Quran Chapter
5- 18 (Pt-6, Stg-2) (L-659) - درس قرآن
Chastisement for the sins
Surah MAAA-‘IDAH (The
Table Spread) – Chapter – 5)
‘A-‘uu-zu
Billaahi minash-Shay-taanir- Rajiim.
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast.)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful.)
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast.)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful.)
وَقَالَتِ ٱلْيَهُودُوَٱلنَّصَٰرَىٰ نَحْنُ أَبْنَٰٓؤُا۟ ٱللَّهِ وَأَحِبَّٰٓؤُهُۥ قُلْ فَلِمَ يُعَذِّبُكُم بِذُنُوبِكُم بَلْ أَنتُم بَشَرٌ مِّمَّنْ خَلَقَ يَغْفِرُ لِمَن يَشَآءُ وَيُعَذِّبُ مَن يَشَآءُ وَلِلَّهِمُلْكُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا وَإِلَيْهِ ٱلْمَصِيرُ (18
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18. -The Jews and Christians say: We are sons of Allah and His loved
ones. Say: Why then doth He chastise you for your sins? Nay, ye are but
mortals of His creating. He forgiveth whom He will, and chastiseth whom He
will. And Allah’s
is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them,
and unto Him is the journeying.
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18. Wa qaalatil-Yahuudu wan-Nasaaraa
nahnu ‘abnaaa-‘Ullaahi wa ‘ahibbaaa-‘uH. Qul
falima Yu-‘azzibukum- bi-zu-nuubikum. Bal
‘antum-basharum-mimman khalaq. Yagfiru
limany-yashaaa-‘u wa Yu-‘azzibu many-yashaaa’.
Wa LIllaahi mulkus-samaawaati wal-‘arzi wa
maa bay-nahumaa wa ‘IlayHil-masiir.
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Commentary
‘Ahibbaaa-‘uH – (His
loved ones), it is plural of habib,
which means “friend, fondling and caressed”.
The Jews and the Christians
used to consider themselves noble than all other people. When they reached
among the simple people of the Arab, they also accepted them generally as
respectable. These so called superior people used to tell them their stories.
At that time, when Muhammad
(grace, glory, blessings and peace be upon Him) Messenger of Allah Almighty came
and told the Arabians their evil deeds, then they were weary. Muhammad (grace,
glory, blessings and peace be upon Him) frightened them from the punishment of Allah Almighty and
said, “Now you cannot get respect until you do not obey Me”. Later, their
scholars said, “You should tell these Sayings to your nation-fellow Arabs. Our
dignity is very high”. Even they said, “We are sons of God, His beloved and
chosen people”.
We have recited in Surah
Al-Baqarah and
then in
Surah Aali-‘Imraan that
the Jews used to say, “We shall not be given punishment of the Fire. And if
that was, that would be only for a few days”. There they were replied, “Show
that contract deed, in which it has been mentioned that you would be saved from
the anguish”. In Surah
Aali-‘Imraan it
was described that “Those narratives have put them in deception, which have
been included in the religion by themselves”. They have been responded in this
verse as a reply of their haughtily saying so, “We are intimates and fondling
of God”.
It has been indicated here,
“If, your saying so (we are loved ones of God) is correct, then why are you
punished in this world? Sometime you are ordered to kill one another, at
another time you are fallen into plague. It is apparent that you are also
mortals of His creating (humankind like others) and you fall too under the same
principle (He forgiveth whom He will, and chastiseth whom He will), because the
Sovereignty of the heavens, the earth and all that, which is between them, is
of Allah Almighty only.
No creature can postpone His Order and unto Him is the journeying of the entire
creatures including human beings. Loved ones (servants) of Allah Almighty are
only those persons, who do good works and ward off sins, evils and wrong deeds
due to fear of His punishment. It is promise of Allah Almighty with
them that they will not be entangled in any distress, grief or sadness on the
Day of Resurrection.
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