THE WORD OF GOD — From The Scriptures

THE WORD OF GOD THE DAY OF RESURRECTION In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful By the Day of Resurrection, and by the self-reproaching soul! Does man think that We cannot (resurrect him and) bring his bones together again? Indeed, We have the power to restore his very finger tips! Yet man wants to deny what is ahead of him: he asks, ‘When is this Day of Resurrection to be?’ But (on that Day), when mortal sight is confounded, and the moon is eclipsed, when the sun and the moon are brought together, on that Day man will ask, ‘Where can I escape?’ But there is nowhere to take refuge: on that Day, to your Lord alone is the recourse. On that Day, man will be told of all that he has sent before and what he has left behind. Indeed, man shall be a witness against himself, in spite of all the excuses he may offer. 75: 1-15 Man has the innate capacity to distinguish between good and evil. By his very nature, he wants anyone indulging in evil to be punished and, anyone doing righteous deeds to be rewarded. It is this consciousness which is called in the Quran the self-reproaching soul or an-nafs allawwamah. This faculty bears testimony at the psychological level, to the reality of the world of the Hereafter. If, in spite of this inner testimony, an individual does not fulfil its demands, it means that he negates what he has already accepted. [Prophet], do not move your tongue too fast in your attempt to learn this revelation: We Our self shall see to its collection and recital. When T HE Quran is the book of God. It has been preserved in its entirety since its revelation to the Prophet of Islam between 610 and 632 A.D. It is a book that brings glad tidings to mankind, along with divine admonition, and stresses the importance of man’s discovery of the Truth on a spiritual and intellectual level. Translated from Arabic and commentary by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan