] Allah said: “Go down, some of you are the enemy of others. The Earth will be your dwelling-place and your means of livelihood for a fixed term.”[24] He further said: “Therein you shall live, therein you shall die, and therefrom you shall be raised to life on the Day of Resurrection.”[25] 7:[19-25]
Ameen.
This concludes today’s episode of the 17 Verses Podcast. I hope that this selection has helped increase your understanding of the holy Qur’an just a little bit.
Thank you and be well.