Al-'Adiyat

SubhanAllah, the Qur'an is so deep. Its so engaging, it asks mankind questions, give us parables and examples, makes you think..

Al-'Adiyat--

By the (Steeds) that run, with panting (breath),
And strike sparks of fire,
And push home the charge in the morning, And raise the dust in clouds the while, And penetrate forthwith into the midst (of the foe) en masse;-
Truly man is, to his Lord, ungrateful;
And to that (fact) he bears witness (by his deeds); And violent is he in his love of wealth. Does he not know,- when that which is in the graves is scattered abroad
And that which is (locked up) in (human) breasts is made manifest-
That their Lord had been Well-acquainted with them, (even to) that Day?


"An example of stallions is given to reflect on human attitude towards Allah. Stallions whom man provides only food and water, are so grateful to him that they jump into the valley of death on his command, while man whom Allah has given life, faculties, food and other provisions is ungrateful to Allah and he himself is a witness to this fact. This example shows that an ungrateful person is worse than an animal. Sucha a person is so blinded by the love of worldly wealth that he tries to obtain it by every means, however impure and filthy it maybe. He would never have behaved so, had he known that the time when dead would be raised from their graves for accountability.."


Why are we as humans so ungrateful? Even if there was no Heaven or Hellfire, shouldn’t we still feel obligated to worship Allah?

We have such a narrow sighted view about life and the hereafter; most humans are only concerned with attaining and consuming more. We are a people plagued with commercialism, materialism and consumerism. Inshallah one day our focus will shift from wanting to attaining worldly goods to attaining the bounty of the hereafter.