O Muslims - 18

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

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

200. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo isbiroo wasabiroo warabitoo waittaqoo Allaha laAAallakum tuflihoona

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3:200. O you who believe! Be patient, exhort patience, maintain good relations with one another and fear Allah, in order that you succeed.¹⁸⁶

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186. This is a veritable divine mantra for success. But, alas, there are very few Muslims in today's world with a strong enough Faith to make use of this mantra! The Muslims would not be in the doldrums, they find themselves in, otherwise.

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 12^th of June 2020.

O Muslims - 17

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 5^th of June 2020.

O Muslims - 16

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

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

149. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo in tuteeAAoo allatheena kafaroo yaruddookum AAala aAAqabikum fatanqaliboo khasireena

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3:149. O you who believe! If you obey those who suppress the Truth, they will turn you back. Then you turn back doomed!

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 29^th of May 2020.

O Muslims - 15

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

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

130. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo la ta/kuloo alrriba adAAafan mudaAAafatan waittaqoo Allaha laAAallakum tuflihoona

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3:130. O you who believe! Consume not Ar-Riba¹⁴³, doubled, and multiplied. And fear Allah, so that you attain salvation.

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143. …. Ar-Riba got totally prohibited under Verse 2:275, and Verse 3:130, the one we are studying now, was revealed earlier in chronological order of revelation. So, at the time of the revelation of Verse 3:130, Ar-Riba was not totally prohibited. But by this Verse, the believers were asked not to consume Ar-Riba at exorbitant rates. This is in line with the divine scheme of inducting prohibition of long-entrenched harmful human habits in gradual steps. Prohibition of intoxicants was also similarly done….

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Please read e-book ISLAM AND INTEREST or its Urdu Translation in this context.

Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 22^nd May 2020.

O Muslims - 14

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

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

118. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo la tattakhithoo bitanatan min doonikum la ya/loonakum khabalan waddoo ma AAanittum qad badati albaghdao min afwahihim wama tukhfee sudooruhum akbaru qad bayyanna lakumu al-ayati in kuntum taAAqiloona

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3:118. O you who believe! Develop no intimacy with those outside your circle who leave no stone unturned to ruin you, loving to see you suffer. Hatred spews from their mouths, and what their hearts conceal is far worse. We have certainly made the Signs/Verses clear to you if you could but understand.¹³³

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133. This Verse, along with the next two Verses 119 and 120, clearly spells out the description of the people who should be shunned. In Verses 60:8 and 60:9, the Qur'aan makes it further clear that Allah does not forbid the believers to deal justly and kindly with those who had not fought against them because of their religion and had not driven them out of their houses.

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 15^th of May 2020.

O Muslims - 13

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

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

102. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo ittaqoo Allaha haqqa tuqatihi wala tamootunna illa waantum muslimoona

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3:102. O you who believe! Fear Allah as He should be feared and die not but as those who have surrendered themselves completely to Allah.¹²⁰

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120. Death may come without any warning signals. Man should therefore never postpone surrendering himself to any future date. That future date may never come in his life.

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 8^th of May 2020.

O Muslims - 12

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

Extract from QURÁANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:

100. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo in tuteeAAoo fareeqan mina allatheena ootoo alkitaba yaruddookum baAAda eemanikum kafireena

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3:100. O you who believe! If you follow any faction of those upon whom the divine Book was bestowed earlier, they will turn you back to suppressing the Truth after you have come to believe!

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 1^st of May 2020.