Ramadan Reflections 1444/2023 Part 14

Surah 44 Ad-Dhukhan (The Smoke), Verses 1-7

1 Ḥâ-Mĩm*

2. By the Clear Book!

3. Indeed, We sent it down on a blessed night, for indeed We always warn ˹against evil˺.

4. On that night every matter of wisdom is ordained.

5. by a command from Us, for We have always sent ˹messengers˺

6. as a Mercy from your Lord. He ˹alone˺ is truly the All-Hearing, All-Knowing.

7. The Lord of the heavens and the earth and everything in between, if only you had sure certainty (yaqeen).

Reflections

The Book is Clear. It was sent down in its entirely to the lowest heaven on a Blessed Night. On that night, all matters are ordained, proportioned and decreed with wisdom. The messengers came, as a command from their Lord, to bring, convey and explain the law of the scriptures.

The Book, The Blessed Night of Decree, and the messengers are all sent from the all encompassing Mercy of God. He is All-Hearing and All-Knowing, so don't worry about the injustice, because He is the Lord of the heavens and the earth and everything in between, including you and every other creation and He knows and hears everything that is in the hearts, upon the tongue and manifesting through the limbs.

But you have to have to certitude and an absolute conviction that this is so; You have to be peolpe of certitude and conviction, people of yaqeen. As mentioned previously, yaqeen is of three types:

1. ilm al-yaqeen - The Knowledge of Certainty

2. ‘ayn al-yaqeen - The Eye of Certainty

3. haqq al-yaqeen - The Absolute Truth of Certainty

*Al-Huroof Al-Muqatta'at: abbreviated & unique letter combinations found at the beginning of certain chapters of the Qur'an).

والله أعلم