.: Ramadan Reflections :. Day 10/Juz 10:- And among them are those who made a covenant with Allah , [saying], If He should give us from His bounty, we will surely spend in charity, and we will surely be among the righteous. But when he gave them from His bounty, they were stingy with it and turned away, averse. So He penalized them with hypocrisy in their hearts until the Day they will meet Him - because they failed Allah in what they promised Him and because they [habitually] used to lie. [al-Tawbah: 75-77] How often do people make promises to Allah, but the moment they get what they want, they turn away? How often do people cry and plead with Allah, beg Him in their duas, and earnestly ask for His Favours, but the moment they attain the pleasures of this world, they relapse and its as if they had never entered such a state of iftiqar (dire need) or called upon Him with such yearning? This is the example given above, where Man lies to Allah and lies to himself, saying If You give me this, then I shall do that. But Man does not live up to his side of the promise, especially if he is rebellious or disobedient (as mentioned in the last reflection of Juz 9), so punishment follows him. The verse is interesting because Allah `azza wa jall says that He punishes such a person with hypocrisy in their hearts, because nifaq and being two-faced is actually a punishment (in this life and the Next). It torments the person and creates such internal instability and turmoil that a person cant even live with himself let alone be at peace with himself. Allah says aqabahum meaning to punish them, but the word is also from the root aqaba which means something that comes in the end or follows a certain deed, and this highlights 2 things: 1 - That the evil of something is not always seen straight away, but its an end-result which can come upon a person especially when they think theyre safe from their misdeed. 2 - The punishment is not hastened upon a person and this gives them time to repent and mend their ways, as punishments are always a last resort after someone has persisted in their evil, wallahu alam. May Allah protect us from false oaths, from committing lies against Him, from hypocrisy, and from all evils of the heart, ameen.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 07:41:29 +0000
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