Jewels of Qur'an Series: Surah Naba

Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri

The next Surah in the Jewels series is an Naba ‘The News’ part of the selection of Meccan surah’s covered in this series. The emphasis of this surah is Finality, in the tenor of all the key meccan surah’s, Shaykh Fadhlala draws attention to essential questions and issues: The meaning of life, the end and the beginning, the way human beings are to conduct themselves in this life and the essential purpose of the human being.

We all seek comfort and contentment at heart, well beingness yet no state is durable. The human being encompasses a wide spectrum of consciousness. We are here to practice Neutralizing the Profile in order so that we touch the zone of well beingness in us. We are here to practice living - through interaction, experiencing the opposites, the constant pursuit for compatibility and companionship is part of the training ground in which we embody the divine attributes and qualities while in constant awareness and resonance with eternal life. Shaykh Fadhlalla verse by verse elucidates the key dimensions of this surah as it as it pertains to the original message and way of Unity. Expounding various cultural concepts that have a great bearing on grasping the full architecture of the map. The meaning of Reckoning, Accountability, Death, Purification and the transition through different stages of life. We are here practicing that which will come later – that is calibration with the perfect zone of the eternal soul.