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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question: In the 14th ayat of Surah Mominoon the Almighty Allah says: So blessed be Allah, the best of the Creators. When the Almighty Allah calls Himself the “best of Creators” does it mean that there exist other Creators also? Answer: From the aspect of Arabic language the root Khalq (creation) occurs I three meanings: 1. To evaluate or estimate something. 2. To transform a thing into something else. For example to make tools from iron. 3. To bring something from non-existence into existence. That is to bestow existence something that did not exist before. Without any doubt the third meaning is special to the Almighty Allah and the words of Creator and inventor. Apart from Him these terms are not used to anyone else. So much so that the first and the second are applicable even to human beings. In the ayats of the Holy Quran the root Khalq is used in the first or the second meaning. For example it is ment...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question: It is mentioned in Surah Baqarah: “The parable of those who spend their property in the way of Allah is as the parable of a grain growing seven ears (with) hundred grains in every ear…” In spite of the fact that we have inquired of the agricultural scientists that if we have a piece of land which is prepared from every aspect. It is irrigated properly and birds also do not pick up its grain and the seed is also not destroyed in it and no trouble descends on it and the soil is also of a good quality and all the conditions of growing a crop on it is fulfilled then how much wheat can be produced from a stalk of wheat? They replied: thirty or at the most forty and nothing more than this seen till now. Thus how does the Almighty say that it is like the ear which gives 700 grains whereas if Allah had desired He could have given more. Answer: Two points have to be kept in mind in the reply to this quest...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question: Hazrat Nuh (‘a) was commanded by the Almighty to build an ark and Allah informed him that water would spread all over the surface of the earth and the infidels will drown, but his women and sons will remain safe. One of his sons Canaan, did not care for his teachings our account of his idolatry and did not board the ark. At last he drowned in the flood. During this Hazrat Nuh (‘a) supplicated his Lord and said: My Lord! Surely my son is of my family, and Thy promise is surely true…[96] The Almighty Allah addressed him in the following four sentences: What is the aim of those sentences? 1. He is not of your family — why? 2. He is the doer of other than good deeds — why? 3. Ask not of Me that of which you have no knowledge — why? 4. I admonish you lest you may be of the ignorant.[97] Question: What was Nuh (‘a) ignorant of? Answer: The first sentence “He is not of your family” does not denote that ...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question: If the Prophet of Islam (s.a.w.s.) and other Prophets (‘a) are free from sins what does the following ayat implies when it mentions the forgiveness of their sins? Verily We have granted you a manifest Victory: That Allah may forgive you your faults of the past and those to follow; fulfill His favor on you; and guide you on the straight Way.”[98] Answer: First of all we must bear in mind that the founders of movement and revolutionaries who take steps against the prevailing trends and try reform the society and destroy the evils present in it they start facing oppositions, allegations, baseless accusations and false implications. Allegation is one of the attacks that are employed in the backward societies and its aim is to defame these personalities. The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) was not exempted from this system. He also had to face the opposition and allegations of Quraysh. The person who was rega...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question: Is the human soul annihilated? If you say that it is incorporeal the ayat says that except for Allah everything can be annihilated. How can you explain this? Answer: We should remember that the word ‘destroy’ in the ayat is not in the meaning of getting completely annihilated because not only the human soul, the human body is also not destroyed completely. And after breaking up it remains in the earth in other substances. On the day of judgment he would be raised from there. Thus whether we consider soul incorporeal or not it is not absolutely destroyable and annihilated. And neither is the human body is totally destroyed. Rather the word ‘Halaak’ in the ayat denotes the disintegration of the organs and the destruction of the face. Thus this destruction is that the connection between the body and soul is severed. And the previous physical parts are disintegrated. Though soul and body remain separ...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question: When Yusuf (‘a) wanted to keep his brother in Misr he had a valuable measure bowl kept in the baggage of his brother. Then a person went into the Caravan and shouted: O People of the Caravan! You are thieves! Why did Yusuf (‘a) act in this way that his brothers who had come in the Caravan of Palestine should be implicated for theft? While false allegation and accusation is a sin and it is Haraam? Answer: In the ayat that mentions this part of the incident is as follows: “So when he furnished them with their provisions, (someone) placed the drinking cup in his brother’s bag. Then a crier cried out: O Caravan! You are most surely thieves.”[99] The apparent words of the ayat say that Yusuf (‘a) had the cup placed in his brother’s bag and then he had them accused of some other theft. This is the point worth nothing. Now the question remains why Yusuf (‘a) did this? As obvious from the 76th ayat he ha...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question: What is the meaning of the ayat: “Therefore they shall laugh little and weep much…”[100] Does it mean that the Almighty Allah has commended us to laugh less and weep more? Though weeping more is not allowed by any jurist, secondly when laughing is caused by happiness and bestowed pleasure to the body and soul, then why be refrain from it? Answer: Those who have explained the meaning of this ayat have not reflected upon the context. The above ayat of those ayats of Surah Taubah in which there is discussion regarding the covenant breakers, hypocrites and the rules of Islamic Jihad. Before this is the ayat: Those who were left behind were glad on account of their sitting behind Allah’ apostle and they were averse from striving in Allah’s way with their property and their persons and said: Do not go forth in the heat. Say: The fire of hell is much severe in heat. Would that they understood (it). Imme...