In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
Extract from QUR’AANIC
STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:
251. Fahazamoohum bi-ithni Allahi
waqatala dawoodu jaloota waatahu Allahu almulka waalhikmata waAAallamahu
mimma yashao walawla dafAAu Allahi alnnasa baAAdahum bibaAAdin
lafasadati al-ardu walakinna
Allaha thoo fadlin AAala alAAalameena
2:251. They then defeated
them (Jaaloot and his army) by Allah's Will. And David slew Jaaloot and Allah
gave him the dominion and the acumen to rule and taught him what He wished to
teach him. And had Allah not subjugated some people through others, the earth
would certainly have been corrupted.472 But Allah is beneficent to
the worlds.473
472. This is the moral of the story. And this moral
truth has continued to come out throughout the history of mankind. In our recent
past, the evil pride of Hitler, Mussolini, and the then Japanese government of
subjugating the entire world with their autocratic rules, came to dust with
their ultimate utter defeat at the hands of the allied forces in World War II.
For a time, the evil forces may appear to be on the ascendancy, but when their
evil work reaches a limit, their annihilation is certain. From this historical
fact, good people should take heart. The evil forces that appear to be having an
upper hand at various places in the world of today shall perish one day, inshaAllah.
Allah promises to favour the good people ultimately, if they but exercise
patience.
473.
For the comprehensive divine meaning of the Arabic term uaalameen (worlds),
please refer to Chapter 1, Note 5 of these Studies.
Friday, the 13th
September 2019.
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