We have now made it to day 18 of Ramadan and the #MuslimGirlRamadanBookClub and right this moment we’ll faucet into Juz 18.
Juz 18 consists of Surah Al-Mu’minoon, Surah Noor, and the primary two pages of Surah Al-Furqaan. Surah Noor was revealed in Madinah whereas Surah Al-Mu’minoon and Surah Al-Furqaan have been revealed in Makkah.
The qualities of believers
Surah Al Mu’minoon has 118 ayahs and the principle theme of the surah is to ask individuals to take heed to the message of the Prophet Muhammad SAWS. Within the first dozen ayahs, Allah SWT says that the true believer, who might be welcomed into Jannah, contemplates life, prays salah, and is trustworthy, beneficiant, form, and humble. Allah says the true believer is one who stays away from haram, from zina and needs to be nearer to Him.
Then Allah SWT once more reiterates the assertion of people being produced from nothing however clay after which a drop of sperm and so on. He speaks about His Indicators and Miracles. Allah SWT mentions tales of the Prophets and the individuals who disregarded them, like Prophet Nuh and Prophet Musa. The disbelievers all the time handled the Prophets as loopy and odd and didn’t imagine within the reality they usually all ended up being punished by Allah SWT for his or her vanity and disbelief.
One thing that I discovered so attention-grabbing on this surah is the next ayahs:
Do they suppose, since We offer them with wealth and youngsters, that We hasten to honor them with every kind of fine? No! They don’t seem to be conscious.
— Quran (23:55-56)
In these Ayahs, Allah is mainly telling the individuals of Quraysh who have been rich that simply because they’ve been on condition that wealth, it doesn’t imply they’re chosen by Allah SWT. This can be utilized in right this moment’s age as properly. Wealth, youngsters, well being, poverty, or illness doesn’t imply you’re near Allah, or higher than others. Every human being is completely different, and whether or not we’re wealthy or poor, solely Allah SWT is aware of our true intentions.
My favourite ayah is the next dua that Allah SWT instructed the Prophet Muhammad SAWS to make. This ayah is the final ayah within the surah and accommodates a strong dua for forgiveness that we will recite daily, and particularly throughout this blessed month of Ramadan.
Say, Oh Prophet, “My Lord! Forgive and have mercy, for You’re the better of those that present mercy.”
— Quran (23:118)
Letting the Gentle of Allah to information you
Surah Noor, which suggests Gentle, has 64 ayahs and the central themes revolve round steerage and the connection between women and men. Surah Noor can also be considered one of my favourite surahs due to the ayahs in it concerning the hijab.
The surah begins with rulings for many who commit fornication after which strikes into the story of the slander of Aisha (RA). Allah SWT admonishes the Prophet Muhammad SAWS in ayahs 16 to 18 and tells him to by no means take heed to slander and false accusations. How wonderful is the standing of Aisha (RA)? Her slander was immediately handled by Allah SWT, the Creator of the universe! Even essentially the most good of people, the Prophet Muhammad SAWS, fell into the lure of rumors and was chastised by Allah SWT. With this story, we should be very cautious of what we are saying about individuals and the rumors we hear and unfold. It’s higher for us to remain quiet.
In ayah 31, Allah SWT instructions each women and men to decrease their gazes, to protect their non-public components. Allah then tells the believing ladies to attract veils (khimar/hijab) round themselves besides within the presence of their Mahrams (individuals you can not marry like your father, brother, grandfather, and so on.). In right this moment’s world, individuals are likely to nitpick and select which a part of this ayah they use with a view to insult ladies who put on the hijab and declare that Islam is a faith that hates ladies. The reality, nonetheless, is that within the first few phrases of the ayah, Allah SWT particularly says ‘women and men’, which suggests each women and men must decrease their gaze, apply modesty and watch out of what they put on.
My favourite ayah is ayah 35, wherein Allah SWT says:
Allah is the Gentle of the heavens and the earth. His gentle is sort of a area of interest in which there’s a lamp, the lamp is in a crystal, the crystal is sort of a shining star, lit from the oil of a blessed olive tree, situated neither to the east nor the west, whose oil would nearly glow, even with out being touched by fireplace. Gentle upon gentle! Allah guides whoever He wills to His gentle. And Allah units forth parables for humanity. For Allah has good information of all issues.
— Quran (24:35)
On this ayah, Allah SWT offers us a parable for His Gentle. His Gentle, which is alluded to because the lamp, is encased in a distinct segment that may be perceived as this universe and might solely be lit with the oil of a pure and clear olive tree. Allah’s Gentle is so highly effective however solely those that Allah wills can see it. The Quran is a type of the Gentle of Allah, the steerage of Allah. All of us have the means to just accept the reality of this world and observe the message of the Prophet Muhammad SAWS and worship solely Allah SWT. It’s Allah SWT that Lights this universe and it’s only in His Gentle that we see actuality. With out gentle, we might be in darkness. Every thing else, together with this Dunya, is an phantasm that can finish with our deaths. And it’s only Allah SWT that may give His steerage to us.
Dispelling the doubts of the disbelievers
Surah Al-Furqaan, which suggests the Criterion, has 77 ayahs however solely 20 of them are in Juz 18. The primary twenty ayahs tackle the disbelievers that forged doubts upon the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad SAWS being a messenger of Allah.
The disbelievers questioned why the Prophet Muhammad SAWS was an odd human, not an angel, or had an angel despatched down with him, as said within the following ayahs.
And so they say mockingly, “What sort of messenger is that this who eats meals and goes about in market-places for a dwelling? If solely an angel had been despatched down with him to be his co-warner, or a treasure had been forged all the way down to him, or he had had a backyard from which he might eat!” And the wrongdoers say to the believers, “You’re solely following a bewitched man.”
— Quran (25:7-8)
To their mocking questions, Allah SWT merely says that they’re deniers of the ultimate day and they’ll see nothing however the blazing fires of Jahannam within the Hereafter.
Tell us which ayah you want essentially the most in Juz 18!