O Muslims - 43

 

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

Extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:

29. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo in tattaqoo Allaha yajAAal lakum furqanan wayukaffir AAankum sayyi-atikum wayaghfir lakum waAllahu thoo alfadli alAAatheemi

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8:29. O you who believe! If you fear Allah, He will create in you an ability to distinguish between right and wrong and do away with your evil tendencies and forgive you. And Allah possesses great Grace.

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 4^th of December 2020.

People of the Book

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

Extract from Chapter 3 of QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir:

110. Kuntum khayra ommatin okhrijat lilnnasi ta/muroona bialmaAAroofi watanhawna AAani almunkari watu/minoona biAllahi walaw amana ahlu alkitabi lakana khayran lahum minhumu almu/minoona waaktharuhumu alfasiqoona

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110. You are a better people, picked up for mankind, to enjoin what is right and to forbid what is wrong, and to believe in Allah.¹²⁷ And had the People of the Book believed, it would certainly be better for them. Among them are some who believe, but most of them are dissolute.¹²⁸

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127. This is a divine confirmation that the task of propagating Islam, the Allah-chosen and Allah-perfected Religion for mankind, has been entrusted to the followers of the Qur'aan, after the death of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

128. Although at the time of the revelation of the Qur'aan, the epithet 'people of the Book' was applied to the Jews and the Christians it is applicable now to the Muslims as well. They (the Muslims) too are given a divine Book, and among them too there are some who do believe, but most have gone astray.

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 9^th of February 2018.