Honor & Dignity
مَنۡ كَانَ يُرِيۡدُ الۡعِزَّةَ فَلِلّٰهِ الۡعِزَّةُ جَمِيۡعًا ؕ اِلَيۡهِ يَصۡعَدُ الۡـكَلِمُ الطَّيِّبُ وَالۡعَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ يَرۡفَعُهٗ ؕ
“He who seeks glory, let him know that all glory belongs to Allah alone. To Him do good words go up, and righteous action uplifts them"
The primary reason for the chiefs of Quraish to oppose the prophet’s message was to maintain their social honor and dignity in Arabia at that time. They thought that if the Prophet saaw prevailed in his mission, their greatness and glory would fade away, their influence would die out and their honor among the Arabs would be ruined. Allah swt clearly addressed this important matter by saying that the real and lasting honor can be attained only through service of Allah swt. If you turn sincerely and faithfully to Him, you will attain it. And if you turn away from Him, you are bound to lead a miserable life.
This is the real guided way of attaining the honor & glory in this life and beyond. In the sight of Allah, the false, evil intentions can never rise and flourish. In His sight only such a word can rise and flourish which is honest and pure and is based on the truth. Then the thing which makes the pure word to rise and prosper is the action which conforms to it. Wherever the word is pure, but the action is opposed to it, the purity of the word diminishes. Here, “we noticed that the Quran presents the righteous word and the righteous action as interdependent. No action can be righteous only based on its external and apparent form unless it has a righteous creed behind it. And no righteous creed can be reliable unless it is supported and confirmed by a person’s action.”
May Allah swt guide us to always have the pure intentions supported by righteous actions … Ameen
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