Slanderous Reviler
Slanderous Reviler

[size=21]Al-Humazah (The Slanderous Reviler) Sura 104 : Verses 1-4



"Woe
to every slanderous reviler, habitual defamer, who hoards wealth and
incessantly counts it! He thinks his wealth will immortalize him. Most
surely, no, indeed! He will be hurled in the Crusher."

When good and evil contend in
the world, both seek to win hearts. Good hurls statements of truth at
falsehood in the open court of public opinion and depends upon the
sincerity of people to recognize its legitimacy and to make the
necessary sacrifice to undo the powers of corruption. Evil tries to
crush good by perverting its message and maligning its messengers,
anticipating that people will side with power, self-glorification, and
vilification of "the other," and have faith in false hope that the
obduracy will keep them secure against change, admitting wrongfulness,
and implementing justice.

When God commanded Muhammad,
peace be upon him, to announce his prophethood to his people and
declaim the Quran among them, the Makkan elite perceived his message of
human equality before God as a threat to their standing because they
believed that their personal status and the fortunes they had amassed
directly resulted from the imbalanced mores of tribalism and the
culture of idol-worship. Several notables among the Prophet's clan of
Quraysh went to the nearby city of Thaqif and conspired to revile the
Prophet and those who followed him. The Prophet had long enjoyed a
reputation for impeccable honesty and trustworthiness among the
character-conscious Arabs, which the power-elite feared might lend
credence to his call. Their purpose was to kill Islam in its cradle by giving it an aura of dishonour and associating it with conflict.
This, they hoped, would rile people in the name of tribe and tradition
and mire them in irrelevant debate in order to keep them from an actual
examination of the principles of Islam as a religion and from comparing
it with the conventions and explanations of their parochial paganism,
and thus discourage conversion to Islam or cause new converts to
renounce it.

The above verses informed
such avid opponents of truth that the fleeting pleasures of the world
they so dearly loved would pass away. Then the Resurrection they belied
would transpire, and God's Judgment would bring them to eternal woe.

Compiled From:
"The Gracious Quran" - Ahmad Zaki Hammad, pp. 291, 292

Slanderous Reviler

Slanderous Reviler
بسم الله ما شاء الله عليكم
موضوع جميل
زادك الله علما
ونور بصرتكم واكثر الله من امثالكم
وثبتنا واياكم على دين الحق
اللهم ءااااااااااااااااامين