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Reflections on Surah As-Saf Ayah 8

61:8
يريدون ليطفيوا نور الله بافواههم والله متم نوره ولو كره الكافرون ٨
يُرِيدُونَ لِيُطْفِـُٔوا۟ نُورَ ٱللَّهِ بِأَفْوَٰهِهِمْ وَٱللَّهُ مُتِمُّ نُورِهِۦ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ ٱلْكَـٰفِرُونَ ٨
يُرِيدُونَﱴ
لِيُطۡفِـُٔواْﱵ
نُورَﱶ
ٱللَّهِﱷ
بِأَفۡوَٰهِهِمۡﱸ
وَٱللَّهُﱹ
مُتِمُّﱺ
نُورِهِۦﱻ
وَلَوۡﱼ
كَرِهَﱽ
ٱلۡكَٰفِرُونَﱾ
٨ﱿ
They wish to extinguish Allah’s light with their mouths, but Allah will ˹certainly˺ perfect His light, even to the dismay of the disbelievers.
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Sohada A.
4 years ago · Referencing Ayah 59:19, 61:8
People really think they know themselves, but how can we know ourselves if we don’t know Allah?
Impossible.

وَلَا تَكُونُوا۟ كَٱلَّذِينَ نَسُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ فَأَنسَىٰهُمْ أَنفُسَهُمْ ۚ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْفَـٰسِقُونَ
And do not be like those who forgot Allah, so He made them forget themselves. It is they who are truly rebellious. (Quran, 59:19)

No one has the right to be worshipped besides Allah yet we are living in times of mass confusion wher...
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Sherene Mansor
5 years ago · Referencing Ayah 29:41, 61:8
#FromDespairtoHope

ALLAH comforts like no other.

First aya on my study list this morning was verse 8 from surah as Saff; and it quickly connected with something I heard from surah al- Ankaboot. Allah mentions prophets who faced rejection from their own people and these stories gave comfort to Rasulullah (saw).

In our times of trials, we are bombarded by visuals that tear our hearts and we hear narratives and words that hurt us as an ummah.
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UmAbdullah
6 years ago · Referencing Ayah 61:8
Today as I’m listening to sheikh Abdul Basit, I listen to familiar ayahs, yet this time one makes me almost laugh out loud with joy! I’ve read and listened to the ayah many times, but today it is the one that stood out until tears of joy glistened in my eyes.
The terrorizing of Muslim, the constant picking on them, the double standards, the outright slander and discrimination against Muslims everywhere! To point of blaming them for the spread of ...
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Razia Zahra
27 weeks ago · Referencing Ayah 61:6-9
In the Name of Allah the Most Merciful, the Especially Merciful,

I usually deactivate my social media accounts during Ramadan but due to the conflicts taking place to keep up with news from loved ones in countries facing bombardment I have not deactivated them this year.

So, what I see as you probably see is a very fast campaign against Muslims. I thought to myself are such people worth arguing with? Wasting time with? And then I thought about...
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