The Unseen

The Unseen

Who believe in the Unseen are steadfast in prayer and spend out of what We have provided for them. 2 Surah Bakrah Verse 3

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Muhammad Mitwaly Ash-Sha’rawy

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The Unseen is anything that is kept hidden from us, for the seen is no longer unknown! This means that what the eyes behold is not considered unseen, but it simply has to be away from our perception. Thus, that which is witnessed does not fall under the hidden or the unknown. If man were to examine his life he would discern that his knowledge is but trivial and what is kept beyond it is far greater. To us the seen merely constitutes our lives, which is a very limited sphere, even when added to it the events we see on television or in other media transmitted to us from lands afar. All what we gain through them, in spite of their multiplicity, is a mere fraction compared to what happens in the entire universe. We could be present in the same place yet in separate rooms, unaware of what is going on in the one next to us. We could be sitting face to face conversing with some people, yet have no clue as to what truly revolves in their minds and hearts. Therefore, we perceive that in our daily lives the least of all is visible and certainly far beyond great is kept unknown to us. Allah, all praise and glory be to Him, says in His Noble Book, (what means): “And of knowledge, you (mankind) have been given only a little.” (Al-Isrâ’, 17: 85)

If the knowledge we possess about the witnessed present world is the very least, the same applies to general issues, because no issue that was subjected to careful study and its researchers devoted themselves to uncover it but involved their knowledge of certain things and their ignorance of many others.

Seldom one finds a worldly matter or a passed law that does not need modification or alteration after a while. Why? Because those who studied a given case or established a particular law learned certain facts and missed others, so with the passage of time the hidden realties begin to manifest themselves, hence necessitating amendments. This is the way things are, as every age enfolds its own laws and cases. Every age uncovers certain matters that were kept hidden from the preceding generations and reveals new issues.

As Allah, all praise and glory be to Him, is the Sole Legislator, and because nothing is hidden from Him, His Knowledge is Eternal and fully comprehends everything in the universe even before He brought it into being. Indeed, not even the weight of an atom (or a small ant) or less than that or greater, escapes His Knowledge in the heavens or in the earth.

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CONTENTS

Chapter One

What is the Unseen?

Solving worldly problems with the Divine Law

We come to the Divine Law and abandon it!

A limited knowledge of existence

Allah reveals to His Messenger some of the Divine Secrets

What is the relative Unseen?

Prediction and the Unseen

The three veils screening the Unseen

The veil of the unseen past

Chapter Two

The Noble Qur’an and the Unseen

The Noble Qur’an amends what the predecessors have distorted

The miracle of creation imparted by Allah

Casting lots to see who would be the guardian of Maryam

Emendation of insertions intruded into previous religions

The Noble Qur’an unveils the human soul

Allah exposes what is inside the hypocrites’ hearts

Chapter Three

Things He reveals …not originate

How did the Noble Qur’an unveil the future?

The letter ‘_’ expressing futurity in the Noble Qur’an

Unveiling future secrets of the human body

Lengthy talk about the unseen future

When do the Noble Qur’an and science come into conflict?

What about the five Unseen matters?

Chapter Four

With Him Alone is the Knowledge of the Hour

The fortunetellers but lie

The Last Hour and the Jews

Heavy is its burden through the heavens

The Blower of the Trumpet and the Last Hour

Portents of the approach of the Last Hour

Humanity at large is helpless

Chapter Five

He knows what is in the wombs

Allah gives Zakariyâ the glad tidings of Yahyâ

The significance of ‘That which is in the wombs’

Provision is only in the Hands of Allah

Provision and accounts

Where death befalls

Fate and the knowledge of man

War and death

Chapter Six

The All-Knower of the Unseen and Seen

The infinite Knowledge of Allah

The life of this world… an abode of trial

Everything with Him is in due proportion

Nothing is haphazard

Preexistent in the Knowledge of Allah

Creation… life…and death

The present world