Recitation 284

أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم
بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم
ألسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
Dear Quran Lovers,
I believe what happened to MAS aircraft MH370 on last Saturday is known by all. I saw that many photographers simply loved to take pictures when Muslims perform Solat, expecially when they bow and when they Sujud. Do they not know and do they not understand that when Solat is performed, the worshippers are worshipping Allah? Yet they took pictures when Rukuu and Sujud were done, as if they, and the audiences who read the pappers and who watched TV were gods, being Rukuu and Sujud at! This deed is Syirik! Those who took the pictures and those who published them, SYIRIK! Allah forbid!
Let us now continue to recite surah 2 Al-Baqoroh (synopsis of Islam). Please refer to the text:
أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الر جيم
(131) إِذْ قَالَ لَهُو رَبُّهُو~ أَسْلِمْ صلى قَالَ أَسْلَمْتُ لِرَبِّ اُلْعَلَمِينَ
إِذْ قَالَ لَهُو رَبُّهُو~ أَسْلِمْ = "Idz Qo~la La Hu~ Rob-bu Hu~~ As-lim". "Idz" = When, "Qo~la" = is said, "La" = to, "Hu~" = him, "Rob-ba" = Lord, "Hu~" = his, "As-lim" = submit, yield.
"Idz Qo~la La Hu~ Rob-bu Hu~~ As-lim".  = When his Lord/Allah  said to him/Abraham, "Submit and obey!".
صلى = a Waqof Jaiz sign.
قَالَ أَسْلَمْتُ لِرَبِّ اُلْعَلَمِينَ = "Qo~la As-lam Tu Li Rob-bil-'A~la-mi~~n".  "Qo~la" = He said, "As-lam" = submit, obey, "Tu" = I, "Li" = to, "Rob-bi" = Lord, "al-'A~la-mi~na" = the Creation.
"Qo~la As-lim Tu Li Rob-bil-'A~la-mi~~n".  = He answered, "I submit to and obey Lord of the Creation".
(Allah reminds us about Prophet Abraham a.s. when he a.s. was being tested with the stars which he a.s. thought they were gods. But when they disappeared, he rejected them. Then he a.s. saw the moon which was bigger, and he a.s. thought it was god. But when it disappeared, he a.s. also rejected it. Then he looked at the sun and thought it was god. But when it also disappeared, he also rejected it as God. Then he a.s. was convinced that all things were being created by someone, who is the God. When he a.s. knew and understood that, then Allah told him a.s. to submit to and obey Allah and became a person who embraced the religion of Islam. So he a.s. did, submitting that he a.s. would not perform any other religious rites to nor worship anything nor anyone but Allah the One and Only, Lord of the Creation.).
(132) (to be continued).
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Let us now continue to look into the Ten Signs of The Doomsday:
  (2). The Dajjal:
   When Prophet Jesus son Mary a.s. descended, he a.s. pursued after the Dajjal. And they met at the gate of a country called, "Luddin/Lud". [Is it not right to say that in the future, countries and places' names will be changed? Is there a country called Luddin/Lud now?. I have never heard of it".]. And Prophet Jesus a.s. will kill Dajjal there, at the gate of Lud country.
Then a group of people who Allah have saved from Dajjal's deceit, will come out and meet Prophet Jesus a.s. And Prophet Jesus a.s. will apply bandages on their wounded faces while he a.s. will tell them of their rank in Paradise. At that moment, Allah will reveal to Prophet Jesus a.s., "I/Allah shall deliver My bondservants who do not have the strength to fight him/Dajjal. So, save My bondservants (who have eluded the Dajjal) and bring them to a mountain".
End of the Dajjal.
  (3). Yaajuj wa Maajuj/Gog and Magog: (to be continued). 
                                     oooo000oooo
Let us now continue to look into the chronicle of Prophet Ismail/Ishmael son of Prophet Abraham a.s.:
   When Prophet Abraham a.s. married and lived with Sara, they did not have any child. But when Prophet Abraham a.s. was married to Siti Hajar/Hagar, they had a son named Ismail/Ishmael, and at that time Prophet Abraham was Eighty Six years of age. Then Allah ordered him a.s. to take Hajar and their new born baby to a barren land where there was nothing but sand and stones. It was the will and the wish of Allah that, Ishmael a.s. was thirsty that he a.s. started to stamp his tiny feet to the ground that the Archangel Gabriel a.s. dug the Zamzam well.
  When the Children of Jurhum went to Hajar who was by the well, they asked her, "May we stop over here?" Hajar replied, "Yes. But you do not have the right over this well of water.". They said, "Fair enough". Hajar accepted them because she was alone. She needed friends. The Children of Jurhum set up camps there, and sent words home so that their relatives would come to stay there because there was water. And all of them came and settled down there. And they started to build houses. 
As years have gone by, the baby Ishmael a.s. grew up and had learnt to speak Arabic of the Children of Jurhum. He a.s. had become a well respected and well liked person. He was not at war with society. When he a.s. became a youth, they married him a.s. to girl among them. After that, his mother, Siti Hajar, passed away.
  Then Prophet Abraham a.s. came in search for his family he a.s. had left many years ago. But he a.s. could not find Ishmael any where there. When he knew that Ishmael a.s. had a wife, he a.s. went to his a.s. daughter-in-law and enquired about him a.s. She said, "He has gone to find food for us". Then he a.s. asked about their lives and their conditions. She replied, "We are in a very poor condition. We are in difficulty", and sighed. The Prophet Abraham a.s. said to her, "When your husband comes home send my Salam to him and say to him to have the door-frame changed". He a.s. then left.
  When Ishmael a.s. came home, he a.s. felt as if there was something, and asked his wife, "Did someone visited you?" The wife replied: (to be continued).
Till we meet again in the next session, see you all Quran Lovers later.
والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
Abdul Hamid Mohd Yusof.