As-salaam wa-alaikum, brothers and sisters.
Summary
Today’s selection is from Surah 17, Al-Isrâ or the Night Journey, verses 78-93. These verses concern the commandment to establish prayers throughout the day, as well as the Tahajjud prayers. They also talk of Ar-Rüh or the Soul and the different methods used in the Qur’an to make people understand God’s message.
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Verses
Bis-millahi ar-rahman, ar-raheem.
In the name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful.Establish Salah from the decline of the sun till the darkness of the night (Zuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha) and read at Fajr (dawn); for the reading (the Qur’an)at Fajr is witnessed (by the angels).[78] During a part of the night, pray Tahajjud, an additional prayer for you (O Muhammad), very soon your Lord may exalt you to ‘Maqãm-e-Mahmood’ (a station of great glory).[79] During the prayer say: “Lord! Make my entrance, the entrance with truth and make my exit, the exit with truth and grant me a supporting authority from your presence;”[80] and declare, “The Truth has come and falsehood has vanished, for falsehood by its nature is bound to perish.”[81] We have revealed the Qur’an which is a healing and a mercy to the believers, while to the wrongdoers it adds nothing but loss.[82] Man is a strange creature: when We bestow Our favors on man, he turns his back and drifts off to one side (instead of coming to Us) and whenever evil touches him, he gives himself up to despair.[83] O Prophet say to them: “Everyone acts according to his own disposition; but only your Lord knows best who is on the Right Way.”[84] 17:[78-84]
They put you questions about Ar-Rüh (the Spirit). Tell them: “The Spirit is at my Lord’s command and I am not given any knowledge of it but a little.”[85] If We want, We can definitely take away all that which We have revealed to you: then you will find none to help you in getting it back from Us.[86] But your Lord has blessed you with this knowledge; surely His goodness to you has been great indeed.[87] Declare: “Even if all human beings and Jinns combined their resources to produce the like of this Qur’an, they would never be able to compose the like thereof, even if they backed up each other as best as they could.”[88] 17:[85-88]
In this Qur’an, We have used different methods to make the people understand the Message, yet the majority of them persist in unbelief.[89] They say: “We will not believe in you until you cause a spring to gush forth from the earth for us,[90] or until a garden of date-palms and grapes be created for you and you cause rivers to flow in it;[91] or until you cause the sky to fall upon us in pieces as you have threatened us; or you bring Allah and the angels before us face to face,[92] or a house made with gold comes into being for you; or you ascend to the sky – we shall not even believe in your ascension until you bring down to us a book that we can read.” O Muhammad, tell them: “Glory be to my Lord! Have I ever claimed to be anything more than a human Messenger?”[93] 17:[89-93]
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.