Quran Chptr 2-42 (Pt-1,Stg-1)(L-73) -درس قرآن
Hiding
the Truth is forbidden
Surah ‘Al-‘Baqarah (The Cow)
– Chapter – 2)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In the name of Allah,
the Beneficent, the Merciful
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42. And
confound not truth with falsehood, and do not conceal the truth knowingly.
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42.
Wa laa talbisul-Haqqa bil-baatili wa taktumul-Haqqa wa
‘antum ta’-lamuun.
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Commentary
Laa talbisuu – (do not confound). This word
has been derived from labasa, which means “to mix up a thing with any other, so
that, it may become difficult to distinguish among them i.e. to expose the
false as true or to coat the lie as such that it appears like really true.
Taktumuu – (do not conceal). This word has
come out from the word katama. Meaning of katama is to
conceal. There are two ways to change the Commands of God Almighty, which are
as under:
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Changing the meaning or the word itself.
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Concealing the truth.
The Children of Israel used both methods
to change the foretelling about the teachings of the Heavenly Scriptures and
the last Messenger, Muhammad (SallAllaahu alayHi wa AaliHii Wasallam). Due to destruction of Torah, some commandments
of God Almighty had been disappeared or lost, then which commands remained in
existence, those were changed by these people for the sake of their own
convenience for time being.
At the time of ascension of Islam, the
scholars from the Children of Israel had ruined the remaining form of their
religion. They used to change the commandments of those Celestial Scriptures
according to their wishes. Which Scriptures had been lost; they had produced
self written books with the names of those Heavenly Books. Often, after writing
paraphrase and explanation, these were mixed up with the original text and they
did not use to mark any difference between the two. The scholar, priest or
monk, who had the Heavenly Commandments, he used to reduce or increase it for
the sake of any worldly temptation or earnings greed.
The entire signs and foretelling
regarding the birth and prophet-hood of the last Messenger, Muhammad (SallAllaahu alayHi wa AaliHii Wasallam) did exist in their Holy Books. But
when He (SallAllaahu alayHi wa AaliHii Wasallam) was born, they began to hide these
all signs due to burning in the fire of their jealousy and began to narrate
from some of them by perverting. So, God Almighty commanded, “Confound not
truth with falsehood, and do not conceal the truth knowingly. Due to your
depravity, other people go astray also.”
Purpose of discussion regarding
important incidents of the history in respect of the Children of Israel, which
Holy Qur’an describes, is that the Jews might be informed about
their evils on one side, and on the other hand, the Muslims should be caused to
understand properly that there is no scope in the religion for these kinds of
misguidance. So, we should meditate in these events, which our Lord, Allah
Almighty has revealed for us in the Holy Qur’aan, and the rising
and wretchedness of the Children of Israel. We should not cause to grow
the badness and evils in ourselves like this.
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