The Organizing Thread In The Book Of God — Part 6
Among the comprehensive expressions that the Qur'an used to instill this great truth in the souls is the saying of God Almighty in the closings of Surat Al-An'am.
Say, "Indeed, my prayer, my rites of sacrifice, my living and my dying are for Allah, Lord of the worlds. [Al-An'am, 162]
To see how this verse includes the principles of worship, life, and death; And it made all this for God, glory be to Him... Today, many people may know how to pray to God and perform Hajj for God... But few people realize how to live their lives for God and die for God?!
This great verse purifies souls with this great station, which is the core of the Qur'an.
The beginning of Surat Al-Anfal tells us about the forerunners of the Battle of Badr. Its interactions and developments between the seizure of the Quraysh convoy or the military confrontation, until the context, reaches the great victory achieved by the Muslims in their fight against the infidels' army and their crushing.
Do you know where the wonder in all of that is that the Qur'an, after explaining these successive events, follows up on a fantastic commentary on cultivating attachment to God and attributing the credit to Him, Glory be to Him.
The following is followed by a fantastic comment on the education of attachment to God and the attribution of credit to Him; Glory is to Him. By God, you should consider this Qur'anic commentary on the Battle of Badr:
And you did not kill them, but it was Allah who killed them. And you threw not, [O Muhammad], when you threw, but it was Allah who threw that He might test the believers with a good test. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing. [Al-Anfal, 17]
What a wonder.. the Mujahideen Companions were the ones who fought, and the Prophet — may God's prayers and peace be upon him — was the one who threw the dust and said, "Your faces were scattered."
Yet the Qur'an says: No, it was not you who killed them, nor you, O Messenger of God, who was thrown, but it is God. Glory be to Him who killed them, and He is the one who threw, and the meaning is that God is the one who gave you victory over them. To see how the hearts are raised to the sky and freed from the weight ropes to the earth...
And if the meditator of the Qur'an contemplates this verse (and you did not throw when you threw, but God threw), he would find in it confirmation and negation, so it was proven to the Messenger of God by throwing, and he denied him another throw.
This meaning mentioned in Surat Al-Anfal is similar to another verse in Surat Al-Tawbah in which God says:
Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and give you victory over them and satisfy the breasts of a believing people.
To see how he attributed the cause to the hands of the Companions' hands and attributed the effect to God Almighty! You are indeed the ones fighting them, but God is the one who is torturing them with that!
The scene of the hearts being attached to God does not stop in the Muslim community, but rather the Qur’an directs its reader to instill the attachment to God in the souls of the (captives).
They are the captives, a group of warrior infidels who were unable to complete their insidious mission! Nevertheless, the Book of God urges us to teach them about the meanings of (the actions of the hearts). God says in Surat Al-Anfal:
O Prophet, say to whoever is in your hands of the captives, “If Allah knows [any] good in your hearts, He will give you [something] better than what was taken from you, and He will forgive you; and Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.” [Al-Anfal, 70]
The captives must realize that the whole issue is related to the hearts!
And when God mentioned the story of the three who were left behind, namely Ka'b bin Malik and his two companions, and its length is narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari, the verses explained the state of being closed in worry and distress that afflicted these three, and then the verse reached its essence, which is the "state of faith" that God Almighty loves, and valued it among them. The verse concludes the scene, God Almighty says:
And [He also forgave] the three who were left behind [and regretted their error] to the point that the earth closed in on them in spite of its vastness and their souls confined them and they were certain that there is no refuge from Allah except in Him. Then He turned to them so they could repent. Indeed, Allah is the Accepting of repentance, the Merciful. [Al-Tawbah, 118]
See?! How excellent is the presentation of the verse for this place of faith in the context of the interactions of worry and distress, after the external (the earth, with its spaciousness) became narrow for them and the internal (their selves narrowed) the verse reached the peak of faith (and they thought that there was no refuge from God except to Him)...
It is not only surprising that they cling to God… Rather, it is surprising that the verse refers to the principle and the end; I mean its reference to the fact that there is no deliverance from God except to God! God here is the fear, and God himself is the sanctuary! These are the hearts that God loves.
I’m inviting you to listen to the below part of the Holy Quran, and then you judge by yourself: