Global Intifada

The following is an excellent post over at Seeking Ilm:

Reflect! How many a moment have we chosen the mundane over the divine? Ask yourself; of the two which is worthy of our attention? Allah ta’alaa states,

وَمَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَن ذِكْرِي فَإِنَّ لَهُ مَعِيشَةً ضَنكاً وَنَحْشُرُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَعْمَى

قَالَ رَبِّ لِمَ حَشَرْتَنِي أَعْمَى وَقَدْ كُنتُ بَصِيراً

قَالَ كَذَلِكَ أَتَتْكَ آيَاتُنَا فَنَسِيتَهَا وَكَذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ تُنسَى

 

And whoever turns away from My remembrance (thikr)- indeed, he will have a depressed (Dankaa) life, and We will gather him on the Day of Resurrection blind. He will say, “My Lord, why have you raised me blind while I was [once] seeing? [ Allah ] will say, “Thus did Our signs come to you, and you forgot them; and thus will you this Day be forgotten.” [Sahih International’s translation of Taha 124]

A few questions enter my boggled mind when reflecting on this verse. The first is what is meant here by thikr (trans. above as ‘remembrance’)? The second is what is meant by ma’ishatan dankan (trans. above as ‘depressed life’)? What then is meant by ‘blindness’? What does Allah mean by ‘forgotten’?

When I began to peer in the works of Quranic exegesis (tafsir), I discovered scholarly disagreement. Let us peer, reflect, and benefit together from this magnificent verse.

Read the rest here.

May Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) grant us all hidayah, forgive us of our shortcomings, and grant us jannat al firdaus. Ameen.

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