Quran Chapter
5- 102 & 103 (Pt-7, Stg-2) (L-745) - درس قرآن
The cattle on the name of idols
Surah
MAAA-‘IDAH (The
Table Spread) – Chapter – 5)
‘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.)
102. قَدْ سَأَلَهَا قَوْمٌ مِّن قَبْلِكُمْ ثُمَّ أَصْبَحُوا۟
بِهَا كَٰفِرِينَ
103. مَا جَعَلَ ٱللَّهُ مِنۢ بَحِيرَةٍ وَلَا سَآئِبَةٍ وَلَا
وَصِيلَةٍ وَلَا حَامٍ ۙ وَلَٰكِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ يَفْتَرُونَ عَلَى
ٱللَّهِ ٱلْكَذِبَ ۖ وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْقِلُونَ
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102. A folk before you asked (for such disclosers) and
then disbelieved therein.
103. Allah hath not appointed anything in the nature of a Bahirah or a Sa’ibah or a Wasilah or a Ham’i, but those who
disbelieve invent a lie against Allah.
And most of them have no sense.
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102. Qad sa-‘alahaa- qawmum-min-
qablikum summa ‘asbahuu bihaa kafiriin.
103. Maa ja-’alAllaahu mim
bahiira-tinw-wa laa saaa-‘ibatinw-wa laa
wasiilatinw-wa laa haaminw-wa laakin-nallaziina
kafaruu yafta-ruuna ‘alAllaahil-kazib. Wa
‘aksaruhum laa ya’-qiluun.
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Commentary
Allah Almighty commands that there was a folk before you, who asked
about such disclosers, which were not made unlawful clearly, when they were
replied then they knew that it was difficult to act upon them, so they denied
from believing into them.
At first, they met with
difficulty due to asking the commandment about such a matter, which was left
only for their easiness. Secondly, when they were bidden to do as commanded,
they felt trouble in its procedure compliance and refused to obey this order,
and became disbelievers.
In the second verse, it has
been forbidden from another absurd tradition of the idolaters, due to which,
such lawful things were used to make unlawful by them, which were not made
unlawful by Allah Almighty. For example; they used to give up drinking the milk of
any animal and say
that it was appointed on the name of so and so idol. Only that particular idol
was authorized to reap advantage from those ‘left free’ animals, as nowadays
too, any male buffalo, bull or stallion etc. is set free.
These animals had separate
names. The Bahirah was a
female camel whose ears were cut; one did not use to allow his wife, daughters,
or any of his household to benefit from its wool, hair or milk. But, if it
died, they used to share it. The Sa'ibah was a female camel, let loose for free pasture for the idols,
and nothing was allowed to be carried on it. As for the Wasilah, it was the female camel that gives birth
to twelve offspring females without any male camel’s birth in between the
twelve. When female camel delivered for the thirteenth time, they used to cut
its ears and say, it has Wasalat (connected deliveries),' and they did neither use it, nor hit it
and nor prevent it from drinking from any pool. Ham’i was the male
buffalo, bull or stallion etc. which was father of many offspring.
This all was done to please the
idols, but along with it, they used to say too that Allah is also
pleased due to these deeds. It is commanded that Allah Almighty has not appointed anything in this nature (as explained
above). They invent a lie and most of them have no sense, who say it the order
of Allah Almighty.
