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Surah: 091 - Ayah: 010
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91:10
The purpose of writing about "Tathir and Tazkiyah" is to shed some light on the esoteric aspects of taharat and zakat. The importance of this subject lies in the fact that taharat and zakat are among the seven pillars of Islam. Thus, according to Qur’anic law, the spiritual and intellectual purification is so important that without it there is no success at all for, as God says: "Verily, he who purifies it succeeds and verily, he who buries it (in disobedience) fails." (91:9-10). The main subject matter of Surah 91 is the human soul. In the first seven verses of this wisdom-filled chapter, God swears by eleven exalted things to draw attention to this important subject and then mentions what capacities have been given to the soul. With great vehemence man is made to appreciate that he is responsible for it’s purification and this responsibility is in the sense that he should have recourse to the means of tathir and tazkiyah (i.e. the Imam of the time).
In this Surah the way God has sworn by the exalted ranks in the ta’wili wisdom of the sun, the moon, etc. one of them is the soul also, and from this the true grandeur and exaltedness of the soul can be deduced. For in reality, God does not swear by ordinary things and this is therefore an allusion from God to the people to appreciate the real value and position of the soul and to keep it pure.
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