Worship your Lord, Who created you & those before you
Surah ‘Al-Baqarah (The Cow) – Chapter – 2)
Stage – 1, Verses – 21 &
22 of 286, Section – 3 of 40 (Part - 1)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
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21. O mankind! Worship
your Lord, Who hath created you and those before you, so that ye may ward off
(evil).
22. Who
hath appointed the earth a resting-place for you, and the sky a canopy; and
causeth water to pour down from the sky, thereby producing fruits as food for
you. And do not set up rivals to Allah when ye know (better).
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21. Yaaa-‘ayyu-han-naasu’-buduu Rabba-kumullazii, khalaqa-kum wallaziina min qablikum la-‘allakum tattaquun.
22. ‘Allazii ja-‘ala lakumul-‘arza firaa-shanw- was-samaaa-‘a binaaa’aa. Wa ‘anzala
minas-samaaa-‘i maaa-‘an- fa-‘akh-raja bihii minas-sama-raati rizqal-lakum. Falaa
taj-‘aluu LIl-laahi ‘andaadanw-wa ‘antum ta’-lamuun.
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Lesson
Tattaquun - You may ward off (evil). Your habit of
living with care and having fear of God in your hearts may become strong. It is
called abstinence.
An-naasu – Mankind, people. It is the first time in
Holy Qur’aan (in this verse) that God
Almighty has claimed and addressed the people with the words ‘O mankind! As if
He has claimed from all the mankind to worship Him.
- U’-buduu –
Worship, pray, it means obeying the Orders of God with humility and
respectfully which is called worship and obedience. Prayer, Fasting, Zakaat (poor-due), and Pilgrimage are
vital parts of worship but worship does not end on only these parts. It belongs
to entire life also.
In the beginning of this Surah, good
manners of temperate were explained and were told that guidance is for those
people who have fear of God in their hearts. After the explanation of Sobers,
condition of Infidels was discussed and then remarks on Hypocrites were
cleared. Now all the Human Beings are addressed because after the mention of
above three types of mankind, fondness to become a Sober really should have
been grown in the individual. So root path of having fear of God is now being
cleared.
Here calling the entire people, it has been told that real foundation of all
the Orders and Fidelity of Islam is to recognize the Lord. First cause to create
the mankind is that he should seek his Lord, he should recognize Him from His
open Tokens, he should worship only Him and ask Him for success in this world
and on the Day of Resurrection, because He created the mankind, He brought up
His creature in every time and taught the human being the ways of promotion according
to their abilities.
The first sign of the
Lord is that He created you and all of them who have expired before you. Only
from this acquaintance, the path of fearing from God opens. God has no personal
advantage in worshiping Him. But the mankind has a lot of advantages from it.
Worship removes distress of fancies of the human being. And he gets opportunity
to draw the attention towards realities.
Firaa-shan - Resting-place. God has appointed the
earth as our resting-place because He is the Creator of all the creatures.
‘Andaadan – Rivals, partners, co-sharers, confederates.
Allah Almighty is Alone God. There is none His plural or partner, so the
mankind should not set up rivals to Him.
In this verse, it is stated that the virtue of God to create, works in the
earth or mother’s womb and the person cannot see it. So other virtues which are
open are explained so that every individual - younger or older may think about
it.
Keeping the mankind in
existence, He produces causes for its existence and to carry the life of
mankind to its last stage gradually, is only in the powers of his Lord ‘God
Almighty’. Here it is told that He is Lord of the mankind and He has collected
all sources to keep him in existence after his birth. In this connection, following
things come in front of us for meditation:
1.
The earth, on which we
live and move, is the resting place spread by Allah Almighty.
2.
The sky, which has been
put over the heads of mankind by God; like canopy of tent and which is the best
source of light.
3.
For arrangement of the food
and water for daily use of mankind, produces fruits of different colors by
showering down the rains from skies, which the mankind eats and drinks water.
So it is proved that the mankind is indigent of his Lord to remain alive.
So he should perceive “the Worshiped” to that Lord. It is also told in this
verse that the Lord Who has all these virtues, His name is Allah Almighty. The
mankind should not make any partner or co-sharer of Allah. In this verse, God, after
admonishing and telling the mankind His blessings and pities, ordered to
Worship Him and made him also to understand the acquaintance of Him, so that he
may worship Him after knowing Him. Without acquaintance the worshipper cannot
get the fear of God in his heart.
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