SURAH AL ANAAM

أ�نعام ال سورة

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Ruku No 1:• Revealed at one sitting during last years of Mecca, with complement of 70,000 angels.

• Rationale of Tauheed.

• Reasons of rise and fall of nations ……. Continuing Sunnah of Allah(SWT) ….. Abundance

of blessing, arrogance & disdainfulness, disobedience and finally calamity and torment.

• Demand of a written book from heaven.

• Objections of unbelievers and their response ---- Rationales for not sending angels as

Prophet

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Ruku No 2:• Allah’s mercy shall remain dominant over His wrath(Birth, freedom of choice, Akhirah)

• Allah provides nourishment(Rizq) to all and Himself needs none --- Logic for being only Illah

• Be the first among those who submit to Allah and not to associate others with Him.

• Afflictions/ Blessings comes from Allah ---- seek help only from Allah

• People of the Book did recognize Prophet Muhammad(SAW)

• Shirk ----- bear false witness and testify without knowledge

• Types of polytheist believes ------ materialist, naturalist, atheist, agnostics, philosophers

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Ruku No 3:• Indispositions b/w polytheist & whom they associate as partners with God on the day of

Judgment.

• Trying to appear as listeners but no affect on hearts , no understanding ---- coverings on

heart and heaviness into their ears.

• Criticism on Quran that its just fables of the ancients --- Attitudes of ignorants are always

same. Does truth has to be new necessarily? Truth is always truth whether new or old.

• Infirmity in believes of Hereafter ….. Life is just we have in this world.

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Ruku No 4:• Carrying the burden of sins on backs.

• The life of this world is nothing but a sport and a pastime ….. Allurement and illusion

• Endure charges and abuse with patience in order to defeat forces of ignorance.

• No body can change laws of Allah(SWT)

• Observance of all animals and birds under divine regulations.

• Look around with open and attentive eyes for miraculous signs around you.

• Only ask Allah(swt) for help in need ….. Story of Ikrama bin abi Jahl

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Ruku No 5:• Divine law of retribution.

• Sufferings and hardships are tests so as comforts and blessings of this world.

• Trials serves as reminders. What are our criterion?

• Satan made deeds seem goodly to those who are not humble.

• Whenever the wrong doers and the unjust are visited by some punishment or calamity ,

that is a blessing for the whole world for which people should be grateful.

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Ruku No 6:• Difference between a common person and a prophet.

• Islamic criterion of honor and disgrace.

• Superiority of those who invoke their Lord in the morning and the evening, seeking His

pleasure all the time ----- do not drive them away ---- what is our criterion?

• A universal call to Islam is necessary but education and reform of unaware Muslims is

also important ….. Importance and necessity of dawa among Muslims and non Muslims.

• Mercy of Allah(SWT) ….. Forgiveness ( Repentance and emendation)

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Ruku No 7:• Our knowledge is limited, only Allah has the knowledge of unseen.

• How to stay safe from sins ---- The master prescription: Belief of Allah’s attribute that He is all

knowing and He control everything fully and conclusively.

• Islam discourage the investigation of unseen or future.

• Immenseness of Allah’s knowledge ------ Land and sea, every leaf which falls, grain in the

darkness, everything which is green or dry .

• Reality of sleep ----- simulated death (soul and spirit) ---- Supplications

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Ruku No 8:• Guardian angels ---- change of duties at Asr and Fajr.

• Every stage of human life and death is under God’s control.

• When all efforts are of no avail, Allah is the only savior.

• Three kinds of Chastisement from Allah(SWT) ----- up, down, violence among sects.

• Don’t sit in the company of those who indulge in vain discourse of Allah’s revelations. If

• Satan make you forgetful, leave whenever you remember and realize.

• Compulsory duty to admonish wrong doers through Quran.

• Don’t made your religion sport and past time ---- deceive of transitory life of this world

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Ruku No 9:• Perusal of universe ----- Sunnah of Ibrahim(AS)

• Start dawah from your own home. Reforms begins at home.

• Using wisdom and strategy in Tableegh and Dawah is the away of the Prophets.

• By asking questions make people think , so they can feel the truth themselves.

• Avoid talking hard line, rigid or excessive when you are doing dawah.

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Ruku No 10:• Guidance is from Allah (SWT). Pray for it; Surah Fatiha and supplication for not to go

crooked after receiving guidance. Don’t mix your faith with injustice.

• Prophets received three things ----- Book, Hukm and prophet hood

• Book is embodied guidance then the correct understanding of the revealed guidance, the

ability to apply its principles to the practical affairs of life, the God-given capacity to arrive

at right opinions regarding human problems and prophet hood, the office by virtue of

which they are enabled to lead human beings.

• Not accepting any return for teaching & preaching has been the common legacy of all

prophets.

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Ruku No 11:• Hold Allah in due esteem, form proper estimate of Him, true understanding of God,

acknowledgement of His glory.

• Keeping guidance from God in bits and scraps, disclosing some while concealing the rest.

• Avoid argumentations and foolish chatters, leave the people who are indulge in it.

• How Quran is the blessed book? ---- blessed in size, content and its effect.

• Denial of acting upon ---- denial of acceptance of ayahs ---- arrogance

• Shirk and Bidaah ---- Efforts to prove them through Shariah

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Ruku No 12:• Signs of Allah(SWT) ---- Miracle of life, its initiation and progress.

• Night for rest is a blessing.

• Perfectionism at its best ----- The ever renewable miracle of creation

• Invitation to ponder ---- sign for those who have knowledge, who can understand & who

believe.

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Ruku No 13:• Allah is the All-Subtle, the All-Aware -- He comprehend all visions -- Above all comprehension

• Diverse ways of explaining an argument in Quran so we can understand it.

• Guidance = Pondering on Ayahs from Allah(SWT)

• Do not use foul language to insult ignorant ----- patience , self constraint

• Turn away from Shirk.

• Leaving or stop doing something good which is not obligatory in order to avoid Fitna is

permissible.

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Ruku No 14:• Spacious speech, delusion and propaganda by Satan and his companions. Trickery &

maneuvering to sow doubts against Islam.

• Challenge of Quran ---- Truth and just ---- A revelation to explain all issues.

• If you obey the majority of those on earth , they will make you lose the way of Allah .

• Majority follow whims, idle fancies and make conjectures(guessing).

• Zabiha ---- Hikmah of saying Allah’s name ---- to set up the direction of people’s ideology so

they follow the prescribed rule.

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• Why Kufr and Iman are connected to Halal and Haram ---- Legislation in Islam

• Abstain from all sins whether open or secret.

• Only Allah has the authority to make something lawful or forbidden.

• Do not eat anything over which the name of Allah has not been pronounced.

• Satans inspire their friends to dispute with you, if you were to obey them, you will be like them.

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Ruku No 15:• Believer is alive and disbeliever is dead. Faith is light and disbelieve is darkness.

• Evil and wicked plots of unbelievers falls on themselves. Allah brings good from evil.

• Elites of the society weave plots against truth ---- punishment from God when society as a

whole becomes corrupt.

• What is Sharh e Sadr ? ---- Open someone's heart to Islam, to make him feel fully

convinced of the truth of Islam and to remove all his doubts, hesitations and reluctance.

• Closeness of heart = feeling of strait and constrict, rejection of truth, feeling of boredom

when truth is being presented ---- punishment of scourge, curse , ignominy.

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• Supplication for Sharh e Sadr.

• Taoozat --- Seeking refuge from Satan; seeking Allah’s protection

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Ruku No 16:• Basis of human groupings.

• Deeds and morals affect collective matters even in this world. An oppressor is punished at

the hand of other oppressor.

• It’s Allah blessing if He chooses you to work for His deen.

• Lessening the portion assigned to Allah ---- Relate it to our own selves, what we do?

• Slaying of offspring ----- Moral, social and cultural banefulness.

• Different portions for men and women ---- Cultural issue

• Self made traditions ---- Reason of divagation is ignorance and foolery.

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Ruku No 17:• Allah’s right ---- Sadqa and Zakah

• Avoid extravagance ---- Allah does not like wasteful spenders ( Israf of wealth, time, skills)

• Satan’s trick ---- creating doubts between Halal and Haram

• Self applied restrictions ---- Following Satan’s footsteps

• Refutation of lawful and forbidden described by polythiest traditions.

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Ruku No 18:• Attitude of blaming others instead of accepting one’ own mistakes.

• Excuse of Allah’s will or destiny.

• Polythiest traditions are just idle fancies, guesses and conjectures.

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Ruku No 19:• Ten prohibitions

1) Associate nothing with Allah --- Avoid all types of Shirk

2) Do good to your parents.

3) Do not slay your children out of fear of poverty.

4) Do not even draw to things shameful whether open or secret.

5) Avoid killing unjustly.

6) Not to eat up the property of orphans by false means.

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7) Not to weigh or measure short --- responsibilities, theft of Salah.

8) To be true and just in speech .

9) Fulfill the covenant ---- Covenant with Allah, marriage, promises with fellow beings.

10) Follow the straight path and do not follow other paths ---- No mix and match

• Ten enjoinments from Allah(SWT) so that you may understand, you may take heed and you

may beware.

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Ruku No 20:• The book from God explain everything in detail ---- Guidance and mercy

• Division in religion and different factions is a kind of torment.

• Stern warnings against making additions in established religion ---- exaggeration in believes,

dominance of one’s own desires.

• Good deed will be rewarded ten times while an evil deed will be recompensed equally.

• Straight way = right religion = way of Ibrahim(AS) = Haneef(upright)

• Beautiful supplication ---- Ayah 162

ن� م�ي ن� ن�ا ل� ا م�� ن م� ��ـ ن م� م�ي ن�ا ن� ن� ن� نيا ل� ن� ن� م�ي س� س� ن� م�ي ن�ا �ن �ن� م�ا

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• One’s burden of sin cannot be borne by others.

• Human beings are vicegerents of God on earth.

• Reason of making different degrees and ranks ----- versatility, proper running of affairs of

world, test

Test for rich ---- Be grateful and fulfill his obligations

Test for poor ---- Be patient and show contentment

Test for scholar --- preach and act on what he/she preach

Test for ruler ---- Just and fair to people

Test for people ---- obedience