Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ Remembrance of fathers and remembrance of God during the days of Tashreeq ]
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Then He made in it a remembrance of God, which is the Almighty’s saying: “And when you have performed your rites, remember God as you remember your fathers, or more strongly.” So He commanded you in it to remember God, for the Arabs were in these days during the season remembering their lineages and their accounts, because of the meeting of the Arab tribes in these days, wanting thereby pride and reputation. This is the meaning of his saying. As your fathers remind you, that is, preoccupy yourself with praising God for what He is on the path of pride, since you were His servants, and the servant’s pride in his master is added to him and is greater than that than being from him, just as
May God’s prayers and peace be upon him, the Master of the people among them, said, and the people of the Qur’an are the people of God and His special ones.
The slave has no pride in his father, rather his pride is in his master, and if the slave is proud of his father, he is proud