DAY 293: Anam 63-73

•  Say, “Who is the One who delivers you from the darkness of the land and the sea when you supplicate Him in humility and in low tones (promising): ‘If He delivers us from this, We shall truly become grateful?’” Say, “Allah delivers you from it and from every pain; Yet still, you associate partners with Him.” Say, “He is fully capable that He should send a punishment from above you or from beneath your feet, or to put you in confusion through divisions, and make some of you taste troubles through some others.” See how We bring forth explaining verses from different angles, so that they may understand. Your people have rejected it (the Qur’ān) while it is the whole truth. Say, “I am not appointed as a taskmaster over you. For every event there is a point (of time and place) to occur, and you will soon know (it).” When you see those who indulge in (blaspheming) Our verses, turn away from them until they become occupied with some other discourse. If Satan should cause you to forget (this instruction), then do not sit with the unjust people after recollection. Those who fear Allah are not responsible for any (evil) act in the account of these (infidels), except for advising them, so that they may be careful. Avoid those who have taken their faith as fun and games. The worldly life has deceived them. Preach with it (the Qur’ān), lest one should be seized for what he did, in a way that he should have neither a helper besides Allah, nor an intercessor. Should he offer every (sort of) ransom, it will not be accepted from him. Those are the ones who are seized for what they themselves earned. For them there is a drink of boiling water, and a painful punishment, because they used to disbelieve. Say, “Should we invoke, besides Allah, something that can neither benefit us nor harm us? Should we turn back on our heels after Allah has guided us? (If we do so, we will be) like the one whom the devils have abducted to a far off land, leaving him bewildered, even though he has friends who call him to the right path (saying), “Come to us.” Say, “Allah’s guidance is the guidance, and we have been ordered to submit to the Lord of the worlds, and establish Salāh, and heed Him“. He is the One before whom you are to be gathered. He is the One who created the heavens and the earth with purpose. On the day He says “Be”, it (the Resurrection) will come to be. His word is the truth, and His is the kingdom on the day the Horn shall be blown. He is the Knower of the Unseen and the Seen. He is the Wise, the All-Aware.
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      The Innate Tawhid of Humanity: In moments of true desperation, the human heart instinctively turns to Allah alone, exposing the artificiality of polytheism.
      Ingratitude as the Root of Disbelief: The cycle of crying to Allah for help and then associating partners with Him in times of safety is the essence of ungratefulness.
      Divine Disengagement: When people are intent on mockery, the believer's duty is to disengage and remind, not to endlessly debate.
      The Clear Choice: The surah presents a stark choice between the futile, devilish misguidance of false gods and the singular, true guidance of Islam—submission to the Lord of the Worlds.
       
      This passage exposes the profound hypocrisy of polytheism by highlighting that in moments of true desperation, humans instinctively call upon Allah alone for rescue, only to revert to shirk in times of ease, a cycle of ingratitude that demands a conscious choice to reject false patrons and wholly submit to the Lord of the Worlds.
   
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