Quran Chapter 7 – 173 & 174 (Pt-9, Stg-2) (L-1053) - درس قرآن
No excuse for them who imitate
in polytheism
Chapter ‘Al-‘A’raaf (The Heights) – Surah – 7)
‘A-‘uu-zu Billaahi minash-Shay-taanir-
Rajiim.
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful)
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful)
أَوْ تَقُولُوٓا۟ إِنَّمَآ أَشْرَكَ ءَابَآؤُنَا مِن قَبْلُ وَكُنَّا ذُرِّيَّةً مِّنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ أَفَتُهْلِكُنَا بِمَا فَعَلَ ٱلْمُبْطِلُونَ 173
وَكَذَٰلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ ٱلْءَايَٰتِ وَلَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ 174
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173. Or lest ye should
say: (It is) only (that) our fathers ascribed partners to Allah of old and we
were (their) seed after them. Will Thou destroy us on account of that which
those who follow falsehood did?
174. And thus We detail
the Revelations that haply they may return.
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173. ‘Aw
taquuluuu ‘innamaaa ‘ashraka ‘aabaaa-‘unaa min-
qablu wa kunnaa zurriyyatam-mim- ba’-di-him.
‘Afatuh-likunaa bimaa fa-‘alal-mubtiluun.
174. Wa
kazaa-lika Nufassilul- ‘Aayaati wa la-‘allahum
yar-ji-‘uun.
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Commentary
It was described in the
previous verse that (God says): “We made everyone of the Children of Adam
testify of themselves before creating them that I am their Lord”, and now by
means of this Qur’an, they have been being reminded their covenant,
so that, on the Day of Resurrection, they should not bring forward any excuse
that neither any covenant is in their remembrance and nor any Individual
reminded them.
Now this excuse of any human
being will not be acceptable because by means of this verse, everyone is being
reminded clearly about the first covenant made by all souls. There is one more
excuse which can be made by every individual i.e. “Our fathers taught us
plurality with their practices. We were their children, so we could learn only
that which they taught. What is our fault? Nab them if You desire to nab,
because they made the wrong way current. Why should we pay the penalty of their
error?” This verse is explaining the same matter.
It is commanded: We have said
clearly that every human being has made the covenant individually that “We will
accept You (God) only as our Lord. Therefore, excuse of any individual that
“The Plurality was made current by our fore-fathers, we were their followers
only” is not pardonable.
It has been commanded in the
verse after this: We set the same way that We explain the True Words in the
verses of Holy Qur’an, so that every human being should meditate
into them, and if one is going astray, should return towards the Straight Path.
It appeared from this lesson that ascribing plurality by imitating others, is
also punishable as it is committed by oneself, because every individual is
responsible in the matter of religion, that one should inquire at one’s own
without thinking about one’s relatives, members of family, friends, tribe or
nation, and one should believe that “God is my Lord, none is His partner or
co-sharer”.
In Arab, there
were two kinds of people, the People of the Scripture and the polytheists. They
both were not ready to leave the customized religions of their fore-fathers,
tribes and dynasties separately. They were caused to hear this Message that
they both were treacherous and faithless to their word. Every human being
should learn from it that Islam, which teaches, “God is One”, is the actual and
natural religion of the mankind.
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