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made throughout the Surah to assert that those who deserve the title: “slaves of The Most Gracious” do not separate between acts of worship and good manners. As for you, who denied The Most Gracious, I would like to invite you to listen to what Allah (SWT) says at the end of the Surah: “Say (O Muhammad SAWS to the disbelievers): “My Lord pays attention to you only because of your invocation to Him. But now you have indeed denied (Him). So the torment will be yours for ever (inseparable, permanent punishment).”(TMQ, 25:77). Hence, we find that the ayahs of Surat Al-Furqan always sets a clear borderline between right and wrong, while referring to members of each party. They differentiate between the believers’ bliss with Allah’s (SWT) support for them, and the hell of the disbelievers who are threatened with severe torment.
Surat Ash-Shu’ara (The Poets) This Surah is Makkan. It was revealed after Surat Al-Waqi-ah, and it comes after Surat Al-Furqan in the order of the Qur’an. The number of its Ayahs is 227. Narrate on my behalf even one ayah Surat Ash-Shu’ara is about the importance of conveying the message to people through the best effective means. In the time of Prophet Musa (Moses), the means was magic, and at the age of Prophet Mohammad (SAWS), it was poetry and poets (hence comes the name of the Surah). This Surah was revealed in a time when the Muslims needed to learn the methods of information and communication. The beginning of the public preaching of the message of Islam had then begun. The Prophet (SAWS) stood on Al-Safa Mountain and announced that the call to Islam had to be done publicly for the first time in Makkah. In this way, the Surah shows clearly the importance of the means of communication and information in the process of Da’wa (Calling to Allah and Islam). The danger of audible speech Media is a double-edged sword. It is used either to mislead people or to guide them. For this reason, Allah (SWT) ended the Surah saying what can be translated as: “As for the poets, the erring ones follow them, See you not that they speak about every subject (praising people - right or wrong) in their poetry And that they say what they do not do. Except those who believe (in the Oneness of Allah - Islamic Monotheism) and do righteous deeds, and remember Allah much, and vindicate themselves after they have been wronged (by replying back in poetry to the unjust poetry (which the pagan poets utter against the Muslims)). And those who do wrong will come to know by what overturning they will be overturned”(TMQ, 26:224-227). Poets in the time of Prophet (SAWS) or Media in our current time may mislead people and prevent them from worshipping Allah (SWT). On the other hand, they may give people the right information about religion and hence guide them to righteousness. Therefore, preachers to Allah’s (SWT) way should use these means, the role of which grows in our age. Keys of the hearts As we have seen before, the Prophets’ (SAWS) stories come in a Surah to serve its objective. When the Surah spoke about Prophet Musa (AS), it stated how he had feared his words might not produce the desired impact on his people. He said “And my breast straitens, and my tongue expresses not well. So send for Harun (Aaron) (to come along with me)”. (TMQ, 26:13). All Prophets (SAWS) stories that came in the Surah were focusing on the dialogue of the Prophet (SAWS) with his people. This is what we find in the stories of Musa (AS), Ibrahim (Abraham) (AS), Noah (AS), Hud (AS), Saleh (AS), Loot (AS) and Shu’aib (AS). We find the focus on “he said and they said”. The style of the dialogues in the Surah is wonderful. It prepares the Prophet (SAWS) to begin the stage of public preaching, which was
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