Surat Al An`am (41-50)

{بَلْ إِيَّاهُ تَدْعُونَ فَيَكْشِفُ مَا تَدْعُونَ إِلَيْهِ إِنْ شَاء وَتَنسَوْنَ مَا تُشْرِكُونَ} [الأنعام: 41]

41- You shall invoke Allah, the Lord of all the Worlds in the time of need and hardships and you will not invoke anyone but Him. He shall remove the hardship from you and remove the distress if He wills. You shall abandon the idols which you used to associate with Allah in worship and do not leave it on the day of your hardship.

{وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلنَا إِلَى أُمَمٍ مِّن قَبْلِكَ فَأَخَذْنَاهُمْ بِالْبَأْسَاء وَالضَّرَّاء لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَضَرَّعُونَ} [الأنعام: 42]

42- We have sent messengers to many nations before you but they denied them, so we punished them with drought, constraining, diseases, pains, and death in order to beseech, supplicate, and repent to me of their sins.

{فَلَوْلا إِذْ جَاءهُمْ بَأْسُنَا تَضَرَّعُواْ وَلَـكِن قَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَزَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ مَا كَانُواْ يَعْمَلُونَ} [الأنعام: 43]

43- Would they humble themselves and beseech to us when Our Affliction befalls them? However, they refused and remained on their stubbornness, their obduracy, and their solid minds. They continued what they used to do and Satan decorated for them that what happened to them was not because of what they used to do of disbelief and sins.

{فَلَمَّا نَسُواْ مَا ذُكِّرُواْ بِهِ فَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ أَبْوَابَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ حَتَّى إِذَا فَرِحُواْ بِمَا أُوتُواْ أَخَذْنَاهُم بَغْتَةً فَإِذَا هُم مُّبْلِسُونَ} [الأنعام: 44]

44- However, when they turned away from what We remind them, forgot what they have been reminded, disagreed what they were commanded by their messengers, and busied themselves in sins, they deserved punishment and it was the time for punishment. Therefore, We gave them what they like of the world and we made them in favors and prosperity instead of hardship and distress to deceive them and lure them. When they are pleased with the money and sustenance we give them and did not thank Allah for them, so We punished them suddenly while they are heedless. They were in the peek of joy so that the punishment would be harsher to leave them in despair of salvation and mercy, humble and submissive, and confused and depressed.

{فَقُطِعَ دَابِرُ الْقَوْمِ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُواْ وَالْحَمْدُ لِلّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ} [الأنعام: 45]

45- They were given what they want of the world then they were taken because of what they used to do. As a result, they were punished severely to the last one of them and none of them was rescued. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all the Worlds Who annihilated them and saved the people of their evils, oppressions and their deviant ideas. A Muslim praises Allah for stopping the evil of the wrongdoers.

{قُلْ أَرَأَيْتُمْ إِنْ أَخَذَ اللّهُ سَمْعَكُمْ وَأَبْصَارَكُمْ وَخَتَمَ عَلَى قُلُوبِكُم مَّنْ إِلَـهٌ غَيْرُ اللّهِ يَأْتِيكُم بِهِ انظُرْ كَيْفَ نُصَرِّفُ الآيَاتِ ثُمَّ هُمْ يَصْدِفُونَ} [الأنعام: 46]

46- O Prophet, say to the denying polytheists: have you seen if Allah takes away your hearing and left you deaf, takes away your sights and leaves you blind, and covers your hearts and leave you without knowing anything of worldly matters. He is the One who creates the world and is Able to take it away of you, so which god (other than Him) can provide you with it? See how we explain the proofs to them and repeat them to give them a chance to believe, but they turn away and deny them.

{قُلْ أَرَأَيْتَكُمْ إِنْ أَتَاكُمْ عَذَابُ اللّهِ بَغْتَةً أَوْ جَهْرَةً هَلْ يُهْلَكُ إِلاَّ الْقَوْمُ الظَّالِمُونَ} [الأنعام: 47]

47- Tell them reminding for the last time before no advise nor reminding benefit them: Have you seen if the torment of Allah befalls you suddenly without warning and took away your breath while you see it day and night, and you have no ability to save yourselves because it surrounds you from all sides; do not destruction and punishment befall the wrongdoers who are like you?

{وَمَا نُرْسِلُ الْمُرْسَلِينَ إِلاَّ مُبَشِّرِينَ وَمُنذِرِينَ فَمَنْ آمَنَ وَأَصْلَحَ فَلاَ خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلاَ هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ} [الأنعام: 48]

48- The goal behind sending the messengers to the people is to give them good news and great reward for those who obey Him and warn them of the punishment for those who disobey and deny. So, those who believe in what the messengers came with and did righteously according to the Shari`ah will have security on the Day of Recompense when the denying disbelievers fear, moreover, they shall not suffer anxiety and grief as it hits them.

{وَالَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِآيَاتِنَا يَمَسُّهُمُ الْعَذَابُ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَفْسُقُونَ} [الأنعام: 49]

49- And those who deny the Ayahs and the miracles which the messengers delivered to their people either for glad tiding or for warning will have their share of torment because of their rebellion to the obedience of Allah and His Messengers.

{قُل لاَّ أَقُولُ لَكُمْ عِندِي خَزَآئِنُ اللّهِ وَلا أَعْلَمُ الْغَيْبَ وَلا أَقُولُ لَكُمْ إِنِّي مَلَكٌ إِنْ أَتَّبِعُ إِلاَّ مَا يُوحَى إِلَيَّ قُلْ هَلْ يَسْتَوِي الأَعْمَى وَالْبَصِيرُ أَفَلاَ تَتَفَكَّرُونَ} [الأنعام: 50]

50- O Prophet, tell the polytheists from your people that you do not own the treasures of your Lord and I cannot dispose in them as I like nor I can provide sustenance for you. Moreover, I cannot say that I know the Unseen to tell you of what is hidden from you and I do not know anything of the Unseen except what Allah reveals to me. I do not claim to be an angle but I am human whom Allah honored me by giving me the revelation to be a Warner to you. I cannot avoid the revelation of Allah because everything I do is by His Guidance.

Say to them: Does the straying person who does not know how to walk differ from the guided one who walks in the Straight Path and knows the truth? They are not equal; do not you understand that to go back to the truth?