ADHIKR

This Surath got the name Ashoora—Mutual Consultation—from verse 38, which says, “The believers make mutual consultation among themselves regarding their matters.” This Surath was revealed during the middle of the Messenger’s Meccan period. This Surath teaches that Islam, which is the only way of life Allah is satisfied with for His entire creatures, has been made law to all mankind in all periods through the Messengers such as Noah, Ibrahim, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad. But those who received the Lord’s Book became disintegrated and accepted different ways of life apart from the way the Lord’s Book submits, due to envy among themselves; and if Allah had intended, He would have retained them as a single community. So whoever lives holding fast to Adhikr—the Mercy of the Lord—and clears all his doubts utilizing Adhikr, which explains everything, such are the only guided ones and are in the Straightpath. Those who do not believe in the Day of Judgment, in which the scale of reckoning will be Adhikr, are hastening for that Doomsday, and they are in manifest error. If the heedful are leading a life in the awareness that this worldly life is the cultivating land for the Hereafter, the wrongdoers are hiding Adhikr (the Food, Cloth, and Sight of the Human Soul) after receiving it and are leading a life ignoring the dos and don’ts of It, and so they will get Hellfire even though they are not earning it purposefully. Allah erases the sins of believers who live here, seeing Allah, who knows the status of the hearts. This Surath teaches that there are living things on other planets also, and that mankind is affected by disasters due to the consequences of his own deeds. This Surath warns about the pathetic condition that will affect the wrongdoing disbelievers in the Hereafter who do not respond to the call of the Lord Allah, and also explains the character and conduct of the believers who will be the victors in the Hereafter. This Surath, containing 53 verses ends declaring that the original path of Allah, who is the Lord of the universe and to whom everyone will be returned, is the way which Adhikr submits.