Taraweeh Tonight: Connect With The Quran – Fifth Night of Ramadan

Ramadan 2013 Posts

Fifth Night of Ramaḍān

Allah, the Al-Mighty, says what can be interpreted to mean:

Surat An-Nisa – Women (004)

36. Worship God; join nothing with Him. Be good to your parents, to relatives, to orphans, to the needy, to neighbours near and far, to travellers in need, and to your slaves. God does not like arrogant, boastful people

37. Who are miserly and order other people to be the same, hiding the bounty God has given them. We have prepared a humiliating torment for such ungrateful people.

38. [Nor does He like those] who spend their wealth to show off, who do not believe in Him or the Last Day. Whoever has Satan as his companion has an evil companion!

39. What harm would it do them to believe in God and the Last Day, and give charitably from the sustenance God has given them? God knows them well.

40. He does not wrong anyone by as much as the weight of a speck of dust; He doubles any good deed and gives a tremendous reward of His own.

41. What will they do when We bring a witness from each community, with you [Muhammad [pbuh]] as a witness against these people?

42. On that day, those who disbelieved and disobeyed the Prophet will wish that the earth could swallow them up; they will not be able to hide anything from God.

Further on Allah, the Al-Mighty, says what can be interpreted to mean:

54. Do they envy [other] people for the bounty God has granted them? We gave the descendants of Abraham the Scripture and wisdom– and We gave them a great kingdom

55. But some of them believed in it and some turned away from it. Hell blazes fiercely enough.

56. We shall send those who reject Our revelations to the Fire. When their skins have been burned away, We shall replace them with new ones so that they may continue to feel the pain: God is mighty and wise.

57. As for those who believe and do good deeds, We shall admit them into Gardens graced with flowing streams and there they will remain forever. They will have pure spouses there, and We shall admit them into cool refreshing shade.

58. God commands you [people] to return things entrusted to you to their rightful owners, and, if you judge between people, to do so with justice: God’s instructions to you are excellent, for He hears and sees everything.

59. You who believe, obey God and the Messenger, and those in authority among you. If you are in dispute over any matter, refer it to God and the Messenger, if you truly believe in God and the Last Day, that is better and fairer in the end.

60. Do you [Prophet] not see those who claim to believe in what has been sent down to you, and in what was sent down before you, yet still want to turn to unjust tyrants for judgement, although they have been ordered to reject them? Satan wants to lead them far astray.

61. When they are told, ‘Turn to God’s revelations and the Messenger [for judgement],’ you see the hypocrites turn right away from you [Prophet].

62. If disaster strikes them because of what they themselves have done, then they will come to you, swearing by God, ‘We only wanted to do good and achieve harmony.’

63. God knows well what is in the hearts of these people, so ignore what they say, instruct them, and speak to them about themselves using penetrating words.

64. All the messengers We sent were meant to be obeyed, by God’s leave. If only [the hypocrites] had come to you [Prophet] when they wronged themselves, and begged God’s forgiveness, and the Messenger had asked forgiveness for them, they would have found that God accepts repentance and is most Merciful.

65. By your Lord, they will not be true believers until they let you decide between them in all matters of dispute, and find no resistance in their souls to your decisions, accepting them totally.

66. If We had ordered, ‘Lay down your lives’ or ‘Leave your homes,’ they would not have done so, except for a few– it would have been far better for them and stronger confirmation of their faith, if they had done as they were told

67. And We would have given them a rich reward of Our own

68.  And guided them to a straight path.

69. Whoever obeys God and the Messenger will be among those He has blessed: the messengers, the truthful, those who bear witness to the truth, and the righteous– what excellent companions these are!

70. That is God’s favour. No one knows better than Him.

Further on Allah, the Al-Mighty, says what can be interpreted to mean:

105. We have sent down the Scripture to you [Prophet] with the truth so that you can judge between people in accordance with what God has shown you. Do not be an advocate for those who betray trust.

106. Ask God for forgiveness: He is most forgiving and merciful.

107. Do not argue for those who betray their own souls: God does not love anyone given to treachery and sin.

108. They try to hide themselves from people, but they cannot hide from God. He is with them when they plot at night, saying things that do not please Him; He is fully aware of everything they do.

109. There you [believers] are, arguing on their behalf in this life, but who will argue on their behalf with God on the Day of Resurrection? Who will be their defender?

110. Yet anyone who does evil or wrongs his own soul and then asks God for forgiveness will find Him most Forgiving and Merciful.

111. He who commits sin does so against his own soul– God is all knowing and wise

112. And anyone who commits an offence or a sin, and then throws the blame on to some innocent person, has burdened himself with deceit as well as flagrant sin.

113. If it were not for the grace of God and His mercy to you [Prophet], a party of them would have tried to lead you astray; they only lead themselves astray, and cannot harm you in any way, since God has sent down the Scripture and Wisdom to you, and taught you what you did not know. God’s bounty to you is great indeed.

114. There is no good in most of their secret talk, only in commanding charity, or good, or reconciliation between people. To anyone who does these things, seeking to please God, We shall give a rich reward

115. If anyone opposes the Messenger, after guidance has been made clear to him, and follows a path other than that of the believers, We shall leave him on his chosen path– We shall burn him in Hell, an evil destination.

116. God does not forgive the worship of others beside Him–though He does forgive whoever He will for lesser sins– for whoever does this has gone far, far astray.

Further on Allah, the Al-Mighty, says what can be interpreted to mean:

148. God does not like bad words to be made public unless someone has been wronged; He is all hearing and all knowing.

149. If you do good, openly or in secret, or if you pardon something bad, then God is most Forgiving and Powerful.

150. As for those who ignore God and His messengers and want to make a distinction between them, saying, ‘We believe in some but not in others,’ seeking a middle way

151. They are really disbelievers – We have prepared a humiliating punishment for those who disbelieve.

152. But God will give [due] rewards to those who believe in Him and His messengers and make no distinction between any of them. God is most Forgiving and Merciful.

153. The People of the Book demand that you [Prophet] make a book physically come down to them from heaven, but they demanded even more than that of Moses when they said, ‘Show us God face to face,’ and were struck by the thunderbolt for their presumption. Even after clear revelations had come down to them, they took the calf as an object of worship, yet We pardoned this, and gave Moses clear authority

154. We made the mountain tower high above them at their pledge; We said to them, ‘Enter the gate humbly,’ and, ‘Do not break the Sabbath,’ and took a solemn pledge from them.

155. And so for breaking their pledge, for rejecting God’s revelations, for unjustly killing their prophets, for saying ‘Our minds are closed’ – No! God has sealed them in their disbelief, so they believe only a little

156. And because they disbelieved and uttered a terrible slander against Mary,

157. And said, ‘We have killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the Messenger of God.’ (They did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, though it was made to appear like that to them; those that disagreed about him are full of doubt, with no knowledge to follow, only supposition: they certainly did not kill him

158. God raised him up to Himself. God is Almighty and Wise.

159. There is not one of the People of the Book who will not believe in [Jesus] before his death, and on the Day of Resurrection he will be a witness against them.)

Further on Allah, the Al-Mighty, says what can be interpreted to mean:

170. The Messenger has come to you [people] with the truth from your Lord, so believe– that is best for you– for even if you disbelieve, all that is in the heavens and the earth still belongs to God, and He is All Knowing and All Wise.

171. People of the Book, do not go to excess in your religion, and do not say anything about God except the truth: the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was nothing more than a messenger of God, His word, directed to Mary, a spirit from Him. So believe in God and His messengers and do not speak of a ‘Trinity’– stop [this], that is better for you– God is only one God, He is far above having a son, everything in the heavens and earth belongs to Him and He is the best One to trust.

172. The Messiah would never disdain to be a servant of God, nor would the angels who are close to Him. He will gather before Him all those who disdain His worship and are arrogant

173. To those who believe and do good works He will give due rewards and more of His bounty; to those who are disdainful and arrogant He will give an agonizing torment, and they will find no one besides God to protect or help them.

174. People, convincing proof has come to you from your Lord and We have sent a clear light down to you.

175. God will admit those who believe in Him and hold fast to Him into His mercy and favour; He will guide them towards Him on a straight path.

176. They ask you [Prophet] for a ruling. Say, ‘God gives you a ruling about inheritance from someone who dies childless with no surviving parents. If a man leaves a sister, she is entitled to half of the inheritance; if she has no child her brother is her sole heir; if there are two sisters, they are entitled to two-thirds of the inheritance between them, but if there are surviving brothers and sisters, the male is entitled to twice the share of the female. God makes this clear to you so that you do not make mistakes: He has full knowledge of everything.’