Dan (sekarang) campakkanlah tongkatmu. Maka apabila ia melihat tongkatnya itu (menjadi seekor ular besar) bergerak cepat tangkas, seolah-olah seekor ular kecil, berpalinglah dia melarikan diri dan tidak menoleh lagi. (Lalu ia diseru): " Wahai Musa, janganlah takut, sesungguhnya Rasul-rasul itu semasa mengadapku (menerima wahyu), tidak sepatutnya merasa takut,
SubhanAllah, this verse is so powerful and really shows me that Allah SWT is all-knowing and all-seeing.
My late father, Allah yarhamhu, was truly in love with the Quran, and he would spend hours reading, reciting, and pondering the Quran's deep meanings.
Unfortunately, I did not share his love, and he would often try to encourage and share with me the delights he was savouring. One such day, he called me over enthusiastically to read an aya...
I have learned a little bit about some principles in the Arabic Language. One being: زيادة المبنى زيادة في المعنى i.e. increase in construct means increase in meaning . And I recently heard this التلخيص في المبنى تلخيص في المعنى (hopefully the spelling right is right). It is supposed to say, 'summarising the construct leads to narrowing down the meaning, or just saying the essence'. One example is in the story of Musa a.s.
I have shared my thoughts on this incident of Musa alayhis salam before, but today I want to reflect on it from a different angle. When Allah SWT asked, 'And what is that in your right hand, O Moses?'
Instead of giving a to-the-point answer, Musa alayhis salam went on to add some extra details too. He replied,
'It is my staff! I lean on it, and with it I beat down ˹branches˺ for my sheep, and have other uses for...
6 tahun lalu · Rujukan Ayat 20:19-22, 26:32, 27:10-11, 28:31-32, 7:107
'The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.' Roy T. Bennett
It is time to step outside of your comfort zone for the sake of Allah.
Musa (a) had to step outside of his comfort zone when Allah commanded him to grab this snake. What happen...