Transparency versus corruption

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In surahs before this mankind were told to sort out themselves sensibly in order to organise in a way that they become a people worth the name instead of accepting life of animals. They were guided step by step into becoming a good human community that is well organised ready to move forward onto economic front. The initial goal was removal of conflicts and rifts then coming together of people was encouraged and then social set up was pointed out as a goal. Once people were brought together as a community based upon divine constitution the goal was set to make the community economically viable so progress and prosperity became the main issue as explained in surah 6 and developed further in surah 7. The quran intends that people who claim to follow it turn themselves into an excellent nation in every way. This is how the quran wants its followers to reflect the glory of Allah for others to follow suit.


Surah 8 is bringing to attention of mankind what a progressive and prosperous nations is expected to look like. Not only it is supposed to be able to cope with all that is thrown at it from any side but also go beyond that and be extra prepared for dealing with all eventualities. In short people who claim to follow the quran are expected to be productive to such degree that to go beyond that is not possible by any other people. This surah also brings to attention the intentions of other people who oppose way of life the quran promotes and tells its followers to not to neglect their defences and to be well capable of fending off any attacks by enemies of islam=peace and muslims=the peaceful people. In short muslims are supposed to be capable of containing the rest of humanity in order to ensure peace in the word on terms and condition acceptable to all. The quran does not give advantage to anyone muslim or nonmuslim when it comes to ensuring peace between mankind instead it provides such basis for it that none can come up with anything like it. It does not allow animosity between people even when people attack muslims yet muslims are told to go for peace if attackers so desire despite muslims having upper hand in the battlefield. Human dignity is not to be compromised is the main lesson of the quran because Allah wants to dignify human beings to their rightful status. If any people disgrace themselves that is up to them but that is not intention of Allah for them.



SURAH 8 AL ANFAAL= The Surpluses

Proclaim, in the name of Allah, the gracious, the merciful.

1) They will need an explanation of you about reserves. Tell them, savings are advised by Allah through the messenger for distribution between yourselves in times of your needs, this is how you should be consistent with constitution of Allah through setting up beneficial institutions among yourselves as a community. That is how you should be consistent with rule of Allah along with His messenger if you are indeed committed to working for peace.

2) The truly committed to working for peace can only be those who when they are told about program of Allah their minds are excited because when His goals and guidelines are recited to them their self confidence grows that is why they end up relying upon the set out universal laws of their Lord,

3) It is such that establish the rule (social structures, systems and practices) of Allah whereby they open up whatever We have provided for their sustenance for the benefit of each other.

4) They are the ones who are really committed to working for peace as they ought to therefore to them belong heights of dignity according to set laws of their Lord because they earn protection against all ills through securing honourable provision for themselves as a community.

5) It is due to this struggle for the set out purpose your Lord brought you out of your state of existence that you the people were in even though some of those who committed to working for peace were hesitant.

6) The hesitant group sought explanation of you the people with clarity of purpose about the purpose of the move in relation to the context of the mission that had been made clear to them already. They thought as if they were being led to the dead end so that is what they were expecting.

7) But remember Allah already set out for you one of the two goals even though you settled for the one that was least demanding as your target but Allah planned to fulfil His program according to His set out universal laws in order to eliminate the way of those who oppose His constitution,

8) so that the truthfulness of Our program proves true and the falsehood against it proves false even though those who commit crimes against humanity in opposition to Our constitution detest it.

9) Call to mind the time when you the people sought help of your Lord so He responded that I will help you with a force of one thousand men well trained and fully organized fit for the missionary task.

10) By means of this good news Allah raised confidence in your minds that help cannot come from anyone save through hard work according to constitution of Allah because Allah is mighty in wisdom.

11) Remember long before the commencement of the battle for the mission He filled you the people with confidence from Himself by raining down upon you the heavenly inspiration to free you thereby of any doubt or to remove from you any harmful thoughts caused by any opponent of heavenly rule and to strengthen your minds thereby and to help you take firm steps for the success of the mission for establishing the divine kingdom.

12) At the time your Lord revealed to you O prophet for the people on the mission the message that I am with you and told you to give courage to those committed to working for peace. I will thereby bring fear in the minds of those who declare war against My rule therefore go for the very foundation of their society/lifeline and dismantle each of their principles/aspects they stand upon in every way till they see sense.

13) Do this to them because they commit atrocities against each other in defiance of constitution of Allah and also against His messenger and any people who declare war against rule of Allah and against His messenger should beware that Allah has put in place the rule of consequences and law of retaliation.

14) It is therefore proper for you to use it if the aggressor repents and reforms not because there is indeed painful suffering for those who wage war against installation of constitution of Allah.

15) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! When you are challenged you must be fully prepared to strive against those who wage war against rule of Allah by oppressing and suppressing mankind and never should you budge from your position in the battlefield.

16) Be warned! Whoever leaves his position on such an occasion unless it be for battle strategy such as to join his supporting forces will be left by Allah in painful suffering and how awful will that life be for him!

17) And it is not that you are fighting them for your own individual gains but that you are fighting them for the greater goals as set by Allah according to His guidelines for the good of mankind so whatever you attacked them with it was not by you for yourselves but it was thrown at them with backing of Allah so that He puts those who commit to working for peace through this struggle successfully, Allah makes evident for people His vast observation indeed.

18) And that is something for you to think about because that is how Allah neutralises all plots of those who oppose installation of His rule thereby make each other suffer.

19) Say, O fighters against installation of heavenly kingdom, if you wanted heavenly truth to be made manifest then the truth has been demonstrated for you. So if you now stop opposing it then it will benefit you but if you step aside from the truth then We too will let the consequences of your own actions take their course and your forces however large in numbers they will not avail you at all because Allah is surely with those who commit to working for peace on His terms and conditions.

20) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! Be consistent with constitution of Allah indeed along with His messenger and do not turn your backs on His message now that you have heard it.

21) Do not be like those who say, we hear but they act not upon what they hear.

22) Surely most harmful and destructive people in judgement of Allah are those who act as if deaf and dumb to His goals and guidelines having learned no sense.

23) And if Allah had found in them constructive mindset and beneficial attitude towards mankind then He would have indeed made their heeding to His guidance evident. Even though He had made sure that His message is delivered to them yet they had turned away and that is the clue that they heard it not.

24) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, respond appropriately to the message of Allah and the call of His Messenger when he calls you to that which is to give you a great future thus make it evident by your actions that message of Allah does make difference to the man through his mind and surely it is He under Whose constitution you will all be assembled as one people.

25) So guard yourselves thereby against tumult and upheaval that results from oppression and suppression through your brotherhood because rift and civil strife not only affects those of you who cause it but you too as individuals and families will be dragged into it, so be warned that Allah is strict in making people face the results of their own actions.

26) Call to mind how He sheltered you when you were a few in numbers and were lacking in power in the land, always worrying in case your enemies would kidnap and enslave you. He made you strong through His revelation and provided you a safe asylum and gave you guidelines to participate in all that is beneficial for mankind so that you show to others that you have appreciated through establishing His rule.

27) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! Do not betray knowingly the set mission of Allah via His Messenger nor violate your trusts in each other as a brotherhood

28) rather you should make manifest through your actions that things you have and children you have are in fact a means of helping you in this struggle to see how you deal with each other and surely it rests with Allah to reward you greatly should you work for the good of each other.

29) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! If you really desire to be consistent with constitution of Allah for the good of humanity then He will inspire you with sense of understanding of criterion and its use whereby you can judge between your mutual beneficial and harmful participation to free you from wrongdoings against each other and thus protect you from any resultant harmful effects for you because it is Allah alone who bestows dignity and honour upon mankind.

30) And remember how the opponents of heavenly rule plotted against you the people. They sought to take you captive or kill you or exile you. They conspired to do things their way and Allah also planned to do things His way and Allah is unique of the planers.

31) So call to mind the time when Our revelations were recited to them and they used to say, we have heard them and if we wished, we could produce the like. These are nothing but tales of the ancients.

32) And remember also how they used to say, O Allah! If this Quran is indeed the truth from You then rain down upon us some concrete supernatural miracles to convince us or inflict upon us some dreadful miraculous punishment to punish us for refusing to accept this Quran.

33) But Allah would only give them evidences as told and will punish them not the while you were in their midst delivering His message to them. Nor does Allah punish a people while there are amongst them such people as are truly seeking His protection in form of His guidance.

34) But now there is no reason why Allah should not make them face the consequences of their own actions because they have driven you out and they are blocking others from the sacred goal therefore they cannot be its supporters. Surely none can be its supporters save those who want to be consistent with rule of Allah for the good of humanity yet most of them do not learn sense to understand this.

35) Their ruling system in their jurisdiction is for nothing other than to gain influence on people to be arrogant or to take undue advantage of others. Say, then suffer the consequences because of your opposition to divine goals and guidelines.

36) Surely those who oppose Our guidance use what they have to block people from the way of Allah and so will they continue to spend but in the end their these very efforts will become the cause of their regrets and in time they will end up destroyed, that is how those who oppose installation of Our rule will end up gathered together in painful suffering,

37) In order that Allah may separate the people with destructive mindset and harmful attitude against humanity from the people with constructive mindset and beneficial attitude for humanity and heap the destructive people upon one another, thus put them altogether and then land them into pit of hell of their own making because they are of those who are losers.

38) Tell those who oppose Our rule, if they stop opposing Our rule from now on their past behaviour will be overlooked but if they persist then let them reflect upon the consequences for those passed before them.

39) Yet if they still persist then campaign against them until they are unable to cause wars anymore and actions of people are entirely judged by rule of Allah alone but if they stop then Allah is surely watching all that they do.

40) If they turn their backs to this advice then know that Allah supports you not them for He is supporter for the progress and helper of the prosperity of mankind.

41) Due to this help of Allah you are made aware that anything you produce as a community one-fifth of it is for Allah so that the messenger uses it for those needing assistance such as the individuals without ability or opportunity to produce and the well settled in ways of production but fall in need for some legitimate reason and the ones on a journey to explore new ways producing things if you really are committed to working for peace according to the constitution of Allah on basis of that which We have revealed upon Our man for purpose of differentiation between rule of Allah and rule of man for purpose of unity between two factions that opposed each other. So remember that Allah has setup laws to govern over all things.

42) Behold! You were on the higher ground objectively and they were on the other side and their objective was harmful for all of you. Even if you had made a mutual appointment to fight it between yourselves yet you would have failed but Allah sought to accomplish what He had planned so that those who still went for suffering may do so after clear proof have been placed before them and those who wanted blissful life may do so after clear proof are placed before them. That is how Allah makes evident for mankind to see that He observes things comprehensively.

43) Remember in your thoughts Allah made them appear to you weak in their objectives and the supportive arguments, had He shown them to you strong then you would have surely lost courage and instead you would have quarrelled even amongst yourselves about this matter and that is how Allah helped you win peace because He makes evident the very motives in minds of people through results of their actions.

44) So remember the time when you locked them in the battle of wits He exposed them to you as a people weak in objectives and arguments before your very eyes whereas He saw them taking you as merely an ill equipped minority in their eyes yet Allah let the truth about His program be established through that very party because ultimately only according to set laws of Allah all affairs are settled.

45) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! When you face an opponent in an arena be firm and let glory of Allah become manifest greatly so that you end up successful in your given mission.

46) Therefore be consistent with constitution of Allah along with His Messenger and argue not with one another senselessly against the mission that unites you because you will disintegrate and weaken your strength so instead show endurance and persistence in following set out objectives and guidelines because Allah supports those who take steps steadfastly but sensibly towards the set out goal.

47) So do not be like those who come forth from their positions in disarray and confused just for purpose of showing off people that they are invincible thus they intend to stop others from the way of Allah but they forget that Allah confines all their moves against installation of His rule.

48) Remember when the leadership of the hypocrites among you approached the leadership of your opponents and made their course of actions attractive to them saying, none of the people can overcome you today because I will be at hand to help you. Yet when both the parties came face to face with each other he turned back on his word saying, I am not with you anymore because I can see which way things are going which you cannot. I am now more concerned about success of mission of Allah as well as about Allah being strict in calling people to account.

49) At that time the party of the hypocrites who had designs in their minds were saying to each other, their make beliefs have let them down. That is why it should be clear to all that anyone who puts his trust in set out universal laws of Allah will find Allah sound in His wisdom.

50) If you could imagine the time when the promise of installation of rule of Allah is fulfilled to those who oppose His rule by the people who strive for establishing His kingdom as they surround them from their front and their back saying, taste the result of the fire of hatred you have created among yourselves.

51) This terrible situation you brought upon yourselves by your own course of actions because laws of Allah never inflict injustice upon people.

52) The same thing happened to the people of Pharaoh and to those that had gone before them. They also opposed the guidelines of Allah and victimised their people so Allah found them caught in their own mutual destruction. Surely Allah is mighty and strict in enforcing His set out universal laws.

53) That is Allah never changes the blissful state of existence which He has bestowed on a people due to following of His guidelines until they themselves change their state of existence for the worst by falling away from His guidelines and that is how Allah makes obvious for mankind that His advice is comprehensive and should not be taken lightly.

54) This same principle applied to the people of Pharaoh and those who have gone before them, they rejected the set goal and guidelines of their Lord so We caught them in the process of their mutual destruction because they did terrible things to each other.

55) This is why the most harmful and destructive people in the sight of Allah are those who reject and oppose divine rule because they do not want to commit themselves to working for peace.

56) Such as those who make treaties with you and time after time violate their treaties and have no concern for the advice of God or for the good of humanity.

57) So if you decide to counter them by declaring war against them then defeat them decisively making an example of them for others who may be thinking of following their example so that they all may learn a good lesson.

58) Also if you have good evidence to fear treachery from any of the factions with whom you have any treaty then you must finish off the treaty with them well before you decide to attack them because Allah supports not a people who keep not to their words.

59) Let not the opposers of Our rule think that they can get better of those who commit to working for peace, surely they can never succeed in frustrate them.

60) However be well prepared against them in every way including the military strength or at least a fighting force that you can muster so that you could use this strength as deterrent against these like enemies of goals and guidelines of Allah and your enemies to prevent them from attacking you and also others besides them who are not obvious to you but obvious to Allah. Remember that whatever you spend in the way of installation of kingdom of Allah will be paid back to you in full because you will not be treated using unjust laws in that kingdom.

61) However if these enemies incline towards peace then do make peace with them but by putting your trust in set out laws of Allah. That is how He makes obvious to mankind that He is comprehensive in His advice for them.

62) And should they intend to deceive you then set out universal laws of Allah should be relied upon by you. He is the One Who has strengthened you thereby with those who have committed themselves to working for peace,

63) by inspiring sense of brotherhood in their minds. If you had spent all that which is in the earth even then you could not have united their minds this way nonetheless Allah has united them because He is mighty solid in His wisdom.

64) O Prophet! Surely universal laws of Allah are sufficient for you to rely upon and for those who support you of those who are committed to working for peace.

65) O Prophet! Rouse those who claim to have committed themselves to working for peace to prepare themselves for war also. They should train to such degree that if there are twenty fully trained among you then they should be able to vanquish two hundred and if there are one hundred they should be able to overcome one thousand of those who oppose Our mission because they are enemies of humanity as they are a people who lack the sense of brotherhood and sacrifice for the good of others.

66) Just now as things are Allah is informing you that you are not well prepared for wars because there are individuals among you who are weak in their fighting skills yet as things stand if there are one hundred good fighters among you, they should be able to vanquish two hundred and if there are one thousand, they should be able to overcome two thousand because that is the declared plan of Allah for you and Allah backs those who stand for His set goals as per His guidelines and they stand their ground.

67) Remember that in case of war it is not the divine objective for a prophet to make people his prisoners or to cause aimless bloodshed in the land. Would you therefore go for the short term gains in the world the way it is whereas Allah plans the better end goal of installation of lasting divine kingdom for you? That is because Allah is mighty in His wisdom.

68) That is the reason Allah has given you the constitution so that you forge ahead by understanding and implementing it lest you are caught in terrible painful suffering like others who inflict harm and destruction upon each other.

69) Therefore take part in all that is productive, lawful and beneficial so that you are consistent with constitution of Allah for the good of mankind. Surely Allah protects people through His revelation for progress and prosperity of mankind.

70) O Prophet! Tell those under your care of those with limited means that if Allah finds improvement in your mindset and attitude then He will give you even better than what you have been found with and remove your difficulties from you. For Allah is protector of mankind through His revelation for their progress and prosperity.

71) And if they still have treacherous designs against you after you set them free from ignorance and poverty then that will not be anything new they have already demonstrated deception to Allah and people that is why He gave them under your care for reformation so let them go when they are ready so that they may demonstrate if they have mended their ways. That is how Allah makes obvious His sovereignty based upon His wisdom.

72) As for those who claim to be committed to working for peace and migrated and made effort in the way of Allah with whatever they have and their persons as well as those who gave them asylum and support are indeed the true supporters of one another. As to those who declared commitment to working for peace yet emigrated not, you are under no obligation to protect them until they emigrate but it is your obligation to help them if they are oppressed by any other people in matters of their legal rights except against a people with whom you have a treaty and they have accepted to live under their rule. Surely Allah is aware of all that you do to each other or for each other.

73) As to those who oppose Our rule they support each other against it. So if you fail to do as told then there will be wars in the land and great corruption and destruction for mankind.

74) Those who have committed to working for peace and migrated and made efforts in the way of installing the kingdom of Allah and those who gave them asylum and support, they are the true followers of Our guidance. They will in time have freedom from all ills and honourable provisions once the heavenly kingdom becomes established on the earth.

75) Those who commit to working for peace afterwards and migrate and joined you in your ideological struggle to establish the rule of Allah according to His constitution, they too are your brethren despite the fact that according to the book of Allah the blood relatives have closer bonds with one other. Indeed with Allah rests the responsibility of making all things essential obvious for mankind.

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Surah 9 is follow up on earlier surahs but it is mainly about final concept of islam as regard war and peace between people. As peace is impossible to achieve unless people are educated about this goal and people are either lazy or crazy when it comes to rising up for this goal. Not only that but there are vested interests of individuals and those who side with them therefore working for peace is not an easy task or mission.

Regardless some people end up on one side and some on the other side for a range of reasons eg ignorance, arrogance, use and abuse, sympathy with one side or the other for personal or general interest etc etc. It is a vital element that at all times people are allowed the opportunity to join the community so that through unity peace could be brought about at least among those who join in brotherhood based upon islam according to certain set out terms and condition that cannot be compromised under any circumstance or situation at any time.

The movement is told to further its aim through spreading the message in form of the quran and have no animosity towards anyone but let not those who find their unjustifiable interests threatened by islam be free to harm and destroy islam or its followers or those who wish to join the movement therefore being prepared for all eventualities is made necessary obligation for muslims as a whole.

For the very reason of peace it is not advised that people should be attacked all of a sudden and thrown in to chaos and confusion leading to a great harm and destruction of mankind unnecessarily. Moreover it takes away the chance for negotiated settlement which is of great benefit for people involved because it saves loss of life and property etc etc.





SURAH 9 AL TAUBA= General Amnesty

1) This is proclamation of general amnesty from Allah for His messenger concerning those who live by rule of other than Allah with whom you the followers of the Quran have any treaties but they breach them.

2) Say, unless you stop you are hereby given four months notice to go about your business freely in the land but you are made amply clear that you cannot stop the message of Allah from reaching His people because Allah leaves such people in state of humiliation as reject and oppose His rule.

3) This is an open declaration from Allah via His messenger to all the people concerned on the day of the Grand Assembly that Allah through His messenger hereby grants general amnesty for those who live by rule of other than Allah. So if you people stop your breach of treaties then it will be beneficial for you but if you keep going back on your word then be warned that you cannot derail the mission of Allah. Moreover tell those who oppose divine rule that painful suffering is theirs as a result of their self chosen course of actions

4) save for those who live by rule of other than Allah yet at least have honoured their treaties with you in every detail and aided none against you. So fulfil your treaties with them to the end of their term because Allah supports those who are consistent with rule of Allah for the good of humanity.

5) When the sacred months are over or the period of notice has expired from then on you are free to retaliate against such as break the treaty from among those people who live by rule of other than Allah as you see fit wherever you find them causing you trouble, you should seize them, besiege them and lie in ambush for them in every stratagem of war yet if they stop their hostilities against you and help you establish the divine system and attain freedom from doing any harm to others then help them to be that way, surely Allah is protector of mankind through His revelation for their progress and prosperity.

6) If any party of those who live by rule of other than Allah requests you for asylum then grant it the asylum so that the party may hear about the goals and guidelines of Allah and then escort it to its place of safety. This is to be done because these people have not yet heard the message of Allah.

7) How can Allah advise His messenger to enter the treaty with people who live by rule of other than Allah when they keep on breaking the treaty but exception is for such as live by rule of other than Allah with whom you ratified a treaty at the sacred institution and only for so long as they stick to it? You too should therefore stick to it because Allah supports those who are consistent with Allah for the good of mankind.

8) But how can you trust such a people who when they see any advantage over you breach the treaty showing no responsibility towards any relationship based on that agreement? So they simply try to take you into confidence by their smooth talk but in their minds they have other plans because most of them work against the rule of Allah and the benefit of mankind.

9) They have traded the goal and guidelines of Allah that are for the benefit of mankind for their individual gains that is why they hinder others from His advised way of life. Harmful and destructive indeed is their course of actions for human community.

10) They neither help others by honouring the obligations based on social relationships nor observe the obligations of treaties with those who claim to have committed to working for peace. These are such a people indeed who have transgressed beyond all bounds of human decency and dignity.

11) Still if they stop doing all this and help you establish the divine rule in order to help you attain freedom from all ills in the community then they are your ideological brethren under the divine constitution. That is how We explain Our goal and guidelines in detail for people who wish to understand and implement them.

12) But if they violate their peace treaty with you yet again after ratifying it thereby interfere with installation of your constitution within your jurisdiction then you are free to fight with such chiefs and their personnel who are blood thirsty warmongers. Since their peace agreements prove worthless so war is the only way to stop them from their carry on.

13) Why should you not fight against such people as have broken their peace treaties again and again and conspired to expel the messenger as well as they were the first to start the aggressions against you? Are you people trying to show such concern for them that they do not really deserve? Nay, it is Allah’s goals and guidelines that are more deserving of your attention if you really are committed to working for peace because peace is not possible with people who only want war.

14) Therefore fight them that is how Allah will make them suffer the painful consequences of their actions by your hands in order to contain them that is why He will support you against them thus He will soothe the hearts and minds of those who are committed to working for peace.

15) That is how He will take away all the arrogance and rancour from their hearts and minds making them realise the truth after their defeat because Allah turns towards His blissful revelation whoever so desires and works towards it, that is how Allah makes obvious for mankind that He alone is the sovereign of this universe the one full of wisdom.

16) Do you think that if you fight them not then you will be left alone by these people? Not at all and Allah has not yet made known amongst yourselves as to which of you people have exerted your utmost effort in His cause and which of you did not take any supporters other than Allah, His messenger and those who claim to have committed to working for peace, that is how Allah shows that He is well aware of all that you people do.

17) It cannot be expected of such chiefs and their people who keep breaching the treaties from among those who live by rule of other than Allah that they can install and maintain the constitutional institutions of Allah because they make it amply clear for all communities involved to see by their such actions against the goals and guidelines of Allah. It is such people whose actions lead to harm and destruction whereby all end up in painful suffering.

18) The institutions of Allah can only be installed and maintained by those who really commit themselves to working for peace according to the constitution of Allah for the good end result for the mankind by way of establishing divine system for eliminating all ills in the community by paying full attention to nothing other than set up universal laws of Allah. It is they who are expected to implement His goals according to His guidelines faithfully.

19) Can you really take those who distribute drinking water to the assembly members and maintain the sacred institution without sense of its proper purpose as equals to those who really commit to working for goal of peace according to the manifesto and constitution of Allah for the good end result for the mankind therefore struggle for establishing the rule of Allah? They are surely not equal in sight of Allah and Allah guides not those who instead of learning and implementing His guidance transgress His set limits and inflict harm and destruction upon each other.

20) Those who really commit to working for peace and leave their homes in support of cause of Allah for the good of mankind and struggle sensibly for establishing His rule with whatever ways and means they have along with their people as a community are surely raised very high in dignity by Allah and that is how they attain and maintain peace through progress for prosperity.

21) Their Lord gives them program for blissful life through revelation from Himself as a reference so that it provides for them the basis for blissful kingdom wherein are blessings of all sorts that last.

22) they abide therein for as long as they live by rule of Allah. Surely it is Allah in whose program rests great life as a reward for mankind.

23) O you who claim to have committed to working for peace! Supports not your community leaders and your community members if they love waging wars against each other instead of striving for peace so if any of you go back to them to that kind of life style then such people are of those who transgress against laws of Allah and inflict harm and destruction on humanity through rivalries between themselves.

24) Say to them, if despite their wars against rule of Allah your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your wives, your relatives, the things you have acquired, the trade in which you fear loss and the homes which you like are more important to you than the rule according to the constitution of Allah which He revealed via His messenger and struggling for the installation and implementation of the constitution of Allah then wait till law of consequences set by Allah shows its effects, and remember, Allah guides not those who learn not His advice and instead rebel against it.

25) Allah has indeed helped you on many occasions in life and recently during the period of turmoil because at the time you valued yourselves very high as individuals due to your arrogance and rivalries against each other so your this mindset and attitude did not help you at all. The land despite its vastness seemed closing in upon you as a people yet you retreated from the brink of destruction due to His revelation.

26) All because Allah has sent His manifesto and constitution through His messenger for people who would commit themselves to working for peace thereby He revealed to you for your rescue forces which you did not realise before yet the opposers of the message remained in painful suffering and that is how He made opponents of His rule suffer the consequences of their own actions.

27) Despite their such behaviour Allah kept the door to His guidance opened for any of them who would make effort to learn and benefit from it because Allah is protector of mankind and He secures them through His revelation that leads to prosperity.

28) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! No matter what beware of those who live by rule of other than Allah because they are fully submerged in harmful and destructive motives and designs against humanity therefore do not let them over step the constitution of Allah within the jurisdiction of sacred institution after this year unless they repent and reform. If you are concerned about poverty of constructive thought and action in people, soon Allah will enrich you through His program because that is His plan. That is how Allah makes evident for mankind that He is the ruler who has the wisdom.

29) So campaign hard against those who are not committed to working for peace according to the constitution of Allah for bringing about the new era that is good for mankind- because they stop not each other from doing what Allah has forbidden through His messenger by embracing not the standard for their judgement which is proper because it is beneficial for the mankind- until they are convinced and become consistent with universal laws of Allah that are good for mankind or they will be humbled in time even if such people belong to the people of the book.

30) The party of Jewish priests claims the priestly order established in the name of Ezra is proper Judaism according to Allah and the party of Christian priests claims the priestly order established in the of the Saviour is proper Christianity according to Allah. That is what they claim with their mouths without any proof, borrowing the make beliefs and ritual practices of those who used to oppose Our rule in the past. Challenge of Allah is upon them to prove their claims so that they come to know how perverted they are from His guidance due to giving themselves to make beliefs.

31) They have taken their Rabbis and priests as their rulers instead of Allah as well as the Saviour of the newly formed community even though they were commanded to serve constitution of God as the only ruler. For none has the right to rule but He alone. Dignity for mankind lies only in His rule and it is not possible through rule by any other and He is free of any partners and rivals in His sovereignty of the universe.

32) These like religious leaders desire to extinguish the light of Allah's guidance by spreading their make beliefs and falsehood in His name but Allah will establish His light fully despite the opposition of those who dislike and discourage His rule.

33) It is He Who has sent His messenger with His goals and guidelines as a proper constitution for mankind so that He makes it manifest against all other ways of ruling even though those who live by rule of others than Allah dislike and discourage it.

34) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! Surely most of the Rabbis and priests take away the God given rights of the people to His provisions by spreading their make beliefs in the name of Allah and that is how they hinder them from the proper way of life as set out for mankind by Allah. They do all this to keep all the treasures such as gold and silver under their control that is why they do not open up things of value for the good of others therefore alert them about the painful consequence of their such actions.

35) Unless they avoid this behaviour the day will surely come when their treasures stolen from others will produce heat of hate like hell whereby their fronts and sides as well as their backs will be branded by their victims on the day of the uprising. They will be told by them, this is the treasure which you used to store for your future. Now taste the pleasure of what you hoarded.

36) In order to avoid such unnecessary bloodshed and chaos by sudden attacks and upheavals by one party against another, the advance notice for open hostility based on a fixed number of months was advised by Allah for improving human society to give them time for peace negotiations thus it was ordained in the constitution of Allah since the time He brought the heavens and the earth into operation and that fixed period is four months. That is the firmly established standard so do not transgress against each other during this period and if the war has to be declared then fight the warmongers who live by rule of other than Allah and inflict harm and destruction upon others all of you together just as they the warmongers fight you all together but beware that Allah only supports those who are consistent with His set out universal laws for the good of mankind.

37) Surely ignoring the notice in any vital aspect causes increase in acts of revengefulness whereby are misled those who oppose Our rule, for they hold it binding as it is at one time but ignore its important aspects at another time, thus they make changes to the important aspects of notice which Allah has sanctified thereby make lawful what Allah has forbidden. Their such harmful course of actions seemingly gives them advantage that is why Allah guides not a people who instead of learning oppose His rule.

38) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! What is the matter with you that when you are asked to march forth in the way of Allah some of you cling to the ground? Are you becoming complacent to the standard of life you have achieved for yourselves in this world instead of trying to change it yet more for even better standard for others in the hope of better hereafter? If so little comfort you have will not last because harmful standards of life will start spreading again if you sit idle and that will render your works you have already done to nothing. Even though comforts of this life are little compared to the life to come yet letting this life slip into the hellhole is not going to be anything good for you.

39) Still if you do not see need for marching forth with the message for the good of mankind then He will let things take their course as is His rule and that will in time inflict upon you a painful suffering and that is how He will replace you with another people and you cannot harm His set out mission at all, for Allah has set up universal laws that govern operations of all things.

40) It is unlike of you the people to not to support the prophet because you know full well that he is supported by Allah for His mission. Call to mind the time when the opponents of his mission drove him out of his township and they were just two men at the time but look at your numbers now, the while they were in the cave during migration the second of the two said to his companion, worry not because Allah is with us. At length Allah fulfilled His word sent to him and strengthened him with forces which you could not imagine at that time and that is how We made the arrogance based influence of those who opposed Our rule come to nothing because program of Allah is supreme and Allah is mighty in His wisdom.

41) So march forth regardless equipped lightly or heavily and campaign for the establishment of the rule of Allah in the land with whatever you have along with your personnel. That is beneficial for you indeed if you would bother to understand and implement it.

42) As for the evaders of the campaign, had this been a short journey for the trade with vast gains then they would have certainly accompanied you but this journey for the mission seems too far and too hard for them to undertake. To justify their evasion they even call Allah to be their witness saying, if we were able to then we would have certainly marched with you. That is how they try to defeat the very purpose of existence of the community by not supporting their people in their set out mission but Allah makes obvious through results of their own actions that they are liars.

43) Allah has granted you success in campaign without such peoples’ support but why did you let them stay behind? It was better if you had not so that it could become clear to you which of them spoke the truth and which of them invented false excuses to be exempted from the campaign .

44) Surely those who are really committed to working for peace for the implementation of the constitution of Allah for the good end result for the mankind never ask you for exemption through false excuses from going on a missionary campaign with whatever they have and their personnel. Thus Allah makes evident those who are consistent with His mission for the good of humanity.

45) Only those ask for exemption through false excuses as are not really committed to working for peace for the implementation of the constitution of Allah for the good end result for the mankind because their minds are filled with doubt and confusion regarding the mission so due to their internal turmoil they have no solid foundation therefore they are unstable.

46) Had they really intended to march forth with you then they would have certainly made some preparations for it but they did not, that is how Allah exposes them as not fit to go forth for His mission and instead He let them stay behind so they were told, stay behind with those who stay behind.

47) Had they gone with you they would have added nothing but mischief and they would have made efforts to create disorder among your ranks and there would have been some among you who would have listened to them. Allah knows those who still work against His mission.

48) Indeed they had plotted sedition before and created disturbance to make you unsuccessful until the truth came through and the decree of Allah prevailed even though they disliked it.

49) Among them there was such who said, grant me exemption and put me not through trouble. Have they fallen not into trouble already by avoiding the campaign against harmful and destructive forces? Surely painful suffering encircles those who oppose rule of Allah because letting harm and destruction have its way cannot lead to peace based upon prosperity.

50) If you gain success it grieves them but if you face a setback they say, we had taken our precautionary measures so they go back to their homes rejoicing.

51) Tell them, nothing can happen to us other than what Allah has set out for us according to His universal laws. He is our supporter so in laws of Allah should put their trust those who really commit to working for peace.

52) So can you expect for us anything other than two excellent outcomes the installation and establishment of rule of Allah for betterment of humanity or yet better life in hereafter? However we are leaving it to set out universal laws of Allah to reward you with results of your own actions against each other or against us. So wait if you will we too are waiting for the right time.

53) Say, whether you contribute to society out of what you have willingly or with reluctance it will not be accepted from you because you are such a people who rebel against the rule of Allah.

54) The reasons their contributions are not accepted are- they oppose the constitution of Allah and they oppose His messenger because they are not in favour of installation of His rule so they support it hesitatingly therefore they do not offer their due contributions but reluctantly as if they are forced out of them.

55) So let not be of any significance in your sight what they have or their following because Allah has set the law of consequences to reward them with painful suffering as a result of what they do in this very life and they may leave this world the while they are still confused and opposing the rule of Allah and face the rest of consequences in hereafter.

56) They call Allah to be their witness that they are indeed part of you the community but they are not part of you, the fact is they are a people of opposite mindset and attitude with harmful and destructive ambitions and desires.

57) If they could find a place of refuge or a cave or any hiding-place, they would have certainly run to it with an obstinate rush.

58) There are some among them who raise false allegation against you O prophet concerning the assignment of rights about the community provisions. If they are assigned rights to it they are well pleased even though they are already self sufficient and if they are not assigned rights to it because they do not need it then they are full of rage.

59) It would have been beneficial for them if they were consistent with what Allah through His Messenger had assigned for them as their proper right and said, rule of Allah will make us self sufficient because soon Allah will complete His program for our prosperity through His messenger. Indeed to revelation of Allah we turn in that hope.

60) Surely fulfilment of the assigned rights of those with needs and desires of the residents of the state is an obligation for their state administrators to the point of satisfaction of their minds according to the feedback monitoring institutions such as set the standards according to the constitution of Allah even when the state and the community is going through process of transition for the betterment of the community. This is a constitutional obligation from Allah and that is how Allah makes evident that He is wise.

61) Despite his doing all this for them yet there are some people among them who try to damage the prophetic mission by saying, he lends his ears to everyone. Say, it is good for you that he listens to all of your demands then does what benefits you the whole community as He is committed to working for peace according to the constitution of Allah because he is committed to working for peace and prosperity of those who themselves are committed to working for peace and prosperity, for he is very passionate about progress and prosperity of those who are committed to working for peace. As for those who try to inflict damage upon the mission of the messenger, they will end up in painful suffering if they repent and reform not.

62) They assure you Muslims in the name of Allah in order to regain your confidence but the proper thing to do for them was to support implementation of the constitution of Allah along with His messenger if they were truly committed to working for peace.

63) Don’t they know that any people who oppose Allah by opposing His messenger are bound to end up in life of painful suffering for as long as they live unless they repent and reform? That surely is the worst humiliation that such people bring upon themselves.

64) These hypocrites the evaders of community responsibilities are afraid lest a Surah is sent about them revealing to Muslims what is really in their minds. Say, mock if you will but Allah is to bring to light all that you are trying to hide.

65) If you questioned them as to what are they up to? They will say, we are just debating things to pass time. Say, are you taking constitution of Allah and His guidelines through His messenger as a joke as you do not go forth on a campaign for its implementation?

66) Make no excuses you have committed yourselves to opposing guidance of Allah after declaring your commitment to working for peace. Even if We accept repentance and reformation of some of you We will leave others of you to suffer because they are such criminals who refuse to repent and reform.

67) The hypocrites in the leaderships and the hypocrites in the communities are like each other. They promote what is harmful and destructive to the communities and discourage what is beneficial for the communities that is why they withhold their hands from doing things that benefit people as communities. They ignore guidance of Allah so He lets them do things as they like and face the consequences because hypocrites do things against the rule of Allah.

68) It is promise of Allah to the hypocrites in the leaderships and the hypocrites in the communities who are hidden opposers of His rule as well as to the open opposers of His rule that they are bound to end up in fire of hatred to abide therein for as long as they live as a direct result of their own actions. Allah lets them move away from His blissful program as they choose therefore they are bound to suffer the pain that lasts unless they repent and reform,

69) just like those who ruined themselves before you even though they were mightier than you in power and much more prosperous in all kinds of wealth and a great community when they followed Our advice. They enjoyed their portion of this worldly life before you just as you enjoy your portion but beware that you are entering the same make beliefs based course of actions ignoring realities of real world as they did. As time went by their make belief based deeds turned them into more and more useless people regarding life in this world and the hereafter that is how they became of the losers.

70) Have they not heard the news of those who have gone before them? The people of Noah, Ad and Thamud, the people of Abraham, the men of Madyan and the cities which were overthrown by upheavals and civil wars. Their messengers came to them with clear warnings against their make belief based actions that is how Allah helped them to prevent them from harming themselves harm but instead of benefitting from the advice of Allah they ignored and opposed it that is how they ended up harming their own people so much so that they ended up destroyed by each other.

71) This is why the leaderships committed to working for peace and the communities committed to working for peace are supporters of one another as a nation that is united. They promote what is good and beneficial for the mankind and discourage what is harmful and destructive for humanity that is why they help establish the divine system whereby they attain freedom from all manmade ills in their society thus they show they are committed to implementation of the constitution of Allah along with His messenger for the good of human community as a whole. Such are the ones through whom comes peace based on prosperity that is promised by Allah, surely Allah is a mighty and a wise ruler of this kingdom of universe.

72) Allah has promised such administrations and communities as are committed to working for peace blissful kingdoms in which flow rivers of all they will need and desire to abide therein for as long as they will live by rule of Allah. Moreover they will have beautiful mansions in these blissful kingdoms that will last them for their life time. They will achieve all this due to program of Allah, the great and that is the best achievement.

73) O you the Prophet! Strive using the Quran with utmost effort for convincing those who oppose Our rule openly as well as those who oppose Our rule secretly through conspiracies and be steadfast in this struggle against them making clear to them that painful suffering is their destiny and therein they will remain unless they repent and reform and that is the worst of states to be in.

74) They call upon Allah to be their witness to assure you that they took no steps against the state when in fact they conspired against the state ruled according to the constitution of Allah that is how they made obvious that they have committed themselves to opposing the rule of Allah after they submitted themselves to it and they thought of a plot which they were unable to carry out. They had no reason to be revengeful instead that had reason to appreciate that Allah through His messenger has enriched them by His revelation based prosperity. So if they repent and reform it will be better for them but if they turn back to their old way of life then Allah will let them fall in painful suffering in this life as well as in the hereafter and they will have none in the land to support and protect them.

75) There are some among them who made a promise with Allah saying, if He bestows us with His provision in abundance then we will surely use it for the benefit of others and become truly of those who commit to working for peace and do what is right and beneficial for others.

76) But when He did bestow of His bounty upon them they became stingy and turned back on their promise and became evasive instead.

77) That is how He found hypocrisy taking roots in their minds instead so it will last them till the day they meet His set out consequences for that for which they breached their promise with Allah and due to which they told lies.

78) Did it not dawn upon them that Allah makes their secret thoughts and their secret counsels obvious through results of their own actions and that Allah knows full well all that is hidden from them?

79) It is they who falsely accuse those who are part of the administration of those who are committed to working for peace for provisions of their rights to them as well as they throw ridicule at those who just offer their services for the benefit of the community. Soon Allah will show them result of their ignorance and arrogance based accusations and ridicule because in time their this mindset and attitude is bound to land them in painful suffering.

80) Therefore it is the same whether you assign them with rights to provision for their security and satisfaction or not they will continue doing what they do. Even if you assigned them with rights to manifold more provision yet Allah does not find them feeling secure and protected under His constitution. That is because they oppose the rule according to the constitution of Allah as revealed to His messenger. So Allah does not guide such people who do not learn and implement His advice and instead work against it.

81) Happy they were in their opposition in their sitting idle against the advice of the messenger of Allah because they hated joining in the struggle using whatever they had and their personnel for the mission of Allah. Moreover they discouraged each other saying, do not be carried away in the heat of the moment. Say to them, the heat that generates due to painful suffering from which you are being taken out is much more severe than this heat If only they could understand.

82) Let them laugh a little because they have much to cry about as a result of what they did to their community by staying away from the struggle for implementation of the rule of Allah.

83) As of now if Allah brings you among them again to set out another mission and any of them asks your permission to go forth on a campaign say, you will never be allowed to come along with me nor fight an enemy in my company. You chose to sit idle the first time therefore you can sit idle with those who oppose my advice.

84) Moreover you should not support any of them nor should you go to their dwellings because they opposed mission of Allah through His messenger thereby they have cut off themselves from the community because they are a rebellious people.

85) So let not be of any significance in your sight what they have or their following because Allah has set the rule of consequences to reward them with painful suffering because of their own actions in this very life and they themselves may leave this world the while they are still confused and opposing the rule of Allah.

86) Because when a message is revealed by Allah telling people, commit to working for peace for the implementation of the constitution of Allah and strive along with His messenger, the leading people among them ask you for exemption saying, please leave us with those who are to stay at home.

87) They prefer to be with those who remain behind as a result of resistance in their minds against the greater benefit of their community and they show this by avoiding the understanding of the benefits for striving to establish the rule of Allah in the land.

88) On the other hand the messenger and those who are committed to working for peace with him strive with whatever they have and their personnel. They are the ones who will end up with benefits and they are the ones who will be successful.

89) Allah has prepared for them a roadmap to land them in blissful kingdoms in which flow rivers of all things of their need and desire wherein they will abide for as long as they deserve and that will be a worthy achievement for them.

90) Just like them some from among the desert Arabs also came with their excuses begging for exemption to stay behind that is how those who lie to Allah and His messenger sit idle. Soon a painful suffering will seize those of them who claim they are committed to working for peace but in actual fact they are not because their actions contradict their words.

91) Of course there is no blame on the disabled and the sick or those lacking the means for stay behind so long as they stand for the implementation of the constitution of Allah with His messenger. There can be no blame for staying behind against such as are truly committed to working for peace and work for it within their capacity within their assigned place because Allah is protector of such through His blissful revelation.

92) Likewise is the case of those who came to you the prophet and the community requesting the conveyance and you said, I am unable to provide you the conveyance and they returned home with their eyes streaming with tears because they were filled with sorrow that they had no resources for going along with you for the mission.

93) The blame is only against those who begged for exemption although they are a people with ways and means and physically fit so they had no excuse to remain behind yet they preferred to be with those who remained behind. Allah has caught them in their self created barrier in their minds against well being of their own community so they do not know what is really good for them to do, making life better for people or letting it get worse by doing nothing.

94) They will apologize to you when you return to them. Say, apologize not because we will not accept it of you as Allah has already informed us about your affairs. However Allah and His messenger will see how you conduct yourself in the future therefore you are directed to guidance of Allah Who makes known the future of the people on the basis of their present conduct and that is why He warns you about the results of what you do.

95) They will swear to you by Allah when you return to them in order to assure you about their loyalty and support so that you may let them off the hook. So leave them alone because their heads are filled with opposition against rule of Allah therefore agony has to be their abode the fitting consequences for their misdeeds.

96) They will swear to you in order to assure you so that they are accepted back into the community by you but even if you do accept them back Allah will never approve of such tricksters who promised to work for the implementation of the rule of Allah but actually did the opposite when it came to that.

97) Some of the desert Arabs are worst in opposing and conspiring against the installation of the rule of Allah because they are least inclined to learning and abiding by the set limits that Allah has revealed to His messenger whereas Allah makes it obvious that He rules through wisdom so ignorant people must educate themselves if they want to benefit from the wisdom of Allah.

98) It is due to their ignorance based arrogance that some of the desert Arabs look upon the assigned community responsibility in form of community revenue as a penalty and wait for some misfortune to befall you. Misfortune is to strike them due to their such mindset and attitude if they do not repent and reform through learning and that is why Allah makes obvious for mankind to learn why must they abide by His advice because He is comprehensive in His knowledge of things.

99) It is because some of the desert Arabs are learned therefore they are truly committed to working for peace for the implementation of the rule of Allah for the good end result for the mankind so they look upon whatever they are assigned as the community responsibility in form of community revenue as a means of bringing them closer to establishing the rule of Allah through supportive networks set up by the messenger. Surely closer they are brought to their objective by their such actions therefore soon Allah will land them in life prosperity through His program for blissful life because Allah is the protector of mankind through His program whereby He leads mankind to blissful life.

100) As for the latter and the earlier people from among the immigrants and their hosts in Madinah and those who supported them out of goodwill for the community Allah found tem consistent in their course of actions and they found His guidance consistent for its set purpose that is how He prepared His plan to land them into life in blissful kingdoms in which flow rivers of all they need and desire wherein they will stay for as long as they deserve it and that is indeed the achievement that is worth the effort.

101) Just as those people are consistent with Our guidance so are there some from among the desert Arabs around you hypocrites and so are some from among the residents of Medina fanatical in their hypocrisy. You do not know them but We know them and soon We will catch them in double the agony whereby they will suffer severely.

102) There are also some who have owned up to what they have done wrong. They have mixed records constructive as well as destructive. It is likely that Allah will turn to them through His blissful revelation if they worked towards it because Allah is protector of mankind through His blissful program.

103) Do accept from them the part of what they have and offer happily as social fund as their assigned community responsibility so that thereby they make evident their full commitment to the implementation of the rule of Allah, that is how you should stay in touch with them because your supportive network will give them confidence and comfort that their works are accepted by Allah, that is how Allah makes evident for people that He is comprehensive in His wisdom.

104) Know they not already that Allah accepts repentance and reformation of those of His people who truly follow His set goals and guidelines that is how He accepts their offerings in His name for helping others? Surely Allah is unique in accepting such people gracefully as turn to His guidance so that He blesses them with prosperity.

105) So tell them, conduct your affairs as you should being alert that Allah and His messenger as well as those committed to working for peace are watching your behaviours as members of community because that is the reason you are brought under His constitution Who makes evident the results of your actions in the future for what you do at the present, that is how He informs you about all that you do whether you are getting near your goal or moving away from it.

106) There are still others regarding whom Allah has not made His decision obvious yet. It is up to His set universal laws whether they will suffer the painful results of their own actions or whether He will find them turning to His advice and reforming that is how Allah makes obvious for mankind that His rule is based upon wisdom.

107) Another case is of those who conspired to build a separate institution to spread misinformation and disinformation to create mistrust and distrust to cause suspicion thereby animosity in order to bring about disunity through fights between those who are committed to working for peace on directions of such a person who declared war against Allah and His messenger already. They will indeed call upon Allah to be their witness in order to assure you that their intentions were only to benefit the community but Allah will make evident by their actions that they are liars.

108) You O prophet are not to stand for divide between people ever. Certainly the institution founded according to the constitution of Allah for the good of humanity right from the very first day is fitting and proper that you should stand by it as a central goal of your mission because out of loyalty to that goal are involved courageous people in the struggle to free themselves from all ills as a community. That is how Allah supports those who struggle to free themselves from all sorts of harms to be a good community.

109) Who is the better person he who lays his building or community upon the solid foundation from Allah for the good of mankind according to His program or he who lays his building on a crumbling bank that tumbles down with him into the ditch to destruction? However Allah guides not such people as learn not His program and do things against it.

110) The structure of those who so build is never free from instability even in their own minds pulling their minds in different directions thus ending up torn apart. That is how Allah makes obvious for mankind to see that His rule is based upon wisdom therefore stable.

111) Indeed Allah has bidden those who claim to be committed to working for peace to work towards blissful gardens together for themselves using their people and whatever they have. They strive to establish the rule of Allah for the good of humanity even if it leads them to fight those who are hell bent on making life hell for each other and even if they themselves are fought against by them due to this cause. This is an ever true promise which is binding upon Him as was mentioned in the Torah and in the Injeel and now in the Qur’an as well so who is more capable in fulfilling His promise other than Allah? Take courage therefore due to this promise in which you have to take upon yourselves to fulfil your role in order to reach the mighty achievement.

112) Such are those who turn to His guidance moulding themselves accordingly for their own good by serving His constitution holding only Him as the sole ruler of the universe, they move about in the land for implementation of His constitution for the good of themselves and others, bending according to His directions and submitting to His constitution, promoting what is good for the mankind and discouraging what is harmful and that is how they observe the limits as set by Allah, therefore proclaim the blissful program for the benefit of such people who would commit to working for peace.

113) It is not right for the prophet and those who are committed to working for peace that they should let people from among those who rather live by rule of other than Allah abide among them such as rebel against kingdom of Allah be they their relatives after it has become obvious to them that these people are enemies of rule of Allah and humanity because they conspire and collaborate with enemies against the heavenly kingdom to destroy it and its people. All this because these people are fully consumed by fire of hatred and committed to its destruction.

114) It was not right for Abraham either to associate with his community elder beyond Our binding limit set in Our guidance. So when it became clear to him that he was an enemy of rule of Allah and humanity he too disassociated himself from him. The fact is Abraham was a right minded, steadfast person who followed Our guidance faithfully.

115) It is not the way of Allah to leave people in chaos and confusion after He has granted them guidance until He has made clear for them what they ought to protect themselves against in order to prosper because Allah has taken it upon Himself to make obvious for mankind all things necessary.

116) It is Allah alone to Whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. He brings nations to life when they follow His program and lets them perish if they do not. That is how you should come to know that you have none other than Allah to protect you or to help you.

117) Therefore Allah turned through His revelation to the prophet and those of the immigrants and their host supporters who stood by him in the time of hardship even though a party of them changed their minds thereafter but they came back to their senses and that is because Allah proved to them He is blissful through His program for prosperity.

118) Likewise He turned to the case of three whose case was yet to be made known. So despondent were they that the earth with all its vastness seemed to them suffocating and even their own people seemed to close their doors upon them suffocating them yet more. That is how they were made to realise that there was no security against set laws of Allah save in abiding by His laws. That is how He turned to them after they turned to His advice and reformed. Surely for them He is a beneficial adviser to blissful life.

119) So O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! Be consistent with the constitution of Allah and be consistent with those who stand for what is truly proper.

120) Therefore it is not right for the people of Medina or the desert Arabs of the neighbourhood to oppose the mission of the messenger of Allah in any way or to desire anything for themselves against the set out mission of the prophet. That is because they struggle not for removing lack of knowledge and poverty or any other hardship through implementation of the rule of Allah nor take any step which provokes the opposers of Our guidance or receive any injury from an enemy but it is credited to them because Allah does not let go to waste the hard works of those who take necessary steps to mend rifts between individuals and communities in order to establish peace.

121) Moreover they do not use anything small or large or cut across any valley for preaching or battle but is written to their credit therefore Allah rewards them according to the best of their actions for the good of the mankind.

122) Also it is not proper that those who are committed to working for peace should all go forth together at once on any missions rather a reasonable party from each community should stay behind as well so that they learn the proper understanding of Our constitution and pass it on to others when they return to them so that they become aware of any new programs, rules and regulations and refrain from acting against them in their ignorance.

123) O you who claim to have committed to working for peace! Strive hard against those who oppose implementation of Our rule according to Our set out constitution and try to turn you away from Our guidance. That is how you should let them know how serious you are in your commitment to working for peace and be aware that Allah supports only those who are consistent with His mission for the good of the mankind.

124) Whenever a Surah is revealed some of them ask others, whose commitment to working for peace has increased by this from among you? Certainly the commitment to peace increases among those who have already truly committed to working for peace so they rejoice over it.

125) As for those in whose hearts and minds rests animosity against rule of Allah and humanity it further adds rage to their existing agony so they perish the while they are opposing it.

126) Do they not see that they are put through hardship every year once or twice? Yet they neither repent and reform nor learn the lesson from this.

127) Whenever a Surah is revealed they give each other a prompting look as if saying, is anyone watching us? Then they silently slip away. Allah has found their hearts and minds slipping from His guidance because they are a people who bother not to learn things for understanding them.

128) O people, surely there has come to you such a messenger from among yourselves who grieves at your loss and who is excessively anxious for your progress and prosperity and who tries to benefit and dignify those who claim to be committed to working for peace.

129) If they still turn away from your message then say to them, laws of Allah are sufficient for disposal of my mission. There is no sovereign in this universe but He. In His universal laws I have put my trust, for He alone is the sovereign of all this great kingdom of the universe.

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Surah 10 Yunus

Proclaim in the name of Allah the gracious the merciful.

1) Alif Laam Raa. These are statements of the book of wisdom.

2) Is it strange for the mankind that We have revealed Our guidance to a man from among the humans themselves so that he warns the mankind against doing harm to each other and delivers the program for better future for those who would commit themselves to working for peace so that they base their community on a truly solid foundation provided to them by their Lord? Those who oppose Our guidance say, this man is indeed a conspirator against our religious and political establishment.

3) But the fact is your ruler is Allah alone Who created the farthest galaxies as well as this galaxy in six stages/steps and by that right He established His sovereignty over the kingdom therefore He runs the affairs of the universe through His set out universal laws. Nothing can intervene in His jurisdiction without being part of His planned process. This is Allah your ruler so abide by His rule alone, should you therefore not be rather reflective and thoughtful people?

4) To His program you should all turn for guidance because promise of prosperity by Allah proves true when acted upon. He is the One Who initiated the process of creation and replicated it so that He rewards those who commit to working for peace by taking actions to mend rifts between mankind according to His set out properly balanced standard. As for those who oppose His advice they will have raging thoughts to satisfy their hatred with thereby they will undergo the painful suffering because they deny and oppose the universal set out laws of Allah.

5) He is the One Who thereby gave the sun its burning brightness and the moon its pleasant light and set her phases that you may learn to compute the years and other such measures. Allah evolved them but for a set purpose as He has explained in His revelations for people who observe and learn to understand things.

6) Indeed in the mechanism whereby alternation between the night and the day is achieved and in the mechanism whereby whatever else Allah has created and put to work in throughout the galaxies including this galaxy there are evidences for those who want to be consistent with constitution of Allah for the good of humanity.

7) As to those who do not look forward to meeting Our set standard due to being submerged in life of this world ignorantly against Our guidance yet desire prosperity, such are the ones who fail to realise the fact that prosperity does not lie in neglecting Our revelations,

8) instead they will end up in state of agony if some are not already there as a consequence because of whatever harm they have do to each other.

9) But those who commit to working for peace and work hard to reconcile mankind to Our set out goal according to Our guidelines for the betterment of the mankind their Lord due to their commitment to cause of peace will guide them to rivers flowing with all they will need and desire in the blissful kingdoms.

10) Their cry therein will be, O Allah, sovereignty belongs to You alone! And their lives therein will be based upon Islam=peace. So their ultimate reliance will be based upon the fact that sovereignty belongs only to Allah the Lord of the universe.

11) Had Allah set up the consequences of peoples' harmful actions in quick succession as they look for the quick gains regardless of the consequences of their actions then the respite given to the people would not have been put in place. So We leave those alone for a set period of time to do as they please who entertain not the hope of meeting Our set standard to wander about in their rebellion as some make others suffer for their own gratification.

12) That is why when consequences of human on human violence affect mankind humanity either turns to Our set out universal laws till it establishes Our constitution but as soon as We remove its affliction thereby it walks away as if it had never needed to rely upon Our set out laws for removing that affliction which touched it! That is how works of those who work against Our rule seem proper to them.

13) Likewise We found generations before your time destroying themselves by inflicting harm on each other despite the fact that their messengers came to them with clear goals and guidelines for their guidance but they did not learn and commit to working for peace! That is how We let those face the consequences of their actions who committed crimes against Our rule.

14) Then We made you their successors in the land so that We let you have a period of time to demonstrate your conduct towards Us and each other in light of Our guidance.

15) Yet when Our clear goals and guidelines are proclaimed among them, those who look not forward to meeting Our set standard say to you, bring us a Quran different than this or make some changes in it. Tell them, it is not possible for me to change it because it is not my work rather I follow only what is revealed to me by Allah. Surely I cannot be inconsistent with my Lord or mankind because I fear that if I did that then I too will end up doing harmful things like you and like you I too will end up with their consequences on the day of uprising.

16) Say, if Allah wanted things to be any other way then I would not have proclaimed this Quran to you, nor would He have made you aware of it. Indeed a whole lifetime I lived among you before its revelation and never did anything like this. Why do you then not use your sense?

17) And who can be more harmful and destructive than the party of priests that itself forges a bundle of lies attributing them to Allah or denies to people their heavenly assigned rights to provisions thus opposes His revelations? Indeed such criminals can never prosper.

18) They subject themselves to other rulers instead of Allah who can neither harm them nor benefit them yet they claim these are our interveners to Allah. Say to them, are you informing Allah of what He knows exists not either in the heavens or in the earth? Sovereignty belongs to Him alone and He is free of having any partners they ascribe to Him.

19) Moreover mankind used to be one single community but later on they became divided through inventing various harmful and destructive ways of life. Had your Lord not already given His guidance and a time period for people to live in this world then the matters in which they differed would have certainly been settled a long time ago.

20) As regards their saying, why no sign has been sent to him from his Lord? Say, to decide about matters relating to future rests with Allah alone and that is the way He sends His proofs so wait if you will, I too am waiting with you as to fulfilment of those promises like revolts by some people against others in forms of wars, revolutions and reforms until people turn to a way of life that leads to peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.

21) When We show prosperity to some of the mankind after some calamity had afflicted them, the well off begin to conspire and plot against Our goals and guidelines. Tell them, laws of Allah are strict in letting your plots take you down by surprise because Our causes are set up to deliver to you results of your own actions.

22) He it is Who due to those set laws enables you to travel in the land until you board a ship and travel by sea. That is how the ships sail with them aboard due to favourable wind so they are happy with it but as comes a stormy wind and the waves reach them from all sides and they think they are going to be drowned by them then they rely sincerely upon the set laws of Allah alone saying to each other that if we are delivered from this trouble then we will become a people worth the name.

23) Yet, when He does deliver them from the trouble the very same people become rebellious in the land without any proper regard for each others’ rights. Say, O mankind! Your rebellion against each other is only harming and destroying your own kind because you destroy each other for the transitory pleasure of this world which you can also have by working for each other rather than against. No matter what in the end you will turn to Our guidance from then on We will tell you how to live your lives properly.

24) Another example of Our set up universal laws in life of this world is that of water, We send it down from the heaven then it is absorbed by the soil which then helps vegetation that becomes food for the people and the animals grow till it covers the land with beauty like gold ornaments and as the people think they can now harvest it there comes fulfilment of Our decree by the very same water as storm by night or in broad daylight and mows it down thoroughly as if nothing existed there yesterday. That is how We explain Our goals with guidelines for those who would learn to think properly and go for them.

25) Through these like proofs Allah invites you the mankind towards peace because He guides any people who want to work towards the path of life that is firmly founded .

26) Because those who do better than good for others and more they will never face bleak future nor will they suffer any shameful situation. Not only that but they will be a people who will end up in blissful kingdoms wherein they will live for as long as they carry on living that way.

27) As for those people and communities that inflict harm and destruction on each other, they will face the results of their own actions likewise therefore disgrace will cover them and they will have none to protect them from set out universal laws of Allah. Their sorrow will be visible on their faces as if their faces have been covered with patches of the dense darkness of night. They are the people who will abide in agony for as long as they live unless they repent and reform.

28) That is how at the time We will catch the rulers and the ruled altogether in painful suffering therefore We will tell those who would have been living by rule of other than Ours, stay in the state that you have chosen, you and your proclaimed sovereigns. We will see them set against each other as their proclaimed sovereigns other than God will say to them, it was not for our rule that you lived for but your own petty interests

29) and Allah is sufficient as a witness between you and us so we disregard claims of your service to us.

30) That is how each person/nation will come to know what it has sent forth for its future as they are made to face the results of their own actions by set out universal laws of Allah their rightful sovereign and that is how their false claims and make beliefs will leave them in the lurch.

31) Ask mankind, who provides your sustenance from the heaven and from the earth? Who provides you with sense of hearing and sight? Who raises nations from the dead to life by giving them His program to follow and who lets them perish when they fail to keep up with His set laws? Who regulates all affairs about everything in the universe? They will soon enough reply, Allah, after facing the dire consequences of their actions . Say, if it is all due to Allah then why are you not consistent with His constitution for the good of each other?

32) That is how Allah who truly has right to be your Lord wants you to be. What is left for you after you give up following what is right and proper other than straying in to falsehood and make beliefs? How can you do such a thing?

33) Thus has the universal law of your Lord proven true as regard those who rebel instead of committing to working for peace.

34) Ask them, can any of them whom you have taken as your sovereigns other than Allah create anything and then tell you about the process involved? Of course not. Say, Allah creates and then tells about the process how he has done it. Then how is that you are so misled?

35) Ask them also, is there any among your proclaimed sovereigns who can guide you to the way of life that is proper for you? Of course not. Say, Allah guides to the way of life that is proper for you. Then who is more worthy to be followed He that can guide to the right path or he that cannot and is himself in need of guidance? What is the matter with you, how did you arrive at the wrong conclusion that you have?

36) The fact is most of the people follow nothing but make beliefs and make beliefs in no way can be substitute for the provable reality. Surely Allah makes people aware of all they do through results of their actions.

37) Due to such stated facts in it, it is not possible that this Quran could have been produced by any of those whom you the mankind take as sovereigns other than Allah and also because it is confirmation of the revelations that were sent before it and it explains what was written in all the earlier scriptures as guidance for the mankind, so there can be no doubt in the fact that it is from the Lord of the universe.

38) Do they claim, he has forged it? Tell them, if what you claim is true then produce a manifesto and a constitution like it that explains all essential things in such great detail within such a limited text, you may call to your aid any of those whom you take as sovereigns (or gods of literature) other than Allah.

39) No, they cannot produce the like of it rather they deny and oppose that which they cannot overcome with their knowledge but they have not yet seen its prophecies unfold. The same destructive mindset and harmful attitude was shown by those who passed before them towards Our similar books earlier. But they should also see what was the end of those who indulged in make beliefs and ritualism against Our guidance. They ended up destroying each other.

40) Of these people there are some who commit to working for peace but there are others who do not and your Lord surely makes people aware about those who conspire to cause rifts and wars between people by denying each other their heavenly rights to provisions.

41) If they still reject say, I am responsible for consequences of my interactions with others and you are responsible for consequences of your interaction with others, you are free from responsibility for my actions and I am free from responsibility of your actions.

42) There are some among them who hear what you say but they do not think so can you make the deaf listen to you, because they are not bothered to learn and understand?

43) Then there are some among them who look at you as if they are looking at you for guidance but they are not, so can you show the way to the blind who do not enable themselves to see right from wrong?

44) The fact is, Allah does no harm to mankind in any way but that people do great harm to each other all by themselves.

45) That is how one day He will bring them together under His constitution relieving them of their harmful and destructive ways of life so they will think they have lived under oppression and suppression just a short while because they will recognise whatever good they will have done for each other to get out of that situation the while those who would have denied themselves opportunity of meeting the set standard of Allah would have perished who would have denied themselves the benefits of His guidance.

46) Regardless We show you some results of their harmful actions or cause you to die before that but to Our constitution their return is inevitable because universal laws of Allah are ever witness of all that they have been doing.

47) And for every nation there has been an appointed messenger and when their messenger came to them the divine criterion of judgement was passed on to them for justice so that they are not wronged by each other even in the least.

48) They ask you, when will this promise of result of their actions be fulfilled if what you say is true?

49) Say, I have no control over anything even regarding myself for any harm or benefit rather happens whatever Allah has planned. For every nation there are consequences when their set limit is reached so they can neither delay them even for a moment nor can they advance them so you too will be dealt with the very same way.

50) Say, have you considered that if His stated painful suffering in form of your revolt against each other falls upon you by night or by day, how will you survive it? What then is there that those who commit crimes against humanity against advice of Allah wish to hasten other than their own painful suffering?

51) Would you commit to working for peace only when painful suffering actually overtakes you? Then you will beg for its removal although it had been your own wish to hurry it on.

52) At that time it will be said to those who will then declare their commitment to working for peace, taste the pain and suffering the while it lasts. Should you then not be made to face the result of what you have been doing when all others have been put through the same process?

53) They ask you, is what you claim really true? Tell them, yes. By words of my Lord and proof of their fulfilment, it is absolutely true and you will not be able to avert it.

54) If each person/nation that has inflicted harm and destruction on others possessed all that the earth contains it would be willing to offer it all in ransom if it could to free itself from troublesome consequences of its actions that will engulf it. They will regret in their hearts when they will see the effects of what they will have done. That is how justice between them will be served and they will not be inflicted with any unjust consequences even in the least.

55) Beware all that is in the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah and beware that promise of Allah is a self evident truth yet most of the mankind bother not to learn what they should be doing to avert the life of painful suffering.

56) He is the One Who brings nations to life through His given program and He lets nations perish when they fail to follow His program so to His program you all should turn for guidance.

57) O mankind! There has come to you an advice from your Lord, a cure for any harmful ambition you may harbour in your minds against each other, a guidance for progress and prosperity for those who will commit to working for peace.

58) Say, this Quran is wisdom from Allah as a blissful revelation for your guidance to prosperity, so let the mankind create a blissful life for themselves by using it, for it is beneficial to do as it says than all that they can gather through harming each other.

59) Say, do you realise that out of all that Allah has provided for you to have a great life, you yourselves have made some things lawful and others unlawful to take undue advantage of each other and thereby harm each other against the advice of Allah? Ask them, did Allah permit you to do that or do you ascribe such things to Allah by lying?

60) What consequences do mankind think such people should face who attribute lies to Allah on the day of uprising? Indeed Allah is protector of mankind as is obvious from His guidance for them yet most of them follow not His advice so they end up in painful suffering.

61) No matter what affairs you may be engaged in and no matter which goals of the Quran you may be following and whatever task you may be carrying out, We are a witness to it while you are deeply occupied with it, for there is not even an iota of anything in the earth or in the heaven that is beyond control of your Lord, neither anything smaller than that nor
larger than that but it is governed by clearly set out universal laws.

62) Behold! The supporters of guidance of Allah have nothing to worry about nor anything to regret.

63) Those who commit to working for peace and are consistent with constitution of Allah for the good of humanity.

64) for them there is a good news of blissful life in this world as well as in the next life in hereafter and words of Allah change not. Being that successful is indeed a great achievement.

65) O Prophet, let not the false proclamations of those who oppose Our guidance harm your mission, surely to honour mankind rests entirely with program of Allah because He makes mankind aware of comprehensiveness of His program.

66) Beware! Whatever is in the heavens and in the earth belongs to Allah alone so those who declare their allegiance to others than Allah follow nothing but self deception and preach nothing but falsehood whereby they harm mankind.

67) He is the One Who has brought about the night for you to rest therein and the day so that you can see and do things. Indeed there are evidences in all this for those who will heed Our guidance.

68) Some even proclaim Allah has a begotten son! Sovereignty belongs to Him alone and He is self-sufficient! His is all that is in the Heavens and in the Earth! Have you any proof for what you claim or are you so ignorant that you are ascribing to Allah something about which you have no proof whatsoever?

69) O prophet tell them, those who attribute lies to Allah will never be able to get away with it.

70) Even though they may have a little enjoyment in this world they will have to face Our judgement and then We will make them face the consequences for their opposition to Our guidance.

71) Relate them the story of Noah when he said to his people, O my people! If it is too much for you that I should live among you and preach to you the revelations of Allah to guide you away from the harms you do to each other because I put my trust in them that they are good for you then go ahead and muster all your supporters and come up with your united decision planning it well so that you have no doubt about it being foolproof then execute it against me and give me no respite yet you will not succeed.

72) If you still turn away from guidance of Allah even when I ask you no reward, for my reward rests with Allah then what else can I do to stop you from harming and destroying yourselves? I am doing this for I have been commanded to become a person who commits himself to working for peace.

73) But they opposed him. As a result We saved him and those of them who were with him in the same boat and We made them successors in the land and drowned those in their own ignorance based arrogance who rejected and opposed Our revelations and so they ended up destroying each other. Therein you can see what was the end of those who were warned of the consequences but they heeded not.

74) Then at length after him We sent messengers to their descendants. They came to them with clear goals and guidelines as to how they should deal with each other but they would not commit themselves to working for peace on the basis of what their ancestors had already rejected before them. Thus We let the transgressors isolate their minds from Our guidance.

75) Then later on We sent Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh and his chiefs with Our instructions. But they too showed arrogance because they were a nation that opposed Our guidance and inflicted harm and destruction on each other.

76) When the guidance came to them from Us they said, this is indeed a conspiracy against us.

77) Moses replied, is that all you can say about the guidance of Allah when it has come to you? Is this really a conspiracy against you when I am telling you to be good to each other? Conspirators never tell their enemies to be good to each other rather they take undue advantage of them by setting some of them against the others secretly thereby putting them on the ways to their destruction therefore they can never prosper.

78) They said, have you come to turn us away from the way of our forefathers in order that you two may become the rulers in the land? We will never commit to working for peace along both of you.

79) Pharaoh said, bring me every skilful person who is well versed in the art of debate.

80) When the experts in debate came Moses said to them, demonstrate whatever arguments you wish to put forth.

81) So when they had demonstrated their works Moses said, the goals and guidelines that you have put forth Allah will surely bring them low, for Allah does not approve the works of those who cause unjust wars amongst people in the land.

82) By His words Allah vindicates what was beneficial for humanity, much as to the dismay of those who opposed His guidance and worked against it.

83) None of the people committed to working for peace with Moses save youths from his own people because of fear of Pharaoh and his chiefs lest they should persecute them and certainly Pharaoh was mighty in the land and the one who did not hesitate to transgress any limit.

84) Moses said, O my people! If you are really committed to working for peace for the implementation of the constitution of Allah then have confidence in His universal laws if you are really committed to working for peace..

85) They replied, in laws of Allah we put our trust saying, our Lord! Do not let us suffer at the hands of unjust people,

86) and deliver us through your blissful guidance from the nation of such trouble makers who oppose Your rule in the land.

87) We revealed Our plan to Moses and his brother saying, take your people and set up in Egypt institutions and make your those institutions basis for organisation of your people to help establish divine system in order to implement program for prosperity to bring about blissful life for those who commit to working for peace.

88) Moses said, our Lord! You let Pharaoh and his chiefs have things that make life blissful in life of this world but our Lord, instead of behaving appropriately they are misleading people about Your set out goals and guidelines by taking away their rights to provision. Our Lord, let us go for their wealth because of their terrible minds and attitudes due to which they will not commit to working for peace unless they see the painful suffering with their own eyes.

89) Allah said, your concern will be addressed in time but remain steadfast and follow not the path of those who ignore Our goals and guidelines.

90) So We led the ideological children of Israel across the sea of troubles because Pharaoh and his hosts pursued them relentlessly with animosity and oppression until they saw themselves drowning in their own self created destruction, he then said, I now commit to working for peace in His name other than whom there is no God, He in whose name are committed to working for peace children of Israel so I too am of those who submit to His goals and guidelines.

91) He was told, now you declare your commitment to working for peace when all is finished but a while before you were terribly rebellious and one of those who conspired for wars in the land.

92) However We will save you in your body of works now so that you are a lesson for the succeeding generations even though most of the mankind pay no attention to Our revelations.

93) That is how We settled the children of Israel in a nice dwelling place and provided them with good things of life. They divided not until after the knowledge had come to them and they stepped aside from it ending up with animosities between themselves. Surely your Lord will decide between them about matters due to which they ended up divided on the day of uprising or on the day the constitution of Allah is established in the land.

94) If at all you the people are in doubt regarding what We have revealed to you then consult those people as well who have been studying Our books before you. You will find that it is the truth indeed that has come to you from your Lord therefore you people should not be of those who doubt,

95) and join not with those who deny and oppose the goals and guidelines of Allah otherwise you will end up of those who are in loss.

96) Yet those concerning whom the universal laws of your Lord have to fulfil will not commit to working for peace,

97) even though every proof has been brought to them until they see their own painful end as result of their own actions.

98) Was there any township as a whole which foresaw the revolt coming and fully committed to working for peace and their commitment to peace then benefited them except the people of Yunus? When they committed to working for peace We saved them from the destructive revolt and let them enjoy their life of this world till they remained on that road.

99) If it had been a matter of enforcing the will of your Lord then all the people of the earth would have committed to working for peace, so will you then compel mankind against their will to commit to working for peace instead of letting them choose?

100) Since it is a matter of choice it is not possible for anyone to commit to working for peace properly unless they pay attention to guidance of Allah and He lets people remain in their ignorant mindset and destructive attitude who do not learn to be wise.

101) Say, look at whatever exists in the heavens and the earth. Our proofs by means of warnings do not benefit such people as do not pay due attention to them and commit not to working for peace according to them.

102) So are these people waiting for days when ignorant followers revolt against their destructive leaders like the ones that befell the people who passed away before them? Say, wait if you will I too am waiting with you till that time comes.

103) But beware that when such a time comes, We save Our messengers and those who commit to working for peace, this is Our way, We take it upon Ourself as their right that We save those who are committed to working for peace.

104) Say, O mankind! If you are in doubt concerning my proposed standard for living then know this that never will I serve those whom you take for rulers beside Allah nor will I follow your harmful and destructive rules for living my life instead I stand to serve constitution of Allah the sole sovereign of this kingdom who will make you face full results of your actions and I am commanded to be of those who commit themselves fully to working for peace.

105) Therefore set yourself for installing and establishing the constitution of Allah that is upright and proper and never be of those who attribute sovereignty to any others than Allah.

106) So never serve any other than Allah as a sovereign who can neither benefit you nor harm you, for if you do that then you too will become one of those who transgress Our set limits.

107) Remember always that if Allah lets a calamity afflicts you as a result of your own wrong doing then none can remove it but He alone by guiding you out of it and if He lets a blissful favour come your way then again none can withhold His provision for you. However He bestows His bliss upon whoever of His servants works for it according to His plan because He is protector of mankind by means of His blissful program for them.

108) Say, O mankind! The truth based upon proofs has come to you from your Lord! Any nation that follows His guidance follows it for its own good and any that goes astray does so at its own risk and I am not your custodian but a messenger from Allah.

109) So follow what is revealed to you the mankind and be steadfast till Allah brings about His rule in the land and He is unique of those who claim to be rulers.

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SURAH 11 HOOD

Proclaim in the name of Allah the gracious the merciful

1) Alif Laam Raa. A constitution articles of which are permanent and made distinct by the One Who rules this kingdom and Who thereby makes mankind aware of His sovereignty,

2) therefore declare allegiance of sovereignty to none other than Allah. I am from Him to you a warner and a bearer of program for prosperity.

3) That is why you should seek protection of your Lord against all sorts of poverty by turning to His guidance so that He grants you good provisions until an appointed time time as per His set out universal laws. That is how He will bestow His abundance on every people who work for it. However should you ignore this program then I fear for you a very long period of time that will be painful.

4) So you should turn to roadmap of Allah because He has set up laws governing everything.

5) Although you made clear how things work, they will still twist things in their minds so that they could hide from this way of looking at things and keep their make beliefs alive. However even when they cover themselves fully with their make beliefs to prevent people from knowing the truth yet Allah makes the truth obvious regarding that which they hide and that which they disclose in order to confuse people. Indeed He exposes every secret within their minds through results of their actions.

6) There is not a moving creature on the earth whose sustenance is not provided by Allah because He makes known to it its place of provision and its place of rest and all that is determined by means of clearly set of laws.

7) Moreover He is the One Who brought about by means of set out laws the far away galaxies as well as this galaxy in six stages and His ability of creating all this rested upon His sea of knowledge, in order to put you the mankind through struggle to demonstrate to each other which of you works for the benefit of each other. So when you tell them that due to this program you the people will indeed be raised to heights of dignity after you have lost the hope, the opposers of this program will certainly say, this is nothing but a fantasy.

8) However when due to this program We move away from them the harm and destruction they inflict upon each other for a limited time, they are sure to say, what is holding it back? Beware! That time when it arrives nothing will hold it back from them and they will be completely encircled by that which they take for a joke.

9) The fact is when We let mankind taste prosperity from Us due to following of Our set out universal laws then let it be lost on it due to consequences of its own actions against Our program, mankind fall low yet remain rebellious.

10) And if We let it taste any favour after this adversity has afflicted it, the mankind then says, all my sorrows are gone from me and he becomes jubilant yet remains ready to rebel against Our set laws.

11) The exception are such as are steadfast in their hard works for the reconciliation between mankind for peace, such are the ones for whom is secure and dignified life as a great reward for their works.

12) So beware in case you stop insisting on things which are being revealed to you feeling distressed in your mind that they might say, why has no treasure been sent with him or why has he not been backed/accompanied by a king? Surely you are nothing less than a warner to those who work against each other and thereby destroy each other. They should know that it is Allah Who rules over all things by His set out laws.

13) Do they say, he has made up the Quran himself? Say to them, bring then ten surahs like the ones in the Quran and call to your aid whoever you can, even those whom you take for rulers instead of Allah if what you say is true.

14) But if they fail to respond to this challenge then you should know that this Quran makes evident program of Allah and there is no god/ruler but He! Will you people then submit to program of Allah and live by this way of life that leads to peace?

15) Those who desire the life of this world and its splendours the wrong way, We reward them with full consequences of their actions without any loss.

16) They are the ones who have nothing to gain thereafter save painful suffering whereby they come to know their greed and make belief based actions were wrong because they were harmful and destructive for others as well as themselves.

17) Can they be same as those who have self evident program from their Lord and to whom a messenger from Himself recites and they also have the book given to Moses before them a guidance towards blissful life? Such are the people who really commit to working for peace but those factions who oppose Our guidance will have their promise fulfilled that they shall end up in agony. So people be not in any doubt about it because it is the provable truth from your Lord even though most of the people do not commit themselves to working for peace.

18) Who can be more destructive for humanity than the one who forges a lie against Allah? Such people in time will be confronted with program of their Lord and the states of existence of people will bear witnesses clearly showing, these are the ones who lied against their Lord. Beware! The set law of Allah is ever ready to descend results of their actions upon those who have harmful mindset and destructive attitude and do what is against His advised program,

19) who hinder others from the path of Allah and seek to make it obscure because who deny the people the blissful life to come due to this program.

20) These people cannot frustrate His program for the people on the earth because there is none to support them against program of Allah. They suffer doubly because they neither support others who stand for what is right for the mankind nor stand themselves for what is proper.

21) They are the ones lost in their own selves and the fancies they invent against Our guidance leave them in lurch.

22) No doubt they are bound to lose in the end.

23) As for those who commit to working for peace therefore strive very hard for reconciliation between mankind to implement program of their Lord for peace and prosperity will ultimately end up in blissful life for as long as they are alive and steadfast.

24) The example of these two kinds of people is like two persons, one of whom is blind and deaf, and the other who can see and hear. Are they equal? Will you then not learn to understand the lesson?

25) That is why We sent Noah to his people saying, I have come to warn you plainly,

26) serve no ruler other than Allah and do not divide people setting up one group against the other, otherwise I fear for you the consequences of a painful day of uprising.

27) The chiefs who opposed him from among his people said, we see you nothing more than a man like ourselves and we see that no one has followed you except the meanest among us whose judgement abilities are immature and we find nothing in you which gives you superiority over us. In fact we think you are a liar.

28) He said, O my people, look! If I am upon a clear guidance from my Lord and He has bestowed on me a program for your prosperity from Himself but you act like blind to it, should we then compel you to accept it when are against it?

29) O my people! I do not ask you any wage for this work because my reward for this work rests with none other than Allah and I am not going to drive away those who commit to working for peace along with me because they are sure that they will meet the goal set for them according to the standard set for them by their Lord. But I can see that you are acting out of your ignorance based arrogance.

30) And tell me O my people! Who will support me against Allah if I drive them away? Don’t you understand such a simple point?

31) I do not tell you that I possess the treasures of Allah nor do I claim that I have the power to know the future and I do not claim to be a king nor do I say about those who are mean in your eyes that Allah will not grant them prosperity because only Allah can expose what is in their minds. If I claim anything to mislead you then I will indeed be transgressing my God set limits.

32) They said, O Noah! You have argued with us and argued far too much, now bring upon us the revolt with which you threaten us if what you say is true.

33) He replied, Allah will surely let consequences of your actions be upon you if He has so planed and then you will not be able to escape from them.

34) My counsel will not benefit you no matter how much I desire to give you good advice if set laws of Allah your Lord find you on the wrong path because according to His set laws alone you are made to face consequences of your actions.

35) Do they say, he has forged all this? Say to them, if I have indeed forged it then I ought to have some motive to benefit myself at your expense that ought to have destructive consequences for you which ought to be all clear to you, yet I am free of inflicting harms upon you which you inflict on each other due to your such motives, so how do you explain your accusation of forgery against me when I am instead stopping you from inflicting harm upon each other so that you do not end up destroying each other?

36) Regardless of their false accusations against you, it was made obvious to Noah that no more of your people are committing to working for peace save those who have already committed. So there is no point you grieving at their harmful mindset and destructive attitude or their mutually destructive works against each other

37) Instead build a separate place away from these people according to Our guidance as we reveal it to you and remember not to side step Our laws on behalf of those who oppose Our program by working against it because they are all as per Our set laws destined for destruction at their own hands.

38) So he started building a place and whenever the chiefs of his people passed by him they laughed at him. He said, laugh at us now if you will but time is coming when we too will laugh at you as you are laughing at us.

39) Soon you will come to know who will be seized by a humiliating revolt and who is to be afflicted with destructive consequences of his destructive course of actions for the rest of his life.

40) Finally when time for fulfilment of Our warning came because the social environment heated up with hatred in society and the revolt broke out We said to Noah, take refuge in the that place and take aboard each of the leadership and community of your own who are committed to working for peace letting those stay behind against whom the word has already gone forth that they will face the consequences of their actions however those who committed to working for peace with him were only a minority.

41) Thus he said to them, undertake this journey to a new way of life in the name of Allah in whose laws is its origin and its fulfilment, surely my Lord alone is protector of mankind because He is provider of blissful program for them.

42) So the journey started with them in middle of massive waves of people. All this because Noah called upon chief of his community to live by rule of Allah as he stood aside from it saying, O son of my nation! Join us and be not with chiefs and priests or masses that oppose rule of Allah.

43) He said, I rather betake myself to join the masses they will save me from the troubled waters. Noah said, no nation survives such troublesome time due to set law of Allah save any that builds itself upon the program He has provided for it. Thereupon a wave of people came between them and he joined those who were destined to end up destroyed.

44) Thus it happened that Allah said, O earth! Swallow up your water and O heaven! withhold your rain and so the water disappeared and that is how warning of Allah was fulfilled by way of drought and famine. On the other hand journey of Noah and his supporters for dignity became complete and it was said to them, let there be a distance between those who transgress Our limits and those who abide by them.

45) Beware! Noah called out to his Lord at the time saying, O my Lord! My chief belongs to my community and surely Your promise to save my community is true because You are unique of the claimants of sovereignty.

46) Allah said, O Noah! He is not of your community because he is not of those who act to put things right for the good of community as a whole. So do not question My decisions unreasonably. I educate you so that you do not act like those who act ignorantly.

47) Noah said, my Lord! I seek refuge in Your revealed wisdom so that I do not question your decisions due to my lack of proper knowledge but unless You dignify me through Your guidance I surely lost.

48) It was said, O Noah! Settle down now on basis of constitution for peace from Us so that there is progress and prosperity for you and for the people that are with you. As for generations to come from them, We will grant them also their provision thereby but if they behaved not properly then they will have to face painful suffering as decreed by Us.

49) O messenger, these are some of the facts from the past which We have now revealed to you, neither you nor your people knew about it before this. So be steadfastly persistent the success in the end is for those who are consistent with rule of Allah for the good of humanity.

50) Likewise to the people of Aad We sent their brother Hood. He said, O my people! Live by constitution of Allah because you have no sovereign but Him. Surely you do nothing but invent things against soverignty of Allah.

51) O my people! I do not demand of you any personal gain at the expense of rest of you rather I promote provision according to rule of Allah. Will you then not learn to use your sense?

52) So O my people! Seek prosperity from your Lord by turning to His guidance and reforming accordingly. He will send you from the heaven abundant rain and He will add strength to your strength. So oppose not His goal and guidelines to inflict harm and destruction upon each other.

53) They said, O Hud! You have not come to us with any clear proof that we demand so we are not going to desert our rulers just on basis of your claims and arguments nor are we going to commit to terms and conditions for peace that you propose.

54) We can only say that some of our saints have afflicted you with their curse. He said, Allah is my witness and be you also my witness that I am free of attributing sovereignty

55) to any other than Him, So let all of you plot against me if you will and give me no respite.

56) I have put my trust in universal laws of Allah Who is my Lord as well as yours. There is no living creature whose goal is not set by Him. My Lord indeed stands for the path that is firmly founded.

57) So even if you turn away from His roadmap, at least I have conveyed to you the message I was sent with. If you do not abide by His message in time my Lord will raise some other people in your place and you can do Him no harm whatsoever. Indeed my Lord has set measures for security or proper functioning of all things.

58) So when Our rule of consequences came in to effect We saved Hood and those who committed to working for peace with him through dignifying program from Us and that is how We saved them from a terrible painful suffering.

59) Such were the people of Aad. They opposed the goals and guidelines of their Lord and did not support His messenger but instead supported the rule of every terrifying oppressor.

60) Therefore they were followed by life full of humiliation in this world through rivalries and ended up with yet more disgrace on the day the uprising took them by surprise. Beware! Aad denied the rights to provision to each other against the rule of their Lord. Beware! Gone are Aad, the people of Hood.

61) To the Thamud people We sent their brother Saleh. He said, O my people! Serve Allah alone, for you have no sovereign but Him. It is He Who created you from the earth and made it a dwelling place for you. Therefore seek prosperity from Him by turning to His guidance and reform accordingly. Surely guidance of my Lord is ever close to you, ready to fulfil all your needs.

62) They said, O Saleh! Till now you were the one in whom we had great expectations! Will you now stop us from serving the traditions and customs that our forefathers put in place and served? Indeed we are strongly suspicious of that to which you are calling us.

63) He said, O my people! Tell me, if I have a clear proof from my Lord that He has granted me a program for prosperity from Himself, who then will help me against set law of Allah for consequences if I abide not by His program? What would you add to my person other than making me yet bigger loser than yourselves?

64) So O my people! This law of Allah is a divine constitution for you so let it rule in the land of Allah freely and hinder it not otherwise you are bound to find yourselves caught in severe consequences of your such actions.

65) But they kept it from implementation so he said, you have notice of three periods of time at most to reform your institutions or consequences will ensue and that is such a promise that never fails.

66) So when Our set law of consequences began showing its dire effects after things reached the tipping point, during that period of humiliation We saved Saleh and those who committed to working for peace with him through roadmap for prosperity from Us. Surely your Lord is strong enough to see through His plan.

67) Then after a long period of humiliation the sudden uprising took these transgressors against Our rule by surprise thus new era in their jurisdictions uprooted their rule

68) as if they had never flourished there. Beware! Thamud denied each other rights to provisions in opposition to rule of their Lord. Gone are the people of Thamud due to their such behaviour.

69) Likewise there came to Abraham Our missionaries to help him with program for prosperity of his people. They said, we come to you to help you establish peace. He said, you are welcome to help me establish peace so he hastened to fill them in with important information relating the missionary task.

70) But then when he realised their authority did not extend to include his part of mission, he felt as if they were letting him down. They noticed this about him and said, worry not because just now we have been sent regarding people of Lot.

71) His community that was present there, became happy when We gave it good news about succession of Isaac and after him about succession of Jacob.

72) It said, O wonderful! What! Am I getting a new leader now that I have had my better days and my current leader is also nearing his old age? This indeed is a strange thing!

73) They said, do you find the program of Allah strange whereby Allah will land you in life of prosperity in abundance O you the people holders of the heavenly constitution? Behold! He alone is worthy of sovereignty.

74) When the worry of Abraham subsided due to the good news that reached him, he began to plead with Us the case of people of Lot.

75) Indeed Abraham was very open minded and tender hearted for the mankind as well as fully devoted to Our mission.

76) We said, O Abraham! Leave this subject alone because decree of your Lord as regard consequences has been declared already, so there must come to them the result of what they have done and it cannot be averted because this is how we have planned to settle the matters of this nature.

77) Later on Our missionaries came to Lot, he was alright with them except that he was hesitant to go along with them as regard their plan. After hearing their plan he said, this is a very distressful time.

78) Behold, there came rushing to him his people when he called upon them who were long addicted to all sorts of transgressions against each other so he said to them, O my people! Here are my guidelines to help you, they are necessary for you to adhere to in order to free you from your wrong doings against each other. So be consistent with constitution of Allah for the good of each other and do not make me look bad in eyes of my guests. Is there no man among you of an appreciable leading character?

79) They said, you already know your guidelines are not acceptable to us and you also know well how we want to live our lives.

80) He said, I wish I had authority to prevent you from doing harm to each other or that I could betake myself to get help from some rightly guided powerful community.

81) Upon witnessing all this the envoys said, O Lot! We are sent to support mission of your Lord and majority of these people have made it clear that they are not going to support your mission so leave this place with your supporters as darkness of ignorance still covers it therefore let none of you stay behind but rebellious people of your community only. It has chosen for itself that it should face the same fate as its chiefs and priests. The new beginning that was promised to them, is time for that new beginning not at hand yet?

82) When time for fulfilment of Our promise came We caught the place turned upside down by sudden revolt because We made obvious to it importance of organised institutions and record keeping in a classified way,

83) as described by your Lord. Yet they ignored all this therefore such uprising is never far away from those who instead keep harming each other against Our set out goals and guidelines.

84) Likewise to the people of Madyan We sent their brother Shu’aib who said to them, O my people! Serve constitution of Allah alone because you have no sovereign but He. So do not fall short in measurement in reference to this set standard. I see your future prosperous if you follow my advice but I also fear for you the time when the results of your actions against this standard could encircle you.

85) So O you my people! Fulfil your needs and wants according to the measures set as standard that is properly balanced and do not defraud people out of their rightful provisions so that you do not end up causing rifts and wars between mankind in the land.

86) That which is proper in sight of Allah for the good of mankind is beneficial for you if you would truly commit to working for peace and remember I am not set upon you as a guard to stop you from harming each other by force rather this is up to you people yourselves as to how you choose to organise your community as per my message or your make beliefs.

87) They said, Oh Shu’aib! Does your way of organising the community demand that we give up serving all other rulers whom our forefathers served or that we give up our individual rights to doing what we choose to do with our own things at the expense of the community because you surely seem to think that you are the only one steadfast and upright man in the land?

88) He said, O my people! You see, if I have a clear proof of guidance from my Lord and He has granted me with a good program for setting up His provided sustenance for the benefit of mankind then how can I go against that? I am not opposing you in what I am forbidding you just because I intend to harm or destroy you rather I desire your reformation for the benefit of all of us so far as it is within my capacity. My success does not depend on anything other than my hard work according to the revealed program of Allah for my guidance because in His program I have full confidence that is why I turn to it for guidance about everything.

89) So O my people! Let not your disputing with me bring upon you the doom similar to that of the people of Noah and Hood or Saleh and people of Lot are not far off from you either,

90) therefore seek protection of your Lord against inflicting harm and destruction on each other by turning to Him for guidance and reform accordingly because my Lord is protector of the mankind through His program that is comprehensive for security of humanity.

91) They said, O Shu'aib! We do not want to know much of what you say because we see you just as an average person among us. Were it not for your supporters, we certainly would have thrown you out of this place because on your own you are not strong enough to stand against us.

92) He said, O my people! Do you regard my tribe or ideological following to be more powerful than Allah that you have disregarded His advice totally as a thing cast behind your backs? Surely within grasp of my Lord is all that you do.

93) O my people! You keep on doing things your way and I will keep on doing things my way and soon you will find out who ends up in humiliation through self imposed harm and destruction and is a liar! Wait if you will, I too am waiting along with you!

94) When the time of fulfilment of Our rule of consequences came We delivered through security provided by Our program Shu'aib and those who committed themselves to working for peace with him but the uprising took these transgressors against Our set out universal laws by surprise that is how new era in their jurisdictions uprooted their rule

95) as if they had never flourished therein before. Behold! Like Thamud gone are the people of Madyan!

96) And thereafter We sent Moses with Our objectives and guidelines with authority that was self evident

97) to Pharaoh and his chiefs because they lived by rule of Pharaoh and rule of Pharaoh was not based upon proper guidance.

98) That is how he led his people to the day of uprising because he led them to the fire of hatred. How awful was the state of painful suffering in which they were landed?

99) Humiliation followed them into this state of existence and so they ended up facing the day of upheaval. The harmful and destructive result of harmful and destructive course of actions.

100) Such are the stories of the nations before you which We reveal to you, of them some have survived and some have ceased to exist.

101) It were not Us who harmed them rather they harmed each other and thereby destroyed themselves. The sovereignties they served instead of Allah did not avail them ought when the rule of consequences set by your Lord showed its effects because they added nothing to their lot but harm and destruction.

102) And likewise your Lord found nations caught in consequences of their own actions whenever He found a township transgressing against each other against His advice, surely going against His advice has such terrible consequences.

103) In fact, there is a proof in all this for such individuals and nations as pay attention to the terrible end results of harmful and destructive actions. That is why there is to come a period of time that will unite all the people and that is the era worth bringing about,

104) so We delay it not but according to set out universal laws.

105) When that era comes about no one will dare do anything but it will be judged according to His set out standard. That is how it will be decided who is law breaker and who is law abider.

106) As to those who break the law they are bound to end up in agony wherein they will have only sighs and sobs.

107) They will remain in that state for as long as the heavens and the earth last and they do not reform otherwise they will be dealt with as per program of your Lord because your Lord decides matters according to His set out universal laws.

108) As for those who are law abiding they are bound to end up in blissful kingdom. They are to remain in that state for as long as the heavens and the earth last unless they change their direction otherwise they will be dealt with as per program of your Lord according to results of their actions that never fails to reach those due.

109) Therefore be not in doubt concerning the sovereignties they serve other than Allah that they are bound to harm and destroy them. The sovereignties they serve do so just because their forefathers used to serve them likewise before them without using their brains. So We too will fulfil to them full results of their own course of actions without any abatement.

110) Even though We gave the book as a manifesto and as a constitution to Moses to unite people according to it yet divisions were created in its name. The very purpose the constitution was forwarded by your Lord was so that they settle matters between them according to it but instead of learning and implementing it they ended up confused and in chaos due to their unabating ignorance and stupidity.

111) However it is a fact that your Lord always rewarded each of the nations with full measure for whatever they did because He is fully aware of all that people do.

112) Therefore stand firmly upon this constitution as you are commanded together with those who have turned to constitution of Allah along with you and transgress not the set limits therein and remember, He is ever watching all that you do.

113) So never inclined towards those who inflict harm and destruction on each other in case you too are caught in painful suffering as a result of their such actions because you will have no protection against set universal laws of Allah nor will you be helped.

114) Therefore strive as hard as you can from the start of the day till you are well into the night to establish the heavenly constitution. Surely actions taken to create a properly balanced society remove the causes of harmful and destructive effects. This is something for those who pay attention and think about things thoroughly.

115) Be steadfastly persistent in your mission because Allah never lets the reward of those who work hard to benefit each other go to waste.

116) Just think that despite Our provision of guidance why there were not among the generations before you any people with sense who could educate others out of mindset and attitude of rivalry and warmongering in the land save a few whom We delivered from the harm and destruction of others? It is because those who had harmful and destructive mindsets and attitudes pursued their worldly ambitions and desires against the way We advised them because they chose to establish themselves the criminal way.

117) It was never the case that your Lord let the townships destroy themselves while their habitants are committed to working for peace within their communities.

118) Had your Lord enforced His will He would have certainly made mankind one single nation but He chose to give them freewill and put them through struggle to establish peace among themselves, so they will continue to differ

119) except those upon whom He has bestowed understanding of His guidance because that very freedom of choice and action is the whole purpose of their creation. That is how the word of your Lord finds its fulfilment that He finds most of the destructive leaders and their destructive followers ending up digging their own ditch or grave.

120) All these stories of the past messengers and people that We relate to you are to strengthen your mind therewith. Through these you the mankind have received the correct information about things as well as those who are committed to working for peace have obtained advice and guidance.

121) As to those who do not commit to working for peace say to them, do as you want and so will we.

122) Wait if you like for results of your course of actions, we too are waiting for results of our course of actions indeed. That will prove decisively who is on the course of actions that leads to peace and prosperity and who is on the course actions that lead to wars and destruction.

123) It is because to rule of Allah alone belongs the future in the heavens and the earth so it is right of Allah alone to set goals and guidelines for everything therefore serve His constitution by putting your trust in His laws and remember always that your Lord is never unaware of whatever you need to do or whatever you end up doing.

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SURAH 12 Yusuf

Proclaim in the name of Allah the gracious the merciful

1) Alif Laam Raa. These are evidences of the uniquely distinct constitution.

2) We have revealed it as a proclamation in a uniquely distinct language in a uniquely distinct structure so that you the mankind could learn reasoning to become a rational people.

3) So let Us furnish you the mankind by means of this Quran with a purposeful information to abide by because when you act without it you will act like ignorant people.

4) Call to mind the time when Joseph said to father of his nation, O father! I see bright future in unity of people as a community therefore I would like to see the leadership and the following accept my vision for their better future.

5) He replied, O son of my nation! Disclose not this dream of yours to your fellow community members just as yet in case they scheme a plot against you and catch you unprepared because the opposition based upon harmful and destructive mindset and attitude is an open enemy of humanity.

6) Rest assured it will happen as you imagined because you will be chosen by your Lord for His mission so He will teach you how to diagnose problems properly relating individuals and communities and find their proper solutions that is how He will fulfil His mission through you and the ideological children of Jacob as He fulfilled it through your ideological forefathers Abraham and Isaac before you. That is how your Lord makes obvious for mankind that He rules through wisdom.

7) Indeed in the account of Joseph and his brethren there are lessons for would be leaders and supporters as to how they should or should not conduct themselves in relation to fulfilment of their needs and desires as a people.

8) His community fellows who stood against his vision for society said to each other, see Joseph and his supporters they are loved and respected more by our community leadership than us even though we are a group of powerful people of this society. Our leadership is obviously wrong in not considering us for the leadership of our community.

9) Some said to others, in order to throw Joseph out of community leadership contest let us fight Joseph thereby force him out of this place to some far-off land so that the attention of leadership of your people focuses upon you alone as proper candidates for leadership of the community because only after doing that you can be of those who reach their ambition.

10) At this one of them said, you cannot fight Joseph but if you must do something instead get hold of him quietly and throw him into some dungeon till he could be picked up by some bandits so that he is out of our way.

11) So they ask their chief administrator, O chief of our nation! Why do you not appoint us as security guards over Joseph instead of those already responsible for it because we surely are his sincere well-wishers?

12) Pass on his security responsibility to us for future so that he could move about for taking care of his business without worrying about his security. We will indeed take good care of him.

13) He said to them, I will be anxious if you accompanied him because I am concerned in case some bandit attacks him the while you are caught unprepared off your guard.

14) They said, if a bandit could attack him despite our number and strength then surely we would be a worthless people.

15) That is how they were able to take him away because they plotted to place him into a dungeon. However We revealed this to Joseph that a time will come when you will remind them about this act of theirs but just now they do not perceive the consequences of what they are doing.

16) At the end of the period of their responsibility for security of Joseph they returned to their chief crying in tears.

17) They said, O our chief, we went on our individual business ahead of each other leaving Joseph behind to look after our things and at length the bandit attacked and made off with him. It is not that you are going to be satisfied with our this action but we are telling the truth.

18) That is how through animosity they brought about denial of his right to succession of community leadership. He said, no I am not satisfied with your explanation rather people involved in your group have made you to cook up a tale regarding this matter. However steadfast persistence is needed for reaching the truth about this matter, so universal law of Allah should be relied upon regarding that which you assert.

19) At length a party of bandits came by and they sent one of them to carry out the deal so he laid down his weaponry and came to see the merchant. After seeing the young man he said, O goodness! What a young man and took him to his group. Even though they kept him in hiding like a great treasure yet Allah makes obvious what they did.

20) His brethren sold him cheap in a hurry for a petty price of a few Dirhams to bandits, for that is what he was worth in their sight.

21) The Egyptian who bought Joseph from the bandits and freed him said to his community, treat him honourably as if he is one of us, he could prove very beneficial for us or we can adopt him as a son of our nation. That is how We established Joseph in that piece of land and taught him the sense of handling all the affairs that need proper handling in a country. Allah has set laws to govern all affairs though most of the people learn not to realise it.

22) When he reached maturity We had already bestowed on him ability of gathering information about things and ways of making sense of all that. That is how We reward those who work hard for the good of the mankind.

23) However the ruling elite and priestly class of the community under whose jurisdiction he was decided to try and change his way of doing things by closing all the ways of doing things to him saying, come join our way of doing things. He replied, I seek protection in universal laws of Allah Lord of mine Who has entrusted me with responsibility of this good land to manage things therein properly. Surely those who transgress His set limits therefore prosper not.

24) Yet party of ruling and priestly classes went ahead in order to try and change his mind and he too would have inclined towards its way of doing things had he not been shown by his Lord the results of their course of actions. That is how We shielded him from doing anything whereby he could harm and destroy others and bring gloom and doom upon himself therefore he remained true follower of Our guidance.

25) As each of the parties tried to outdo the other its own way the opposite party was involved in foul play right from the start because it attacked his person instead of his vision in order to shatter his personality. That is how the opponent party landed both the parties at the court of the chief of the community saying to him, what punishment does someone who intended harm and destruction against your community deserve other than imprisonment or a painful chastisement?

26) Joseph said, it was this party of rulers and priests that tried to move me away from my way of doing things and a group of people of this community was present at this event and saw all this. The community chief said that if his vision was attacked the right way then party of rulers and priests is telling the truth and he is lying

27) but if it was attacked the wrong way then he is speaking the truth and the party of rulers and priests is lying.

28) So when community chief examined the statements of the witnesses and came to conclusion that he was attacked the wrong way in order that his personality is destroyed he said to party of rulers and priests, it is one of the tricks of you the party of rulers and priests. Your conspiracy was mighty indeed!

29) He said, O Joseph, ignore their way of doing things and O party of rulers and priests, seek correction of the way you do things because you were indeed the ones who did the things wrong way.

30) However the word spread among communities of the township that party of ruling elite and priestly class under the governor of Egypt has conspired to change the way of doing things of its civil servant because the rest of the community has fallen madly in love with him the way he does things for it. In fact, we see it totally lost in his love.

31) At length when the embarrassing remarks became unbearable for party of ruling elite and priestly class, it invited them and prepared for them a banquet and gave each of them an opportunity to scrutinise his way of doing things. As they engaged in cross examination of his way of doing things, the party called on Joseph to come out to face them. When they examined him they were so amazed that they ended up shooting themselves in the foot so they exclaimed spontaneously, good Lord! He looks nothing like an ordinary person rather he looks like a highly ranked knowledgeable official of a noble descent.

32) The party of ruling elite and priestly class said, this is he about whom you blamed me. No doubt I conspired to change him but he escaped my set out trap for him. If he does not do things the way I say, he should be thrown into prison indeed to be disgraced.

33) Joseph said, O my Lord! I rather go to prison than do things the way they demand of me but unless You inspire me with some way out of their cunning trap for me I may end up trapped among them and forced to become of those who live not by your guidance.

34) That is how his Lord inspired him with proper response warding off their cunning trap from him and that is how He makes obvious for mankind that He is indeed comprehensive in observation of all things.

35) But even after all the evidence they had seen they still decided to send him to prison for a time.

36) Two young men were also in the prison with him. One day they discussed with each other their individual ambitions so one of them said, I had a dream that in time I will become source of knowledge for the people. The other said, I had a dream of taking on responsibility of livelihood for people in which partake people who prove to be excellent in this kind of work. Tell us how can we have such outcomes for our these ambitions, we ask you about it because we see that you are a man who directs others for the good of each other.

37) Joseph replied, I will explain to you how you should go about fulfilling your dreams before you start working on them to get the outcomes you desire because this is part of the knowledge about making sense of things which my Lord has taught me. In fact, I have nothing to do with rule of people who do not commit to working for peace and prosperity of mankind according to guidance of Allah because they deny people the right to fruit of their hard work in the end.

38) So I follow the guidance of Allah and guide others to do the same just like my forefathers Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. It is not fitting that we take any sovereigns other than Allah. This is our task/mission set by Allah for the good of the mankind yet most of the people do not become a people worth the name.

39) O my fellow inmates! Tell me, what is better, many different sovereigns or just one sovereign, Allah, the Irresistible?

40) Those you serve other than Him as rulers are nothing but mere names which you and your forefathers have invented, for which Allah has revealed no proof. Surely sovereignty belongs to none but Allah Who has ordained that you serve none as ruler save Him. That is the way of doing things which is proper yet most of the people do not learn to understand it.

41) As to your dreams O my inmates! Each of you will be released soon from the prison and one of you will serve wine of knowledge to your king and the other will be placed firmly on state affairs of which people will have their provisions. That is how your dreams will become realities regarding which you asked for directions.

42) Then to the one who he thought will advise his king said, mention me to your lord. But the lack of attention made him forget to mention Joseph to his king, so he remained in the prison a few more years.

43) Then one day the king of Egypt said to his counsel, I see a number of big splits in my people in which are involved many weak members of our society but I also see a number of long periods of stability and prosperity as well as number of periods of instability and exploitation and hardship. O chiefs! Explain to me how can I reach my desired outcome if you can analyse the situation and the circumstances and plan ahead in order to guide me.

44) They replied, these are depressing thoughts and we are not skilled in dealing with situations like this.

45) Thereupon one of the two released prisoners remembered after a long time and spoke up, I will tell you how to handle this situation just send me to Joseph.

46) So he came and said, O Joseph my truly well wishing friend! Explain to us how to handle the situation wherein are involved a number of big splits in people in which are involved many weak members of society and also wherein are possible a number of long periods of stability and prosperity as well as number of periods of instability and exploitation and hardship, so that I return to the people who sent me and let them know the solution to their problems.

47) He replied, you should actively cultivate good relations among all people in the land for a number of years till it becomes a normal way of life then whatever good relationship you manage to develop maintain it in its good state though you will participate in this program just a little.

48) However your failure to reach the target after this advice could bring upon you a number of years of hardship and troubles that will render useless whatever steps you would have taken already save a little which you may have specifically paid attention to.

49) But if you managed to repair and maintain your society after that will come a period of abundant prosperity during which the people will benefit greatly.

50) However instead of following the program as told by Joseph the king said, bring this man to me. When the messenger came Joseph said to him, go back to your king and ask him about the case of those communities that lost their case due to loss of their ability to produce worthy argument. Indeed my Lord has exposed their plot for people to see for what it was.

51) The king called them in to his court and questioned them saying, what do you say about the incident when you attempted to wrong foot Joseph? They replied, Allah forbid! We know of no harmful motive on his part against our community. The party of ruling elite and priestly class that was under governor of Egypt said, now that the truth has come to light, it was I who attempted to wrong foot him against his way of doing things. The fact is, he is absolutely trustable.

52) Joseph said, by this inquiry I meant to let the governor of Egypt know that I did not betray him in his absence regarding the responsibility he assigned to me and that Allah does not let the plots of the treacherous succeed for long.

53) This I did, not because I am free of human needs and desires but to prove that human needs and desires prompt one to do harm to others unless one follows program of my Lord for peace and prosperity of mankind and that is how program of my Lord protects humanity against harm and destruction.

54) The king said, bring him to me so that I appoint him to assist me in taking care of affairs of the kingdom. When Joseph was brought to the king and they had mutual talk the king said, from now on you have an honourable place among us and you will enjoy our full confidence.

55) Seeing the situation that kingdom was going to be destroyed through disintegration by civil wars if right steps were not taken Joseph requested the king, let me deal with the people and resources of the land. Certainly I know how to manage things to avoid what is otherwise inevitable and rest assured I have all the knowledge needed for the task ahead.

56) Thus We established Joseph in the land to live therein in any way he wished within Our set limits. We bestow understanding of Our program for peace and prosperity upon whoever works for it because We do not let the reward of people who do good for each other go to waste.

57) Yet the reward in the hereafter will be even better for those who commit to working for peace and are consistent with Our constitution for the good of mankind.

58) After a period of time there came brethren of Joseph to Egypt looking for food to buy so they entered his office. He recognized them but they recognized him not.

59) When he had given them their due provisions he said, come again to me with other bother of yours with permission from father of your nation. Do you not see that I give full measure and provide the best hospitality?

60) But if do not come to me with him then you will have no grain, nor will you be allowed to approach me.

61) They replied, we will certainly try our best to get him from his father. This we will surely do.

62) Joseph told his officials to put their money into their saddlebags such that they should come to know about it only when they reach their people so that they lack not money to come back.

63) When they returned to father of their nation they said, Father! Grain is henceforth denied to us unless we take with us our brother therefore send our brother with us so that we may get our measure, we will take full responsibility for his safety and security.

64) He said, should I trust you for his security as I once trusted you for security of his brother? However laws of Allah are unique when it comes to security of mankind because He is provider of the program that ensures peace and prosperity of humanity.

65) However at length when they opened their baggage they discovered that their money had been returned to them by the king out of generosity. Father! They cried with joy, what more can we ask for? Here is our money given back to us. So we can buy more food for our people and we will take good care of our brother if you let him go with us because we can get an extra caravan load of grain.

66) Jacob replied, I will never send him with you unless you swear in the name of Allah under oath that you will surely bring him back to me unless you are overcome by some other situation rendering you helpless. After they had sworn under oath he said, Allah is our witness over this pledge you made.

67) Then he said, my children! Do not enter the capital of Egypt all together at once through one gate that they take you wrongly instead enter from the different gates and separately. Not that I can avail you aught against laws of Allah but that be cautious because none can judge things for what they are free of error save Allah. In His laws I put my trust and in His law let all those who need someone to put their rust in should put their trust.

68) When they entered the city as their father had advised them it worked for them but it did not cover them fully like the plan of Allah for them that was to unfold. Of course, Jacob did his best to address the concern he had in his mind, after all he possessed the knowledge which We had given him even though most of the people do not bother to learn to be sensible.

69) When they entered upon Joseph, he called his brother alone to himself and said, it is I your brother Joseph, so grieve not at what they have been doing to us and our people.

70) At length when Joseph had finished arranging the loading of their provisions, he gave a party in honour of his brother. Later on when they were on a journey back home a crier called out to them saying, O people of the caravan! You must be thieves.

71) They turned back and asked, what have you lost?

72) The officials said, we have lost the grain measuring tool of the king and the one who brings it back will be awarded a camel-load of corn, I guarantee it.

73) Joseph’s brethren said, by Allah! You should know by our behaviour during our stay here that we did not come here to cause trouble in your land and we are no thieves.

74) The official said, what should be the punishment for the thief if you prove to be the liars?

75) They replied, the reward for him in whose pack you find the royal grain measuring instrument will be that he should compensate you for what he did to you, that is how we punish those who do wrong.

76) After this Joseph first began to search the packs of others before the pack of his brother. Finally he took it out of his brother’s pack. Thus We directed Joseph under Our law for Israel, for He could not hold back his brother under the law of the king but Allah planned otherwise. We exalt in ranks whoever works according to Our set out laws because above all the learned is the One Who makes information obvious for them.

77) After accusation of theft the brethren of Joseph remarked, This is no surprise if he has committed a theft because his brother also committed a theft before him. Despite hearing this Joseph suppressed his feelings and did not reveal anything to them but said to himself, what a terrible situation you people are putting yourselves in and Allah will make obvious the truth about that about which you accuse me.

78) They said, O noble governor! The father of the accused is a great leader of the nation who may not take this lightly, so take one of us instead of him. We surely see that you are one of those who do good for others.

79) Joseph replied, I seek protection through law of Allah therefore far from me be that we seize other than the one with whom we found our property or we will be unjust indeed.

80) When they lost their hope of moving Joseph, they went aside to confer in private. The leading one among them said to rest, you know that your father had taken a solemn pledge in the name of Allah and you also know how you fell short of your duty to Allah with respect to Joseph therefore I am not going to leave this land until the father of our nation permits me or Allah decides for me the matter some other way because He is unique of all those who claim to be the rulers.

81) So go back to father of your nation without me and say, father, your son has committed theft. We did not see him stealing but we can testify only to what we know. How could we guard against this unforeseen situation?

82) You may enquire from the people of the city where we lodged and the caravan in which we travelled that we are indeed telling the truth.

83) When Jacob is told this he said, no! You yourselves have contrived a story once more. However I will remain steadfastly persistent in pursuing this case. May be thereby Allah will bring them all back to me because He makes his wisdom known to mankind through His rule.

84) He turned his face away from them crying, Alas for Joseph! His eyes became used to grief and he became overwhelmed by sorrow.

85) They said, by Allah! you will not cease to remember Joseph until you ruin your health or kill yourself by this grief.

86) He said, I complain of my distress and grief to Allah Alone and I know from Allah what you know not.

87) O my children! Go and search for Joseph and his brother. Never give up hope in mercy of Allah, in fact none despairs of mercy of Allah except people who fail to put their trust in His guidance.

88) When they went back to Egypt and entered the office of Joseph they said, O noble governor! We and our people are in distress because we are running short on money so please give us full quota and also more out of your own generosity. Surely Allah rewards those who help others.

89) Hearing this he said, do you know what you did to Joseph and his brother while acting out of ignorance

90) In surprise they cried, what! Are you really Joseph? He said, Yes! I am Joseph and this is my brother. Allah has indeed been gracious to us all. In fact he who is consistent with laws of Allah for the good of humanity Allah does not let the reward of such good people go to waste.

91) They said, by Allah! surely we can now see why Allah has chosen you instead of us. We have indeed been guilty of side stepping His guidance.

92) Joseph said, there is no blame on you today. May Allah protect you all! He is unique of those who claim to be merciful!

93) Go take the news of my khilaafah and cast it before my father, he will rediscover his happy sight. Thereafter come back to me with all the members of your community.

94) When the caravan started from Egypt the father of their nation in Canaan said, Certainly I feel the presence of power of Joseph even though you the people around me may think I am out of my mind.

95) They said, by Allah! You are still suffering from your old illusion.

96) However when the bearer of the good news arrived, he cast the news of his khilaafah before him so he regained his happy sight then he said, did I not tell you that I know due to understanding of set laws of Allah what you do not learn to understand things?

97) They said, Father! Bring about harm and destruction free community for our future because we have inflicted harm and destruction upon each other in the past and suffered because of that.

98) He replied, soon I will bring about a harm and destruction free community for you as advised by my Lord, surely He protects mankind through His program for blissful life for them.

99) After a while when they came to Joseph he asked leaders and supporters of his community to become his protectorates and said, now that you have come to Egypt if program of Allah is implemented fully and remains enforced then you will find yourselves at peace in here.

100) That is how he raised the managers of his community and the managed to heights of dignified life because they all accepted his proposal so he said, O father of my nation, this is the fulfilment of my vision that I had long ago, because my following of law of my Lord has turned it into a reality. It was goodness of His mission indeed as planned by Him that He brought me out of prison to put me to work whereby He brought you all here from the unproductive land even though the opposers had stirred up strife between me and my community brethren. For sure my Lord fulfils His plan subtly in mysterious ways. Surely He makes His wisdom obvious for mankind to learn from to make sense of thing.

101) O Lord! You have indeed given me the kingdom and taught me all the knowhow about all the affairs of the kingdom. The originator of the heavens and the earth, Your law has been my protector from the beginning of my life and it will remain my protector in the life to come, so fulfil me completely so long as I remain committed to your law.

102) O Muhammad, even though this account which We have revealed to you is a collection about the past events when you the people were not there with brethren of Joseph who together conspired and schemed against him

103) but they are revealed for you so that you too strive as he did in the face of adversity because most people are not going to commit to working for peace otherwise.

104) This is why you should not demand any wage for educating people with this information, it is because this Quran is to be made accessible for all the people in the world through hard work for their benefit.

105) There are many proofs for it through out the heavens and the earth which people come across yet they pay no attention to them

106) and as a result most of them who commit to working for peace in the name of Allah yet abide by laws of other than Allah.

107) Do they feel that by doing things this way they will remain secure from gloom and doom as is decreed law of Allah for them or that the hour of uprising will not come upon them all of a sudden while they are not expecting it?

108) Tell them clearly, the way Joseph did things is my way too and I invite all of you the people in the world to Allah on the basis of verifiable information that I and my supporters possess. Behold! Sovereignty only belongs to Allah and I am not of those who abide by rule of any other than Allah.

109) All the messengers We sent before you O Muhammad, were human beings of great courage, to such We sent Our revelations after choosing them from among the people of their own township. Have these people who oppose Our guidance not travelled through the land and seen what was the end of those who passed away before them due to ignoring Our advice? From the end results of their ways of doing things you should be able to know that the end result was better for those who did things the way they were consistent with Our advice for their own good. So why don’t you learn things to understand things so that you do things the way they benefit you as a united human community?

110) Respite was always granted to nations until the messengers gave up hope of reformation of their people so they left them to themselves because they came to the conclusion that their people will keep on denying each other their rights to provision, however Our advice came to be of help to those who chose to do things Our way whereby We delivered them their goal but Our foretold consequences could not be averted by those who lived their lives against Our advice and became criminals inflicting harm and destruction upon each other thereby ended up destroyed.

111) There is a lesson in these like accounts of the nations of the past for the people who learn things to understand them for their own betterment. This account of Joseph revealed in the Quran is not an invented tale but a confirmation of previous scriptures, a detailed exposition of all things mankind need to live a good life because it is a roadmap to prosperity for a people who commit to working for peace.

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Surah 13 AR-RAAD – The Tumult/Chaos

In the name of Allah the gracious the merciful

1) Alif Laam Meem Raa. These are proofs for making the case for the constitution which is revealed to you from your Lord for the set goal of peace between mankind yet most of the people commit not to working for peace.

2) Your Lord is Allah alone Who has raised the cosmic bodies without any visible connecting links that you can see therefore His sovereignty extends over all the kingdom whereby He has subjected the sun and the moon to His laws so each is pursuing its set out program for an appointed time and that is how He regulates all affairs in the universe as He has explained through His revelations so that you meet the set standard of your Lord for your peace and prosperity with full confidence.

3) He it is Who has expanded the earth and brought about therein high mountains and low valleys flowing with water whereby He brought about fruits of every kind resembling each other as well as He brought about the phenomenon of the night by covering the daylight. Surely therein are proofs for those who learn and think about purposes for existence of things, how they are brought about and evolved and the way they work to fulfil their set out purposes.

4) In the earth there are tracts side by side of gardens of grapes, of cornfields and of palm trees with single and multi trunks, they are all watered with the same water yet we make some of them excel in taste than others. Surely therein are evidences for people who use their intelligence to learn and understand things.

5) Now if there is anything that seems strange then it is their asking, as we the human community are lying in dust due to rifts and wars, is there any way that we could be raised to dignified level of character again? It is strange because these are the people who oppose the program of their Lord that leads to dignified character so how can they? Because of that they cannot be free of yokes they have put around each other’s necks that are making their lives hard and unbearable and so they are the ones who will end up in yet more agony and suffering and live therein for as long as they live unless they rise up to change things for the betterment of themselves through help of this program.

6) By not accepting and following the given program they are telling you they rather inflict yet more harm and destruction upon each other than go for peace and prosperity as a united people and due to similar mindset, attitude and behaviour destroyed themselves many of the generations that passed away before them, even though your Lord is provider of protection for the mankind against harm and destruction they inflict upon each other yet He is also strict in enforcing His law of consequences to make people face the results of their own actions.

7) The opposers of Our goals and guidelines say, why is no proof sent to him by his Lord as per our demand? But do they not realise that your job is to delivering the given message to them? You are a warner against the consequences of not following the given program just like warners that were sent to every nation before them and their revelations carried their own proofs within them needing no miracles that served no purpose.

8) Allah made obvious for people what each community had to carry out but they excelled in carrying out their responsibilities or fell short of what was expected of them was also made obvious for them as results of their actions. Everything has a set program from Him to follow.

9) He alone is in a unique position to make obvious for the mankind the future results of their actions as well as the present.

10) It makes no difference to the way the results are made obvious whether any of you do things in private for yourselves or in the open for the community, whether any of you do things under the cover of darkness or walk about doing things in broad daylight.

11) For each nation there is a set place among nations according to the set universal laws of Allah that decide its place, there are nations before or in front of it and nations after or behind it that surround it. All are subject to law of cause and effect so they reap what they sow because Allah never changes the condition of a people for the better by suspending His law of cause and effect therefore until they take steps to change themselves as a people for the betterment of themselves no such change can occur and letting things get worse can lead them only to further harm and destruction. Behold, when Allah by His this rule afflicts a people with misfortune it is only because they bring it upon themselves therefore none can ward it off them because that is the set rule of Allah nor can they find any protector against His rule other than following the proper course of actions.

12) He is the One Who shows you the lightning that causes you to become concerned as well as brings you hope of prosperity by means of heavy laden clouds.

13) That is how the thunder strives hard to manifest His glory and so do the people on His mission out of loyalty to Him and the mankind. Moreover He sends them to strike down any people who work hard towards their own destruction because they fight against the mission of Allah but He is strict in taking care of His mission.

14) Invitation to His rule alone is the right one because those who invite to rules of others than Him they can never fulfil them at all. They are like a man with his hands stretched out towards the water as if waiting for it to reach his mouth but it does not. Therefore invitation of those who oppose mission of Allah calling towards rules of other than Him is nothing more than an exercise in vain

15) because whatever is in the heavens and the earth is bound by universal laws of Allah regardless of having the ability to choose or not and so do even their own shadows be it during the day or be it during the night.

16) So ask them, who is really then the ruler of all the cosmic bodies including this earth? Say, it is Allah alone and ask them, when this is the actual fact then why do you set up rules by others than Him who in reality do not control any benefit or harm even concerning themselves? Say, are the blind/senseless and the seeing/sensible equal or is the darkness/ignorance same as the light/knowledge? Or have those whom they take for sovereigns created anything like the creation of Allah in their sight that they have the right to be the rulers beside Allah? Say, if that is not the case then why do you not accept Allah as the only creator of all things and therefore the only one with right to sovereignty, the one Irresistible.

17) He alone sends down water from the heaven and each channel starts flowing according to its measure whereby the torrent bears a swelling foam like the scum which appears from the metals that are melted in the furnace for making ornaments and utensils. By such exemplary arguments Allah proves what is true and what is false. As for the scum, it is thrown away due to being worthless but that which is useful for the mankind remains behind in the land. This is how Allah puts forth exemplary arguments to prove His message clearly.

18) Excellent results await for the actions of those who respond to the program of their Lord. As for those who do not respond to His manifesto even if they had all that is in the earth and as much more beside that to offer as a ransom in order to save themselves from the painful suffering that is to follow them as a result of their own harmful and destructive actions it will not be accepted of them. They are to land themselves in terrible consequences of their own actions that will make their lives hell and that is a terribly painful state to be in.

19) Is he who has made himself aware that it is the verifiable truth that has been sent to you by your Lord like the one who deprives himself of knowledge? Only those who learn to understand things properly become sensible and conscientious.

20) Such as fulfil their constitutional obligations by Allah for the benefit of the human community so they do not fall short of their commitment to rule of Allah for the benefit of human community.

21) And such as bring together people to form a good human society on the basis of that which is revealed by Allah because they pay attention to program of their Lord as they fear the harmful and destructive consequences of their actions if they do not.

22) And such as remain steadfastly engaged in mission of their Lord in order to achieve His set out goal of peace between mankind through establishing the community supportive network in order to open up for all Our provided livelihood for them happily and openly in order to turn round the harmful and destructive human society with goodness. These like people are bound to end up in an excellent state of affairs in time.

23) Blissful kingdoms they will enter and so would such as will mend rifts between people in order to bring about peaceful societies from among their elders and their friends as well as their youngsters and the administrators will enter upon them from every gate

24) saying, you have achieved peace due to your steadfastness in pursuit of your program therefore excellent indeed is the state of affairs for you in the end.

25) As for those who fulfil not their constitutional obligation by Allah for the benefit of the mankind after declaring their commitment to the program of Allah and instead of bringing people together to form a good human society as per direction of Allah cause rifts between mankind thereby wars in the land therefore upon such rest humiliation and destruction because such are bound to end up in such state of affairs.

26) Allah gives vast provisions for any people that work towards that so they end up happy with their worldly life yet the worldly life compared to the hereafter is just a brief enjoyment.

27) After all this explanation those who oppose our guidance still say, why has no miracle been sent to him by his Lord as per our demand? Say, Allah lets go astray whoever so desires by remaining ignorant of His program and He guides to His program whoever works hard to study it to understand it and implement it to turn it into a reality.

28) Such are those who commit to working for peace with full confidence in their minds due to program of Allah. Beware! The confidence in minds comes only through study of the program of Allah.

29) So those who commit to working for peace and strive hard to mend rifts between people to bring about peace there will be blissful life for them and a wonderful kingdom to end up in.

30) That is why We have sent you among this final people as the final messenger with Our final guidance just like we sent messengers to all the nations gone before this, so that you proclaim to them this program that has been revealed to you yet they stand in opposition to the program of the one Who raises mankind to dignity. Say, He alone is my Lord and there is no sovereign other than Him in this kingdom therefore in His set up universal laws I place my trust and to His set out goal for mankind I turn to accomplish it.

31) So no miracles are needed for the goal set for the mankind to accomplish because had the purpose of this Quran been to be move the mountains or to slice the earth, or to raise the dead and speak with them then this very Quran would have done all that but the purpose of this Quran is only to guide mankind through this program as to how they should live in this world to have a blissful life for themselves as a single family working together for the good of each other in the name of their Lord in the hope of a better hereafter. So it is up to people to accept this Quran as a guidance or reject it and see the results for themselves for their actions without this guidance. However upon universal laws of Allah depends outcome of all that happens. Do those who have committed to working for peace not realise that had Allah enforced His will He could have forced all the people to follow His program? So those who oppose Our guidance they will continue to be stricken with disaster or it will come near to their homesuntil the promise of Allah comes true in form of revolts or civil wars and wars between nations because Allah breaks not the link between the cause and the effect.

32 Surely messengers before you were mocked even though I gave respite to those who opposed them for learning and understanding their program yet they heeded not so in time l caught them inflicting harm upon each other to the point of destruction, so how true was My warning in their case?

33) So is there any like Him Who has established such universal laws to bring each person the results of what it does? Not at all yet they live by rules of other than Allah. Say, name any of them that you think truly have the right to rule or are you telling Him of something He is unaware of in this universe or is it just a matter of coining words for you? Indeed to the rejecters and opposers of rule of Allah their own scheming is made pleasing by each other and that is how they are taken away from the program of Allah by each other. So whomever Allah lets stray at his own will has no guide to guide him.

34) Such will suffer in this world and their suffering will only get worst in time to come as there is nothing to protect them other than the program of Allah which they themselves have decided to reject and oppose.

35) A description of the blissful kingdom which those who are consistent with the program of Allah for the benefit of humanity are told to bring about is that rivers of livelihood should flow throughout it and its provisions should be continuous to provide shelter from all sort of troubles and hardships. Such should be the land of those who are consistent with program of Allah for the good of mankind and in comparison the land of those who reject and oppose His program will a place full of pain and suffering.

36) This is why those to whom We have given the scriptures before this and they really act upon it rejoice at what has been sent to you though there are others in the same groups who reject some parts of it. Say, I am ordered to serve rule of Allah alone and not set up any other rulers with Him. Upon His set up universal laws I rely not magic or miracles and towards His program I turn for guidance which is realistic and practical.

37) And this is the very purpose for which We have sent Our framework for governance of Our kingdom in a language that makes things clear for mankind for all times to come. However if you the followers of Our program were to follow the make beliefs of opposers of Our program after Our set out goals and guidelines have reached you then you will have nothing to protect you from falling victim to harms and destructions that Allah has already warned you against.

38) And for the very same reason of implementing Our program for the benefit of the mankind We sent messengers before you whereby We brought about for them supporters by means of ideological following. It was never fitting for a messenger to bring people any proof save the program of Allah because for each period there was a clearly set out program.

39) Allah erased or established nations as per His declared programs because with Him rested the right and the responsibility for originating all the programs for the good of the mankind.

40) For that reason O messenger, whether We show you some of what We have foretold them or We terminate your life before that matters not because your job is to deliver Our message but with Our set out universal laws rests their accountability.

41) Do they not see that We bring about the gradual contraction of the earth from all its sides due to Our set out universal laws? Therefore it should be clear to you the mankind that right to rule belongs to Allah alone and there is none to override His set out program because He is strict in holding all things within their set limits.

42) Behold! Those before them schemed against Our programs but all their schemes were within set limits of Allah. He makes obvious the results of all that which each nation does therefore in time those who oppose His program will come to know who is to end up in a blissful kingdom.

43) Yet those who oppose Our program say, you are not a messenger. Say, the universal laws set out by Allah are sufficient as a proof between me and you as well as the person who has learned and understood His book.

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Surah 14 IBRAHEEM

Proclaim in the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.

1) Alif Laam Raa. A manifesto, the one We have revealed to you for the purpose that you bring mankind out of their darkness of utter ignorance whereby they inflict harm and destruction upon each other into the brilliant light of wisdom for their own benefit by way of community building program of their Lord for a proper way of doing things as advised by the almighty to whom belongs the sovereignty of this whole kingdom of universe.

2) It is Allah alone to Whom belongs all that is in all the galaxies including this galaxy yet terrible humiliation and destruction is to be the end of those who reject and oppose His program and do as they please in their ignorance based arrogance.

3) They are those who love rivalry for short term gains for themselves in life of this world at the expense of people of their own communities instead of building a better future for themselves as a single nation and that is how they hinder others from the program of Allah always conspiring to make it look crooked or unworkable. Such people have strayed far off the proper track that works for the good of humanity.

4) We have not sent any messenger but he spoke the language that his people could understand so that he could explain to them Our program clearly. That is why Allah leaves only such people to themselves who refuse to study and follow His program and guides all who learn to understand and follows His program because He is mighty wise provider of rules that regulate all affairs properly.

5) Likewise We sent Moses speaking language of his people with Our manifesto with goals and guideline saying, lead your people out of darkness of utter ignorance whereby they inflict harm and destruction upon each other into the brilliant light of wisdom to make them strive hard as a good organised community based upon Our constitution for bringing about days of prosperity and peace for themselves. Surely in that are proofs about the truth of the message for those who would be steadfast in working for their own betterment.

6) Call to mind the time when Moses said to his people, strive hard always to maintain the blissful program of Allah as an obligation upon you as a nation whereby He saved you from the people of Pharaoh who subjected you to painful suffering by undermining your courageous people by bringing to life divisions among your people thereby making you a nation of weak people. Surely in all of this there was a tremendous struggle put up by you as you were advised by your glorious Lord.

7) Remember when your Lord warned you that if you will work according to My program for your progress and prosperity as a community then I will let that increase for you but if you will instead oppose My program then I will let you face results of your own actions strictly in form of harm and destruction that you inflict upon each other.

8) Moreover Moses made it absolutely clear to you that if you and all the people dwelling on the earth ignored His program it will do no harm to Allah but yourselves.

9) Has the account of those gone before not reached you such as the people of Noah, Aad, Thamud and those who came after them? No one really knows them other than Allah. Their messengers too came to them with same clear guidelines for the same goal but they bit their hands with their mouths in rage and said, we certainly reject and fiercely oppose the program with which you claim to have been sent because we very much doubt the message to which you invite us is really from Allah for our good.

10) Their messengers responded, have you really any reasonable doubt about the goodness of program of Allah Who is the originator of the heavens and the earth? He is the One Who invites you to His program with all necessary proofs so that He relieves you and protects you from the harms and destructions that you inflict upon each other to give you secure future through His program based on unity for prosperity for a set period of time as determined by His universal laws. They said, you are only a human being like ourselves and you only wish to turn us away from our rulers whom our forefathers served because you want to become our ruler. Bring us some miracle that we demand if you want us to change our minds about you and your allegedly divine message.

11) Their messengers replied to them, it is true that we are humans like yourselves but Allah bestows His program for blissful life of mankind on any of His people who are only too pleased to work for His set out mission. It is not part of our job to bring you any miracles as you demand due to your ignorance but to deliver you whatever proofs Allah himself sees fit to furnish you with and He has chosen the guidance itself for that purpose. This is why it is up to people whether they learn to understand the message to implement it for their own good or simply reject it and oppose it without giving it due attention and keep on suffering the self inflicted harm and destruction.

12) So tell us what better reason do we really have not to put our trust in universal laws of Allah when He has guided us to live our lives in ways that can bring us a great life through prosperity and peace in form of brotherhood of mankind working for good of each other as oppose to working against each other as enemies? We will certainly face your persecution with steadfastness till Allah shows both of us who fairs better in the end, the family working as one like us or a divided family that is in rivalry with each other like you leading itself to its destruction. So let those who want to put their trust in anything put their trust in universal laws of Allah, the bedrock for a good human society.

13) Finally the opposers of Our guidance, the harmful and destructive political and religious leadership of the people said to their messengers, abide by our traditional rule or we will expel you from our land. That is why their Lord revealed His forecast to them as law of consequences that We will let these destructive people destroy themselves through inflicting harm and destruction upon each other because this is how We deal with people who refuse to take our advice and instead choose to do as they please.

14) That is how We have passed on the land to you to dwell therein after they are gone by destroying themselves. This is a lesson for such as keep in their minds My role and pay attention to My set out program for them always.

15) As is made obvious for mankind by My message and the events of the past, calling My program into question always proved terrible for every tyrant and oppressor of his people and his supporters and followers.

16) Such a one spreads hell all around himself whereby he satisfies his thirst for hatred and bloodshed of his own people.

17) He partakes in it in steps but never reaches the point of satisfaction and defeat and destruction gradually surrounds him more and more from all sides yet he does not give up his harmful and destructive desire despite his being surrounded by terrible pain and suffering.

18) The likeness of the hard works of those who gather benefits for themselves at the expense of the human community in opposition to the program of their Lord is like that of small amount of gathered ashes which the wind scatters on a stormy day leaving no trace of them to be seen. They will get nothing from their such hard works against Our program save harm and destruction or pain and suffering and this is what straying far away from the program of their lord means for them, that is an unsatisfied regrettable life.

19) Can you therefore not see that Allah has evolved all the heavenly bodies including the heavenly body upon which you live for a set purpose? It serves His plan to erase you and replace you with new generations

20) so it should be obvious to mankind that it is not at all difficult for Allah to fulfil His goal as planned.

21) Rest assured in time gradually all people will be brought under the constitution of Allah to abide by because from among the opponents of the divine rule the influenced masses will start waking up asking questions of those who think of themselves as overwhelmingly influential saying, we have been serving and following you all our lives so can you do anything to free us from the painful suffering we are in that Allah warned us against? They will reply, had we learned from the message of Allah then we could have guided you too. Since we did not so it makes no difference now whether we panic or bear the consequences of our actions with patience because there is no escape for us unless we learn the message and mend our ways accordingly.

22) That is how the harmful and destructive leadership will conclude in the end saying to its masses, surely Allah promised you results of your actions and promise of Allah proved true and in opposition to that I too promised you things but I broke my promise to you. I just asked you to take me for your leader and you just accepted my leadership without ensuring whether I had the power to deliver things or not. So do not blame me for taking advantage of you instead blame your own stupidity for giving yourselves into my control. I am not bothered with your moaning just as you are not bothered with my crying. I now refuse to be taken as your sovereign like before because such transgressors end up in painful suffering as we have experienced ourselves already

23) and as we have learned by now, those who commit to working for peace and strive hard to mend rifts between mankind to bring peace between them will indeed end up in kingdoms within which will flow like rivers all things of their need and desire to live therein according to the program of their Lord. That is how they will accomplish mission of peace and security.

24) Do you not see how Allah shows similarity between the program that gradually leads mankind to peace through prosperity with a tree that gradually develops from a seed into a fully grown tree bearing desirable fruit, which is rooted properly in the ground that is why its branches are well spread and high above the ground?

25) It yields its fruits in every season due to set out universal laws by its Lord. Allah cites these like examples for people so that they struggle hard to spread His manifesto to gather people together on basis of His constitution for a progressive and prosperous peaceful future.

26) Likewise the comparison of a wrong goal with wrong plan of actions is that of a harmful tree with undesirable fruit that fails to develop properly because it is not rooted properly so it can be pulled out of the ground and is therefore unstable.

27) With His program based upon firmly established foundation, Allah makes those who commit to working for peace on its basis steadfast and firmly established in the life of this world as well as in the life to come but Allah lets the opposers of His program go stray because Allah does things as per His plan.

28) Have you not seen the behaviour of those people who have substituted the blissful program of Allah with their make beliefs whereby they drive their nation into a state of no return?

29) Hell is their life therein wherein their energies are continuously consumes without any beneficial results, a terrible state of existence to be in.

30) The political and religious chiefs of people set up rulers other than Allah to mislead their people from His roadmap. Tell them, you the chiefs may enjoy yourself at the expense of your masses for a while but your final destination is going to be painful suffering and destruction.

31) Say to my supporters who have committed to working for peace, strive with this Quran for establishing My system for opening up for all whatever We have provided for the benefit of the mankind individually as well as a community before there comes the time when peaceful change of the system is no longer the option because there is no more tolerance between people and violent uprising becomes inevitable.

32) Thereby let people know that it is Allah alone Who has evolved all the heavenly bodies including this heavenly body wherein you abide and causes water to rain down from the height whereby He brings forth all sorts of fruits for your sustenance. He has made it possible for you to use ships so that they sail through the sea by way of His set out universal laws and so has He brought about rivers for your service.

33) Even the sun and the moon are subjected to His universal laws moving along set out courses and likewise is subjected to His laws the phenomenon of the night and the day for your benefit.

34) He has given you all that you will ever need and more, so much so that even if you decided to use the blessings of Allah, you could never be able to use them yet mankind is going about things the wrong way by ignoring and opposing Our program.

35) Remember the time when Abraham said, My Lord! Make this dwelling place for humanity a place of peace through the program for progress and prosperity thereby protect and secure me and my ideological following from personality cults wherein some make masses take other people as their rulers instead of You my Lord.

36) O Lord! Chiefs and Priests of nations have been using the individuals to rule their people and thereby led the masses away from Your program into their cults therefore only those who follow me in following Your program belong to my nation and as to any who oppose me, they are bound to end up destroyed because You are protector of only those of the mankind who follow Your blissful program.

37) Our Lord! I have settled some of my ideological following in a valley that is not civilised according to Your dignifying constitution. Our Lord! I have done this in the hope that they establish Your ruling system therein by spreading Your program therefore turn the minds of the people of the nations toward them for guidance and provide them with results of their actions for the benefit of the mankind so that they all become a worthy people.

38) Our Lord! Certainly You make known our real motives behind our actions that we try to hide from each other by results of our action as well as those we try to make obvious to each other because nothing is hidden from You, Allah in the earth or the rest of the universe.

39) That is how it should be clear for the mankind that sovereignty belongs to Allah alone who has appointed Ishmael and Isaac as my ideological supporters and successors for the continuation of the set out mission for me as I come close to end of my time. Indeed my Lord takes care of all needs of all things according to His set out program.

40) O Lord! Give me and my ideological supporters courage through Your program to establish and maintain your system. Our Lord! Continue guiding us for fulfil your mission.

41) Thereby our Lord! Protect me and elderly and youngsters in my nation such as are committed to working for peace on the day of sudden violent uprising when people face the results of their own actions.

42) So O my people, be well prepared for the mission of Allah and never let the opposers of His program think that Allah is unaware of what these transgressors are up to. He is only giving them respite from the results of their actions to correct themselves and that is till the tipping point is reached when their eyes will become fixed staring in horror as sudden revolt overwhelms them because of what they will have done.

43) They will be running in terror with their heads uplifted in horror, staring but seeing nothing and their minds utterly vacant of any thoughts as to what they should do to save themselves from harm and destruction. Nothing new because such revolts have already happened amongst many generations in the past and will continue happening till people come to their sense and learn to abide by the given program.

44) O messenger, alert mankind about the time when Our forewarned consequences of their harmful and destructive actions against each other will overtake them and that is when the transgressors will say, our Lord! Give us a little more respite and we will respond to Your invitation with all due respect and support the people who come to us with your program. But it will be said to them, are you not the same people who once swore that you would never come to your destruction due to what you believe and do

45) despite living in places of people who already destroyed each other before you the same way? It was already explained to you how nicely We dealt with them yet due to their own stupidity We made them a lesson for you.

46) They hatched their conspiracies against Our program but their plots were well within control of Allah even though these plots were such that could move masses in their support.

47) But never think that Allah will not fulfil His promise to His messengers that program of Allah will be succeed because Allah rules through power of wisdom.

48) So alert people about the time when the landscape in the land will be changed to a different landscape and the people living above the law will be brought down to abide by constitution of Allah, the One Irresistible.

49) That is how in time to come you will see the transgressors against the rule of Allah bound together as if in chains rising up together against the rule of Allah,

50) their whole program will be wrapped up in gloom and doom because their goals will be covered up in fire of hatred between the mankind.

51) For that reason Allah will reward each such person according to what one does because Allah is strictly swift in calling people to account for their actions.

52) This Quran is a manifesto for all the people so alert them thereby and let them know that Allah alone is the sovereign in this kingdom of the universe, so let the people with understanding strive hard to spread His program for its implementation as a constitution for them.

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Surah 15 AL-HIJR – THE BEDROCK FOR COMMUNITY

Proclaim in the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.

1) Alif Laam Raa. These are arguments for the implementation of this constitution in form of Glorious Quran.

2) The time is coming when those who oppose this program will wish they submitted to it for their peace and security.

3) Leave these self centred leaders and supporters who partake in the world the way that makes them happy at the expense of each other deluded as they are by false goals because soon they will come to know and regret the ways they live their lives as they are gradually led to self destruction.

4) Never did We let any township destroy itself whose term of life was not determined by law of consequences for peoples’ own actions.

5) No people can bring their self destruction quicker or can delay it but as per set out universal laws.

6) They say, O you who claims that this program is revealed to him by Allah for implementation! You are talking nonsense

7) because in that case why have you not been sent with supporting soldiers like a king if you are really truthful in your claim that you are sent by Allah to establish His rule?

8) Let them know clearly that We do not send Our messengers with soldiers unless it serves Our purpose because had they come to them that way then they could not have time to consider the message.

9) Surely We have revealed this program for mankind to think it through thoroughly so that through implementation of this program We provide them with security.

10) That is the reason why We sent messengers before you among the earlier nations the way We have sent you for this people,

11) though there never came to them a messenger but their political and religious leadership mocked him just like these chiefs and their supporters mock you.

12) That is why We leave such people to themselves to keep on conspiring against Our guidance as their harmful and destructive mindsets and attitudes guide them therefore they continue in their crimes against humanity while spreading falsehood against Our program to create doubts in minds of their people so that they do not commit to working for peace and fight against Our messengers instead.

13) Behaviour of these chiefs and their supporters is likewise so they too do not commit to working for peace despite the examples of the people who destroyed themselves before them assuming their masses are under their full control so will not revolt against their tyranny and abuse.

14) For this very reason if We open a way for masses to explore the universe and they keep on ascending into space using that way,

15) still these people will say, our eyes are seeing things or rather we have been duped for such an experience cannot be real, it is impossible.

16) No matter how silly are remarks of these people the fact is We have brought about in space galaxies full of stars and beautifully arranged them for those who wish to observe them for their set out purpose.

17) That is why We guarded them against any wrong force that may misinterpret and misuse them,

18) so only such a person will observe them properly as is overwhelmed by piercing curiosity of existence, purpose and function.

19) Moreover We expanded the earth and brought about mountains therein and caused in it everything to grow,

20) and We provided therein means of sustenance for you and others for whom you are not responsible to care for them.

21) There is nothing which is not in Our storage in an unending quantity/amount but we bring forth only as much as is appropriate.

22) We give rise to the fertilizing winds and send down fresh water from the height for you the mankind to drink, it is not your chiefs and priests who own the store of this wealth.

23) That is how We bring nations to life through Our program and let them perish if they follow it not because to Us belongs ownership of all that exists.

24) Indeed We make obvious those who rush forth to take control of things from among you to exclude others and We also make obvious those from among you who end up losing as a result of this senseless rivalry.

25) Surely your Lord is going to bring them all together through His this program and that is how He makes known to mankind that He rules the universe through wisdom.

26) We surely brought about man ignorant about everything who needed to be cultivated into a civilised human being through Our program like a piece of clay that is like mud which is moulded into a desire shape.

27) As for the dominant harmful and destructive ruling and priestly elite we exposed it before the mankind spreading hatred among people.

28) Call to mind when your Lord sent message to the chiefs at the time by way of His messenger saying, I am going to cultivate a man through My program for him into a highly civilised human being like a piece of clay that is like mud which is moulded into a desired shape

29) and when I have completed My moulding of him into a shape I want for him thereby make him conscious of Me by way of My revelation then commit yourselves to support him as your chief.

30) That is why all the chiefs together committed themselves to supporting him

31) save Iblees who refused to join those who committed themselves for this purpose.

32) Allah asked, O Iblees! What is the matter with you that you did not join those who committed themselves for supporting Adam?

33) He replied, it is not fitting for a person of my status coming from elite class that I commit myself for supporting this man whom You have cultivated from among low status people like a piece of clay that is like mud which is moulded into a shape.

34) Allah replied to him through his messenger at the time, leave the title you were granted as a chief in this office because you are sacked

35) and you will remain excluded from My promised blissful life till the time you judge things according to My set out constitution.

36) At this Iblees requested, Lord! Give me time to reflect till the day the office holders take their offices as officials.

37) Allah said, you are given the respite

38) till the day of appointment of the officials.

39) Iblees said, Lord! Since You denied me my office because of this man, I will make my way of life attractive to him and his associates in the land and I will conspire to lead them out of their offices as well

40) save those of them who are sincerely devoted to Your program.

41) Allah said, see this program from Me is firmly founded upon proofs

42) so you have no power against my officials firmly based upon knowledge from Me but only those arrogant and ignorant will follow your way of life and become of the humiliated

43) and that is how they all will end up in painful suffering,

44) wherein lead many ways, each way of life is assigned to a separate community of people from among the mankind.

45) However those who will develop proper mindset and attitude and do as they are guided will end up in the middle of blissful kingdoms with fountains of knowledge from which will spring peace and prosperity

46) That is why they are told, enter in to these for your own peace and security.

47) We will remove all hatred from their minds against each other making them like brothers settled on seats of dignity due to supporting each other.

48) No fatigue should touch them in there due to working for each other and they should not do anything that kicks them out of that state of existence.

49) Thereby let My devotees make obvious for the mankind that I am indeed gracious and merciful

50) and that My set out consequences for actions of people are also humiliating and very painful.

51) Tell them about the missionaries that came to people of Abraham.

52) They entered upon them and said, we come to you for your peace and security. But he replied, surely we are anxious to know about your future plan.

53) They answered, worry not about it, we have come to you with a good news of a successor endowed with knowledge.

54) He said, are you giving me the good news of successor because I am getting old? What kind of good news is this that you are giving me?

55) They replied, the good news we are giving you is because of the continuation of the mission so that you do not become of those who despair.

56) He said, who will get bored with blissful program of his Lord other than the one who strays?

57) Then he asked, what is your current mission that you have been sent for, O people on a mission?

58) They replied, we have been sent by our prophet to deal with a people who commit crimes among themselves as well as against other people

59) with the exception of a party that supports Lot, we will certainly evacuate all of them

60) except his party of people that opposes him, which is going to stay with those chiefs and priests who will remain behind.

61) So when the missionaries came to the people of Lot,

62) he said, you people seem to be those who fight those who commit crimes?

63) They said, we have come to you with a solution regarding that whereby these people cause trouble.

64) We have been sent on a mission and we are to fulfil it.

65) You should therefore depart with your supporters during the last hours of the night and you yourself should follow them at their rear and let none of you look back to this place with any regrets instead keep going where you are told to go.

66) We informed him about this decree of Ours that the roots of those who remain behind are soon to be cut off through this new beginning.

67) Behold! The people of the township came rejoicing to Lot at the news of his visitors.

68) Lot said, they are my guests so do not humiliate me before them

69) instead be consistent with rule of Allah for the good of the community and do not put me to shame in front of my guests by doing things you usually do to each other and the travellers through our township.

70) They said, have we not stopped you from speaking on behalf of people in the rest of the world?

71) He said, here are my basis upon which I stand and invite you to abide by if you must do anything purposeful and worthwhile at all because living a life of crime inflicting harm on others is a waste of life.

72) Just like way of life of your people O messenger, they were driven to madness through rivalries for power and wealth!

73) So the mighty revolt in form of a sudden tumult overtook them by one morning

74) because We caught the place turned upside down due to their revolt against Our program as We made obvious to it importance of organised institutions and record keeping in a classified way.

75) Surely there are evidences in this for those who will care to investigate as to what happens to people who refuse to do things properly and why.

76) And as it happens this ruined township lies on the highway you travel.

77) Indeed there is a lesson in this for those who commit to working for peace.

78) The people who lived in the land full of trees and greenery to whom was sent Shuaib were also of those who inflicted harm and destruction upon each other

79) so We sent Our program to guide them but they ignored it. The ruined townships of both the nations lay by the road used most frequently by you the people.

80) The people who lived in land of rocky hills also denied the God given rights of provision to their people as told by their messengers.

81) because We furnished them with Our revelations but they too ignored them.

82) They used to carve their homes in the mountains for safety

83) but the mighty sudden uprising took them by surprise one morning so all their hard labour to build secure place for themselves avail them not at all.

84) We have not created all the far away galaxies and this galaxy and all that is between them but for a set purpose.

85) The moment of doom is for sure to strike those who abide not by Our program, so face their opposition in a courageous way that is dignified.

86) Surely your Lord makes obvious for mankind what dignified behaviour is.

87) That is why We have brought to your attention many evidences that back up The Quran that raises mankind to height of dignified existence.

88) So look not at the power and wealth which We have let some political and religious elite gather for themselves at the expense of human community as a favour from Us because they gathered it by declaring war against Our guidance, and furthermore grieve not at the suffering of those who continuously support the same system that hurts them and yet they ignore and oppose Our guidance. Let them remain caught in their self defeating delusions and instead pay much more attention to those who commit themselves to working for peace

89) and say to the opposing ruling and priestly elite and its following, I am surely sent by Allah as an open and clear warner to all the people.

90) This Quran is indeed the warning like of which We sent to those before you who also decided to remain in the opposite camps and the results of that were made obvious again and again

91) because they too were the ones who tore their constitutions into bits out of disrespect for rule of law and humanity and ended up in animosity whereby they inflicted terrible harm and destruction upon each other.

92) By the evidence of testimony of your Lord! We asked them to be united

93) for all they needed to do for their own good.

94) Therefore proclaim publicly what you are commanded and leave those who choose to abide by rules of other than Allah to their self created delusions.

95) Surely We Ourself will suffice you against the scoffers and the warmongers.

96) As to those who set up rulers other than Allah they will soon come to know the end result of that which they do.

97) We know your mind is distressed by what they say and do

98) therefore strive hard to establish the sovereignty of your Lord and be with those who commit themselves for this task

99) and that is how you should serve the mission of your Lord until there reaches you the news of accomplishment of the mission which is absolutely certain to happen.

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I agree with Muse (below). This stuff needs to be read in a separate thread as it deserves its own attention and time (apologies if you've already posted it separately). You've also made some many points, important nonetheless, that I'd like to respond to.

By the way, in the video selection ... I'm surprised you didn't include anything from Zakir Naik, considering how South Asian Muslims basically worship him! Not a bad selection, though.

[Mughal1]

Surah 16 AN-NAHL – The social structure and system

Proclaim in the name of Allah the Gracious, the Merciful.

1] That goal of peace is set by Allah for the benefit of mankind but you the people cannot hasten its accomplishment without support of each other. The sovereignty of the universe belongs to Him alone and His rule is far beyond the resistance of the rulers the ignorant people impose upon themselves.

2] He sends as the missionaries with the revelation of His program to any of the nations that needs it from among His servants so that they in turn alert the other nations that there is no ruler other than I so that they become consistent with My rule for the good of themselves as human community.

3] He alone has given rise to all the galaxies in the cosmos including this galaxy for the set purpose. As a sole ruler of this kingdom He is far beyond resistance of those whom ignorant people impose upon themselves as rulers.

4] He evolved man from a sperm and an ovum that come together and progress to a stage that he is able to clearly argue his standpoint.

5] And the cattle, he gave rise to them as well and for you in them are many benefits such as making things you wear or eat their meat and the like.

6] How pleasant they look and how happy they make you when you bring them home in the evening and drive them to pasture in the dusky morning.

7] They carry your heavy loads to far-off townships that you could not otherwise reach without painful toil, that is how your Lord takes care of you through His blissful program.

8] He likewise brought about horses, mules and donkeys for you to ride and put on show and He is the evolver of things which are yet beyond your stage of knowledge.

9] That is how it is made obvious for you the proper way of life is that which leads to rule of Allah for the good of mankind and all other ways lead away from that way to harm and destruction of humanity. Had Allah planned other than freewill for you the mankind, He could have programmed you all to be united needing no revealed guidance.

10] It is He Who rains down water from the height so that you drink from it and with it He brings about greenery for pasturing of your cattle.

11] With it He also brings forth for you crops, olives, date-palms, grapes and every kind of fruit. Surely there is a proof in all this for those who observe these things with care.

12] He has subjected to your service the night and the day, the sun and the moon and likewise the stars also serve you due to His set out universal plan, surely therein are a variety of lessons for people who would learn to be sensible.

13] In the earth He has evolved things of different colours, surely there is a lesson in this for those who would observe and reflect.

14] It is He Who has subjected the sea to your service so that you may eat fresh meat therefrom and that you may bring out of it ornaments to wear. Moreover you see that ships plough their course through it. He has brought about all this so that you seek prosperity as per His program and thereby you become a human community that is worth the name.

15] He brought about highlands and lowlands on the earth so that you could live on the earth in case it does away with you and He also evolved rivers and roads, and so that you could find your way around He brought forth

16] landmarks and the stars for your guidance.

17] Is He Who has originated all this then like the one who cannot originate a thing, why don’t you reflect the implications of that for learn to understand things?

18] His provision is in such abundance that even if you decided to use all of the provisions of Allah, you will never be able to go through them all because Allah has secured all the needs and wants of mankind by way of His blissful program.

19] That is how Allah makes obvious your motives regarding each other regardless you expose them to each other yourselves or you try to hide them from each other by way of your own actions.

20] Those rulers other than Allah upon whom the ignorant ones rely have created nothing at all and even themselves have been propped up by their subjects.

21] They are themselves powerless having no control over their own lives, that is why they have no idea how the nations rise to power.

22] Be aware therefore that your ruler is only one and those who commit not to working for peace according to His set out end goal for mankind their minds refrain from learning about it out of their arrogance.

23] Allah surely makes obvious in time the truth behind whatever falsehood they promote as true and beneficial and whatever truth they try to cover up to inflict harm on mankind by the results of their own actions and that is because He does not approve those who try to influence mankind for the wrong reasons.

24] That is why if they are asked, what has been revealed by your Lord? They say, fictitious stories about the ancients.

25] It is for this reason they bear full responsibility for bringing about situations and circumstances whereby revolts in time becomes inevitable and that is why they bear responsibility for painful suffering and destruction of those whom they mislead due to their stupidity. Alas! How stressfully painful is the result of their such irresponsible behaviour.

26] Surely chiefs and priests of nations before them also conspired against Our program but Allah shook off their make belief based social systems, structures and practices to benefit themselves at the expense of their masses by the very foundation and the whole institution fell apart resulting in their own destruction crushing them under its own weight, that is how the results of their own actions came upon them from where they did not even suspect because they thought they had everything worked out and under control.

27] That is how on the day of uprising He leaves such people to face humiliation they bring upon themselves and people ask them, where are those rulers whom you assigned rulership in My kingdom instead of abiding by My rule concerning whom you used to wage wars on those whom we sent with Our guidance? Those who have been given the program as a mission say, today there is only gloom and doom for those who opposed Allah's guidance.

28] Those whom Our missionaries come to stop while they are inflicting harm and destruction upon their own people offer false justification to them saying, we are not doing anything wrong. They are replied, not at all rather Allah has made it obvious to us what you are doing even to your own people.

29) Now suffer the consequences by ending up in hell of your own making. In fact, terrible will be the state in which the influential people will find themselves in.

30] On the other hand when those who do what is proper are asked by others, what has been sent by your Lord? They say, that which is beneficial for us to better the world. Goodness is the result for actions of such people in this world and the state of existence yet to come will be even better. How splendid will be the state of existence of those who do what is proper.

31] Blissful kingdoms they will enter wherein will flow rivers of all things of their needs and desires. That is how Allah rewards such people as a result of their own actions,

32] Those whom Our missionaries come to rescue but find them doing good for their own people say, you have accomplished peace and security for yourselves therefore enter the blissful kingdom you have created for yourselves by your own hard work.

33) So are these opposers of Our program waiting for Our missionaries to come and rescue them from the situation they have got themselves into or are they waiting for the law of consequences as set by your Lord to come to pass? If they are waiting for consequences of their harmful and destructive actions against their own people then so did those who destroyed themselves before them. It was not Allah who inflicted them with injustice but that they themselves inflicted harm and destruction upon each other instead of living like good united human family.

34] That is how in the end the destructive results of their deeds overtook them by surprise and the very idea of uprising at which they mocked hemmed them in. That is how their environmental pot exploded when it reached beyond its boiling point.

35) Those who live by rules of others than Allah whom they impose upon themselves say, had Allah not destined us to abide by rule of any other than Him then neither we nor our forefathers would have done that nor we would have forbidden anything other than what he did. Such excuses were put forth also by those who perished before them. However responsibility upon Our messengers is only to convey Our message clearly.

36] No doubt We raised a messenger in every nation saying, serve the set out goal of Allah alone and let not the forces that lead away from His program take control of you. After making that clear Allah left people to guide themselves or be of those who face the results of their own harmful and destructive actions. So travel through the earth and see what was the end of those who denied each other their God given rights to provision thereby opposed Our program for them.

37] No matter how eager you may be for their guidance Allah does not guide those who choose to go their own way and that is why such people are beyond any help by anyone.

38] They swear by Allah their strongest oaths saying, Allah will never raise the down trodden people to dignified life? Nay, rather He will and it is a promise He has made binding upon Himself though most among the mankind do not learn His program to understand how He is going to do that.

39] He will fulfil His promise so that He demonstrates to them the truth of His program about which they dispute in order to make it obvious to the mankind that the opposers of His program are liars indeed.

40) As for raising down trodden to dignity, when We intend to do anything as per Our program, We need only initiate the process as Our expressed will and it comes about.

41] Therefore those who migrate mentally and physically for the program of Allah after suffering victimization at the hands of the rulers and the priests We will certainly bless them with a kingdom of their own so the reward to come could be much greater if they could realise it.

42] Such are the ones who face sensibly the ills inflicted upon them with steadfast courage and put their trust in the set out laws of their Lord working hard to change things for the better as per Our guidance.

43] Behold, We never sent any messengers to people before you but they were people full of courage whom We inspired with Our program. Ask those who strive hard to spread the message if you the people are not aware of it already.

44] We sent them with clear goals and guidelines as are in the Zaboor. Likewise We have sent to you the people this program so that you may explain it clearly to the rest of mankind as to what has been sent for them so that they may think it through thoroughly.

45] So do those who oppose Our program and conspire against it feel secure that Allah will not debase them as a result of their own harmful and destructive actions against each other or let them reach the painful suffering from the sources they do not even anticipate?

46] Or that He may catch them in some self created trouble in the course of their journey that leaves them no way for their escape?

47] Or that He may find them in trouble even after alerting them about the danger? By alerting you about all these dangers your Lord intends to benefit you by means of His blissful program for you.

48] Why don’t they observe things carefully which Allah has evolved as to how Allah secures them in their existence, purpose and function protecting them in every way against failure because they are subjected to laws set by of Allah which they follow faithfully.

49] That is how due to laws of Allah exists and functions all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth from the least significant of the creatures to the most significant of the creatures and they do not disregard His set out laws.

50] They follow the course of action their Lord has set upon them to govern their behaviour and that is how they fulfil what they are programmed to do.

51] That is why Allah has advised that you the mankind should not live by two different standards by two different rulers because the truth is He alone is the one who has the right to sovereignty in this kingdom. Therefore it is fulfilling of My program alone that you should be concerned about.

52] Behold, to Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth and to Him belongs the constitution for the benefit of the humanity that is lasting, will you then rather abide by rule of other than Allah?

53] Whatever blessings you enjoy are from Allah so when you are in trouble upon His laws you should rely for help to free yourselves.

54] Even though it is He alone who frees you from troubles yet no sooner you are relieved that some people from among you run to their self-imposed rulers instead of abiding by rule of their Lord

55] as if to show their contempt for the favours that We bestowed upon them. Please yourselves as you see fit but soon you will come to know the results of your make belief based actions against Our program.

56] They freely set aside a portion of what We have provided for them for their self imposed rulers and priests about whose tricks to rob them they know nothing. About the program of Allah! You the rulers and the priests will certainly be questioned as to lies you fabricate against it.

57] They will be questioned because they attribute the program of Allah with such baseless foundations of which His majesty is free because they go along with whatever comes to their minds.

58] It is because whenever the blissful program is announced to any of the nations’ ruling and priestly elite regarding the well being of the masses in the communities, the leadership becomes entangled in derailing its given sense of direction out of spite,

59] hiding its harmful and destructive motives from its people due to blissful program with which it is blessed, asking itself whether it should go along with it unwillingly or bury it in the dust. Beware! Destructive is the decision they make about the blissful program of Allah.

60] To those who do not commit to working for peace according to Our given guidelines for the better end goal applies the similitude of a people who harm and destroy themselves whereas example of people who follow blissful program of Allah is dignified because He is the ruler Who is full of wisdom.

61] If Allah were to let people with such harmful and destructive mindset and attitude face the results of their actions against His guidance instantly, He would not have left even a single one of them on the earth but He gave them respite for amending their ways within an appointed time period. So when their appointed time is over they can neither stay beyond that for a moment nor can they go a moment before it. When the pot of harm and destruction boils over it explodes taking away with it all those involved in it unless any repent and reform.

62] They attribute to Allah partners in His sovereignty by setting up themselves as rulers other than Him which they hate for themselves because they rather have all they can without sharing it with anyone that is how they attribute lies to themselves with their own tongues ensuring good thing in life for themselves. Let there be no doubt that by doing so the only thing they bring about for themselves is hell of hatred against themselves that consumes them before others.

63] By this testimony of Allah it is obvious that We sent messengers before you to other nations as well but their harmful and destructive leadership made their actions look good to them so they opposed Our program, such leadership is their role model even today so they are bound to end up in painful suffering.

64] We have not revealed this book to you but for the set purpose that you clearly explain to them everything over which they divide and go to wars. This book is a blissful program for the people who would commit to working for peace.

65] It is like the water that Allah sends down from the height whereby He gives life to the land after it has been dead likewise it brings about lively nations. Surely in this there is a lesson for those who would observe things to draw sense.

66] There is a lesson for you in cattle to think about. We give you to drink by means of processes that take place in their bodies between what they digest and the way it becomes blood and pure milk, pleasant for those who would drink it.

67] Likewise processes take place in the fruits of the date-palm and the grapes from which you derive drinks and wholesome food, certainly therein is a lesson to think about for those who would use their sense to learn and benefit.

68] The same is true in case of bees, your Lord programmed the bees to build their hives in elevated places, in the trees and in anything which people build for them.

69) Moreover partake of every kind of fruit and follow the smooth ways of your Lord. From the processes in its body comes forth a syrup of different colours that contains a healing property for mankind. Certainly in this there is a lesson for those who would think as to how it all exists, functions and fulfils its purpose.

70] Likewise Allah brings you about and thereafter He lets you fulfil your full potential and that is how He lets some of you the people live from birth till they grow old knowing nothing after having known much. That is why Allah makes known to you He has set up laws to govern all affairs.

71] That is because Allah gifts some of you more than others with abilities for production and distribution of things of need and desire for whole of the mankind. Yet some of those who have gathered more of the provision do not share it with those for whom they have been made responsible in case they become their equals in that respect. By doing so, are they not stifling progress and prosperity for mankind for which Allah bestowed His program?

72] That is the reason Allah raises supporters for you from your own kind and raises for you through your mates children and grandchildren whereby He provides you with provisions that are beneficial. Will they still continue working for rifts and wars between mankind on basis of their make beliefs thus keep the benefits of the blessing of Allah from reaching those having the rights from Allah to get them

73] and take on other rulers than Allah to serve them who have no power to provide them with anything for sustenance from the heavens and the earth nor can they ever have any power to do so?

74] Therefore invent not rivals of Allah. Allah makes all this obvious for you the mankind because otherwise you could not know.

75] Allah gives you an example of a person who is disabled (become old or sick etc) so he has no power to do anything for himself or others and a person whom We have given the ability to exploit beneficial provision from Us and he freely uses it to benefit personally as well as to benefit the community, should both of these be treated the same way or should the able one provide the needed care for the disabled? Remember, to decide such matters sovereignty only belongs to Allah alone yet most of them bother not to learn to understand things.

76] Allah gives you another example of two people, one of them is like a baby (or born disabled etc) and has no ability to do anything so he is a burden on his supporter and no matter what he cannot do anything to benefit himself. Should he be treated the same way as the one fully capable of looking after himself? This is why only such as command fair and compassionate treatment of each other are the one who are on the path that is proper and firmly fixed.

77] It is because Allah alone makes obvious what is to happen in the future in the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. If people refuse to live by rule of Allah then the occurrence of the moment of uprising will be automatic like the twinkling of an eye or things related to it because Allah has set up laws to govern affairs relating all things.

78] That is how Allah brought you forth from the wombs of your mothers knowing nothing but He gave you sense of hearing and sense of sight as well as intelligence so that you develop in to a human worth the name.

79] Do they not see the birds that wing their flight in the air towards the height, who holds them up but set laws of Allah by way of a set mechanism? Surely therein are lessons for people who would commit to working for peace.

80] So that Allah brings about for you through your set up institutions peaceful existence whereby He brings about for you bundles of blissful things for covering all your needs and wants so that you make period of your life journey easier through them for as long as you stay without diversion there from because without such cultivation life will be like a barren land so find ways to inherit things that make life worthwhile for a set period of time.

81] Allah has provided you with things for your safety and security out of what he has evolved. He has enabled you to make rooms for yourselves among influential people like you make resorts in the mountains and He has enabled you to make plans to cover yourselves from getting harmed just like you make garments to protect yourselves from temperature variations like you make coats of armour to protect yourselves during wars amongst yourselves. All because He wants to grant His blessings to you in full therefore you should become of those who commit to live in peace.

82] O messenger, if they still pay no due attention to your mission then grieve not because your duty is only to convey Our message clearly.

83] They should attain blessings of Allah in full by implementing His program but instead they are prevent this from happening because most of them oppose Our program for them.

84] Do they realize what will happen during the period of time when We will raise landslide support from every nation for Our program? Then the opposers of Our program the chiefs and the priests along with their supporters will not be able to put forward any proper justification for what they do nor will they be able to receive any personal favours in private from each other.

85] That is how at the time of uprising the undue exploiters of humanity will face the retribution by their victims, it will not be easy for them to go through with it nor will they be granted any delay or respite.

86] Moreover at the time when those who live by rule of other than that of Allah will see their self appointed rulers other than Allah they will say, our Lord! Here are the rulers we set up ourselves by whose laws we used to live our lives instead of Yours. At this their self appointed rulers will toss their statement back at them saying, you are liars!

87] They will openly submit to sovereignty of Allah that day because their self appointed rulers will leave them in utter chaos.

88] As for those who oppose and debar others from the roadmap of Allah, We will let them suffer the consequences of their action in form of suffering upon suffering till they give up their way of life or perish because they cause rifts and wars between mankind.

89] That is why in time We will raise landslide support for Our program against this harmful and destructive leadership of chiefs and priests from their own people everywhere and likewise We will raise you the people against your own community leadership because that is the reason We have sent for you the Quran to explain everything necessary in detail to all people as a guidance towards blissful program thereby a good news for those who would commit to this program that leads to peace.

90] Allah commands justice and compassion based fair dealing for all individuals and all nations with all the interdependent human community and He forbids all such ideas and actions by anyone against any other individual or community that bring gloom and doom on a person or a community, actions that cause harm and destruction to mankind out of lawless behaviour of people against each other. He admonishes you so that you may take heed and build the better world together like a good family.

91] Therefore fulfil the constitutional obligations of Allah as you have agreed to abide by them and breach not the agreements regarding each other after you have agreed to uphold them because you have put your trust in goals and guidelines of Allah and Allah makes results of all that you do evident for all to see.

92] Do not be like a gathering of people that talks people into forming a strong network of community but then lets it disintegrate itself into fragments through make beliefs thereby negligence of obligations towards each other. Therefore take not your mutual agreements as means for deceiving each other so that one party may take undue advantage of the other because Allah bids you to put effort in fulfilling your responsibility. Otherwise on the day of uprising He will certainly make evident the results of your actions in form of rifts and divisions.

93] Had it served plan of Allah He could have gathered all of you all into one nation but He lets stray whoever so chooses and He guides whoever make effort to attain it. However you will certainly be made to face the results of all that you do.

94] So never enter agreements to deceive each other so that you do not end up back into chaos after being firmly fixed on the foundation of Our program and taste the harm and destruction as a result of your actions for not doing what is good for mankind and debarring others from the program of Allah thereby ending up in hell of your own making.

95] Do not exchange the program of Allah that is good for the whole human community for your personal gains at the expense of rest of your humanity. Certainly result of your united actions based on program of Allah is much more beneficial than your personal gain for your individual selves if you could learn to understand this.

96] Whatever is your personal gain for yourself as an individual at the expense of the community will be lost but whatever you gain according to program of Allah for the good of the mankind will last. We will certainly reward those who are hard working and courageous according to the noblest of their deeds as per Our program.

97] Whoever does anything that is good for the mankind whether the leadership or the supporting masses provided the party is doing it out of commitment to peace We will surely grant such a people new life, a life that is worth living and that is how We will reward such people according to the best of their deeds.

98] Therefore when you read The Quran read it for seeking the life of peace and security for mankind through guidance of Allah in order to ensure protection for the masses against the conspiracies of the harmful and destructive leadership that tries to take away people from the path of Allah.

99] Surely the harmful and destructive leadership has no power over those who commit to working for peace because they put their trust in universal laws of their Lord.

100] It has power only over those who let it take over them and they are those who commit to live by rule of others than Allah.

101] That is why when We let a people free of its influence change one standard for living with a better standard that Allah makes obvious for mankind through that which He has revealed they say to them, you people are just lying. But the fact is most of them do not bother to learn to find out which standard is good or bad for them or why.

102] Say, this standard has been sent for freeing humanity from harm and destruction by your Lord as a set purpose to give solid foundation to those committed to working for peace through this guidance as well as a manifesto of prosperity for those who would commit themselves to working for peace in future.

103] We should also make obvious for people what the opponents say about Our program that it is a teaching by an ordinary human being. However the ordinary human being they attribute this to can never put together words in such a uniquely structured and uniquely distinct way whereas this message is in a language uniquely structured and uniquely distinct demonstrably beyond human creation.

104] Yet after having all this information those who still fail to commit to working for peace according to guidelines of Allah, He does not enforce His program upon them so they are left to their own choices to end up in painful suffering.

105] The fact is, those who do not commit to working for peace according to guidelines of Allah it is they who invent harmful and destructive ideologies, system, structures and practices because they are the ones who deny Our set out rights to others regarding Our provisions for them.

106] Because who can work against guidelines of Allah after really committing to working for peace unless one is forced the while his mind remains committed to working for peace? That is because any people who willingly open up to working against guidelines of Allah will move away from blissful program of Allah so they will end up in terrible suffering.

107] This is because such people love short term personal gains at the expense of long term gains for the human community therefore Allah guides not such people as work against His mission.

108] These are the ones whose faculties of thinking and whose abilities of heeding disciplines and whose capabilities of being able to see things for what they really are Allah finds untapped yet they themselves are neglectful of the consequences for their such behaviour.

109] There is no doubt that if they continue neglecting the use of their abilities this way then they will end up in an irreversible loss.

110] It is because your Lord only supports people who are constantly on the move ideologically or physically or both the ways after they go through hard work that is why they struggle through steadfastly and that is how your Lord thereby leads them to security by means of His program for blissful life for them.

111] During that period of time every person will only demand what one needs for oneself and everyone will be given the task whatever one can do and none of the people will be put through hardship of forced labour in vain.

112] Allah points out to you as an example a township which enjoyed peace and prosperity receiving its provisions in abundance from everywhere in every way yet in time it ended up neglecting its progress according to blissful program of Allah and as result Allah made its residents taste the consequences of their own doings and that is how they ended up in poverty and thereby insecurity.

113] A messenger was sent to them from among themselves but they denied him so they were found caught up in terrible painful suffering because they inflicting harm and destruction upon each other.

114] Therefore remember this and participate only in lawful things that Allah has provided you with for the good of the mankind, that is how by proper use of blissful program of Allah you should show each other that you have become a worthy people if you really claim to abide by rule of His Majesty.

115] ) He has surely strictly forbidden for you the followers of the Quran getting involved in things like ill-gotten gains/destruction, bloodshed, pig-philosophy, exploitation or greed based economy and all that is done outside the constitution of Allah. In case one is dragged into such a chaotic situation or circumstance whereby one is forced to get involved in such things but commits to getting out of this situation and means no harm to others nor rebellion against Our rule upon such people there is no blame because Allah is surely protector of mankind through His blissful program.

116] So you should never declare with your tongues falsely that this is lawful and that is unlawful in order to attribute false things to Allah because those who attribute falsehood to Allah will never prosper.

117] Short lived will be their joy because in time they will end up in painful suffering.

118] To the Jews We forbade things which We have already told you about and it were not We who imposed the nonsense hardships upon them but they imposed those hardships upon themselves out of their own make beliefs due to ignorance and arrogance.

119] That is because your Lord is surely with those who do anything wrong out of ignorance and then turn to His program after that and mend themselves in accordance to that, your Lord is there for them even after that in order to protect them through His blissful program.

120] Such a people were community of Abraham indeed, an upright nation because it was not of those like nations who abide by rule of any other than Allah.

121] It always used blissful program of Allah properly that is why He chose it as an example to point it out for others because He guided it to the path that is straight and firmly founded.

122 ] We gave it a good life in this world because till the end it remained of those who mend rifts and defects according to Our guidelines properly.

123] And now We have revealed to you the people Our will saying, follow the way of Abraham the upright one, he was not of those who live by rules of others than Allah.

124] As for staying put, it was ordained for those who differed about it. That is why your Lord decided the matter between them about which they fought over at the time of their uprising against each other.

125] Therefore invite people to the way of your Lord through rules of wisdom and advice that is beneficial for them, so reason with them in the most courteous manner because that is how your Lord will make obvious who has strayed from His program and so that He makes obvious who is abiding by His guidance.

126] That is how you should pursue people to win them over to your ideology as they pursue you to win you over to their ideology that is how you should show courage and wisdom and be top most of those with courage and wisdom.

127] So show courage because your confidence cannot be but due to wisdom of Allah, so worry not about them and distress not yourself due to their plots and tricks,

128] for Allah is with those who remain consistent with His program such as do good for humanity.

[Mughal1]

Surah 17 AL-ISRA–The journey from one way/system of life to another

Proclaim in the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

1] Sovereign is He alone in this universe Who took on a journey His messenger during a period of darkness of ignorance in order to enlighten him about the nature of the forbidden institution that is harmful and destructive for mankind in order to bring about the institution that is sublime, in which We have placed prosperity for mankind so that We show him some of Our guidelines in action, surely His Lord is all hearing and all seeing.

2] For the same purpose We gave Moses the book and made it a guidance for the children of Israel saying, never adopt any other way of life for your security than the one recommended for you by Me.

3] You are descendents of those whom We brought onboard with Noah for establishing Our rule and he indeed proved himself a man worth the name.

4] Besides this We forewarned the children of Israel in the book that you will cause wars in the land twice by grossly rebelling against Our rule transgressing against humanity and suffer the consequences in time for that.

5] When the event for the first of the two warnings became fulfilled We let rise against you some of Our mighty warriors (The Assyrians) who rampaged through your institutions turning them upside down about which you were warned already.

6] Then after this We afforded you an opportunity to overcome their harm and destruction by helping you through prosperity based upon Our provided foundations and that is how We granted you more manpower.

7] So whatever you the people did as per Our program to benefit each other it was for your own benefit as a community but if you did any harm to each other, it only proved harmful and destructive for yourselves as a community. Likewise when you gave up abiding by Our rule the second time and Our second warning became fulfilled, We let rise another fighting force (Romans) to undermine your harmful and destructive ambitious goals and to penetrate your institution as the former had entered it before, and they utterly destroyed all that they laid their hands on.

8] Now your Lord can again grant you peace and prosperity through His blissful program for you through this messenger but if you repeat the same behaviour then We too will let the same consequences take place because We have set up the system that painful suffering will engulf such as do not abide by Our advice and become dignified people.

9] Surely this Quran guides mankind to the way of life which is firmly founded because it is a manifesto of progress and prosperity for those who will commit to working for peace according to it such as will act to remove rifts and divisions from between mankind that is why there is this great reward for them the life of peace and prosperity.

10] On the other hand it gives most severe warnings to those who do not commit to working for peace for the better end goal that they will end up in a terrible painful suffering the choice of which We have already allowed them to create for themselves.

11] So mankind should rely upon way of life whereby they benefit each other instead of relying upon a way of life whereby they end up inflicting harm and destruction upon each other out of rivalries. However mankind go for harming and destroying each other for quick personal gains at the expense of human brotherhood.

12] Just as We allowed mankind choice between brotherhood and animosity so We brought about the phenomena of the night (like darkness of ignorance or dark days of poverty) and the day (like light of knowledge or bright days of progress and prosperity) as two markers. By night We cover things under darkness and by day we bring things under light to be visible, so that you could seek your livelihood as provision by your Lord, and so that you could compute the years and estimate times for your other activities. That is how We explained all essential things in all necessary detail.

13] That is how We have linked the destiny of whole of mankind to its own effort, so if mankind fail to abide by Our program then on the day of uprising We bring out for it result of its actions open for all to see,

14] So take a good look at results your actions. Today you are sufficient to take yourself to task for what you did given the freedom, guidance and the provisions.

15] So only a nations that seeks guidance is guided for its own benefit but any that ignores guidance therefore strays does so to its own loss. No accountable nation is held liable for responsibility of another and We never let any nation suffer pain till We have sent forth a messenger to them and they ignore him that end up in painful suffering.

16] Whenever We intend to leave a township to destroy itself it is only because We send Our guidance to its rulers and priests who are living easy lives at the expense of their masses so they demonstrate their inconsistency with Our guidance and as a result Our warning fulfils for them that is how We let that township fall to the ground by way of revolts by its suffering masses.

17] Behold! How many generations have We let destroy themselves this way since the time of Noah? Sufficiently efficient is universal law of your Lord in showing results of actions of His subjects to them demonstrating His ability to see and deal with all affairs.

18] He who works for quick personal gain at the expense of his human community We readily grant him such things as We please to whoever works for that and We leave him on the road to state of painful suffering wherein he remains disgraced and rejected by rest of his community.

19] He who works for long term gain for better end of his community, the endeavour of every such person leads to dignified community life because it is such people who in actual fact work for peace among mankind.

20] Thus We bestow on all fruits of their actions – those who do not follow Our program as well as those who do- out of the provision of your Lord as bounties of your Lord are not confined to any person or nation but are there for all to benefit from.

21] See how We let some communities rise above others in this life due to what people themselves do, certainly the division to come are going to be yet greater.

22] So take no other ruler than Allah lest you the mankind become isolated from each other and stuck in poverty and trapped in this situation for good.

23] This is why your Lord has decreed that you should not live by rule of any other than Allah and you should be so kind to your parents that if one or both of them live to their old age in your lifetime then you should not say to them any word of contempt nor rebuke them and you should address them affectionately.

24] You should lower your wings to them out of compassion and thus express through your actions the advice of your Lord for them as well as rely upon laws reminding yourself that that is how they fulfilled their responsibilities to me when I was a little child.

25] Your Lord makes known to others your motives in your minds through your actions. So if you act to remove rifts between people for reconciliation between them for fostering good relationship then surely He brings it about again and again because He alone is protector of mankind through His program.

26] Therefore carry out your responsibilities towards each other faithfully by fulfilling the rights of each other as a settled community and as a people on a journey towards settlement and do not take away rights of each other through transgression as you will end up destroyed.

27] Surely those who transgress limits set by Allah they are supporters of the leadership that is harmful and destructive for the community life and surely the harmful and destructive leadership has always opposed the program of your Lord.

28] But even if you the supporters of the program have to move away from such people as are harmful and destructive for community life to establish the program of your Lord as you are directed for it yet explain to them the program the way it sinks in their minds.

29] In any case you should neither cut off your ties with your opponents nor become so accommodating that you end up blameworthy and totally trapped in their way of life.

30] Surely your Lord gives prosperity in abundance to a people who work according to His program and He limits it for those who do not work for it according to His program and He is fully aware of His subjects about their motives and actions.

31] So you have no reason to kill your children for fear of poverty because it is We who have provide sustenance with Our program for them as well as for you. Surely killing them for this reason is indication of seriously wrong set up and direction of a society against the guidance of Allah.

32] That is why you the mankind should never distort Our program through adulteration with other ways of life that are harmful and destructive because that is worst way to live by.

33] Moreover you should never take a life because taking of it is strictly forbidden by Allah unless it is taken for ensuring peace and justice in the community. If any life is taken unjustly then We grant the right of fair retribution to its community so let not the community fail in carrying out the justice properly in case of murder. The human community will surely find this law helpful.

34] Furthermore you the community should never handle the affairs regarding individuals but for bringing about betterment of the individuals so that the community as a whole could grow strong reach maturity. Therefore always fulfil your agreements between you the community members because otherwise questions will arise about purpose of agreements and community and so you the community will end up disintegrated.

35] So follow the set up measures faithfully when you have to judge things by Our standard that is firmly balanced. This is the best way to live by and it will prove to be the best to the end.

36] Moreover you should never support anything about which you have no firm knowledge rather ability of hearing and capacity of understanding as well as faculty of thinking all of these should be put under use for their set purpose before you decide to back up anything.

37] You should never think of ruling the earth through arrogance because you can neither rent the earth asunder nor can you be as big as the mountains. So manage it sensibly for the good of humanity.

38] All of the stated prohibitions are unlawful for you because they are seriously harmful and destructive for you the mankind and are hateful in the sight of your Lord.

39] This is but a part of the wisdom which your Lord has revealed to you. So take not any rulers other than Allah lest you end up in hell of your own making, full of accusations against each other and rejected by each other stuck in the rut.

40] Say, think about it that could your Lord base you the mankind on the solid principles the while He Himself took for His mission the missionaries who were weaklings? Indeed you are expressing a huge error in your judgement by not supporting His program.

41] They do this despite the fact that We explained things in various ways in this Quran so that they could use the guidance and correct their errors thereby have a great life the while it lasts yet it has only added to their aversion.

42] Say, think about it that if there were other rulers in this universe than Allah as they claim, they would have certainly tried to find a way to dethrone the Ruler of this universe.

43] Sovereignty belongs to Him alone and He is free of things they attribute to Him.

44] Strive very hard for fulfilment of His program all the numerous far away galaxies as well as this galaxy and whatever is between them. There is not a single thing but reflects His glory its own way though you are not even bothered to understand the ways they manifest His sovereignty but He has surely been persistent protector of humanity.

45] Yet when you proclaim the Quran among the people, We let remain between you and the chiefs and priests and their blind supporters who do not commit to working for peace for the better end of the human community a barrier they put up due to their arrogance and ignorance.

46] That is how We let this barrier be an obstacle for their minds so they fail to understand the message properly because in their hearing of the message is a defect to begin with, so when you refer to your Lord through the Quran about His program for Oneness of the human community under His rule they turn their backs in disgust.

47] We make evident to you why the chiefs and the priests and their supporters come to listen to you reciting the Quran when they come to listen to you as well as We let you know what they say when they converse with each other in private after hearing the message you convey to them. These opposers of Our program say to one another, surely you are listening to a man who is plotting conspiracy against us.

48] See what sort of deduction they conjure up from the message you tell them? They surely distort the purpose of the message as they have not bothered to listen the message properly to find out the proper way to live their lives.

49] This is why some of them say, as a people we have become totally disintegrated and decomposed by internal warfare can we really then become a community worth the name again?

50] Tell them, yes you people can be transformed into a human community worth the name even if you have become many groups or have no solid criterion as a foundation

51] or constructive mannerism regarding which there is gross lack of sense in your minds. They further say, who is there to restore us to dignified life? Say, The One Who raised you the mankind to dignity originally the first time. Yet they turn their heads towards you and ask, if what you tell us is really going to happen then tell us when will this happen? Say, it can happen quite soon but only if you work very hard towards it.

52] It can happen the day you are called upon to install the constitution of Allah in the land for the good of mankind and you respond by establishing His sovereignty in the land and that is how you will come to realise you have been living but very limited lives.

53] Moreover tell supporters of My program that they should say to each other what is constructive and beneficial. Surely the harmful and destructive leadership that is opponent of My mission always looks for chances to stirs up trouble among them. The fact is, the leadership that opposes My mission is self evidently enemy of mankind.

54] Your Lord makes it known to you the messenger out of His concern for you the people so that if any of you wish you could follow His program and end up in blissful life or if any of you choose then stay away from His program and end up in hell of your own making. We have not sent you to be their keeper.

55] Your Lord is fully aware of all those who occupy high positions of power as well as those down trodden. This is why We have raised some of the prophets with more rights and responsibilities than the others therefore We gave David the Zaboor to deal with chiefs and priests and their supporters within his appointed jurisdiction.

56] Say, rely upon rule of those whom you assume to be the sovereigns other than Allah but the truth is they have no power to remove your troubles nor even the sense to comprehend them and change things for the better for you.

57] Those upon whom the masses rely for removal of their problems as sovereigns themselves seek the ways and means from their Lord as to which of them can lead them according to His program to blissful life because they fear that if they fail to follow His program they themselves will end up in hell of their own creating. Surely the painful suffering your Lord warned you against is something to take serious notice of.

58] There is not a township wherein chiefs and priests work against Our guidance but We let it destroy itself completely by making it face the uprising by its masses or let it suffer the terrible agony it brings upon itself as a result of its own actions, that has been made clear in all Our scriptures.

59] Yet nothing stopped us from sending our revelations for guidance of mankind, not even the opposing mindset and attitude of past generations who denied them. We sent the law to the people of Thamud to open their eyes as to how they should live but they worked against it. We send the revelations only so that people pay attention to them and learn to abide by them in order to save themselves from their self created troubles and to lead them to peace and prosperity.

60] Remember, We told you that program of your Lord caters for needs of mankind comprehensively so there is no escape for them from the plan of Allah for them. We made Our vision clear in the Quran about the great future of mankind which We shared with you just as a goal for mankind to struggle towards by putting up struggle against harmful and destructive forces and elements. We draw their attention to Our this plan but it only increases their opposition to it due to their own arrogance by their lack of interest in learning.

61] Recall the occasion when We said to the chiefs of people in the land at the time, support Adam as the chief administrator in the land appointed by Allah. They all submitted except Iblees, who replied, should I support the one whom You have brought forth from lowly down trodden classes?

62] Then he asked, is this the one whom You have honoured instead of me when he does not really deserve it because I am better than him? If you give me time just till the day they take over their office, I will certainly show you some of them are not worthy of the offices you put them in by uprooting all of his official colleagues save a minority.

63] Allah said, you carry on going your way, in time you and any who follow your way all of you are bound to face results of your own actions in form of painful suffering, a fitting reward for terrible actions.

64] So lead to harm and destruction whoever you can with your speech and muster against them all your cavalry and infantry thereby take away their rights to their things and even their children and promise them whatever you wish. However the harmful and destructive leadership can promise nothing other than false sense of security.

65] Therefore as for My people who support My program, you cannot make fool of them because they know you have no solid foundation to stand upon. That is because your Lord has set laws to govern all affairs.

66] It is your Lord O mankind Who has set laws to drive your ships across the ocean so that you could seek His bounty thereby, He is ever there to lead you to peace and prosperity by His program for you.

67] Even when any adversity strikes you at sea all those upon whom you rely let you down save Him, yet when He brings you safely to the land you turn your backs on His program for you. Surely man is ever neglectful of His advice therefore he get in to all sorts of troubles.

68] Are you confident that due to your ignoring of His program He will not let the land from underneath your feet be taken over by those who deserve land better than you to have it, or let a tyrant take over you due to that? Then you will not find anyone to protect you.

69] Or, are you confident that when again you go back to sea He will not let you be smitten with a violent tempest and be drowned due to your unworthy mindset and attitude? If that happens then you will not find any who can really blame Us regarding this end of yours.

70] It is We who dignified children of Adam by blessing them with conveyances on the land and in the sea and provided them with beneficial things and gave them right of proper use over many of Our creatures.

71] The time is coming when We will call upon every community along with their respective leadership and each of the nations will be given its copy of Our constitution so that it stays on the right side of Our given law. That is how they should follow Our given constitution so that they are not faced with terrible consequences even to a least degree.

72] But those who will play blind with Our constitution and remain neglectful to the end will lose the proper way to live ending up in painful suffering.

73] It is such people who try to entice you to lead you away from that which We reveal to you, hoping that you fabricate something in Our name. Had you done that, they would have made you their very close friend.

74] Had We not firmly placed you upon solid foundation then you might have inclined to make some compromise with them.

75] In such a case We would have left you to suffer double the suffering in this life by losing what you have and not gaining what you went for and in the life in hereafter as well. Then you would have found no supporter to help you against Us.

76] That is how they tried their utmost to drive you out of this ideological basis as well as physically out of this land to expel you from it for good. Had they succeeded in doing so then they themselves could not have survived as a people much longer after you due to the situation they had created for themselves because of their harmful and destructive actions against each other due to their harmful and destructive mindsets and attitudes against each other.

77] This has been always Our course of action as a rule with regards to people of those messengers whom We sent before you and you will find no change in Our rule that We let people destroy each other out of rivalries and animosities if they refuse to live by Our advice as a brotherhood of mankind.

78] Therefore strive very hard from the sunrise till the evening to install Our system and thus bring about Quran based new era. Surely Quran based new era will come about soon for all to see.

79] For making that to happen it is important that you work extra during the night to plan things for executing them during the day. That is how your Lord will raise you the people to a status that is truly dignified or glorious.

80] Therefore say, my Lord let me commence the struggle for installing the system that is truly beneficial for the mankind and thereby get me out of the system that is in actual fact harmful and destructive for humanity towards the system that is in actual fact beneficial for the mankind and thereby grant me from Yourself irrefutable proof that supports my claim to Your messengership.

81] Thus let mankind know that the truth has come and the falsehood has vanished because falsehood by its very nature is bound to perish.

82] That is because We have sent the Quran which is a repair manual for humanity to rescue it from damage it has caused to itself, a program for prosperity for those who will commit to working for peace, yet nothing will increase for those who will work against this program but loss after loss.

83] Mankind is strange in its behaviour that when We bestow Our favours upon man in form of provisions and guidance, he avoids it and does as he pleases but when it results in harming him, he gives himself up to despair instead of trying Our advice.

84] Say, every individual and every nation acts according to its disposition not thinking beyond itself outside its own environment despite your Lord making people aware through His revelations and results of their own actions as to who is acting properly and is on the guided path and who is acting otherwise.

85] They question you about the purpose of revelation. Tell them, the revelation is a program of my Lord for your guidance and that is because you have been given only a limited knowledge when you are born therefore it helps you see the full picture and where you fit in it.

86] Had we so planned We could have kept away from you the people that which We have revealed for your guidance then you could not find any to convince Us for sending you Our guidance.

87] But your Lord instead decided to bless you with this wisdom of your Lord, surely His grant of guidance is of a huge value for you.

88] Say, even if all those who oppose Our guidance and their leaders combined their resources to produce the like of this Quran, they would never be able to compose the like thereof even if they backed up each other as best as they could.

89] In this Quran We have used every kind of method necessary to make the people understand the message yet majority of them persist in opposing it and denying its benefits to themselves and others

90] and say, we will not accept this message of yours O Muhammad unless you cause a spring to gush forth from the earth for us,

91] or unless you produce a garden for yourself of date-palms and grapes and you cause rivers to flow in it,

92] or unless you cause some divine destruction to befall us in bits about which you warn us or you enforce the rule of Allah with help of divine missionaries before our very eyes,

93] or produce a house made with gold for yourself or you ascend in to the heaven– but we will not accept your this ascendance in to heaven unless you bring down to us a book that we can read. Say to them, sovereignty only belongs to my Lord so its His program that should know instead of making your own senseless demands for miracles. Have I ever claimed to you the people to be anything more than a human being assigned messenger-ship by Allah?

94] And what silliest excuse prevented ignorant masses from accepting Our program when it came to them other than their objection, why Allah has sent an ordinary human being like ourselves as His messenger?

95] Say, had there been living in the earth the creatures like the ones you imagine for divine messengership then We would have sent them a creature of their own kind as their heavenly Messenger.

96] Say, sufficient is testimony of Allah as a proof to decide the matter between me and you. Surely He hears and sees all that His subjects need.

97] That is why whoever learns enough to see the need for guidance of Allah he is guided by Him and any who goes the other way he will never find any supporter other than Him. This is why We gather such people together on the day of uprising against their ways of life, which they follow like blind, dumb and deaf that lead them to hell of their own making. We let them increase the fierceness of their fire of hatred between themselves till they have had enough therefore repent and reform or perish.

98] Thus We let people face the results of their own actions because they reject and oppose Our program that calls them to blissful life therefore in despair some ask themselves, when we have disintegrated and have become decomposed as community, could we be revived to blissful life of dignity again as a new human community?

99] Do they not see that Allah is so wise and powerful that He alone has evolved all the heavenly bodies including this earth so He has power and wisdom to evolves towards betterment even likes of them because He has set up a period of time for them in which there is no doubt they will be raised to dignity even though the arrogant and the ignorant among them carry on nothing but transgression against each other?

100] Say, even if you had all the treasures of my Lord at your disposal you will still hold them back from using them for the benefit of the mankind fearing their reduction due to your harmful and destructive mindset and attitude towards each other. Man is ever so stingy so he must change his mindset and attitude!

101] That is the reason We gave Moses nine distinct Surahs=lectures as lessons for his people when he came to them, ask the children of Israel. And Pharaoh said, O Moses! I think you are taken over by some clever plan against us.

102] Moses replied, I think you can know the truth very clearly if you want that no one except the Lord of the heavens and the earth has sent down these revelations as eye-openers and O Pharaoh, I think that if you fail to give the due attention to these revelations then you are doomed for destruction the way you people are carrying on.

103] However Pharaoh decided to drive Moses and his people out from their stance and place so We let him destroy himself and all who were with him by hands of each other as is Our set rule for all the nations.

104] That is how thereafter We made it possible for the ideological and biological children of Israel to settle down back in the same land and that is how in time there came the time for fulfilment of Our another promise to you the people for which We gathered you together among communities.

105] So to fulfil that promise We have revealed this Quran and that is the purpose it came for. So O messenger, We have not sent you but to deliver the promised blissful program and the warning that failing to follow it will result in serious consequences for the mankind.

106] For that reason We have divided the Quran into sections so that you O messenger deliver the program to the mankind in steps and that is why We reveal it through you to them in stages.

107] Say O mankind, it is up to you to commit to working for peace according to it or not to commit to working for peace. Indeed those who were bestowed with similar revealed knowledge before it when it is proclaimed before them they are overwhelmed by it therefore they accept it true

108] and that is why they declare, sovereignty surely belongs to our Lord alone! The promise of Our Lord has been fulfilled indeed.

109] They are influenced so much that they are overcome by its awesome information therefore tears run down their eyes due to increase in their recognition of it.

110] Say, it matters not you call Him Allah or you call Him Rahmaan because by whichever name you call Him all the good names like the ones you are told are for Him. The main thing is that you do not go overboard in your community network building responsibility nor take it lightly but seek a middle way.

111] That is how you should proclaim, sovereignty only belongs to Allah Who has no begotten son to succeed Him nor has He any partnership with anyone in the sovereignty of this Kingdom and there is none more powerful than Him to humble Him, so accept His greatness and establish His great Kingdom on the earth for the good of the mankind.

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It is obvious that each surah of the quran is named precisely for a set purpose. It is not a random occurrence of a word that is just picked up and used to label a chapter. In other words one will see that the quran chooses a word for title of a surah then rest of the surah explains why it is named with a particular word from different angles. Exactly like word ISLAM. The whole quran explains what it is in different respects.

This surah likewise is not names KAHF just because some people took refuge in a place but what was the reason that made them do that. It was divide between people or the difference of ideology which created distance between them. One people though they had right to use and abuse people at will and the others told them you are not doing things the right way.

The surah starts with program for elimination of this gulf then which people took steps to eliminate gulf between people.


Surah 18 AL-KAHF The Sociopolitical, Socioeconomic & Religious gulf between mankind

Proclaim in the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.

[1] that sovereignty belongs to Allah alone Who has revealed to His messenger a purpose--bound comprehensive book for spreading the message of peace among mankind in which He left no room for people to live in tensions and dissentions due to their make beliefs.

[2] It is a message that is a firm foundation for life of peace and prosperity for mankind with warning from Him about terrible consequences if it is ignored and that is how thereby He gives news of blissful life to those who will commit to working for peace such as work hard to remove rifts from among people to unite them, surely for them is a great benefit in all this

[3] which they will enjoy for as long as they live if they keep up with its maintenance.

[4] Moreover He also warns those who claim, Allah has begotten a son.

[5] They have no proof for it nor did their forefathers, this is a grossly damaging claim for unity of mankind that comes out of their mouths. They state nothing but a lie to cause baseless divisions.

[6] By the look of it you are driving yourself to death through stress by worrying about them as to what will happen to them if they commit not to working for peace according to this message.

[7] The fact is We have equipped the earth nicely with all kinds of things for serving the needs and wants of people including Our guidance to help them struggle through for higher goal in order to let them demonstrate which of them does what is beneficial for the mankind.

[8] That is how We produced things on the earth in simple form to let them develop gradually through tiny steps to higher state of existence through interaction.

[9] So instead of stressing over behaviour of ignorant people what do you think about the party of those people who took refuge in a valley surrounded by mountains to save themselves from persecution due to Our scripture because of their such behaviour they became part of Our wonderful lessons for generations to come?

[10] At the time families of those mostly young people took refuge in the valley saying, our Lord, grant us blissful life through Your scripture and thus enable us to fulfil our mission properly.

[11] So We isolated them from those who were after them for a number of years in the valley to develop according to Our program,

[12] that is how We raised them above their enemies to demonstrate which of the two parties could best account for the time they spent apart from each other.

[13] We are telling you their story for a set purpose. They were mostly young people who committed to working for peace for the mission of their Lord because We raised in them better understanding of Our guidance towards which they worked.

[14] That is how We raised courage in their minds so that they rise up and declare among their people, our sustainer is only He Who sustains the heavens and the earth so we should not live by or accept rule of any other claimant of sovereignty than His in this kingdom because if we do, we will be inflicting a great harm upon each other as a community.

[15] These people of ours have taken for rulers other than Him. If they have any right to do that then why don’t they put forth any convincing proof of their sovereignty? Who is more harmful and destructive for humanity than the one who denies sovereignty of Allah by attributing sovereignty to others in His kingdom?

[16] They had already decided to leave their people to settle elsewhere if they refused to heed them saying to each other, let us leave these people after denouncing the claims of those who claim and accept sovereignty for others than Allah and take refuge in some remote place away from them, your Lord will shower you with his blessings through working according to His blissful program, that is how He will help you fulfil your mission.

[17] If you looked at the sun the while in the valley surrounded by mountains, it would appear to you that the rising sun declined to the right of their valley and as it is setting it passed them on the left, that is wherein they lived in a wide open space in between. This is one of the many lessons from Allah. He who accepts guidance of Allah is guided alright but he whom He lets go his own way you will find no guide to lead him to the path that is proper.

[18] Moreover you will find them fully alert and on their guard even though they were at peace in order to continuously maintain that peace and prosperity. That is how We made them more resourceful from their enemies spreading them on their right and on their left sides and that is how their hard work brought them to the threshold of success. If you people dropped in upon them to check them out, you would turn back and run from them because you will be overcome by their awe due to their fighting skills and preparations.

[19] That powerful was their state of existence to which we raised them through Our program from the state in which they were so that they could keep a check on their opposers to ensure peaceful and prosperous existence. At length a party of their elders said to their youngsters, how long have you people been living in this valley? They said, we have been here for a long period of time or a good part of it. They said, your Lord knows exactly how long you people have been living here but think about when did you last send any envoys to other people to find out about them and call them to the way of Allah, so let a party of you be sent on a fact finding mission to the mother city of the kingdom we came from with this message of yours, and let it find out who has fared better we or those people we left behind so bring us some useful piece of information about this people so that we could judge the situation. Let the group conduct its affairs with caution and let it not behave in a way whereby others become alert of our presence among them and take us as their enemies.

[20] Because if they discover you among them, they will stone you to death or force you to live by their traditions and customs and in that case you will never attain peace and prosperity.

[21] But that is why We let their message keep on spreading among their people after they left them so that they come to know that the promise of Allah is true and that there is no doubt about the coming of the moment of sudden uprising if people fail to take Our advice seriously. At length after they left them the people of the township began arguing among themselves about their mission therefore some suggested, let us make them the basis and build our society upon their foundation because it was their Lord that taught them. The people who were able to fulfil this task among them said, let us build according to them a proper institution.

[22] Now some say, the institutions put in place by them were three and the forth one was for their training or to keep a watch over the rest of their institutions. The others say, the institutions put in place by them were five and the sixth one was for their training or monitoring the functioning of their other institutions, and there are still others who say, the institutions put in place by them were seven and the eighth one was for their training or monitoring their rest of institutions to keep them in line. Say, my Lord Alone makes known their number none but a few really know their purpose. So do not argue about their number but their purpose that is obvious and that is why you do not need any verdict about them from any of those who argue about them without understanding the purpose.

[23] Nor put off your task about anything that should be handled straightaway thinking I will certainly do it tomorrow

[24] unless it is in accordance with program of Allah! That is how you should demonstrate glory of your Lord for people to see unless you forget but even then express hope that my Lord will guide me ever closer to what is proper way of handling the affairs.

[25] As for the length of time the generations of people of the valley spent in isolation, they remained separate from their community for three hundred plus nine years.

[26] Tell your people, Allah makes known period of their isolation because He is the One Who makes known for mankind the secrets of the heavens and the earth therefore understand things through His vision and do things according to His guidance! Your people must come to realise that they have no refuge other than following His set laws because He does not allow anyone share in sovereignty of His kingdom.

[27] Remain consistent with what has been revealed to you of the book of your Lord, none has the power to change His Words and you will find no refuge to protect you from harmful mindset and destructive attitude save His guidance that stops you from harmful beliefs and destructive actions against each other.

[28] So O you the individual, keep yourself working hard along with those who rely upon set out universal laws of their Lord morning till evening seeking fulfilment of His set out goal for them therefore let not your eyes turn away from them desiring the attractions of worldly life against Our guidance. Moreover never favour such whose mind is free from paying attention to Our set out goals and guidelines for mankind and follows his own make beliefs therefore breaks all bounds that benefit humanity while conducting his affairs.

[29] Therefore make it clear to all that this Quran serves the purpose of proof from your Lord for what is true and what is false and what is right and what is wrong, so let him who commits to working for peace do so for his own benefit and let him who commits to working for wars do so towards his own destruction. For such as inflict harm and destruction upon each other We have put in place the rule of consequences so in time they are bound to end up in fire of hatred whose flames will surround them like the walls of a tent. As this stage will arrive they will look for freedom from this situation because the consequences of their actions against each other will submerge them fully into harm and destruction. What a dreadful way to learn the lesson and what a terrible way to live.

[30] That is why those who commit to working for peace work hard to remove dissentions among mankind so We do not let go to waste their efforts instead We reward them with better rewards than the best of their deeds in form of improved world order.

[31] They are the ones for whom there will be kingdoms like the Gardens of Eden wherein will flow things of their need and desire like rivers. Thus therein they will be surrounded with things of value and they will be covered in prosperity all year round as if they are covered by clothes made of green silk that shines. That is the high level of dignity they will rise to, what an excellent reward for such people and what a beautiful way they will live.

[32] Share with people this parable in order to help people understand the difference between two ways of life. Once there were two people with two different mindsets and attitudes. To one of them We had given two gardens of grapevines surrounded with palm-trees and put between them land for cultivating crops.

[33] Each of those gardens yielded abundant produce and neither failed to yield its best because We had caused a river to flow between the two gardens.

[34] Because he had abundant produce he said to his fellow man while arguing with him, I am much richer than you and my clan is much mightier than yours.

[35] He had his mindset and attitude based upon rivalry rather than brotherhood so having thus based himself wrongly as regard his outlook on life he entered his garden and said, I do not think that this garden will ever perish

[36] nor do I think the moment will arrive in my life when I am weak and poor and even if I should be referred for judgment according to standard of my Lord, I should be given better than what I already have.

[37] His fellow man replied his argument by saying to him, do you disregard advice of Allah Who brought you about like plants from the earth due to seed and fashioned you into a proper human being?

[38] As far as I am concerned, Allah is the only one Who is my sustainer so I do not live by rule of anyone in His kingdom than His own rule.

[39] So what prevents you from expressing yourself according to that which fulfils program of Allah when you enter your garden, after all none has the power other than Allah! Though you see me lesser than yourself in wealth and children

[40] yet my Lord may enable me to have a garden better than yours and let thunderbolts from sky fall upon your garden turning it into a barren wasteland.

[41] Or its water may dry out and you are unable to find it.

[42] In time it so happened that all his fruit produce was destroyed and the vines tumbled down upon their trellises so he wrung his hands with grief for all that hard work he had put in this was lost. He cried regretting, I wish I had not lived in opposition to the rule of my Lord against concept of community life.

[43] All that because he was against teachings of Allah for helping others despite being unable to avert catastrophe all by himself but then when bad time came for him he could not find help other than from Allah through his community.

[44] It was then that he realized that the real protection comes only from program of Allah for mankind. Working together as a single family according to His program brings best results because it brings abundant prosperity.

[45] O messenger, explain for those who live aimless lives by an example about life of this world. It is like the vegetation of the earth that flourishes with the rain from the heaven but afterwards the same vegetation turns into dry stubble which is blown away by the winds. However living by program of Allah gives mankind power over everything because Allah has set up laws for governing affairs of all things.

[46] The wealth and children are only a short lived attraction for life in this world unless dissentions and rifts are kept at bay among mankind because that prolongs life that is greatly rewarding according to your Lord and acts as foundation bringing hope for better future.

[47] So O mankind, prepare yourselves for the time of that kind of life so that We help you remove the people in positions of power who keep others down through creating divisions so that you could see the socio-political and socio-economic landscape evened out throughout the world. That is how in time We will unite mankind all together as a single community under Our rule leaving not a single person on his own.

[48] Thus they all will be brought under rule of your Lord according to program of your Lord fully organised in classified sections for administration purposes and so it will be made known to them, you have returned to Our rule as We set you up at the beginning yet you assumed that We will not fulfil to you Our this promise.

[49] That is how the rule by the book will be established and you will see those who commit crimes against masses (the people in positions of power) in great terror because of what is in Our book. That is why they will say, bad news for us, what kind of book is this? It left out not a thing needed for mankind to live a beneficial life whether small or large but all is accounted for yet we ignored it! They will find results of all that they did against the book before their very eyes because Your Lord is never unjust to anyone.

[50] Call to mind the time when We said to the chiefs in the land, support Adam as your chief administrator, so all accepted his appointment except Iblees who was one of the elite classes and chose to disregard the commandment of his Lord. Will you then take him and his ilk as your leaders to protect you rather than Me even though they are your enemies? What a bad substitute the opposers of Our guidance have chosen!

[51] I did not call them to witness the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor their own creation, nor do I take those who lead mankind away from My guidance as My supporters.

[52] On the day Our rule becomes established it will be said to them, call on those for help whom you assumed to be My partners in sovereignty of this kingdom. They will call them but will receive no answer. That is how We let animosity arise and increase between them because of harm and destruction they inflict upon each other.

[53] The criminals will see the fire of hatred they themselves have been igniting and realize that they are going to fall victim to it and going to be consumed by it but will find no way to escape.

[54] We have given all kinds of examples in this Qur’an to make the people understand this message yet mankind is exceedingly contentious.

[55] However nothing should stop people from committing to working for peace now that guidance of their Lord has come to them for their protection and prosperity unless they wait for the similar fate that overtook the people of the past or unless they wish to see themselves in terrible painful suffering before they before they realise the truth of this message.

[56] We send Our messengers only to proclaim good news for those who will do good for others and to deliver warnings to those who inflict harm and destruction upon each other but with self defeating arguments the opposers of Our guidance seek to defeat this truth and that is how they take Our set out goals and guidelines and warnings for them for a laugh.

[57] Who is more harmful and destructive than the one who when reminded of the guidelines of his Lord, turns away from them in order to hide what harms his own hands have done to others? We let their arrogance based ignorance be the veil over their minds because they do not bother to understand this Quran and so they have become heedless. Call them all you like towards Our guidance, they will never be guided because they will keep on ignoring Our guidance.

[58] Your Lord is protector of mankind because He is Lord of blissful program for them. Had He seized people instantly for their wrong doings against each other then He would have hastened their consequences without any respite but instead He has set up a respite time after which they can find no refuge.

[59] All those nations whom We let destroy themselves for their own wrongdoings to each other were given respite and a period of time for their own salvation or destruction.

[60] Call to mind when Moses said to his party of supporters, I will not give up making effort until I unite two masses of people fighting each other even if I have to spend ages on this journey.

[61] At last when they reached unity between them both, the length/condition of their life increased/improved as a united community that set itself on a new course of action for the mass of people heading for the same goal of peace and prosperity.

[62] When they had made some progress Moses said to his company, let us refresh ourselves about the program so that our journey for reconciliation turns this program into a reality.

63] One of the party said, you see, since we have based ourselves upon solid foundation, I have noticed that our life has improved, I should never forget this unless the harmful and destructive leadership prevents me from striving according to His program. This program has made possible reconciliation of the masses in a surprising way.

[64] Moses said, that is the state of affairs we were looking for and that is how the divided groups retraced their footsteps back to unity. Thus reversal of process of disunity leads back to unity.

[65] All because they found one of Our subjects whom We blessed with blissful information from Us and whom We gave intelligence from Us for handling various affairs.

[66] Moses requested him, will you let me accompany you for a time so that you let me see how you have been given the wisdom to deal with things properly?

[67] He said, surely but you do not look to me a keen observer

[68] and how can you be a keen observer when you do not yet have the full information about the subject matter under your observation before you respond to the situation?

[69] Moses said, you will surely find me keen observer and I will not interfere in anything you do so long as you do things according to the rule of Allah.

[70] He said, if you insist on accompanying me for mere observation as to how I do things then you are not to interfere with anything I do unless I ask for your help about it myself.

[71] So they set off on a venture till they met a party of people in similar situation broken into factions quarrelling among themselves. Moses said to the leaderships of the factions, you are going to ruin the people of this nation of yours. You have done a very wrong thing.

[72] The wise man said, did I not say that you do not look to me a keen observer?

[73] Moses said, pardon my forgetfulness and please do not hold it against me.

[74] So they carry on their journey till they come across a very energetic man so he gave him a good verbal thrashing or a very critical lecture, Moses said, you have thumped a person with a very critical lecture who has done nothing wrong to anyone. Surely you have done an undesirable thing!

[75] Wise man said, did I not say that you do not look to me a keen observer?

[76] Moses replied, if I interfere in your business again after this then you are under no obligation to keep me in your company and I will have no complain against you.

[77] So they carry on their journey until they reach a people of a township who became divided into two factions and were about to fall into civil war. They asked them for participation in their program to unite them but they tried to refuse them the role of mediators but they did not that is how when they found in that township unity among people falling apart they repaired it by removing the reasons from among them for rifts. The response of Moses to their refusal of their role for mediation was, let them suffer the consequences of their actions if they do not wish to unite.

[78] The wise man replied, this is the parting of company between you and me but first I should explain to you those acts of mine which you could not bear to watch patiently.

[79] As for party of the people quarrelling with each other, it belonged to the very same peaceful community that worked as one mass of people so I decided to remove the rift between them that was caused between them by a king who was keen on taking over every good community through causing rifts and dissentions among them.

[80] As for the energetic man, he was leader of a community who ought to take care of his young and old because they were true followers of divine guidance and we feared lest he harms them due to his harmful and destructive mind set and attitude so we put him in the right frame of mind and attitude.

[81] It was our wish that their Lord should change him for the better for them, a son of community who keeps community free of rifts and keeps them on road to prosperity.

[82] As for the community that was about to fall victim to civil war, it belonged to two individuals contesting for leadership of the community in the township after the death of their community leader because under the umbrella of united community laid great benefit for both the factions. Since their community father was a good leader who kept community free of rifts and dissentions, your Lord desired that these successors of his should raise their thinking level through my help so that they could rediscover their treasure that lies in community life. All this was done by me according to blissful program of your Lord and not as per my own personal desire. That is the explanation of my those actions about which you did not stay out of my business just as an observer with patience.

[83] They will inquire of you about a man who could bring two warring factions of people together (zu al qarnain). Say, let me tell you some things about him.

[84] Indeed We let him establish himself in the land that is how We gave him all things essential for this purpose.

[85] That is why he set himself on a fact finding path

[86] till he arrived in the west whereat he was stopped by the marshes whereby he found a community of people. We said, O Zulqarnain, you have the option either to let these people suffer the consequences of their own actions (leave them to themselves) or to show them kindness by doing something that benefits them.

[87] He said, anyone who commits any crime against others we will put him through due process of a set law for punishment that is how we will refer regarding him to law of his Lord to be punished according to set out law by Him.

[88] As for such who commits to working for peace and acts to remove problems from the community, he will have a reward that brings improvement in the community and that will make it easy for him to accomplish Our mission.

[89] In time after that he set out on another exploration trip

[90] till he arrived in the east whereat he became aware of a community for whom We had not provided any security other than its reliance upon itself.

[91] That is how things should be so he left them as they were, We had full knowledge whatever the task lay before him.

[92] That is why he set out on a yet another expedition

[93] till he arrived among two multitudes of people whereat he found no other people than these two multitudes of people, one of which could hardly be made to understand what was said.

[94] The other people said, O Zulqarnain, people given to loot and warfare have ravaged this land so should we pay you tribute in order for you to build a strong barrier between us and them?

[95] Zul-Qarnain said, the program which my Lord has granted me is more than enough just help me with worker-force to spread it and I will build a strong bridge between you and them.

[96] Bring me pages of the criterion for building a relationship between you. Finally when he had bridged the gap between the two multitudes, he said, keep fanning this relationship to keep it alive. They did so until the standard became well entrenched in their minds then he said, bring me some top people among you so that I could set them on this job of monitoring it as an extra security measure

[97] so that either of the people do not transgress against it or destroy the constitution agreed between them bit by bit.

[98] He said, this is the blissful program from my Lord. That is how when the program of my Lord becomes established throughout the world He will level out all crookedness from the human community. The program of my Lord always proves true.

[99] On that day We will let the people free to surge like waves to merge with one another. That is how we will put a new life into mankind when We will assemble the mankind all together under Our constitution

[100] because We will lay the life of hell bare before the opposers of Our program

[101] who had turned a blind eye to My mission and a deaf ear to My warning.

[102] Do the opposers of My rule think that they can take My subjects as their rulers instead of Me? Certainly We let such opposers of Our guidance prepare for themselves hell for their own entertainment.

[103] O Muhammad say to them, should We tell you the worst kind of losers regarding their deeds?

[104] Those whose all efforts in the life of this world have strayed from the right goal but all along they were under their self created delusion that they were doing good for themselves the while they were inflicting harm on others.

[105] They are the ones who oppose the goal and guidelines of their Lord instead of meeting His requirements therefore their deeds become void of any benefit for mankind so they carry no weight to avert the day of uprising.

[106] Therefore the result of actions of such people is life of pain and suffering because they oppose My rule and because they take My guidelines and My messengers for a laugh.

[107] However those who commit to working for peace and work hard to remove rifts and dissentions from among people they are sure to be entertained in the highly blissful kingdoms

[108] to live therein for as long as they live that way and they will not desire any change in that environment.

[109] Say, program of my Lord will become a reality even if the opposing masses helped each other to eliminate the words of my Lord, the masses will become obsolete long before the words of my Lord even if We helped them with more of the same.

[110] Say, I am a human being just like you but the message is sent to me by Allah to proclaim it to you the mankind that your ruler is only one therefore, whoever wants to meet the guidelines of his Lord, let him take action to remove causes for rifts from among people to unite them and not to take any of the subjects of Allah as sovereigns in his kingdom.

[Mughal1]

Civilisation, how it all happened by Dr David Neiman

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Genesis 1.1 - Cosmology

[Mughal1]

Islam is knowledge based deen and knowledge cannot be obtained unless we understand the importance of language.

Here is how languages came about and developed and continues to develop with time.


The Mechanics of the Ancient Hebrew Vocabulary

The Mechanics of the Ancient Hebrew Vocabulary


My point concerning language is that arabic language is unique among languages today that are in normal use since time long past. Its sister languages have become obsolete. Even hebrew language that came to being along with arabic and aramaic are no longer known other than by experts and hebrew is being reconstructed and the old testament has been obtained from the translations of the original. This is very much obvious if people look into copies of the bible like king james version in english. Therein we can find foot notes telling us a) about lost text in the bible and b) lost meanings of the words. However in copies of later versions of the biblic text has been repaired.

Regardless the study of hebrew language due to being very closely related to arabic gives us muslims insight into development of arabic as well as to how it is supposed to work.

After study one should realise why revelation of the quran was in arabic and not other languages. It is because root system links us to the past or origin of the language and modifications help us keep the language alive and useful for the future.

The special feature of root based languages is that meanings attached to the roots can be modified without losing the original sense because modifications can be explained by reasons without the need for changes in the actual text.

The original meanings given to roots remain unaffected by grammatical changes that modify roots into words for their use in sentences. The roots change into words known as derivatives of roots eg if we take word islam, it is derived from root SEEN, LAAM and MEEM. This root had many derivatives as well as meanings.

These modifications are necessitated by use of a word in a sentence for a set purpose. A word may be used as a noun in a sentence and that has to be either a subject or an object regardless direct or indirect or an adjective. The same happens in case of form ie to indicate singularity or plurality or in case of arabic duality as well. Since sentence must also indicate gender so words must be modified for that reason also eg their masculinity or femininity is to be expressed by the sentence. Likewise there are others reasons for such inflections or modifications. No matter whatever the changes are made in root to form words from it the derived words keep their root meanings or concepts related to roots.

Many people become confused and think root changes meanings with such modifications but it does not.


Ancient Scripts: Regions
Ancient Scripts: Arabic
Arabic Language History
Arabic: root Stems, god wills, inch allah


The main difference between later languages and the ancient languages in terms of words is that older languages used words for their meanings that came about naturally eg word MUM, AMMA for mother etc. It is still baby language ie babies call their mothers mum mum ie supplier for their food. It seems that babies when made this noise the mothers responded and so over a period of time people began to call their feeders mothers. The word became more and more important with time as human race realised role of mother more and more and that is how came about word ummah=meaning mother or nation.

In later languages words are used as labels rather than as naturally occurring purposeful sounds by humans to name things or their actions etc not due to their meanings but just to give things names for example. It is therefore very important point to realise how in original languages words were based upon concrete meanings fit for the purpose. Older languages have become obsolete save arabic language because most languages had not have the reasons to be preserved to stay alive or that they were over run by later civilisations. The importance of words and their real meanings is not realised unless people see the need for it. Since less and less number of people see the need for knowing about language in detail so the problems arose among people on basis of words because of their lack of knowledge about the purpose of language and how it ought to work.

Even hebrew became obsolete and is being reconstructed through help of sister languages like aramaic and arabic etc. In this way if we look at the quran it is a unique book in ancient language that is still spoken and written and understood the same way as it was at the time of its invention. This makes arabic language a unique language in the world today. All this is due to preservation of the quran otherwise arabic as a language was not any better than hebrew for example. Hebrew became obsolete because earlier divine books no longer survived or those who followed them accepted the quran and so there was no need seen to preserve the language for other reasons. Moreover those jews who did not accept islam it was better for them to let go the book they had and its language because otherwise they could not oppose the quran as Toraat was just like the quran only in hebrew language. This is why the quran tells us that jews knew the quran was from same source as toraat because they were identical books with exactly the same purpose and structure in sense of use of language and the message. The present so called toraat is not that God sent toraat but some of our molvies do not know that so they still take the current first five books of bible as toraat. Although old testament's first fives books are not that toraat it is set of books like hadith books attributed to moses and so there is still a lot of similar information in it as there was in the original toraat.

The same is true in case of ZABOOR and INJEEL or any other scriptures given to other messenger eg scriptures given to ibraheem or for that matter to noah.

The other reason the original divine scripture do not exist today is because there were always conspiracies against divine messages and messengers so once followers gave up following the true message scribes could get rid of it because there were not many who wrote copies of those scriptures. Rulers and priests have been together in converting deen in to religion in order to separate state and religious affairs. So separation between state affairs and affairs relating God is not new rather all rebellious people always fought against the divine message as much as they could. Kings ruled over people in the name of country and priests ruled over people in the name of God. That is how we ended up with ideologies and rules and regulations for states and ideologies, rules and regulations for religions. More about this later.

Let us now see what is special about arabic language that all muslims and nonmuslims must know. The special thing about arabic is how its roots have been attached various meanings from which are created words for the language to be used in the sentences. There are four different reasons whereby words are given meanings. a) concrete root meanings that arose through natural sounds b) derived root meanings that lead back to concrete meanings. c) meanings given to words for grammatical reasons so that they fit the sentences and d) meanings given to words that are used as labels for names of things or their actions.

Let us take root SEEN, LAAM and MEEM. This three letter combination is called root or MAADA. In this case the root has various meanings eg peace, safety, security, tranquillity, rest, completeness, submission, commitment, acceptance, ladder, staircase, give up, give in, surrender, receive, free from obstacle or problem or trouble, hand over, resign and the list of meanings keeps going on.

The question is, when a word has so many meanings does it then not become difficult to understand the message? My answer is that it does not because whatever we say, we say it in a context so people who send and receive messages they can make sense of them due to presence of a context and a purpose in the message. It is because people ignore the purpose and the context of the message that they make a mess of the quranic message when they translate it. The quran cannot be translated on word for word basis because we may not be sure of the purpose and context of the message at a time or that we may not be able to find words for words that could replace each other 100%. This is why the religions that have lost original scriptures in original languages and try to reconstruct them through translations cannot do so. Therefore the quran has the huge advantage over other scriptures that are no longer in original languages or in original text and word structures.

This is why no matter how hard jews try to reconstruct hebrew bible it is never going to be like original unless they seek help from the quran but then if they do that why not just follow the quran instead?

Let me now draw attention to word roots and their meanings. Roots in actual fact do not have different meanings but it appears that they do. Why? Because original meaning is driven home each time when we apply the so called other meanings through explanations. Let me explain this by means of an example. ROOT SLM has various meanings as explained under root SEEN, LAAM and MEEM. The very basic purpose behind any root meaning is to get things in that state of being or take action to make something to be in that state of being. The basic meaning of root slm is state of rest ie no disturbance. The root combination is used for different purposes in a sentence ie we derive various words from it in order to use them in a grammatical sentence. This means we use words as names and if they are names then they are either subjects in a sentence or they are direct or indirect objects. Other variations occur because we want to show various forms eg singular, plural and in case of arabic duality as well. The other reason for change is to show gender difference eg masculinity or femininity. Then there is variation to show tenses eg simple, participle and past participle ie to show past, present or future as well as how complete the being is or the action is. All these variations to root are called inflections or derivatives of root or its variations. Other than that as explained the basic meanings of roots do not change due to derivatives ie slm root sticks to its meaning peace or rest no matter whatever the derivatives.

For example, take the derivative salam=ladder, the question is, what does word ladder mean? It means means to an end which is peace or rest because once ladder is put in place to do something and after you have completed the set out task you will be at rest nothing more to do in this regard so you are in peace. ASLAM, submit= once the person has submitted the rest state is achieved and so the task set out is complete. So one can see how no matter what the meanings we give to seen, laam and meem root the end result is always peace and rest. It is because the things is at rest ie in state of rest or action is taken by some one or something to get it in state of rest or it is gotten into state of rest by action of some one or something. So one can see how object is or is made to be in relation to root sml. This is why those who do not understand how arabic language actually works get confused about understanding the quran. This is main reason some people argue word islam means peace and others say it means submission. neither realise that end result of both the meanings is same ie peace and rest ie no disturbance or trouble.

It should also be realised that unless one understand this idea very clearly one is unlikely to understand why the quranic text can be given different meanings and such person should never translate the quran and even if any does his translation is not likely to be correct. Most objections are why muslims keep changing translations of the quran? The answer is simple that even though God is perfect and so is his message but understanding of humans is neither perfect nor can it ever be. Humans are creatures created to be able to learn so if they were born already knowing everything, why would they need divine guidance? Moreover if they were born totally ignorant and not capable of learning then why would they need guidance when they could not benefit from that? This is why the quran is the way it is and people are the way they are and through step by step interaction things improve from human standpoint ie knowledge of people about things changes with time and effort and that is why you did not see things when you grew up as you did when you were a baby. You kept changing your ideas about things because new information about things kept forcing you to change your opinion about things. This also knocks out the objection that if the quran is perfect word of God why it needs people to explain it. It is because God is already knowing things so he makes statements based upon his knowledge therefore they are as tyhey should be but people have yet to learn things about which he is talking to them so as they learn things they keep on changing their opinions about word of God till they know better or find the God intended meanings of words. All this is natural and those who discourage study of the quran or start fighting over differences of opinion are stupid. It is because they do not realise the purpose of the quran. Its purpose is to educate people through their own individual efforts by way of their interaction with it like children interact with their parents and society and rest of things in their own environment in order to learn things step by step just like interaction between parents and children. Parents tell kids something and when kids understand that much then they are told next things and then the next. The quran being the last message of God for humanity it contain all that people will ever need for their guidance. These are very fundamental points that people ignore when they read the quran but if they ignore these points then they are unlikely to know what the quran is all about.

The real advantage of the root system is ability of the text based on this system to be understood correctly at all times without the need for change in the actual text with time. What does this mean? It means the quranic text can never be proven wrong. It is because the text based on root has the ability to change the meanings to give rise to different concepts to readers according to their individual ability of understanding things.

Why the quran needed to be like that? It is because the quran needed to be understood at the time it was revealed as well as till the end of the time. The quran is fixed in its text and concepts because it is word of God but people who read the quran are not Gods and they are born knowing nothing and they keep on learning and so their understanding of things changes with time and growth of their life experience and thereby knowledge so this idea takes care of all such variable factors. Showing clearly the uniqueness of arabic and quran combination as well as how divine revelation and human reason go hand in hand.

Unless people learn to use the quran this way the quran will prove useless for them no matter what.

I will keep on explaining concepts individually till I bring them all together to show how they work together without any problem.


Now coming to language itself, it is a very complex issue and has various aspects eg we can have sign language, spoken language or written language. It has symbols representing sounds or signs which we give name letters. Each language has its own set of alphabet. These letters are brought together to represent sounds or signs we take for words.

We use phrases, clauses and sentences to represent spoken words.

grammar therefore is a field of knowledge which tries to make sense of how people make sounds or signs and use language and what do they mean by them. Therefore we categorise these for various reasons eg we group words in to nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, determiners, prepositions etc. This tells us about functions of words in our speech.

The other thing is we break down parts of speech into phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs etc. This helps us define parts of speech for various reasons eg to determine meanings for words in state of action and in state of inaction. All actions are time bound hence the need for definitions because some actions complete, other do not and yet others keep going etc etc.

All this when it is reduced to writing, we come up with loads of punctuation marks to indicate how words were used in speech in order to convey the moods for example or pauses and stoppages etc.

Going back to grouping of words, it becomes a very complex thing as we open up each of the elements in the group eg take nouns for example, there are various reason why we group them in to subgroups eg we group words used as nouns for ideas or for actual things so we call them abstract nouns and concrete nouns. This helps us to know whether we are talking about solid objects or mere concepts. For example, word chemistry is categorised as an abstract noun and word used for labelling an object eg word chair is categorised as a concrete noun. This tells us one noun is merely a label for an idea because we cannot touch chemistry because chemistry is not an object. On the other hand word chair is a concrete noun because we have an object and we want to label it by a word.

Likewise we name things for lots of different reasons so we end up with lots of different kinds of nouns or categories of nouns.eg pronouns, common nouns, collective nouns, proper nouns, genitive nouns, title nouns, numeral nouns, compound nouns, simple nouns and I can go on and on.

We categorise nouns origin wise, complexity wise, tangibility wise, gender wise, number wise, countability wise, usage wise etc etc.

Same when we come to breaking down of sentences in to groups. We categorise verbs on basis of whether these words are used in sentences or are they on their own. On their own they are in there indefinite form or infinite form. However when they are used in sentences then they are broken down in to four basic forms eg simple form, continuous form, perfect form and perfect continuous form. In various grammar books these categories are named differently but they mean the same thing.

These four categories are further divided in to groups on basis of time eg past, present and future. So we end up saying past simple, present simple and future simple eg I went, I go, I will go sort of thing.

Coming to sentence constructions, we have grouping based upon nature of sentences ie polarity wise sentences are either negative or positive, structure wise they are responsive, interjective or informative. combination wise they are simple, compound, complex and compound complex. Mood wise they are imperative, interrogative, declarative and subjunctive and so on.

A sentence could have various constructions eg

1)subject+predicate
2)subject+predicate+object
3)subject +predicate+adverbial
4)subject+predicate+object+adverbial
5)subject+verb+indirect object+object
6)subject+verb+object+indirect object
7)subject+verb+predicate
8)subject+verb+object+predicate

and so on.

Each language has its own construction and structuring of sentences but the basic ideas remains the same.

The complexities of grammar very clearly show that it is not the grammatical rules that decide the meanings of the words but that we are simply trying to decode them in to grammatical rules the way they are spoken or used and that is when we find that not all uses of a language fit a grammatical category so we have exceptions to rules of grammar.

This is like we are walking along and we come across a space ship in a field and then we try and investigate what it is, where it has come from and how it might work etc etc. It is same problem as why we are here if you like. When we were born we saw people talking and we just wanted to make things a bit understandable so lots of our works are only and only for that reason and cannot be taken 100% decided. We are simply trying to come up with ideas and see which one can take us further than we already are. This is how language experts decode ancient languages meaning wise and we see that they make sense so we accept their explanations as proofs.

So I would not discourage anyone from trying whatever comes to one's mind instead I would encourage it because one of us may be able to help us further our understanding of things from where we stand.

So please encourage each other and we will all be fine. Remember rome was not built in a day so we should keep up the good work for better understanding of things.

[Mughal1]

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I think analysis about islam and quran cannot be as effective as it could be unless it is clarified on basis of some solid foundation. Muslim community as a whole is in a terrible confusion regarding what islam is really based upon.

All muslims think is that islam is based upon quran and hadith and that is it. This is the cause of confusion. The reason is they discount the individual and his brain or the active agent. So long as people do not take human ability to reason as basis for thought process, confusion will remain.

Let me try and explain the fundamental basis for any argument in relation to brain and information. Brain is nothing without information to process. You cannot argue against that if you do you not only lack education but thinking ability also, in fact your ignorance is worst than animals because having brain and not realising even this much of the reality throws one out of fold of humanity.

The information is useless unless it is processed by a processing agent. Again one cannot argue with that unless one is brain dead.

So this establishes relationship between a human and the information a human comes across to process. Again no argument is possible against this reality.

The brain is all about having information, reasoning it out and then storing it back in to its memory for recalling it when prompted as and when the need be.

The brain learns how to work on any information it gets throughout its life time. The information normally comes to brain through senses and senses get information from within the environment one finds oneself in through interaction with other existing things within the environment.

This builds human confidence in one's own abilities and helps one find out what one can or cannot be or what one can or cannot do.

Only a stupid person would deny life experiences and take on make beliefs that have no basis whatsoever. This is why nothing should be believed that contradicts reasonable realities. Anyone who believes anything against verifiable realities is as good as brainless.

It is important to distinguish between realities and ideas that contradict them and the ideas that are obviously not known realities themselves but they do not contradict the accepted realities either. In short such ideas may be realities but we can neither verify them nor deny them.

To understand this explanation is necessary for proper understanding of islam that depends upon proper understanding of the quran and the hadith which in turn depend upon rules of wisdom or judgement. It shows very clearly that basis for human reasoning is brain and the quran and the realities it talks about need to be understood in the context explained.

The reason is, if we knew everything all by ourselves then we needed no guidance of any sort of anyone including our parents and teachers or trainers and even God. It is because if you already are born fully aware of all things then why would you need anyone to guide you? This is very important point to realise.

The other point is, if we were born ignorant and incapable of learning then again the question is, why would we need any guidance of anyone when we could not make any use of it at all due to being incapable of doing that?


The way the world exists and the way we humans exist, it shows the whole thing works together ie we are placed in an environment to interact within it with whatever we find in there. This much should be clear to anyone who has ever thought about things.

This means there are things for which we need guidance and there are things we can find out for ourselves. However all is put together in such a way that one thing is useless without the other. This is why each thing that exists has a role to play in this world like actors in a movie play different characters. Here God has a role and man has a role and other things have their roles to fulfil in order to make the whole thing work as a one complete unit. In other words things complement each other for a set purpose.

We therefore cannot put each and everything to do in role of God and sit tight ourselves absolved of all responsibilities whatsoever. This is why unless we read the quran and understand various roles properly we will remain confused and dangerous. Stupidity only leads to painful suffering and that is where we are ie in a lot of pain and suffering as a nation. I wonder when we are going to educate ourselves to be proper human beings the quran wants us to be.

This very basic explanation should make clear to us we have our roles to play and the quran and hadith also have their roles and we need to be sensible enough to take advantage of that.

The quran can never be understood without knowing the rules of wisdom and realities of real life in the real world. So people should make effort to try and learn the quran properly so that they could benefit from that learning otherwise stupid people are destined for painful suffering and no one can save them from that not even God himself. It is because God has assigned them a role to play so there is no escape. We cry all we like to God this is not going to help. When a mother potty trains a child if she was not basing it upon discipline then child will never learn how to use toilet. Just thinking crying will save us from trouble is utterly stupid instead we should be learning ways to get out of the troubles we get ourselves in or stay away from them in the first place is the lesson of the quran.

Unless people realise what is proof and what is proving and how it all works, they can argue all they like but can never reach any satisfactory conclusion.

The very idea that my claims are true because I can back them up from the quranic and the hadith texts is seriously flawed because it does not work. Had it been sufficient then we would not have had so many sects in muslim ummah. This means mere names of the quran and hadith are not guaranty of correct quranic interpretation rather something is needed to based the quran and hadith upon that makes sense because it works. So what is that basis?

Anyone who argues to prove a claim yet knows not what proof and proving is or how a claim is proven can keep on arguing and nothing will be established at the end of the day.

This is where our mullahs and professors fail us very badly. It is time we stopped being silly and went for things that really matter and not for things that waste time.

The issue discussed here becomes very simple once anyone can answer the question of proof and proving. It is because deciding the basis for argument is vital not the detail. You cannot build a building without any solid basis. The truth is only true because it can be proven true and not because of our make beliefs.

The very foundation upon which is based the quran is unknown to us muslims and that is why we are in the situation that we are.

The real problem is understanding the role of the quran, the hadith and the fiqh in islam. We need to ask ourselves what is the purpose of the quran, what is the purpose of the hadith and what is the purpose of the fiqh or jurisprudence?

The question that helps understand things in their proper context is, what is islam? Once we realise what islam is then we can clearly see the role for each of the said things. Islam is goal set by Allah for the mankind through his message in form of the quran via his final messenger. The quran is the divine manifesto or program from Allah for the mankind to learn and teach each other and if people like the program then they come together and form a good human society basing it on the quran as its constitution.

The quran is constitution because it is word of the sole sovereign of this universe. Allah alone is king therefore only and only his word is law and not of any other person be one a prophet of Allah. This should leave no doubt in anyone's mind that quran has a unique place in islam for muslims ie people who are committed to live peacefully themselves and are duty bound to spread the very same message worldwide to rest of humanity.

People make a huge mistake when they attach hadith or fiqh with the quran in a wrong way. Hadith is mainly not word of Allah but a report about word or deed of the prophet or his companions. The report simply tells its reader about what the prophet said or did or what his companions said or did. It is like a newspaper telling on day to day things that happened at the time in that society or among those people. In these reports we find how prophet understood the divine message and implemented it by using the quran as basis for his society at the time under his circumstances and situations. Therefore the importance of hadith is that it tells us the way the divine messenger did things and not what he did in his time unless it is relevant to later times. Why? Because we live in a world that changes with time therefore circumstances change and situations change so not everything the prophet said or did remains relevant for all times. Only those things that remain relevant for all times and apply to situations and circumstances that still keep occurring that remain relevant other than that all things are time bound, circumstance bound or situation bound so trying to fit everything everywhere or trying to apply everything everywhere is utterly stupid thing to do and this is especially terrible if a muslim does that because he is supposed to be a learned man ie man of wisdom. If a man is educated by God who is wise acts ignorantly and worse than animals, how will that reflect on his educator God? So anyone who claims to be a muslim and yet acts stupid must think many times over as to what one is uttering or doing.

This helps to know what was told by Allah in the quran and how people including the prophet accomplished what they were told. From this muslims can derive some helpful ideas or clues as to how to use quran for their own circumstances and situations just like the prophet and his companion used it for their time.

Fiqh is also important in a similar way that we can learn how muslims throughout times acted according to their understanding of the quran and the hadith.

Just as prophet and his companions had to improvise things so did later muslims and so there is need for present muslims to follow the quran and the hadith the same way.

This is proper context of the whole thing, which shows clear relationship between all important sources of islam. One can clearly see that the quran sets clear limits as to how to form laws with a set purpose in mind ie to accomplish and maintain freedom, justice, fairness, compassion, brotherhood, peace, progress and prosperity within the muslim society. In islam the purpose of law is not to control people but to regulate the society for the set purpose of peace=islam. So any laws that oppress, suppress, cause injustice, unfairness, cruelty, animosity, regression, poverty and therefore trouble in muslim society are unislamic laws.

In time of prophet, the prophet himself and his companions used to solve their facing problem through mutual consultation in light of given quranic guidelines and so did later muslims and so should muslims of today. This must always be remembered by members of this ummah otherwise we will be shooting ourselves in the foot. Unfortunately that is what we have been doing so far and the result of doing that is in front of our own eyes that we have no respect in the world and we have no respect for each other. Time for us to change all that. Wake up and look at real world stop living in the imaginary world of your own.

Times change things change therefore situations change and circumstances change therefore to form new laws becomes a necessity all the time. This is why the divine constitution is given with values and formulae to give us ability to form laws as we need them rather than giving us list of laws. Start learning the quran and hadith properly showing that you have the brains the quran and hadith need for their proper understanding.

Taking hadith or fiqh laws as permanent is therefore right in some sense but wrong in another sense. All laws are permanent in the sense of their existence once they are formed but their application or use depends on situations and circumstances. No law is applicable at all the times under all the circumstances and in all situations.

Once people understand this basic context all differences between people will disappear that are based on misunderstadning of role of sources of islam.

The other differences are due to true and false information. It is accepted by all sects of muslims that not all so called ahadith are actually ahadith because many of them are false and many have other defects that do not allow them to reach set standards for their authenticity. Much more of that nature is true in case of fiqh books. All this came about due to sudden expansion of islam and lack of coping with it by muslims at the time. This resulted in people with ulterior motives join muislim ranks for their own agendas and therefore such information made its way in to islamic sources as was in fact anti islam eg jews who turned to islam were not all smart nor sincere so they spread their nonsense in guise of islam ie their ideas and traditions. The christians who accepted islam did the same and so did parsees and hindus or pagans etc etc. All brought their own baggages with them and slowly turned muslims like themselves instead understanding islam properly and spreading it, accomplishing it and maintaining it. This is why islamic empire that was build by the prophet did not last for long because later muslims did not work as hard to keep it alive as the prophet himself did.

This is why if people sorted out things properly then we will have pure islam that prophet himself implemented with help of his companions at the time.

As all islamic laws were and are made for a set purpose in mind due to certain situations and circumstances that face people at any given time under a set of circumstances therefore no law applies to anyone or anything unless those very situations and circumstances are present.

In context of the above explanation people can decide whether anything they fight over today is relevant or not or if it is then how much of it is relevant and how much should be left alone. The quran does not tell us any list of laws but just values and rules for formation of laws which muslims must make themselves with consultation looking at what is going on around the world and within muslim society. It is utterly stupid to make willy nilly laws then try to live by them which make a mess of the whole thing called islam and make muslims as awhole the laughing stock for the world.

Most translations of the quran are wrong and they are wrong because people who translated the quran failed to understand concepts the quran teaches. So the understandings of the quranic text that are based upon misconceptions are not going to be helpful to begin with. This problem can only be removed by producing a proper contextualised and conceptualised translation that is more of an explanation rather than word for word translation. It is because words do not have exact equivalents in other languages so they need to be explained rather than being replaced by another word that makes no sense. Not only that but is also a matter reading the mind of God and at best we can only try this is why no matter what no translation or interpretation is word of God but all are human works and so they should be treated as such. In other words don't put your own words in mouth of God or in other words don't be stupid be wise.

Ummah must take this major step in trying to understand the quran properly if it is ready to unite all its members. Otherwise there is no chance for peace even within muslim unmmah so world has to wait till we sort out our self created problems.