Quran Chapter 4-71 & 72
(Pt-5, Stg-1)(L-566) -درس قرآن
Keep yourselves ready for Jihad
Surah ‘An-Nisaaa’ (The Women) – Chapter
– 4)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In
the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
71. O ye who
believe! Take your precautions, then move on as separate units, or advance
all together.
72. And lo! Among you there is he who
loitereth; and if disaster overtook you, he would say: Allah hath been
gracious unto me since I was not present with them.
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71.
Yaaa-‘ayyu-hallaziina ‘aa-manuu khuzuu hizrakum
fan-firuu subaatin ‘awinfiruu jamii-‘aa.
72. Wa
‘inna minkum lamalla-yubatti-‘ann. Fa-‘in
‘asaabat-kum-musii-batun- qaala qad ‘an-‘amAllaahu
‘a-layya ‘iz lam ‘akum-ma-‘ahum
shahiidaa.
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Commentary
Subaatin - it is plural of sabat which
means separate units and little groups.
Shahiidan – witness, being present (at a
particular place) - There are some narrations about this verse that in the
beginning, many people embraced Islam in imitation. When Jihad
became their duty, they disobeyed and
even that some of them began to oppose the religion obviously accompanying the
infidels. This verse was revealed at such time.
Behavior of the hypocrites was
mentioned in the previous verses. In this verse, their manner of acts at the
time of Crusade (Jihad) has been discussed and the Muslims have been
prevented to adopt the behavior like them. Islam likes very much that all
people should live together with reconciliation and smoothness. But selfishness
of the infidels compelled the Muslims to fight. Until the people will remain
slaves of their wishes and turn their faces away from the Straight Path due to
following and misguidance of Satan, the war may not be ended from the world.
The servants of Allah Almighty would have to fight against these slaves of the
wishes under compulsion.
The Believers have been directed
with urgency in this verse that they should arrange for precautionary things to
save themselves from the enemies of the humanity and remain dressed with
warlike arms and equipment. When it becomes necessary, then you should move up
as separate units, or advance all together to fight them. You should not loiter
at that time, because sometimes it spoils due to delay at the time of the
battle, and the enemy prospers.
Remember it that there are some
such people among you, who practise delay at the rime of proceeding for Jihad and loiter intentionally. They are called hypocrites.
Their leader was AbdUllah bin
Ubaii. He had determined this way
that whenever the Muslims used to go for fighting, he used to remain in the
rear with his followers by evading. If the Muslims suffered any disaster or
faced any defeat, he used to say, Thank God since I was not present with them.
Otherwise, I would have died too. As though, this wrong subject had made room
in his heart that he would remain safe at his home from the death and in the
battlefield he would die before time.
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