Life at Islam and death at Islam (L-430)
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يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِۦوَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنتُم مُّسْلِمُونَ 102. |
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102. Yaaa-‘ayyuhal-laziina ‘aa-manuttaqUllaaha
haqqa tuqaa-tiHii wa laa tamuutunna ‘illaa
wa ‘antum-Muslimuun. |
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102. O you who believe! Revere God with due reverence, and
do not die except as Muslims. |
Auspicious Existence of the Messenger of God (ﷺ) and blessings of his company were described in the previous lesson. In addition, it was explained that how a Muslim could go to the darkness of Infidelity after getting the light of Belief, in the presence of God’s Beloved Messenger Muhammad (ﷺ) and his teachings. The Muslims are being preached in this verse, “Observe your duty to God with right observance, and die not save as those who have surrendered (unto Him) so that God keep you steadfast on the path of guidance.
Haqqa tuqaa-tiHii - (with right observance), we should fear God as though and so much as we have to Observe our duty to Him with right observance. It has been explained many times earlier about God fearing, abstinence, piety, and the word “Taqwaa” has also been used individually.
Taqwaa is the Soul of Islam and Belief, because it is difficult to spring up the Islamic characteristics and chaste life without living with virtuousness, care and looking after. Therefore, God commanded here, “Observe your duty to God with right observance, and die not save as those who have surrendered unto Him”. As though, Messenger of God (ﷺ) said himself, “Belief is in between the Fear and the Hope”. The earth and the skies, sun and moon, rivers and mountains, forests and greensward, animals, vegetation and plants, minerals, fossils and stones etc, on the whole, the entire existing things have been created by God and are in His holding. Any atom of the world cannot move hither to thither without His order. Life and death of the human beings is in His Hand and their standing and sitting, walking and moving is in His Jurisdiction. Living in poverty and prosperity is according to written fate by God. Briefly speaking, every ordinary movement of the human beings is in the Power and authority of God. Therefore, whose right observance on the human life can be more than God? While the mankind is indigent of God for his life and its continuance on every step, then it is necessary for him to be frightened from God as much as He has the right to be afraid of Him.
In the second piece of the verse,
God commanded to the Muslims,
“and die not save as those who have surrendered (unto Him)”, do not do any act
contrary to Islam, your life and death should be purely at Islam, it is due
upon you that you should not die until you become a true and perfect Muslim. In
other words, it means that, you should remain living with Islamic glory every
second and every minute. Who does know that when the death comes? Infidelity,
devilishness, greed and selfishness should never cause to winnow near oneself
during the lifetime. This is the form only by which we can come out with credit
in the obedience of His Order that we should Live for Islam and Die for Islam.
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