لطفا منتظر باشید ...
Ali is with Quran
and Quran is with Ali
The Prophet of Islam worked
in Makkah relentlessly for a period of twelve years.
His mission had not made any great strides. The converts to Islam were just the
oppressed slaves, the downtrodden and those who had no wealth or aristocratic
support. In the tenth year of his mission Abu Talib,
who had been giving him physical protection from his tormentors, passed away.
Soon after, Khadeeja, his beloved wife and companion
and the person whose enormous wealth had supported the mission, also passed
away. The Prophet was greatly aggrieved; he declared that year as the YEAR OF
SORROWS. Finally, a break came. The Prophet made contact with some tribal leaders of Madinah. They took the message with them back home, and
soon, every home in Madinah was buzzing with the news
of Islam and its leader. The Prophet advised his companions to proceed to Madinah slowly and gradually. When the Quraysh got wind of that, they decided to
kill the Prophet of Islam. Forty men from different families of the Quraysh came together and surrounded the house of the
Prophet one night with the intention of killing him with one stroke of their
swords. They surrounded his house and waited for the early morning hours. In the meantime, Jibreel came and informed the
Prophet of the conspiracy. The Prophet called Ali bin Abi
Talib and told him about the impending danger. Ali
asked as to what the Prophet wanted him (Ali) to do. The Prophet asked him if
he (Ali) would sleep in his (Prophet's) bed that night while he (the Prophet)
was intending to slip out of Makkah towards Madinah in the darkness of the night. Ali bin Abi Talib asked: "If I sleep
in your bed tonight, will you be safe?" The Prophet replied: "Yes, I
will be safe." Ali bin Abi Talib
immediately did a sajdah of shukr
(thanks to Allh) and agreed to do that. The Prophet
left all the property that he had been keeping in trust in Ali's charge with
the instructions to reimburse those goods to their rightful owners. So, Ali slept in the Prophet's bed and the Prophet walked out of the house and
moved towards the cave of THAWR
reciting verses from Sura Yaaseen.
While the Prophet was walking in the darkness of the night, Jibreel
came and revealed the following verse of the Qur'an. Wa minan-naasi man-yashree nafsahu-b-tigha'a maradhaati(A)llahi wa Allahu
ra'oofun bil-ibaad(Q-2:207)
Trans: And among men is he who sells himself to seek the pleasure of Allah; and
Allah is affectionate to the servants. This has been variously reported by the following scholars: 1. Hakim Nayshapoori in his Mustdarak
reports from Ibn Abbas. 2. Muhammad bin Sa'ib Kalbi
in his Tafseer Tas-heel al-Uloom at-Tanzeel 3. Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Abi Bakr Ansari in his Tafseer Qurtabi 4. Ibn Atheer in his Usud al-Ghaaba 5. Abu Bakt Nayshapoori in his Tafseer 6. Allama Kanji in his Kifayat- Talib 7. Allama Abdur-Rahman
Safoori in his Nuzhat al-Majaalis 8. Muhib-ud-Deen Tabari in his Zakha'ir
Uqba 9. Abul Hasan Wahidi
in his Asbabb an-Nuzool as
a commentary on Tafseer Jaalalayn
10. Allama Shablanji
in his Noor al-Absaar The most interesting commentary on this verse is given by Imam Ghazaali in his Ihya Fi Uloom ad-Deen,
under the topic AL-EESAAR AL-AN NAFS. Ghazaali writes that Allah sent called two of the great
angels, Jibreel and Meekaa-eel
and said: "I make you two brothers of each other. Now can one of you
sacrifice his life for the other." Both declined
to do that. Allah then pointed to Ali bin Abi Talib sleeping in the Prophet's bed and said: "There
is a brother ready to sacrifice his life for another brother." MY NOTE: I suppose Allama Iqbal
had that story related by Ghazaali when he said: Farishton se behtar hai insaan ban-na, Magar ismen lagti hai mehnat
ziyada. Trans: It is better to be a human being than an angel, but it takes a lot of
doing. Allah then commanded the two angels to go down and protect Ali bin Talib from the enemies. Thus the two angels came and Jibreel stood by Ali's headrest and Meekaa'eel
by his feet. And they both were saying: "Bravo, bravo, O son of Abu Talib, Allah is taking pride in your act of self-sacrifice
and showing your glory over the angels." There are some five hundred verses in the Holy Qur'an
which either relate the glories of Ali bin Abi Talib or record one of his
good deeds that he performed in the service of Islam. This was one of those verses. Thank you for reading. By: Seyed-Mohsin Naquvi
