Ramadhaan Twenty Eight: from the light of the Qur'an

Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem

[Suratul Asr]

So Allaah tells us not just how to give the advice but what it should be...

He says Bil Haqq - this means we have to give advice Truthfully, the advice has to be true, and not just that but our reason for giving the advice has to be true as well. we don't just give the advice so that we have the feeling of been better or anything, we give the advice sincerely and it has to be the truth.

and He says, Bissabr- To patience/steadfastness, and this also means patiently...

when we see each other slacking, doing wrong we encourage and advice each other to keep on going, "keep moving you can do it" wa Lal akhiratu khayrun wa abqa, the akhira is better and more lasting. we encourage each other to be more patient in trials, and also we encourage each other patiently, we don't give up on each other easily.
Sometimes it requires a great deal of strength of character to say the truth to some people and to persevere in calling them to the truth. but we have to do in order to be successful.

so its --> Believe+ do good deeds+ advice to the truth/truthfully+ advice to patience/patiently

Nothing short of that if we want to be a part of the exception.

And here's the catch, All of these are in past tense although we didn't mention it at first, its "except those who believed, did good, adviced....." till the end of the Ayaah.

have you figured out why yet??

it means we can only be considered an exception from those who are in loss after our death, having done these four while we were alive.
we cant consider ourselves safe from this kind of loss while we are still alive, so its a struggle we must continue till Allaah takes our lives. And then bi idhnillaah it can be said, "they believed, they did good,...etc and hence they are the exception" may Allaah make us among the exception and have mercy on us.

To be continued in sha Allaah...