Summary: Surah Al-Zumar (39:19-22). The Quran encourages and exhorts human beings to goodness. Honor for those who heed Allah’s (S) promise is in this life and the Hereafter. In this lecture: the promise of Allah (S); creation as a vehicle to reach the Creator (S); true intellectual freedom; Tawḥīd in telling the Artist from the art; the mood and mode of submission; dhikr and ghaflah; the most active act of submission.
