🔹 Reflection on Ramadan’s First Week
Alhamdulillah, tonight marks the 7th night of Ramadan.
✔️ One week of Taraweeh completed.
✔️ A week of fasting passed so quickly.
✔️ We ask Allah to grant us sincerity, taqwa, and the opportunity to witness Laylatul Qadr.
Tonight, we continue our tafseer of Surah Al-An’am (Verses 21-25).
📖 Verse 21 – The Worst of Wrongdoers
🔹 وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ افْتَرَىٰ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًۭا أَوْ كَذَّبَ بِـَٔايَـٰتِهِۦ ۗ إِنَّهُۥ لَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلظَّـٰلِمُونَ
🔹 “Who is more unjust than the one who fabricates lies about Allah or denies His signs? Indeed, the wrongdoers will never succeed.”
The Pattern in the Quran: “وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ” – The Greatest Sins
The Quran repeatedly asks “Who is more unjust than…” when referring to major sins:
✔️ Surah Al-Baqarah (2:114) – Stopping people from going to the Masjid and trying to destroy it.
✔️ Surah Al-Baqarah (2:140) – Hiding the testimony of Tawheed (Shahadah).
✔️ Surah Al-An’am (6:21) – Lying about Allah and denying His signs.
💡 Lesson: The greatest injustice is to deny truth knowingly and spread falsehood about Allah.
📖 Historical Context of the Ayah
📌 The Quraysh’s Resistance:
• The Meccan leaders sought to stop Islam through verbal abuse, then physical violence.
• When they failed, they consulted the Jewish scholars of Medina for ways to disprove the Prophet ﷺ.
• Some Jewish scholars, out of jealousy, deliberately misled the Quraysh despite recognizing the truth.
📌 Allah calls them out:
• They knew the truth, yet rejected it.
• They lied about Allah to maintain their power.
• Allah declares: “The wrongdoers will NEVER succeed.”
💡 Lesson: Knowing the truth but choosing arrogance over submission is the greatest loss.
📖 Verse 22-23 – The Fate of the Mushrikeen on the Day of Judgment
🔹 وَيَوْمَ نَحْشُرُهُمْ جَمِيعًۭا ثُمَّ نَقُولُ لِلَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُوا۟ أَيْنَ شُرَكَآؤُكُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ كُنتُمْ تَزْعُمُونَ
🔹 “And on that Day, We will gather them all and say to those who committed shirk: ‘Where are your partners whom you used to claim (had power)?’”
🔹 ثُمَّ لَمْ تَكُن فِتْنَتُهُمْ إِلَّآ أَن قَالُوا۟ وَٱللَّهِ رَبِّنَا مَا كُنَّا مُشْرِكِينَ
🔹 “Then they will have no excuse but to say: ‘By Allah, our Lord, we were never polytheists!’”
🔹 The Mushrikeen’s Last Excuse:
• In this life, they had full confidence in their idols.
• On Judgment Day, they will lie to Allah, claiming they never committed shirk.
• They will be in complete denial out of fear.
💡 Lesson: Some people live in falsehood so long that they even lie to themselves when confronted with the truth.
