Lesson # 889 from the Noble Quran
How God did multiply you
Surah ‘A’-RAAF (The Heights) – Chapter – 7)
Stage – 2, Verse – 86b of 206, Section – 11 of
24 (Part - 8)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the
Merciful
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And remember, when ye were but few, how He did
multiply you. And see the nature of the consequence for the corrupters!
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Waz-kuruuu ‘iz kuntum
qaliilan fakas-sarakum. Wan-zuruu
kayfa kaana ‘aaqi-batul-muf-siduun.
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Lesson
Summary of the
teachings of God’s Messengers (peace be upon Them) and His Scriptures is that
there is no other way of mankind’s prosperity, success and wellness than that
he should know his Creator; God Almighty and get ready to obey His Commands
whole-heartily, and he should not listen to anyone against Him. He should consider
himself Satan or an individual entrapped in his snare who causes to understand
him save this path. And one should reject his word totally. The easiest way to
know Allah Almighty is this, which has been described in this verse in the form
of the Saying of Prophet Shu-aib
(peace be upon Him).
It is
commanded that Prophet Shu-aib (peace
be upon Him) said to His nation: Think about it, when you were only a handful
people before now. You had very less quantities of the goods, which you needed
for your life. After that, you became a very powerful nation. Your enumeration
of population was increased very much, and as well as, the stacks of life
equipage were piled with you.
Now you are a
rich and honorable nation. You can understand easily from this improvement that
it was a big favor of Allah Almighty, which He granted to you. If He had not
done acts of kindness on you, you would have adopted such ways, due to which,
you would have remained without children and suffered scarcity of the
necessities of life. You should think about those people also who were before
you. They forgot Allah Almighty, adopted bad habits and corruption spread in
the world due to their wicked deeds. Peace and safety was removed. At last,
they were ruined and removed from the page of the world like a wrong word.
If none of
mankind will believe in Allah Almighty, the people will consider that family
breed and financial developments are consequence of knowledge and attempt, then
nothing efficacious will remain more, which may resist the mischief. Everyone presumes
that he is powerful than others. Incumbent result of which is that every individual
begins to consider other people inferior to him and tries to keep them under
pressure.
Obviously, no
one is ready to remain inferior to any other and everyone is engaged to
increase own power and strength. Resultant, everyone tries to collect the
equipment of destruction for other people in spite of spending his wealth, strength
and attempt in useful humanitarian works and projects. His wealth and strength
is wasted in collection of the equipment of destruction. If now, there was war,
then all were killed. Otherwise if the war did not take place, then goods for
life continued to be less. The point of dying reached. Finally, both forms can
bring nothing save ruin.
This advice of
Prophet Shu-aib (peace be upon Him)
is useful, even today too as it was then. There are own sensual desires only,
which resist from accepting it. Selfish person is not ready to consider other
people equal to him easily. Therefore, he is inclined to tyrannize and trouble
others to fulfill his own wishes.
