Good Deeds

Good Deed: #288 Pause, Reflect on Surah Gashiya, or The Overwhelming Event

SURA 88. Gashiya, or The Overwhelming Event 1. Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming [Event]? 2. Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 3. Labouring [hard], weary,- 4. The while they enter the Blazing Fire,- 5. The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring, 6. No food will there […]

Good Deed: #287 Choose the easy way – Reflect on surah Ala, or The Most High

SURA 87. Ala, or The Most High 1. Glorify the name of thy Guardian-Lord Most High, 2. Who hath created, and further, given order and proportion; 3. Who hath ordained laws. And granted guidance; 4. And Who bringeth out the [green and luscious] pasture, 5. And then doth make it [but] swarthy stubble. 6. By […]

Good Deed: #286 Be on guard, Read Surah Tariq -The Night Visitor

SURA 86. Tariq, or The Night Visitor 1. By the Sky and the Night-Visitant [therein];- 2. And what will explain to thee what the Night-Visitant is?- 3. [It is] the Star of piercing brightness;- 4. There is no soul but has a protector over it. 5. Now let man but think from what he is […]

Good Deed: #285 Stop Persecuting – Read Surah Buruj- The Constellation

SURA 85. Buruj, or The Constellation/Zodiacal Signs 1. By the sky, [displaying] the Constellations/Zodiacal Signs; 2. By the promised Day [of Judgment]; 3. By one that witnesses, and the subject of the witness;- 4. Woe to the makers of the pit [of fire], 5. Fire supplied [abundantly] with fuel: 6. Behold! they sat over against […]

Good Deed: #284 Pray for Leniency, Read Surah Inshiqaq, or The Rending Asunder

SURA 84. Inshiqaq, or The Rending Asunder 1. When the sky is rent asunder, 2. And hearkens to [the Command of] its Lord, and it must needs [do so];- 3. And when the earth is flattened out, 4. And casts forth what is within it and becomes [clean] empty, 5. And hearkens to [the Command […]

Good Deed: #283 Stop defrauding – Read Surah Al-Mutaffifin , or The Stinters

SURA 83. Al-Muţaffifīn , or Stinters 1. Woe to those that deal in fraud,- 2. Those who, when they have to receive by measure from men, exact full measure, 3. But when they have to give by measure or weight to men, give less than due. 4. Do they not think that they will be […]

Good Deed: #282 Appreciate your graces, Reflect on Surah Infitar, or The Cleaving Asunder

SURA 82. Infitar, or The Cleaving Asunder 1. When the Sky is cleft asunder; 2. When the Stars are scattered; 3. When the Oceans are suffered to burst forth; 4. And when the Graves are turned upside down;- 5. [Then] shall each soul know what it hath sent forward and [what it hath] kept back. […]

Good Deed: #281 Choose , Reflect on SurahTakwir, or the Folding Up

SURA 81. Takwir, or the Folding Up 1. When the sun [with its spacious light] is folded up; 2. When the stars fall, losing their lustre; 3. When the mountains vanish [like a mirage]; 4. When the she-camels, ten months with young, are left untended; 5. When the wild beasts are herded together [in the […]

Good Deed: #280 Evaluate you life, Reflect on Surah Abasa, or He Frowned

SURA 80. Abasa, or He Frowned 1. [The Prophet] frowned and turned away, 2. Because there came to him the blind man [interrupting]. 3. But what could tell thee but that perchance he might grow [in spiritual understanding]?- 4. Or that he might receive admonition, and the teaching might profit him? 5. As to one […]

Good Deed: #279 Reform tyranny – Read Surah Naziat – Those Who Tear Out

SURA 79. Naziat, or Those Who Tear Out 1. By the [angels] who tear out [the souls of the wicked] with violence; 2. By those who gently draw out [the souls of the blessed]; 3. And by those who glide along [on errands of mercy], 4. Then press forward as in a race, 5. Then […]