Hud 61

Hud 61 

61- AND TO THEMOD WE SENT THEIR BROTHER SALEH HE SAID: “O PEOPLE, WORSHIP ALLAH, YOU HAVE NO GOD OTHER THAN HIM, HE CREATED YOU FROM THE EARTH AND MADE YOU INHABIT IT; ASK HIM FOR FORGIVENESS AND REPENT TO HIM, FOR MY LORD IS NEAR AND ALWAYS ANSWERS THOSE WHO CALL HIM”.

 Allah the Highest sent the prophet Saleh, peace upon him, to Themod, and called him their brother as he was one of them, not from another nation or tribe.  

The mission of Saleh was the same as that of the other prophets and messenger, to call people to believe and worship Allah the Highest, the one and only God, and to obey him and follow his way.

Allah the Highest created mankind from the Earth, from clay, that is from all the components of the Earth.  Allah the Highest “WE HAVE CREATED MAN FROM CLAY OF VARIED BLACK MUD”.  (S:15 A:26)

Human body includes all the elements of the Earth in varying amounts, and when a human being dies and is buried in the earth, his body degenerate and breaks down into these elements again.

Allah the Highest made us inhabit the Earth we are created from.  Inhabiting the Earth carries a great responsibility, to look after it, for it is not ours, but Allah the Highest placed us there and made everything on Earth for our service, therefore we should look after the Earth and keep it in the way and the form in which Allah the Highest handed to us.  

The Human race is not fulfilling this duty well.   We are making the Earth unsuitable for our own life, as well as for the lives of other beings on Earth.  We are destroying the environment, causing the temperature of the Earth to rise, and the sea level to rise.  We are destroying the Ozone Layer in the atmosphere which protects us from harmful cosmic radiations, and we are hunting many species to extinction. 

After believing in Allah the Highest and worshipping Him as the one and only God, Saleh is calling his people to:-

1. Ask Allah the Highest to forgive them their sins.  Human beings; believers and disbelievers sin often.  
2. To repent, that is to admit to sinning and to abstain from committing that sin.  

Allah the Highest reassures the believers and disbelievers that he is near and close to us, sees what we do, and hears our calls and our pleas, and never ignores them.  He hears us before we speak, for Allah the Highest knows what is in our hearts and what is in our minds.  Allah the Highest said: “AND IF MY SLAVES ASK YOU ABOUT ME, (TELL THEM) I AM NEAR.  I ANSWER THE DAWA (REQUEST) OF WHOEVER CALLS UPON ME WHEN THEY CALL UPON ME.  LET THEM RESPOND TO ME AND BELIEVE IN ME SO THAT THEY MAY BECOME RIGHTLY GUIDED”.  (S:2 A:186)