Juz 17 Takeaway: Life Is a Take a look at – Are You Ready?

We’re on day 17 of Ramadan and #MuslimGirlRamadanBookClub and as we speak, we wish to spotlight jewels that may be present in Juz 17.

In Juz 17, we’ve Surah Al-Anbiya, which suggests the Prophets, and has 112 ayahs. Surah Al-Hajj has 78 ayahs and each surahs had been revealed in Makkah.

Life is a check of the way you react to life occasions

Surah Al-Anibya, which suggests the Prophets, is a protracted surah with 112 ayahs. The primary themes of this surah are Tawheed, Shirk, and the Prophets. As per the previous few surahs, Allah SWT makes use of this surah once more to handle the individuals of Makkah and their disbelief of Prophet Muhammad SAWS being a messenger of Allah SWT. Allah SWT additionally addresses one thing vital within the first few ayahs of Surah Al-Anbiya: obsession with the fabric world. Allah SWT tells us that He has created this dunya not as a pastime for us, however as a critical check. Allah SWT is in management, and if He wasn’t, this whole world can be nothing however chaos and destruction.

Allah SWT reiterates His Oneness within the ayahs that comply with. Having Tawheed, believing that Allah SWT is the One and Solely is one thing we must always all have. Allah SWT offers us many examples on this surah of disbelievers that carried out Shirk (associating companions with Allah) by worshipping and counting on idols and folks and issues apart from Allah SWT. The heavens, the earth, people, we had been all created by Allah alone. Nothing on this world occurs with out Allah’s will and that’s the place true tawheed lies.

Allah SWT talks concerning the prophets and their trials. Allah SWT tells us about Prophet Ibrahim and the way He saved him from the fireplace he was thrown into. We find out about how Prophet Lut, Nuh, Musa, Dawood and Suleiman, Prophet Zakariya, and Prophet Yunus. Allah talks about Prophet Ayuub and the immense illness and illness he skilled and Maryam (AS) who had a toddler with out ever having a person contact her. All of those wonderful individuals, these Prophets and folks of Allah SWT went by a lot hardship and suffered by the hands of their very own neighborhood members. However it was Allah SWT who, after their hardships, gave them ease and safety.

In Ayah 92 and 93, Allah SWT says:

O prophets! Certainly, this faith of yours is just one, and I’m your Lord, so worship Me alone. But the individuals have divided it into sects. However to Us they are going to all return.

— Quran (21:92-93)

Allah SWT tells the Prophets, and us by extension, that there has solely ever been one faith and one Allah. We ought to be worshipping solely Him and whoever creates their very own religions and divides the Ummah into totally different teams can be punished.

My favourite ayahs are literally the duas of two prophets; Prophet Yunus and Prophet Zakariya. Whereas Prophet Yunus was trapped contained in the whale, he made a particular dua to Allah SWT acknowledging his errors and remembering that there’s solely One Allah. Prophet Zakariya, alternatively, would cry out to Allah and beg Him for a kid, a successor, figuring out that it will solely be by the need of Allah that he would have the ability to have one.

And keep in mind when the Man of the Whale stormed off from his metropolis in a rage, pondering We’d not restrain him. Then within the veils of darkness, he cried out, “There isn’t any god worthy of worship besides You. Glory be to You! I’ve definitely completed unsuitable” … And keep in mind when Zachariah cried out to his Lord, “My Lord! Don’t go away me childless, although You’re the Better of Successors.”

— Quran (21:87, 89)

The may of Allah SWT and the destiny of disbelievers

Surah Al-Hajj has 78 ayahs and is called after the Hajj, the sacred pilgrimage we as Muslims should full at the very least as soon as in our lives. Allah SWT begins the surah with a harsh punishment for the disbelievers on the day of resurrection. Pregnant ladies is not going to need their infants, breastfeeding ladies will forged apart their youngsters, and folks will seem like drunk although they haven’t been consuming. The day of resurrection can be a fearful and terrifying day for the disbelievers.

Then Allah SWT goes into ayah 3 to 7 the place He speaks about how He has created people from clay, then a drop of sperm, which then turns right into a clot of blood, then a lump of flesh, and eventually a toddler is born after 9 months within the womb. Equally, Allah SWT can deliver a barren and dry land to life with only a little bit of rain which then produces all forms of vegetation. Allah SWT actually is the Almighty. He’s the Reality and He’s the One who has energy over all the things.

Allah SWT then addresses the title of the surah, Al-Hajj, when He tasked Prophet Ibrahim to construct the Ka’bah and name individuals from close to and much to carry out Tawaf, pray Salah and sacrifice an animal. SubhanAllah, Muslims to this present day flock the blessed metropolis of Makkah annually to carry out the pilgrimage that Prophet Ibrahim (AS) prayed for.

The theme of tawheed and the mightiness of Allah SWT continues to be prevalent on this surah. In Ayah 65 and 66, Allah SWT brings about a ravishing instance of the ocean and the sky. Boats and ships, so giant it’s unfathomable can solely float on the ocean due to Allah’s command. The sky is just not falling down on us due to Allah’s command. Every thing that occurs on this earth is due to Allah’s command. He’s the one who has given us life and He’s the one who will take it, after which give it again to us within the Akhirah.

Do you not see that Allah has subjected to you no matter is within the earth in addition to the ships that sail by the ocean by His command? He retains the sky from falling down on the earth besides by His permission. Certainly Allah is Ever Gracious and Most Merciful to humanity. And He’s the One Who gave you life, then will trigger you to die, after which will deliver you again to life. However absolutely humankind is ever ungrateful.

— Quran (22: 65-66)

My favourite ayahs need to be the next due to absolutely the reality in what Allah is saying. Idols, statues, animals, spirits, no matter it’s that others worship, they can not a lot as swat a tiny fly away. How is it that individuals are capable of worship issues which have completely no energy to assist something? These ayahs actually make you consider the absurdity of worshipping something or anybody in addition to the Almighty Allah SWT.

Oh, humanity! A lesson is ready forth, so hearken to it rigorously: these idols you invoke in addition to Allah can by no means create a lot as a fly, even when all of them had been to come back collectively for that. And if a fly had been to grab something away from them, they can not even retrieve it from the fly. How powerless are those that invoke and people invoked! They haven’t proven Allah the reverence He deserves. Certainly Allah is All-Highly effective, Almighty.

— Quran (22:73-74)

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