“Nay! Verily, man does transgress all bounds (in disbelief and evil deed, etc.). Because he considers himself
self-sufficient.” (Quran, Al-‘Alaq, 96: 6-7)
The meaning is that you, man, when you are able by your own means to fulfill what you wish, you forget
because of your negligence – Allah, all praise and glory be to Him, and His Supreme Power. As now
witnessed, the further humanity progresses in civil ization, the more it is obsessed with the vanity of
self-sufficiency and the deeper it breeds the pride of possessing power, hardly remembering Allah.
In the past, man used to look for water and toil hard in search of it. He used to dig wells that derive their
supply deep within earth from rainwater, moving after it from one place to another. Recite the Glorious
Qur’anic verse in which Allah, Blessed and Exalted be He, says (what means):
“See you not, that Allah sends down water (rain) from the sky, and causes it to penetrate the earth, (and
then makes it to spring up) as water-springs and afterward thereby produces crops of different colours, and
afterward they wither and you see them turn yellow,then He makes them dry and broken pieces. Verily, in
this, is a Reminder for men of understanding.” (Quran, Az-Zumar, 39: 21).
Attributes of the Prophet Muhammad SAW Praise be to Allah, the Lord of Creations, and Peace and blessings be upon our prophet Muhammad, the faithful and the honest. Oh, Allah, we know nothing but what You teach us. You are the All- Knower, the Wise. Oh Allah, teach us what is good for us, and benefit us from what You taught us, and increase our knowledge. Show us the righteous things as righteous and help us to do them, and show us the bad things as bad and help us to keep away from them. O Allah our Lord, lead us out from the depths of darkness and illusion, unto the lights of erudition and knowledge, and from the muddy shallows of lusts unto the heavens of Your Vicinity. Dear brothers, this is the first part of the introduction to our new series: “Ways of access and signs of acceptance”, inspired by Allah’s Words: "I am only a man like you. It has been inspired to me." [Al Kahf, 110] It is as if in this ayah Allah the ...
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