The Guiding Light — Page 195
S u rah an-N a s, Chapter 114 195 Second Rak‘ah of Maghrib Prayer on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday Importance of S u rah an-N a s • This S u rah, the second of the Mu‘awwidhat a n , constitutes an extension of its predecessor and is in a way complementary to it, in that in S u rah al-Falaq the believers were enjoined to seek protection from God against the hardships and privations of life, in the present S u rah protection is sought from trials and tribulations that hamper man’s spiritual development, and the protection is to be invoked not only by verbal solicitation of the commandment conveyed by the word ﻗﻞ ( qul ) say. • The main message of this S u rah is that one should seek All a h’s protection from the disorder of Dajj a l 1. • Dajj a l —A term in Arabic that literally means, ‘the great deceiver. ’ In Islamic terminology ‘ Dajj a l ’ 1 Tafs i rul-Qur’ a n by The Promised Messiah, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as of Qadi a n, Page 527 available on www. alislam. org