Let him then call upon the henchmen of his council the members of his council nādin — a place of assembly where people gather to talk. He Abū Jahl had said to the Prophet s in reproof having forbidden him from prayer ‘You are well aware that there is none in this town who has […]
We shall call the Zabāniya the grim stern angels to destroy him as stated in the hadīth ‘Had he called his council of henchmen together the Zabāniya would have seized him right before his own eyes!’.
No indeed! — a repudiation of him — Do not obey him O Muhammad (s) and abandon prayer and prostrate yourself perform prayer to God and draw near to Him through obedience to Him.
Have you considered what if he the one forbidden should be upon a path of guidance
or aw is for division be bidding others to fear of God?
Have you considered what if he the one forbidding the Prophet should be denying God’s guidance and turning away? from faith.
Is he not aware that God sees? what has issued from him that is to say He does indeed know it and will requite him for it. In other words ‘Marvel O you being addressed at the way in which he forbids prayer and at the fact that the one being forbidden is actually the […]
No indeed! — a repudiation of him — Assuredly if la-in the lām is for oaths he does not desist from the disbelief that he is upon We shall seize him by the forelock We shall drag him to the Fire by his forelock
a lying iniquitous forelock! nāsiyatin an indefinite noun substituting for a definite — the description of this forelock in such terms is meant figuratively and what is actually meant is that individual.
Who taught the art of script by the pen — the first to write with it was the prophet Enoch Idrīs peace be upon him —