In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
Extract from Chapter 3 of QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir:
110. Kuntum khayra ommatin okhrijat lilnnasi
ta/muroona bialmaAAroofi watanhawna AAani almunkari watu/minoona biAllahi
walaw amana ahlu alkitabi lakana khayran lahum minhumu
almu/minoona waaktharuhumu alfasiqoona
110. You are a
better people, picked up for mankind, to enjoin what is right and to forbid
what is wrong, and to believe in Allah.127 And had the People of the
Book believed, it would certainly be better for them. Among them are some who
believe, but most of them are dissolute.128
127. This is a divine confirmation that
the task of propagating Islam, the Allah-chosen and Allah-perfected Religion
for mankind, has been entrusted to the followers of the Qur'aan, after the
death of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
128. Although at the time of the
revelation of the Qur'aan, the epithet 'people of the Book' was applied to the
Jews and the Christians it is applicable now to the Muslims as well. They (the
Muslims) too are given a divine Book, and among them too there are some who do
believe, but most have gone astray.
Friday, the 9th of
February 2018.
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