Quran Chapter
4- 71 & 72 (Pt-5, Stg-1) (L-566) - درس قرآن
Be ready for fighting
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)
يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ خُذُوا۟ حِذْرَكُمْ فَٱنفِرُوا۟ ثُبَاتٍ أَوِٱنفِرُوا۟ جَمِيعًا 71
وَإِنَّ مِنكُمْ لَمَن لَّيُبَطِّئَنَّ فَإِنْ أَصَٰبَتْكُم مُّصِيبَةٌ قَالَ قَدْ أَنْعَمَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَىَّ إِذْ لَمْ أَكُن مَّعَهُمْ شَهِيدًا 72
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71. O ye who believe! Take your precautions, then move
on as separate units, or advance all together.
72. And lo! Among you there is he who loitereth; and if
disaster overtook you, he would say: Allah hath been gracious unto me since I
was not present with them.
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71. Yaaa-‘ayyu-hallaziina ‘aa-manuu
khuzuu hizrakum fan-firuu subaatin ‘awinfiruu
jamii-‘aa.
72. Wa ‘inna minkum
lamalla-yubatti-‘ann. Fa-‘in ‘asaabat-kum-musii-batun-
qaala qad ‘an-‘amAllaahu ‘a-layya ‘iz lam
‘akum-ma-‘ahum shahiidaa.
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Commentary
Subaatin - it is
plural of sabat which means separate units and little
groups.
Shahiidan –
witness, being present (at a particular place) - There are some narrations
about this verse that in the beginning, many people embraced Islam in
imitation. When Jihad became their duty, they disobeyed and
even that some of them began to oppose the religion obviously accompanying the
infidels. This verse was revealed at such time.
Behavior of the hypocrites was
mentioned in the previous verses. In this verse, their manner of acts at the
time of Crusade (Jihad) has been discussed and the Muslims have been
prevented to adopt the behavior like them. Islam likes very much that all
people should live together with reconciliation and smoothness. But selfishness
of the infidels compelled the Muslims to fight. Until the people will remain
slaves of their wishes and turn their faces away from the Straight Path due to
following and misguidance of Satan, the war may not be ended from the world.
The servants of Allah Almighty would have to fight against these slaves of the
wishes under compulsion.
The Believers have been
directed with urgency in this verse that they should arrange for precautionary
things to save themselves from the enemies of the humanity and remain dressed
with warlike arms and equipment. When it becomes necessary, then you should
move up as separate units, or advance all together to fight them. You should
not loiter at that time, because sometimes it spoils due to delay at the time
of the battle, and the enemy prospers.
Remember it that there are some
such people among you, who practise delay at the rime of proceeding for Jihad and
loiter intentionally. They are called hypocrites. Their leader was AbdUllah
bin Ubaii. He had determined this way that whenever the Muslims used to go
for fighting, he used to remain in the rear with his followers by evading. If
the Muslims suffered any disaster or faced any defeat, he used to say, Thank
God since I was not present with them. Otherwise, I would have died too. As
though, this wrong subject had made room in his heart that he would remain safe
at his home from the death and in the battlefield he would die before time.
