78. An-Naba’/The Great News
I/We begin by the Blessed Name of Allah
The Immensely Merciful to all, The Infinitely Compassionate to everyone.
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a. What are they asking one another about?
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a. Is it about the Great News of the Time of Final Judgment and its Correlatives?
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a. The one about which they are in suspicion and disputing with you – O The Prophet.
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a. But no!
b. They will soon know the truth of its reality!
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a. And then, oh no!
b. They will soon know the truth of its reality!
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a. Have WE not made the earth a resting place like a bed for you,
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a. and set the strong mountains as its pegs?
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a. And WE created you in pairs,
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a. and made your sleep for resting,
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a. and made the nighttime a covering,
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a. and made the daytime for your livelihood.
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a. And WE built above you seven celestial realms - strong, solid, and firm,
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a. and set therein Sun as a luminous lamp,
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a. and sent down abundant water from the water-laden clouds,
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a. so that WE may bring out thereby grain and vegetation,
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a. as well as gardens of dense growth.
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a. Surely the Time of Division is an Appointed Time.
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a. The Time when the Trumpet will...
Mankind among the other creatures is a superior creation of Allah. Though he has been gifted and empowered with strength and logic, yet at times he becomes vulnerable or unfortified during his life span. To handle and manage such weak events and moments of life, Allah has laid down a law of necessity upon him. Since Islam is the religion of ease, comfort and compassion in all matters, therefore on the one hand it provides the regular course of system for the usual and routine matters, while on the other hand it promulgates the law of necessity for unusual and extra ordinary matters. The Western legal system also recognizes such concept of law, but as compared to Islamic concept of law of necessity it does not cover all the aspects of human vulnerability. This paper puts forth a discourse that how this exceptional segment of law can be applied and what is the difference between the Islamic concept of law of necessity and that of which the western legal system has.
As for as the development have been started by the scientific sciences is concerned, paths for the religious preaching have been smooth by it. There are apparently doubts and misconceptions in the principles of religion and beliefs, even though many scientific facts have been described in the holy Quran , due to which before researching this topic, these questions arise that the usefulness of scientific interpretation for religious preaching in the present era ,its different forms and its effects on religious preaching, the reason for mutual disagreement between the believers and non-convinced scholars of Quranic interpretation, the aspects of relationship between Quranic facts and modern scientific research, and the problems and difficulties in the acceptance of scientific interpretation ,to solve there above questions ,informations ,related to the theory of human evolution, Quranic facts and knowledge, modern scientific discoveries, opinions and sayings of Muslim thinkers related to the cosmological verses from Quran have been collected and all this research stuff has been included in five chapters and its sub-chapters:-
in the first chapter, the scientific trends of the holy Quran , the principles of scientific interpretation and the opinions and sayings of scholars and researchers related to scientific interpretation have been described in the second chapter ,a contemporary perspective on the Quranic facts related to cosmology, evolutionary stages of human life, medicine and botany has presented .
In the third chapter ,the indispositions of the commentators and the doubts arising from it, the deviation from the admitted principle and their effects has been described .
In the fourth chapter, the objectives of the Quranic scientific discoveries and its effects on the religious preaching have been described.
While in the fifth chapter , the need and importance of scientific sciences , methods, barriers to scientific interpretation and the responsibilities of commentators have been described in the publication of religious preaching.
The researches and the details have been mentioned in these chapters and sub-chapters gave out the following results: