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Sura al Yaaseen

Heart of the Qur'an: A Commentary to Sura al Yaaseen

By: Ayatullah Syed Muhammad Hashim Dastghaib Shirazi (qs)

Reproduced with permission by theAhlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project team

Table of Contents

[Foreword] 10

Heart of the Quran is Surah Yasin.10

Muhammad (s) is the heart of universe 10

Surah Yasin has all the themes of Quran.11

Argument of monotheism.11

Various kinds of foods are signs of God.11

Creation of pairs and of days and nights 11

The ship and other means of transportation are also signs of God.12

Animals are signs for men.13

Resurrection, Paradise and Hell 14

Invitation towards truth and help to messengers 14

Imamat - An exalted divine rank.15

The Dominion of Everything is in the control of God.15

The return of all is also towards Him.16

[Introduction] 18

Oath is for emphasizing the truth.19

So He swears for emphasizing His statement. 19

Swearing by the sanctified objects of polytheists is mockery.20

Notes: 20

Sura al Yaaseen 21

Chapter: 36 21

Chapter 1 24

Verses 1-4 24

Titles of the Prophet in Quran.24

Eternal miracle for an everlasting religion.25

Who is a Prophet? Difference between a Prophet and a Messenger 25

True path in this world and in the Hereafter 26

Monotheism - the true path of proximity to God.26

Sin is a fall from the path of worship.27

Ali - the distributor of Paradise and Hell 27

Notes: 28

Chapter 2 29

Verse 5 29

Absolute honor is for only One God.29

Much frightening but less dreadful 31

Utbah trembles on hearing the Quran.31

Balance (Mizan) is for Muslims 33

Fear the Day which will turn a child into an old person. 33

Notes: 33

Chapter 3 34

Verses 5-9 34

Holy Prophet shown all ways and kingdoms 34

Passions and aspirations make one blind and deaf 35

God releases water for Firaun also.35

No one is dejected in His court 36

Chapter 4 37

Verses 10-11 37

A heart immune to good counsel is dead.37

Signs of the lowest degree of faith.38

Temporal well and drinking delight with a thousand stings 38

Chapter 5 40

Verse 12 40

Only he fears who follows the admonition. 40

Fearfulness of Yusuf in secrecy.40

Fasting is an act purely for God : 40

Tastes ‘Kauthar’ at the last moment and dies 41

News of Resurrection is a good tiding for the virtuous and a warning for sinners 41

Children and everlasting deeds are the imprints we leave at death.42

Income of a salt mine and mourning for Husain (‘a) 42

Hours from man’s age after death.43

Notes: 43

Chapter 6 44

Verses 13-15 44

Arguments and quarrels with Prophets 44

Acceptance without seeing is more important 45

A tanner falls unconscious in perfume market 46

Three bounties of paradise, which are better than paradise 46

Chapter 7 48

Verses 18-21 48

Attributors of bad omens to others suffer badly.48

Muhammad (‘s) never made a sortilege 48

Supporters of prophets slain.49

Habib Najjar rises up to support the messengers 49

Three persons who took lead in putting faith.50

A sympathetic savant and selfless truth-teller is worth following.50

Messengers never demand compensation for propagation.51

Notes: 51

Chapter 8 52

Verses 20-21 52

Cheaters talk of reforms in deceitful words 52

Dawood earned his livelihood by making armors 52

Noteworthy points from the life of Muhammad(‘s) 53

House of the Holy Prophet and returning of trusts at the time of his passing away 53

He does not demand any recompense from people. 54

Selfless Jurist and instructions without wages 54

Ibne Ziyad also was deceived by his own words 54

Note: 54

Chapter 9 55

Verses 22-23 55

One who manifests is worthy of worship.55

Habib Najjar dies in torture 56

Asking for testification of faith is desirable 57

An amazing story about testification to faith.57

Today’s death of adversity.58

Chapter 10 59

Verses 26-27 59

The one in whose view death is perdition.60

Fix your place in paradise while you are here 60

I long for you at my last moment 61

Notes: 61

Chapter 11 62

Verses 26-29 62

A martyr enters paradise at the very moment of his martyrdom.62

Words of Imam Hasan (‘a) in his last moments 62

We killed them all with a shriek.63

A weak person who disobeys the strong.64

Umar bin Abdul Aziz falls hearing the cry.64

Words of Imam Sajjad (‘a) and guidance of a man.65

Chapter 12 66

Verses 30-31 66

Qiyamat is a bright day in comparison with this dark world.66

In king’s company and manifestation of truth.66

Hit by deep desires after revelation of facts 68

This Ummah is blessed for taking lesson from the predecessors 69

Note: 69

Chapter 13 70

Verses 32-35 70

All come up before God, willingly or otherwise 70

Sign of Qiyamat - enlivening of a dead earth.71

From a grain of wheat, he gives seven hundred or even more 71

Germination of a seed is a sign of resurrection.71

God produces both sweet juice and sour vinegar from grapes 72

Whatever bounty reaches us, it is from Him and there is no bounty for us except from God. 73

Bounty worship or benefactor worship.73

Chapter 14 74

Verses 33-35 74

Eat dates and grapes and be thankful 74

Wife, a divine bounty and thanklessness with regard to it 74

A thankful companion of Prophet Dawood in paradise 75

Bounties of life, wealth, and thankfulness for it 75

Thankfulness with regard to money is to spend it in the path of God.76

Chapter 15 77

Verses 36-38 77

We created pairs from earth.77

Wind and insect pollination.77

Exploding of the atom proved the pairing of things 77

Night - a sign of God and having benefits 78

Force of gravity ensures safety of the universe 79

Crescent moon and the lunar calendar 79

A big world is woven in the body of man.80

Day of the soul is remembrance of God and its night is mindlessness 80

Ali is right and Muawiyah wrong in everyone’s life 80

Religious blindness due to prohibited acts 81

Chapter 16 82

Verses 41-44 82

Camel, the ship of desert and the airplane also are from God.82

Worship only one God with your body and wealth.82

Monetary worship acts are connected with man’s relationships. 83

Take precautions regarding past and present sins 83

They are turning away their faces from the signs of God.83

God Himself would have given to the poor 83

Wealth and poverty - a test for the people 84

Building on rented land.85

Generosity of Imam Hasan and Imam Reza (‘a) 85

Chapter 17 86

Verses 45-52 86

Some theists also turn fatalists 86

He takes away the lives with one shriek.86

So let us find out the rightful 88

With second blowing all become alive again.88

A point about the grave and Barzakh.88

Compared to Barzakh, Qiyamat is awakening.89

No one will be able to disobey the command to become alive 89

Chapter 18 90

Verses 53-57 90

Qiyamat will arrive after the two blowings 90

Manifestation of justice of God in Mahshar Field.90

Enjoyment of paradise bounties and unawareness of hell 91

Wives of the people of paradise, a great divine bounty.92

Copulation in Paradise reminds one of God’s bounties 92

Food of Paradise entails no refuse 92

Hourie - manifestation of the mercy of the Beneficent and the Merciful 93

Beauty equal to a hundred Yusufs 93

Expansion of heart for perceiving the beauty.94

Brightness on the cheeks of Hourie is due to tears of the faithful 94

Shade of God’s kindness over the inmates of Paradise 95

Notes: 95

Chapter 19 96

Verses 58-59 96

Allah directly salutes the people of Paradise 96

Two big defects in a beautiful palace 97

Salam from God - what a great honor for the Faithful 97

It makes Him happy on the Great Throne. 97

Letter from the Lord to the Faithful servant 98

Are you ready to seek death? 98

It is distressing to go from company to loneliness 99

Sinners must get separated in Mahshar 99

They will fall on hell fire like bats 100

Drag me to fire, perhaps I may wake up.101

Remembrance of death cures negligence 101

Notes: 101

Chapter 20 102

Verses 60-61 102

Reply to the sinners’ objection.102

Satan is one of the limitless creations of God.102

Why is he inimical towards man? 103

The business of Satan is to rob you or destroy your deeds 104

Satan replies to his slave 104

Weapons to fight the Satan.105

A repenting heart cuts down Satan.105

Note: 106

Chapter 21 107

Verses 61-62 107

True path is the worship of one God.107

Pretence and conceit is falling away from path of worship.107

Qaroon is swallowed by the earth.108

A wise man should always beware of the satanic traps. 108

Will you not take a lesson? Will you not be warned? 108

Adulteration brought calamity on the perfumer 108

Mouths of the claimants will be closed, their organs will testify.110

Voluntary surrender or forced arrest 110

Note: 111

Chapter 22 112

Verses 60-63 112

How to avoid the unknown enemy? 112

Is Satan male or female? 112

Then how do people fall in his trap even after recognizing him? 113

Then how is he deceived and indulges in sins while he has already known the enemy and also his trap? 113

One prefers death to thirst 114

How to overpower Satan.114

Worshipper deceived by false piety.116

God is kind to those who show kindness to others 117

God will be kind to you and to them also, Satan’s advises Nuh.117

Impartiality with contending parties 117

Understand the job of Satan.118

Even if a single flame is reduced.119

Considering death near, is a sign of coming under God’s guardianship.120

Bigger ropes of Satan for Shaykh Ansari 120

Tranquility and peace in the servant of God, restlessness in the path of Satan 121

Men must guard women from slipping.122

Seek help from Prayer to repel Satan.122

A nomadic woman and patience in calamity.122

Inspire your children to offer Prayer 123

Notes: 123

Chapter 23 124

Verse 63-65 124

God took covenant from the prophets about worshipping Only One God.124

A hundred thousand ropes of hell in the hands of a hundred thousand angels 124

Enter into it this day because you disbelieved. 125

A sinner believer will get salvation at last 125

Tongues of the liars will be sealed, not of the confessors 125

Several witnesses in the court of divine justice 126

No testimony against sinners who repent 127

How limbs and organs testify? 127

For God Almighty, making hands and feet speak is just like speaking of the tongue 128

Count glorification on your fingertips, they will testify to it 129

Rosary (Tasbih) of Kerbala soil is a part of Paradise 130

Notes: 130

Chapter 24 131

Verse 66-67 131

Deniers warned of the chastisement that befell the people of Lut 131

One of these angels signaled and all of them became blind. No sign of an eye remained on their face 131

May the eyes be blind, which cannot see you.131

After this blindness they are unable to find the path. 132

We would transform them according to their habits 132

A greedy scholar turned into a dog.133

Inattentiveness in Prayer 133

Chapter 25 134

Verse 66-68 134

Haste in punishment to prevent the convict from flight 134

Benefit from the bounty of youth.134

Make the most of five things before the arrival of their opposites 134

God makes you strong from a weak state and again returns you to weakness 135

Weakness shows up year after year or even earlier 136

So understand that you are in control of God.136

Three wishes of the prince 136

Attain good abilities by forty.137

Note: 137

Chapter 26 138

Verse 67-68 138

Husain releases the stuck hands 138

Her face stuck when she turned it during Prayer 139

Prevent open breach of fasting.139

Honoring the aged protects one from the great terror 139

Abilities ripen in old age 140

Man is having two directions: Creation and Command. 140

Prime time worships recorded in the old age scroll of deeds 140

Notes: 141

Chapter 27 142

Verse 69 142

Allegation of magic on the Prophet and Quran.142

Poetry is a creation of the poet’s imagination, having no reality.142

Quran has in fact condemned poetry. 143

Didactic poems, panegyrics and elegies for Ahle Bayt (‘a) is good poetry.143

Poetry is an undesirable way of earning livelihood.143

Poetry of Husain bin Hajjaj in the presence of Syed Murtaza and Aale Booyah 144

Quran, the reminder of God and the hereafter 145

Human life is affected by Quran.145

Notes: 145

Chapter 28 146

Verse 71-76 146

God created the quadrupeds for you.146

Benefits of riding and use of milk, meat and wool 146

Rebels try to achieve Godship behind the excuse of idols 146

Mobilized armies have no ability to help.147

Chapter 29 148

Verse 77 148

Benefits of remembering ones origin.148

Proof of origin through embryo.148

The second rising must also occur 148

A third example 149

Chapter 30 151

Verse 77-80 151

Seeing with mind and heart is more important 151

Particles of the body are not beyond the knowledge of God.151

Fire from vegetation.152

O the one whose greatness is seen in the skies. (Supplication) 152

Chapter 31 153

Verse 78-81 153

Man’s decisions are based on limited knowledge 153

Second statement: 153

The third statement: 153

Grades of man and substitutes of that which cannot be dissolved.154

What is resurrected is ‘the similar body’ not ‘the body’ 154

Position of the eye and the extra intestine 155

Chapter 32 156

Verse 82-83 156

Man’s limited ability is in the matter of discovery, not creation.156

God does not require any time to do or create something.156

In the world of creation stages are in the subject, not in the action.156

Sovereignty over everything is the specialty of God.157