Renegades – rightful owners of the Fire
Surah ‘Al-Baqarah (The Cow) – Chapter – 2)
Stage – 1, Verse – 217c of 286, Section – 27 of
40 (Part - 2)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful
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And they will not cease from fighting against you till they
have made you renegades from your religion, if they can.
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Wa laa yazaaluuna yuqaatiluuna-kum
hattaa yarud-duu-kum an- Diinikum ‘inis- tataa-‘uu.
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Lesson
It has been cleared
openly in this verse that till the time; the Muslims will stand firm on the
religion of Allah Almighty, the Idolaters and Infidels will continue opposing
them in all respect. They will not leave any stone unturned to humiliate in every
situation and at every time, whether they get this opportunity in the limits
of Haram or during any sacred month, as they committed so at
the time of Hudaybiyah. At that time; they did not care for any respect
and blessing, were prepared to kill or slay due to enmity and envy with the
Muslims only. And they prevented the Muslims from going to Makkah and
performing the Pilgrimage (Umrah). Therefore, care should not be taken
if these kinds of enemies of Islam reproach and taunt the Muslims. The
Muslims should not wait for killing them due to the sacred month only.
It is evident also from
this verse that how much the Idolaters of Makkah were
displeased from Islam and how much they were enemy of the Truth and the Just. They
were insistent with every possible strength and plan that the Muslims should
turn away from their religion; they were trying their best to prevent the
people from embracing Islam, compel them to believe in the false and old
faiths, establish them to worship the Idols, and if possible, remove the name
and sign of Islam from the face of the earth.
Here is a question
that, “Why the Infidels and Idolaters were too much opponent of Islam? Why were
they pursuing to finish It? Why did they observe the beliefs of the Muslims with
bad view? Why did they hate the teachings of Islam?
There are answers
of above mentioned questions that they had established their religion, their
politics and their culture according to their manners at that time. Their aims
and purposes were limited only up to their own welfare and well-being. They
wished to retain the traditions of their own society. Contrary to this, Islam
delivered the message of accomplished equality and global improvement, provided
equal rights to every individual being the mankind and refused to accept the
existence of any particular interested society. So, those all persons who
conceived at the limited scale and who were miserly and selfish, they prepared
themselves for enmity and malice.
How the false could
stay before the true? How the darkness might remain after entering the Light?
Those people drowned themselves in their own folly and enmity, and were fit for
punishment forever. They were unfortunate in this world and became deserving of
the Hell also on the Day of Resurrection.
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And whoso of you becometh a renegade and dieth in his
disbelief: such are they whose works have fallen both in the world and the
Hereafter. And such are rightful owners of the Fire, they will abide therein
forever.
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Wa many-yartadid minkum ‘an- Diinihii
fayamut wa huwa kaafirun- fa- ‘ulaaa- ‘ika habitat
‘a’-maaluhum fid-dunyaa wal- ‘Akhirah. Wa ‘ulaaa-
‘ika ‘As-haabun-Naar. Hum fiihaa khaaliduun.
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Lesson
It was cleared in
the above part of the verse that the Infidels and Idolaters will carry on
trying to turn the Muslims away from Islam with every method. They will
threaten and terrify them, offer them different hopes and tempt them. Their
entire attempts will be for the purpose that with any possible way, the Muslims
must not increase in numbers; they would have to return unto ignorance and
darkness of the infidelity.
It has been warned
in this verse that if any Muslim will become a renegade leaving Islam under the
influence of Infidels, due to scare or lure, and will die in his disbelief, his
entire good deeds will be lost. He will have to suffer its punishment also in
the world as well as on the Day of Resurrection too.
Punishment due to
being a renegade from Islam will be that his life and wealth will not be
protected. His relationship will be disconnected from his Muslim wife. He
cannot get the hereditary property of the Muslims. Moreover, if there is a
Muslim government then the disloyal, renegade and rebel individual has no right
to live in that state.
On the Day of
Resurrection, he will be punished rigorously as he will remain deprived of his
rewards and compensation. He will not get any retribution of his any worship
and good deed. He will be put in to the Hell, will be burnt there forever and
harmed rigorously.
Fayamut wa huwa kaafirun – (if
he dies in his disbelief), Allah Almighty taught from this sentence that
if (God forbid) any Muslim becomes a renegade, even then; he has the
opportunity to return towards the religion. The punishment of Hereafter is only
in that case, if he dies in the folly of Infidelity.
The punishment of
the renegade is too much rigorous because he became a renegade after
understanding Islam (the Straight Path). Then doubts may rise in the hearts of
other people; observing him.
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