A Spiritual Swelling Up - The Concluding Ayahs of Surat Al-Tawbah - Kamil Omar - AlJumuah Magazine

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/ November 11, 2015
A Spiritual
Swelling Up: The
Concluding
Ayahs of Surat
Al-Tawbah |
Kamil Omar
BY AJ E DI TOR( H T T P: //A L JU MU A H .C OM/A U T H OR /A JED IT OR /)
http://aljumuah.com/aspiritualswellinguptheconcludingayahsofsurataltawbahkamilomar/
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Two Attitudes
llah, Most High, says:
And, again, whenever a surah like this one is sent down

exposing the hypocrites, then some of them say in denial and
derision to the others: Which of you has this surah increased in
faith? Yet as for those who believe, truly it has increased them in
faith, and they rejoice. But as for those who in whose doubting
hearts there is a sickness, it merely adds defilement to their
defilement. Thus they shall have died while they are disbelievers.
Do they not see that each year they are tried by Allah once or
twice? Yet still they do not repent. Nor do they even reflect. Yet
again, whenever a surah like this one is sent down exposing
them, they look at each other utterly astonished and signal: Does
anyone see you when you speak in secret? Then stealthily they
turn away from the Prophet. Allah has turned their hearts away
because they are a people who do not have minds open to
understanding. [Srat Al-Tawbah, 9:124-128]
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In these yahs, Allah depicts two kinds of attitude toward the

Gracious Quran: The attitude of the mumin (the believer) and that of
the munfiq (the hypocrite).
When the mumin hears the Quran being recited, two things happen
to him: First, his belief swells. Second, he is filled with delight.
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The mumin is elated when he receives instructions from his Lord

requiring him to do this or that thing, or not to do this or that thing.
In fact, humans are by their very nature prone to feel good when they
are entrusted with obligations. Normally, babies are not charged
with responsibilities. But when their parents feel that they have
grown enough to be entrusted with the performance of some
errands, they are beside themselves with joy. Why is this so? It is
thus because they are now seen as capable and responsible enough to
honor obligation!
Likewise, a believer is elated when he becomes a locus of Divine
obligations. For he knows full well that his carrying out of these
obligations is good for both his material and spiritual welfare. He is
well aware of the divinely promised reward that awaits him if he
lives up to these obligations.
Not so the munfiq!
He does not delight in Allahs speech. Instead, he is pleased by the
speech of those other than Allah. But who are those other than Allah?
They are the false deities-apart-from-Him. Allah says:
Now, whenever the name of Allah is mentioned as the one true
God, the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter
shudder in aversion. Yet whenever those false deities apart from
Him are mentioned, they rejoice. [Srat Al-Zumar, 39:45]
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Those people of whom the above yah speaks rejoice in the speech of
false deities, which have, sadly, become objects of worship and
adoration for many of us. They are pleased to receive instructions
from these false deities. They draw nearer to them. They submit their
wills to them. They are thrilled by all kinds of talk which are far
beneath the majestic speech of Allah: The poems, the songs, the
music, the plays, the talk shows, the stories, the news. They gladly
spend their money in order to be able to attend, and listen to, these
kinds of speech. Because they find pleasure in them!
The munfiqs attitude toward the speech of Allah is the perfect
antithesis of that of the believer! The believer experiences the highest
feelings of joy when he listens to the speech of Allah.
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Umar ibn Al-Khab once came to Ab Bakr, after the death of

the Prophet and said: O Ab Bakr! Let us go visit with Umm
Hni bint Abi lib, as the Prophet used to do. When Umm
Hnis eyes fell on Ab Bakr and Umar, she cried. Why are you
crying, they enquired, Dont you know that the rewards which
Allah has in store for His Messenger are far superior to this
earthly life and all that is in it!? Umm Hni answered: Im not
crying because of the Prophets death. Im grieved because we are
no longer receiving way (divine revelation)!
So as you see, Umm Hni used to be delighted by the divine descent
of way. She used to find joy in the speech of Allah. Thus when the
Prophet was no more, she knew that no other srah would ever
come down again. That was the reason why she cried. That was the
root of her grief. She cried for the ceasing of that heavenly mercy
which used to come down from the sky to bless their lives, direct
their steps, and cheer them up. She cried for the Quran.
Even so is the attitude of the people of mn toward the speech of our
Lord. They revel in it. And when they are separated from it, sadness
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engulfs them.
Yet as for those who believe, truly it has increased them in faith, and
they rejoice. So says the yah. Therefore, when the Prophet once
enjoined the Companion Ibn Masd:
Recite some Quran for me, O Ibn Masd. Me! recite the
Quran for you when you are the one to whom it was sent
down!? responds the taken-aback Ibn Masd. I love to here the
Quran being recited by others, says the Prophet .
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Known for the beauty of his recitation, Ibn Masd began reciting
to the grandest of audiencesthe greatest of Allahs messengers.
He recited Srat Al-Nis, and the Prophet was listening to Ibn
Masds recitation. But, as Ibn Masd says,
When he reached the yah in which Allah says: How then shall it
be on Judgment Day when We bring forth from each community
its prophet as a witnessand We bring you forth, O Muhammad,
over all these as a witness (4:42), the tearful Prophet [gently]
kicked me with his foot [to cease] (or as a another version of the
hadith has it, he said to me, enough!).
The Prophet cried when he heard the Quran recited by Ibn Mas
d!
In another adth, the Prophet says:
Whosoever wishes to listen to the Quran as fresh and soft as
when it first came down, let him listen to the recitation of Ibn
Umm Abd (a surname of Ibn Masd).
Think of the terms the Prophet used to describe his feelings toward
the speech of our Lord: I love to, soft, and fresh! These are
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words we normally use when we talk of food or other coveted

material substances. But the Prophet used them to describe the
speech of Allah!
And in another adth, the Prophet talks about the sweetness of
mn. We know the sweets we buy from the store and present to our
guests in Eid festivals. This is the sweet stuff we know! and savor!
But the sweetness of mn!? The Prophet tells us in a adth:
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Three things whosoever is possessed of has indeed tasted the

sweetness of mn: To love Allah and His Messenger more than
anything else. To love someone only for the sake of Allah. And to
hate to slide back into kufr (disbelief), after Allah has rescued
him from it, the same way one hates for his body to be flung into
fire.
Please contemplate the following words and phrases:
I love to hear the Quran.

Umm Hni wept because way had ceased.
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The Prophet describes the Quran as fresh and soft.

The Prophet says mn has a sweet taste.
The believers rejoice in the Quran.
And the Quran says of its own influence on the faithful:
Yet as for those who believe, truly it has increased them in faith,
and they rejoice. [Srat Al-Tawbah, 9:24]
But what of those who in whose doubting hearts there is a sickness
the other category who rejoice in the speech of other than Allah?
What will their reaction be when Allahs speech comes down or
when they hear the Quran being recited?
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The Quran answers this question:

But as for those who in whose doubting hearts there is a sickness,
it merely adds defilement to their defilement. Thus they shall
have died while they are disbelievers. [Srat Al-Tawbah, 9:125]
Theirs is a persistence in defilement (rijs), i.e., hypocrisy and
disbelief! The more the Quran is recited to them, the more they draw
themselves away from it, the more their rijs and kufr augment, and
they remain in this depraved state until they meet their deatha fate
from which we seek refuge with Allah!
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Periodic Testing
Allah says:
Do they not see that each year they are tried by Allah, once or
twice? Yet still they do not repent. Nor do they even reflect.
[Srat Al-Tawbah, 9:126]
In this yah, Allah tells us that though the errant are, from time to
time, visited by fitan (afflictions) both nature-based (kawniyyah)
and prescriptive (tashriyya) still they do not return to their Lord
in repentance!
First, Allah tries them with fitan tashriyya: He commands them to
struggle in His way, perform Salah-Prayer, and be obedient to
Himself and His Messenger. But they arrogantly spurn His
commands.
He then smites them with fitan kawniyyah: Earthquakes, diseases,
floods, economic meltdowns, among other kinds of fitan, which
Allah intends as wake-up calls to His slaves. But still they do not take
heed, nor even reflect. About these stiff-necked ones, Allah speaks
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thus:
Yet, again, whenever a surah like this one is sent down exposing
turn away from the Prophet. Allah has turned their hearts away
understanding. [Srat Al-Tawbah, 9:127]
In fact, Allah reveals in the Quran the true mindset of these people.
He lays bare their secrets. He brings to light the ideas they discuss in
their get-togethers. Allah says:
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For among them are those who say: Grant me leave to stay
behind for this campaign, and do not subject me to trial by testing
my forbearance! Most assuredly, they have already fallen into
trial. For, indeed, Hell shall, most surely, encompass the
disbelievers. [Srat Al-Tawbah, 9:49]
And also:
Moreover, among them are those who slander you [O Prophet

Muhammad] about your disbursement of charitable offerings to
the needy. Yet if they are given from it, they become well pleased.
But if they are not given from it, then they become wrathful.
[Srat Al-Tawbah, 9:58]
And also:
Now, as to the hypocrites, among them are those who seek to
hurt the Prophet by their words. For they say: He is just an ear!
Say to them: His is an ear of goodness for you. He believes in
Allah and has faith in the believers. Indeed, he is a mercy to those
who believe among you. As to those who hurt the Messenger of
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Allah, for them, there is a most painful torment awaiting in the

Hereafter. [Srat Al-Tawbah, 9:61]
Further, the Quran reveals even the thoughts that haunt the
hypocrites before they even make them public:
For among them are those who made a covenant with Allah,
swearing: If He gives us of His bounty, we shall, most surely,
become of the righteous! Yet when He gave them of His bounty,
they became miserly with it. Then they turned awayand thus
did they forsake their covenant. [Srat Al-Tawbah, 9:76]
Still they did not believe, nor were they deterred:
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Yet, again, whenever a surah like this one is sent down exposing
turn away from the Prophet. God has turned their hearts away
understanding. [Srat Al-Tawbah, 9:127]
The hypocrites did not believe even though they saw the yahs come
down from heaven and heard them flow, fresh and soft, from the lips
of the Prophet!
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These yahs teach us how to deal with, and how to react to, the
speech of our Lord. They teach us to be eagerly receptive to the
speech of our Lord. They instruct us that there is a sweet quality to
Allahs speech, the sweetness of faith, as the Prophet describes it
a sweetness to which even the hardened Qurashite disbelievers
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attested. Im sure you have heard of the mushrik Makkan Al-Wald

ibn Al-Mughrah, who, upon hearing the Prophets recitation of some
yahs of the Quran, remarked: It is undeniably sweet and pleasant!
The Quran is sweet. The believers love to listen to it. The believers
recite it fresh and soft. The believers rejoice in the Quran. This is how
our attitude should be toward the Gracious Quran which Allah sent
down to guide our steps to the Straight Path and to rinse our hearts
clean of all traces of rijs.
O Allah! make the Quran the joy of our hearts, the light of our eyes,
and the vanishing of our worries and sorrows. mn.
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/ November 11, 2015

llah, Most High, says:

And, again, whenever a surah like this one is sent down

In these yahs, Allah depicts two kinds of attitude toward the

The mumin is elated when he receives instructions from his Lord

Umar ibn Al-Khab once came to Ab Bakr, after the death of

words we normally use when we talk of food or other coveted

Three things whosoever is possessed of has indeed tasted the

I love to hear the Quran.

The Prophet describes the Quran as fresh and soft.

The Quran answers this question:

Moreover, among them are those who slander you [O Prophet

Allah, for them, there is a most painful torment awaiting in the

attested. Im sure you have heard of the mushrik Makkan Al-Wald

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