Al Islam

a. 1:1. (close)

b. 15:17; 25:62. (close)

3307. Mujaddids, or twelve mansions in the spiritual firmament of Islam, who will keep its light burning after the Spiritual Sun will have set, i.e. after the first three best centuries of Islam will have passed, resulting in the spread of spiritual darkness over the whole world. These Reformers will bear witness to the truth of Islam, and of the Qur’an and to that of the Holy Prophet. (close)

3308. "The Promised Day" may signify the day when the Promised Messiah will be raised to bring about the renaissance of Islam. In fact, there have been many such days in the history of Islam which could be called the promised day namely, the day of the Battle of Badr, the day when the Battle of the Trench came to a glorious end and the day of the Fall of Mecca. But the Promised Day par excellence is the time of the Second Advent of the Holy Prophet in the person of his Deputy in the 14th century A.H., when Islam is to receive a new life and to prevail over all other religions. The "Promised Day" may also mean the day when the righteous will enjoy the bliss of meeting with their Lord. (close)

3309. Every Prophet or Divine Reformer is a Shahid, i.e. bearer of witness, because he is a living witness to the existence of God, and he is also Mashhud (to whom witness is borne) because God bears witness to his truth by showing Signs and miracles at his hands. But here, as the text shows, the Shahid is the Promised Messiah and Mashhud is the Holy Prophet, and the verse signifies that the Promised Messiah will bear witness to the truth of the Holy Prophet by his speeches, discourses and writings and by the Signs that God will show at his hands. He will also bear witness in the sense that in his person the prophecy of the Holy Prophet about the appearance of the Promised Messiah and Mahdi in the 14th century A.H. will be fulfilled. The Promised Messiah is also Mashhud in the sense that the Holy Prophet himself has borne witness to his truth. Thus the Holy Prophet and the Promised Messiah are both Shahids (bearers of witness) and Mashhuds (to whom witness is borne). (close)

3310. By some Commentators of the Qur’an the verse is taken to refer to the burning to death of some Christians by the Jewish King, Dhu Nuwas of Yemen; by some others to the casting into a burning furnace of some Israelite leaders by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (Dan. 3:‌19-22). The verse may more fittingly apply to those enemies of truth, who in the time of every Divine Reformer bitterly oppose and persecute believers. It is not intended here to refer to any past incident of doubtful authenticity. Nowhere in the Qur’an has God sworn by past incidents. In v. 3 God swears by the "Promised Day." In the present and the next few verses it seems to be hinted that the followers of the Promised Messiah will have to suffer great hardships to usher in that great day. (close)

3311. In vv. 5-9 mention is made of those enemies of truth who kindle the fire of persecution against righteous believers in all ages and constantly keep it ablaze. Their end is predicted in v. 11. (close)

3312. The enemies of truth know in their heart of hearts that their opposition is cruel and unjustified and that the victims of their tyranny are innocent. (close)

a. 7:127. (close)

3313. The verse is full of pathos. Is belief in God really such a heinous crime, it asks, that its holders should be subjected to cruel persecution? (close)

b. 14:3. (close)