Blood-shedding, banishing and transgressing
Surah ‘Al-Baqarah (The Cow) – Chapter – 2)
Stage – 1, Verses – 84 & 85 of 286, Section – 10 of 40 (Part - 1)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
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And when We made with
you a covenant (saying): Shed not the blood of your people nor turn (a party
of) your people out of your dwellings. Then ye ratified (Our covenant) and ye
were witnesses (thereto).
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Wa ‘iz ‘akhazNaa Miisaa-qakum laa tasfikuuna dimaaa-‘akum wa
laa tukhrijuuna ‘anfusakum-min- diyaarikum summa ‘aqrartum wa ‘antum
tash-haduun.
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Lesson
Discourse of the Jews has
been chained with effect from fifth Section of this Surah. The Children of Israel had gone astray from their
real religion. They used to change and make alteration in the Holy Scripture of
God Almighty Torah, after hearing the Commands of Allah Almighty and promising
to fulfill it, they used to slip from that covenant. They were involved in
false and self-invented fidelities. They had doubt that whether they commit lots
of evils and sins, they would not be punished entirely, but their ancestors
would get them saved from the Fire of Hell.
Refuting the false
faiths of the Children of Israel, God Almighty disclosed by means of
Holy Qur’aan, (which is the universal
law of deliverance). Only those people are entitled for
the Paradise who believe in Allah Almighty and do good works. Without
them the individual, who is surrounded in the evils, notwithstanding, he will
enter into the Hell.
After talking about the
law of salvation, God Almighty commanded about the way which is righteous and
good servants of Him, and drew attention towards their covenant.
Allah Almighty made with
them two more covenants:
(1) Shed not
the blood of their people.
(2)
Not to turn (a party of) their people out of their dwellings. Because doing so,
the collective dignity and fear of the nation will finish. The opponents will
get opportunity to attack over them, get possession over them and become their
rulers.
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Yet ye it is who slay
each other and drive out a party of your people from their homes, supporting
one another against them by sin and transgression --and if they came to
you as captives ye would ransom them, whereas their expulsion was itself
unlawful for you. Believe ye in part of the Scripture and disbelieve ye in
part thereof? And what is the reward of those who do so save ignominy in the
life of the world, and on the Day of Resurrection they will be consigned to
the most grievous doom. And Allah is not Unaware of what ye do.
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Summa ‘antum haaa-‘ulaaa-‘i taqtuluuna ‘anfu-sakum wa
tukhrijuuna fariiqam-minkum-min-diyaarihim; ta-zaaharuuna ‘alayhim- bil-‘ismi
wal-‘udwaan. Wa ‘iny-ya’-tuu-kum ‘usaaraa tufaaduuhum wa huwa
muharramun ‘alaykum ‘ikhraajuhum. ‘Afa-tu’-minuu-na bi-ba’-zil-kitaabi
wa takfu-ruuna bi-ba’z. Famaa ja-zaaa-‘u many-yaf-‘alu zaalika minkum
‘illaa khiz-yun- fil-hayaatid-dunyaa. Wa Yaw-mal-Qiyaamati yuradduuna ‘ilaaa
ashaddil-‘azaab. Wa mallaahu bi-gaafilin ‘ammaa ta’-maluun.
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Lesson
It is known from this
sentence that as the Children of Israel used to slay and shed the
blood among themselves mutually or exile their compatriots and religious-fellows,
which was not for any principle but only as a sin, tyranny and transgression. The
nation, which behaves like this with their own people, what a better behavior
that can do with others?
God Almighty warns the Children
of Israel in this verse, “You ratified Our Covenant: Shedding not the
blood of your people nor turning (a party of) your people out of your
dwellings.” But you oppose this covenant. You slay one another and drive out a
party of your people from their homes.
During the times of Last
Messenger (peace and blessings be upon Him), two tribes from the Children
of Israel ‘Banu Nazair’ and
‘Banu Quraizah’ used to live in Madinah and its vicinity. They used to
remain busy in civil war/domestic quarrels habitually. Two tribes of the
Infidels of Madinah were also
populated there. One of the tribes from the Jews used to be friend of the one
tribe of Infidels, and the other tribe of the Jews - friend of the other tribe
of the infidels. Whenever the war used to begin, it was their routine to slay
and exile one another.
It reveals from the
history that after the Prophet Solomon (peace be upon Him), cruel contradiction
grew among the twelve tribes of the Children of Israel. Many people were
slain during their wars. Resultant, their government was ruined. They became
slaves of others and were compelled to pass their lives under disgrace, infamy
and ignominy condition.
This argument is being fixed
upon them that besides following the commands of Holy Qur’aan, they do not obey their own Holy Scripture fully. They obey
only those some commands, in which they consider their own benefit. Which
commands demand sacrifice, they put them behind themselves.
The Jews used to exile
their colleagues first of all, after fighting with them. Whenever they used to
become prisoners of other nations, then the Jews set them free quickly paying
compensation to show their sincerity, still it is fact that it was unlawful for
them to exile their religious brothers. So it is found that they obey the Command
of Torah that the prisoners should be set free, but they do not obey this order
that they should not be exiled.
Allah Almighty commands
along with it, “And what is the reward of those who do so save ignominy in the
life of the world, and on the Day of Resurrection they will be consigned to the
most grievous doom. And Allah is not Unaware of what ye do”.
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