Allah’s Countenance Is On Each Side

 

God’s Signs can be seen everywhere (L-141)

وَلِلَّهِ المَشرِقُ وَالمَغرِبُ ۚ فَأَينَما تُوَلّوا فَثَمَّ وَجهُ اللَّهِ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ واسِعٌ عَليمٌ115.

115.  Wa  Lillaahil-Mashriqu wal-Magrib;  Fa-‘aynamaa tu-walluu fa-samma waj-Hullaah.   ‘InnAllaaha  Waasi-‘un ‘Aliim.

115.  Unto Allah belong the East and the West, and whithersoever you turn, there is Allah’s Countenance. Lo! Allah is All-Embracing, All-Knowing.

Waj-hu – literally it means “Face”. Its other meanings are body, person, kind, nature. So it aims that “to which side you will turn; God Almighty exists there”. Wherever you will go you will find Allaah there. The East and the West, the North and the South, all belong to Allaah Almighty.

During the times of Ignorance, the people had faith, “Allaah Almighty is also under the bondage of Time and Space, so we should turn our bodies towards that particular side”. They used to suppose such direction at their own, and after turning their faces to that side, they used to worship. In this matter, there was a dispute also among the Children of Israel and the Christians themselves. Every religious group had fixed a direction and they considered that such direction was better.

Holy Qur’an refuted this false belief of theirs and commanded that Allaah Almighty is neither limited in any enclosure of particular space of worship, nor He is imprisoned in any place or direction, but wherever He will be called with purity and sincerity He will be attentive. He does not belong particularly to any particular place, city or direction.

God Almighty likes neither only the East, and nor only the West but all the directions are of Him. He has already surrounded the entire Universe. He is unlimited. He exists everywhere. So by turning unto any place or side, when and where He will be called with sincerity, He shall be attentive. He knows very well that who calls Him with the true heart and who calls Him only to show others.

One reason of the Revelation regarding this verse is narrated as it that; because it is difficult for the traveler and the rider to know the direction of the Inviolable Place of Worship at Makkah, so for that time, it has been commanded that by turning on which direction you will worship, that will be accepted because God Almighty masterly exists in every direction and every place. Accordingly, this is the matter that; if you do not know the correct direction of the Inviolable Place of Worship at Makkah, you must offer prayer by turning unto such direction to which your heart witnesses. And if you are riding on any conveyance, and direction of conveyance changes, you should continue and complete your voluntary (Nafl) prayer.

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