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BISMILLAH Al
RAHMAN Al-
RAHEEM
(In the Name of
Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful)
All praise is for
Allah. Darood (Blessings) and Salaam (Peace) on Muhammad, his Family, and his
Companions.
Secrets of
SEEN - THE ARABIC LETTER
Towards The Understanding of The Eternal Messenger of Allah Muhammad
RasulAllah
PART 1
The Arabic
letter
Seen
is
equivalent to the letter 'S' in the English alphabet.
Secrets: Sir of the Soul,
Heart of Quran YaSeen
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15th
Position Abjad Dunya placement 12, Value = "60"
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15 Lines on
the Hand Secret of Sin Sir of Sayedena Muhammad {s}
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15 th is the
Full Moon ,
Perfection of Muhammadan Reality.
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12th Position in Arabic Dunya 12th of Raby
Awal
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12 is completion of Divine Secrets
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12 tribes 12 springs 12 Imams 12 Months
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All Quran is BismiAllahAlRahmanAlRaheem=786
also =21
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21 is the Mirror of "12"
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Showing Secret of Sayedena YaSeen is the
Quran.
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He is Walking Living Quran 12, for
Seen
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It is the twelfth letter in the Arabic
character set.
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Seen
in Arabic numerology which is known as Abjad, has the value of
60.
This
article is about the spiritual meaning of the letter
Seen.
INTRODUCTION
In the first
Revelation received by Muhammad
 from
Allah through Jibraeel ( )
was
"Read: In the name of your Rabb" [Quran: Al
Alaq Chapter 96]
Read
what? Read
Bismi Rabbik.
Read: Ba,{
Bahr Qudra}
Seen {Sir of Muhammad}, Meem{
In the Creation of Muhammad},
Bismi.
The letters
Ba
and Meem
are already included on this website.
We shall now look
at the Arabic letter
Seen.
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It is the second letter in the verse
Bismillah,
which is shown at the top of this page.
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Bismillah
is the first verse in the Quran.
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The first part of
Bismillah (Bismi)
was revealed during the first revelation.
THE LETTER SEEN
Jibraeel ()
spoke the Message of Allah, Muhammad
listened.
Then Muhammad
repeated
the Message of Allah after listening to Jibraeel ()
and Jibraeel ()
listened.
What is the meaning of the letter
Seen?
In
order to find that we need to look at the meaning of the word
INSAN.
THE MEANING OF INSAN
Allah created man
and called him
INSAN
 .
Khalaqal Insan Min Alaq
[Quran Chapter 96].
The word INSAN is
made up of the five Arabic letters
Alif, Noon, Seen, Alif
and
Noon.
He placed his secrets inside the man.
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Alif
 -
First there was Allah (Alif) and there was nothing beside Him.
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Noon -
Then He created the world (Noon) which had already been written by the
Qalam (Pen). Allah then placed man on earth. He did not send man empty
handed.
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Seen
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He placed His Secret (Seen) Sirr, in the man.
12-21 mirror of Quran
Dressing Muhammadan RasulAllah.
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Alif
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Man has been sent to find this Secret before he returns to Allah (Alif). Only
Allah will exist with nothing beside Him. He will recreate man for the second
time and he will be judged.
-
Noon
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Man will then proceed to his next life in the next world (Noon) which can be
heaven or hell depending on his performance in the present world.
Sirr
is
the Secret (Seen)
of Rabb (Ra)
placed inside the man.
The Quran is the
guide and reminder to find this secret.
What is the
secret?
Rasool Allah used to
move his tongue when the divine Inspiration was being revealed to him. So
Allah revealed: "Move not your tongue concerning (the Quran) to make haste
therewith." [Quran: Al Qiyamat Chapter 75 verse 16]
[Sahih Bukhari]
WHAT IS THE SECRET ?
The secret is the
hearing. This is displayed at the start of the Quran:
1
Alif Laam Meem
2
This is the Book; in it is guidance without doubt to those who fear Allah.
3
Who believe in the
Unseen are steadfast in prayer and spend out of what We have provided for them.
[Quran: Al Baqara
Chapter 2]
If we look at the
third verse it says:
Who believe in the
unseen...
How does a person believe in the unseen?
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If a person cannot see something hidden, he/she needs someone to tell him/her
about it.
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The person has to listen to, or hear, the one who knows about the unseen or the
hidden.
THE ATTRIBUTE OF HEARING
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The letter
Seen
represents
the attribute of hearing.
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Allah mentions
His attribute as
As Samee
(which starts with the letter
Seen)
- The All Hearing.
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There are different combinations of the Hearing attribute used in the Quran in
relation to Allah. They are:
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1) As Samee ul
Aleem (Hearing and Wise)
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2) As Samee ul
Baseer (Hearing and Seeing)
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3) As Samee un
Qareeb (Hearing and Near)
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Every time, the
attribute Samee is mentioned first. He gave this faculty to his creatures to
hear, to listen. To emphasise the importance of hearing it is further stated:
6
As to those who reject Faith it is the same to them whether you warn them or not
warn them; they will not believe.
7
Allah has set a seal on their hearts and on their
hearing
and on their eyes is a veil; great is the penalty they (incur).
[Quran: Al Baqara
Chapter 2]
For disbelievers Allah has closed this avenue.
Notice that out of all the five senses,
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sight, touch, taste, smell and hearing, it is the sense of hearing which is
mentioned first in the Quran. Why is there emphasis on hearing?
HEARING IS SUPERIOR TO SIGHT
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It is through
hearing, a person either accepts or rejects what is heard.
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As far as sight is
concerned, it is defective and prone to error.
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A good example of the
defectiveness of the sight is that the sun appears to be a small flat round disk
placed in the sky. Whereas in reality it is many times larger than the earth and
it is spherical. Therefore the eyes cannot be relied on. On the other hand the
idol worshippers rely on a god they can see.
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This is where they are led astray
from the reality.
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They worship statues or sun or stars. Ibrahim ()
turned away from all these because they all had a flaw. For example the sun
disappeared during the night. The stars disappeared, or were hidden, during the
day. Ibrahim ()
used his logic and decided, how can a 'God' be completely visible during the day
and then set during the night? Or how can a 'God' be visible during the night
and disappear during the day? He rejected the statues because they could neither
hear nor speak.
THE FIRST CALL
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Consider a new
born baby. The eyes of the baby cannot focus. The baby cannot distinguish
objects. It takes months for the baby to learn to focus the eyes and distinguish
objects. On the other hand the hearing of the new born baby is fully functional.
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For Muslims it is their duty that the first sound that reaches the ears of a new
born baby is the call of the Azan. The soul is comforted that it has come to a
Muslim household. And it is reminded that it has come from Allah and it must one
day return to Allah.
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This act of calling the Azan in the new born's ears
confirms that sound and hearing is far superior than sight. This is confirmed
time and time again in the Quran:
9
But He fashioned him in due proportion and breathed into him something of His
spirit. And He gave you (the faculties of) hearing and sight and feeling: little
thanks do you give
[Quran: As Sajda
Chapter 32]
THE MESSAGE OF ALLAH
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Initially the
Word, the Message of Allah can only enter our hearts and minds through the
faculty of hearing.
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If we are born deaf, then the Message of Allah is not easily
understood.
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To believe in the Message of Allah we need someone to tell us.
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We
need to
hear the message.
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Even
when reading the brain converts the letters into sounds which are then
understood, although the sounds are not audible.
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In this instance we are
'listening' to our own brain.
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In the Quran, there are numerous accounts of
Allah's Messengers ()
warning their communities. How did they warn their communities? By calling out
to them.
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By making them hear.
SPEECH - COMPLIMENT OF HEARING
Coming back to
the example of the baby, the child, as it grows, listens to the language of the
parents. Then the child copies those sounds and starts to utter the first words.
Speech is learned through the faculty of hearing and not through the eyes. When
listening to the Quran, we must listen to it as if for the first time. Only then
can we learn. It is the same process as the learning of a child.
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When the first
revelation was received, it was not written on paper. It was by the sound made
by Jibraeel ()
and Muhammadlistened. After listening to the Message, Muhammad
repeated
it.
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The faculty of hearing is a channel to our souls.
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Most of us have
seen and observed a hypnotist. All the hypnotist does is use his/her voice and
tells the person being hypnotised to
listen
to his/her voice.
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The hypnotist is trying to reach the soul by making it hear. If the eyes are the
windows to ours souls, then the ears are the doors to our souls.
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The faculty of hearing is an entrance to our souls.
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This
has been displayed in the Quran as follows:
83
When they
listen
to what has been revealed to the Messenger, you see their eyes overflow with
tears because of their recognition of the Truth. They say: Our Lord, we believe.
Write us as among the witnesses.
[Quran: Al Maida
Chapter 5]
25
Of them there are some who
listen
to you; but We have thrown veils on their hearts so they do not understand and
deafness in their ears; if they saw every one of the Signs they will not believe
in them; to the point that when they come to you they argue with you; the
disbelievers say: "These are nothing but tales of the ancients."
[Quran: Al Anaam
Chapter 6]
THE VEIL ON HEARING
In the first
example the believers listen and they recognise the Truth when they hear it.
This is due to Allah's Mercy that he does not veil the heart, mind and hearing
of the believer. In the second example, the disbelievers only listen for the
sake of argument. Allah does not permit them to understand the Message. The
third example of the word to listen is as follows:
104
You who believe!, say not (to the Messenger): "Listen
to us" but say "Look upon us," and you be the
listeners.
For disbelievers is a painful doom.
[Quran: Al Baqara
Chapter 2]
When we listen to
someone, that person is getting through to our souls through our hearing. The
person is getting through to our sub-conscious.
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Allah forbid the believers to
say to Muhammad
to
listen to them.
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The believer has no right to invade the soul of a Messenger of
Allah.
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Allah's Messengers ()
have every right to pass the Message of Allah to our souls.
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They are our masters and teachers. Their duty was to pass the Message of Allah
to their communities. It is up to Allah whether the Message gets through to the
listener or not.
WHISPERING OF SHAYTAN
36
And if a whisper from the devil reaches you then seek refuge in Allah. He is the
Hearer, the Knower.
[Quran: Ha Meem
Chapter 41]
In the above
example, to repel the evil suggestions, the whispers, we need to seek refuge in
Allah by reciting the Auzu Billah and other verses of the Quran. The whispering
occurs in the soul. The antidote of the whispering is the sound of the Name of
Allah and the verses of the Quran. So the antidote is recited by the body. And
the listening is done by the soul.
SOUND OF LIFE AND DEATH
As far as life,
death and resurrection are concerned, even they are connected with sounds and
hearing. Below, are some examples from the Quran about sound and hearing:
260
And when Ibrahim said: My Rabb! Show me how You give life to the dead, He said:
Do you not believe? Ibrahim said: Yes, but (I ask) in order that my heart may be
at ease. (His Rabb) said: Take four birds and cause them to incline unto you,
then place a part of them on each hill, then call them, they will come to you in
haste. And know that Allah is Mighty, Wise.
[Quran: Al Baqara
Chapter 2]
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Here the birds
are taught to respond to the sound of their master.
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When the master
calls, they fly towards him. Then they are killed and their parts are mixed up
and placed on each hill.
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When Ibrahim ()
calls them after having killed them, they rise from death and fly towards their
master. In similarity to this we are told about the Last Day and the Day of
Judgement:
68
And the trumpet is blown, and all who are in the heavens and the earth swoon
away, save him whom Allah wills. Then it is blown a second time, and behold them
standing waiting!
[Quran: Az Zumar
Chapter 39]
The end will be
by sound and hearing of the first blast. Then the resurrection will also be by
sound and hearing of the second blast.
This secret of
sound and hearing opens up another secret.
100
Therein wailing is their portion, and
therein
they hear not.
101
Those on whom kindness has gone forth before from Us, they will be far removed
from there.
102
They will not hear
the slightest sound
(of wailing)
thereof,
while they abide in that which their souls desire.
103
The Supreme Horror will not grieve them, and the angels will
welcome
them, (saying):
This is your Day which you were promised;
[Quran: Al Anbiyaa
Chapter 21]
In the above
verses, those who are in hell
they will not hear.
Those in heaven will be shielded from the wailing sounds. Instead they will have
that which their souls desire
and sounds of angels welcoming them.
THE SECRET OF THE SOUL
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The secret of the
soul is that it thrives on sound.
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It can be either Zikr Allah or it can be
whispers of the devil and idle chit chat or the sound can be music and song.
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Zikr
Allah, recitation of the Quran make the person lean towards Allah.
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The whispering of the devil, and idle chit chat make the person lean towards the
devil.
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In hell the soul will be barred from sounds. In heaven it will have that which
it desires.
What it desires
is the Sound of Allah and sound of Muhammad
.
20
You who believe! Obey Allah and His messenger, and turn not away from him when
you hear (him speak).
21
Be not as those who say, We hear, and they hear not.
22
The worst of beasts in Allah's sight are
the deaf, the dumb,
who have no sense.
23
Had Allah Known of any good in them He would have made them hear, but had He
made them hear they would have turned away, averse.
[Quran: Al Anfal
Chapter 8]
Just as the body
needs regular food to remain healthy, the soul needs regular Zikr Allah to
remain healthy. Zikr Allah is the food of the soul.
BACK TO THE LETTER SEEN
Now turning back
to the letter Seen, from the Quran, the first chapter that comes to mind is
Ya Seen.
It is
considered as the heart of the Quran.
Let us look at a few verses from that chapter:
1
Ya Seen
2
By the Quran full of Wisdom
[Quran: Ya Seen
Chapter 36]
The Quran is full
of Wisdom we are told in the second verse above. Therefore the first verse must
have a deeper spiritual meaning.
If chapter 36 is
the heart of the Quran then the heart of the chapter must be within this
chapter. The hint is the the first verse and that is
Ya Seen.
It is like someone calling out to a listener. If it is a call to a listener,
then the question is: What is the message?
That message is:
58
"Salaamun (Peace)! a Word from a Rabb Most Merciful!
[Quran: Ya Seen Chapter 36]
143
And when Musa came
to Our appointed place and his Rabb spoke to him, he said: My Rabb! Show me
(Yourself), that I may gaze upon You. He said:
You cannot see Me,
but gaze upon the mountain! If it stand still in its place, then you will see
Me. And when his Rabb revealed (His) glory to the mountain He sent it
crashing down. And Musa fell down senseless. And when he woke he said: Glory to
You!
I turn to You
repentant,
and I am the first of (true) believers.
[Quran: Al Aaraf
Chapter 7]
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Musa ()
repented because he asked to see his Rabb.
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He could not bear to see Him. He then realised the presence of Allah will be
attained by hearing and not sight.
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This is also
related in
Kashf al Mahjub
by the Hadrat Ali bin Usman al Hujwiri (ra)
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... the inhabitants of Paradise shall behold Him; and that
assimilation is inadmissible; and such terms as "confronting" and "seeing face
to face" cannot be applied to His Being.
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[Kashf al Mahjub
Chapter 16]
NUMERICAL APPROACH TO THE LETTER SEEN
Now let us look
at the numerical side of the Message.
Quran chapter 36 is called
Ya Seen.
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The Arabic letter
Ya
 =
10. And the Arabic letter
Seen
=
60.
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We call out
Ya
to attract attention.
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This is by sound which the other person hears or listens (Seen).
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When the other person listens he understands the words through his thoughts
which is Ayn .
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Or in other words:
Ya
+ Seen
= Ayn
(The Arabic letter
Ayn
has a numerical value = 70).
We have
Seen,
we have Ya
and we have
Ayn.
58
Salaamun Qawlam Mir Rabbir Raheem
[Quran: Ya Seen,
Chapter 36]
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If we add the verse number 5+8 = 13.
“Meem is Thirteenth Letter in
Abjad Position” 13 = Nur Nun-50,
waw-6, ra-200 256= Nur or 2+5+6="13"
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Then we reduce
this to a single digit it becomes (1 + 3 =) 4.
{4th Name of Rasul is Mamood}
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When the Creator
speaks, the created has to be present.
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The creature is
created from a dot or '0' which when placed in front of 4 becomes 40 (Meem).
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That is the
missing
Meem.
With that Meem
the attribute
Samee is
completed.
Looking at in
another way.
First we look at
the numerical value of
Samee:
In the first
calculation we needed a '0'. Allah had to create one who would listen.
Meem
is tied in with creation. In the second calculation we already have a '0'. He
hears his Rabb Raheem saying
Salaam
to him.
To explain it in
another way. There was Allah with no one beside Him. Allah was the Speaker and
Listener. He created the Light of Muhammad
.
Now Allah Spoke (sent Salaam and Blessings on Muhammad
)
and the Light of Muhammad
listened.
56
Allah and His angels shower blessings on the Prophet. You who believe! Ask
blessings on him and salute him with a worthy salutation
[Quran: Al Ahzab
Chapter 33]
The Light of
Muhammad
praised
Allah and Allah Listened.
The beauty of all
this is that if we reduce 18 or 180 to a single digit we get
9.
The INSAN
develops over 9 months from one dot or '0'.
The numerical
value of the word
INSAN
is:
Alif
(1) + Noon
(50) + Seen
(60) + Alif
(1) + Noon
(50) = 162 = 1 + 6 + 2 = 9
INSAN
enters this world with the sense of hearing from day one.
In conclusion
Bismi means the creation of man (Ba)
whose duty is to listen (Seen)
to his Rabb and learn from His Messengers and His Books and gain experience
until the age of 40 (Meem).
Then he can
progress and know Allah Ar Rahman Ar Raheem.
37
In this is a reminder for him who has a heart, or
listens with full
intelligence.
[Quran: Qaf
Chapter 50]
Darood and Salaam on Muhammad, His
Family, and His Companions
SEEN - THE ARABIC LETTER - PART 2
In Seen -
Part 1 we reached a point where the sense of hearing is placed above all other
senses. Ears are the doors to the soul. The question has to be asked: Which
words should enter through these doors?
The words that
should enter the doors of our soul are the Words of Allah from the Quran. The
Quran when recited by a gifted Qari (Reciter of Quran) bring tears to the eyes
of a believer. The recitation goes straight into the soul of a believer. The
Quran should be allowed to enter our souls without resistance.
The Quran is one
of the many gifts from Allah, through Muhammad
,
to men and jinn. Not just for Muslims but to men and jinn. It is up to Allah to
bring to Islam whomever He wills. When the Quran was being revealed, there were
only a handful of Muslims. Some people and jinn became Muslims just by hearing
the Quran and accepting the guidance. So hearing is playing a major part in this
acceptance of guidance. Even the jinn testify:
1
Say: It has been revealed to me that a company of Jinns
listened
(to the Quran). They say `We
have
really
heard
a wonderful
Recital!
2
It gives guidance to the Right and
we have
believed
therein: We shall not join (in worship) any (gods) with our Rabb
[Quran: Al Jinn
Chapter 72]
Because the
emphasis is on listening. When reading the Quran we must listen to it as well.
As soon as we start listening to the words we are reading, the message starts to
clarify. Allah keeps telling us in the Quran that the message is clear but He
covers the hearing of anyone He wants and removes the veils from the ears of
whoever He wants. In the Quran there is mention of the Jews changing the words
and the change concerned the word
hear:
46
Some of those who are Jews change words from their context and say:
"We hear and disobey; you hear as one who hears not"
and "Listen
to us!"
distorting with their tongues and slandering religion. If they had said:
"We
hear and we obey; you hear, and look at us"
it would have been better for them, and correct. But Allah has cursed them for
their disbelief, so they do not believe, except a few.
[Quran: An Nisaa
Chapter 4]
Now if we meet
those who try to lead us astray we must answer them with greeting of
Salaam.
This is mentioned in the Quran numerous times:
63
The servants of Rahman (the Gracious) are they who walk upon the earth modestly,
and when the foolish ones address them answer: Salaama (Peace);
[Quran: Al Furqan
Chapter 25]
88
And he said: Ya Rabbi (My Lord)! Those people do not believe.
89
Then bear with them and say: Salaamun (Peace). They will come to know.
[Quran: Az Zakhruf
Chapter 43]
46
(The father) replied: "Do you hate my gods Ibrahim? If you do not cease I will
stone you: depart from me for a good long while!"
47
Ibrahim said: "Salaamun (Peace on you): I will pray to my Rabb (Lord) for your
forgiveness: to me He is Most Gracious.
[Quran: Maryam
Chapter 19]
What lesson can
we draw from all this? No matter whom we meet, whether friend or foe, we must
greet them with the same greeting. The greeting is
Salaam.
This we have been taught by Muhammad
.
And the next time we say
Salaam
we must keep in mind that this is the greeting of paradise. We have been sent
here to practice. This life is the school of learning. Whatever good knowledge
and manners of Islam we learn here, they will be useful in the next world.
Finally in
Chapter 36 it is mentioned that the greeting of the people of paradise is
Salaam.
It is impolite not to answer the greeting of our Rabb.
Not only that, it
is impolite not to answer a person who says
Salaam
to another person. What reply do we give to one who says
Salaam
to us? The answer is simple.
Wa Alaikum As Salaam
(and Peace on
You also). Allah has taught us well through His Messenger Muhammad
.
That is the simple answer. There is also a spiritual answer.
When our Rabb
says
Salaam
to us we can reply
Wa Alaikum As Salaam.
Or we can respond with
Salaam
and Magnify our Rabb at the same time. Allah has shown us ho | 
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