psyah
June 5, 2009, 12:06am
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Assalam o Alaikum WW Psyah,
I am glad to see you are taking part in this.
Not being a scholar or anything and taking full responsibility for my following analysis.
Firstly we agree that reading from verses it is clear that the subject matter is HAJJ.
Now the verse in question (Al-Baqrah-200) comes at point upon completing HAJJ. Then Allah says:
فَإِذَا قَضَيْتُمْ مَّنَاسِكَكُمْ فَٱذْكُرُواْ ٱللَّهَ كَذِكْرِكُمْ آبَآءَكُمْ أَوْ أَشَدَّ ذِكْراً فَمِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ مَن يَقُولُ رَبَّنَآ آتِنَا فِي ٱلدُّنْيَا وَمَا لَهُ فِي ٱلآخِرَةِ مِنْ خَلاَقٍ](http://javascript %3cb%3e%3c/b%3E:Open_Menu%28%29)
…"celebrate the praises of God, as ye used to celebrate the praises of your fathers "…
Now being a normal Human being at this stage I would take help from Tafseer of Quran for better understanding of verse. So I would point you back to Tafseer I presented earlier:
“And when ye have completed your devotions) upon finishing the rites of your pilgrimage, (then remember Allah) say: O Allah! (as ye remember your fathers) as you say: father! It is also said that this means: remember Allah for the blessings He showered on you as you used to remember the kindness of your fathers in the pre-Islamic era (or with a more lively remembrance) remember Him more than you used to remember your fathers . (But of mankind is he who saith) on the standing site: (“Our Lord! Give unto us in the world,) camels, cows, sheep, male and female slaves and wealth” (and he hath no portion in the Hereafter) of Paradise by performing the pilgrimage.”
I mean above Tafseer leaves absolutly no ambguity that you can remember ALLAH as your father.
Perhaps what I said in my post was a little mis leading. That was my own interpratation to make things a little more easier to understand. I do slighlty agree with your interpretation of the ayat. However this doesnt gives the full story. Please read the following commentary of the verse:
Peace d-tox..ed
I still beg to differ with you look at the red highlight above. The reason for remembering Allah (SWT) is different from reason for remembering the fathers.
Now read the green highlights, the Qur’an instructs to excel in remembrance beyond that of the fathers, not in the same way. So there are two points showing in your own response how Allah (SWT) is not ‘as’ father.
the reason for remembering differs
the amount of remembering differs and is more for Allah (SWT)
The implied and unwritten message here is also to say that ‘do not worship your fathers anymore, but worship Allah’