10/09/2026
Learning the Lessons of the Past
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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful [1:1]
Allah says: will these people who deny the Messengers not learn from the nations who came before them, whom Allah destroyed for their rejection of His Messengers and their opposition to what the Messengers brought them of the straight path No trace is left of them whatsoever.
﴿هَلْ تُحِسُّ مِنْهُمْ مِّنْ أَحَدٍ أَوْ تَسْمَعُ لَهُمْ رِكْزاً﴾
(Can you find a single one of them or hear even a whisper of them) (19:98). Allah says:
﴿يَمْشُونَ فِى مَسَـكِنِهِمْ﴾
(in whose dwellings they do walk about) meaning, these disbelievers walk about in the places where those disbelievers used to live, but they do not see any of those who used to live there, for they have gone --
﴿كَأَن لَّمْ يَغْنَوْاْ فِيهَآ﴾
(As if they had never lived there) (11:68) This is like the Ayat:
﴿فَتِلْكَ بُيُوتُهُمْ خَاوِيَةً بِمَا ظَلَمُواْ﴾
(These are their houses in utter ruin, for they did wrong) (27:52).
﴿وَلَـكِن تَعْمَى الْقُلُوبُ الَّتِى فِى الصُّدُورِ﴾
(but it is the hearts which are in the breasts that grow blind.) (22:45-46) Allah says here:
﴿إِنَّ فِى ذَلِكَ لاّيَاتٍ﴾
(Verily, therein indeed are signs.) meaning, in the fact that these people are gone and have been destroyed, and in what happened to them because they disbelieved the Messengers, and how those who believed in them were saved, there are many signs, proofs and important lessons.
﴿أَفَلاَ يَسْمَعُونَ﴾
(Would they not then listen) means, to the stories of those who came before and what happened to them.
رَبَّنَا اصْرِفْ عَنَّا عَذَابَ جَهَنَّمَ ۖ إِنَّ عَذَابَهَا كَانَ غَرَامًا
Our Lord! Avert from us the torment of Hell. Verily! Its torment is ever an inseparable, permanent punishment. [Al-Furqan 25:65]
Aameen
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by All About Islam
