Part 68

[147] [surah al-A'raaf (7)158]. ___________________________________________________________ This Aayah contains a proof that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allaah to all mankind. Then the continuation of the Aayah makes clear that the one who sent him is the Sovereign of the heavens and the earth, in whose Hand is the granting of life and death. Also that He, the One free of all imperfections, is the one who alone has the right to be worshipped, just as He alone is the Lord. Then He, the Perfect and Most High, orders, at the end of the Aayah, that we should believe in this unlettered Messenger and Prophet, and that we should follow him, and states this to be a cause of being guided in knowledge and action: both guidance in the sense of being shown the right way, and in the sense of being granted the success to take and remain upon that way. So he was a Messenger sent for the guidance of all of mankind and jinn. Through him Allaah completed the Religion, and the proof is the Saying of Allaah, the Most High, "This day have I completed your Religion for you, and perfected My blessings upon you, and am pleased with Islaam as your Religion" [148] [surah al-Maa'idah (5):3]. ________________________________________________________________ Meaning that his (3H) Religion will remain and persist until the Day of Resurrection. Allaah's Messenger (£j|g) did not die until he had explained to the Ummah everything that it would need in all its affairs. Aboo Dharr, radiyallaahu 'anhu, said: "The Prophet (#§) did not leave any bird that spreads its wings in the sky except that he mentioned some knowledge about it to us " [Reported in the Musnad imaam Ahmad (5/152&163)]. Also a man of the mushriks said to Salmaan al-Farsee, radiyallaahu 'anhu,: "Your Prophet even teaches you about how to go to the toilet!" He replied: "Yes! He forbade us to face the Qiblah (direction of Prayer) whilst defecating or urinating, or that we should clean ourselves with less than three stones, or that we should clean ourselves with a piece of animal dung or a bone." [Reported in sahih Muslim (Eng. transl. vol. 1, p. 160, no. 504)]. So the Prophet OH) explained all of the Religion through his sayings, his actions, and his tacit approval, either to begin with, or in response to a question; and the greatest of all the affairs which he (3j£) made clear is tawhid. Everything which he ordered is something good for the Ummah, with regard to the Hereafter and the worldly life, and everything which he forbade is something evil and detrimental for the Ummah, with regard to the Hereafter and its worldly life. So anything that some people are ignorant about and which they claim to be unnecessary restrictions in the commands and prohibitions, then this claim is due only to their deficiency in understanding, their lack of patience, and their weakness in their Religion. Rather the general principle is that Allaah has not placed any hardship upon us in the Religion, and that the whole of the Religion has been made easy. Allaah, the Most High, says, "Allaah desires ease for you and does not desire hardship for you." [surah al-Baqarah (2): 185] "Allaah has not placed you in any situation of inescapable hardship in the Religion." [surah al-Hajj (22):78] So all praise and thanks are for Allaah for the completion of His favour and perfection of His Religion. The proof that he died is the Saying of Allaah, the Most High, "O Muhammad, you will soon die, and your people - those who deny you and those who believe will die. Then on the Day of Resurrection you will all dispute before your Lord until everyone oppressed receives their right from the oppressor, and Judgement is established between them in truth" [149] [surah az-Zumar (39):30-31]. _______________________________________________________________ This Aayah shows that the Prophet and those he was sent to will all die, and that they will dispute before Allaah on the Day of Resurrection, and that He will judge between them in truth; and Allaah has not made any way for the unbelievers to triumph over the Believers in the Hereafter. After death the people will be resurrected, [150] and the proof is the Saying of Allaah, the Most High, "From the earth We created you, O mankind, and to it We shall return you after death, and from it We shall raise you to life yet again" [surah Taa Haa (20):55]. ________________________________________________________ The author, rahimahullaah, makes clear in this sentence that after death the people will be resurrected. Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic, will resurrect them to life, after death, in order to reward or punish them. So this is the result of the sending of the Messengers, that a person should therefore act today for the Day of Resurrection. That being the Day whose terrors are described by Allaah, the Perfect and Most High, and to have fear of that Day. Allaah, the Most High, says, "Then how if you have disbelieved can you avoid the punishment of a Day whose terrors will cause children to become grey-haired?!