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Day 1
Summary
Surah Asr: A Summary of the Quran
Surah begins with: everybody is failing except those mentioned in the third ayah who
accomplish 4 things:
1. believe
2. do good deeds
3. counsel each other truthfully
4. counsel each other patiently
Any passage you study in the Quran will come back to one of these 4 things
I swear by time
The greatest proof that you and I, and every single human being is in loss is time itself. If
someone says to prove to you that youre in loss, time is ALWAYS something youve lost
and cant gain, you cant get it back.
is used for very specific groups of people; if non-specific, the word would have been
used. Use of suggests that the group of people is dear to Allah (swt) and also that it is hard
to become one of this group of people
The exception is always smaller than the norm, thus exceptions are meant for a small group of
The word means to fix something thats broken, to correct something that is wrong; thus
deeds that are are deeds that fix things that make us better. The ayah is implying that
human beings are not perfect, that they will never be; the point is to identify what is wrong
and work constantly to fix it, to become better Muslims and people.
means that sometimes counseling people to good things will be hard, sometimes it will
be easy. That sometimes you work together to pick up the one who is slacking on a certain day
or you put people in your life to keep you strong and you work to keep others strong
This also means that if we want to save ourselves from loss, then we have to counsel others to
the good as well. We must learn to work with each other, we need each other to survive
Allah (swt) says AND, not or, because we have to do all 4 of these things; we cannot succeed
unless we are able to accomplish all 4 of these things
Why is everything in this ayah past tense? Because no human being should ever think they
have ever survived this; the only people who have accomplished these things are the people
who have died. If I am alive, then I MUST constantly do these things because I will never be in
the category of someone who accomplished all 4 of them
if every single person in the world took care of the people around them then we will reach the
whole world; the Surah is not pointing us to help the whole world, just the people around us!