💠The term Rabb and Rububiyyah of Allah (azza wajal)
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❖ False Notions about Rububiyyah:
❐ The above examples clearly bring out the meanings of the word rabb, and we may now proceed to look at those false notions which existed among the misguided tribes and people about rububiyyah (that is, the qualities and attributes of one who is a rabb)
❐ which the Qur'an sought to refute, and what are the beliefs that the Qur'an advocates. This can perhaps best be done by taking up, one by one, the cases of those particular nations or people who find mention in the Qur'an, and thus get a clearer idea of the wrong notions which they entertained.
❖ The People of Nuh (alaihe wa sallam)
❐ The earliest of such people dealt with in the Qur'an were those among whom Nuh (alaihe wa sallam) was raised as Prophet.
❐ It is clear from the Qur'an that these people did not deny the existence of Allah, cf. the following comment about him by their leaders:
❖ "He is but a man like any of you, who only wants to establish his own hold over you. If Allah had really wanted (to send any messenger) He would surely have chosen angels instead."
[al-Mu'minun 23/24]
❐ Nor did they deny that Allah (Subhanahu wa ta'ala) was the Creator of the universe and the Rabb in the first and second senses of the word. Among the exhortations to them by Nuh (alaihe wa sallam) were:
❖ "He is your Rabb, and unto Him shall you be returned." [Huud 11/34] ;
❖ "Seek the forgiveness of your Rabb, (for) verily He is Oft-Forgiving." [Nuh 71/10] ;
❖ "Do you not see how, Allah has made the seven heavens one above the other, and made the moon a light in their midst, and the sun a (glorious) lamp? And (it was) Allah (Who) created you from the earth." [Nuh 71/15-16]
❐ It is to be noted that no one says in reply that they do not believe Allah (Subhanahu wa ta'ala) to be their Rabb or that He did not create the earth and the heavens and themselves, or that He was not managing the affairs of the universe.
❐ Nor, may it be added, did they deny Allah's being their Ilah either. That is why Nuh (alaihe wa sallam), in asking them to return to the ways of Allah, said:
❖ "You have no Ilah but He!" [al-A'raf 7/58] , whereas if they had believed otherwise, what he would have said would have been: "Make Allah your ilah."
❐ This therefore naturally raises the question as to what in fact was the basic dispute between Nuh (alaihe wa sallam) and his people, and it seems from the Qur'an that there were two main points of difference, as follows:
1 - What Nuh (alaihe wa sallam) wanted was that they should give their worship, in the full sense of the word, wholly to Allah, the Creator and Cherisher of the universe (Rabb al-Aalamin), because He alone was the Provider and the only Ilah.
❐ There was no other being who could grant their prayers and give them aid and comfort, and therefore He alone deserved their full and entire submission and supplication, cf:
❖ "O my people, give your ibaadah to Allah, (for) you have no ilah but He. And I am a messenger unto you from the Rabb of all the worlds, and convey to you the messages of my Rabb." [al-A;raf 7/59-60]
❐ The people, however, were adamant that, notwithstanding Allah's being the Rabb of all the worlds, there were other gods too who had a share in the affairs of the world, who too could answer some of the prayers, and whom too therefore they could and would continue to regard as ilahs, cf:
❖ "And they said: Abandon not your gods; abandon neither Wadd nor Suwa, neither Yaguth nor Ya'uq, nor Nasr." [Nuh 71/23]
2- The other was that they regarded Allah as the Rabb only to the extent of believing in Him as the Creator, the Lord of the earth and the heavens, and the Supreme regulator of the affairs of the universe,
❐ but did not agree that His Sovereignty extended also to such matters as morality and moral principles, social relations, culture, politics, and other worldly affairs.
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