An-Nazi'at 79:40 - Linguistic Miracle
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِۦ وَنَهَى ٱلنَّفْسَ عَنِ ٱلْهَوَىٰ
“But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,”
Linguistic Miracle
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِۦ وَنَهَى ٱلنَّفْسَ عَنِ ٱلْهَوَىٰ
“But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,”
But as for he who feared the standing of his Lord and prevented the soul from worthless
inclination The word Hawā is translated as inclinations but at its root it literally means the air.35 It refers to worthless, vain thoughts that enter your heart and brain continuously. It is like one thought comes into the heart and he follows it, then another comes and he goes after it. He sees one sin he goes after, he sees another and he goes after that one. One sin after another, one pleasure after another, one unlawful relation after another, one false indulgence after another. He forgot his main purpose like the student mentioned above, and made his pleasures the main goal of his life. But the one who resists all this,
35 Al-Muʿjam al-Ishtiqāqī al-Muʾaṣṣal li-Alfāẓ al-Qurʾān al-Karīm, vol. 4, p. 2276