Quran Chapter
4- 37 & 38 (Pt-5, Stg-1) (L-542) - درس قرآن
A dissemble Miser
Surah ‘An-Nisaaa’
(Women) – Chapter – 4)
‘A-‘uu-zu Billaahi minash-Shay-taanir- Rajiim.
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast)
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful)
ٱلَّذِينَ يَبْخَلُونَ وَيَأْمُرُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ بِٱلْبُخْلِ وَيَكْتُمُونَ مَآ ءَاتَىٰهُمُ ٱللَّهُ مِنفَضْلِهِۦ وَأَعْتَدْنَا لِلْكَٰفِرِينَ عَذَابًا مُّهِينًا 37
وَٱلَّذِينَ يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَٰلَهُمْ رِئَآءَ ٱلنَّاسِ وَلَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱللَّهِ وَلَا بِٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْءَاخِرِ وَمَن يَكُنِ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ لَهُۥقَرِينًا فَسَآءَ قَرِينًا 38
37. Who are miserly and bid people to be miserly, and
hide that which Allah hath bestowed upon them of His Bounty. And for
disbelievers We have prepared a shameful doom.
38. And (also) those who spend their wealth in order to
be seen of men, and believe not in Allah nor the Last Day. And whoso taketh
Satan for a comrade, a bad comrade hath he.
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37. ‘Allaziina yab-khaluuna wa
ya’-muruu-nannaasa bil-bukhli wa yaktumuuna
maaa ‘aataa-humullaahu min fazlih. Wa
‘a’-tadnaa lil-kaafiriina ‘azaabam-muhiinaa.
38. Wallaziina yunfi-quuna ‘amwaalahum
ri-‘aaa-annaasi wa laa yu’-minuuna billaahi
wa laa bil-Yawmil-‘Aakhir. Wa
many-yakunish-shaytaanu lahuu qariinan fasaaa-‘a
qariinaa.
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Commentary
This verse is about those
people, who are miserly from spending in the path of Allah Almighty themselves
and wish to keep off other people too from this goodness. Particularly those
children of Israel, in whose Scripture ‘Torah’ the glad tidings about the Last
Messenger Muhammad (grace, glory, blessings and peace of Allah Almighty be upon
him)were existent, and the verses were mentioned about the truth of Islam, but
they used to hide them.
It was told in the previous
verse, that the people who are proud and boastful on their wealth, Allah
Almighty will never like them. Now it has been commanded that these are the
characteristics of such people who are niggard. They spend nothing in the way
of Allah Almighty, nor give any advantage to the others. Allah Almighty
bestowed them knowledge and wealth but they hide it from other people. They
persuade the people for avarice with their tongues as well as their actions.
Allah Almighty says, “For disbelievers we have prepared a shameful doom.”
These are also peculiarities of
the proud people that they spend their wealth only in order to be seen of men
and for cheating, that is to say; they are stingy for spending in the way of
Allah Almighty, and they bid the people to be miserly for this purpose.
However, certainly they spend their wealth in order to be seen of men. Neither
those people believe in Allah Almighty nor do they have any faith in the Last Day
(the Day of Resurrection). That is why they do not spend their wealth in order
to get the pleasure of Allah Almighty and for the purpose of reward. However,
they just want to show others their goodness.
The favorite and accepted
manner near Allah Almighty is to perform the rights of human beings, and aim of
spending the wealth should be to get His pleasure, and have hope for reward in
the Hereafter. Only those people who are possessed by the devil, do the acts of
insincerity and public show.
