Surah 1 : The Opening Verse 6 -7 - Part 3

Suran 1 The Opening, Verse 6 - 7 says : Show us the straight way, The way of those on whom Thou hast bestowed Thy Grace, those whose (portion) is not wrath, and who go not astray.

In my last post on studying this verse I said that we should not ask any material things to god but only these words. Show us the right path. As I go on reading the Quran I found this verse in chapter 19.

Surah 19, Marium : Verse 1 -7 says : Kaf Ha Ya Ain Suad. A mention of the mercy of your Lord to His servant Zakariya. When he called upon his Lord in a low voice, He said : My Lord! surely my bones are weekend and my head flares with hoariness, and , my Lord! I have never been unsuccessful in my prayer to Thee: And surely I fear my cousins after me, and my wife is barren, therefore grant me from Thyself an heir, Who should inherit me and ingerit from the children of Yaqoub, and make him, my Lord, one in whom Thou art well pleased. O Zakariya! We give you good news of a boy whose name shall be Yahya: We have not made before anyone his equal.

In this verse Zakariya asked god for an heir, but the question is is asking for an heir considered as a material thing? To me Zakariya wanted an heir so that his heir will continue his mission on spreading God's word. He was telling god that he is already old and he need someone to continue his mission on spreading God's word. Technically he is asking god for help to spread god's words, which is not materialistic at all.

Maybe I was wrong on one part, we can ask God for something other than the right path. The right sentance to describe this would be :-

The only thing we can ask from God is something that in the line of worshiping him.

So as long as the "something" we ask for has to do with worshiping him, then is okay.

Second question is that, did God gave Zakariya and heir because he asked Him for one? It seems that God does not know what is best for his servant.

The answer is, God is going to give him an heir even if he asked for it or not. It is already in his plans.

Surah 19, Marium : Verse 7 says :We give you good news of a boy whose name shall be Yahya: We have not made before anyone his equal.

God said he brings good news of a boy, then He said that He have not made anyone his equal. This words sudgest that the baby is already in the womb. If the baby is yet in the womb God would say I WILL bring you good news of a boy.

So the conclusion is that first Zakariya did not asked for some thing material but something that would help in spreading God's words.

Secondly, The news of the baby boy was already written in the heavens only yet to know by Zakariya.