Quran
Chptr 4-37&38 (Pt-5, Stg-1)(L-542)- درس قرآن
Stingy Hypocrites
Surah ‘An-Nisaaa’ (The Women) – Chapter – 4)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In
the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
37. Who are
miserly and bid people to be miserly, and hide that which Allah hath bestowed
upon them of His Bounty. And for disbelievers We have prepared a shameful
doom.
38. And (also)
those who spend their wealth in order to be seen of men, and believe not in
Allah nor the Last Day. And whoso taketh Satan for a comrade, a bad comrade
hath he.
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37.
‘Allaziina yab-khaluuna wa ya’-muruu-nannaasa
bil-bukhli wa yaktumuuna maaa
‘aataa-humullaahu min fazlih. Wa ‘a’-tadnaa
lil-kaafiriina ‘azaabam-muhiinaa.
38.
Wallaziina yunfi-quuna ‘amwaalahum ri-‘aaa-annaasi
wa laa yu’-minuuna billaahi wa laa
bil-Yawmil-‘Aakhir. Wa many-yakunish-shaytaanu lahuu
qariinan fasaaa-‘a qariinaa.
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Commentary
This verse is about those people,
who are miserly from spending in the path of Allah Almighty themselves and wish
to keep off other people too from this goodness. Particularly those children of
Israel, in whose Scripture ‘Torah’ the glad tidings about the Last Messenger
Muhammad (grace, glory, blessings and peace of Allah Almighty be upon him)were
existent, and the verses were mentioned about the truth of Islam, but they used
to hide them.
It was told in the previous verse,
that the people who are proud and boastful on their wealth, Allah Almighty
should never like them. Now it has been commanded that these are the
characteristics of such people who are niggard. They spend nothing in the way
of Allah Almighty, nor give any advantage to the others. Allah Almighty
bestowed them knowledge and wealth but they hide it from other people. They
persuade the people for avarice with their tongues as well as their actions.
Allah Almighty says, “For disbelievers we have prepared a shameful doom.”
These are also peculiarities of
the proud people that they spend their wealth only in order to be seen of men
and for cheating, that is to say; they are stingy for spending in the way of
Allah Almighty, and they bid the people to be miserly for this purpose.
However, certainly they spend their wealth in order to be seen of men. Neither
those people believe in Allah Almighty nor do they have any faith in the Last
Day (the Day of Resurrection). That is why they do not spend their wealth in
order to get the pleasure of Allah Almighty and for the purpose of reward.
However, they just want to show others their goodness.
The favorite and accepted manner
near Allah Almighty is to perform the rights of human beings, and aim of
spending the wealth should be to get His pleasure, and have hope for reward in
the Hereafter. Only those people who are possessed by the devil, do the acts of
insincerity and public show.
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