Islamic Studies

Group Members

Class: BSCS-1CSubject Teacher: Sir Kamran

Names Roll Numbers

Haziq Naeem 107

Hassan Riaz Khan 86

Khadim Hussnain 89

Muhammad Adeel 83

Muhammad Ihsan 90

Project Topic

Surah Al-Asr

 "In the name of Allah, the soft hearted, the Merciful"

و�الع�صر�(I Swear) By the time

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Truly humankind is in loss (khusr) 

�الص/بر� ب �واص�وا و�ت �الح�ق: ب �واص�وا و�ت الص?,ل�ح,ت� 'وا و�ع�م�ل ءام�نوا /ذين� ال �ال/ إExcept for those who have faith and do righteous

actions and exhort, urge, each other to the truth and patience, steadfastness.

Why we choose this Topic

• Great message for whole mankind.• Imam Shafe has very rightly said that

if the people only considered this Surah well, it alone would do them for their guidance.

Introduction• Surah Al-Asr descends at Makkah and it has three

Ayaat.• The Surah takes its name from the word Al-Asr

occurring in the first verse.• This Surah is a matchless example of

comprehensiveness and brevity.• A whole world of meaning has been compressed

into its few brief words, which is too vast in content to be fully expressed even in a book.

• In it, in a clear and plain way it has been stated what is the way to true success for man and what is the way to destroy for him.

Topics Discussed 

Why ALLAH Has Taken An Oath? Loss of Mankind Faithful Persons Exhorting One Another To Patience

and Truth

Why ALLAH Has Taken An Oath ?

The simple translation for the word ‘Asr that Allah (swt) uses here would be “Time”. But in reality it gives a far deeper and a far more comprehensive meaning. Not only does it mean time, but it means time that is limited and time that is fleeting. The word ASR means time that is limited. Time that will soon end. This is what Allah (swt) is swearing to in this ayah. The time that will end.Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W)  reminds us:"There are two of God's favors that are forgotten by many people: health and free time."

Oath in relation to the Message of the Quran

• How great is this oath for each and every one of us.

• This oath also refers to the time in which we pray our ASR Salah. The importance of this particular Salah and the blessings of the time in which this Salah is prayed. The ayah in Surah Al-Baqarah where Allah (swt) has called this the mid-most prayer, and He (swt) has commanded us to be especially careful of guarding this Salah.

• Narrated Ibn Umar: Allah’s Apostle said, “Whoever misses the ‘Asr prayer (intentionally), then it is as if he lost his family and property.”

Loss of Mankindo The word “insan” has two root meanings according

to Arabic philologists. o The linguistic roots of human, Unsiyyah and

Nisyan, are evidence to the fact that humans have a bipolar existence consisting of positive and negative poles. ’

o The negative pole of humans is evident in their behavior against the lost heavens and a deceptive Satan. The positive pole of humans is revealed in their unique capacity to establish exceptional relationship with their creator, Allah, the Almighty, other fellow human beings, and the nature.

Loss of Mankind• The word time is used for the past as well as for the

passing time in which the present, in fact, does not signify any long stretch of time.

• Save man from loss is to perform righteous deeds (salihalt). Salihat comprehends all kinds of virtuous and good deeds. However, according to the Quran, no act can be a good act unless it is based on Faith and it is performed in obedience to the guidance given by Allah and His Messenger (peace be upon him).

• Quran describes success in 3:185 as: ‘Every human being is bound to taste death: but only on the Day of Resurrection will you be requited in full [for whatever you have done] whereupon he that shall be drawn away from the fire and brought into paradise will indeed have been successful: for the life of this world is nothing but an enjoyment of self-delusion’.

Faithful Persons

• A faithful person is trustworthy and reliable.

• Faithfulness that matters most is the faithfulness we show towards God.

How we can prove our faithfulness

• Having the Right Values • Care for the Interest of Others  • Integrity  • Keep to His or Her Words/promises  • Do you obey God’s commands ?

Exhorting One Another To Truth

Which a man must have in order to be saved from loss. They are that the people who believe and do good deeds must exhort on another to truth and to patience.

Truth is the anonym of falseness. The right which is obligatory on man to render,

Weather it is the right of GOD and the right of one’s own self.

“Those who adopted the way of disbelief among the children of Israel were cursed by the tongue of David and of Jesus, Son of Mary, because they had grown rebellious and become transgressors: they would not forbid one another to do the wrong deeds they committed.”, Al-Maidah.

Exhorting One Another To Patience

• Besides exhorting to the truth, the other thing which has been declared as a necessary condition for keeping the believers and their society secure from loss is that the members of the society should enjoin patience upon one another. That is, they should enjoin upon one another to bear with fortitude and steadfastness the difficulties, hardships, trials, losses and deprivations which befall the one who adheres to the truth and supports it. Each one of them should encourage the other to bear up against adversity steadfastly.

• O you who believe Seek help through patience and the prayer. Indeed, Allah (is) with the patient ones, (al- Baqarah 2:153).

• Those who are patient will surely be given their reward without measure, (az-Zumar 39:10).

Conclusion Allah promised of success and felicity for

those who believe in Him (swt). With the passage of time Humans can find

themselves in loss because they rejected God’s message or failed to live according to it.

This Surah is a simple path for success.