The Tahir Archive's video: Friday Sermon 23 August 2002

He it is Who sends down clear Signs to His servant that He may bring you out of all kinds of darkness into the light. Verily Allah is Compassionate and Merciful to you. ('The Holy Quran'. Al Hadid [Iron]: 10). Luqman the wise enjoined the advantage of keeping the company of righteous scholars that can bring about an enlightenment of the heart just as rain saturates the soil. (Malik ibn Anas. 'Muwatta'). The Divine attribute of al-Nur (The Light) and its depiction among God’s creation in this verse declares Allah’s beneficence in conveying His illuminating Signs to His servants, which facilitate in bringing mankind out of the darkness of ignorance and into the light of awareness and cognisance. (Abu Althana Shihabuddin Mahmud al-Alusi. 'Ruh al-Ma'ani fi Tafsir al-Quran al-Azim wa al-Sabu al-Mathānī'). The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) explained that Baba Guru Nanak had indeed affirmed with reference to 'The Holy Quran' that God creates each and every thing and that there is nothing that is not created out of His Light.* The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) recounted his dynamic and fervent appreciation of 'The Holy Quran', both in prose and poetry, as the prime source of guidance and instrument to gain nearness to Allah the Exalted and as the key source to attain spiritual discernment that the Divine Light or Noor brings about and of which 'The Holy Quran' is a crowning glory. * Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. 'Sat Bachan'. (Ziya al-Islam, 1895). 'Ruhani Khazain: x'. 138f, 139f. The text https://www.alislam.org/urdu/sermon/FST20020823-UR.pdf © The Tahir Archive / MTA International, 2020, 2023.