My guide told me decades
ago that I am like a small tree and I need daily watering to survive and grow.
After so many years I still need daily watering. pls pray for my guide who is
no more.i losed both my guides ,my father and peer saheb d same month and same
year.
on يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ‘Yaaa Ayyuhal Lazeena
Aamanuu’,
There
are nearly 90 verses in the Qur’an which directly address the Believing Muslims
and if we try to understand each verse daily and also put into practice
Inshaa’Allah it will be a source of Ajr and Barakah, Inshaa’Allah.
What is the meaning of يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ?
* يَا – Ya is used as a particle. It is
actually a vocative long distance particle. It is used to address someone: ‘O!’
The distance implied by the use of this particle is further
emphasised by adding Ayyuha for masculine and Ayyatuha for feminine nouns,
singular and plural.
The implied distance may be physical or non-physical.
Contextualised use of Yaaa Ayyuhaa can express various
speaker attitudes toward addressees such as respect, contempt, veneration,
intimacy etc.
* أَيُّهَا – Ayyuhaa is a prefixal connnector to
a noun bearing the definite article ‘Al’ as a means of calling it as part of
the vocative.
This Ayyu is always prefixed with the attention drawing haa
and is inflected for gender (ayyuhaa and ayyatuhaa).
* الَّذِينَ – Al-lazeena – Masculine, plural, relative
pronoun “who/he who, which/that which”
* آمَنُوا – Aamanu – 3rd person, masculine, plural
form; perfect verb. It means “to believe”, “they who believe”.
So يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا – Yaaa Ayyuhal
Lazeena Aamanu – means:
“O You who believe”.
“O You who have believed”
In the Qur’an, Allah uses this phrase to address His
believers in a loving and affectionate way.
So “Yaaa Ayyuhal Lazeena Aamanu” is the Lord’s Inimitable Way of
Addressing His Believers in a Profoundly Caring Manner.
I would like to mention two fabulous quotes here:
It is narrated on the authority of Ibn Mas‘ood
(radhiyallahu anhu) that he said, “If you hear Allah Saying: {O you who
have believed} pay attention to it; because it is either
something good you are commanded to do, or something evil you are forbidden to
do.“
It is narrated on the authority of Ja’far As-Saadiq
(rahimahullah) that he said, “The pleasure of ‘O’ in the call (i.e.,
being called by Allah, The Almighty) removes the trouble of worship and
suffering (in the instructions that come after it).“
The phrase ’Yaa Ayyuhal Lazeena Aamanuu’ in English means ‘O You
who believe!’ or ‘O You who have believed’ BUT NOT ‘O Believers’. If we ponder
on this phrase as to why Allah has used this long phrase and not just ‘O
Believers! We find that there is a big difference between these two usages.
There is not a single alphabet extra in Allah’s speech.
(O
Believers) would mean that Allah endorses that the group is of all Believers,
which is more of a generalization.
But,
(O You who believe) means Allah (SWT) addresses a person or a group of person
without endorsing his or their belief which leads to self-introspection from
our side whether really our actions are in accordance to our beliefs.
This
may be just a point to understand the Quranic language and Allah knows best.
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