58. Al-Mujadila – Decoding The Quran – Ahmed Hulusi

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“58. Al-Mujadila – Decoding The Quran – Ahmed Hulusi”

Audhu billahi minash shaytanirrajeem”

Bismi Llaahi l-raḥmaani l-raḥeem

By the one who is denoted by the name Allah (who created my being with His Names in accord with the meaning of the letter ‘B’), the Rahman, the Rahim.

1. Allah has indeed heard the words of the one who disputes with you about her husband and directs her complaint to Allah. Allah hears your discussion; indeed, Allah is the Sami, the Basir.

2. Those among you who separate themselves from their wives by pronouncing, “To me you are like my mother” (a pagan practice) should know that they (their wives) are not their mothers! Their mothers are only those who gave birth to them! Indeed, they utter an outrageous and baseless word! Indeed, Allah is the Afuw (infinitely forgiving) and the Ghafur.

3. And those who proclaim such things (and separate themselves from their wives) and then go back on what they have claimed (want to reunite with their wives) must free a slave before they can have relations with their wives! This is what you are advised to do… Allah is Habir of what you do (as their creator).

4. He who cannot find a slave to free, must fast for two months consecutively before he can have relations with his wife. And he who is unable (to fast for two months as atonement) must feed sixty needy people… These (laws) are for you to experience your faith in your essential reality, Allah and His Rasul; these are the limits set by Allah. And for those who deny the knowledge of the reality there is severe suffering.

5. Indeed, those who oppose Allah and His Rasul are debased as those before them were debased. Whereas We have indeed disclosed clear signs… There is a humiliating suffering for those who deny the knowledge of the reality.

6. The time will come for Allah to resurrect them all (bring them back to life in a new dimension with a new constitution) and inform them of what they did… Allah had recorded (what became manifest through them), but they have forgotten… Allah is Shahid over all things.

7. Do you not understand that Allah knows everything in the heavens and the earth! There is not a whisper shared between three (people) where He is not the fourth of them… If there were five of them (conversing in privacy) He would be the sixth of them… And whether they are lesser than this or more, and wherever they may be, He is with them (for He comprises their very being with His Names – the unity of existence – non-duality)! Then during Doomsday Allah will inform them of what they did! Indeed, Allah knows all things (as He comprises their essence with His Names).

8. Did you not see those who were forbidden from whispering (hypocrisy; two-facedness) yet returned to that which they were forbidden? They whisper (converse privately) among themselves about villainy, animosity and disobedience to the Rasul… When they (the Jews) come to you, they greet you with what Allah does not greet you, but inside themselves they say, “If what we said was wrong, Allah would have punished us”… Sufficient is Hell for them, to which they will be subject… What a wretched place of return!

Note: Due to the phonetic proximity in their speech, the Jews would deliberately mispronounce certain words and expressions, such as, “as salamu alayka” (salam be to you) as “as samu alayka” which means “death be to you”… To such greetings, the Rasul (saw) would only say “Alaykum” (to you) rather than “wa alaykum” (to you too), denoting that he did not take it upon himself. When Hadhrat Aisha (r.a.) once responded to such greetings by saying, “Death be to you, may the curse and wrath of Allah be upon you”, the Rasul (saw) warned her, “O Aisha… Allah does not like those who say more than what is necessary”, thereby restricting the permissible reaction to an action to the magnitude of that action (preventing reactive behavior).

9. O believers… When you whisper (privately converse) among one another, do not whisper villainy, animosity and disobedience in regards to the Rasul… Whisper in regards to actions that will take you closer (to Allah) and provide protection. Protect yourselves from Allah to whom you will be gathered (and who will subject you to the consequences of your deeds)!

10. Whispering (gossip) is from Satan (satanic/delusive thoughts) to cause grief to the believers! But he (satanic/delusive thoughts) cannot cause any harm to them (the believers), except by the permission of Allah. Let the believers place their trust in Allah.