Quran Chapter
7 – 171 (Pt-9, Stg-2) (L-1050) - درس قرآن
History is an exemplary
lesson
Chapter ‘Al-‘A’raaf (The
Heights) – Surah – 7)
‘A-‘uu-zu Billaahi minash-Shay-taanir- Rajiim.
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful)
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful)
Holy Qur’an has
put before us the circumstances of the former people, not as successive history
or complete stories, but at different occasions, those circumstances have been
described again and again in different ways; from which, we may learn something
and any new useful matter may be known for dwelling. Till this time, the
circumstances of Prophet Adam, Noah, Hud, Salih,
Lot, Shoaib and Moses (peace be upon Them) have been explained
in this Chapter, and in every incident; many useful things exist for us.
Particularly, we should learn much from the circumstance of the Children of
Israel. These people were present at that time; when foundation of human
civilization was being laid in that period. They were being taught “how to live
straight forward and peacefully, and those evils were being brought to fore, in
which germs of human destruction were hidden.
There is no doubt in this matter
that if the Children of Israel had obeyed the Commands of Torah with true
heart, then this dangerous map of the world would not have existed, which, we
have been looking now. Entire responsibility of putting the human being on
wrong path is on the same nation, who is called Israelite, the Children of
Israel or the Jews. The Holy Qur’an has placed their necessary
circumstances in front of us opened. First aim from it is to induce the Jews
unto a sense of their responsibility, along with it, it is a stress for us that
if they do not accept, you should abstain absolutely from their inhumanity
acts, so that; you may produce for the mankind; correct way of living in this
world, and may show yourselves as being an example of it. And which
responsibility was given to the Jews but they could not perform, now you should
complete it and prove yourself worthy of the title of “A Good Nation”.
In the previous lessons, attention
was drawn to the invaluable benefits from time to time, which we can acquire
from the circumstances of the Children of Israel. At this stage, while the
circumstances of the Children of Israel have ended in this Chapter, we should
pay attention to those particular matters due to which, the Children of Israel
were deprived of being leaders of the mankind. And presently, they have no work
to do in the world save spreading the temptation and destruction of the
humanity:
They considered that only the life of this world is everything. And
despite losing the power of sovereignty, they remained in this effort that
helter shelter, they should obtain the mastery and honor over others.
The result of which was nothing except that they spread confusion and disorder.
Collecting the wealth and property
and hoarding it with themselves had become their habit, and they engaged in the
effort of making and keeping other people as their necessitous. It was the
result that two permanent classes were in existence into them i.e. the rich and
the poor. Those two classes will remain existent always and the rich will press
the poor.
Nowadays, which tension has been
spreading among the capitalists and the laborers in the world and both classes
have been trying to choke each other, and have been frightening to one another
with atomic weapons, these entire are the results of the Jewish mindset.
All these things are necessary for
us to avoid. We should not be involved in mutual antagonism like the Jews, but
should sow the seed of co-operation, alliance and unity among ourselves;
keeping the Islamic principle of equation and human brotherhood in front of us.
Holy Qur’an does
not tell the history of the nations but describes the science of the history
that “What can be learnt from the life of the nations”?
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