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Tue 13 Jumada Al Akhira 1445AH 26-12-2023AD at 7:14 am #90742
Tafseer ul Qur’aan
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
Juz 2-Surah Al Baqarah-151
كَمَاۤ اَرْسَلْنَا فِيْکُمْ رَسُوْلًا مِّنْکُمْ يَتْلُوْا عَلَيْكُمْ اٰيٰتِنَا وَيُزَكِّيْکُمْ وَيُعَلِّمُکُمُ الْكِتٰبَ وَالْحِکْمَةَ وَيُعَلِّمُكُمْ مَّا لَمْ تَكُوْنُوْا تَعْلَمُوْنَ
💡”Just as We have sent among you a messenger from yourselves reciting to you Our verses and purifying you and teaching you the Book and wisdom and teaching you that which you did not know.”[1]
📍 [1] This is the answer to the prayer of Ibrahim (عَلَيْهِ سْلَامْ) who had supplicated (2: 128 129):
“O Lord! Make us submissive to You and (generate) from our progeny a people submissive to You. Show us our holy rites, and turn to us (in mercy). Surely You are the Relenting, the Merciful. O Lord! Raise in them a Messenger from among them who shall recite Your verses to them, instruct them in the Book and Wisdom, and purify them” (Ibn Jarir).
Sayyid Qutb comments: He purifies them: “Were it not for Allah, none of them would have attained purification, cleansed himself, or risen up (in spirit). But He sent His Messenger on whom be peace to purify them … purify their souls from the impurities of ‘shirk,’ from the filth of ‘jahiliyyah’ and from the base concepts that weigh heavily upon the human soul crushing it under their weight … purify them from profane lust and eruptions of base desires … in order that their souls may never again retract to the immoralities (of the past). Those whom Islam does not purify from the filth of the earth filth whether ancient or modern they fall in the poisone quagmire of lust and beastly desires which shrink the very humanism of the humans to the extent of raising animals that are guided merely by their instincts above them: animals which, in fact, prove to be more sublime than what many humans fall to without the purifying factor of faith. Islam purifies their community from usury, deceit, usurpation, mugging and looting. These corruptions taint human perceptions and sensibilities, and pollute life and community. Islam frees lives from oppression and injustice and establishes that pure and noble order that human society has not experienced in the manner it experienced under the influence of Islam … under the rule of Islam … under the polity of Islam. Islam purifies them from all the scum and filth that smudge the face of the ‘jahiliyyah,’ those that attack it from all sides, and attack those societies that Islam has not purified with its uplifting, purifying touch.
“’And (He) instructs you in the Book and the wisdom:’ This is in line with what has been stated in the earlier parts of this section of the Qur’ān and summaries in a word the ultimate objective of the efforts to understand the Book, viz. attainment of wisdom. Wisdom is the fruit of all instructions in the Qur’ān. It is this faculty by which things are placed in their proper order and right perspective, and by which they are allotted their proper weights. It is this faculty that reaches at the very heart of reason, (causes, and motives) underlying the injunctions and commandments. This was attained (to the highest degree) by those whom the Prophet (ﷺ) himself instructed in the Book and purified them.
‘And (He) teaches you that which you did not know:’ This is exactly what happened with the first batch of Muslims. Islam had picked them up from the Arab environs which did not provide them but with a few unconnected pieces of information: information that was just sufficient for the needs of a nomadic life, or for those minor civilizations that flourished amid the sand dunes. Islam picked them up from there and converted them into a group that assumed the clear sighted and wise leadership of the people (of the world). It was this Qur’ān, combined with the inspiration that the Prophet ﷺ himself drew from the Qur’ān, which was the nucleus of study. And the Prophet’s ﷺ mosque in which was recited the Qur’ān along with the instructions of the Prophet ﷺ was the university from which graduated the first generation of leaders who assumed the leadership of the world: that wise and clear sighted leadership which the humans have not experienced since then.
“It is this system of education (based on the Qur’ān and the guidance from the Prophet) which produced that first generation … and those leaders … that is capable of producing the same quality of men and leaders. But that, if the ummah will return to the same methods, and to the same sources; if the ummah will believe in the Qur’ān in the same spirit; if it will adopt its guidance for application in every day life, and not to chant words for the pleasure of the ears alone.”
اَلـلّٰـهُ أَعْلَمْ
اَلْحَمْدُ لِـلّٰـهِ رَبِّ الْعٰلَمِيْنَ
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