Quran Chptr 2-54 (Pt-1,Stg-1)(L-85) -درس قرآن
Punishment
of polytheism
Surah ‘Al-‘Baqarah (The Cow)
– Chapter – 2)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In the name of Allah,
the Beneficent, the Merciful
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54. And
when Moses said unto his people: O my people! Ye have wronged yourselves by
your choosing of the calf (for worship), so turn in penitence to your
Creator, and kill (the guilty) yourselves. That will be best for you with
your Creator and He will relent toward you. Lo! He is the Relenting, the
Merciful.
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54.
Wa ‘iz qaala Muusaa li-Qawmihii yaa-qawmi ‘innakum zalamtum
‘anfusa-kum bit-tikhaazikumul-‘ijla fatuubuuu ‘ilaa
Baari-‘ikum faqtuluuu ‘anfusakum. Zaalikum khay-rul-lakum
‘inda Baari-‘ikum Fataaba ‘alaykum ‘Innahuuu
Huwat-Tawwaa-bur-Rahiim.
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Commentary
Li-Qawmihii – (unto his people, to His
nation), in this verse aim from li-Qawmihii is particularly
those persons who prostrated before the calf supposing their worshiped.
Zalamtum – (you have wronged, you have
lost) it means that they involved again in plurality leaving the Oneness of God
Almighty. How might be more than it loss of an individual over himself?
Faqtuluuu ‘anfusakum – So kill (the guilty)
yourselves. It signifies towards the people who did not fall prostrate before
the calf that they should kill them who prostrated before it. The scholars have
commented that there were three groups in the Children of Israel:
- Those people who did not prostrate before the
calf and forbade others not to do so. They were pious persons.
- Those people who prostrated.
- It was a group of people who did not prostrate
themselves but they did not forbid others from prostrating.
So the pious people were commanded that
they should kill them who fell prostrate. In fact; the afterward two groups
deserved the punishment.
Khay-rul-lakum – it is best for you. It aims
that when you will kill one another; you will become chaste from the stench of
sin and will acquire absolution and freedom.
In this verse, God Almighty tells the
Children of Israel, “You could not remain on the straight path in the
absence of Prophet (peace be upon Him), involved in plurality and idol
worshiping. You have lost much due to this deed of yours. Now it is its
punishment that you should kill one another yourselves. When the Children
of Israel obeyed the order of God Almighty, then they repented and
God, the Most high accepted their penitence. Success in this world and on the
Day of Resurrection for the human being is in obeying the Commandments of God
Almighty whether he knows or doesn’t know its philosophy and advisability. And
if he has mistaken with error, by forgetting or unintentionally, then he should
be ready every time for acceptance and correctness.
