اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ
اَعُوْذُبِااللّٰہِ مِنَ الشَّیْطٰنِ الرَّجِيْم
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
*_Today’s Thought for the day is from Surah An-Nahl Ayah 70_*
*وَ اللّٰہُ خَلَقَکُمۡ ثُمَّ یَتَوَفّٰىکُمۡ ۟ ۙ وَ مِنۡکُمۡ مَّنۡ یُّرَدُّ اِلٰۤی اَرۡذَلِ الۡعُمُرِ لِکَیۡ لَا یَعۡلَمَ بَعۡدَ عِلۡمٍ شَیۡئًا ؕ اِنَّ اللّٰہَ عَلِیۡمٌ قَدِیۡرٌ(70)*
_*”And Allah created you, then HE will cause you to die. And among you is he who is sent back to the most abject*_ (extremely unpleasant) *_old age so that he will not know a thing, after having had knowledge. Indeed, Allah is All-knowing, All-powerful.”(70)_*
اور دیکھو ، اللہ نے تم کو پیدا کیا ، پھر وہ تم کو موت دیتا ہے ، اور تم میں سے کوئی بدترین عمر کو پہنچا دیا جاتا ہے تاکہ سب کچھ جاننے کے بعد پھر کچھ نہ جانے ۔ حق یہ ہے کہ اللہ ہی علم میں بھی کامل ہے اور قدرت میں بھی.(70)
Through the words of the present Ayah, they have been invited to ponder over the very state they are in.‼️
_Besides the mystery and beauty of the many processes going on in the working of Allah’sﷻ Creation, there is the wonderful life of man himself on this earth; *How he is created as a child; How he grows in intelligence and knowledge; and How his soul is taken back and his body suffers dissolution.*_
_In some cases he lives so long that he falls into a feeble old age like a second childhood; he forgets what he learnt and seems almost to go back in Time. *Knowledge, which gives superiority to man over all creatures on this Earth, has been given by Allahﷻ.* “We have seen that; when a man, who once possessed much knowledge, becomes very old, he is reduced to a mere lump of flesh. Then that man who once taught knowledge to others loses all his senses and cannot look even after his own self”. *Complete knowledge of Everything is only with Allahﷻ, who is everlasting.* Is not all this wonderful, and evidence of the Knowledge and Power of Allahﷻ? SubhaanAllah!_
The Noble Prophet SAWS always prayed: *_’0 Allah, I seek refuge with You from the evil of age_*’ and according to another narration: *_’0 Allah, I seek refuge with you from that I be carried to the worst part of the age._*’
*_Act for the Day is:_* _To draw our attention to the remarkable transformations in life and nature, by which the Knowledge and Power of Allahﷻ work out HIS beneficent Plan for HIS feeble creatures, and we are reminded that man at best is but feeble creature, but for the Grace of Allahﷻ._
*_Allahﷻ has full power over our life and death. None else has any power to give life or cause death. All this lies within the power of that sole Being in whose divinity there is no partner or associate._* It means that from knowledge HEﷻ knows everyone’s age, and from power HEﷻ does what He wills. If HEﷻ wills, HEﷻ can have a strong youngman be overtaken by the signs of the worst part of old age, and should HEﷻ so will, even a hundred-year old aged man could remain a strong youngman.
*_May Allah Subhanahu wa taa’la grant us the ability to reflect upon our weaknesses and always make us remain humble and obedient to HIS commands and gain HIS pleasure. Aa’meen Ya’Rabbul Aa’lameen_*
JazaK Allâhu Khair!