In
the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
Extract from QUR’AANIC
STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:
63. Wa-ith akhathna
meethaqakum warafaAAna fawqakumu alttoora khuthoo
ma ataynakum biquwwatin waothkuroo ma feehi
laAAallakum tattaqoona
2:63. And that
time when We took your pledge and raised the Mountain over you! 70
"Hold on to what We have given you steadfastly! And do repeatedly refer to
and remember its contents in order that you become pious!"71
70. We get further explanation on this
episode, in the history of the Children of Israel, in Verse 7:171. The mountain
was so raised over them (i.e. Moses' people) that they thought it was about to
fall on them. Allah thus used even coercion to make the recalcitrant Jews abide
by the Book of Allah given to Moses. HE does that even now to the so-called
Muslims to make them abide by the Qur'aan. HE coerces them by involving them in
some or the other calamity or ignominy every now and then. And we are very much
the witnesses thereto! But alas! The Muslims of today generally are as recalcitrant
as the Jews had been during Moses' time.
71. This divine command was ostensibly
given to the Jews. But it is as if Allah is telling the Muslims of today: 'Hold
on to the Qur'aan steadfastly! And do repeatedly refer to and remember its
contents in order that you become pious!' Are there any amongst us, listening
to the divine Whisper, my fellow Muslims?
Friday, the 14th
of June 2019.
