The Way to Salvation in the Light of Surah Al- Asr, livre ebook

• Brings together two distinct treatments of the same surah — a 1966 written essay and a 1973 spoken address at Aitchison College, Lahore — offering both a formal and a conversational route into the same argument
• Builds its central argument directly on Maulana Hamid-ud-Din Farahi'stafsir, working through the Arabic grammar of the surah's final verse in accessible terms
• Situates Surah al-'Asr against Surah al-Teen and its immediate neighbors in the Mushaf, Surah al-Takathur and Surah al-Humaza
• Simple, Urdu-accessible vocabulary throughout, suited to general readers as well as students encountering Qur'anic exegesis for the first time
• Short, focused format suitable as a standalone devotional read or as course material for study circles

Shelve under Islamic Studies / Qur'an & Tafsir, adjacent to short single-surah commentaries and general Islamic devotional titles. This is a compact expository work suited to general readers, study circles, and students encountering Qur'anic exegesis for the first time, rather than a specialist academic reference. Best positioned in trade Islamic bookstores, mosque and community bookshops, and the devotional or Qur'anic-studies sections of general bookstores serving Muslim readers.

"The Interrelation of Faith, Righteous Deeds and Mutual Exhortation"

Nothing and no one can avoid influencing his environment and being influenced by it. The coldness of ice will necessarily chill its surroundings and the heat of fire will surely make them warmer. The same is true in the field of morality. If the spirit of righteous deeds is really engendered in a person, it must have an impact upon his environment and he will necessarily be a source of diffusing goodness and virtue. The natural outcome of righteous deeds is the propagation of truth in society.

This principle operates in ethics very forcefully. If the social environment favours evil, it will necessarily bring about deterioration in the lives of its citizens. The only possible way to escape from this is to change that environment or at least to struggle vehemently to change it. Even if a person cannot change it, he can at least in this way, act on the principle that the best defense is a good offence, and repel it defensively. Thus the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said:

"If any one among you observes a vice, it is his duty to change it by force. If he is not able to do so, he should protest against it verbally. If he does not possess even this much of courage, he should detest it by his heart and soul, which means that his heart should regard it as bad, and that he should regret that he could not stop it, and this is the weakest degree of faith."

Table of Contents

Foreword

The Way To Salvation In The Light Of Surah Al-'Asr

Big Impact

Changes

Destruction

Truth

Two Sides

Truth

Unity

Conditions

Kindness

Struggle

Commentary On Surah Al-'Asr

The Two Levels of Understanding Quran

The English Translation of Surah AI-'Asr

Analysis of the Translation

The Criterion of Success and Failure

The Minimum Conditions and Essential prerequisites of Salvation

All the four Conditions are indispensable

Eloquence with categorical Emphasis

The Real Meaning of "Wal-'Asr"

The Inter-relation of the First Two Verses

The Real Meaning of 'Iman' or Faith

The Real Meaning of Righteous Deeds

The Meaning of Mutual Exhortation

The Meaning of 'Haqq' or Truth

The Meaning of Patience

Exhortation to Truth and Exhortation to Patience are co-essential

The Interrelation of Faith, Righteous Deeds and Mutual Exhortation

Its relation to the surahs before and after