Our Fosterer! and raise in them a messenger from among them who would read to them Your signs (that is practically demonstrate the Quran) and teach them the book (law) and wisdom (its interpretation) and purify them. You are certainly the Mighty, the Wise.”” (R 15)
“They further prayed for a messenger to be raised from their descendents i.e. Muhammed (PBH):-
1) who would read, himself follow the message of Allah (SWT) and thus reflect (Tilawat) the Quran to them by his faith and deed,
2) teach them the laws (Kitab) of Islam,
3) demonstrate the method of practically implementing the laws (Hikmat) and
4) purify and develop them into good Muslim (Tazkiyah). Their prayer was accepted after 4000 and odd years but with a slight change in the sequence of items prayed for. Purification and growth into good Muslim was given the second place instead of fourth (Chapter: 2 Verse 151), what we learn from this is sometimes Allah (SWT) delays the time of acceptance of prayers whereas sometimes the prayer is accepted immediately as in the case of Musa (PBH) asking for strengthening him with Haruun (PBH) (Chapter: 20 Verses: 25–36). Sometimes Allah (SWT) sanctions the items prayed for after effecting corrections. ‘Tazkiyah’ meaning purification and growth is associated with ‘Nafs’ i.e. the soul or conscious self (Chapter: 91 Verses: 7–10) which is the driving force for the body. Belief too is associated with Nafs (Chapter: 10 Verse 100). So it is the ‘Nafs’ the conscious inner self’that should first be purified from all evils like infidelity, hypocrisy, polytheism etc. so that pure belief in Allah (SWT) could be accommodated. This pure belief in Allah (SWT) would then become the correct driving force for ordering the body to act in accordance with the Quran and instructions of Prophet Muhammed (PBH). Early Makkan revelations too concentrated on belief and later Madinah revelations were about practical implementation of the religious laws.”
1) who would read, himself follow the message of Allah (SWT) and thus reflect (Tilawat) the Quran to them by his faith and deed,
2) teach them the laws (Kitab) of Islam,
3) demonstrate the method of practically implementing the laws (Hikmat) and
4) purify and develop them into good Muslim (Tazkiyah). Their prayer was accepted after 4000 and odd years but with a slight change in the sequence of items prayed for. Purification and growth into good Muslim was given the second place instead of fourth (Chapter: 2 Verse 151), what we learn from this is sometimes Allah (SWT) delays the time of acceptance of prayers whereas sometimes the prayer is accepted immediately as in the case of Musa (PBH) asking for strengthening him with Haruun (PBH) (Chapter: 20 Verses: 25–36). Sometimes Allah (SWT) sanctions the items prayed for after effecting corrections. ‘Tazkiyah’ meaning purification and growth is associated with ‘Nafs’ i.e. the soul or conscious self (Chapter: 91 Verses: 7–10) which is the driving force for the body. Belief too is associated with Nafs (Chapter: 10 Verse 100). So it is the ‘Nafs’ the conscious inner self’that should first be purified from all evils like infidelity, hypocrisy, polytheism etc. so that pure belief in Allah (SWT) could be accommodated. This pure belief in Allah (SWT) would then become the correct driving force for ordering the body to act in accordance with the Quran and instructions of Prophet Muhammed (PBH). Early Makkan revelations too concentrated on belief and later Madinah revelations were about practical implementation of the religious laws.”
