اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ
اَعُوْذُبِااللّٰہِ مِنَ الشَّیْطٰنِ الرَّجِيْم
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
*_Today’s Thought for the day is from Surah An-Nahl Ayat 24 & 25_*
*وَاِذَا قِيۡلَ لَهُمۡ مَّاذَاۤ اَنۡزَلَ رَبُّكُمۡۙ قَالُـوۡۤا اَسَاطِيۡرُ الۡاَوَّلِيۡنَۙ.(24)*
*لِيَحۡمِلُوۡۤا اَوۡزَارَهُمۡ كَامِلَةً يَّوۡمَ الۡقِيٰمَةِۙ وَمِنۡ اَوۡزَارِ الَّذِيۡنَ يُضِلُّوۡنَهُمۡ بِغَيۡرِ عِلۡمٍؕ اَلَا سَآءَ مَا يَزِرُوۡنَ.(25)*
*_When they are asked: What has your Lord sent down? they say: Tales of the ancients.(24)_*
*_Hence on the Day of Resurrection they will bear the full weight of their own burdens, as well as some of the burdens of those without knowledge, whom they misled. Miserable indeed will be their burden.(25)_*
اور جب ان (کافروں) سے کہا جاتا ہے کہ تمہارے پروردگار نے کیا اتارا ہے تو کہتے ہیں کہ (وہ تو) پہلے لوگوں کی حکایتیں ہیں.(24)
(اے پیغمبر ان کو بکنے دو) یہ قیامت کے دن اپنے (اعمال کے) پورے بوجھ بھی اٹھائیں گے اور جن کو یہ بےتحقیق گمراہ کرتے ہیں ان کے بوجھ بھی اٹھائیں گے۔ سن رکھو کہ جو بوجھ اٹھا رہے ہیں برے ہیں.(25)
The Ayat describes the arrogant nature of the disbelievers and their misleading behaviour with regard to the Qur’an.‼️ Whenever outsiders came to visit Makkah, they would naturally make inquiries with disbelieving Quraysh about the Quran, which the Prophet (peace be upon him) declared, was being sent down to him by Allah Azzawajal. *Those arrogant Quraysh leaders with hardened, unresponsive hearts and cunning nature used to to create doubts about the Qur’an by saying . that it contained merely fairy tales of the ancients which created doubts in the minds of the inquirers.* _Their purpose was to mislead them and see that they should not take any interest in the message of the Prophet (peace be upon him). They gave this opinion and called their followers to adopt it; hence they carry their own burden and the burden of all those who follow them until the Day of Resurrection._
*_Act of the Day is:_* to understand that the Qur’ān is indeed a blessing and a cure for the diseases of the heart, it addresses the minds and souls, deals with life situations, human behaviour, social interactions as well as people’s conditions, past, present and future.‼️ *Thus these wicked arrogant defiants of the truth entirely flipped the facts and held a malicious campaign against the Qur’an.* _Indeed the arrogant among the Quraysh were not the first to deny the truth or to scheme against it. A similar campaign is organized in every generation by arrogant people who do not wish to submit to the truth despite all the evidence supporting it._
These chiefs and leaders who are misleading the people will not only be bearing their own burdens of sins undiminished but will also have to bear the burdens of sins of those whom they had misled. In a hadith, the Prophet (Sallal Lahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) has stated:
*_“And he who invited (others) towards misguidance, on him there will be the burden of sins in the same way as it will be on those who followed him, without there being any diminishing in their sins.”_* -(Muslim)
—To understand that the root cause of most deviations is ignorance and the enemy of the truth usually exploits the ignorance of the people in their propaganda. Hence it is incumbent upon every believer to struggle and strive to obtain the right and correct knowledge of the Deen.
*_May Allah Subhanahu wa taa’la grant us true understanding of the Deen and save us from getting mislead and going astray. Aa’meen Ya’Rabbul Aa’lameen._*
JazaK Allâhu khair!