Guide From Surah Al-Furqan

During my student days, I not only flock with people from my own country but I do with friends from Greece, Sweden, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Colombia and of course from the UK too. Also throughout my adult life I have many good  friends who are Christians. I silently asked why God didn't make them a Muslim so that they will have the priviledges of being a good Muslim. The other question I often asked was why some Muslims actually  apostate from Islam and yet for others who have gone astray, Allah gave them Hidayah to come back to the straight path. I understand through some it's not for us to ask whom Allah has given Hidayah and whom he has not chosen to. For us who were born muslims do not take things for granted thus the need to understand and practice literally how to be a good muslim. Not finding time to learn from ustazahs or ustaz, I had to follow through the index in the Quran translation to look for chapters in the Quran on how to be a good Muslim. It seemed simple but not easy. Surah Al-Furqan was one of many surahs that explains how to be one:

For my children, written in Bahasa Melayu, the summary from Ayat 63 to 71.

 Sifat-sifat Hamba Allah yang Mendapat Kemuliaan dari surah Al-Furqan Ayat 63-71;

25:63 - Orang yang berjalan dimuka bumi dengan rendah hati (tawadhu'}
25:64 - orang yang bersujud dan berdiri dimalam hari
25:65 - orang yang mempercayai ujudnya neraka jahanam dan azab api neraka
25:66 - Sesungguhnya jahannam itu seburuk-buruk tempat menetap dan tempat kediaman.
25:67 - orang-orang yang membelanjakan harta mereka dengan serdahana, tidak berlebihan dan tidak kedekut
25:68 - orang yang tidak menduakan Allah, tidak membunuh, tidak berzina
25:69 -  akan dilipat gandakan azab untuknya pada hari kiamat dan dia akan kekal dalam azab itu, dalam keadaan terhina,
25:70 - kecuali orang-orang yang bertaubat, beriman dan mengerjakan amal saleh; maka itu kejahatan mereka diganti Allah dengan kebajikan. Dan adalah Allah maha Pengampun lagi Maha Penyayang.
25:71 - Dan orang-orang yang bertaubat dan mengerjakan amal saleh, maka sesungguhnya dia bertaubat kepada Allah dengan taubat yang sebenar-benarnya.

If you have sinned repent for Allah is the All Forgiving and Merciful.

Firman Allah, Surah Al-Furqan

25:63

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And the servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk upon the earth easily, and when the ignorant address them [harshly], they say [words of] peace,

25:64

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And those who spend [part of] the night to their Lord prostrating and standing [in prayer]

25:65

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And those who say, "Our Lord, avert from us the punishment of Hell. Indeed, its punishment is ever adhering;

25:66

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Indeed, it is evil as a settlement and residence."

25:67

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And [they are] those who, when they spend, do so not excessively or sparingly but are ever, between that, [justly] moderate

25:68

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And those who do not invoke with Allah another deity or kill the soul which Allah has forbidden [to be killed], except by right, and do not commit unlawful sexual intercourse. And whoever should do that will meet a penalty.

25:69

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Multiplied for him is the punishment on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein humiliated -

25:70

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Except for those who repent, believe and do righteous work. For them Allah will replace their evil deeds with good. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.

25:71

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And he who repents and does righteousness does indeed turn to Allah with [accepted] repentance.