Quran Chapter 5 – 30 & 31 (Pt-6, Stg-2)
(L-670) - درس قرآن
Wishes blind the mankind - 2
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.)
Commentary
Cain’s loss of Afterlife due to slaying his brother
Abel was too much that the world has no value before it, i.e. he opened the
door of sin in the world. Therefore, he would not be punished only against his
own sin, but he would also be punished for the sins of others after him, as
whosoever will slay or give pain to other humankind for his/her own purpose
until the Day of Resurrection. It has been written that none had killed anyone
before Cain and nor anyone had died naturally till that time. So, Cain was
confused that what he should do with the corpse of his brother.
It has been described in this verse that Allah Almighty sent a crow in front of him. After landing, the crow began to
scratch the ground with its beak and paws. The commentators explain that the
crow brought another dead crow, which was hanging in its beak. It put the dead
crow on the earth, dug the ground and widened it. Then it put the dead crow
into that pit and leveled the ground by putting the dust on it.
Cain saw the crow doing this all. At that time he
suffered woe that he had not sense equal to a crow, which buried the corpse of
its brother (the dead crow) into the ground. At that time he would have
thought, “This crow had so much fellow-feeling (sympathy) with the other crow
like it that it took up the dead crow, brought here and hid it in the ground,
while that crow had died naturally. Whereas, I killed not only a man like me,
but I killed my own real brother intentionally, and then I had not even so much
sense that I could save the corpse from the disgrace of rotting openly”. It
manifests that He was not only more hard hearten than the crow but was also
dull in comparison with it. So repentance and self-condemnation pressed him
down and he began to grieve due to his bad work.
We can understand from this lesson that human body’s
respect is till then it is living (the soul is in it). When the soul is out
from the body, then the same body becomes occasion of shame for the human
being, as it was a filthy and disgusting thing, defects of which were hidden by
the soul. Therefore, the word saw-‘ata has been used in this verse, which means “bad and disgusting thing
(corpse)”, for which it is better that it should be removed from the sight as
soon as possible. Truly, beauty of the body is by the means of soul; otherwise,
it is nothing except a handful dust.
Blessed are those people, who understand this fine
point of their lives and do not entertain this heap of mud so much, due to
which a pure thing like soul has to suffer punishment and disaster. Therefore,
it has been told, “Leave the bodily pleasures and seek the spiritual Delight”.
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