Quran Chapter
9 – 28 (Pt-10, Stg-2) (L-1167) - درس قرآن
Purity is Faith – 2
Chapter Tawbah (Repentance)
– Surah – 9)
‘A-‘uu-zu Billaahi minash-Shay-taanir- Rajiim.
(I seek refuge in Allaah from Satan the outcast)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of Allaah, the Beneficent, the Merciful)
(I seek refuge in Allaah from Satan the outcast)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of Allaah, the Beneficent, the Merciful)
It has come in Ahaadith (Sayings
of the Messenger – grace, glory, blessings and peace be upon Him) that Omar,
the second Caliph (may God be pleased with him) purified and cleaned the
Peninsula of Arab from the Idolaters according to a last Will and Command of
the Messenger (grace, glory, blessings and peace be upon Him). Now, it is not
lawful for the Muslims to give living permission to them in the Arab. The Sunnis (Hanafi Rules)
give them some permission that, a Muslim spiritual guide can permit them to
live temporarily if he considers it suitable. Other religious directors do not
permit even for only it.
Next, it is commanded: If you
fear that your business and commerce will take bad effect; if the Idolaters
flew away, and the commodities of necessity will be deficient, then you should
drive this thinking out of your hearts, because the actual thing is comfort,
ease and satisfaction, and it cannot be obtained during their presence. God
Almighty will make the provision of the necessities of life easy, and if He
desire, will give you so much that you will become fearless from their support.
Be satisfied that God Almighty knows very well about all these matters by which
a mankind acquires riches and sufficiency. And He is Aware of it also that
which suitable time can be for performing any particular work. Therefore as He
is Knower, He is Wise too. You should also be ready to obey His commands by
giving your all works in His charge unhesitatingly. He will correct your all
works when the correct time will come according to His Knowledge and
Philosophy.
Selfishness and enmity with
others; without any proper reason destroys the human being. Those; who are
crazed to make other people their slaves, and to feed only own people;
certainly, they have been excluded from the humanity. Their mind is impure and
unclean. Therefore, when it was experienced by the Muslims that the Idolaters
of Makkah, whom the Jews and the Christians have joined, they will
not let them prosper, then they were commanded: Let these mischievous
disbelievers not come near the Inviolable Place of Worship only but drive
them out of the entire Peninsula of Arab, so that you may get opportunity;
at first to moderate yourselves and then correct all the people of the world
without let or hindrance, and you may prepare yourselves for this work.
Obviously, if the Idolaters of
Arab, the Jews and the Christians desired to live with the Muslims together,
then the circumstances of this case would not be as such. Their hearts would
have been purified if they had given up enmity and stubbornness, and they would
have lived with the Muslims mutually by making treaties of peace and safety.
But somehow those people did not accept it. Therefore, such severe commands
were issued and the Muslims were instructed to arrange for them a separate
place for living. The command regarding the Idolaters has been described in
this verse. In the next verse, instructions for the Jews and the Christians
will be explained.
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