In the Name of
Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
Extracted from QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:
28. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo innama almushrikoona najasun fala yaqraboo almasjida alharama baAAda AAamihim hatha wa-in khiftum AAaylatan fasawfa yughneekumu Allahu min fadlihi in shaa inna Allaha AAaleemun hakeemun
9:28.
O you who believe! The
polytheists are nothing but pollution9. So, they shall not approach
the Sacred Place of Worship10 after this year. And if you fear
poverty then Allah will enrich you out of His grace if He wills.11
Indeed, Allah is Knowledgeable, Wise.
9. This is a strong but appropriate divine
condemnation of all those who worship anyone other than Allah (or any other
appropriate name He is called by), the Sole Creator of the entire universe and
everything therein. Everything in the universe points to a Single Authority
administering the entire show. This Single Authority, and no one else, deserves
to be worshipped; for, if someone else is worshipped, then that someone else
could only be a created being, and it would be preposterous to worship a
created being as one would worship the Creator! Such worship of anyone other
than the Creator would not only be an act of utter injustice, but it would be tantamount
to the perpetration of falsehood. It would be an anachronism in the True Creator’s
creation. It would be nothing but pollution. It could not but pollute the human
society created by that Sole Creator.
10. The Kaabah at Makkah.
11. The Kaabah was held in veneration by the Arab
people even before Islam. In fact, it was a source of pecuniary benefits to
Makkans from visitors from all over the Arabian Peninsula. Now if
non-believers, who still constituted a great number among the Arab people, were
to be banned from entry to the Kaabah, it would be a financial loss to the Makkans.
It is this fear that is alluded to here. And Allah promises the Makkans to
enrich them by His grace. We are all witnesses now to the fulfillment of this
divine promise and prophecy. The Arab country is not only flush with
petro-money, but the Kaabah is visited now, all the year-round, by millions of
people from all over the world.
Friday, the
25th of December 2020.
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