Al-Waqia
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Al-Waqʿia
Al-Waqiah is an Arabic word that means Inevitable, Event or Revolution. It is the 56th Surah (Chapter) of the Quran, it was revealed in Mecca
. The total number of verses
in this surah are 96.
Surah al Waqiah (56)
Prophet Muhammad
said, "Whoever recites Surah al Waqiah at night would never encounter poverty."
Prophet Muhammad said, "Surah al Waqiah is the Surah (Chapter) of Wealth, so recite it and teach it to your children."
All power and all authority belongs to Allah
. Creativity is the power of Allah. After the afterlife, the Qiyamah
will be either to Jannah
(Paradise) or Jahannam
(hell). Muslim
s believe that unfaithful Muslims who do not adhere to the religion will be punished in Jahannam, but they will eventually be forgiven except shirk
(idolatry), where forgiveness is not given if this is done deliberately. It is not fair to associate partners with Allah. According 56 sura (chapter) Ayah (verse) 4 (Qur'an ), the whole earth shall be shaken with a shock of an earthquake. The believers will be in the gardens of bliss as verse Ayah (verse) 13 (Qur'an ) a lot of the people of the old times. Ayah (verse) 14 (Qur'an ) and a few from later times. The foremost of faith and good works will be less in latter times. The foremost of faith and good deeds are rewarded with the fruit
s of their choice, the meat of poultry
, flowing water and virgins
. According to a hadith
of Shama il Tirmidhi, Allah's last Prophet said that no old woman will enter Paradise and that Allah will make them again and make them virgins. The faithful man will be able to have intercourse with a hundred virgins in one day in Paradise. They will have thrones (with gold and precious stones). The foremost of faith and good deeds, also a Shahid
(martyr) is rewarded with Talh trees, Acacia
trees or Banana
trees and Al-Firdaws (Paradise). Wine
in this world has side effects: it intoxicates, gives headache, causes vomiting, and in Paradise wine is without these side effects. In Jannah (Paradise), there is a tree that a rider can travel for a hundred years under its shade. The unbelievers who called truth for a lie, the criminals, those with material benefits and pleasure in abundance, those who eat or drink in gold or silver objects, come to Jahannam (hell) and eats of the cursed tree Zaqqum
, the fruits are shaped like devils' heads (Qur'an ), and drink boiling water.
Ayah 28 talks of those of the Right Hand will be among lote-trees in Paradise. The lote-tree might actually exist on earth.
The believers will be in gardens of bliss according to verse Ayah (verse) 39 a lot of the old times. Ayah (verse) 40 and a lot of latter times. Ayah (verse) 38 speaks of those from the right side. Quraish, the tribe that Islam's last Prophet belonged to, he was last of a series of Prophets sent by Allah for the benefit of mankind. The tribal center was Mecca and its task was to watch over the Kaaba
. Quraish tribe are descendants of Ibrahim (Islamic prophet) through his son Ismail (prophet). The Quraishs are good-hearted Muslims.
Righteous, Muslims, believers who do good deeds. According to verse Ayah (verse) 14, it could mean that there will be less number of faithful Muslims in latter times and last time when lies prevail over the truth.
An exemplification is that some unchaste young women in some countries have twice as many sex partners as they did ten years ago. This could mean that there are few believers from the later times and thus few that will come to the gardens of Paradise in latter times.
And immortal grandsons/young children keep moving around them [56:17]
Qur'an بِأَكْوَابٍ وَأَبَارِيقَ وَكَأْسٍ مِّن مَّعِينٍ
with [crystal] glasses and flagons and serving [hard] drinks brought from source reservoir.[56:18]
The Arabic word أَبَارِيقَ finds mention as the container for serving drinks circularly to glasses individually held by friends sitting together confronting each other. Its meanings in English are flagons. It denotes a large bottle, container with a wide base having a narrow neck for storing and sprouting alcoholic drinks to the glass of the drinker. In the same context, بِآنِيَةٍ is the substitute used in 76:15, which denotes a similar vessel/container.
أَبَارِيقَ This is one of few words of Grand Qur’aan, which some consider as a borrowed word from Persian. This word refers to an article of use, a utensil, for the storage and pouring of liquor to some smaller utensil for sipping/ drinking the liquid. Therefore, the presumption, that it is a word borrowed by Arabs whose language is perhaps the richest in concepts and has limitless vocabulary, is evidently erroneous.
أَبَارِيقَ It is a broken plural, of singular إِبْرِيقٌ , formed on the pattern of أَفَاعِيلُ . The Root is " ب ر ق". The basic perception infolded in it is that of lightening. However, the word exclusively points to an object known as flagons. Is it not strange that the Arabic language makes use of a Root, which apparently has no relationship with a peculiar shaped container for storage, and service of liquid?
The Flagon is apparently a utensil, vessel. However, it has an assigned job/function and is required to establish a link and relationship with another object, the empty glass of drink, for the transfer of its content. The one who in standing position serves the drink to the glass in hand of a sitting person from the flagon slightly raises its bottom. He sprouts a small quantity that produces a little glimmer, which flows downwards and touches the bottom of the glass creating a path. It establishes a conductive path between the ground/glass bottom and the main reservoir of flagon. On mapping out this conductive path, the sudden massive flow of drink follows filling the glass. All this activity from beginning to main strike occurs just in a second.
The lightening, which is the basic perception, infolded in Root "ب ر ق" works in the same manner. Once the ionization process is complete and plasma forms, the ionized air streaming from the cloud establishes a path to the ground. This path is termed as the "step leader". The "step leader" that reaches the earth first provides a conductive path between the cloud and the Earth. This leader is not the lightning strike; it only maps out the course that the strike will follow. The strike is the sudden, massive, flow of electrical current moving from the cloud to the ground.
[for detailed study see 1-Surat Fateha :Word by Word Analysis"]
Sura
A sura is a division of the Qur'an, often referred to as a chapter. The term chapter is sometimes avoided, as the suras are of unequal length; the shortest sura has only three ayat while the longest contains 286 ayat...
Al-Waqʿia
Al-Waqiah is an Arabic word that means Inevitable, Event or Revolution. It is the 56th Surah (Chapter) of the Quran, it was revealed in Mecca
Mecca
Mecca is a city in the Hijaz and the capital of Makkah province in Saudi Arabia. The city is located inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of above sea level...
. The total number of verses
Ayah
Ayah or Aayah is the Arabic word for sign or proof:"These are the Ayat of Allah, which We recite to you with truth...
in this surah are 96.
Surah al Waqiah (56)
Prophet Muhammad
Muhammad
Muhammad |ligature]] at U+FDF4 ;Arabic pronunciation varies regionally; the first vowel ranges from ~~; the second and the last vowel: ~~~. There are dialects which have no stress. In Egypt, it is pronounced not in religious contexts...
said, "Whoever recites Surah al Waqiah at night would never encounter poverty."
Prophet Muhammad said, "Surah al Waqiah is the Surah (Chapter) of Wealth, so recite it and teach it to your children."
Allah
Allah is a word for God used in the context of Islam. In Arabic, the word means simply "God". It is used primarily by Muslims and Bahá'ís, and often, albeit not exclusively, used by Arabic-speaking Eastern Catholic Christians, Maltese Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Mizrahi Jews and...
. Creativity is the power of Allah. After the afterlife, the Qiyamah
Qiyamah
In Islam, Yawm al-Qiyāmah or Yawm ad-Din is believed to be God's final assessment of humanity as it exists. The sequence of events is the annihilation of all creatures allowable, resurrection of the body, and the judgment of all sentient creatures.The exact time when these events are to occur...
will be either to Jannah
Jannah
Jannah , is the Islamic conception of paradise. The Arabic word Jannah is a shortened version meaning simply "Garden". According to Islamic eschatology, after death, one will reside in the grave until the appointed resurrection on . Muslims believe that the treatment of the individual in the life...
(Paradise) or Jahannam
Jahannam
Jahannam is the Arabic language equivalent to Hell. The term comes from the Greek Gehenna, itself derived from the Hebrew geographical name for the Valley of Hinnom.-Jahannam in the Qur'an:...
(hell). Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
s believe that unfaithful Muslims who do not adhere to the religion will be punished in Jahannam, but they will eventually be forgiven except shirk
Shirk
Shirk may refer to:* "Shirk", to avoid work or other responsibilities* Shirk , in Islam, the sin of idolatry or associating beings or things with Allah* "Shirk break", a synonym for coffee break*Susan Shirk, US academic...
(idolatry), where forgiveness is not given if this is done deliberately. It is not fair to associate partners with Allah. According 56 sura (chapter) Ayah (verse) 4 (Qur'an ), the whole earth shall be shaken with a shock of an earthquake. The believers will be in the gardens of bliss as verse Ayah (verse) 13 (Qur'an ) a lot of the people of the old times. Ayah (verse) 14 (Qur'an ) and a few from later times. The foremost of faith and good works will be less in latter times. The foremost of faith and good deeds are rewarded with the fruit
Fruit
In broad terms, a fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds.The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state,...
s of their choice, the meat of poultry
Poultry
Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of producing eggs, meat, and/or feathers. These most typically are members of the superorder Galloanserae , especially the order Galliformes and the family Anatidae , commonly known as "waterfowl"...
, flowing water and virgins
Virginity
Virginity refers to the state of a person who has never engaged in sexual intercourse. There are cultural and religious traditions which place special value and significance on this state, especially in the case of unmarried females, associated with notions of personal purity, honor and worth...
. According to a hadith
Hadith
The term Hadīth is used to denote a saying or an act or tacit approval or criticism ascribed either validly or invalidly to the Islamic prophet Muhammad....
of Shama il Tirmidhi, Allah's last Prophet said that no old woman will enter Paradise and that Allah will make them again and make them virgins. The faithful man will be able to have intercourse with a hundred virgins in one day in Paradise. They will have thrones (with gold and precious stones). The foremost of faith and good deeds, also a Shahid
Shahid
Shahid is an Arabic word meaning "witness". It is a religious term in Islam, meaning both "witness" and "martyr." While a martyr may die as a consequence of fighting, a shahid is a "witness" because he gives his life out of passion for truth. The shahid exchanges himself for the divine and thereby...
(martyr) is rewarded with Talh trees, Acacia
Acacia
Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1773. Many non-Australian species tend to be thorny, whereas the majority of Australian acacias are not...
trees or Banana
Banana
Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red....
trees and Al-Firdaws (Paradise). Wine
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...
in this world has side effects: it intoxicates, gives headache, causes vomiting, and in Paradise wine is without these side effects. In Jannah (Paradise), there is a tree that a rider can travel for a hundred years under its shade. The unbelievers who called truth for a lie, the criminals, those with material benefits and pleasure in abundance, those who eat or drink in gold or silver objects, come to Jahannam (hell) and eats of the cursed tree Zaqqum
Zaqqum
Zaqqum is a tree that Muslims believe grows in Jahannam . Its dwellers are compelled to eat Adh-Dhari, bitter fruit, to intensify their torment . The Khati'un may eat only the fruit or Ghislin . Its fruits are shaped like devils' heads...
, the fruits are shaped like devils' heads (Qur'an ), and drink boiling water.
Ayah 28 talks of those of the Right Hand will be among lote-trees in Paradise. The lote-tree might actually exist on earth.
The three groups of Sura Al-Waqi'a
- The elite, Muslims who are foremost in the belief
The believers will be in gardens of bliss according to verse Ayah (verse) 39 a lot of the old times. Ayah (verse) 40 and a lot of latter times. Ayah (verse) 38 speaks of those from the right side. Quraish, the tribe that Islam's last Prophet belonged to, he was last of a series of Prophets sent by Allah for the benefit of mankind. The tribal center was Mecca and its task was to watch over the Kaaba
Kaaba
The Kaaba is a cuboid-shaped building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is the most sacred site in Islam. The Qur'an states that the Kaaba was constructed by Abraham, or Ibraheem, in Arabic, and his son Ishmael, or Ismaeel, as said in Arabic, after he had settled in Arabia. The building has a mosque...
. Quraish tribe are descendants of Ibrahim (Islamic prophet) through his son Ismail (prophet). The Quraishs are good-hearted Muslims.
- The righteous - Muslims believers who do good deeds
Righteous, Muslims, believers who do good deeds. According to verse Ayah (verse) 14, it could mean that there will be less number of faithful Muslims in latter times and last time when lies prevail over the truth.
- The unbelievers - Deniers of the truth, criminals
An exemplification is that some unchaste young women in some countries have twice as many sex partners as they did ten years ago. This could mean that there are few believers from the later times and thus few that will come to the gardens of Paradise in latter times.
Content
Qur'an يَطُوفُ عَلَيْهِمْ وِلْدَانٌ مُّخَلَّدُونَAnd immortal grandsons/young children keep moving around them [56:17]
Qur'an بِأَكْوَابٍ وَأَبَارِيقَ وَكَأْسٍ مِّن مَّعِينٍ
with [crystal] glasses and flagons and serving [hard] drinks brought from source reservoir.[56:18]
The Arabic word أَبَارِيقَ finds mention as the container for serving drinks circularly to glasses individually held by friends sitting together confronting each other. Its meanings in English are flagons. It denotes a large bottle, container with a wide base having a narrow neck for storing and sprouting alcoholic drinks to the glass of the drinker. In the same context, بِآنِيَةٍ is the substitute used in 76:15, which denotes a similar vessel/container.
أَبَارِيقَ This is one of few words of Grand Qur’aan, which some consider as a borrowed word from Persian. This word refers to an article of use, a utensil, for the storage and pouring of liquor to some smaller utensil for sipping/ drinking the liquid. Therefore, the presumption, that it is a word borrowed by Arabs whose language is perhaps the richest in concepts and has limitless vocabulary, is evidently erroneous.
أَبَارِيقَ It is a broken plural, of singular إِبْرِيقٌ , formed on the pattern of أَفَاعِيلُ . The Root is " ب ر ق". The basic perception infolded in it is that of lightening. However, the word exclusively points to an object known as flagons. Is it not strange that the Arabic language makes use of a Root, which apparently has no relationship with a peculiar shaped container for storage, and service of liquid?
The Flagon is apparently a utensil, vessel. However, it has an assigned job/function and is required to establish a link and relationship with another object, the empty glass of drink, for the transfer of its content. The one who in standing position serves the drink to the glass in hand of a sitting person from the flagon slightly raises its bottom. He sprouts a small quantity that produces a little glimmer, which flows downwards and touches the bottom of the glass creating a path. It establishes a conductive path between the ground/glass bottom and the main reservoir of flagon. On mapping out this conductive path, the sudden massive flow of drink follows filling the glass. All this activity from beginning to main strike occurs just in a second.
The lightening, which is the basic perception, infolded in Root "ب ر ق" works in the same manner. Once the ionization process is complete and plasma forms, the ionized air streaming from the cloud establishes a path to the ground. This path is termed as the "step leader". The "step leader" that reaches the earth first provides a conductive path between the cloud and the Earth. This leader is not the lightning strike; it only maps out the course that the strike will follow. The strike is the sudden, massive, flow of electrical current moving from the cloud to the ground.
[for detailed study see 1-Surat Fateha :Word by Word Analysis"]
External links
- AL-WAQIA (THE EVENT, THE INEVITABLE) at Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement
- Al-Waqia at Sacred Texts
- Holy Qur'an: Arabic with parallel English translation at Oneummah.net
- Surat Al-Waqi`ah - The Holy Qur'an - القرآن الكريم at Quran.com