  
The Holy Qur'an
Surah
75:20-21 (Part 1)
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I do call to witness the Resurrection Day;
2. And I do call to witness the self-reproaching
Spirit.
3. Does man think that We cannot assemble his
bones?
4. Nay, We are able to put together in perfect
order, the very tip of his fingers.
5. But man wishes to do wrong (even) in the time
in front of him.
6. He questions: "When is the Day of
Resurrection?"
7. At length, when the sight is dazed
8. And the moon is buried in darkness
9. And the sun and moon are joined together that
Day will Man say;
10. "Where is the refuge?"
11. By no means! No place of safety!"
12. Before the Lord (alone), that Day will be the place of
rest.
13. That Day will Man be told (all) that he put forward, and
all that he put back.
14. Nay, man will be evidence against himself,
15. Even though he were to make excuses.
16. Move not thy tongue concerning the (Qur'an), to make
haste therewith.
17. It is for Us to collect it and to promulgate it:
18. But when We have promulgated it, follow thou its
recital:
19. Nay more, it is for Us to explain it:
20.
Nay,
(ye men!) but ye love the fleeting life,
21.
And
leave alone the Hereafter.
22. Some faces, that Day, will beam (in brightness and
beauty) -
23. Looking towards their Lord;
24. And some faces, that Day, will be sad and dismal,
25. In the thought that some backbreaking calamity was about
to be inflicted on them;
26. Yea, when (the soul) reaches to the collarbone (in its
exit),
27. And there will be a cry, "Who is a magician (to restore
him)?"
28. And he will conclude that it was (the Time) of Parting;
29. And one leg will be joined with another:
30. The Day the Drive will be (all) to thy Lord!
31. So he gave nothing in charity, nor did he pray! -
32. But on the contrary, he rejected Truth and turned away!
33. Then did he stalk to his family in full conceit!
34. Woe to thee, (O man!), yea, woe!
35. Again, woe to thee, (O man!), yea, woe!
36. Does Man think that he will be left
uncontrolled, (without purpose)?
37. Was he not a drop of sperm emitted (in lowly form)?
38. Then did he become a clinging clot;
Then did (Allah) make and fashion
(him) in due proportion.
39. And of him He made two sexes, male and female.
40. Has not he, (the same), the power to give life to
the dead?
surah
75:1-40 Al Qiyamah (The Resurrection)
(Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an, 1989.)
But You Humans Love The Fleeting,
Fighting, Fundamentalist
Life
Nay, (ye men!) but ye love the fleeting life,
[5821]
And leave alone the Hereafter.
surah 75:20-21 Al Qiyamah
(Abdullah Yusuf Ali,
The Holy Qur'an, Amana Corporation, 1989.)
Smoke billowed out of the
World Trade Center after the first plane hit it. Less than 18 minutes
later, another plane closed in on the other tower.
BBC
"5821. Cf. 21:37. Man loves haste and
things of haste. For that reason he pins his faith on transitory
things that come and go, and neglects the things of lasting moment, which
come slowly, and whose true import will only be fully seen in the
Hereafter."
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an
(Abdullah Yusuf Ali,
The Holy Qur'an, Amana Corporation, 1989.)
The above interpretation is just a casual scratching of the surface. This
verse has much more depth, beauty and prophecy than all the Islamic
theologians could dream of. Allah has just finished informing Prophet
Muhammad that the day of Qiyamah will be announced, recited and even
explained in the future. That would be the beginning of promised
Resurrection for all humans, irrespective of race, religion or creed. The
True Believers (Al-Mu'minun) were expected to look forward to this
Day, comforted and assured that Allah would keep His Promise to come back
to provide detailed instructions for Qiyamah.
Just the mere thought
of Allah returning to announce and explain about Al-Qiyamah would have
kept all the True Believers (Al-Mu'minun) strictly and firmly on
the Straight Path. Moreover, this promise would have been in harmony with
the return of the
Shiite
Imam Mahdi, the Jewish expectation of a Messiah, the
Christian hope for the Comforter, the Hindu anticipation of Shri Kalki and
the Buddhists wait for Matreya. They are all one and the same!
Then the present Explosion of Truth by His Announcement (An-Naba) of
Qiyamah would have sent hundreds of millions of the waiting faithful into
joyous ecstasy and mass celebration of a Divine Promise fulfilled to the
letter by the Holy Qur'an. The entire human family would have begun the
Dance of Eternity on Earth itself. The glorious Qur'an would have been
acknowledged as the Book of Prophecy par excellence, the living Book of
God Almighty!
Alas, the Thieves of Faith
not only abandoned the vigil of the future Revelation of Qiyamah, but also
completely deformed the very verse that Allah most strongly admonished
humans from interference!
But the Almighty Creator knew 1400 years ago that humans would never heed
His Warning for they will have their own worldly pride, doctrines, dogmas,
divisions, ideologies, philosophies, religions, prophets, fanaticism,
quarrels, terrorism, wars, arrogance, ignorance, vanity, hatred,
falsehoods, and so forth.
""The
West's focus on Middle East terrorism is much too narrow," writes
Milton Viorst in his wise, compassionate and brilliant study of Islam,
In the Shadow of the Prophet. "Terrorism is a serious problem, one
that requires constant vigilance. But terrorism is a symptom of
ailments that the social lens must be widened to include. Terrorism is
the cry of a society in disarray, a society which acknowledges that it
has lost its bearings."
Anyone who has spent time in the Middle East or in the
broader world of Islam - which stretches continuously from Mauritania
on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean to Pakistan, and then
discontinuously from Bangladesh through Indonesia to the Philippines
Islands, whose Eastern waters are the Pacific Ocean - will probably
have noticed societies "in disarray," societies whose bearings, if not
lost, are set on a course that can seem at its best utterly alien to
Western sensibility, and at its worst more murderously threatening to
the continued existence of our civilization than anything else in
recorded history."
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And Allah was
absolutely right. Muslims love the fleeting external life and have
forgotten to pursue the internal jihad with all their heart, mind and
soul. Instead their warped interpretation of jihad continues the tradition
of bloodshed and slaughter in the name of Allah. Contrary to the teachings
of Prophet Muhammad and Qur'an, Muslims continue to overwhelmingly support
violence, directly and indirectly. Their collective deafening silence to
violence bears testimony to this accusations.
Entire nations
become violently
enraged by peaceful women like Shah Banu and Taslima Nasrin, but are
satanically quiet to wholesome slaughter and murder in the name of Allah.
Their collective double standards bears testimony to this hypocrisy.
"We need a phrase that is more exact
than "Islamic terror". These acts may be committed by people who call
themselves Muslims, but they violate essential Islamic principles. The
Qur'an prohibits aggressive warfare, permits war only in self-defence and
insists that the true Islamic values are peace, reconciliation and
forgiveness. It also states firmly that there must be no coercion in
religious matters, and for centuries Islam had a much better record of
religious tolerance than Christianity.
Like the Bible, the
Qur'an has its share of aggressive texts, but like all the
great religions, its main thrust is towards kindliness and
compassion. Islamic law outlaws war against any country in
which Muslims are allowed to practice their religion freely,
and forbids the use of fire, the destruction of buildings
and the killing of innocent civilians in a military
campaign. So although Muslims, like Christians or Jews, have
all too often failed to live up to their ideals, it is not
because of the religion per se. ...
Because it is increasingly
recognised that the terrorists in no way represent mainstream Islam, some
prefer to call them jihadists, but this is not very satisfactory.
Extremists and unscrupulous politicians have purloined the word for their
own purposes, but the real meaning of jihad is not "holy war" but
"struggle" or "effort." Muslims are commanded to make a massive attempt on
all fronts - social, economic, intellectual, ethical and spiritual - to
put the will of God into practice.
Sometimes a military effort may be a
regrettable necessity in order to defend decent values, but an oft-quoted
tradition has the Prophet Muhammad saying after a military victory: "We
are coming back from the Lesser Jihad [ie the battle] and returning to the
Greater Jihad" - the far more important, difficult and momentous struggle
to reform our own society and our own hearts." 1
The majority will be the rejecters of the Good News of Al-Qiyamah. Yes,
even if they see all the Signs of Allah, they will not believe
that the
Resurrection has began. Never in the history of humankind has there been
the necessity for the far more important, difficult and momentous struggle
for the Greater Jihad
that the Great Announcement demands.
"I
met a Russian who asked Me why the U.N. was helping the
Muslims in Bosnia. . . . I was shocked at his perception of
Muslims. I have such respect for so many of them. I wish
they could accept that this is not Jihad time anymore but
Qiyamah Time, the Resurrection Time, the Blossom Time. Are
they going to miss it?
Both things are wrong; one has to understand that all these religions were
born on the same tree of spirituality and that people have plucked the
flowers and are fighting with these dead flowers. Of course there are some
absurd things which grew with misinterpretation and interference from
unholy people, which are common in these religions. For example, Jews,
Christian and Muslims believe that when they die their bodies will come
out of their graves and they will all be resurrected at the Time of
Resurrection, at the Time of Last Judgment, at the Time of Qiyamah. It is
illogical to think what will remain inside those graves after five hundred
years. Nobody wants to think and understand that it is not the body but
the soul that will come out of these bodies, be born again as human
beings, and be saved through Qiyamah and Resurrection. Who will tell them?
No one can talk to them. As soon as one wants to talk one can be killed.
This is the only way they know - how to kill.
"Judaism
teaches that man has, since the disobedience of Adam and Eve in the
Garden of Eden, two inclinations in his heart: one good and one evil.
Malevolent dominance is the evil inclination of man's heart.
Christianity has developed its essential doctrine of Original Sin: the
sin of Adam and Eve entailed for all men a loss of spiritual strengths
and qualities by which they could have avoided sin, especially sins of
malevolent dominance. Islam adopted more or less the doctrine of
Judaism with some slight modifications . . .
The religions, therefore, installed at the heart of
their individual systems the basis for a tension and a contradiction:
the absolute perfection demanded of their adherents and the tag of
absolute evil pinned to its contrary evoked necessarily a series of
revolts out of which sprang new polarizations, each claiming - in
imitation of the original - to be the final absolute, the absolute
absolute. Jewish, Christian, and Islamic morality thus could father
violent excesses of moral passion which, of course, automatically,
become excesses of human immorality."
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Malachi Martin, The Encounter
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The greatest problem with the fundamentalists is that they have no
compassion because they do not love Mohammed Sahib, who He was and why He
came on this Earth. They do not know the Reality. They just think that
they are right type of people and that they can kill as many human beings
as they want, and they can create as many problems as they like, and they
can destroy the rest of the people who do not follow their fundamentalism.
We find the fundamentalists do not know the fundamentals of religion and
the people who think that they are very modern also don't know where this
modern mind is going to take them. What a shock is awaited for this modern
man who has lost faith in God. Both ways they try to do things which are
in no way helpful for global peace or for the ascent of human beings by
which they will have their own Peace within their heart.
Actually Hazrat Mohammed never made Islam an exclusive religion in the
Koran. He very respectfully talked about Moses, Abraham, Christ and His
Mother, one after another. Even so Muslims believe they are exclusive.
Jews and Muslims also believer theirs are exclusive religions. There
is another problem - they believe that Mohammed was the exclusive
messenger of God and Christians believe that Christ is the last word,
while Jews believe their Saviour has yet to come. If these Incarnations
were the last ones why did Mohammed say I will send you the twelfth Mahdi?
Also why did Christ say that He wound send the Holy Ghost? We cannot say
how long the Jews are going to wait for their Saviour to come. They are
wailing and crying before the Wailing Wall wearing the Torah in small
amulets, but actually the most important thing for them is to collect the
money that they have lent and buy diamonds at any cost.
"Religious
extremism, regardless of whether or not it has a genuinely religious
basis, is apparent or latent, adopts, provokes or sustains violence or
manifests itself in less spectacular forms of intolerance, constitutes
an unacceptable assault on both freedom and religion. No society,
religion or faith is immune from extremism. However, when extremism
resorts to a frenzy of wanton terrorism and becomes a hideous monster
that kills in the name of God and exterminates in the name of
religion, when it engages in the most despicable acts of barbarity,
and knows no bounds in its cruelty, then silence amounts to complicity
and indifference becomes active collusion. Tolerance of extremism is
tolerance of the intolerable. States in general, and the international
community in particular, are therefore duty-bound to condemn it
unequivocally and to combat it relentlessly. The Special Rapporteur
reiterates his recommendations, that a study be conducted on religious
extremism and that a minimum set of standard rules and principles of
conduct and behaviour in respect of religious extremism be defined and
adopted by the international community."
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Muslims who are not educated enough to understand Koran in original
believe that they are the soldiers of Jihad which is led by some very
clever ego-oriented educated
people. . . . In this Jihad how many Muslims are going to die? On one side
they produce more children to create a Muslim majority and on the other
side they are getting killed by the thousands. The Jihad has become
imminent and the Muslims are a real threat to peace and progress of every
country they live in.
The only way to get over this brutal image is to become a wali or a real
Sufi. This is what Muslims need the achievement of peaceful existence
through Self-Realization. The same is the case with Jews and Christians.
They believe in the same Bible, Muslims believe in the Old Testament as
well as the Jews, but they nevertheless kill each other. It is painful and
extremely heart wrenching that when in the whole world people have been
able to enter the Kingdom of God as promised, all these fundamentalists of
different religions are killing each other. May God bless them with sanity
and wisdom. They should get their second birth. 'Know thyself' is the
beginning of ascent."
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Continue:
Part 1: But you humans love the fleeting, fighting life
Part 2: So that even though they see all the
Signs
Part 3: And if they see the Way of
Righteousness
Part 4: But when they see the Path of
Straying
Part 5: Those who behave arrogantly on the
Earth
Part 6: Iblis: "I will cause them all to
deviate!"
LAA
UQSIM BI-YAWM AL-QIYAMAH;
WA-LAA UQSIM BI-AN-NAFSAL-LAWWAAMAH
I do
call to witness the Resurrection Day;
And I do call to witness the
self-reproaching Spirit.
Of what
are they asking one another?
(Is it) of the Great Announcement, about which they
have been differing?
They will indeed come to know soon;
They will indeed come to know soon.
surah 78:1-40 Al Naba'
(The Announcement)
(Ahmad Ali, Islam: The Qur'an, Princeton University
Press, 1988)
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Karen Armstrong, Guardian Unlimited, July 11, 2005
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