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Cutting the Branches off...The Correct Order
“Don’t tune to that channel.
It’s not very decent.”
Author: Dr Henna Khan
Topic URL: http://www.studying-islam.org/articletext.aspx?id=1164
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Uddin Ahmad
Some of the earlier scholars of the
ummah have maintained that certain shorter sūrahs are equivalent to one-third of
the Holy Qur’ān. Some others they characterized as “the completing ones”. Sufyān
bin ‘Uyaynah, for example, is of the opinion that Sūrah Fātihah completes the
the salāh because it provides complete knowledge. Imām Shāfi‘ī has said that
only Sūrah al-‘Asr would have sufficed for guidance. Those endowed with
understanding do not fail to appreciate this fact regarding at least some of the
shorter sūrahs. A full survey and deep appreciation of the entire Qur’ān would
reveal the shorter a sūrah is in content, the more pregnant with meaning it is.
In their small size they contain such profound treasures of wisdom that if they
are unveiled, sheets and sheets of scrolls would not be enough to record them.
The Holy Qur’ān has adopted this
style of putting great wisdom in smaller sūrahs for the following reasons:
1. First and perhaps the most
important factor is that the overwhelming human need for religious truths and
their importance in human life demands that fundamental principles of religion
are always kept alive in the minds of the people. This in turn demands that such
principles are put in such comprehensive and cogent expressions that they become
part of one’s language like proverbs. They must be easy to express by tongues in
direct proportion to their weight and meaningfulness in mind because such
principles if expressed in lengthy discussions, are prone to be lost upon the
audience.
2. Another important factor is that
in the beginning of any preaching mission, people do not find much inclination
to what it aims at teaching. Minds are usually receptive at this stage neither
for the minute details of the directives impressed upon them nor for the
elaborated discourse. This entails that at this early stage they are only taught
what can be briefly expressed in cogent and compact wise sayings. Once these
seeds of cogent and comprehensive expressions sprout up, they are watered by
requisite details because by that time hearts and minds of the audience grow
tenacious and ready to assimilate more knowledge.
3. The Arabs were very fond of
rhymed and rhythmical speech. To them, terseness and brevity were necessary
characteristics of a fine discourse. Therefore, in the earlier phase, the Holy
Qur’ān attracted them by employing their cherished style of expression.
4. The soothsayers of Arabia usually
composed their discourses in terse rhythmical prose. Arabs would give attentive
ears to such speech of the soothsayers. They would thus consider this mastery of
expression a supernatural phenomenon. To them such language really gushed forth
from some metaphysical power. The Qur’ān therefore adopted this style of
expression in the beginning so that they did not consider it strange. As regards the greatness of the shorter sūrahs in terms of their being loaded and pregnant discourse ……………..1
(Translated from Farāhī’s Majmū‘ah Tafāsīr by Tariq Mahmood Hashmi)
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Course Jhangeer Hanif (Moderator) What is the ceremonial reply to a sneeze and what is the wisdom behind it?
Hilwa Is it "Yarhamukallah", but I do not know the wisdom behind it.
Do you know what the reply
means? Yarhamukallah is said to remind is that we will get blessings from Allah only when we are grateful for what we have. What an awesome thing to say! Growing up we always used to say "God bless you" with out thinking anything behind it.
That's right. We need to ponder on what we are accustomed to do.
guirguis17 I thought "YURHAMAKALLAH" meant that you wished that person "RAHMA" , which is equivilent to peace/blessings. Please correct me if i am wrong.
Actually, there are two things involved in case a person has a sneeze. One is
that the person who sneezes says "Al-Hamdulillah" (Gratitude be to Allah) and
the other is that the person who hears these words "Gratitude be to Allah" says:
"Yarhamukallah" (Allah's mercy be upon upon) to the first person.
FirstFaith The reason for this thankfulness might be that when we sneeze , all the dust particles and germs sticked in our wind pipe (with cilia) are sneezed out......this is the great blessing of ALLAH that our windpipe become clean again..........therefore we should thank ALLAH for it....for greater rewards of following SUNNAH we can do it in arabic(ALHAMDULILLAH) but otherwise can aslo say it in our native language (in my opinion) like 'Thank GOD'
raushan
Sneeze:
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