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Tue 13 Jumada Al Akhira 1445AH 26-12-2023AD at 7:32 am #90745
Tafseer ul Qur’aan
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
Juz 2-Surah Al Baqarah-152
فَاذْكُرُوْنِيْۤ اَذْكُرْكُمْ وَا شْکُرُوْا لِيْ وَلَا تَكْفُرُوْنِ
💡”So remember Me; I will remember you. And be grateful to Me and do not deny Me.”
📍 [1] Mak-hul reports that he asked Ibn
Umar, ‘What do you say about a person who is a murderer, drinks wine, commits theft, fornicates, but he remembers God.’ Ibn
Umar replied, ‘Allah also remembers him but with curses, until he gives up (those vile practices).’ Ibn `Abbas has said, ‘Allah’s remembrance is not like your remembrance. It is of a great magnitude.’ And a hadīth recorded by Bukhari says that Allah says,“Allah says, I am by slaves hopes and I am with him when he remembers me. When he remembers Me quietly to himself, I remember him in a group better than him. And, if he gets closer to Me by the span of a hand, I get closer to him by a foot. If he gets closer to Me by a foot I get closer by a yard. And if he walks to Me, I run toward him” (Ibn Kathir).
Actually, Ibn Kathir quotes a hadīth from Musnad Ahmad of the same meaning (Au.).
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id ibn Jubayr has said: Whoever did not obey his Lord, did not remember Him, irrespective of how many rosaries (tasbih) he did, how much he chanted the greatness of God, and however much he recited the Qur’ān. Abu
Uthman was asked: “Why is it that we remember Allah but do not feel its sweet effects on our hearts?” He said, “Thank Allah that He has (at least) inspired a member of your body to His obedience” (Qurtubi).Alusi writes: There are three ways of conducting “dhikr” (remembrance). First: with the tongue, which is to say thanks, chant Allah’s Glory, sing His Greatness, recite the Qur’ān etc. Second: with the heart (and mind) which is to think and discover the wisdom behind various obligations of Islam, to contemplate over the rewards and punishment in the Hereafter, to understand the Attributes of Allah, and unravel Divine secrets. And third: to keep every limb and joint of the body engaged in acts approved by Allah, and restrain them from the prohibited acts. Razi has a similar statement to make.
Yusuf Ali adds: “The word ‘remember’ is too pale a word to describe ‘zikr’… ‘zikr’ represents both a solemn ritual and a spiritual state of mind or heart in which the devotee seeks to realize the presence of Allah.”
Because the opposite of gratitude is ingratitude, Allah forbids its opposite and says: (and do not be ungrateful)What is meant by ingratitude here is the opposite of gratitude; it is ingratitude for and denial of blessings, and the failure to appreciate them and fulfil one’s duties with regard to them. It may be understood as being general in meaning, hence ingratitude is of many types, the most serious of which is disbelief in Allah, then sins of different types, such as associating others with Allah and sins that are less serious than that.
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اَلْحَمْدُ لِـلّٰـهِ رَبِّ الْعٰلَمِيْنَ
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