Araf 70-72 | aamsaafanquran's Blog

Araf 70-72

70- THEY SAID: “DID YOU COME TO US IN ORDER THAT WE SHOULD WORSHIP ALLAH ONLY AND LEAVE WHAT OUR FATHERS USED TO WORSHIP?  THEN BRING US WHAT YOU PROMISED (OF PUNISHMENT) IF YOU ARE TRUTHFUL”. 

71- HE SAID: “IMPURITY AND WROTH FROM YOUR LORD HAVE FALLEN UPON YOU, ARE YOU ARGUING WITH ME CONCERNING NAMES YOU NAMED, WITH NO AUTHORITY FROM ALLAH, THEN WAIT, AND I WILL BE WAITING WITH YOU”.

72- WE SAVED HIM AS WELL AS THOSE WITH HIM THROUGH OUR MERCY, AND WE TOTALLY DESTROYED THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED IN OUR AYAHS, FOR THEY WERE NOT BELIEVERS.

Most of us do not like change; in fact most of us resist and reject change.  Particularly so if the change is in long held practices, traditions and believes which were handed down one generation after another.  Those born to Muslim parents are very blessed as they were not subjected to the test of believing or not, and choosing which religion to follow.  We often resist changing wrong habits, even though we know them to be wrong, and even though we might know that they are wrong from the angel of Religion.

Those who change their religion at our present day and age, often endure a great deal of ridicule, animosity and even hostility, from their society, family and friends.  Their family and social relationships often suffer.  This is trial those born into the faith are not subjected to.

The People of Aad challenged their prophet Hoad to bring them the punishment He said that it will happen to them if they do not believe.  In effect, they were asking for their own destruction.  This was despite the fact that they made the Idles they worshipped with their own hands, they still insisted that they were their true gods.

This is illogical because when we worship something, we believe it to have special power or powers over us, but when it is some idle we made, which might be a form of statue, a person, wealth, position, car or house etc. they are all things we will die and leave behind, to find that all the time, effort and emotions invested in them were in vain.

They challenged Hoad, but they in fact challenged Allah the Highest to punish them.  Such was their vanity and arrogance.  Then Allah the Highest delivered His punishment.

They had dry years and they hoped for some rain.  One day, they saw dark cloud coming their way, which pleased them as they thought it to be rain laden cloud, as Allah the Highest said in the Quran: “WHEN THEY SAW A CLOUD HEADING TOWARDS THEIR VALLEYS, THEY SAID: “THIS IS A CLOUD COMING TO RAIN US”, BUT IT IS THE PUNISHMENT YOU RUSHED, THEREIN IS A STORM CONTAINING PAINFUL PUNISHMENT * DESTROYING EVERY THING WITH ITS LORD’S COMMAND, AFTERWARDS ONLY THEIR HOMES WERE LEFT TO BE SEEN, THIS IS HOW WE RECOMPENSE THE EVIL PEOPLE”.  (S: 46 A: 24-25)

Allah the Highest told us also about the destruction of the people of Aad also: “AS FOR AAD, THEY WERE DESTROYED BY A VERY STRONG AND NOISY WIND * HE (ALLAH) SENT UPON THEM FOR SEVEN NIGHTS AND EIGHT DAYS RUNNING, WHERE YOU SEE PEOPLE DEAD LIKE THE EMPTY STEMS OF DEAD PALM TREES  * DO YOU SEE ANY OF THEM OR OFFSPRING LEFT”.  (S: 69 A: 6-8)

This is a lesson for us as Muslims.  No Muslim should ever ask that what Allah the Highest has in store for him to happen sooner.  Allah the Highest gives people time so that they may have a chance to repent, change, do good deeds, then they will have a chance for Allah’s Mercy.

Allah the Highest gives us many chances and plenty of time, even Eblis who was granted time when he asked to be reprieved, yet Eblis badly misused this time.  Allah the Highest said: “HE (IBLIS) SAID: “LET ME BE REPRIEVED UNTIL THE DAY THEY ARE TO BE RESURRECTED” * HE (ALLAH) SAID: “YOU ARE AMONG THE REPRIEVED” * HE (IBLIS) SAID: “BECAUSE YOU TEMPTED ME, I WILL SIT DOWN FOR THEM ON YOUR STRAIGHT PATH” * “THEN I WILL GET AT THEM FROM BEFORE THEM, FROM BEHIND THEM, FROM THEIR RIGHT AND FROM THEIR LEFT, AND YOU WILL NOT FIND MOST OF THEM TO BE THANKFUL”  (S:7  A:14-17)

We are all sinful, and the time we have in this life is a time of reprieve which we should use to make us closer to our creator.