O Israelite! Remember God’s favors & guard yourselves from
the Doomsday
Surah ‘Al-Baqarah (The Cow) – Chapter – 2)
Stage – 1, Verses – 47 & 48 of 286, Section
– 6 of 40 (Part - 1)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
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O Children
of Israel! Remember
My favour wherewith I
favoured
you and how I
preferred you to
(all) creatures.
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Yaa-Baniii- ‘Israaa-‘iilaz-kuruu ni’-mati-yal-latiii ‘an-‘amtu
‘alaykum wa ‘annii faz-zaltukum ‘alal-‘aalamiin.
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Lesson
Faz-zaltukum – (preferred you), this word has come out
from the word Fazal, which means
preference. Aim of giving preference over the entire world is that the
Israelite remained the most excellent over all the communities and there was
none peer of them. However, when they left the Truth misled the Divine’s Law
and opposed the last Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon Him), then
that preference was snatched from them and they earned anger of God Almighty.
Destruction became their fate, and the Muslim nation was given the title of “Khayra ‘Ummah” (Well Nation).
‘Alal-‘Aalamiin – (over all creatures) here ‘Aalamiin means the entire nations of
the world.
There was a time when
the Children of Israel were preferred to all the people of this
world. When the other nations were going astray in the darkness and depravity,
were involved in infidelity and worshiping of Idols, were lustful in
corruption and heresy, then there was only the nation Israelite, who had
concept of Oneness of God and they had the Heavenly Guide Book. What would be
the preference more than it?
Slowly and gradually
these people went astray from the straight path due to their weaknesses and
corruptions, and left behind the Heavenly Guidance. So God Almighty admonishes
them on the point, “Admit your real religion in its correct form and come on
the straight path.”
It was difficult to acquire
faith and Fear of God (piety) through patience and worship. So its easy and
simple way has been explained, which is gratitude. God Almighty reminds the Children
of Israel His favors, presents and honors, which He had bestowed upon
them from time to time and discloses also their wicked deeds. It is a nature of
the human being that he begins to love with his benefactor and beneficent. So God
Almighty warns them about His favors, and instructs them toward the straight
path.
It is the Token of
warning for the people of the entire world that the Children
of Israel fell down in the well of the wrath of God after achieving
so much higher rank of preference. We should gain advice from their such
condition and try to keep away ourselves from those acts, which became reason
of their depravity, ruin and destruction.
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And guard yourselves
against a
Day when no soul will
in aught
avail another, nor
will intercession be accepted from it, nor will compensation be received from
it, nor will they be helped.
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WattaquuYawmal-laa tajzii nafsun ‘an-nafsin- shay-‘anw-wa laa
yuqbalu minhaa shafaa-‘atunw-wa laa yu’-khazu minhaa ‘ad-lunw-wa laa
hum yun-saruun.
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Lesson
Yawmun – (Day), here it aims the Day of Resurrection. It is necessary for
giving up the worldly amusements and performing good deeds that the Faith in
the Day of Resurrection or Rewards and punishment on one’s deeds should exist
in the religion, so that the people would have to leave their evils and bad
acts due to the concept of that Day and do good works having the hope of
rewards. With the passage of time, Belief in the Day of Resurrection had gone
from the hearts of the Jews, so they are being warned of the Day of Judgment.
‘Ad-lun – (justice, revenge, reward, exchange,
equality, accuracy, rivalry etc.), if remuneration or compensation is given for
anything, that is considered equal to the capital. So the word ‘ad-lun is used as the exchange. It also
means justice or equity because on doing justice among two persons, it becomes
equity.
It was the concept of the
Jews, “As how much we commit evils and sins, we shall not be punished because our
forefathers were Prophets (peace be upon them). They will cause to procure
pardon for us”. God Almighty commands that such faith of theirs was totally false.
The guilty would have to be punished for his sins.
Usually, there are four
forms to set free the criminal:
·
Any other individual
admits that the crime was committed by him (instead of the actual guilty).
·
Set the guilty free on
anyone’s recommendations.
·
Let him off by paying
some compensation (cash).
·
Get him free violently.
There is no any such form
out of the above, which may be used by the evildoer on the Day of Judgment.
On the Day of
Resurrection, every person will think about himself only. Nobody will be able
to recommend any other without the permission of God Almighty. He does not need
any wealth and property that He accept the ransom. There is no any power in the
heavens and the earth, who may compel God Almighty and set the sinners free from
Him, Who is the Most High.
Allah Almighty rendered the
faith of the Jews null and void by revealing the verse under discussion and caused
to know them that they should come back towards the straight path having fear
of the Day of Resurrection.
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