- A revelation of the Scripture is from God—the Almighty, the Wise (39:1). Indeed, We have sent down to you the scripture with the truth, so worship God, being sincere to Him in the religion (39:2). No doubt, to God belongs the pure religion. And those who have taken protectors other than Him say, ‘We do not worship them except that they may bring us near to God in nearness.’ Indeed, God will judge between them in what they had been differing in it. Indeed, God does not guide whoever is a liar, an extreme disbeliever (39:3).
Note: God has sent down every scripture with the truth to worship Him being sincere to Him in His religion as the perfect one which belongs to Him, and on a day of the Judgment He will be Protector of those who have practiced His religion being sincere to Him according to His Word.
- If God had intended to take a son, He could have chosen from what He creates whomever He wills. Glory be to Him! He is God—the One, the Supreme (39:4). He created the heavens and the earth with the truth. He rolls the night over the day, and rolls the day over the night. And He has subjected the sun and the moon, each running for a specified term. Undoubtedly, He is the Almighty, the Forgiving (39:5).
Note: God is Creator and Sovereign over all things and it is not befitting for Him to have a son except blasphemy, while He has created the heavens and the earth, and rolls the night over the day and rolls the day over the night as well has committed the sun and the moon to run for a specified term.
- He has created you from one soul, then He has made its mate from it. And He has sent down for you eight mates of livestock. He creates you in your mothers’ bellies, creation after creation, in three darknesses. That is God your Lord; to Him belongs the dominion. There is no god except He. Then how are you turned away? (39:6)?
Note: He has created us from a single soul to worship Him as there is no other deity for us other than Him that we may be appreciative to Him.
- If you disbelieve, then indeed God is free of need from you. And He does not like ungratefulness for His servants; and if you are grateful, He likes it for you, while no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another. Then to your Lord is your return, when He will inform you of what you had been doing. Indeed, He is Knower of what is in the breasts (39:7). And when an adversity has touched the human being, he has called his Lord, turning to Him; then when He has granted him a favor from Himself, he has forgotten what he had been calling to Him for before, and has set up rivals to God to lead astray from His path. Say, “Enjoy your disbelief for a while; indeed, you are of the companions of the Fire.”
(39:8).
Note: Disbelievers being ungrateful to their Lord misguide them leading to be the dwellers of the Fire while the believers being grateful to their Lord guide them leading to be the dwellers of Paradise.
- Is he whoever – a devotee to hours of the night prostrating and standing in fearing the Hereafter and expecting a mercy of his Lord? Say, “Are those who know and those who do not know equal?” Only possessors of the understanding will take heed (39:9). Say, “O My servants who have believed, fear your Lord. For those who have done good in this world is good, and the earth of God is spacious. Only the steadfast will be paid their reward without counting.” (39:10).
Note: Possessors of the intelligence take heed while they believe and fear God and do good deeds. These are the steadfast who are paid back of their reward in full. Here is a reference that we should engage ourselves in study of the Quran as mush as we can to aquire knowledge from it.
- Say, “Indeed, I have been commanded that I worship God, being sincere to Him in the religion.”
(39:11). And I have been commanded that I should be the first of the submitters.” (39:12). Say, “Indeed, I fear, if I have disobeyed my Lord, the punishment of a great day.” (39:13). Say, “God I worship, being sincere to Him in my religion.” (39:14).”
Note: The prophet was commanded to worship God being sincere to Him in the religion as a submitter (Muslim) as well as not to be disobedient of his Lord, and the expression “innani-i or indeed me” indicates the commandment to be associated with prophet’s life time activities like reciting the Quran to his contemporaries, and he had obeyed His Lord what he was commanded to do. However, this command was for every one who had believed with him as well as every submitter down the generations.
- So, worship whatever you have willed other than Him. Say, “Indeed, the losers are those who have lost their souls and their families on the Day of Resurrection.” No doubt, that — it is the clear loss. (39:15).For them from above them are coverings of the Fire and from below them are coverings. With that God threatens His servants. O My servants, so fear Me (39:16). And those who have avoided the false deities lest they worship them, and have turned to God—for them is the good news. So, give good news to My servants (39:17). Those who listen to the Word, then they follow the best of it; those are whom God has guided; those—they are possessors of understanding (39:18). Is he then upon whom the word of punishment has proven true—can you then save whoever is in the Fire? (39:19). But those who have feared their Lord—for them are rooms, built above them are rooms, underneath them the rivers flow; a promise of God—God does not break the promise (39:20).
Note: The losers are those who worship other than God or they do whatever they wish to do, while the winners are those who fear God and avoid the false deities as well as listen and follow the word of God (Quran) given to them.
- Have you not seen that God has sent down water from the sky, then He has made it flow as springs in the earth; then He produces with it crop of various colors; then it withers so that you see it turned yellow; then He makes it debris? Indeed, in that is surely a reminder for possessors of understanding (39:21). Is he then upon whom God has expanded his breast to the Submission—so he is upon a light from his Lord? So, woe to those whose hearts are hardened against the remembrance of God; those are in an obvious straying (39:22).
Note: God has extended the hearts of those who possess intelligence for Submission (Islam) having a light upon them from Him while woe to those who are in far astray for the hardening of their hearts from remembrance of God.
- God has sent down the best Hadith: a scripture consistent to each other. The skins of those who fear their Lord shiver from it, then their skins and their hearts soften to God’s message. That is God’s guidance; He guides with it whomever He wills. And whomever God lets go astray, then there is no guide for him (39:23). Is he then who shields with his face the worst punishment on the Day of Resurrection? And it has been said to the wrongdoers, “Taste what you had been doing.” (39:24). Those who were before them have denied, so the punishment has come to them from wherever they did not perceive (39:25).So, God made them taste disgrace in the life of the world; and surely, the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they had been knowing (39:26).
Note: God has given us the best word in the Quran to be guided reflecting to His reminder, while denying in it will impose the worst situation on a day of the Resurrection including humiliation in the life of the world.
- And indeed, we have set forth for the people in this – the Quran of every example that they may take heed (39:27). An Arabic quran, without any crookedness, so that they may be righteous (39:28). God has set forth an example: a man with whom are disputing partners, and a man exclusive to one man. Are they both equal in comparison? All praise — belongs to God; nay, most of them do not know (39:29). Indeed, you (prophet) will be dead, and indeed, they will be dead (39:30). Then indeed you, on the Day of Resurrection, will be differing before your Lord (39:31). Then who is more wicked than whoever has lied about God and has denied the truth when it had come to him? Is there not in Hell an abode for the disbelievers? (39:32) And the one who has come with the truth and has believed in it – those, they are the righteous (39:33). For them is whatever they wish with their Lord. That is the recompense of the good-doers (39:34). That God may remit from them the worst of what they have done and recompense them their reward with the best of what they had been doing (39:35).
Note: God has placed every kind of example in the Quran in which there is no crookedness that we may reflect to become righteous. Those who believed and brought the truth on a day of the Resurrection will be compensated with the best while the disbelievers who lied about God and denied in the truth will be in Hell.
- Has not God been sufficient for His servant? And they threaten you with those other than Him; and whomever God lets go astray, then there is no guide for him (39:36). And whomever God guides, then there is no misleader for him. Has God not been Almighty, Possessing Retribution? (39:37). And if you had asked them, ‘Who created the heavens and the earth?’ they will surely say, ‘God.’ Say, “Have you then seen what you call other than God? If God has intended harm for me, are they removers of His harm? Or if He has intended mercy for me, are they withholders of His mercy?” Say, “God is sufficient for me; upon Him put trust those who trust.”(39:38). Say, “O my people, work according to your position; indeed, I am working, so you will soon know (39:39). Upon whom will come a punishment that disgraces him, and there descends upon him an everlasting punishment.” (39:40).
Note: God guides whomever He wills while He misguides whomever He wills. He is Grantor of His mercy while He also withholds His mercy from whomever He wills. Thus, He is sufficient for His servant, and we all should put trust in Him and should avoid any threat by anyone or anything from this world or from His creations.
- Indeed, We have sent down upon you the scripture for the people with the truth. So whoever is guided, then [it is] for his soul; and whoever goes astray, then he only goes astray against it. And you are not over them a guardian (39:41). God takes the souls at the time of their death, and those [souls] which did not die in their sleep. Then He retains the one upon which He has decreed death, and sends the other for a specified term. Indeed, in that are surely signs for a people who reflect (39:42). Or have they taken intercessors other than God? Say, “Even if they do not possess anything, nor do they understand?” (39:43). Say, “To God belongs the intercession entirely. To Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. Then to Him you will be returned.” (39:44).
Note: Quran has the truth for us to guide or misguide while God takes our souls two times when death comes to us as well as during our sleep but He returns the souls of those who do not die at their sleep confirming that the intercession belongs to God to whom we will be returned. Thus, the concept of intercession on the day of the Resurrection/Judgment by Jesus and Muhammad around us is a myth or misconception introduced by tradition.
- And when God alone is mentioned, shrink with aversion the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter; and when those other than Him are mentioned, at once they rejoice (39:45). Say, “O God, Originator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, You will judge between Your servants in what they had been differing in it.” (39:46). And if that for those who have done wrong belonged whatever is in the earth entirely and the like of it with it, surely they would ransom with it from the evil of the punishment on the Day of the Resurrection; and there will appear to them from God what they had not been taking into account (39:47). And there appeared to them the evils of what they earned, and there surrounded them what they had been mocking at it (39:48).
Note: Those who have corrupt their faith will face punishment on a day of the Resurrection with a warning that no ransom will be accepted from them, and no matter what they had done being religious observant, while the traditional Muslims around the world has corrupted their faith by adding the names of Muhammad and Ali to the God given shahaadah, laa-ilaaha illaa allah as well as believing intercession in His judgment system.
- So when adversity has touched the human, he has called Us; then when We have granted him a favor from Us, he said, ‘I have only been given it upon knowledge.’ Nay, it is a test, but most of them do not know (39:49). Indeed, said it those from before them, so not availed them what they had been earning (39:50). So struck them the evils of what they earned; and those who have done wrong from these, will strike them the evils of what they earned, and they are not those who can escape (39:51).
Note: Those who have done evils being the foul-weather friends that will struck them what they have earned and there no escape from God at their meeting with Him.
- Do they not know that God extends the provision for whomever He wills and restricts? Indeed, in that are surely signs for a people who believe (39:52). Say, “O My servants, those who have transgressed against their souls, do not despair of the mercy of God. Indeed, God forgives the sins entirely. Indeed, He—He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.” (39:53). And turn to your Lord and submit to Him before that comes to you the punishment; then you will not be helped (39:54).
Note: Those who committed horrendous crimes but if they repent to God and reform thereafter before the punishment comes to them, i. e, the death, God has promised to forgive their all sins.
- And follow the best of what has been sent down to you from your Lord before that comes to you the punishment suddenly, while you do not perceive (39:55), Lest says a soul, “Oh, my regret over what I neglected in the side of God, and indeed I had been surely among the mockers.” (39:56). Or says, ‘If that God had guided me, surely I would have been among the righteous.”
(39:57). Or says when it sees the punishment, “If that I had a return, then I would be among the good-doers.” (39:58). - Yes; certainly there had come to you My revelations, then you had denied them and had been arrogant and had been among the disbelievers (39:59). And on a Day of the Resurrection, you will see those who had lied against God, their faces blackened. Is there not in Hell an abode for the arrogant? (39:60). And God delivers those who had feared by their success. Not will touch them the evil, nor will they grieve (39:61).
Note: The arrogant are those who denied in God’s revelations while they cannot avoid miserable suffering in Hell on a day of the Resurrection while those who feared Him will be saved with their compensation so that no evil will touch them nor will they grieve.
- God is the Creator of everything, and He is over everything a Guardian (39:62). To Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth. And those who have disbelieved in the revelations of God, those—they are the losers (39:63).
- Say, “Say, “Is it then other than God you order me I worship, O you the ignorant ones?” (39:64). And certainly, it has been inspired to you and to those who were from before you, “Surely if you have associated partners, surely will become worthless your deed, and surely you will be among the losers.” (39:65). Nay, God so worship and be among the grateful ones (39:66). And they have not appraised God truth of His appraisal; while the earth entirely will be His Grip on a Day of the Resurrection, and the heavens will be folded in His Right Hand. Glory be to Him—and He is exalted so High from what they associate (39:67).
Note: God has warned the prophet not to nullify his deeds listening to the idol worshipers, while those who associate partners with God are not able to appraise God as He should be appraised as they cannot comprehend how high His position is.
- “And it has been blown in the trumpet, then have fallen dead whoever is in the heavens and whoever is in the earth except whom God wills. Then it has been blown in it another time, and behold, they are standing, looking on (39:68). And the earth has shone with the light of its Lord, and the record has been placed, and has been brought the prophets and the witnesses, and has been judged between them with the truth; and they are not wronged (39:69). And has been paid in full every soul for what it had done, and He is best Knower of what they do (39:70). And there has been driven those who had disbelieved to Hell in groups until when they have come to it, there has been opened its gates and said to them its guards, “Did not come to you messengers from you reciting to you the revelations of your Lord and warning you of the meeting of this Day of yours?” They said, “Yes, but there has been justified the word of the punishment upon the disbelievers.” (39:71). It had been said, “Enter the gates of Hell, being dwellers in it.” So has been wretched the abode of the arrogant (39:72). And there has been driven those who had feared their Lord to the Paradise in groups until when they have come to it, and there have been opened its gates and said to them its guards, “Peace be upon you, you have been good; so enter it being dwellers forever.” (39:73). They said, “All praise is to God, Who has fulfilled for us His promise and has made us inherit the earth; we may settle from the Paradise wherever we wish. So has been excellent the reward of the workers.” (39:74). And you will see the angels surrounding from around the Throne, glorifying with the praise of their Lord. And has been judged between them with the truth, and has been said, “All praise is to God, Lord of the worlds.” (39:75).
Note: The event of the Resurrection will start when it will be blown in the trumpet second time followed by the first time. The records will be made known to everyone and the judgment will be done between His servants with truth and justice. Those who disbelieved have been driven to Hell in groups for abiding therein forever while those who feared their Lord have been driven to Paradise in groups for abiding therein forever being greeted by its guards.
Summary
- A revelation from God to worship Him being sincere to Him in the religion belongs to Him.
- God is Creator and Sovereign who created us from a single soul to worship Him alone.
- The prophet obeyed God as commanded to worship Him being sincere to Him in His religion.
- It is not befitting for God to have a son except blasphemy being He is Sovereign over all things.
- Believers guide them to be grateful while disbelievers mislead them to be ungrateful to Him.
- Possessors of the intelligence take heed while they believe and fear God and do good deeds.
- The losers worship other than God while the winners fear God and avoid the false deities.
- Possessors of the intelligence reflect as well as listen and follow the word of God (Quran).
- God has extended hearts of possessors of the intelligence for Islam having a light upon them.
- Quran is described to be the best Hadith being consistent to each other wherein is set forth every kind of example to be righteous.
- God is sufficient for all of His servants while He has revealed the Quran with the truth.
- God takes our souls two times when death comes to us and also during our sleep but He returns the souls of those who do not die at their sleep.
- He has confirmed us that all the intercession belongs to Him to whom we all will be returned.
- He has warned of the evil behavior of a people in the event of mentioning God alone to them.
- No escape for the foul weather friends while everyone has opportunity to have God’s mercy.
- Every soul can avoid punishment if it follows best of what has been revealed from its Lord.
- The prophet has been warned about the consequence, if he worships associating partners with God.
- Those who associate partners with God cannot appraise Him as He should be appraised.
- The event of Resurrection will start by blowing in the trumpet 2nd time followed by the 1st time.
- Records will be made known and His servants will be judged with the truth and the justice.
- The disbelievers will be driven in groups to Hell for abiding therein forever while the righteous will be driven in groups to Paradise for abiding therein forever being greeted by its guards.
- Upon the judgment has been issued, it has been said: “All praise to God, Lord of the worlds.”
Surah al-Zumar (The Groups) describes how the final Judgment will be done specifying compensation of eternal abode for both losers and winners, while the losers will be driven to Hell in groups and the winners will be driven to Paradise in groups as well but we do not see the presence of intercession in His judgment system what we hear from the ignorant people and the scholars around us.
Peaceful Friday, salaam and God bless.
Tafazzal (11/29/2019).