What the British author: S. H. Leeder said about Islam and the Truth (2)

In his book, the British author: S. H. Leeder said “Praise be to Allah, who rewards those who fulfill their obligations and keep their trust. Allah, the truest of all tellers, said Be faithful to your pledges and do not break your promises, for these make you responsible to God.”

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In his book: “Veiled mysteries of Egypt and the religion of Islam (1913)”, the British author: S. H. Leeder said in the introduction of his book: “There has always been a veil of mystery over the religion of I slam, from its very first days.”

What Leeder said about Islam and the Truth?

 “The Holy Koran says, and herein is the duty of man, Worship none but God, and be good to your parents and kindred, and to orphans and to the poor, and speak with men what is true, and pay the stated alms ‘ (Sura ii. 77).

Praise be to Allah, who rewards those who fulfill their obligations and keep their trust. Allah, the most true of all tellers, said Be faithful to your pledges and do not break your promises, for these make you responsible to God. Be sure God knows what you do; and when He destined you as the best of all peoples, He commanded you to do good and forsake evil. The foundation of true belief is faithfulness in the performance of every undertaking. A nation which lacks this quality, and allows itself to become familiar with lying, will be misguided, and all its striving will be in vain.

Suffering, misery, and poverty will overtake it, and in the next world punishment more severe and lasting. O creatures of God!

I call you to the practice of the truth, and faithfulness in every trust. Is there no reward even in this world for this?

To be believed by one’s friends, when one speaks, to be trusted in all the affairs of life? Such was the example and life of our great predecessors, who were before all things faithful, and true to themselves, and to one another. But, alas! We have forfeited the great teachings of our religion that stand now as a remonstrance against us. The Prophet on whom be blessings and peace as you know, hated lying, and he declared,

‘There is no belief in the unfaithful, nor a religion to the untrustful.’ “Shun ye the word of falsehood,” says the Koran (Sura xxii. 31). Mohammed declared that the guardian angel moved away from a man in detestation when he told a lie. By the testimony of all men who knew him Mohammed was a truthful man. “We have ever found thee a speaker of the truth,” they admitted, even in the days before they accepted his message. The only office allowed to the religious teacher is advice, guidance, and warning. Just as the layman will only with extreme reluctance refer to the faults of a brother Moslem, so even the preacher must not venture to expose the follies and frailties of others ; and to pry into the religious beliefs of other Moslems is not permitted even to the chief sheikhs. It is not proper to make any outer show of repentance; sin can only be confessed to God alone and in the secret heart. Of all these things, God will judge; and every function of priestcraft is opposed to the spirit of Islam.

This is Allah (16) It is the Ignorant who do not fear Allah

1) Allah is Almighty in His dominion

2) How many Messengers which Allah has sent were denied?

3) Allah is the Forgiving; He forgives whoever believes in Him

4) Only those who have Knowledge fear Allah

5) Where are in the History the scrolls of Abraham?

6) How intense was Allah’s abhorrence against the ancient unbelievers

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Many people do not know Allah. This series is an attempt to help them in order to know and acknowledge their Creator.

Verses 35:25-28 of the Noble Quran says that:

1) Allah is Almighty in His dominion,

2) if the disbelievers deny you O Muhammad; how many Messengers which Allah has sent were denied?,

3) Only those who have knowledge fear Allah and the ignorant do not fear Him and

4) Allah is the Forgiving; He forgives whoever believes in Him.

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The meaning of verse 35:25:

And if the disbelievers deny you O Muhammad: those before them also denied; those before your own folk, have also denied their messengers.

Their messengers came unto them with clear proofs of Allah’s Sovereignty; they came to them with commands, prohibitions and signs, and with the Scriptures and with the events of the Scriptures of the people of old ,

Their messengers were giving light and expositing the lawful and the unlawful.

In other words, their messengers brought them manifest signs, miracles, and with scriptures, such as the scrolls of Abraham, and with the illuminating Book, namely, the Genuine Torah and the Genuine Gospel,

So O Muhammad endure patiently as the messengers before you have endured.

 

The meaning of verse 35:26:

Then Allah seized those who disbelieved,  

Allah punished those who disbelieved in the Scriptures and messengers,

And how intense was Allah’s abhorrence!

And how intense was Allah’s rebuttal against them by way of punishment and destruction, in other words,

It was the appropriate abhorrence and rebuttal (Read the history of Pharaoh for example)  .

Then Allah said:

See, O Muhammad, how I turned against them with chastisement when they rejected faith.

 

The meaning of verse 35:27:

Have you not seen, have you not realized, that Allah sends down water from the heaven, wherewith Allah brings forth fruits of diverse hues, such as green, red, and yellow [fruits] and so on?

And in the mountains are streaks which is a mountain trail or the like white and red, and yellow, of diverse hues, some intense and some pale, and [others] pitch-black?

 

The meaning of verse 35:28:

And of humans, cattle, and other creatures, there are diverse hues likewise, like the diversity of the [hues of] fruits and mountains. Of all, there are also different colors. Indeed only those of Allah’s servants who have knowledge fear Him, in contrast to the ignorant, such as the disbelievers of Mecca.

In other words, the erudite among His bondsmen fear Allah alone

He says: from among all His servants, it is the erudite who fears Allah.

Truly Allah is Mighty, in His kingdom, in His dominion.

Allah is the Forgiving, of the sins of His faithful servants.

He forgives whoever believes in Him.

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Verses 35:25-28 in different English translations:

QARIB:

25) if they belie you, those before them also belied. their messengers came to them with clear signs; the psalms, and the illuminating book.

26) then i seized those who disbelieved, and how was my rejection!

27) did you not see how Allah sends down water from the sky and with it brings forth different colored fruits? in the mountains there are paths of various colors, of white and red, and jet-black.

28) people too, and beasts and cattle have their different colors. but it is only those amongst his worshippers that fear Allah who have knowledge. indeed, Allah is the almighty and the forgiving.

 

SHAKIR:

25) and if they call you a liar, so did those before them indeed call (their messengers) liars; their messengers had come to them with clear arguments, and with scriptures, and with the illuminating book

26) then did i punish those who disbelieved, so how was the manifestation of my disapproval?

27) do you not see that Allah sends down water from the cloud, then we bring forth therewith fruits of various colors; and in the mountains are streaks, white and red, of various hues and (others) intensely black?

28) and of men and beasts and cattle are various species of it likewise; those of his servants only who are possessed of knowledge fear Allah; surely Allah is mighty, forgiving

 

PICKTHAL:

25) and if they deny thee, those before them also denied. their messengers came unto them with clear proofs (of Allah’s sovereignty), and with the psalms and the scripture giving light.

26) then seized i those who disbelieved, and how intense was my abhorrence!

27) hast thou not seen that Allah causeth water to fall from the sky, and we produce therewith fruit of divers hues; and among the hills are streaks white and red, of divers hues, and (others) raven-black;

28) and of men and beasts and cattle, in like manner, divers hues? the erudite among his bondmen fear Allah alone. lo! Allah is mighty, forgiving.

 

YUSUFALI:

25) and if they reject thee, so did their predecessors, to whom came their messengers with clear signs, books of dark prophecies, and the book of enlightenment.

26) in the end did i punish those who rejected faith: and how (terrible) was my rejection (of them)!

27) seest thou not that Allah sends down rain from the sky? with it we then bring out produce of various colours. and in the mountains are tracts white and red, of various shades of colour, and black intense in hue.

28) and so amongst men and crawling creatures and cattle, are they of various colours. those truly fear Allah, among his servants, who have knowledge: for Allah is exalted in might, oft-forgiving.