اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ
اَعُوْذُبِااللّٰہِ مِنَ الشَّیْطٰنِ الرَّجِيْم
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
*_Today’s Thought for the day is from Surah Ibrahim Ayah 30_*
*وَجَعَلُوۡا لِلّٰهِ اَنۡدَادًا لِّيُـضِلُّوۡا عَنۡ سَبِيۡلِهٖؕ قُلۡ تَمَتَّعُوۡا فَاِنَّ مَصِيۡرَكُمۡ اِلَى النَّارِ.(30)*
*_They set up rivals to Allah, to lead people astray from His path. Say [O Muhammad]: Take your pleasure now, for verily your journey’s end will be the fire.(30)_*
اور ان لوگوں نے خدا کے شریک مقرر کئے کہ (لوگوں کو) اس کے رستے سے گمراہ کریں۔ کہہ دو کہ (چند روز) فائدے اٹھا لو آخرکار تم کو دوزخ کی طرف لوٹ کر جانا ہے.(30)
Allah Subhanahu wa taa’la issues a warning through His Messenger SAWS to those who mislead people from the path of Tawheed by setting up partners against HIM.‼️ *These people earned the wrath of Allah Azzawajal by exchanging HIS blessing of a Messenger sent to them with disbelief.* _The Messenger SAWS called on them to believe in Allah Azzawajal Alone and not to associate partners with HIM, but they abandoned all this._
1)They placed their false deities in a position equal to that of Allah Azzawajal, and offered worship to them as they would offer it to HIM.
2)They submitted to these false deities as they would submit to HIM, and
3)They attributed to them some of the attributes that belonged only and exclusively to Allah Azzawajal Alone. *Thus they lead people astray from the only straight path leading to Allah Subhanahu wa taa’la, the only deity in the universe.*_Hence the Prophet SAWS is told to make it clear to them that they may enjoy themselves in this life as they please, but that this enjoyment will last only for the limit HE SWT has determined. The eventual outcome is well known and their abode shall be in the put of Fire. As Allah Azzawajal said in another Ayah, *“We let them enjoy for a little while, then in the end We shall force them to (enter) a great torment.”(31:24)*_
*_Act of the Day is:_* to understand that faith based on Allah Azzawajal’s oneness represents a threat to the power and vested interests of tyrannical forces in every generation, not merely in this first period of jāhiliyyah when the Prophet SAWS preached his message.‼️ *Whenever people turn away from the pure faith based on Allah Azzawajal’s oneness, whatever shape this may take, and assign their leadership to others, they revert to a state of un-Islam, or jāhiliyyah.* _In such a state, people surrender their own freedom and personality, follow their desires and implement laws enacted on the basis of their leaders’ desires instead of deriving them from Allah Azzawajal’s revelations._ *In such a situation the advocacy of Allah Azzawajal’s oneness becomes a threat to those chiefs and their interests.* _Hence, they try to avert this threat in every way open to them. In older forms of jāhiliyyah, this took the shape of adopting false deities, claiming that they were equal to Allah Subhanahu wa taa’la. In our present time, it takes the form of implementing man-made laws that permit what Allah SWT has not permitted and prohibit what HE SWT has made lawful._
*_May Allah Subhanahu wa taa’la grant us the true understanding of the Deen and safeguard us from every form of Shirk and save us from going astray. Aa’meen Ya’Rabbul Aa’lameen_*
JazaK Allâhu khair!