THE SOUL

*TADABBUR*

📝 *Surah 91. Ash-Shams (The Sun)*

🔷️ *[Allah swears by His Creation that the Person Who purifies Himself will be Successful]* 🔷️

✒He is not asked about what He does, while they (His creation) will be asked.' He (`Imran) then said, `May Allah guide you! I only asked you about that in order to inform you that a man from Muzaynah or Juhaynah tribe came to the Allah's Messenger SAW and asked him: "O Messenger of Allah SAW! Do you consider the actions of mankind and their struggles to be preordained for them and written for them from Qadr, or something written for them only after the Message came to them from their Prophet SAW, when there will be an evidence against them'' He (the Prophet SAW) replied:

*بَلْ شَيْءٌ قَدْ قُضِيَ عَلَيْهِم*

📃(Rather it is something preordained for them.)

✒So the man said, "Then what is the point of our actions'' The Prophet SAW replied,

*مَنْ كَانَ اللهُ خَلَقَهُ لإِحْدَى الْمَنْزِلَتَيْنِ يُهَيِّئُهُ لَهَا، وَتَصْدِيقُ ذَلِكَ فِي كِتَابِ اللهِ تَعَالَى:*

*وَنَفْسٍ وَمَا سَوَّاهَا - فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَاهَا*

📃(Whoever Allah created for one of the two positions (Paradise or Hell), He makes it easy for him (to attain).

📚The proof of that is in the Book of Allah (By Nafs, and Ma Sawwaha (Who apportioned it). Then He showed it its Fujur and its Taqwa).)''

📚Ahmad and Muslim both recorded this Hadith. Allah then says,

*قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن زَكَّـهَا - وَقَدْ خَابَ مَن دَسَّـهَا*

📃(Indeed he succeeds who purifies it.  And indeed he fails who Dassaha.)

➡️This could mean that whoever purifies himself by obedience to Allah, then he will be successful.

📚This is as Qatadah said, "He cleanses it from the lowly and despicable characteristics.''

🔷️Similar to this has been reported from Mujahid, `Ikrimah and Sa`id bin Jubayr.

*وَقَدْ خَابَ مَن دَسَّـهَا*

📃(And indeed he fails who Dassaha.) meaning, to conceal it.
✒This means that he makes it dull, and he disregards it by neglecting to allow it to receive guidance.

🔷️He treats it in this manner until he performs acts of disobedience and he abandons obedience of Allah.

👉It also could mean that he is indeed successful whose soul Allah purifies, and he has failed whose soul Allah corrupts.

📚This is like what was reported by Al-`Awfi and `Ali bin Abi Talhah from Ibn `Abbas.

📑At-Tabarani recorded that Ibn `Abbas said, "The Messenger of Allah SAW used to stop whenever he recited this Ayah,

*وَنَفْسٍ وَمَا سَوَّاهَا - فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَاهَا*

📃(By Nafs, and Ma Sawwaha (Who apportioned it).  Then He showed it its Fujur and its Taqwa.)

🎙Then he would say,

*اللْهُمَّ آتِ نَفْسِي تَقْوَاهَا، أَنْتَ وَلِيُّهَا وَمَوْلَاهَا، وَخَيْرُ مَنْ زَكَّاهَا*

📃(O Allah! Give my soul its good. You are its Guardian and Master, and the best to purify it.)'' 

📚Another Hadith Imam Ahmad recorded that Zayd bin Arqam said that the Messenger of Allah SAW said,

*اللْهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الْعَجْز وَالْكَسَلِ، وَالْهَرَمِ وَالْجُبْنِ وَالْبُخْلِ وَعَذَابِ الْقَبْرِ. اللْهُمَّ آتِ نَفْسِي تَقْوَاهَا، وَزَكِّهَا أَنْتَ خَيْرُ مَنْ زَكَّاهَا، أَنْتَ وَلِيُّهَا وَمَوْلَاهَا. اللْهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ قَلْبٍ لَا يَخْشَعُ، وَمِنْ نَفْسٍ لَا تَشْبَعُ، وَعِلْمٍ لَا يَنْفَعُ، وَدَعْوَةٍ لَا يُسْتَجَابُ لَهَا*

📃(O Allah! Verily, I seek refuge with You from weakness, laziness, senility (of old age), cowardliness, stinginess and the torment of the grave.  O Allah! Give my soul its good and purify it, for You are the best to purify it. You are its Guardian and Master. O Allah! Verily, I seek refuge with You from a heart that is not humble, a soul that is not satisfied, knowledge that does not benefit and a supplication that is not answered.)