[Do you then wonder at This Statement (i.e. the Qur`ān)?And you laugh and do not weep!Wasting your lifetime in pastime and amusements] Najm:59-61 Subḥān Allah. What do you do with yourself after reading these āyāt?! Knowing that half our time is spent “killing” boredom, and the other half is spent procrastinating.And whenever the topic of procrastination comes up, we end up joking about it and laughing it off not realising the seriousness of our ill choices in spending our precious…
[Those who are misers and enjoin upon people miserliness. And whosoever turns away, then Allah is Rich, the Praiseworthy] Ḥadīd:24 There are two types of misers: those who abstain from giving charity. And those who abstain from remembering Allah (obeying Him and worshipping Him). And thus, at the end of this āyah Allah tells us that He is Al Ghany (الغني) – The Rich – if we don’t give charity which was intended to purify us, He does not…
Īmān is not a cloak to be taken off and put back on as dictated by desires. Neither is it a thing segregated to the heart. [And when they meet those who believe, they say, “We believe”; but when they are alone with their evil ones, they say, “Indeed, we are with you; we were only mocking.”] Baqarah:14 Notice how the hypocrites were those who used their flawed idea of Īmān as a cloak? Not necessarily how they dressed, but…
[Say, “Is it other than Allah that you order me to worship, O ignorant ones?”] Zumar:64 Regardless of how much scientific, technological, medical, intellectual, what, advancement they have, they’ll always remain ignorant (jāhil) if they remain worshipping their false gods. A look into books of tafsīr: To understand why those who worship other than Allāh are called ignorant we look at the āyāt preceding the above āyah. We learn that the preceding āyāt talk about the creation of the heavens…