In the Name of
Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
156. Ya
ayyuha allatheena amanoo la takoonoo kaallatheena
kafaroo waqaloo li-ikhwanihim itha daraboo fee
al-ardi aw kanoo ghuzzan law kanoo AAindana ma
matoo wama qutiloo liyajAAala Allahu thalika hasratan
fee quloobihim waAllahu yuhyee wayumeetu waAllahu
bima taAAmaloona baseerun
3:156.
O you who believe! Be not like those who suppress the Truth and say of their
brothers, travelling through the earth or fighting, "If they had stayed back
with us, they would not have died or been slain", so that Allah makes it anguish in their subconscious.164 And Allah it is that gives life
and causes death. And Allah sees all that you do.
164. While the believers had come out to
fight the battle, with reference to which these Verses were revealed, there were
those suppressors of Truth who had preferred to remain back at Madina. It is
the utterance of these latter people that is quoted here in this Verse. Allah
says that the 3rd purpose for His inflicting sorrow upon sorrow on the
believers in the battlefield was to make it anguish for those incorrigible
people back at Madina, the casualties being those of their own ethnic brothers.
About the 1st and the 2nd purposes, please see Note 161 on Verse 154 hereinabove. Allah's purpose in inflicting
sorrow after sorrow in the battlefield was thus three-fold, for three different
categories of people:
1.
the believers whose Faith had entered
their subconscious,
2.
the believers whose Faith had not yet
entered their subconscious,
3. the suppressors of
Truth among the ethnic brothers of the believers.
Friday, the 5th of June 2020.
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