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 9_*
*وَ عَلَی اللّٰہِ قَصۡدُ السَّبِیۡلِ وَ مِنۡہَا جَآئِرٌ ؕ وَ لَوۡ شَآءَ لَہَدٰىکُمۡ اَجۡمَعِیۡنَ(9)*
*_It is for Allah to show the straight path, and there are [other] paths which deviate from the right course. If He had so willed, He could have guided all of you.(9)_*
اور اللہ ہی کے ذمہ ہے سیدھا راستہ بتانا جب کہ راستے ٹیڑھے بھی موجود ہیں ۔ اگر وہ چاہتا تو تم سب کو ہدایت دے دیتا.(9)
_This contains an argument for Prophethood along with a *proof of Tauhid and of Allah’s Compassion and Providence‼️*_ _The argument is this: There are many divergent ways of thought and action open for man to choose from. Obviously all these divergent ways cannot be straight ways, because there can be only one straight way; therefore, there can be only one right theory of life which is based on that way, and only one right way of life which is based on that right theory ._
_Thus it is clear that the choice of the right way of life is man’s most important and basic need, for its wrong choice would inevitably lead to his ruin. Here a question arises: *”Why didn’t Allah will to guide all the people aright inherently when He had taken upon Himself to show the Right Way?”* It is true that Allah could have imbued Man, like other creatures, with the inborn instinct and enabled him to choose the Right Way without conscious thought, experience or teaching. But this would have been against His will which was to create a being, having will and power and freedom to follow the Right Way or the wrong way, whichever he chose for himself. This is why he has been endowed with different means of knowledge and powers of conscious thought, deliberation and will, and has been empowered with the authority to make use of all powers in him and all things around him._
*_Act for the Day is:_* to understand clearly that Apart from tawheed or monotheism, which is the path of Islam, no other path is straight, but that all other paths are tortuous, and they do not lead up to Allah Azzawajal.‼️ _HE SWT has placed in a human and all around him such factors as might lead him to guidance or deviation. All these things would have become meaningless, had he been created righteous by birth, and he could never have attained the heights of progress, which can be achieved only by the right use of freedom. *That is why Allah Azzawajal has chosen Prophethood for Man’s guidance, and left him free to follow or reject a Prophet. This is a test by means of which Allah judges whether Man accepts the guidance that is presented to him.*_
_*Finally, it is important to understand that Allah Azzawajal could have forced all to the true Way, but in HIS Will and Plan is the training of man’s will, and that is done by the signs in nature and Revelation.*_
_So let’s try our best to READ both the books everyday, one – the open book, which is the Nature around us! And the closed book – Which is Al Qur’an, the revelation and find the right path for ourselves._
*_May Allah Subhanahu wa taa’la grant us the ability to ponder and reflect upon the clean fitrah and us upon the straight path. Aa’meen Ya’Rabbul Aa’lameen._*
JazaK Allâhu Khair!