QII 05
QN II 05
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المائدة |
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Classification |
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Other names |
The Feast |
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Position |
Juzʼ 6 to 7 |
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Hizb no. |
11 to 13 |
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No. of Rukus |
16 |
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No. of verses |
120 |
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No. of Sajdahs |
none |
The chapter's topics include
animals which are forbidden,
and Jesus' and Moses' missions.
Verse 90 prohibits "The intoxicant" (alcohol).
Verse 8 Contains the passage: "Do not let the hatred of a
people lead you to injustice".[1]
Al-Tabligh Verse 67 is relevant to the
Farewell Pilgrimage and Ghadir Khumm.[Quran 5:67]
Verses (Q5:32-33) have been quoted to denounce killing, by using an abbreviated form such as, "If
anyone kills a person, it would be as if he killed the whole people: and if
anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole
people". This verse is similar to that of one from the Talmud.[Quran 5:32][Quran 5:33]
·
4 Islam completed—last revelation of the Quran , Certain kinds of
food, gambling,
and lotteries forbidden
·
5 Muslims permitted to eat the food
of Jews and Christians, and to marry their women
1-5
[1]
1-2
Fulfil your obligations, promises and agreements and Cooperate in piety and not
in transgression
(5:1)
Believers! Honour your bonds!1 All
grazing beasts of the flock2 are permitted to you except those which are
recited to you hereinafter,
but you are not allowed to hunt in the state of Ihram (a state of pilgrim
sanctity).3 Indeed Allah decrees as He wills.4
2.
The Arabic word an'am (cattle) denotes camels, oxen, sheep and goats, whereas
the word bahimah means all grazing quadrupeds. Had God said that an'am had been
made lawful for them, this permission would have included only those animals to
which the term an'am is applicable. But the terms in which the injunction is
conveyed are bahimat al-an'am (all grazing beasts of the flock). Hence the
permission is of wider import and embraces all grazing quadrupeds of the cattle
type, i.e.
which
do not possess canine teeth, which feed on plants rather than animals, and
which resemble the cattle found in Arabia in other characteristics. This
implies that
the flesh of those animals which have canine teeth and are
carnivorous is not permissible.
This
implication was elucidated by the Prophet (peace be on him) and is embodied in
a tradition in which he prohibited those beasts which kill and eat other
animals. Likewise, the Prophet (peace be on him) also
prohibited birds with claws and those that feed on carrion. According to a
tradition transmitted by Ibn 'Abbas: "The Messenger of Allah (peace be on
him) prohibited all beasts with canine teeth and all birds with claws.'
(Bukhari, 'Dhaba'ih', 28, 29; 'Tibb', 53; Abu Da'ud, 'At'imah', 32; Tirmidhi, 'At'imah',
9, 11; Muslim, 'Sayd', 11-16; Nasa'i, 'Sayd wa Dhaba'ih', 28, 30, 33; Ibn
Majah, 'Sayd', 13; etc. - Ed.)
(5:2) Believers! Neither desecrate the symbols of (devotion
to) Allah,5 nor
the holy month, nor the animals of offering, nor the animals wearing collars
indicating they are for sacrifice, nor ill-treat those who have set out for the
Holy House seeking from their Lord His bounty and good pleasure.6 But once you are free from Pilgrimage
obligations, you are free to hunt.7
Do not let your wrath against the people who have barred you
from the Holy Mosque move you to commit undue transgressions;8 rather,
help one another in acts of righteousness and piety, and do not help one
another in sin and transgression. Fear Allah. Surely Allah is severe in retribution.in sin and transgression. Fear Allah. Surely
Allah is severe in retribution.
See
lengthy ENs
2023 Feb
05 sun 1444 Rajab (7) 13
3-3 Haram-(Forbidden) meat and Al-Islam is declared to be the
complete and perfect Deen (way of life)
(5:3) Forbidden to you are
carrion,9 blood,
the flesh of swine, the animal slaughtered in any name other than Allah's,10 the
animal which has either been strangled, killed by blows, has died of a fall, by
goring or that devoured by a beast of prey - unless it be that which you
yourselves might have slaughtered while it was still alive11 -
and that which was slaughtered at the altars.12-13
You are also
forbidden to seek knowledge of your fate by divining arrows.14 All these are
sinful acts. This day the unbelievers have fully despaired of your religion. Do
not fear them; but fear Me.15
This day
I have perfected for you your religion, and have bestowed upon you My bounty in full measure, and
have been pleased to assign for you Islam as your religion. (Follow, then, the
lawful and unlawful bounds enjoined upon you.)16
As for he who is driven by hunger, without being wilfully
inclined to sin, surely Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
9.'Carrion' signifies
the animal which has died a natural death.
11. It is lawful to eat the flesh of an animal which
may have suffered from any of the above-mentioned accidents providing it was
still alive until slaughtered. This verse also makes it clear that
the flesh of an
animal becomes lawful only by slaughtering ritually, and that no other method
of killing is valid. The words dhabh and dhakah belong to the technical
terminology of Islam and denote slitting the throat so that the blood is completely drained from the animal's
body. The disadvantage of killing an animal by either guillotine or
strangulation is that the greater part of the blood remains within the body,
and at various places it sticks to the flesh and forms congealed lumps. If an
animal is slaughtered by slitting the throat, on the other hand,
the
connection between mind and body remains intact for a short while, with the
result that the blood is thoroughly drained out from all the veins and the
flesh becomes fully cleansed of blood.
We have just come
across the injunction prohibiting the eating of blood. So only that
flesh wihch
has been purged of blood is declared lawful.
13. The
division of objects of eating and drinking into
lawful
and unlawful is based on their moral rather than their medicinal properties.
God has
left matters relating to the physical world to be tackled by man's own effort
and striving.
It is for
man himself to discover by his own efforts which items of food and drink
provide him with healthy nourishment and which are useless and harmful. The Law
(Shari'ah) does not take upon itself to guide man in such matters. Had it
undertaken such a task, perhaps one of the first things for it to do would have
been to pronounce the prohibition of arsenic oxide. But one will notice that the Qur'an and Hadith mention
neither arsenic oxide nor other things which either singly or jointly are fatal for man. The underlying considerations of the Law with regard to the
various items of eating and drinking are their n to the judgements that the Law
makes with regard to the various means adopted by man in his quest for food -
whether they are appropriate according to Islamic standards or not. It is
impossible for man to determine what is beneficial and what is harmful for his
morals; he has not been endowed with the capacities needed to arrive at sound
conclusions on these matters, and so he frequently stumbles into error. Hence
the Law undertakes to guide him in these matters and these matters alone.
Whatever
has been prohibited by Islam has been prohibited because of its bad effects on
human morals, because of its repugnance to spiritual purity,
and because of its association with false beliefs. Things which have been
declared lawful have been so declared because they are untainted by these
evils.
possible
effects on man's morals and on the purity of his soul. This is in addition
16.
The 'perfection of religion' mentioned in this verse refers to making it a self-sufficient system of belief and conduct, and an
order of social life providing its own answers to the questions with which man
is confronted. This system contains all necessary guidance for man, either by
expounding fundamental principles from which detailed directives can be deduced
or by spelling out such directives explicitly so that in no circumstances would
one need to look for guidance to any extraneous source.
The
bounty referred to in the statement: 'I have bestowed upon you My bounty in
full measure', is the bounty of true guidance.
According
to authentic traditions this verse was revealed in 10 A.H. on the occasion of
the Prophet's Farewell Pilgrimage. The context
however, seems to indicate that it was revealed
soon after the conclusion of the Treaty of Hudaybiyah (i.e. in 6 A.H.).
4-5 All good and clean things made lawful are and Food of the
People of the Book is made lawful and marriage with their women is permitted
6-11
[2]
6-6
Order for making wudhu (ablution) and
Permission of Tayammum
7-11 Stand for true witness and establish
justice and Plot of Jews to kill the Prophet and his eminent companions
29. See (Surah 4, nn. 164-5 )above.
2023 Feb
09 thu 1444 Rajab (7) 17
12-19 [3]
12-13 Salah and Zakah were obligatory for Jews and
Jews habit of being deceitful
· (5:12)
Surely Allah took a covenant with the Children of Israel, and We raised up from
them twelve of their leaders,31 and Allah said: 'Behold, I am with you; if you
establish Prayer and pay Zakah and believe in My Prophets and help them,32 and lend
Allah a good loan,-----
33. This expression signifies spending one's wealth
for the sake of God. Since
God has promised to return to man every penny
that he spends in His way along with His reward, which will be several-fold,
the Qur'an characterizes this spending as a loan to God. This spending is
considered a loan provided it is a 'good loan', that is, provided the money
spent in the cause of God has been acquired by legitimate means and has been
spent in accordance with the laws of God and with sincerity and earnestness
(5:13) Then, for their breach of the covenant We
cast them away from Our mercy and caused their hearts to harden. (And now they
are in such a state that) they pervert the words from their context and thus
distort their meaning, and have forgotten a good portion of the teaching they
were imparted, and regarding all except a few of them you continue to learn
that they committed acts of treachery. Pardon them, then, and overlook their
deeds. Surely Allah loves those who do good deeds.
2023 Feb
10 Fri 1444 Rajab (7) 18
14-16 Christians too have neglected most of their
Book and Jews and Christians are asked to become Muslims
(5:14) We also took a covenant from those who said:
'We are Christians';,,,,,,,
Jesus
never called his followers 'Christians' for he had not come to found a new
religion named after him. His mission was to revive the religion of Moses and
of all the Prophets
The
Qur'an, therefore, does not refer to the followers of Christ as Christians. It
reminds them rather that they belong to those who responded to the query of
Jesus: 'Who are my supporters (ansari) in the way of God?' by saying that they
were his ansar (supporters) in God's cause. See (Surah al-Saff 61: 14 - Ed.) It
is an irony of fate that far from feeling grateful at being referred to by a
dignified appellation Christian missionaries take offence at the fact that the
Qur'an designates them as Nasara rather than as 'Christians'.
17-17 Jesus son of Mary
is not God or son of God
18-19 False claim of Jews and Christians to be the
children of God and Invitation to Jews and Christians to become Muslims
5:19) (People of the
Book! After a long interlude during which no Messengers have appeared there has
come to you Our Messenger to elucidate the teaching of the true faith lest you say:
'No bearer of glad tidings and no warner has come to us.' For now there indeed
has come to you a bearer of glad tidings and a warner, Allah is All-Power-ful.41
2023 Feb
13 mon 1444 Rajab (7) 21
20-26 [4]
20-26 Behavior of Jews with their own Prophet Musa
(Moses) and Curse of Allah on the Jews for 40 years
(5:26) Allah said: 'This land will now be forbidden
to them for forty years and they will remain wandering about on the earth.46 Do
not grieve over the condition of these transgressing people.47
(5:21) My people! Enter the holy land which Allah
has ordained for you;43 and do not turn back for then you will turn about
losers.44
43. This signifies Palestine which had been the
homeland of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. After their exodus from Egypt, God
ordered the Israelites to go forth to Egypt and conquer it.
(5:21) My people! Enter the holy land which Allah
has ordained for you;43 and do not turn back for then you will turn about
losers.44
43. This signifies Palestine which had been the
homeland of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. After their exodus from Egypt, God
ordered the Israelites to go forth to Egypt and conquer it.
42. This refers to the glory the Israelites enjoyed
before the time of Moses. There had appeared among them such great Prophets as
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. Moreover, from the time of Joseph they were
able to achieve very considerable power and authority in Egypt. For a
considerable period they were the greatest rulers of the civilized world,
reigning supreme in Egypt and the surrounding territories. People are generally
inclined to regard the time of Moses as the starting point for the rise of the
Israelites. The Qur'an, however, states categorically that the truly glorious
period of their history had passed long before Moses, and that Moses himself
drew the attention of his people to that period as their time of glory.
44. This statement of Moses refers to the second
year after they had come out of Egypt when he and his people lived in tents in
the wilderness of Paran. This desert lies in the Sinai peninsula adjacent to
the northern borders of Arabia and the southern borders of Palestine.
44. This statement of Moses refers to the second
year after they had come out of Egypt when he and his people lived in tents in
the wilderness of Paran. This desert lies in the Sinai peninsula adjacent to
the northern borders of Arabia and the southern borders of Palestine.
2023 Feb
14tue 1444 Rajab (7) 22
See lrngthy ENs
27-34 [5]
27-31
Story of Adam's two sons (Abel and Cain)
(5:31) Thereupon Allah sent forth a raven who
began to scratch the earth to show him how he might cover the corpse of his
brother. So seeing he cried: 'Woe unto me! Was I unable even to be like this
raven and find a way to cover the corpse of my brother?51 Then he became full of
remorse at his doing.52
51.
In this way God made this errant son of Adam realize his ignorance and folly.
Once his attention turned to self-appraisal, his regret was not confined to realizing that in his effort to
hide his brother's corpse he proved to be even less efficient than the raven.
He also began to feel how foolish he was to have killed his own brother. The
later part of the sentence indicates this remorse.
52.The purpose of
mentioning this particular incident is to reproach the Jews subtly for the plot
they had hatched to assassinate the Prophet (peace be on him) and some of his
illustrious Companions see (n. 30) above. The resemblance between the
two incidents is evident. God honoured some of the illiterate people of Arabia
and disregarded the ancient People of the Book because the former were pious
while the latter were not. But rather than reflect upon the causes of their
rejection by God, and do something to overcome the failings which had led to
that rejection, the Israelites were seized by the same fit of arrogant
ignorance and folly which had once seized the criminal son of Adam, and
resolved to kill those whose good deeds had been accepted by God. It was
obvious that such acts would contribute nothing towards their acceptance by
God. They would rather earn them an even greater degree of God's disapproval.
32-32 Decree of Allah regarding the killing of a
human being
(5:32) Therefore We ordained
for the Children of Israel53 that he who slays a soul unless it be (in
punishment) for murder or for spreading mischief on earth shall be as if he had
slain all mankind; and he who saves a life shall be as if he had given life to
all mankind.54 And indeed again and again did Our
Messengers come to them with clear directives; yet many of them continued to
commit excesses on earth.
33-34 Punishment of
waging war against Allah and His Rasool
(5:33) Those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and go about
the earth spreading mischief55 -indeed
their recompense is that they either be done to death, or be crucified, or have
their hands and feet cut off from the opposite sides or be banished from the
land.56 Such shall be their degradation in this world;
and a mighty chastisement lies in store for them in the World to Come
2023 Feb
16thu 1444 Rajab (7) 24
35-43 [6]
35-37 Jihad is the way to
success and No ransom will save the unbelievers from the punishment(
Jihad Blog
5:35)
Believers! Fear Allah and seek the means to come near to Him,58 and strive
hard in His way;59 maybe you will attain true success.
58.
People are urged to solicit all means which might bring them close to God and
enable them to please Him.
59. The English imperative 'strive hard' does
not do full justice to the actual word used in the Qur'an: jahidu. The verbal
form mujahadah signifies and carries the nuance of doing something in defiance
of, or in opposition to someone. The true sense of the Qur'anic injunction
'strive hard' in the way of Allah is that the Muslims ought to use all their
strength and engage in vigorous struggle against those forces which either
forcefully prevent them from living in obedience to God or force them to live
in obedience to others than God. It is this struggle which is likely to lead
man to his true success and bring him to a close relationship with God.
This verse directs the believer to engage in a
ceaseless, multifrontal struggle. On one side is the accursed Satan with his
horde. Then comes the animal spirit of man, with its defiant and refractory
desires. Then there are many men who have turned away from God, but with whom
one is linked by social, cultural and economic ties. Then there are false
religious, cultural and social systems which rest on rebellion against God and
which force man to worship falsehood rather than Truth. These rebellious forces
use different means to achieve their end, but those ends are always the same -
to make men serve them rather than God. But man's true progress and his
attainment of close communion with God depends entirely on his total obedience
to God, on his serving God unreservedly in the inner as well as in the external
aspects of his life. He cannot achieve this objective without engaging in
simultaneous combat with all the forces which are defiant and rebellious
towards God, carrying on an unceasing struggle against them and trampling down
all obstructions to his advancement along God's path.
38-40 Punishment for theft
(5:38) As for the thief -male or female - cut off the hands of
both.60 This is a recompense for what they have done, and
an
exemplary punishment from Allah. Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.
60. The injunction is to cut off one not
both hands. There is consensus among jurists that in the event of the first
theft the right hand should be cut off. This punishment has been
laid down for theft alone. The Prophet (peace be on him) declared:
"There
is no cutting off of a hand for he who embezzles.' (Abu
Da'ud, 'Hudud', 14; Tirmidhi, 'Hudud', 18; Ibn Majah, 'Hudud', 36; Nasa'i,
'Qat' al-Sariq', 13 - Ed.) This shows that the punishment prescribed for theft
does not cover acts involving embezzlement and other dishonest practices. It is
applicable only to acts involving the seizure, by stealth, of someone else's
property.
See lengthy EN
38
In Islam, strict conditions must be met for punishments to be carried
out. For example, for someone to be punished for theft, the
thief must be a sane adult who
knows that theft is forbidden, the
crime has to be proven
either by confession or the testimony of two reliable eyewitnesses,
the stolen item has to be of value and taken secretly from a safe
place, and the owner has to claim it. Otherwise, the
punishment is not applied. Islamic punishments
apply neither in non-Muslim countries
nor in Muslim countries where Sharî’ah is not fully applied.
Moreover,
the punishment is only applicable in a
society where the needs of the poor are adequately met (i.e.,
they receive alms-tax, charity, or welfare) and where theft is more out of
desire than necessity. It is worth mentioning that ’Umar ibn Al-Khaṭṭâb,
Islam’s 2nd Caliph, suspended this
punishment for one year due to widespread famine.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
(5:39) But he who repents after he has committed wrong, and makes
amends, Allah will graciously turn to him.61 Truly
Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
61. Forgiveness on the part of Allah
does not mean that the hand of the thief should not be cut off. It means
rather that one who repents and becomes righteous by purging his soul of the
sin of stealing will be spared the wrath of God, Who will remove the stain of
that sin from him. But if after his hand has been cut off the person concerned
does not purge himself of evil intent and continues to nurture the same impure
feelings which led to his stealing and thus to the cutting off of his hand, it
is evident that even though his hand has been severed from his body, stealing
remains ingrained in his soul.
2023 Feb
19sun 1444 Rajab (7) 27
41-43 Do not provide
lip-service; be true believers and If Allah intends to punish, the Rasool
cannot save
(5:42) They are
listeners of falsehood and greedy devourers of unlawful earnings.69 If they come to you you may either judge between them or
turn away from them. And were you to turn away from them they shall not be able
to harm you; and were you to judge between them judge with justice. Surely
Allah loves the just.7
(5:43) Yet how will they appoint you a judge when they have
the Torah with them, wherein there is Allah's judgement - and still they turn
away from it?71 The fact is, they are not believers.
(240223)
44-45 Laws of Taurat
(Torah) and Those who do not judge by the laws of Allah, They are unbelievers,
They are wrongdoers
(5:44) Surely We
revealed the Torah, wherein there is guidance and light. Thereby did Prophets - who had submitted themselves (to Allah) - judge for the Judaized scholars and jurists folk;72
and so did the.73 They judged by the Book of Allah for they had been entrusted
to keep it, and bear witness to it. So (O Jews!) do not fear men but fear Me,
and do not barter away My signs for a trivial gain. Those
who do not judge by what Allah has revealed are indeed the unbelievers.
72.Here the verse tells
the Jews that all the Prophets were muslims
(submitters to God) whereas the Jews had deviated from islam
(submission to God), and true to their chauvinistic sectarianism, were content
with remaining merely 'Jews'.
73.Rabbani = religious
scholars, theologians. Ahbar = religious jurists.
(5:45)
And therein We had ordained for them: 'A life for a life, and an eye for an
eye, and a nose for a nose, and an ear for an ear, and a tooth for a tooth, and
for all wounds, like for like.74 But whosoever forgoes it by way of charity, it
will be for him an expiation.75 Those who do not judge by what Allah has
revealed are indeed the wrong-doers.
74. Cf. Exodus 21:
23-5.
75. Whoever forgoes his
right of retaliation does a good deed which will atone for many of his sins.
The same is confirmed by a tradition of the Prophet (peace be on him) in which
he said: 'Whoever receives an injury on his body, then pardons (the inflictor
of the injury), his sins are atoned for to the measure of his pardoning.'
(Ahmad b. Hanbal, Musnad, vol. 5, pp. 316, 329 - Ed.)
46-47 c) They are
transgressors
(5:46) And We sent
Jesus, the son of Mary, after those Prophets, confirming the truth of whatever there still remained of the
Torah. And We gave him the
Gospel, wherein is guidance and light, and which confirms the truth of whatever
there still remained of the Torah,76 and a guidance and
admonition for the God-fearing.
76.The Messiah did not expound a new religion. That very religion which had been the religion
of all the Prophets was also his religion, and it is towards that religion that
he called people
(5:47) Let the followers of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed
therein, and those who do not judge by what Allah has revealed are the
transgressors.
2023 Feb
20mon 1444 Rajab (7) 28
48-50 Diversity of
human race and Establish justice based on Allah's revelations
(5:48) Then We
revealed the Book to you (O Muhammad!) with Truth, confirming whatever of the Book was revealed
before,78 and protecting and guarding over it--------
For each of you We have appointed a Law and a way of life.80 And
had Allah so willed, He would surely have made you one single community;
instead, (He gave each of you a Law and a way of life) in order to test you by
what He gave you. Vie, then, one with another in good works. Unto Allah is the
return of all of you; and He will then make you understand the truth concerning
the matters on which you disagreed.81
2023 Feb
24mon 1444 shaban (8) 3
51-53 Do not take Jews
or Christians as your protectors
(5:51) Wali means
guardian, caretaker, protector, provider, ally, etc. The Prophet (ﷺ) for example says, “A woman should not get
married without a wali.”—that is a guardian such as her father to represent her
in the marriage and make sure she receives her full rights. The verse forbids
Muslims from allying with the Jews and Christians (or anyone else) conspiring
to persecute Muslims. On the
other hand, as long as non-Muslims are not at war with Muslims or persecuting
them, the Quran (60:8) commands Muslims to be kind and gracious to them.
XXXXXX(5:53) while those who believe will exclaim:
'Are these the self-same people who solemnly swore by Allah that they were with
you?' All their acts have
gone to waste and now they are the losers.86
86.
However much they might profess to follow Islam - by performing Prayers, by
observing Fasts, by paying Zakah, by taking part in wars in the cause of God - all was reduced to naught because they had not
devoted themselves to the service of the One True God. In pursuit of their worldly ambitions they had
split their souls into two, distributing half to God and half to those in
rebellion against Him.
2023 Mar
08wed 1444 shaban (8) 15
54-56 Your protecting
friends are Allah, His Rasool, and your fellow believers
(5:54) Believers! If
any of you should ever turn away from your faith, remember that Allah will raise up a people whom
He loves, and who love Him; a people humble towards the believers, and firm
towards the unbelievers;87 who will strive hard in the way of
Allah and will not fear the reproach of the reproacher.88 This
is the favour of Allah which He grants to whom He wills. Allah is vast in
resources, All-Knowing.
2023 Mar
09thu 1444 shaban (8) 16
57-66 [9]
57-60 Do not befriend those people
who make a mockery of your religion
(5:60) Then say to them:
'Shall I tell you about those whose retribution with Allah is even worse? They
are the ones whom Allah has cursed, and who incurred His wrath and some of whom
were changed into apes
and swine, and who served the
false deities. Such have an even worse rank and have strayed farther away from
the right path.91
91.
This alludes to the Jews whose history shows that they were subjected, over and over again, to the wrath
and scourge of God. When they desecrated the law of the Sabbath the faces of
many of them were distorted, and subsequently their degeneration reached such a
low point that they took to worshipping Satan quite openly. The purpose of
saying all this is to draw attention to their criminal boldness while they had
sunk to the lowest level of evil, transgression and moral decadence, they
vigorously opposed all those who, thanks to their faith, lived a truly pious
and righteous life
2023 Mar
10fri 1444 shaban (8) 17
61-66 Jews deceiving behavior and
Jews slander against Allah and If only the people of the Book had believed,
They could have had the best of the both worlds
2023 Mar
13mon 1444 shaban (8) 20
67-77 [10]
67-69 Rasool's mission
is to deliver Allah's Message
(5:68),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,establish the Torah and the Gospel and all that had been
revealed to you from your Lord.97........
It should be noted here that the
Scriptures which comprise the
Bible consist of two kinds of writings. One
was composed by the Jewish and Christian authors themselves. The second
consists of those portions which have been recorded as either the injunctions
of God or as the utterances of Moses, Jesus and other Prophets. Such portions
are those in which it has been categorically stated that God said so and so, or
that a particular Prophet said so and so. If we were to exclude the portions
belonging to the first category and carefully study those belonging to the
second we would notice that
their
teachings are not perceptibly different from those of the Qur'an.
It is true that the second category has not
altogether escaped the tamperings of translators, scribes and exegetes, and the
errors of oral transmitters. Nevertheless, one cannot help feeling that the
teachings embodied in
the
second category call man to the same pure monotheism as the Qur'an, that they
propound those very beliefs propounded by the Qur'an and that they direct man
to the same way of life as that to which the Qur'an seeks to direct him. Hence,
had the Jews and the Christians adhered to the teaching attributed in their
Scriptures to God and the Prophets they would certainly have become a
truth-loving and truth-oriented group of people and would have been able to see
in the Qur'an that very light which illuminates the earlier divine Scriptures.
There would then have been no question of their abandoning their religion in
order to follow the Prophet (peace be on him). To follow him would have caused
neither break nor discontinuity; they would simply have gone one stage further
along the same road.
(5:69) (Know
well, none has an exclusive claim to the Truth.) For all those who believe in
Allah and in the Last Day and do good deeds - be they either believers, Jews, Sabaeans or Christians -
neither fear shall fall upon them, nor
shall they have any reason to grieve.99
99. See
Towards Understanding the Qur'an, vol. I, (Surah 2, verse 62, and n 80).
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70-71 Attitude of Jews towards
Rasools 2023 Mar 15wed 1444 shaban (8) 22
72-74 Those who say Jesus is God
are disbelievers 2023 Mar 16thu 1444 shaban (8) 23
75-77 Who was Jesus son of Mary?
(5:75) The
Messiah, son of Mary, was no more than a Messenger before whom many Messengers
have passed away; and
his mother adhered wholly to truthfulness, and they both ate food (as other mortals do). See how We
make Our signs clear to them; and see where they are turning away
(5:77) Say: 'People of the Book! Do not go beyond bounds in your
religion at the cost of truth, and do not follow the caprices of the people who
fell into error before, and caused others to go astray, and strayed far away
from the right path.101
101. This refers to those
misguided nations from whom the Christians derived their false beliefs and
ways, particularly to the Hellenistic philosophers under the spell of whose
ideas the Christians had veered from the straight way they had originally
followed.
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78-86
[11]
78-82 Disbelievers among
the Children of Israel were cursed by the tongues of David and Jesus and
Christians are closer to Muslims than the Jews and Pagans
5:79) They did not forbid each other from committing the abominable
deeds they committed.102 Indeed what they did was evil.
102. The corruption of any
nation begins with that of a few individuals. If the collective conscience of
that nation is alive, the pressure of public opinion keeps those persons in
check and prevents the nation as a whole from becoming corrupted. But if
instead of censuring such individuals, the nation leaves them free to behave
corruptly, the corruption originally confined to a few continues to spread till
it engulfs the whole nation. It was this which ultimately caused the
degeneration of Israel. (For the curse against Israel in the words of David and
Jesus see Psalms 10, 50 and Matthew 23.)
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83-86 Good Christians
recognize the truth and become Muslims
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87-98 [12]
99-100 [13]
87-89 Do not make Halal things Haram on your own and
Kaffarah (penalty) for breaking the oath
(5:87) Believers! Do not hold as unlawful the good things which
Allah has made lawful to you,104 and do not exceed the bounds of right.105 Allah does not love those who transgress the bounds of
right.
104.
This verse embodies two directives. The first is that
man
should not attribute to himself the authority to proclaim things either lawful
or unlawful according to his own wishes. Only that which God has held to be
lawful is lawful, and only that which God has declared unlawful is unlawful. If
men were to declare certain things either lawful or unlawful on their own
authority, they would not be following the law of God but their own laws. The
second directive is that
they
should not adopt the course of world-renunciation and abstention from worldly
pleasures as the Christian monks, Hindu mendicants, Buddhist bhikshus and
illuminist mystics did………… see lengthy EN with examples
(5:89) Allah does not take
you to task for the oaths you utter vainly, but He will certainly take you to task for the oaths
you have sworn in earnest. The expiation (for breaking such oaths) is either to
feed ten needy persons with more or less the same food as you are wont to give
to your families, or to clothe them, or to set free from bondage the neck of
one man; and he who does not find the means shall fast for three days. This
shall be the expiation for your oaths whenever you have sworn (and broken
them.)106 But do keep your oaths.107 Thus does Allah make clear to you His commandments; maybe you will
be grateful.
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90-93 Prohibition of intoxicants (liquor and drugs)
and gambling and Rasool's duty is only to pass on the Message of Alla h2023 Mar 21
tue 1444 shaban (8) 28
94-96 Prohibition of hunting during Hajj Ihram
(wearing pilgrim garb) and Kaffarah (penalty) for hunting during Hajj Ihram h2023 Mar 22 wed
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97-100 Sacred elements
of Hajj
(5:100) (O Messenger!) Say to them:
The bad things and the
good things are not equal, even though the abundance of the bad things might
make you pleased with them.115 Men of understanding, beware of disobeying Allah; then maybe
you will attain true success.'
115.
This verse enunciates a standard of
evaluation and judgement quite distinct from the standards employed by
superficial people. For the latter, for instance, a hundred
dollars are worth more than five dollars, since a hundred is more than five.
But, according to this verse, if those hundred dollars have been earned in a
manner entailing the disobedience of God the entire amount becomes unclean. If,
on the contrary, a man earns five dollars while obeying God then this amount is
clean; and anything which is unclean, whatever its quantity, cannot be worth
that which is clean. A drop of perfume is more valuable than a heap of filth; a
palmful of clean water is much more valuable than a huge cauldron brimming with
urine. A truly wise person should therefore necessarily be content with whatever
he acquires by clean, permissible means, however small and humble its quantity
may be. He should not reach out for what is prohibited, however large in
quantity and glittering in appearance.
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101-108
[14]
101-104 Do not ask
questions like the nation of Musa (Moses) and Superstitions are prohibited in
Islam
(5:101) Believers! Do not ask
of the things which, if made manifest to you, would vex you;116 for, if you should
ask about them while the Qur'an is being revealed, they will be made manifest
to you. Allah has pardoned whatever happened in the past. He is All-Forgiving,
All-Forbearing.
116.
People used to ask the Prophet (peace be on him)
many questions which were of no practical relevance to either
religious or day-to-day affairs. Once, for instance, a person asked the Prophet (peace be on him)
in the presence of a crowd: 'Who is my real father?' Likewise, many people used
to ask unnecessary questions about legal matters
(5:102)
Indeed some people
before you had asked such questions and in consequence fell into unbelief
The
people referred to here are the Jews, and the Muslims who followed in their footsteps and left
no stone unturned, despite the warnings contained in the Qur'an and in the
sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him).
(5:103) Allah has neither
appointed (cattle devoted to idols such as) Bahirah, Sa'ibah, Wasilah nor Ham;118but
those who disbelieve forge lies against Allah and of them most have no
understanding (and therefore succumb to such superstitions).
118.
Just as, in the Indian
subcontinent, cows, oxen and goats are set free after being consecrated either
to God or to some idol or shrine or to some saintly person, and just as people
consider it prohibited either to put them to work, to slaughter them or to
derive any other kind of benefit from them, so the Arabs of the Jahiliyah
period also let loose certain animals after consecrating them. Such
animals were variously named.
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fri 1444 Ramzaan 01
105-108 Last will and
testament, and testimony of witnesses
(5:105) Believers! Take heed of your own selves. If you are rightly guided, the error of he who strays will not harm you.119 To Allah will all of you return; then He will
let all of you know what you did.
119.
What is stressed here is that rather than occupying himself unduly with
examining faults in the belief and conduct of others, a man should pay greater
attention to a critical examination of his own conduct. His primary concern
should be with his own faith and conduct. If a man is himself obedient to God,
observes his duties to Him and to His creatures including his duty to promote
what is good and forbid what is evil, and lives according to the dictates of
righteousness and honesty, he has fulfilled his obligation and if others
persist either in false beliefs or in moral corruption their errors cannot harm
him.
This verse in no way means that a man should care only for his own salvation
and should remain unconcerned with the reform of others. Abu Bakr removed this
misconception in one of his sermons when he remarked: 'You recite this verse
but interpret it erroneously. I have heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be on
him) say that when people see corruption but do not try to change it; and when
they see a wrong-doer commit wrong but do not prevent him from doing so, it is
not unlikely that God's chastisement will seize them all. By God, it is incumbent
upon you that you bid what is good and forbid what is evil or else God will
grant domination upon you to those who are the worst among you. They will
greatly chastise you and then when your righteous ones pray to God, their
prayers will not be answered.'
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sat 1444 Ramzaan 02
109-115 [15]
109-115 Favors of Allah upon Jesus and the miracles
he was given and Disciples of Jesus asked for a Table Spread of food as a
miracle
(5:109) The Day122 when
Allah will gather together the Messengers123 and
say: 'What answer were you given?' They will reply: 'We have no real knowledge
of it.124 You alone fully know all that lies
beyond the reach of human perception.
122. This refers to the Day of
Judgement.
123. The reference here is
to the response of the world to the call of the Prophets.
124. This reply indicates
that the
Prophets would say that
their knowledge was confined to that limited, outward response which they had
encountered during their lifetimes. The true reaction to their call at various
places and in different forms would only be known completely to God Himself.
(5:111) And recall when
I revealed to the disciples to believe in Me and in My
Mes-senger, they said: "We do believe, and we bear witness that we
indeed are the ones who submit to Allah"127
(5:116) And imagine when thereafter Allah will
say: 'Jesus, son of Mary, did you say to people: "Take me and my mother
for gods beside Allah?"130 and he will answer: "Glory to You! It was
not for me to say what I had no right to. Had I said so, You would surely have
known it. You know all what is within my mind whereas I do not know what is
within Yours. You, indeed You, know fully all that is beyond the reach of human
perception.127. Jesus is being told that the faith of the disciples in
him was also the result of God's grace and succour, for he,
himself, did not have the power to produce even one man of faith in that land
of disbelief. It is also made clear that the true religion of the disciples of
Jesus was Islam.
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sun 1444 Ramzaan 03
116-120
[16]
116-120 Testimony
of Jesus on the Day of Judgement about the Christians
Mary as
Mother of God
(5:116) And imagine when thereafter
Allah will say: 'Jesus, son of Mary, did you say to people: "Take me and
my mother for gods beside Allah?"130 and he will answer: "Glory to You! It was not for me to say what I had
no right to. Had I said so, You would surely have known it. You know all what
is within my mind whereas I do not know what is within Yours. You, indeed You,
know fully all that is beyond the reach of human perception.
130. The Christians
were not content merely with deifying Jesus and the Holy Spirit. They even
turned Mary, the mother of Jesus, into a full-fledged object of worship
The Bible
does not contain even the remotest suggestion that Mary was in any way either
divine or superhuman
During
the first three centuries after the Messiah, such a concept was totally alien
to Christian thinking.
Towards the end of the third century of the
Christian era, however, some theologians of Alexandria employed, for the first
time, the expression 'Mother of God' in connection with Mary. Subsequently,
belief in Mary's divinity and the practice of Mariolatry began to spread among
Christians. Even then, however,
the Church was not
prepared to accord official approval to this belief and denounced the
Mariolaters as heretics.
It was not until the
Council of Ephesus in 431 that the Church officially used the expression
'Mother of God' for Mary. The result was that Mariolatry began to spread fast
within the Church itself, so much so that, by the time of the revelation of the
Qur'an, Mary had become so important a deity that she obscured even the Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost. Statues of Mary adorned the cathedrals. She became
the object of rites and worship. People addressed their prayers to her. She was
regarded as the one who responded to people's supplications, who heeded
people's grievances and complaints, who relieved them in distress, who provided
support and succour to the helpless. For a devout Christian there could be no
greater source of comfort and inner strength than the belief that he enjoyed
the support and patronage of the 'Mother of God
(5:117) I
said to them nothing except what You commanded me, that is: 'Serve Allah, my
Lord and your Lord.' I watched over them as long as I remained among them; and
when You did recall me, then You Yourself became the Watcher over them. Indeed,
You are Witness over everything.
(5:118) If You chastise
them, they are Your servants; and if You forgive them, You are the All-Mighty,
the All-Wise."'
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