Eat of that which is lawful and wholesome in the earth
Surah ‘Al-Baqarah (The Cow) – Chapter – 2)
Stage – 1, Verses – 168 & 169 of 286, Section
–21 of 40 (Part - 2)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
O
mankind! Eat of that which is lawful and wholesome in the earth, and follow
not the footsteps of the devil. Lo! He is an open enemy for you.
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Yaaa-‘ayyuhan-naasu
kuluu mimmaa fil-‘arzi Halaalan- tay-yibaa.
Wa laa tattabi-‘uu khutuwaatish-Shay-taan. ‘In-nahuu
lakum ‘aduw-wum-mu-biin.
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Lesson
In this verse, God
Almighty addressed the entire human beings and declared the difference between
lawful and unlawful, and determined compulsory two conditions for the eatables
and drinkable things:
· It should be lawful
· It should be pure and
clean
Halaalun – the thing, which is not forbidden by
Allah Almighty from eating or drinking; and which has not been disliked or not
fixed as unlawful, for example: water, vegetables, meat, pulses etc. are called
lawful in accordance with the Divine law.
Tay-yiban – (pure, clean, fine, nice), those
things, which are lawful including pure and clean from filth and nastiness are Tay-yiban.
Applying two
conditions by Islam in the food (lawful and pure) have produced a very great
excellence. Due to these principles, every that thing, which is not pure and
clean, is dangerous or harmful for human body and soul, or that has not gotten
lawfully, for eating, drinking or use of it is forbidden.
The Messenger of Allah
Almighty (glory, grace, blessings and peace be upon Him) took too much care for
the pure, clean and lawful that those things, smell of which affects usually ill
upon the health, declared odious and their use, before coming to the mosque,
has been prohibited by Him (glory, grace, blessings and peace be upon Him), so
that, it might not affect bad on the nature of the devout associates.
The Arabs had declared
some things unlawful at their own; for instance; the animals were left free in
the name of idols and likewise; some other kinds of food. And they began to use
some forbidden things also like milk of a suckling’s mother. Islam forbade from
it. Accordingly, there is a Saying of the Prophet (glory, grace, blessings and
peace be upon Him), “The person whose food is unlawful, clothes are unlawful
and meal is also unlawful, how his prayer might be accepted?”
Allah Almighty
commanded that the people, who don’t care about lawful, pure and clean, they
follow the Devil and the Devil is the worst enemy of the human being. He will
never be the well-wisher of the mankind.
He enjoineth upon
you only the evil and the foul, and that ye should tell concerning Allah that
which ye know not.
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‘Innamaa
ya’-murukum- bis-suuu-‘i wal-fah-shaaa-‘i wa ‘an-
taquuluu ‘alAllaahi maa laa ta’-lamuun.
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Lesson
As-suuu-‘u – evil/bad thing (intellectually and
legally)
‘Al-fah-shaaa-‘u – (foul, shamelessness and disliked due
to morality and respect, the words fahash (indecent,
frivolous) and faahishah (shameless, unchaste) have also been
derived from it.
Two characteristics of
Satan (the Devil) have been described in this verse:
1. He
teaches evil and fouls always to the human being. The mankind should never hope
for advantage/benefit from the Devil because it is his nature that he is
stained entirely in the evil, filth, foul, depravity and impurity/pollution,
and he wishes to keep stained the human beings too. He excites every time for
any kind of wickedness, quarrel, sedition, mischief and bustle, and stands in
the way of goodness. The entire those wishes and works, which are fatal for
human brotherhood and humanity itself, all are entered in the evil and foul. To
create a mischief in the safety and peace of the society, to sow dissension among
mutual brotherhood and fraternity, to extirpate the union and cooperation, not
to fulfill the rights of the servants, it means that the entire works, due to
which, tumult spreads, belong to mischievous and devilish.
2. The
Devil induces the human beings to tell the people false, self-invented by
themselves talks and show that these are from the commands of God Almighty,
while Allah Almighty has never commanded for those things, but the followers of
the Devil do all that, for reaping casual advantages of frail things, worldly
temptation and greediness of the wealth.
This disease had
become common in the scholars of the Children of Israel. For deceiving the
public, they used to tell the useful for them; self-invented talks and used to
say that it was from God Almighty. Resultant the foundation of their religion
became hollow and they failed for future.
We should learn from
this verse that we should neither take part in the evil deeds and foul, and nor
tell the public false and self-invented matters because these both works belong
to Satan.
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