Surah Kawthar Notes,inna ataina kal kausar
Surah Kawthar is chapter 108 of Quran. It is a Meccan Surah.
Surah Kawthar Notes,inna ataina kal kausar Meaning
( 1 ) Indeed, We have granted you, [O Muhammad], al-Kawthar.
( 2 ) So pray to your Lord and sacrifice [to Him alone].
( 3 ) Indeed, your enemy is the one cut off.
Surah kausar in Arabic:
إِنَّآ أَعْطَيْنَـٰكَ ٱلْكَوْثَرَ ١
فَصَلِّ لِرَبِّكَ وَٱنْحَرْ ٢
إِنَّ شَانِئَكَ هُوَ ٱلْأَبْتَرُ ٣
Reflection:
Hadrat Abdullah bin Abbas said; “The eldest son of Prophet Muhammad sallalahu alaihe wa sallam was Qasim; next to him was Zainab, next to her Hadrat Abdullah and next to him three daughters, viz. Umm Kulthum, Fatimah and Ruqayyah. Of them first Hadrat Qasim died and then Hadrat Abdullah. Thereupon As bin Wail said: “His line has come to an end: now he is (i. e. cut of from root).”
Some traditions add that As said “Muhammad is : he has no son to succeed him. When he dies, his memory will perish and you will be rid of him.”The tradition from Ibn Abbas, which Abd bin Humaid has related, shows that Abu Jahl also had said similar words on the death of the Holy Prophet’s son, Abdullah.
Ibn Abi Hatim has related on the authority of Shmir bin Atiyyah that the same kind of meanness was shown by Uqbah bin Abi Mu’ait by rejoicing at this bereavement of the Holy Prophet.
Ata says that when the second son of the Prophet Muhammad sallalahu alaihe wa sallam died, his own uncle, Abu Lahab (whose house was next to his) hastened to the pagans and gave them the “good news”: :”Muhammad has become childless this night, or he is cut off from root.”
Prophet Muhammad sallalahu alaihe wa sallam was bereaved by the death of two sons, one after the other, whereat the near relatives and the people of his clan, brotherhood and neighborhood were rejoicing and uttering such words as were disheartening and disturbing for a noble person who had treated even his enemies most kindly. At this Allah just in one sentence of this brief Surah gave him the good news, better news than which has never been given to any man in the world, besides the decision that it will be his opponents who will be cut off from their root and not he.
Kawthar meaning
The full meaning of the word Kawthar , as used here, cannot perhaps be expressed in one word in any language of the world. This is an intensive form of the noun kathrat which literally means abundance, but the context in which it has been used does not give the meaning of mere abundance but abundance of good, of spiritual benefits and blessings, and of such abundance which is unbounded and limitless, and it does not imply any one good or benefit or blessing but abundance of countless benefits and blessings.
fountain of kawthar
Fountain of Kawthar is as follows:
(1) This Fountain will be granted to him on the Resurrection Day when there will be the cry of al-atash, alatash (thirst, thirst!) on every side. The Prophet’s (peace be upon him) community will gather together before him at it and will be watered thereby. He himself will be the first to arrive at it and will be occupying the central position.
He has said: This is a Fountain at which my Ummah will assemble on the Resurrection Day. (Muslim: Kitab as-Salat Abu Daud: Kitab as-Sunnah). I shall have arrived at the Fountain before you. (Bukhari: Kitab ar-Riqaq and Kitab al- Fitan; Muslim: Kitab al-Fidail and Kitab at-Taharah; lbn Majah: Kitab al Manasik and Kitab az-Zuhd. Musnad Ahmad: Marwiyyat Abdullah bin Masud, Abdullah bin Abbas, Abu Hurairah).
I shall be there before you and shall bear witness on you, and by God, I am seeing my Fountain even at this time. (Bukhari: Kitab al-jana-iz Kitab al- Maghazi, Kitab ar-Riqaq).
Addressing an assembly of the Ansar, the Prophet (peace be upon him) once said: After me you will meet with selfishness and nepotism, endure it patiently until you meet me at the Fountain. (Bukhari: Kitab Manaqib al-Ansar and Kitab al-Maghazi; Muslim: Kitab al-Iman; Tirmidhi: Kitab al-Fitan).
I shall be near the middle of the Fountain on the Resurrection Day. (Muslim: Kitab al-Fadail).
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