In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
Excerpts from QUR’AANIC
STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:
264. Ya ayyuha
allatheena amanoo la tubtiloo sadaqatikum
bialmanni waal-atha kaallathee yunfiqu malahu
ri-aa alnnasi wala yu/minu biAllahi waalyawmi
al-akhiri famathaluhu kamathali safwanin AAalayhi turabun
faasabahu wabilun fatarakahu saldan la yaqdiroona
AAala shay-in mimma kasaboo waAllahu la
yahdee alqawma alkafireena
2:264. O you believers! Make
not your offerings of obligatory charity null and void with boastfulness/bragging
and insult, like he who spends his wealth only to show off to people and who
believes neither in Allah nor in the Last Day. His simile is like a barren rock
covered with soil; then a heavy shower of rain lashes it and leaves it bare.
Such people can do nothing with what they have earned.499 And Allah does
not guide the people who suppress the Truth!
499. Offerings of such people to needy persons is compared
here to soil covering a barren rock. Just like the soil getting washed away by
a heavy draught of rain, leaving the barren rock useless for growing any
agricultural product, the offerings of such people are useless for getting them
any reward from Allah.
Friday, the 3rd of
April 2020.
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