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Surah 6 AL ANAAM- Peace, Progress and Prosperity
Just as surah 1 was the key to understanding of the Quran as an introduction by God to mankind and an agreement between God and mankind and what if people followed divine program, constitution and law and what if they did not, surah 2 explained reasons behind divisions and fights between mankind and how they could come together and how the same things happened among people of past and how future could be changed for the better. Surah 3 told human populace how great advantage it gives mankind if they could come together as a community and organise. How it benefited past people and how past people lost direction and ended up in all sorts of self created troubles. Surah 4 dealt mainly with sense of organisational structures and responsibilities and rights of individuals as a united community and again some information is shared about past generations as to how they did in this regard. In Surah 5, the importance of going by the book is made very clear if people really want to get on with what they ought to do and again story of past nations is brought in explain what happens if people live by the book and what if they do not.
This Surah begins with name AL-ANAAM which is from root NOON, AIN and MEEM. Concrete meaning of this root is something that fulfils need or want or desire. Humans count anything as a blessing that makes their existence possible, easy, happy or blissful. This is why in the Quranic context all things that help mankind survive and enjoy life are called NIMAH. On one hand this mainly includes brain, senses and body that enable people to exist and prosper and on the other hand beside manpower it includes the whole provision or all the resources that mankind can exploit to benefit from. Beside this another main thing which is counted as a blessing is divine guidance. It is because it advises human populace to organise as a single community and together work hard for the goal of peace, progress and prosperity of mankind. So we can see that when it comes to words like BARAKAH, NIMAH and RAHMAH they are very comprehensive. These like words cannot be translated into any other language because no words exist in other languages to express the full sense of these words. This is why the Quranic text can only be explained but cannot be translated. What can people understand from words like grace, mercy, blessing etc etc?
Arabic language developed over a very long period of time before the revelation of the Quran. This language too could have died like any other language but due to the revelation of the Quran in this language people kept it alive. If we look at root JEEM, MEEM and LAAM. The original meaning of this root was durability and because something was durable for its purpose people saw a kind of beauty in it and then the same words became used for a strong rope and camel and can be used for any idea or thing that fits this description. A rope is a very useful device as we all know when we need to tie things for whatever reason eg loads on camels, lorries, trucks or ships etc. Even for pulling down trees and taking water out of wells. Camel once upon a time was a very reliable load carrier in the desert and was looked upon as a life line. This is why Arabs saw a great use in these like things and a kind of beauty. Camel owners were a very proud people because they had best means to travel and food ie you could ride a camel, you could load your stuff and move from place to place and also when you were hungry you could eat the animal and make use of its skin and hair etc etc. Not only camels but other animals also count as NIMAH because they too provide people with useful things eg cattle like cows could be used for farming, meat, milk and hide etc. Not only living animals but even trees and plants provide mankind with loads of benefits eg think about what we get from trees or think about what we get from plants? We get vegetation for food, wood to make houses and furniture and paper etc etc. However to have anything or to make some use of it entirely depends on human brain, senses and body. If we humans do not bother to learn then we cannot make use of anything at all, not even of our own brain and senses or body. So what makes anything a blessing or a curse is what we do with it. Humans are advised by their creator to put themselves to good use and refrain from doing anything that lands humanity in terrible troubles and even death and destruction.
Since surahs before this dealt with various aspects of human populace, sense of community and organisation this surah points mankind in the direction of where they ought to go from here on ie what should they do after they have become an organised community willing to work as team? Do they just sit tight and do nothing and all will happen by itself or that Allah himself will do everything for them? No, Allah will not do anything at all for anyone for which he has placed responsibilities upon mankind itself to lookafter itself as a community. So it is up to mankind themselves to see what their needs are and how they should fulfil them within limits advised by their creator. This means grow sufficient food and distribute it so that all people have enough to eat or go to sleep and stay hungry and die a painful death and curse God for your own stupidity. Or start wars with each other over laziness and craziness and keep killing each other till our world is full of bloodshed and humanity is no more. People must educate themselves about themselves, the world and God and do what ensures peace between them and helps them progress and be prosperous. This is not possible unless people play their God given role in this world for the betterment of themselves. God can only guide and provide tools and things for people to make use of but if mankind fail to accomplish their set goal then responsibility of this failure entirely rests upon mankind themselves not God. This surah shows very clearly that Islam is not a crazy dogmatic make belief system but a way of life that can lead mankind to heights of excellence. That is exactly how next surah is named AL ARAAF=heights of excellence. A nation that does nothing and sits idle asking God to do things for it, cannot reach heights of honour and dignity so people who claim to be Muslims and live their lives like less than humans need to think it over as to where they are heading in the name of God. It is because Quranic God is not like a bad mother who makes her children more and more dependent upon herself by taking away their self confidence rather than a good mother who makes her children independent and full of self confidence and lively ready to take on the world.
Proclaim! In the name of Allah, the provider of psychological, sociological and biological needs of mankind,
1)Sovereignty belongs to Allah alone Who evolved all the galaxies as well as this galaxy and removed darkness (of ignorance) with light (of knowledge) yet those who oppose the rule of their Creator and Sustainer take others as their rulers.
It is very important to realise that wording used in the Quran and the way it is used is very meaningful and carries parallel concepts eg in this verse God claims to be the sole sovereign of the universe. The question is, what is the universe comprised of? It is full of galaxies and because humanity is part of Milky Way hence it is called this galaxy of which you the mankind are a part. In other places same wording can be taken as solar system due to change of context of the text. It is the context that decides when word heaven is to be interpreted as galaxy and when it means people in position of power and when it means others planets in the solar system along with the earth etc etc.
Similar idea is present here about darkness and light. It is Allah who has created light to disperse darkness eg sunlight is an example of that but so is his revelation which gets rid of ignorance. The actual Arabic text clearly has various concepts within the same piece of text yet it feels awkward if translated that way in other languages, so one is forced to put one idea in place leaving out others, which causes a lot more loss in conveyance of message hence the need for further explanations of verses.
2) He it is Who evolved you from the inorganic material as building blocks and set for you a life span by means of set laws due to which reaches you from Him livelihood yet you create confusion about His sovereignty.
Word TEEN is from root TWAA, YAA and NOON. Concrete meaning of this root is constituent parts, the essence of something or very nature of it. Since man is made from living organisms which evolved from evolutionary tree of life and the life came about from inorganic compounds so word TEEN actually includes the whole process of origin of life as well as its evolution and then development from birth of a human to its growth till death. This verse does not say that a fixed period of life is set by God but that laws are set and because laws are set so long as a person lives by laws that preserve life he lives on and when one falls out of step with life giving laws then life ends. To explain it better one can think about conditional survival ie if you do not know how to swim stay out of water that may drown you. The day you fall in deep water you are dead. So long as you cross the road full of traffic properly you will live but as soon as you step on the road without paying proper attention to the traffic you could be run over by a car and that is it. Survival is a skill and the one better at it survives longer. So life and death of people is basically in their own hands as far as God is concerned. If people through hard work keep finding cures for all sorts of problems that cause people to die then people could continue living longer and longer. It is all in hands of people themselves which way they wish to go. The set laws are same for livelihood ie you need food you need to work for it. Sitting on prayer mat and begging Allah for food will not cause food to drop from the sky. This is why one has to consult the divine revelation to see how the system is set up by God to work in order for food to be produced and distributed by people themselves to make it reach the end user.
3) Behold! It is Allah alone who rules all the galaxies including the Milky Way. He makes manifest for you in due course that which is yet concealed from you just like He made manifest for you what has become obvious to you and He will make obvious to you ways and means in due course whereby you will be able to accomplish yet greater things.
4) Yet there came not a testimony from the testimonies of their Creator and Sustainer but people turned away from it.
5) Likewise continues their behaviour of denial with this proof that has come to them now but soon they will come to know the reality of that which they are ridiculing.
6) Do they not see how many generations We left to themselves to destroy themselves before them? We did establish those nations to be more prosperous in the land than yourselves because they followed Our guidance to begin with so We sent down for them abundant rain from the heaven and made the rivers flow beneath their feet as we promised them yet they went astray and for their works against Our guidance We left them to destroy themselves and raised in their places other generations who followed Our guidance for a while.
The generations long ago had more land to use for themselves because of less human population so they could be more prosperous but as they became prosperous they turned away from the path of Allah that was good for mankind. As a result they ended up divided and self destructive by lack of needed united effort for progress and prosperity. The Quran as we have seen again and again talks about rise and fall of nations and the reason is always the very same ie when people are united and work hard they rise and as soon as they divide and become involved in internal clashes they begin to lose courage. It is because once community spirit in a nation is lost it is not possible for a nation to make progress because then people start living for themselves as individuals and very soon all is lost. These things take generations of people and do not happen overnight. However they appear to happen suddenly because people become cut off from community awareness so to them the wrong things that happen in society remain hidden and that is the main reason for fall down of nations. People who take interest in community remain alert and know what is going on and what its effect going to be, so they act in time and prevent such things from becoming a big problem one day all of sudden.
As explained already, when people destroy themselves Allah says, I destroyed them and the reason for that is because he is the one who set up the system to work this way ie if people live a certain way they live successfully and if they do not then they fail. You go the right way, you reach your destination but if you take the wrong way you end up in a wrong place. You either move towards the goal or you move away from it. The right way is made clear yet if people decide to go the other way then that is up to them. You do not put your hand in fire and get burnt and then curse God for it. If one nation goes down others rise and take its place and so humanity keeps moving in the right direction bit by bit without actually knowing it. It is because interaction between people and nations lead them all in the resultant direction and that is how people and nations keep pushing each other in the right direction, which goes to show the closed loop universe where in there is little need for God to intervene.
7) The mindset, attitude and behaviour of these people has become like them that even if We had sent to you a book already written on the paper that they could touch with their own hands yet those who oppose Our guidance will say, this is nothing but a clear falsehood to trick us out of our way of life.
The point made here is that people who oppose divine guidance are a bit strange kind of people who are not interested in divine testimony and its proper scrutiny to see whether it could be true or not instead they do not want to know about it as if they have already made up their mind that anything against their way of life is false no matter what or that they know how to live and do not need any advice of anyone else. Such people are not interested in reasoning or truth rather they do not want to be disturbed despite the fact that due to their way of life so many end up in terrible life. They do not realise that they were not born with authority from God that they own the land and the resources and that right of production and distribution of things belongs to them alone. It is because God does not allow ownership of anything to anyone but allows all to use anything for betterment of each other and this does not suit their mindset, attitude and behaviour so these people think it is better to ignore the divine writ. However, that is not the end of the matter because in that case God gives people right to take law into their own hands so that humanity has a level playing field. If it has to be death and destruction then let all take up arms and fight it out and see the end result of settling things that way. It is because either mankind must live by law of Allah or there is no law and each is for himself. Groups are bound to then form in that case with common interests and there are going to be unending wars between people till opposition is crushed completely. It is for this reason people are better off accepting the will of their creator and sustainer because otherwise life is not going to be pleasant for anyone and for a very long time. This is why people must never accept wrong ways of life that lead to some people controlling livelihood of others and inflicting upon them slow death so that weaker side does not end up taking up arms and then does not stop killings till the score is settled for good. Such a way of life does none any good.
This verse can be interpreted another way as well ie Even though we have revealed to you the Quran which is also available in written form that they can understand themselves yet those who reject and oppose its message are bound to say, it is just for tricking us to give up our way of life. In that case this verse is explaining another point for people and that is, word of mouth cannot be relied upon as much as written and published word because when one person tells another something and later on finds it was a mistake the person said it could take it back but once a person has given to others something in writing then that cannot be taken back that easily.
Since the Quran was made available in both forms so if anything was wrong in the text passed on to people it could not be corrected later on. So people are told to pay attention to this fact that whatever the divine messenger told the people he never retracted it because he had no need to do that because this work was work of God and free of problems that needed corrections and rewriting. Word of mouth is just word of mouth which one can say then if one needs to change it one can claim it was something different one said but a written word cannot be changed after it has become available widely. Also it cannot be hidden after it has been spread. So if one meant to trick others through conspiracy then one would make sure no traces of the message are left out there that could lead the opponents to the source of its origin. Because the divine message is deliberately spread in writing therefore it cannot be called a conspiracy because both the source and the message are manifestly linked.
Yet another interpretation of the same verse could be that had God given all people an already printed copy of the book each via his messenger to read for themselves, they would have still responded the same way ie making silly excuses in order to ignore it.
8) They ignore the message yet they say, why has Allah not sent with the Quran a person who had the power to enforce it? But even if We had sent a person with power to enforce it he still had to carry out Our will, which is not giving them what they are looking for, freedom to use and abuse each other.
9) Had We appointed any person in position of leader as Our messenger still he will be a human being so they would have ended up making similar excuses to cover up the truth as they are doing now.
It matters not whether a divine messenger is a chief or not his objective is to gain support for bringing about a good human society based upon education about human values that ensures peaceful existence of humanity, its progress and prosperity. This can never be the case if people ruled like kings in the jungle ie lived like animal kingdom on basis of survival of the fittest. Rivalry based competition takes all down the spiral of becoming worst than animals. So if that is what people want then that is what they will get but if they will realise and change for the better due to divine mission then that will be the end result of their own hard work otherwise they can carry on laughing to their own destruction.
Another way to look at these verses is that these people have some silly concepts about some beings ie they assume angels to be supernatural beings just like their ideas about jinns. If there really were such beings and they were sent to humans, how would people know what they are because they could not see or interact with them because they ought be invisible beings in their original forms. If they were sent in any other form then people will be left in same confusion whether they are truly angels or something else. These verses therefore prove how silly people think and talk ie like babies having no capability of reasoning things out before raising any questions. So the point made in this case is, ask sensible questions if you must not the question that have no sense in them.
The man question is, how did people come to know that supernatural beings like angels and demons or ghosts and spirits etc exist? People did not even know the viruses existed till they found ways of knowing them. Things were made of atoms was not known till electron microscope was invented. People hardly knew much about things they could not see with their own eyes, so they were just being inventive to confuse themselves with nonsense. Then they used same nonsense to interpret the divine messages and turned perfectly sensible messages into nonsense myths and superstitions. The people who knew nothing about things here on earth were held up as saints who could tell about things in the heavens. It shows how much sense people have who get involve into this kind of nonsense.
10) Through similar excuses messengers before you were ridiculed because of Our guidance to save people from their own self imposed destruction but in the end those who ridiculed Our guidance they were hemmed in by the very consequences of their own actions they were forewarned about but they laughed it off at the time.
11) Say, travel through the world and see what was the end of those who ignored, rejected, opposed and even declared wars against Our guidance.
The Quran again and again point out to people real world realities and explains why these things happened and if studied properly all these affirm the fact that people who chose to live any other way than the one leads to peace, progress and prosperity ended up going down and it was only a matter of time before this happened to them and it was not a one of thing. History repeated itself over and over again and again, which a very strong proof that humanity has no future unless it lives by rule of Allah for his set goal according his revealed program.
12) Ask them, to whose laws are subject to and are accountable all those in positions of power and the masses down trodden? Tell them, to set laws of Allah alone! He has taken upon Himself the responsibility to provide mankind with all their biological, psychological and sociological needs therefore He decided to gather you all together under His rule on the day of uprooting the harmful and destructive way of life to replace it with proper way of life wherein is no doubt. Only those who are putting themselves in loss are therefore not committing themselves to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
Verses like this are repeated in the Quran in order to show how important it is for mankind to live by set divine laws otherwise harm and destruction is inevitable.
13) To Him alone belongs all that exists in the darkness as well as in the light. That is how He makes evident what He knows for the benefit of mankind.
This darkness also means ignorance and light means knowledge. Not only that but it also means bad period of time for mankind ie time of poverty and good period of time for mankind ie period of prosperity. It is because when poverty takes over due to peoples’ own ignorance about things as to how they work then that is a period of darkness for mankind and likewise as people learn and become clever and can take care of their own needs then that is period of plenty. As I explained already the Quranic text is very comprehensive in its message but human mind can only grasp as much as is humanly possible and it all depends on what people take as important thing to learn. The Quran advises very clearly that mankind must never neglect their real world under any circumstances instead they must keep themselves aware of things and do what is needed to be done to keep the world working the right way so that there is peace, progress and prosperity.
14) Say, should I take as my sovereign someone other than Allah when it is Allah alone Who is the originator of all the galaxies including this galaxy and it is He alone Who provides provisions for all but is Himself free of all such needs? Say, I am told to be the best example from among those who commit themselves to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind and be not of those who live by sovereignty of any other than Allah.
15) Say, I am conscious of the consequences should I be inconsistent with goal and guidance of my Creator and Sustainer, for I am aware of the result of painful suffering that will one day bring about a mighty uprising.
16) He who is saved from the torment of that day has indeed received the blissful revelation of Allah properly and this is clearly a great achievement.
This verse leaves one in no doubt that one must always look at consequences of his course of actions before one acts because results of actions depend on set up divine system and laws. You poison yourself, you die. You through yourself in fire you burn. You work towards your betterment you get there. The laws of nature favour only those who have what it takes to survive. It is not dignifying for the mankind to live under laws of nature as slaves but to rise to challenge them and put its own stamp on the world ie make laws of nature serve humanity. It is a matter of taming nature to suit mankind just like breaking a wild horse for riding. The human brain is a great gift from God and it is given by God so that people make full use of it.
17) And it is entirely up to set up system of Allah whether He thereby lets you suffer any harmful consequences of your actions or not but if He does then none can relieve you other than He Himself and likewise it is up to His set up system if He blesses you with blissful life due to your own actions because He has set laws to govern over all things.
No matter mankind go up or down it all happens according to set laws and the very same laws could be understood and used by mankind to undo their mistakes to a great degree. From the depths of ignorance humanity could rise to heights of excellence if people so decide and that is how Allah helps people by way of his revelation.
18) It is because He is the supreme authority for His creatures because He is wise and fully aware about things.
19) Ask them, whose testimony can be reliable the most? Tell them of Allah, so let the testimony of Allah be the deciding factor between me and you which is in form of this Qur’an as has been revealed to me by Him so that I warn you thereby and all those whom it reaches. Say, can you likewise put forth a testimony that there is any other ruler of this universe than Allah? Tell them, I have no such proof to bear witness to, instead I am told to say, He is the One and the Only ruler of this universe and I am absolutely free of attributing sovereignty to any other than Allah that you are committed to without any similar testimonial proof.
The Quran in this verse openly challenges mankind to produce a divine testimony as a testimonial proof from any other God if there is one. If there is no such testimony from any other God that proves so then those who claim existence of other gods are liars. It is very important to learn rules for cross examining testimonial proofs to see if they really do stand to scrutiny or not. This is why all must learn the Quran properly to see if the Quran stands scrutiny or not. If it clearly does then mankind will be better off listening to advice of their Creator and Sustainer. After all the Quran is not telling people to be stupid and a danger to each other instead it is telling people to be united as a family and work hard together to be a successful human community, so what is wrong with that. If anything it is repeatedly telling mankind don’t be stupid and senseless and mad at each other over nothing.
20) Surely those to whom We have given the scriptures before know this fact about the Quran as they know their own children due to resemblance of the message. The truth is those who are hell bent on harm and destruction of their own people will still not commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
21) Who can be more harmful and destructive for mankind than a people who attribute a lie to Allah or reject and oppose His revelations? Surely there is no escape from consequences of their actions for those who work against Our program, constitution and law.
22) And on the day when We will gather them all together under Our rule and ask those who ascribe sovereignty to other than Allah, where are those rulers whom you took for My rivals?
23) They will have no argument but to say, by Allah our Creator and Sustainer, we were not at all of those who lived by rule of other than Allah.
24) See how they will lie against themselves and how the sovereigns they took for granted other than Allah will leave them in the lurch?
In these like verses the Quran is always talking about the rule by kings and their set up priests and the moneylenders etc. It is because real rulers of masses are these people because they try and control them through force, doctored indoctrination that suits them and financial control or fiat money etc. They make laws to suit themselves and to confuse masses. However when push comes to shove things change ie when times get tough for masses they take law in their own hands and turn the human world upside down. The kings, the priests and the moneylenders etc then become exposed for what they really are and many are put through terrible ordeal. However, after a while things are made to go down the same way again by new leadership as tey move away from what they fought for and so history keeps repeating itself and humans learn very little from all this experience. This is why there is very little progress in the world every now and then.
25) Of them there are some who can hear you but pay no attention because We find aversion to Our message in their minds and lack of interest in their hearing so they are unable to understand the message. Therefore even if they see every one of Our revelations they will still not commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind. They are so full of themselves that when they come to you they just come to argue with you senselessly to try and defeat you. These opposers of Our guidance claim these are nothing but tales of the ancient.
No doubt the Quran is full of stories about the past generations but the purpose is to draw attention to their mindsets, attitude and behaviours and how far they got them and whether these later generations should follow them or not or be like them or not.
26) They themselves oppose Our guidance and tell others to oppose it also. By doing so they are only harming future of their own generations to come but they realise it not.
27) And if you could imagine the scene when their these actions will make them stand at the brink of pit of fire of hatred and wars they will say, we wish we could go back to the beginning and this time we do not deny the revelations of our Creator and Sustainer but instead we join those who commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
28) No way, they can go back! They will say this only because they will come face to face with the results of their courses of actions which they used to deny before through false excuses. In fact even if they could be sent back to start again, they will certainly repeat the same things which they are forbidden to do. They are liars indeed.
29) Because they say, there is nothing better than the way we live our lives in this world so we will not be pushed over by supporters of divine program, constitution and law.
30) If you could imagine another scene when they will be confronted by supporters of their Creator and Sustainer at the time when they are in trouble. One group of them will ask, has that which you were alerted about not proven true? They will say, yes by our Creator and Sustainer. It will say, then taste the consequences for denying this reality and inflicting terrible harms on each other against the advice of your Creator and Sustainer whereby you ended up in this situation.
31) Those nations are indeed lost who deny that they will ever face the consequences of their own actions as already told about by Allah. When that moment will overtake them all of a sudden they will cry alas! How negligent we have been about this moment. That is how they will bear the burden of their own harmful actions on their own backs and painful indeed are the consequences of their own actions that they will suffer.
32) The life in this world is nothing more than a purposeless venture for those who ignore Our guidance therefore neglect their responsibilities to others but the life that will come after the revolution will be better for those who will be consistent with Allah and humanity. Will you then not use your intelligence to think sensibly?
Verses like this are repeated in the Quran to emphasise the point that if life is taken as an aimless random occurrence based on chance then people do not have any moral obligations at all. It is then up to individuals to live as it suits them. In doing so people will do only what they think they need to do and will do all sorts of harmful and destructive things without feeling any guilt or remorse. It is because in that case what is important is outcome for the individual as he thinks and there are no wider implications to pay attention to. You take what you can from others and be happy doing that and be proud that you have done it because you could do it. It is a mindset, an attitude and a behaviour that sets in to show, who is the boss. This is why a society comes about which has no community spirit and therefore feels no community obligations. In any such society, it is your right whatever you can take from others forcefully, by tricking others or through financial set up through slave labour. Unless people give up such mindset, attitude and behaviour, there cannot be peace among human beings so they cannot progress therefore they cannot prosper. This is all due to trust deficit. Trust cannot be build in any such society that is based on deception. Deception cannot be ruled out where there is rivalry. It is not possible for humanity to stand constantly on each other’s heads to ensure they do the right things. It has to come from inside oneself and that is not possible unless people take active part in learning things that help build trust as well as lead to trust deficit. Only and only then people can see the wider implications of which way they will end where if they chose to live by.
The Quran takes mankind out of all this uncertainty by proving its ideas work and because it proves its ideas are the only way forward for humanity therefore the origin of these ideas is not humanity itself but its creator. But then again there is a huge problem and that problem is how to make sense of the Quranic message and how to educate mankind about it. The Quran is useless if it is not understood by mankind or not used by them to get where they ought to be. It diagnosis human diseases and prescribes remedies, leaving it up to people themselves to do as they like.
33) We make evident indeed for people to see O messenger that it makes you sad what these ruling elite, priestly classes and moneylenders do to others because they not only deny you the people your rights rather these people with harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour are in contempt of goal and guidelines of Allah as well.
34) Likewise were denied their rights the messengers and their people before you by their chiefs and priests and moneylenders but steadfastly they held on to their demands that were denied to them and they put up with their persecution until Our help came to them because none can change the set up universal system and laws of Allah so consequences of harmful and destructive actions cannot be escaped by those who do harm to others. You have already received the reports as to what happened to those messengers and their opposers.
35) If to do the same as was done by the messengers and their people before you is hard for you because the ruling elite, their priestly class and their wealthy supporters try to avoid you then if you are confident enough, find a way with masses and carry on until you have found the way to people in positions of power and that is how you should approach them with the message. Had Allah so planned, He could have put all of them on the same track instead of putting them through struggle for it therefore be not like those who are ignorant of Our plan.
This verse explains to masses how they should get involved in educating each other if they wish to overcome the problems created for them by their own people in positions of power. The human world has been in conflict ever since some people decided to divide mankind and dominate each other and thereby took away control of livelihood of each other. This violation of responsibilities and rights between mankind is root cause of all fights between them. The day people unite and work together as a family on basis of common good things will change. However, this is not going to happen all by itself rather some people who have better sense in some respect than the others must help educate each other. Not taking disorder in human world seriously is the main reason that things continue the way they have been in the world. So mind your own business culture where it matters has brought us nothing but painful suffering. It is because people have been intervening in the world the wrong ways which led to more and more unrests and wars and thereby death and destruction. People therefore must learn right and wrong properly and intervene in their world appropriately so that world could be changed for the better. We must learn that being lazy and disorganised is not helpful but is a serious problem that mankind must do all to overcome. This cannot be done without some inspirational program that motivates people to have a good life.
That means kicking out religions from our lives because they put in minds guilty conscious about things we ought to be doing. To work hard to live a good life is anti religious because we are supposed to sit and praise God day and night and seek provision that way, which is anti Quran. The Quran gives all things in human hands as a community and tells them to get on with producing and distributing things of need till needs of all people are fully met. The Quran demands that people work according to set universal system and laws. The Quran also tells us to throw out all social, political, cultural and economic systems, structures, procedures and practices that work against humanity because they are oppressive, suppressive, unjust, unfair, cruel, based upon rivalries and animosities between people. It is because of all this humanity ends up in wars which lead to harm and destruction of mankind instead of peace, progress and prosperity of mankind. This is why the Quran forbids people to fall victim to ignorance, stagnation, poverty and violence. The Quran is very clear about closed loop system that if people do not keep each other in check and on the right course of actions then humanity cannot be free of related troubles.
This verse is saying the same thing to the messenger and his people because universal divine system and laws do not change with time or for individuals. These people will have to do the very same as the people before because the basic nature of problem is the very same. As explained already, word ARD and SAMAA are not always used for the earth and the heaven but for people as well. The masses are down to earth people or subjugated people and the ruling elite, their priests and people with wealth are part of the gang that uses others to abuse them by means of force or indoctrination or money power. The messenger and his supporters are told that there is no way out of this situation other than educating oneself and educating others to gain support for the right cause to overthrow the wrong ways of life which harm and destroy mankind. The clash of ideas could lead to actual clash of people if wrong side does not give up its mindset, attitude and behaviour. This is why the Quran does not rule out limited wars to control situations or limit the damage where reason fails to convince people because they refuse to think and change for the better. If a child due to ignorance keeps doing things the wrong way then protective measure must be taken as necessary to prevent damage to the child itself if possible or at least others and things. Antisocial mindset, attitude and behaviour cannot be allowed to go on unchecked if humanity has to better itself.
Islam is based on the Quran and sword, which means force must be used where appropriate but appropriately. The Quran does not allow unhindered use of force rather force is only to be used where it becomes necessary to prevent greater harm in order to limit the damage. If people with harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour were allowed to continue unhindered then they will turn our world upside down. This is why we must educate ourselves properly to see which side we should side with or support. Supporting the wrong side even if by mistake through ignorance will still do a lot of damage to our world. This is why we must try and educate ourselves as much as we can to stay out of harm’s way.
36) So once you approach people appropriately surely those who seek guidance will listen to it, examine it and accept it. As for the self centred mentally stuck in the rut Allah will move them out of the way that is how He will bring them under His rule.
Once masses begin to understand things and start supporting the ideas the people in positions of power will have no choice but to follow masses because they cannot afford to live in isolation from rest of humanity. The bullies only succeed so long as the bullied fail to stand-up to them but as soon as they do, bullies loose all hope of regaining their hold on minds of their victims and give up bulling and join the rest because they cannot live in isolation.
37) They ask, why has no proof been sent with him from his Lord? Tell them, Allah has surely proven His authority by sending a testimonial proof but most of these people know not what testimonial proof is and how it proves its divine origin.
People in the main are uneducated therefore are very limited in their thinking. That results in false interpretations of divine message because people are not used to organised or purposeful thinking that leads to sure results. There is nothing wrong with being ignorant because that is natural state of human existence but man is created with ability to learn so remaining ignorant is a crime against God and humanity. That is because an ignorant person is no use for himself or his family or community. Knowledge is power and if one does not have this power then one is powerless to do anything.
Courage comes from knowledge and ignorance only breeds fear. It is through fear of the unknown man has taken forces of nature and other powerful things as his gods. However it is all a process of growing up. Man is born a baby and grows biologically, psychologically and sociologically. From the day God brought things to existence all has been evolving and has reached the stage that we observe today. It was a very long journey and it will remain a very, very long journey till we reach the stage that God has chosen for us to reach. A human being though begins as a single cell the potential placed within this cell is so great that man has yet to realise it for so many generations to come. It is like a huge tree that grows from a tiny seed bit by bit over a long period of time.
The Quran has nothing to do with religion, blind faith and mullahism. It is a book which deals with all necessary information that humanity will ever need for its guidance. The Quran is the only book in the world of its kind as a proof of divinity and its program, a book that is a divine manifesto, a divine constitution and a divine book of guidelines for making laws or legislation. In order to know all this from the Quran itself one has to educate oneself to the level whereby the Quran begins to make sense. After all no book is written without any purpose in mind of its author nor anyone does anything aimlessly. Anything that just happens without any intent and effort is taken as a mistake not a motivated act to some end. Even if someone kills someone by his mistake it is still a mistake and not a first degree murder.
What is Quran? Centuries back in time an Arab by name of Muhammad claimed he was a divine messenger. People asked him, for proof of his claim so he gave them a book namely the Quran as evidence to prove his claim. This is the book people need to learn properly and examine properly to see if it is true in its claim.
Before one begins examination of the Quran in some detail, it is necessary for people to know the difference between self evident facts and proven facts. Then it is also vital to realise the difference between testimonial proven facts and theoretically proven facts.
God is not a self evident fact, that is because we humans cannot detect God by our senses directly or indirectly through instrumentation etc but the universe is self evident fact and all that which exists in it because it is detectable by human senses even if by use of instrumentation if not today may be at some stage later in time.
The Quran is testimony of God therefore it needs to be examined as a testimony just as we examine the testimony of a witness in a court of law to see if it is true or false. However before we can properly examine any testimony of any witness we need to understand it properly because without understanding what a witness is saying we cannot judge whether what one is saying is true or false. If witness only spoke French and examiner only spoke Persian things will not workout till one of them learns the language of the other, the same goes for subjects under discussion ie if one person talked about biology but the other could only understand physics things will not work out till one person comes to know the subject the other is talking about. Likewise a child or baby minded person cannot understand grown up or educated person's terminology. Since no one does anything without any purpose in mind neither one testifies without knowing why one is testifying and examiner must also have in mind that he is examining the testimony for the purpose the testimony is given, so knowing the purpose of the Quran also becomes of vital importance. However once testimony is found to be sound ie without contradictions within and with respect to related self evident facts then it has proven reliable or true. This is called testimonial proof ie reliable testimony of a witness. One has to remember that one cannot add anything to the testimony of a witness from oneself nor can one take away anything from it, it has to be examined as it is. So the Quran has to be examined the way it is given to mankind without saying what should or should not be in the Quran. If the Quran is found lacking in anything objectively only then it could be proven false but then we will have to prove that it does lack in necessary information regarding its stated purpose. That is if the Quran states that it is for this or that purpose but when we examine it, it does not serve that purpose then it surely proves itself false but on the other hand if we find that it does serve its stated purpose fully then the Quran has proven its worth fully so it cannot be denied what it claims to be ie word of God.
Coming to theoretical proof, it is a best personal explanation of available evidences or clues. This is needed because something that happened did not happen before our eyes ie it happened in our absence and that there is no any witness to it either upon whom we could rely to tell us about it. That is because we arrived at the scene late and found only whatever clues were left behind to make whatever sense we could from the clues. For example, we are walking along a road and come across a dead body. There is no one there to tell us what happened to this person so all we can do is see whatever clues are there and come up with an explanation. It could be a murder, or a natural death, or a suicide or an accidental death etc etc. So whatever clues we find will help us decide what to make of this situation.
So one can see that theoretical proof is not as strong as witness based proof and witness based proof is not as strong as something that happens right before your own eyes. That is how far it is possible for humanity to reach the truth about any matter including existence of God.
This also proves the point that if there is a testimonial proof from God then to fall on blind faith is a false idea and is misleading and this idea must have been implanted in human mind by those who wanted to mislead mankind ie the imperial priesthood on behest of emperors. It also prove the idea of religion coming from kings and their priests not God to serve their purpose. Islam is deen not religion. Islam is all about brotherhood of mankind based on testimonial proof whereas religion is a matter of divide and rule using blind faith for following priests and kings. That is how mankind have been used and abused in the name of God and religion. This is why kings and their priests perverted the divine messages to subvert them but they did not succeed in doing that however they succeeded in making fools of ignorant people. The result is a world that we see all around us today. In order to change this situation for the better we all must learn and educate ourselves and each other to save ourselves from use and abuse of each other.
This is why all people must learn the Quran to examine it as a divine manifesto for mankind, as a divine constitution for mankind and as a book of guidelines for making laws for mankind. The goal set by the Quran for mankind is to establish peaceful, progressive and prosperous life throughout the universe. The world in which we are born is only a lab for our experimentation to learn through trials and errors till we have become good enough to be one day managers of the universal factory of God. This process needed to be the way it is because we are supposed to learn from working of this universe and make changes to it to make it suitable for our own living in it ie make it compatible with our existence through interactions within this universe. This becomes clearer as one understands the purpose of creation.
38) Behold, there is not a living thing but it must go through struggle for its survival, be its struggle at a lower level down to earth or at a higher level like a soaring bird but it must do so by its own strength just like yourselves. We have not created anything outside Our set up system and laws therefore they all go by system and laws of their Creator and Sustainer.
This verse is very clear about closed loop system ie God is telling people that all things including humans must struggle for their survival with the exception that mankind must rise above other animals due to their brain capacity because they have been created to become managers of the universe. So mankind is expected by God to raise itself to a very high level of dignity and honour by its own struggle. A very clear statement that man is not created to be cry-baby but to rise to the challenges the universe poses and show what he can do with his power of creativity.
39) Those who deny and oppose Our evidences in form of set out goals and guidelines are self centred lost in themselves so they are like deaf and dumb living as if in many layers of darkness of ignorance. Whoever so behaves Allah lets him go off His track and whoever works towards path that is firmly founded He lets him be on that track.
40) Ask them to think carefully and answer, when you face a disaster Allah has alerted you about or when the last moment of revolution confronts you all of a sudden, will you act upon the laws of any other than Allah for your survival if you are truthful in your claims?
41) Say, no rather based upon His laws alone you will take steps to survive and forget those whom you have set up as His rivals in sovereignty then if it is His plan to relieve you then He will relieve you from the affliction you face.
42) We did send messengers before you to other nations with Our guidance but the ruling elite, their priests and wealthy supporters opposed Our guidance so at length We caught them facing consequences of their own actions in form of painful suffering due to rivalries and adversities and that is how We gave them chance to learn from such experiences to be good human beings.
43) Why did they the leading people from among them not then made themselves consistent with Our program, constitution and laws taking care of their dependent masses properly and instead they inflicted painful suffering upon them through rivalries and divisions? It is because in opposition to Our teaching their minds became even more stubborn thus their destructive leadership made their harmful acts like divide and rule seem fair to them.
44) When they ignored Our warning they had received then We let open the gates of every kind of prosperity for those leading them thereby opened gates of poverty for those following them but just as ruling elite were rejoicing in what they were given We suddenly caught ruling elite faced with uprising by the ruled masses and that is how they were plunged into destruction through inflicting harm upon each other.
45) This is how We let cut off the roots of those who work against Our goal and guidelines because sovereignty belongs to Allah alone the Sustainer of all the nations in the world.
If people do not live according to the divine program as a family and try to use and abuse each other instead then end result is destruction of nations by their own hands.
46) Ask them, just think for a moment that if Allah renders useless your sense of hearing and your sense of sight and as well as your minds due to your self-created confusions then is there any sovereign other than Allah who could restore them to you? See how We explain things in Our revelations over and over again and again yet you act against them.
A great point is made here by God telling people that your deliberate ignorance of divine program make your God given brain and senses useless because you fall in ditch of confusion and have no more sense of getting out of your self-created problems. Ultimately it is back on program of God you are forced to rely by your self-created circumstances and situations so why be stupid in the first place? What humanity gets by doing things its own way which are contrary to divine system and laws when it can get much more by doing things the way it has been told? Unity based on right principles is the key for any nation’s peace, progress and prosperity. Aimless gathering of people is just a noisy crowding and not constructive at all.
47) Say, just think if the affliction Allah warns you about comes to you suddenly or openly, would any nations be destroyed other than the ones who live their lives opposing Our program, constitution and guidelines for laws?
48) We have sent the messengers only to deliver Our plan for prosperity of mankind and Our warning so any who commits to working for peace, progress and prosperity therefore removes rifts from among people and communities will have nothing to be anxious about nor anything to regret for, once rule of Allah is properly established in His kingdom.
49) But such as oppose Our goals and guidelines will face the consequences for their transgressions against humanity by acting against Our rule.
50) O messenger! Tell this very clearly to masses, I do not claim to you that the treasures of Allah are in my control or that I am aware of the future for certain nor do I claim that I am free of all problems but I do desire that we all follow appropriately that which is revealed to me. Ask them, are the ignorant and the learned alike, why don’t you think things through thoroughly?
This verse comprehensively throws out religious doctored doctrines about agents of God having supernatural powers to do miracles etc and to solve problems of people magically. That is all based on personality cults not Quran. No man has any supernatural powers because they are not needed by people as per divine plan for humanity. Mankind has to do all it can as human beings that is why mankind is created as human beings and not anything else. This verse also states very clearly that nothing belongs to any man even if a man is a prophet of God. Only God alone is owner of each and everything therefore only he has the right to dictate his program, constitution and laws as a ruler of this kingdom of the universe. Man also has no real knowledge as to what is going to happen tomorrow because it is not up to man to decide such things beyond the limits set for him by God himself.
The other main point made by this verse is whether a divine messenger is free of problems that other human beings face. This verse tells us very clearly that that is not the case rather all people being members of same human society suffer from same problems but each responds to same problems as per one’s own ability and its development. The divine messengers are best at facing and solving problems but they are not free of making mistakes due to lack of knowledge about things or due to lack of attention to various aspects of problems. After all they are human beings but they do not stick to their mistakes rather they correct themselves as soon as they become aware of errors. So prophets are though best of human beings but they are nothing more than human beings any other way than divine messengership. Divine messengers being very intelligent and proactive people are not expected to fall below standard of humanity at any time. They are chosen only because they best suited the job. They never fall into harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour. If anything they show above average intelligence and behaviour. These are socially conscious people and want their societies to do better. It is precisely because community leadership takes its community in the wrong direction that divine messengers come to put them back on the right track.
51) Thus prompt through this revelation of the Quran those who are concerned for the betterment of humanity for gathering under the rule of their Creator and Sustainer because there is no sovereign for them other than Him nor any protector or intervener so that they become consistent with His program for the benefit of humanity.
52) Moreover never stay out of touch with those who work for the installation of the rule of their Creator and Sustainer day and night seeking only to accomplish His set out goal. You are not supposed to do what is their responsibility to carry out and they are not supposed to do what you are supposed to carry out. So if you do not remain in touch with such people for installing the rule of Allah then you will be counted among those who work against Our rule.
53) It is for this reason We have set up some people on course to struggle for the benefit of others yet ignorant influential people look down upon them and say, are these the people whom Allah has chosen from among us? Say, does Allah not know best those who benefit from His guidance best by acting upon it?
54) When those who claim to be committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according to Our set goal and guidelines come to you tell them, peace, progress and prosperity is the goal set for you because your Creator and Sustainer has imposed upon Himself to bless you through blissful revealed program for the benefit of mankind so if any among you commits any harmful acts against others because of ignorance and thereafter turns to guidance of Allah and mends his ways accordingly then you will find Allah protecting you through blissful revealed program.
It is because people are born not knowing things if they make any mistakes in their ignorance while learning the proper way of living their life as part of proper human community, it is not going to inflict any damage on humanity that is lasting. Humanity has in built flexibility to cope and recover. The damage inflicted even in such a case is fault of humanity itself because it failed to educate its members properly in time to prevent such things from happening. A child is born into a human society the way it is and it learns from the society it is born into, so in actual fact the person only gives a society back what it has received from it. It is therefore important that people change and not ruin their own lives and lives of others. It does no one any good in the long run.
55) That is how We explain Our goal and guidelines so that the way of the culprits becomes clearly evident.
Here it is explained that people with criminals mindset, attitude and behaviour or very different from those who do something wrong out of ignorance. One have agenda for doing wrong because it serves their purpose and others just do it out of confusion but once things become clear to them they change their ways and try to improve things thereafter.
56) Say, I am stopped from serving rulers other than Allah to whom you invite me. Say, I am not going to follow your baseless ideas and practices, for if I do then I too would be lost and cease to be the one guided properly.
It is not worship of other gods the Quran talks about but serving other rulers instead of living by rule of Allah. Kings, mullahs and moneylenders use religions to create divide in the human community in the name of God and worship of God then use that to set up social systems, structures, procedures and practices that suit them to use and abuse masses. This is why the Quran attacks all this by saying there is no other ILAAH other than Allah. ILAAH =ruler or sovereign or master. Some one who needs no worship of anyone nor demands it. All God wants is appreciation as a creative being by intelligent creatures like human beings who are knowledgeable and use their brains and sense to recognise this quality of God and thereby his value as a God. This is why Islam in the Quran is very different from Islam that is taught by establishment mullahs. Mullahs need people who are ignorant for blind faith so that they could use and abuse them in the name of God but God wants people who can think for themselves. Two totally different concepts of God and Islam.
57) Say, I am upon evidence based clear guidance from my Creator and Sustainer which you oppose arrogantly and ignorantly but to make you face the results of your such actions is not my responsibility which you are so keenly rushing for seeing. Indeed the decision for that rests with none but universal laws of Allah alone Who declares the truth and He is unique in deciding such matters as per His declared system and laws.
The universe is a closed loop system with set laws and it is up to God himself to give mankind laws to live by. People who claim to follow divine advice are not free to take law into their own hands to teach people who oppose them the lessons they wish to be taught. All needs to be done in a way that makes sense and serves the set divine purpose. As for God, people are people and all must be given chances to come to his advice and be beneficial members of human community.
58) Say, if what you rush to see was my responsibility to show you then the matter between you and I would have been settled already but Allah knows best how to deal with those who transgress His set limits.
Here it is made clear that even a prophet of God had no right to settle score with his opponents all by himself otherwise tribal warfare would have started an unending war between various tribes as was happening already. Instead people were led away from unnecessary wars and disturbances to try and live .in peace and settle disputes through diplomatic means sensibly. The hope was that as people learn things they will be able to see better ways of living and deciding issues with each other. This is why Quran based Islam tells its followers to approach others with message of wisdom wisely. War is only in defence of this idea but as anti Quran and anti humanity rulers, priests and moneylenders cannot stand against the Quranic arguments and lose their masses to Islam they find no other way to confront Quran and its followers other than using way of wars. It is always losers in debates that take up arms and try to assert themselves through force of arms. This is why Muslims too must remain well prepared for reaction to their spreading of divine message by their opponents. Jihad in Islam is only second to spreading of divine message sensibly. It is all because Quran wants all people to be united as a brotherhood looking after each other but some harmful and destructive elements in human society do not like that and oppose it tooth and nail.
59) Because the keys to better future of mankind rest in following His program properly as no one can make known the proper ways to success other than Him, He makes evident whatever is of benefit for mankind in the land and in the sea and there is not a single decree in any page of His book of law but it makes this fact amply obvious. Moreover there is not a smallest grain hidden in the deepest or farthest place in the world nor anything wet or dry which is not governed by a clear decree.
This verse makes it absolutely clear that human success lies in following divine program because only God knows what is right for mankind and makes it known as well through human discoveries and his revelations. All things are subject to divine system and laws regardless how small or how large in the universe. In other words it is made clear that nothing escapes laws of God. This is why God is in a unique position to guide mankind. This verse also tells us that key to human success is knowledge about God as well as creation so that mankind could benefit both from the universe by knowing things about it and the divine revelation by knowing things about that too. Again and again mankind is told to learn things and do things to have a peaceful, progressive and prosperous life as a united community.
60) That is why it is He alone Who makes you face the full consequences of your courses of actions that lead you into the dark future thereby He makes you realise what you should be doing for your bright future whereby He raises you to let you complete your life as per His set universal laws. That is why you should turn to His advice so that He informs you as to what you ought to have done or what you ought be doing for your own good.
This verse explains that universe is set up in such a way that humanity will survive till it fulfils its God set purpose. It will always pull back from brink of self destruction and keep moving bit by bit in the right direction through interaction between people with various vested interests. Some people will keep pulling it in harmful and destructive directions and some in the opposite direction ie toward beneficial and constructive direction.
61) Because it is He the one with over all control Who watches over His people by means of set out system and laws and provides for you the human communities ways and means of survival till any of you the communities bring upon yourselves death and destruction in that case Our set out laws fulfil to you Our promise and they never fail in their task.
62) This is how they are made to face consequences of their own actions by Allah their only true sovereign. Beware therefore that sovereignty of this kingdom solely rests with Him and He is strict and swift in settling the accounts through His set out laws.
63) Ask them, who delivers you from darkness of ignorance such as sense of false pride and domination against each other and the chaos and confusion that results from that when at the time you rely upon his laws alone and sincerely as well saying to each other that if He delivers us from this chaos and confusion in the community, we will indeed become a people worthy of name by using provided things appropriately?
64 Say, but when Allah delivers you from these and all other calamities yet you attribute sovereignty to others and live by their rule inflicting harm and destruction upon each other.
People when they reach a dead end after doing things the way they were told not to do them they become stuck and then they decide to give a try to way of God but as they do and get out of the chaos and confusion divisions and wars they go back to same way of life that led them to dead before. So history keeps repeating itself. People got to do better than that is peace, progress and prosperity has to be established in the world.
65) Say, He has proven again and again that through His revelation He has the power to remove calamities from above you and from below you but he also left you to split into discordant factions due to ignoring His revelation to let you taste the violence from one another. See how We explain things clearly in Our revelations over and over again and again so that they may learn to understand things.
Allah has power to remove use and abuse by dominant people through his program and likewise he has power to stop use and abuse by masses by helping them see the right way to live but if they choose to ignore his message and do as they please then sooner or later things will come round full circle and will take all involved by a big surprise.
66) Yet your people (the human community) are rejecting and opposing this Quran even though it sets them goal worth pursuing. Tell them, I am not appointed as a warden over you to force you into accepting and doing things against your will.
God and his messenger may leave people on their own but people never leave each other alone so they give each other as good as they get because that is the way the system is set up to work. The idea is that if you will not accept and do the right things through teachings then you will teach them to each other the hard way that you will not forget for generations. If you do not decide things between yourselves like civilised good sensible human beings then you will be left to decide them like wild animals in a jungle or worse.
67) For everything foretold there is a set time period for its fulfilment and soon you will come face to face what you are foretold.
The Quran is full of explanations for people about living their lives and they are clear cut forecasts for all people as to what will happen if people will live the way they are told and what will happen if they do not. If mankind are sensible then if they observed their world then will see at which point in time they are living and what is going to happen next. When clouds form in the sky they spell rain. Likewise when people live by harmful ways of life things gradually turn ugly day by day so people can turn back and correct their error before it is too late. Likewise if they way they live leads them to better life then again they can see which way they ought to be going, so it is all a matter of knowing our world better and knowing the divine set up, system and laws better so that we could really benefit ourselves.
68) So when you come across such people as try to engage in debates regarding Our goal and guidelines the wrong way, avoid them till they engage the proper way. However if the opposing party ignores you in that case then deliver them the good reminder and leave those who are given to transgressions to themselves.
The prophet is told to deliver the divine message to people but avoid getting involved in their usual senseless quarrels with each other. In other words prophet is told to choose the appropriate moments for delivering the divine message to people. Even if they start their usual quarrels the while prophet is sitting with them, he should leave in a civilised way leaving the door open for future discussions. It is because people who are hell bent on settling their scores with each other do as they want and listen to no one in their heat of the moment so better to wait till people are done with each other and get in minds that respond better at some other time.
69) Though people who do what benefits others will not be held responsible for those who do what harms others yet it is their duty to advise them because they may realise and refrain from harming each other in future.
70) Let such people do as they please who make the sole purpose of their life mere fooling about to amuse themselves at the expense of others because they allowed themselves to be deceived by wrong things in life at present. However keep on advising them with this Quran lest they end up destroyed as a consequence of harm they inflict on each other thereby let them become aware that they will have none to rescue them from set laws of Allah and nothing will be accepted of them even if they sought to offer every imaginable thing as ransom. Such are those who are condemned to suffering the consequences of their own harmful actions. For them are deluge of worries as painful suffering due to their transgression against Our set limits.
71) Say to them, should we depend upon the rules of other than Allah who can neither benefit us nor harm us? Should we turn upon our heels after Allah has guided us to the right way like the party whom the opponents of rule of Allah have misled and is wandering around in the world confused while its friends are calling it to the right path saying, come to us! Tell them, advice of Allah is the only true guidance. We have been commanded to accept the rule of the Creator and Sustainer of the nations,
72) and to establish His rule of law and be consistent with Him and humanity, for it is His program, constitution and law according to which we all should gather together if we want to live in peace and make progress and be prosperous.
73) Because it is He Who has evolved the heavens and the earth for a set purpose, that is why the day He initiated the process of accountability to commence, so it did. His word is always true. That is why the kingdom will truly belong to Him on the day when the new life will be breathed in to the universe as people install His program, constitution and law and abide by it because He is such a sovereign Who is all aware and wise able to grant proper advice for mankind to live a beneficial life.
74) That is why at the time Abraham said to Azer, the chief priest of his people, why do you take such people as your rulers who are obstacle in the way of peace, progress and prosperity of mankind? Surely I see you the leadership and your nation on the path other than peace, progress and prosperity of community.
75) It is because that is the way We educated Abraham about dominant classes as well as the down trodden masses so that he becomes one of those who are certain about things through personal observations and experience.
This verse is very important because it tells individuals in communities to remain alert and observant at all times to prevent their nations from falling or if they have fallen they must look for opportunities to put them back on track to recovery. In other words nations cannot survive unless they keep working at getting better and better at things, this is why they must keep their people sharp through proper education and training at all times. A little bit lack in anything could cost a community its place among nations and failing that could cost its individual very dearly in form of ignorance, poverty and death and destruction. This is how life of Abraham is an example for people to follow ie be a lively person and challenge others to become lively so that world could become full of lively people. It is because it is not possible for one person to put the whole world on the right track and keep it going rather each and every person must play his or her part in this world properly and effectively to make things go in the right direction.
76) At the time when the darkness of ignorance covered his people he saw a ray of hope for his community. He said to himself, there is still a ray of hope from my Creator and Sustainer for my people to better themselves. But then they let even that fade away so Abraham said, I do not like my people letting this opportunity go to waste.
In these verses the Quran seems to explain how people with insight look at opportunities and how their nations behaves in general, that is instead of trying to change the course of actions for the better they let such opportunities go to waste. The Quran also explains that such opportunities do avail themselves all the time if anyone wishes to take advantage of them. Abraham saw how kings, priests and moneylender used and abused their own people and hindered peaceful, progressive and prosperous existence of humanity and started to think of ways he could intervenes to change things for the better. Each time there came about a better opportunity for nation of Abraham to intervene yet end result was not that encouraging that disappointed Abraham again and again about his people. No doubt, to educate a nation out of its ignorance is not an easy task at all. Each time a people are put on a better course of action by some courageous people from among themselves after a while they fall back into same situation and become as they were or even worse at times. That is how nations rise and fall but many a time small improvements result in such interaction between nations that is why world is not as it was thousands of years ago. So hope must be kept alive though it looks very difficult at times to remain hopeful.
How do opportunities avail themselves for insightful people to take advantage of them? It is interaction between people that creates gaps due to vested interest parties having conflicts that can be taken advantage of and if one intervenes to take advantage of those gaps then it is very much possible that intervention may work. It is because a society that is based on vested interest groups sometimes results in conflicts between groups working together pushing them apart. This raises opportunities for others to intervene and redirect their nations but that is only possible if there are people who are awake to do so. Sleeping nations and people sleep walk into their own destructions like sheep being led to slaughterhouses.
77) However in time he saw a yet greater ray of hope for betterment of his people so he thought, this is much better opportunity from my Creator and Sustainer for my people to better themselves but they let that too fade away so he said to himself, if my Creator and Sustainer guides me not as to how to help my people then I am certainly going to be part of a nation that has lost its way.
78) Thereafter he observed an even greater window of opportunity for his people to better themselves so he thought, this is much bigger opportunity from my Creator and Sustainer for my people to better themselves because this is huge but they let that also fade away so he said to his people, O my people, I am free of all those whom you take for rulers other than Allah.
79) I turn myself to Him alone for His guidance Who has evolved the heavens and the earth and I am not of those who accept rule of anyone other than Allah.
80) At that his people started challenging him so he said to them, are you challenging me about Allah whereas He Himself has guided me indeed? I do not fear those whom you take for rulers other than Him. Nothing happens unless my Creator and Sustainer has so planned, the knowledge of my Creator and Sustainer encompasses everything, so why don’t you examine thoughtfully the divine testimony I am sent with?
81) How can I give any importance to that system of ruling in which you attribute sovereignty to people like yourselves who stop you from peace, progress and prosperity while you are not paying any attention to your own actions for making them rivals of Allah for which He has not given you any proof? Which of the two parties of us is based on firm foundation in accordance to goal of peace, progress and prosperity of mankind? Tell me, if you really have the wisdom to explain things.
82) Surely those who commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind and do not discredit their working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind with transgressions against humanity and set limits of Allah, such are the ones who will truly attain peace, progress and prosperity because they are the ones who are guided properly.
83) And that was the argument with which We furnished Abraham to guide his people. We exalt in ranks of dignity whoever works for it, surely your Creator and Sustainer is wise and He makes His wisdom obvious for mankind so that they too become wise.
84) And We gave him as successors Isaac and Jacob and guided them all as We guided Noah before them and among his descendants were David, Solomon, Job, Joseph, Moses and Aaron that is how We reward those who do things to benefit each other as a united human community.
85) Likewise did things Zakariya, John, Jesus and Elias all of them were of those who removed obstacles from the path of mankind towards peace, progress and prosperity.
86) Among them were Ishmael, Elisha, Jonah and Lot We raised every one of them for the nations of the world to educate them
87) as We raised some of their forefathers, their children and their brothers. We appointed them all for Our service and guided them to the way that is firmly founded.
88) Such is the guidance of Allah whereby He guides whoever works hard to attain guidance. Had they submitted to false rulers instead of Allah their hard works would have come to nothing.
89) Such were the people to whom We gave the scriptures, the wisdom and the messengership. Now if these people who claim to follow them, the Jews and the Christians, yet oppose this guidance it matter not because We have others who oppose it not.
90) The fact is those were the people who were rightly guided by Allah therefore follow them and tell these people, I am not asking you for any reward for it because this message is nothing less than a divine program, constitution and guidelines for making laws to examine and implement for the benefit of the people of all the nations.
91) No importance they give to the program, constitution and law of Allah, those who ignorantly and arrogantly claim, Allah has not revealed anything to any human being. Ask them, who then sent the book that Moses brought a light of knowledge and guidance for mankind? You have transcribed it on separate sheets, publishing some and suppressing much of that given knowledge, which neither you nor your forefathers previously possessed. If they cannot answer then just tell them, Allah, and leave them alone with their ignorance and arrogance based senseless random arguments.
These verses make amply clear the purpose of creation, the reason for sending messengers and scriptures and explain very clearly that people should examine allegedly divine testimonies to see if they are true or false objectively and purposefully. The idea is that the whole thing is explained properly from start to finish and if it makes sense then the book is from God otherwise not. Trying to question the testimony in an irrelevant way is not going to lead to proper end result. One has to examine a testimony for what it actually says, not for what it does not say.
92) And likewise We have revealed this book with equally blissful program, constitution and guidelines for law fulfilling all conditions told in the scriptures revealed before it so that you alert the people living in the Mother of the Cities and those who live all around it. As for those who have truly committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according to other scriptures they also commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according this scripture as well and it is they who really stand guard over their community supportive network faithfully.
As far as knowledgeable people are concerned, it matters not which divine scripture they are told to follow because all scriptures from the same source carry same over all message and changeover is only necessitated by time bound information in scriptures. If one had both the divine scriptures (the predecessor and the successor) side by side, one could very easily see the similarities and have no doubt that both originated from the very same source. Only ignorant and arrogant people would cause unnecessary fuss over nothing just so that they could avoid following the scriptures and do as they like. This is why the Quran asks people to leave such people to themselves and see how they get one with what is really in their minds because soon their motivations will become exposed by their own actions. An enemy of humanity will always try and act against humanity and will look for ways to get at it. Such people just make up anything and feel no hesitation in inflicting harm upon mankind. We can see in our world how people live their lives on rivalry based system whereby each day so many people undercut each other and undermine each other and feel proud that they have done it. We are very proud that we have created so many millionaires and even billionaires and we do not care how many people around the world we have pushed into shear poverty by doing so. Yet people claim to be very civilised and dignified and honoured. All this shows how much people lack in sense to see things in their right places.
93) And who can be more harmful and destructive than the one who invents a lie and attributes it to Allah or claims that revelation has been sent to me when in reality he has not received any revelation at all - or the one who claims that I can come up with a program, constitution and guidelines for law like the ones revealed by Allah? If you could only imagine the time when such transgressors against Our rule are overwhelmed by destruction by their own hands and Our missionaries extend their jurisdiction telling them, let your people you have taken for slaves be free! Today you are faced with disgraceful consequences for making up and spreading lies against Allah to use and abuse mankind which you had no right to do but you showed arrogance against His revealed program, constitution and guidelines for law!
This verse explains that time will come when mission of God will succeed and all elements who opposed divine mission will fail. Masses will be freed from control and slavery of harmful and destructive rulers, priests and moneylenders. These people will further face disgrace because they would have been lying about divine mission and its purpose to masses for their harmful and destructive vested interests. Both religious and secular leaderships are going to be in deep trouble for telling their masses lies about the message in the Quran for purpose of derailing humanity from its path in order to create disorder in the world by way of conspiracies to take undue advantage of mankind. They realised not that their such actions were very much harmful for the masses at large. Many lost livelihood in the process and suffered the pain greatly as well as loss of life and many got destroyed in the wars that resulted from such mindset, attitude and behaviour of some people who behaved worst than animals.
94) That is why you are brought by your own actions to face justice as per Our rule of law individually in the manner We made clear to you already repeatedly, leaving behind all that We let you have through loot and We do not see with you your supporters about whom you thought they will intervene on your behalf as your partners. All your ties are cut off indeed today so what you planned has failed you badly.
This verse is talking about people who were to fall under Muslim rule after revelation of this verse at some point in time in future and this is how Muslims missionaries will say things to them reminding them how they used to deal with Muslims and others when they used to be in power. We are also told why they will fall under Muslim rule because of rifts among themselves based on caste, class and creed etc therefore hatred and infighting. Little disagreements if not taken care of sensibly then they could develop in to big quarrels over a period of time just like growth of a seed in to a tree. Likewise doing a little good can benefit humanity a great deal. This way a small movement can grow big and well established community can crumble in to dust. It is all about rising and falling of nations and what makes them rise and fall. So nations and individuals need to be careful as to what they do when they are in power because what they do in those days to others will come back to affect them. If a great nation helps others become great all will appreciate it but if it uses and abuses people then one day they will take revenge and things will turn ugly for them as well. It is therefore better for all that all people help educate each other and remain not like animals or worse. This will take out rivalry and animosity and hatred from between nations and individuals and their people and so bring about a better world.
95) Surely it is the universal laws of Allah that let the hidden potentialities of people become obvious through development in due course. That is how He brings forth a lively nation out of the dead one and the dead nation from the one that was lively. It is for the plan of Allah alone all this has to happens then why is it that you the mankind move away from His program?
96) He gradually introduces the dawn of knowledge for progress of humanity, because darkness of ignorance keeps mankind stuck in the rut, by way of glorious program for a transparent welfare state based on accountability. This is the goal and the process as set by wise ruler of this kingdom and made obvious for mankind by Him.
97) And He it is Who has made for you the goal and guidelines as guidance so that you find your way thereby in the darkness of confusion that is widespread. We have explained things indeed in Our revelations very clearly for people who use their brains to learn.
98) And He it is Who has originated you from a single tree of life and set out for you this world as a place to settle in there peacefully. We have explained things in Our revelations very clearly for people who strive hard learn about things to understand things.
99) It is He Who sends down water from the heaven as rain and therewith produces vegetation of all kinds, He brings forth green crops producing grain piled up in the ear, palmtrees laden with clusters of dates hanging within reach, gardens of grapes, olives, and pomegranates, though their fruit resembles in kind yet is different in variety. Look at their fruits as they yield and ripen. Behold! In these things there are evidences as to how Our set laws operate in the universe for those who would commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
All these verses contain parallel meanings ie they are talking about biological implications, psychological implications, sociological implications, political implications, cultural implications and economic implications. This is a comprehensive set of verses that needs to be expanded along these lines.
100) Yet they assign sovereignty to ruling elite in opposition to advice of Allah and even though it is He Who has created them and guided them yet they have attributed to Him their own created divisions in human society on basis of dominant people and dormant people without any proof for it from Him. Free is His message from any such information and He is far removed from such make beliefs as they attribute to Him.
101) Due to Him alone is origin of all the galaxies including this galaxy. How can He be succeeded by anyone when there is nothing like unto Him instead it is He who has evolved all things by Himself alone? That is how He makes everything so obvious for mankind.
This verse is very clear as to nature of being God is ie he is ever existing without beginning or end. It is important to concentrate on logic and evidence and how they combine to prove existence of God positively. If we ignore this relationship between logic and evidence then we cannot prove anything at all because then we want everything to happen before our very eyes or as far as we are concerned nothing happened at all. A murder has not taken place just because it has not happened before our eyes. It shows how flawed is our thinking in that case because we are denying the very principle that is accepted by all wise people in the world whereby they decide all such matters for which there is no direct evidence at all. After all what is TOE about? Yet almost every scientist worth the name accepts it as a theoretically proven fact.
The other way to look at positive proof of divinity beside testimonial proof is rational proof. It is a self evident fact that this universe is there. This universe was not always there is also an observed reality. This means it was created, why? Because unless something that changes with time is not created by something that does not change with time it cannot come about. Nothing can come out of nothing ie there has to be something that brings about something ie God has brought about this world. How is that possible?
Since we are here and we know that we are not here permanently so something has bought us here but the question is, what brought that thing about? The answer is, that thing was not brought about by anything because that had to be there always otherwise we end up with an unending chain of creators, which is impossible. Why is it impossible to have an unending chain of creators? It is because then before each creator could create anything the creator himself needs to be created by its creator. Take this chain to infinity and you will see that in that case nothing gets created. Let me explain it by an example.
I ask you to help me with some money, you tell me that I need to borrow it from someone else to give it to you but that guy tells you the same and so the story goes for ever and ever, tell me will I ever get the money I asked for? No, never. It is because each guy keeps going to another guy for borrowing the money so this chain of borrowing does not end so that I could get the help I need. Likewise if each creator needed another creator then when will any creator be actually there to create anything so creation could not be there at all as a result? Since creation is there therefore it had to have a creator that was always there. This is why asking who created the creator is a wrong question.
Why creator created this world and sent his revelation? Because the creator wanted to express himself so he expressed himself by way of creating the world. Anything that exists and is lively has the impulse or urge to exert itself ie it wants to be known. You have urge to be known if you exist and you are a lively being and to do so you will have to show what you can do or what you are capable of.
Tell me how would you introduce yourselves? Through your actions that show creativity on your part. God could not express himself unless he was being creative, nothing can. The other problem for urge of expression is that you need to be appreciated by something else that is capable of appreciating you as a creative being. In order to express himself God ended up creating this world and to be appreciated by something he created mankind in it. Something that is free to think ie it has its own mind and has ability to show its own creativity given the tools and chance to prove itself. God has provided all tools and things of need for man to learn in this factory of God through experimentation ie trial and error till man becomes perfect enough to one day manage his universe for his own good. A time when human potential will become fully unfolded before man and that is the time when man will realise how great creator God was that he created such a wonderful thing called man who himself is such great creator as the handy work of God. That is how one day God will be pleased with what he has created and man will also be pleased with what he has done with his God given abilities and tools.
This is why people need to try their best to understand the Quran properly. It has nothing at all to do with mullahs mumbo jumbo. The Quran tells us repeatedly that Allah created all things for mankind ie for man to have it under his control one day and to use it for betterment of himself. He created horses and donkeys etc etc for mankind and man was able to think out ways to domesticate these animals for his own use. The same way man has to learn how to become controller of the universe by first learning how it works and then using that knowledge for redesigning it so that it becomes like paradise for mankind to live in.
This is why first thing for humanity is to eliminate conflicts from between mankind then after unity get on with task of conquering the universe. The Quran tells us that mankind will have peaceful, progressive and prosperous life throughout this universe. So there is plenty to do yet than we can think of right now.
This is how the universe and the Quran complement each other so God did not fail in expressing himself but we humans have yet to learn much more than we already have learned. We have yet many, many more generations to go before we can say we have accomplished and established anything much in our own right.
God does not want pooja paat instead he wants to be acknowledged and appreciated through knowledge and creativity. Only people of knowledge and creativity can truly acknowledge and appreciate God due to his knowledge and creativity. This is why real human beings are graded above all else. God is only great because of his knowledge and creativity by which he was able to express his existence and greatness. So there is no sense in denying the very obvious.
The Quran is all about mankind as a single community so it looks at its actions as collective actions of humans as a single family therefore consequences of its actions are also interlinked for the reason of correction of its mindset, attitude and behaviour ie by way of interaction between its individuals and groups etc the human community can move forward in time doing better for itself or worse. When human community does wrong to each other and continues down that lane after sometime people rise against this situation and try to pull it off this course to place it on another path that leads to something better. This situation of error and correction will continue till mankind have had enough experience and finally know what is right or wrong and so give up living their lives the wrong way. Even though the Quran teaches things perfectly but it is people who need to learn things till they reach the level of learning that will help them realise what the Quran is actually teaching them. It is like a road map is there but a person to read it needs to prepare himself to be able to make use of it and that takes time and experience. No matter how much parents try to teach their child, the speed at which a baby learns is still a major factor ie learning does not depend on teacher alone but student as well. Since humans are created to learn like self programming robots so they will take time. Not only that but they will keep erring and they will keep on correcting themselves till they have learned enough to not to make as many mistakes as they did at the start of the learning process.
In the Quran regarding things that happen, man is only held responsible for criminal behaviour and for that intention or motive or purpose behind the action or inaction as well as the course of actions taken, both count.
Life is all about learning but learning is only possible through trial and error. When a person is born he learns to use his brain, his senses, his limbs and in fact his entire body and things available to him.
In this process a person makes many, many mistakes and many a time hurts himself or others. You try to sit but fall over and over, again and again and even get hurt, when you try to learn how to stand, the same happens etc etc. Humans learn things throughout their lives eg you learn to read and write and learn professional skills and go through countless trials and mistakes. The ultimate aim is to be able to do things without making mistakes so we practice more and more in order to be better and better at doing things if not perfect.
This is why there is no concept of sin in the Quran- because it is not a book of religion- but about stopping crime because it is about rule of law based system ie Islam. The Quran very clearly states that even if you kill someone by mistake, it is not a crime. It is because for any action to be a crime it has to be motivated by harmful and destructive intent. Any harm that results through mistakes should be compensated where possible through actions for better results ie you try your best to replace loss the best you humanly can. Only crime is to be punished but the intention for punishment of crime has to be restoration of balance in community that was disturbed by the crime so that peace, progress and prosperity returns to community after any disturbance.
When a crime is carried out or is allowed to be carried out or is helped to be carried out then community spirit breaks down and once motivation for being a community is gone then you are no longer a community but individuals and groups based on private and personal vested interests against the common good or interest. If you committed a crime and others helped you in various ways eg stopped authorities from catching you, charging you, putting you on trial or saved you from being convicted and even after conviction people get you forgiveness then where does all this leave the human community spirit? Moreover why would anyone do that if one is community friendly?
In the Quran intervention is good if it is motivated for the benefit of human society eg someone was going to kill somebody and you changed his mind, somebody was going to shoot somebody and you took away his gun, people were fighting and you intervened and saved people from bloodshed. Someone was going to take poison and you got there in time and saved him from doing that. Somebody burnt himself and you took him to hospital or put some ointment on him. Someone was accused falsely and you intervened and proved he was accused falsely. Someone is convicted wrongly and you intervene and get him retrial and he is found not guilty and is freed etc etc.
When a person commits a crime, none is allowed to intervene to save him from being charged and put on trial and after conviction from his set out punishment. However, proper advice is allowed so that one does not commit crime to begin with or that one is not charged under false allegation, or put on trial and prosecuted or convicted wrongly or punished wrongly. This is why there is no forgiveness in the Quran for criminal unless there is social benefit in doing that because Quran looks at criminal and the victim as members of the same family. If a family has only two brothers and one kills the other then by putting the other to death finishes off the family therefore out of necessity there could be exceptions to rules at times for the community. It is because man is not perfect and all his actions are not necessarily perfect. Therefore the need for a degree of respite is inevitable. From point of view of God his law is fine but from point of view of man, he needs its understanding and he needs to learn its proper application and wherever things fall on man the possibility of error cannot be ruled out so God had to compensate for that. God has limitations as a God and man has limitations as a man. Just as God cannot be expected to do un-Godly things so a man cannot be expected to do things beyond his natural limits as a man.
Sin is an imaginary concept and so is forgiveness and atonement etc. This is why these are religious inventions by establishment priests to give people sense of freedom from punishment of their crimes in this world by leaving everything to hereafter and then introducing the idea of forgiveness through intervention of good guys to end the sense of punishment for crimes. This way you do what you like and then say certain prescribed words or do some prescribes rituals and all is well, as if you are a new born. These are not Quranic concepts but were adopted into Islam by establishment and its clergy from other religions for their own purposes but later priestly classes accepted them as they are without any due thought process and they keep spreading them. By looking at Muslim societies throughout the world we can see the results of that. Islam is more about this life than hereafter. There is a saying in Urdu that duniya aakhirat ki kheti hai ie the present life is the one upon which depends the future life or you reap what you sow. The end result depends upon your own actions. It is wrong to think that if you commit crimes in this world, you can get away with that just because you believe certain things or say certain words or carry out certain rituals.
The point to remember is that if mistakes are not to be punished and crime has to be that which is motivated and intended then conviction is inevitable and once conviction is there then punishment that fits the crime is inevitable because that is the way God has set up things and no amount of nonsense beliefs and rituals invented by priests can change that. The concept the Quran puts forth is that of collective punishment rather than individual punishment and concept of punishment is based upon cause and effect or consequences of peoples' own actions as a family. The Quran wants humanity to sort out its all problems according to set out program and guidelines so nicely that one day the world is what it is supposed to be ie a blissful place called paradise to live in. So long as people keep neglecting their responsibilities as a human community, the world will remain as hell as people make it for themselves for as long as they want it.
This is why people need to understand the Quranic concepts and not listen to their ignorant religious leaders or keep suffering the consequences. This is what evolution of humanity is all about and that is what revolutions are all about. The world is going through cyclic changes and will continue that way till a proper human society comes about that is exactly as the Quran wants it to be. It is people who are going to bring it about not God. He has sent his messenger for the final time to humanity and has said that Islam is finally to prevail ie the world will end up peaceful, progressive and prosperous regardless of what opponents of divine writ think or do to try and prevent it. They will lose out and humanity will become the winner. So we all should be part of solutions to problems and not be part of problems. This cannot happen unless we intervene for the good of humanity by doing things that are of benefit to humanity and stop intervening for the harm and destruction of humanity by doing things that benefit none or even harm others. This is why religion is a false concept and deen is a true concept. And this is why priests are wrong but learned scholars of Quran based deen are right.
The Quran tells people to find out things and if you do not know something, ask those who really know them. Don't go to those who do not know them. Who knows things and who does not can become obvious from what they tell us ie knowledge speaks for itself.
102) That is the proper description of Allah your Creator and Sustainer! None is ruler but Him the creator of everything, so be consistent with His program, constitution and law because upon that rests survival of all things.
103) The whole human brain power cannot comprehend Him and He knows that because He has given it all its brain capacity to comprehend things. He alone is aware of all things comprehensively.
104) Say, there indeed have been pointed out to you the mankind clear evidences by your Creator and Sustainer to open up your power of thinking and understanding things so any community that opens up its eyes of mind, it is for the benefit of itself and any that plays blind, it is to its own harm and destruction, for I am a messenger of Allah and not a keeper over you to prevent you from doing things against my wishes.
105) This is how We explain Our revelations over and over so that the opposers of Our guidance are forced by reason into admitting by that you are a learned person but taught by who? And that this may become clear to people of understanding that you are taught by Allah.
106) So follow what is revealed to you the people from your Creator and Sustainer, for none is ruler but Him and turn aside from those who take for rulers others than Allah, for they have no sense.
107) Had Allah enforced His will upon them instead of giving them ability to choose they could not be such as took for rulers other than Allah. Because We have given them freedom to choose therefore We have not appointed you their keeper nor made you their attorney.
In all verses like this the point made is that Allah has set up his own system and law for his purpose and it worries not Allah what people do or not do. It is not right for anyone to fight for Allah because he is capable of looking after his own interests. However this is not a certificate for mankind to go ahead and do as they please to each other rather that account is left up to people to deal with each other as they please or see fit. The best thing in that case for people is to keep each other in check so that things keep moving in the right direction. So if anyone people decide to take undue advantage of humanity then to teach them a lesson is left to others who can do that job properly. This is why even the prophet told just to let people know advice of God for them but if they ignore it then to deal with them is up to the prophet and his followers. The main point the followers of the prophet need to think about is, have they understood the divine message properly and have they delivered it properly and if they have, what was reaction to that? Also if the claimants of following of the message have failed themselves and due to that rest of humanity and as a result all have suffered then who is supposed to be held for account for all this painful suffering and confusion and chaos of everyone? The question is very serious because these people entered in covenant with God and thy failed to live up to that.
108) So do not approach without wisdom the issue of those who take for their rulers other than Allah as their response will be animosity and break down of communication affecting deliverance of message of Allah to them and their masses. That is how each group of people act as it seems right to them. Remember, in the end after trying their ways they all will surely turn to program, constitution and law of their Creator and Sustainer because He tells them how they should act properly as proper human beings.
109) These attributors of sovereignty to others than Allah swear by Allah to you the Muslims that if a revelation as per their demands came to them directly from Allah, they will most certainly abide by it faithfully. Say to them, surely choice of sending revelations as regard what they contain and to whom they are sent rests with Allah alone but is it not clear to you that even if a revelation reaches them yet they will not committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind?
The point here is contents of revelation not to whom it comes but what it demands ie people should not being masters of each other but work together to achieve set out goal according to divine terms and conditions. Also if a people are not bothered to use their minds to examine divine truth for themselves then whether they are given a message through one source or another makes little difference. The decision has to be taken on the basis of examination of testimony whether it stand scrutiny for its set out purpose or not. People with twisted minds who see themselves as masters of others want their position and status maintained no matter what the message. So if any message that tells these people, you are not any different from the rest of mankind is not going to be acceptable to these like people and that is the problem. It is because such people do not want to hear anything other than what they want to hear. This is why to expect that these people will use their heads for thinking things through thoroughly is asking for to much. If they were that kind of people then they will not be in this category. Their mindset, attitude and behaviour puts them in that category because they are used to listening to their praises and no criticism even if it is constructive criticism. So their senseless demands are mere baseless excuses to keep their masses fooled.
This verse could also be interpreted as if these people are demanding supernatural intervention ie asking for a miracle of the prophet. In that case the idea has been already explained. Miracles cannot happen and by demanding something that cannot happen, they are just satisfying their masses that the man who is claiming to be a messenger from God is an imposter because he cannot show any miracles. The messenger comes with testimony of God and asks people to examine it for themselves as such and see if his claim is true. This they will not do and instead make their own senseless demands that have nothing at all to do with God or his message. God sends messages to educate people to help them live in this universe sensibly which miracles cannot do.
110) It is because We will still leave them with same minds and senses and choices that led them to rejection of Our guidance in the first place so We will leave them to wander about in their own rebellion and self created confusion.
So even if revelation is sent to them, it will need their own effort and thinking for understanding it which they will not do, so the end result will not change because these are not a people who use their brains for thinking things through properly.
111) That is why even if We did send them Our missionaries and thereby made clear to them results of actions of nations that perished before them and placed before them all kinds of evidences as proof of Our universal setup and operation, they will still not commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind unless Allah enforced His will taking away their freedom of choice because most of them make foolish demands due to remaining ignorant of Our purposeful program for them.
112) Like this messenger We let rise against each messenger his opponents, the harmful and destructive people from among the masses and from among the leadership- some of them inspiring the others with seductive speeches to deceive them. Had your Lord enforced His will, they would not have done that therefore remain alert but ignore them for what they plot,
113) To such let the minds of those incline who do not commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind for the good end result so let them live in fools’ paradise and let them earn what they may.
114) Say, should I seek rule of other than Allah when He alone is the One Who has revealed this book with all necessary detail? Those whom We gave the book before know very well that it is revealed to you from your Creator and Sustainer for this purpose due to similarities between the books therefore you should not be of those who have doubts
115) because words of your Creator and Sustainer fulfil the criterion for truth and justice. There is none who can change His set out laws that operate the universe. That is how He makes evident for mankind that He is aware of everything.
116) That is why if you followed most of the people in the world they will lead you away from the way of Allah because they follow nothing but make beliefs and promote nothing but harmful and destructive goals and guidelines.
117) In fact, your Creator and Sustainer knows best the people who have strayed from His way and He knows best those who are on the path He advised for them.
118) So participate only in that which has seal of approval upon it by Allah if you want to demonstrate that you are truly committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
119) Why should you not partake and participate in that which has seal of approval upon it by Allah when He has clearly explained to you in detail what you are forbidden to do except in case of danger to yourselves or in a situation that is chaotic? In fact many mislead people through their make beliefs due to lack of knowledge based on proof. Your Creator and Sustainer makes evident by results of their actions those who act against His set limits.
120) Abstain from all criminal activities whether you are among public or on your own in private. Surely those nations that commit crimes against each other will face consequences for their wrongdoings.
121) Do not participate in anything which has no seal of approval upon it by Allah, for that is surely transgression against the limits set by program, constitution and law of Allah. In fact the opponents of rule of Allah encourage their supporters that they should fight with you so defend yourselves against them because if you went along with them then surely you will be considered of those who attribute sovereignty to other than Allah.
122) Can a nation that was like dead due to ignorance based infighting whom We raised to life by inspiring it with light of knowledge to walk in harmony with humanity be like the one that is in the depths of darkness of ignorance from which it cannot come out? That is why We let the opponents of Our guidance remain in bliss of their ignorance due to what they do
123) and that is why in every town We let arise criminals as their ring leaders to conspire therein and they plot against none but their own people though they realise it not till the results of their such actions surround them.
124) Whenever there comes to them a revelation they say, we will not commit to working according to it till we too are given directly that which is given to those who claim to be messengers of Allah. Allah knows best to whom He should give His message and what the message should be. Soon these criminals will be overtaken by humiliation as a result of their courses of actions against Our advice by a severe revolt by their victims for their evil plots against them.
This verse warns rebellious people ie the leadership and their masses that if they fail to see sense as taught by divine revelation then soon they are going to end up overwhelmed by results of their own actions. Once that happens choices only remain two, keep going the same way and end up destroyed or change direction as told and be part of successful human community. People who choose to take the better end are helped to be better but people who choose the bitter end are fulfilled their promise.
125) Any people that decide to works hard according to set out system and laws of Allah for understanding His goal and guidelines He opens up their minds towards the way of life (ie AL-ISLAM) that lands mankind in peace, progress and prosperity and any people that decide to work hard according to His set out system and laws in the universe for disorder and confusion He lets their minds become narrow and squeezed up so tight that at the very idea of peace, progress and prosperity of mankind they feel as if they are forced to climb up the steep hill or ultimate point in height. That is how Allah makes evident the fault in the mindset, attitude and behaviour of those who oppose His guidance whereby they end up defeated and enslaved by each other.
No doubt to accomplish and establish the goal of peace requires such hard work that most people decline to go for it. It is easier to go along the way things are. However going along the way things are keeps increasing problems for humanity and time is coming when living that way will become much more difficult than following the way that leads to peace, progress and prosperity of mankind. The tipping point is fast approaching that people must learn to accommodate each other as a single family.
126) No matter what Islam is the way set by your Creator and Sustainer that is firmly founded and We have explained it clearly in Our revelations for the people who have learned to think properly.
127) For such as heed the message is the blissful kingdom according to their Creator and Sustainer. He is their supporter because of their works according to His guidance that leads them to such life.
128) However He will also bring together the opponents of His advice -the leadership and the masses- under His program, constitution and law because of their self created situations and circumstances. The administration in blissful kingdom will say, O you the leading tricksters –the rulers, the priests and the moneylenders- you have been arrogantly deceiving masses in great numbers. At that time the masses that had been enslaved by them will have realised their mistakes and will express the truth before their Creator saying, our Creator and Sustainer, we both the parties have used and abused each other for personal gains but by now we have had enough of each other so we have reached the end result of our course of actions based on masters slaves relationship as You already explained to us. Their creator already told them that if you will refuse to live by My advice then you will live in rivalry, animosity and fire of hatred always unless you live by what Allah has advised for you. Surely your Creator and Sustainer is a wise ruler of this kingdom of universe and that is how He makes it manifest for mankind.
129) That is how We let transgressors against Our rule turn on each other because of their course of actions to bring about the change for the better.
130) So O parties of leaders and masses, have not there come to you the messengers from amongst you who proclaimed to you My set out goals and guidelines for you and warned you that if you ignored My advice then in time you will end up in this situation calling for revolutions for change through uprising? Their response at the time to Our call will be, our state of affairs bears witness against ourselves and that is how the life of this world has deceived them and so at the time they will bear witness against themselves that they were indeed of those who opposed Our rule and that is why they ended up in the situation they found themselves in from which they now want to get out.
131) Your Creator and Sustainer does not let any townships destroy themselves without sending them His guidance for alerting them yet their residents remain unaware of their crimes against each other.
132) All nations are made to face the consequences according to categories of their own actions because your Creator and Sustainer is never unaware of what they do.
133) That is because your Creator and Sustainer is Self-Sufficient and is responsible for all sorts of provisions for mankind. Had He so planned, He could have left you people to destroy yourselves and replaced you with others as He raised you as the off-springs of others who destroyed themselves before you.
134) Surely what you are being alerted about must come to pass and you can do nothing against it happening unless you stop going the wrong way and retrace your steps and find the right path and then carry on your journey from there on.
135) Say, O my people! Do whatever you can against the installation of the rule of Allah and I will do whatever I can for installing the rule of Allah then soon you will find out who is rewarded better in the end as result of his actions, rest assured that the transgressors against the rule of Allah will never succeed and prosper,
This verse is telling mankind a way to test the Quranic program, constitution and guidelines for law formation. Simply try working along these lines and see the end result or outcome. It is not possible that a people live by religion or secularism and be successful as a whole and for good. That is not possible unless mankind live by the Quranic advice. The reasons for that follow ie divisions based on rivalries that lead to animosities and hatred and infightings and wars etc.
136) because they create divisions among mankind in the name of Allah and then divide land and resources and means of production and distribution accordingly between themselves and so they say, this is sphere of Allah and this is sphere of our rulers. The sphere which they assign to their rulers cannot be interfered with by Allah but the sphere which they assign to Allah can be interfered with by their rulers, seriously harmful and destructive is their this assignment and division of power.
This verse is very powerful description of why things go wrong in the world and who is really responsible for that, man or God? Throughout the Quran Allah keeps telling mankind how to live a good life but it is always personal gain that takes some individuals on the road to harm and destruction of rest of humanity. These dominant people then divide people on basis of state and religion and as they do that then they start diving land and resources as it suits them, leaving many without any livelihood.
137) That is how these make beliefs have made it look great in the eyes of many of these slaves of other masters than Allah that even to destroy their own future generations and to confuse their own people about proper way of life in the name of religion and state seems a good idea to them. Had Allah had not given them freedom to choose they would not have done so however let them remain in their chosen self destructive make beliefs if that is what they want for themselves.
In these like verses it is made very clear that some clever people who have taken over positions of power have managed to separate God from affairs of state in to a personal God of make beliefs so his role is no longer a moral standard as a force for good for mankind but just to satisfy make beliefs of individuals. So if anyone is looking for fairer world order he can no longer have hope for it because no role for God in daily life decisions means no freedom from oppression and suppression, no justice, no fairness and no compassion between people so no question of progress and prosperity. It is also made clear to masses how ruling elite, priests and moneylenders work together to keep the masses confused and enslaved and to make them do things for these masters in the name of God and religion and that these people who learn not and develop a slave mentality instead deserve all this that happens to them because they use not their God gifted brains, senses and opportunities to be free and more productive for themselves and others. These verses very strongly condemn make beliefs encouraging evidence based beliefs and actions. The Quran leave us in no doubt as to how people use God and religion as tool of exploitation and so people need to be very careful about personality cults and their political tricks for exploiting and manipulating masses.
Another point made clear in these verses is that Allah does not ask any man to sacrifice his children therefore the idea that Abraham was told to sacrifice his son has no basis in the Quran. Word ZIBAH has been misinterpreted in 37/102. It is about dedication or offering his son Ishmael for service of Allah ie to go on a divine mission. It shows how Jews are also wrong because they attribute similar lie to Allah regarding Isaac. By reading the Quran properly one realises how Muslims have turned DEEN into MAZHAB and how MAZHAB has been used by ruling elite and mullahs and moneylenders to control and exploit masses for their own goals. Once a person is brainwashed into thinking that one is doing something for God or good cause then one will not need any other incentive and so one labours for free for hope in reward of hereafter, so clever people can use ignorant and simple minded people like adults can manipulate children. This is why education is very tightly controlled by top elite so that people never become clever enough to realise how they are exploited by the powerful, the indoctrinating tricksters and the rich elite. Not only that people are also so hyped up in this direction that even if one tells them the truth, they instead become his enemies and join forces to protect the very system that keeps destroying them.
138) So that the leadership could take undue advantage of masses they use make beliefs saying, the land and its resources are restricted by Allah and none has the right to use and benefit from them unless we allow it. As to prosperity, they place obstacles in way of acquiring it and that is how they do not let glory of Allah become manifest thereby and that is how they attribute lies to Him about progress and prosperity of mankind. Soon He will call them to account for their interventions and lies against Him in form of their make belief based course of actions .
139) They also claim, whatever is yet not discovered of the useful things in the world is only for us the dominant elite and it is forbidden for our masses but if it is of no value to our ruling elite then all the rest can share it. Soon He will make them face the consequences for their attribution of such lies. Surely He is wise and He makes His wisdom manifest for all to see.
140) Losers indeed are those dominant people who foolishly destroy their own future generations under their care without realising the nature of loss by restricting their participation in that which Allah has provided for them by falsely attributing prohibitions for them about use of things to Allah. Certainly they have gone off the set path that is why they are not the ones who should be followed as leaders to establish the proper goal.
These verses should leave one in no doubt what leadership qualities are expected by the Quran in people who wish to lead their communities or nations. Rivalry based mentality is condemned whereby dominant people take undue advantage of their own people at large for personal gains at the expense of community life. This way people try to groom their own children but push down others and their children and they do not realise that when it comes to rivalries then if their own community is not strong enough then it will lose out to other communities who are better as communities. Not only that but by letting such vast number of people, go to waste as a resource is unforgiveable in itself. Leadership is all about being aware of one’s community and knowing its need and then organising it in a way that all people and resources are managed to the best of one’s ability. Masses also need to become educated enough to see where they are going and whether they are being led by right kind of people or the wrong kind. In other words leadership must be kept in check by masses and masses must be kept in check by the leadership and that is how each should ensure the other is going the right way or the end result will be harm or even destruction of the whole community.
141) Behold, they have no right to claim ownership of things because it is Allah alone Who has created all kinds of plants, trellised and untrellised, the palm trees, the field crops with produce of different kinds, the olives and pomegranates, each similar in kind yet different in taste. So eat of their fruit in their season and give away to others as gifts to enjoy on the harvest day and do not transgress against each other, surely He supports not those who rebel against His set limits.
Here it is made clear that none is owner of anything other than Allah but people are free to use anything they have been provided to benefit from as a community as advised by Allah. So proper use of things as is decided by the community in light of divine guidance is fine and any abuse is not allowed but if carried out will soon lead community to terrible consequences.
142) Of the abundance of His gifts some are buried in the earth and others are on surface. Use all of you all that Allah has provided for your benefit but follow not ways of opponent of rule of Allah. Surely any such person who opposes beneficial rule of Allah for mankind is your open enemy O mankind.
143) As for beneficial alliances- between any two communities and between any two administrations- say, has He restricted alliances between any two administrations or between any two communities or any arrangement beside these two? Say, give me a knowledge based explanation if you are really a sincere people.
This verse tells mankind to educate each other and work together to become a valuable species ie a people worthy of name. No doubt human beings are created valuable due to being given brain and senses but if these are not put to proper use then a human being remains worse than other animals. This verse also tells us that organisation and organised behaviour is fundamental for development of human community due to involvement of discipline but it has to be based upon a value system fit for the purpose. This is why divine revelation has to be at its foundation. People could otherwise organise for criminal behaviour. Just organisation and discipline is not guaranty of proper purpose or terms and conditions. This is why proper goal and guidelines are necessary as foundation for any organisation that works for betterment of humanity so that there comes about a proper organisation that is fit for serving its purpose within given guidelines.
144) Also between any two leaders or groups and between any two personalities or parties- say, has He restricted alliances between any two leaders or between any two parties or any arrangement beside these two? Have you put forth a good example for mankind if Allah has given you any commandments? If not then who can be more harmful and destructive than the one who forges a lie against Allah so that he could mislead mankind by telling them things without having any proof about them? Surely Allah does not guide those who transgress against His rule.
145) Let them know clearly, I do not find in what has been revealed to me anything forbidden regarding partaking save participation in activities that lead to dead end and bloodshed and scheming for personal gain and profiteering at the expense of community for such activities are senseless and create unnecessary hardship for community and are harmful and destructive which reflect rule of other than Allah. Even so if anyone is forced into a helpless situation intending neither wilful inconsistency with program, constitution and law of Allah nor transgression against it then you the mankind will find your Creator and Sustainer protecting you through blissful revelation.
The two ways of life are clearly laid out and it is up to people to follow what benefits mankind and not follow what harms mankind. However if situation presents itself where a person is trapped between the two then so long as one has no harmful intention one can take necessary steps for survival. It is because when life is made difficult by harmful elements in society then laws become suspended and people are allowed level playing field till one side wins and other is defeated completely and deen of Allah prevails and mankind is on safe ground. These verses expose religion and state separation as mechanisms for use and abuse of masses by dominant elite through control of land and resources, means of production and distribution.
In these verses the idea that harmful and destructive divisions in human community are based upon divine advice is completely and forcefully rejected and the idea of unity based on beneficial basis is fully endorsed. Allah does not forbid classification or categorisation of people for organisation and management purposes. The foundation of all this has to be proper management of people and resources for the benefit of mankind as a whole. Just as parents are held responsible for proper upbringing of their own children so community as a whole is responsible for proper upbringing of all children of community and looking after of all elderly folk. The whole community has to lookafter all its members properly. This means children must be educated, adults must be in work and likewise all individuals in society must be given a proper role to fulfil including elders so that there really is a community worth the name.
This Surah is all about people and resources and how they are to be organised and used so that human community is peaceful, progressive and prosperous. This is why the idea of some people dominating others and using and abusing them for personal gains is rejected. The reason it is rejected is because it holds mankind back from peace, progress and prosperity due to rivalries that lead to animosities and hatred due to jealousy and envy. In all this people waste a lot of their time and energy in trying to destroy what opposing side builds so they have less time and energy left to invest in doing what they ought to be doing. In divine program motivation comes from revelation rather than material based personal gains. If people were properly educated about divine revelation as a divine program for mankind then that could work wonders for mankind because it will benefit all people materially. Concept of divine revelation without any material benefits is religion that is why priests invented dogmas or creeds like beliefs in angels, demons, predestination etc etc. This is clearly a recipe for dominant people using masses in the name of God to get what they wanted, which led to use and abuse and undue exploitation of masses and slavery and profiteering based businesses, hoarding of things and usury based banking etc etc.
146) As for those who claim to be Jews We let them carry on with their self imposed restrictions because of which they failed to prosper. Due to taking on make beliefs and ignoring material progress they failed to live a beneficial life save those who lived up to their responsibility or those who remained loosely connected with sense of community or those who remained stuck to community structure. That was the consequence of their deliberate transgression against Our rule and surely Our constitution is consistent with its set out purpose.
In all these verses the argument is straight forward regarding two parties ie the party that basis itself upon rule of Allah and the party that opposes rule of Allah. People are told to follow rule of law as told by Allah but many decide to follow their own make beliefs in direct opposition to what Allah dictated. It is not only those who clearly oppose divine rule of law but also those who claim to follow it yet end up with their make beliefs and then they claim that this is what Allah has sent. That is how they end up turning deen=constitution into mazhab=dogmatic creed or religion as personal blind faith and thereby end up divided into sects and useless ritualism. Jews did the same ie they invented laws in the name of Allah so they ended up forbidding many things that Allah had not forbidden at all and they ended up imposing things that Allah did not impose thereby they ended up disagreeing with each other about things and over time ended up into sects and infighting. Here Allah says that when people do that they suffer the consequences and so did the Jews and so do the Muslims who have invented many make beliefs like Jews and that is how they too have become divided into sect after taking Islam as a Mazhab instead of Deen.
147) Yet if they oppose you then say to them, your Sustainer is provider of blissful revealed program but His foretold scourge cannot be averted from people who are committed to crimes against His program and humanity.
148) Those who take for rulers other than Allah say, if Allah wanted neither we nor our forefathers would have been those who live by rule of other than Allah or could have declared anything unlawful. That is how their ancestors rejected the truth until they suffered the consequences they were warned against. Say, do you have any evidence for this claim of yours that you can put before us? The fact is, you follow nothing but make beliefs and you follow nothing but lies which is obvious from the outcome of your mindsets which lead you to such attitudes against each other which in turn leads you to such behaviours against each other.
149) Say, the argument of Allah is conclusive that if it had been His plan to enforce His will then He could indeed have guided you all by taking away your freedom of choice.
The rejecters of truth always bring the argument that if Allah wanted us to be this or that or he wanted us do this or that then he could have created us that way. It is because Allah has created us the way we live and act so we are doing God’s will. This is nothing more than self deception. The Quran explains that God has set up a system and laws throughout universe to work in a certain way but within that Allah has created a creature called man with ability of choice. Therefore no doubt the natural world processes and mechanisms work the natural way but things people do by choice are the ones that are questioned. A human being has a choice to act one way or the other and the outcome rests on that and that is what mankind is held accountable for. So to claim man has no choice is absurd and a false excuse.
150) Say, bring forth your divine testimony to prove that Allah has restricted your participation in human community in ways you claim. They cannot, yet if they manifest themselves as false example for others then you should not be such an example along with them nor should you follow harmful and destructive make beliefs of those who deny people Our set out rights for them such as do not commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind for the better end goal because they setup themselves as rulers in opposition to their Creator and Sustainer.
151) Say, come I will tell you what your Creator and Sustainer has forbidden for you to do; that you should not assign right of rule to anyone other than Allah, that you should be kind to people under your care both old and young, that you should not compete as rivals in order to destroy people under your care through lack of provision because it is We Who have provided sustenance for you the community managers and the managed community, that you should not commit against each other in public or in private acts that bring harm and destruction upon community, that you should not take any life forbidden by Allah except according to set out laws for set out purposes. These are the things which He has instructed for you so that you may learn to be wise.
152) Say also, as a community you must never approach rights to living necessities of any of your dependent individuals except for benefit and improvement unless one has attained it unlawfully using force. In that case fulfil the measure for just. There should be not be placed any burden of responsibilities upon anyone beyond one’s capacity. So whenever you are called upon to deliver the verdict, be fair even if it is against your own supporting people and that is how you should fulfil your covenant with Allah. These are the things which He has enjoined upon you so that you are consistent with program, constitution and law of Allah for the benefit of humanity.
153) Say, this is my way of life the one firmly founded therefore follow it and follow not any other ways because they will lead you away from His program, constitution and law and set you against each other thereby destroy you. This is what He has advised for you so that you may protect yourselves against harm and destruction and live in peace and harmony.
154) That is the reason We gave Moses the book to complete Our favour on those who would do things to benefit each other as a community, it contained detail of all things necessary for the set out purpose and was a guide and a blissful program so that they commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of humanity in the hope of meeting the set out standard of their Creator and Sustainer.
155) Likewise We have sent this book for blessing mankind with peace, progress and prosperity therefore follow it sincerely and conscientiously so that you may become fully wrapped up in compassion to help each other towards prosperity.
156) We have revealed this book in case you say, the divine scripture was revealed only to communities before us but we were ignored so we never knew what they learned and did,
157) or in case you say that if the book had been revealed to us then we would have followed its guidance better than them, so a verifiable proof has come to you from your Creator and Sustainer as a guidance for prosperity. Who then is more harmful and destructive than the one who denies others access to rights as set by Allah and turns away from set out obligations and responsibilities towards community instead of meeting them? Very soon those who turn away from Our goal and guidelines will face dreadful consequences for their aversion to Our guidance for humanity.
158) So are they still waiting for the missionaries of your Creator and Sustainer to come to them and deliver to them His message or are they waiting for some of the warnings of your Creator and Sustainer to come to pass for them? On the day when consequences of some of their actions from your Creator and Sustainer take hold of them no people will be able to benefit thereafter for committing to working for peace, progress and prosperity of humanity who were not already committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind or any community that did not support its commitment to peace with beneficial works for each other. Say to them, wait if you must to see the results of your actions, we too are waiting.
159) Surely those who change the goal and guidelines of Allah into make beliefs and useless rituals thereby divide into sects, you should not do anything like them instead their case should be judged according to program, constitution and law of Allah that is how He will make it evident to them what they are supposed to be doing.
160) The fact is any people who do things to benefit community will end up with an exemplary beneficial community but any people who inflict harm and destruction on each other, for them there cannot be anything other than a fractured community even if no harm is inflicted upon them from outside.
161) Say O messenger, as for me surely my Creator and Sustainer has guided me to the path that is firmly founded, the ever solid way of life for mankind, the path of Abraham the one upright and he was not of those who lived by rule of other than Allah.
162) Say, my effort and sacrifices for installing divine rule and my success and failure all depend entirely on universal system and laws of Allah the Creator and Sustainer of all the nations in the world.
163) He has no partner or rival in His sovereignty thus I am told and I am committed to His program, constitution and law to the utmost degree.
164) Say, why should I seek a Creator and Sustainer other than Allah when He alone is the Creator and Sustainer of all things? Each human populace is liable to face consequences for what it does because no bearer of burden of responsibilities bears the burden of consequences for responsibilities of another. That is why you all should turn to guidance of your Creator and Sustainer so that He informs you what you all ought to be doing regarding matters that lead you to divisions.
165) He is the One Who has made you the mankind inheritors of this world and availed you opportunities that some of you through personal struggle may rise degrees above others in benefiting each other as a community. Surely your Creator and Sustainer is swift in making people face the results of their actions because He is protector of mankind by way of His revealed program that is full of blessings for mankind.
This Surah leaves one in no doubt what Islam means in Quranic context. It is a program for mankind to succeed by mean of a constitution and guidelines for laws for peace, progress and prosperity of humanity itself. The idea is that if humanity succeeds and prospers and learns sense then one day it will reflect glory of its creator and sustainer. Again and again it is made clear that it is responsibility of God to guide but to follow the guidance is responsibility of mankind but they have choice to do so or do as they please. Consequences however cannot be avoided by humanity for its failures though great rewards are promised for its successes. It is also made clear that divine program is fully testable and not to put it to test is also up to people themselves. If people will not follow divine advice then serious tensions between people cannot be eliminated and wars cannot be avoided. It is because unjust laws cannot be accepted by all and even just laws cannot be followed half hearted or only by some of the human population. It has to be a level playing field for all otherwise some will always have to keep others in check even if by strength of arms. It is question of all living by rule of God or all living by whatever suits them. So all human beings must make an honest choice as to what they really want out of this life. The Quran leaves us humans in no doubt about things we need to know eg our prosperity rests in knowledge, unity and hard work and destruction rests in ignorance and divisions.
Re: God, a proven fact or a mere fiction?
I am new to this forum, so I want to be careful not to step on anyone's toes. But here is my opinion:
The existence of God (or Gods) can never be proven scientifically - that is the way the world has been deliberately designed by the Creator. The reason is that if God were a proven fact and the presence of God was obvious and all humans could see that, there would be no free will for humans. They would be too afraid to do anything that they knew was against God's will or His laws (whatever they understood the laws to be). It is the very fact that the existence of God is so ambiguous that gives humans freedom to do and act as they please (within the legal framework of the country they live in). This is the way that God intends to test and teach us.
However, as Mughal1 pointed out in his first post, the main way we can be assured of God's existence and presence (though this is not scientific proof) is the testimony of a witness whom we can trust. The Quran obviously contains one such reliable and trustworthy testimony. But there are plenty of others - In 'the Autobiography of a Yogi', Yogananda talks of actually meeting Krishna and touching his feet, he also describes regular conversations with the 'Divine Mother' (his term). Ramakrishna actually threatened the Goddess that he would commit suicide if she did reveal herself and just at the moment he was about to kill himself, she appeared to him in her live form (instead of the image he was talking to). It depends on each person, which testimony he wants to believe (or none at all for an atheist), but we all are being tested by no concrete proof being made available to us ordinary people. If someday, you can attain the spiritual status of someone like Ramakrishna, you can be your own witness and provide the rest of us with your testimony.
Re: God, a proven fact or a mere fiction?
Surah 7 AL ARAAF - The Heights of Excellence
This surah is named AL-ARAAF from root AIN, RAA and FAA. Concrete meaning of this root is a raised piece of land from its surrounding land that distinguishes it from the rest of land. A distinction that helps recognise something in its own right. An introduction eg of a person or community or something that helps to know something about something etc etc.
As Surah before this made clear that prosperity is not possible without knowledge, unity and hard work this Surah is all about gaining excellence as a community. Having a program with goal and guidelines is not enough, having a constitution and law is not enough, even having organised is not enough. People must learn to become knowledgeable and unite and work hard and keep going till they reach excellence. Just being able to meet one’s needs is not enough for a community to be excellent it must do more than what it actually needs to do as is obvious by name of next surah ie AL ANFAAL. Each person has to become highly productive and efficient in order to produce much more than one needs for oneself. That is how one can reach excellence and that is why there is no place for such people in Islam who are lazy and disruptive a destructive or trouble makers. So one can see what kind of person a real Muslim has to be who could be held out as an example of excellence for others.
Proclaim! In the name of Allah, the provider of psychological, sociological and biological needs of mankind
1) Alif Laam Meem Suad.
2) This program, constitution and law is sent to you the people so that you let there remain no problem within heart of your human community because of it therefore alert mankind about it because it will ensure dignity for those who will commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of humanity.
This verse clearly state the purpose for revelation of the Quran ie living a life based on the Quran means tackling all problems humanity will ever face through learning, unity and hard work. If humanity wants to live by the Quran then it must live as a family and people should never try to rule or dominate each other in order to undermine each other instead they must come together and support each other making each and every person useful member of human community. In other words the Quran is community building program if that is what people want. If people do not want to be a good human community then alternative is also made clear and history is cited as witness repeatedly making it amply clear that humanity then cannot escape harm and destruction for as long as it does not go by the book.
3) Therefore stick with that strictly which has been sent to you by your Creator and Sustainer and do not take for a ruler other than Him yet little are you interested in that which leads you to dignity.
4) So think about it, how many of the towns have We let destroy themselves wherein each competed against others out of rivalry to undermine each other causing severe pain and suffering in their world? Our warnings reached their social institutions well in time yet they decided to play dumb and did nothing to avert destruction.
5) At length when Our law of consequences delivered them results of their actions all they could say was, we have indeed been living our lives the harmful and destructive way.
6) That is how in time We make those populations face the consequences of their own actions to whom Our message is delivered and We also question Our messengers about their missionary tasks and responses of their people to Our advice.
7) Behold! We tell their stories to you for lessons to make it absolutely obvious to you that Our law of consequences never fails to make people face results of their criminal actions against each other.
8) That is how balance is set properly for a set period of time. So any people whose works will carry weight in sight of Allah and mankind will prosper indeed.
9) However those whose harmful and destructive works against each other will tip the scale against them in sight of Allah and humanity, they will find themselves in loss because they live their lives against Our set goal and guidelines.
10) Behold! It is We Who have established you in this world and provided you with means for your existence and sustenance therein yet you hardly stick to the program that helps you attain a dignified life.
This verse tells us that dignified life is not possible for people unless they live for God set goal of peace, progress and prosperity according to his set out guidelines. The idea is that people educate themselves and each other and unite and work hard as a team to fulfil divine purpose. It all comes down to having sense of responsibilities for each other and about rights of each other and doing things properly so that responsibilities and rights are fulfilled properly. This calls for proper use of available manpower and resources. So long as people fail to educate themselves or fail to come together to work as a team and fail to actually work, nothing can be achieved. This shows very clearly that Islam is not at all about make beliefs and rituals because it is a social program for a set goal and that is recognition and acknowledgement of creator and sustainer through putting his program into action. One cannot appreciate God of the Quran without being a kind of god of creativity oneself. This is like a child is trying to make his father proud of his kid which actually reflects back on parent himself. If a parents raises a good kid the credit obviously goes to good parenting as well likewise if human creatures could make their creator proud of himself that will be true recognition of God as a creator.
11) That is what We evolved you for and therefore moulded you into shape where after We said to the tribal chiefs to accept for Adam the position of chief administrator. They all agreed save Iblees, he was not of those who agreed.
12) Allah asked Ibees, what stopped you from accepting Adam as the chief administrator when it is I that advised you to do so? He replied, I am better than him because You have raised me from quick-witted people whereas you raised him from dim-witted people.
This verse explains story of first Islamic state that was brought about under administration of Adam as its chief. Before this people lived like other animals as a species and behaved the same way but through life experience due to having right brain and senses man soon learned that things need to be done differently from rest of animal kingdom. However, man had no idea how to do that and what to base the human society on. That is when God revealed his message to man explaining things the way they are explained in the Quran for those people. The advice they were given was to take Adam as chief executive or chief of chiefs and take other similar people as administration to run the population as an organised community. After God suggested Adam for chief one of the tribal chiefs whose name was Iblees objected on the ground that he comes from the tribe that ruled people therefore he was better qualified to be chief of chiefs than Adam. God saw his this behaviour in light of his attitude and mindset and told him you are not fit to be part of administration because you look down on others instead of taking yourself as one of the people ie as member of same family. By his later troublesome behaviour he proves God right in dismissing him from the administration. In kingdom of God only those people are taken as learned who live for the good of each other and not those who show cleverness for personal gains and thereby cause all sorts of troubles between people thereby destroy community spirit in people as well as community itself. This Adam God is talking about is not the very first human being but the very first human being who showed he was a most sensible human being at the time. This is why the divine revelation was only given to people when they developed enough to be able to make use of divine guidance.
The dialogue quoted here by God is similar to the one that went on between God, Moses and Pharaoh etc on this earth by way of divine revelations and messengers at the time.
13) Allah said, get out of this mindset, attitude and behaviour it is not beneficial that you should show your dominance this way regarding this affair. Get out of this mindset, attitude and behaviour because you have exposed yourself as an unworthy person for the office of community administration by coming up with such nonsense excuse.
14) Iblees said, give me time to think this affair through till the day people will take on their administrative duties.
15) Allah said, the respite you request is henceforth granted.
16) Iblees then said to Allah, since You have declared my way of thinking and doing things wrong therefore cost me loss of my entitlement to position of chief administrator due to these like people, I will from now on lie in wait for them looking for an opportunity to lead them away from Your set out goal and guidelines for them.
17) Therefore I will attack them head on and will stab them in the back from behind them and I will deceive them from their right and from their left so You will not find most of them becoming people worth the name.
What this verse means is that Iblees decided to do all he could to cause disruption in divine set order for people by conspiring for harm and destruction of humanity. By declaring his such intentions for his own fellow human beings he exposed himself very badly as to what is really in his mind for the human community. This shows how important it is for people to learn to choose their leaders and administrators for running affairs of their communities if they wish to live in peace and make progress and be prosperous. Only such people are to be chosen who live for others and are strongly founded on concept of community and are able to motivate and use people and resources to achieve end goal of better community. People who devise ideas to divide communities and to dominate others are force for harm and destruction therefore such people must be avoided and kept in check so that they do not succeed in their harmful and destructive designs.
18) Allah said, if this is what you intend to do to your fellow human beings then it is better that you are not part of this administration and community because you have brought this disgrace upon yourself so remain disgraced and excluded if that is your choice. If any of them will also choose to follow your way of doing things then I will certainly let all such people from among you the mankind turn this place into a hell hole by their own making.
This verse leaves none in doubt that Allah is not interested in forcing people to live his way rather it is peoples’ own choice to follow divine advice or ignore it and do their own things and face the consequences. It also makes clear that people are free to settle their scores. This was necessary because without right to self defence world could not be kept in check. If society does not deal with criminal elements in society properly then society cannot live in peace to make progress to be prosperous. Antisocial mindset, attitude and behaviour therefore cannot and should not be tolerated or it is good bye to community spirit and after that rivalry, animosity, hatred and destruction is inevitable.
19) Thereafter Allah said to Adam, O Adam! Dwell you and your community in the blissful kingdom and participate therein as you desire but take no step against the goal and guidelines as terms and conditions of this program, constitution and law because you will become of those who do things that are harmful and destructive for you the human community.
Adam is given the program for setting up a divine kingdom and maintaining it along with his people and is told never to go against it because you will end up making your life hell as a human community. Here the Quran is talking about tree of life because program given to mankind by God is guaranty of human survival with dignity ie it is a life giving program. When people understand this program properly only then it motivates humanity properly in the right direction. Failing that mankind simply fall into painful suffering by doing things the way they were told not to do. It is made very clear indeed how important having proper understanding of life is because without it people can never build a proper human community. This places divine revelation into a category of its own. Without this knowledge humanity can never find the right way to live no matter how much people learn from the real world research and exploration that will always confirm the truth as told in the program, constitution and guidelines for laws by Allah. This verse also shows that the Quran is not the first book of revelation from God rather the very first human community that became aware of universal realities was given the book that suited their time and place. This means Islam is not a new way of life but the original way of life whereby lived wise people right from the start. Of course, people have been making mistakes and learning from their mistakes so God has been sending messengers and books to keep them informed about his program for them. The Quran is only fit for this era that is why it was sent for this period of time. Whether people try and understand the Quran properly or ignore it or misuse and abuse it for personal gains is up to themselves. The phrase do not go near the tree means do not step over the set mark or trample divine law under your feet or go beyond set limit or go overboard etc etc. Another way of saying stay within your limits.
20) However in due course iblees spread some rumours about the administration and the community both in order to bring about the situation and circumstances from which they were protected by Our guidance by saying to them things like, your Creator and Sustainer has forbidden you from going against His program, constitution and law only in case you become like kings or reign the kingdom for a life time.
This verse tells people that administration they choose for running the community affairs has to be terms and conditions bound for the set goal and never on permanent basis. If administration proves to be good and thinks that it can deliver then due to their track record they could be reinstated at the end of their term if community also finds them able to deliver in future otherwise it is duty of community to change people in administration as they see fit in light of future tasks, guidance and performance ability. In case of divine messengers, they leave administration if they are part of it when they see they are getting old and cannot perform. It is then up to community to find alternatives from among the ordinary people once heavenly appointed messengership came to an end. It is not necessary that a divine messenger has to be the chief administrator rather he could have an advisory role instead. One must also remember that words like NABI and RASOOL are not used in the Quran only for actual divine prophets and messengers, they have been used for other ordinary people as well. The same is true about use of word WAHEE which means revelation or inspiration or motivation etc. This word is not used always for divine messengers either. It is context of verses that gives rise to proper sense of these words in places where they are used.
Word WASWASA is from root WOW, SEEN, WOW and SEEN. Concrete meaning if this root is noise or disturbance that is caused in order to cause problems. In the Quranic context it means people who oppose divine rule in the divine kingdom put their ideas in minds of people who follow divine program in order to knock them off course by making fool of them. They conspire to confuse people so that they lose the proper sense of direction or course of actions. This is why people who conspire others to derail them are called Satans or harmful and destructive people and that is why people read TAOOZ verse before recitation of the Quran in order to remind themselves that they should not be reading the Quran for wrong reasons instead they should read the Quran to understand its program properly so that if it is good they work for its implementation and bring about a good human community.
21) That is how he conspired through individuals in the administration and in the community both in order to persuade them by telling them, I am your sincere adviser.
22) That is how he cunningly convinced them to go against Our program, constitution and law but when they broke the set limits and experienced the life of lawlessness the results of their destructive actions against each other became obvious to them so they began to stitch together for themselves the pages of the program, constitution and law to recreate for themselves the lost blissful kingdom. Thereupon their Lord called on them saying, did I not stop you from going against My program, constitution and law and did I not alert you that Iblees is your open enemy so be on your guard?
It should be noted here that it is not Adam who went against divine writ but his people in the administration as well as in the community. No divine messenger was ever misled by any Satan whatsoever. The chosen people of God were chosen only because they were cleverest of all in their times so it was not possible for others to con them or trick them. Even an ordinary true servant of God is a very alert person, so alert that he does not con others and cannot be conned by others. Even in this case it were only odd people who were misled by Iblees and not all people. The idea of bringing about the divine kingdom was inspired because unruly people were causing problems already and wise people of the time thought there should be a better way of living than the way they were living. However after they were inspired with a better way of living some of them still fell short of what was required of them. That is how some people have been building kingdoms on the basis of divine revelation and others have been bringing them down. A struggle between builders and destroyers still continues and only God could be sure enough where all this is going to end.
23) Both the parties responded, our Creator and Sustainer! We have harmed ourselves. If You do not deliver us through blissful revealed program for us then we will certainly be of the losers.
24) Allah said, get out of this terrible state of mindset, attitude and behaviour against each other that lands you in this state of existence, whereby some of you become enemies of others whereas in this world there is sufficient sustenance and provision for all of you for a set time.
25) Therein you may rise as a good human community and therein you may fall as a bad example of human community but that is how by means of that struggle you may be brought out of this state of affairs back into blissful state of existence.
These verses clearly tell mankind that they are on their own when it comes to working for a better or for a worse world for themselves. The part of Allah is only to provide people with all they will ever need including guidance and the rest is up to mankind themselves to come together as a team and get on with the set out task or carry on fighting with each other for as long as they want. No prophet or saint or any other person on his own can change the human world for the better because world depends on all it has in it and particularly on its human participants. This is what real missionary work is all about that people understand the divine message and help each other do the same and end their rivalries and animosities and hatred and fights based on trying to undermine and control each other.
26) O children of Adam! We surely have revealed for you the protective covering Our program, constitution and law so that you cover yourselves well against all harmful and destructive sources for your peace, progress and prosperity. That is why the best protection against harm and destruction is consistency with program, constitution and law of Allah for the benefit of humanity. This Quran is indeed one of the revelations of Allah so that people make it known to each other for their own benefit.
27) O children of Adam! Let not the opponent of rule of Allah succeed in causing fights among you the same way as Iblees seduced your ancestors out of great life in the blissful kingdom by stripping them of their protection in form of divine law thereby exposing them to mutually harmful and destructive conduct. The opponent of rule of Allah and his supporters attack you from such an angle that you do not realise how they are going to harm or destroy you. However it is We that gave the opponents of Our rule the freedom of choice to be supporters of those who do not commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
28) They stick to each other so much that even when they inflict any harm or destruction themselves upon each other they say, we found our forefathers doing this and Allah Himself has commanded us to do so. Say, No way! Allah never commands mankind to do what is harmful and destructive for mankind. Do you attribute to Allah something for which you have no proof whatsoever?
In verses like this the Quran challenges religions and state running systems and priests and rulers and moneylenders who invented and promoted them for their own agendas. The agenda is personal gain at the expense of human community. These people are seekers of dominance over fellow human beings just like Iblees. This is why they use whatever advantage they have over others against them to undermine them and use and abuse them. The problem also rests with those who remain ignorant and do not rise top challenge these people pose for them. A bully is a bully only till he mets his match and after that it is all downhill for him. The same is true about these people who think they have power over others and that they cannot be moved. If masses stood up against these people, they will be history and that is what the Quran tells us repeatedly by telling us stories about past bullies and how the met their ends when push came to shove. Here Allah is making it absolutely clear that people who do wrong things to each other in the name of God are liars.
29) Make it absolutely clear to them that my Creator and Sustainer only and only commands for establishing fairness and justice and that you establish yourselves firmly in every such institution relying upon His laws sincerely for His judgement on all matters of human concern. So that you could return to the original state of blissful existence just as He evolved you originally.
30) That is how one group of mankind ended up being guided the while for the other group His forecast proved true that they will fall in error and remain therein because they chose the opponents of the rule of Allah as their leaders to guide them instead of guidance of Allah, yet they think of themselves that they are guided properly.
31) O Children of Adam! Keep your grip on what gives you blissful life in every constitutional institution by taking part through learning the revealed information so that you do not transgress the constitution of Allah, surely He supports not any people who go beyond His set limits.
32) Say, who has dared to declare unlawful in the name of Allah for any of the people the right to having blissful things which Allah brought forth for His servants as a provision for their benefit? Say, they are for those who commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind as livelihood for life as it is at present but especially for them for the time when rule of Allah will become fully established. That is how We make Our revelations clear for people who make effort to understand them.
33) Say, my Creator and Sustainer has forbidden harmful and destructive participation only- by some against the others that ends up covering the whole community in gloom regardless the act is carried out in public or in private -and rebellion against state without any justification as well as ascribing sovereignty of this universe to any other than Allah for which He has granted no proof and saying things about Allah for which one has no proof.
34) For each nation there is a fixed term governed by setup universal system and laws and that is why the end of their term can neither be delayed for a moment nor can it be brought about earlier.
Verses like this one, explain how universe is set up to work so that people become aware of it and do things accordingly to get the results they wish to get. Make beliefs and ritualism will not render results that people desire rather they must work for what they need or want. If you do not work for what you want then you do not get it. Also you get what you work for and not something else, that is why if you sow wheat you do not end up reaping barley.
35) So O children of Adam! Whenever there come to you messengers from among you proclaiming to you My revelations those who will become consistent with them by changing their rule according to it will have nothing to worry about or to regret
36) but those who instead will deny access to Our revelations to others using their positions of influence out of arrogance will end up consumed by fire of hatred among themselves and they will stay in that state unless they repent and reform.
The Quran keeps repeating that it is some people from among mankind themselves who misinterpret and misrepresent divine message for personal gains at the expense of human community. Is it then any problem to identify such people who they are? Of course not , because people who seek dominance over others to enslave them in different way for their own ends are obvious to everyone who has a bit of awareness of what is going on in the world. These people are not hidden from public view rather they are flashy people who laugh at rest of human community by not being targeted by it for their uses and abuses of it. This is why these people are called satans because they play with human emotions every way they can. This is why masses must educate each other out of this situation and bring change to their world for tyhe better. Dominant people try their best to deny everything to masses from education to dignified life or even death. By denying people access to divine program they deny them their rights by keeping them ignorant about their God given rights.
37) Who can be more harmful and destructive than the one who invents lies against Allah or denies others access to His goal and guidelines thereby denies rights to others as set out in His program, constitution and law for mankind? To such people reaches whatever is decreed for them as law of consequences in their divine revelations. So much so that when installers and administrators of Our rule arrive to take hold of them saying, where are those rulers upon whom you relied against the rule of Allah? They say, they have forsaken us and they bear evidence against themselves that they were indeed opposers of Our rule.
38) The installers of Our rule say to the opponents of Our rule, if that is your choice then stay in the state like harmful and destructive people who passed away before you of the ruling elite and of the masses who lived in pure hatred for each other. Any community that entered painful suffering itself influenced its sister community to same fate as well. That is how they carry on till all of them gather therein together and the later of them expresses its rage for the one before it saying, our Creator and Sustainer! These have led us astray therefore double their painful suffering. He says, it is double for all of you who deserve it because you are a people who decided to remain ignorant of Our set out goal and guidelines and did what you were warned against.
39) That is why each predecessor community says to its successor, you have not done any better than us so you too taste the consequences for your own harmful and destructive actions.
In our world people see what their earlier and later generations are doing because many a time there are five generations of people present in the world all at the same time. It is therefore possible for them to be critical of each other. Children can see what wrongs their parents’ and grandparents’ generations did and parents can also see what wrongs the generations of their children and grandchildren are doing and where all of them are ending up. Just as bad parents curse their children for their harmful and destructive actions so the bad children also curse their parents for not bringing them up sensibly and so the story goes. The only way to end this cycle of hatred is to change mindset, attitude and behaviour of human generations through study of real world realities in light of divine message and vice versa.
40) Surely those who deny others access to Our revelations using their positions of influence out of arrogance, ways to understanding Our message do not open for them so their entrance into blissful life in this world is as unlikely as the passing of a thick rope through the eye of a needle. That is how We make those who commit crimes against mankind face the results of their own actions.
Here it is made very clear that so long as some people will deny access to information to others the world will not become a great place because so many people will not be able to participate in it to make it a better place. It is because a lot of manpower will be wasted doing things this way. If two people will keep fighting each other for dominance than when will they have time to do what they really need to do to make progress and be prosperous? So finding way to peace is absolutely essential for mankind to begin with so that humanity could unite and put in place other useful programs that help it progress and prosper, so one can see where the Quran wants to lead mankind.
41) Painful suffering is their goal from the start to the finish that envelops them. That is how We make those who do things against Our program, constitution and law face the results of their actions.
If people were not made to face the results of their own actions then mankind could not have learned anything to change things for the better because then they will have no reason to motivate them or in other words main motivation for change come from fear of what is going to happen if things are not changed ie people will get what they do not want or they will not get what they long for. It is because people make mistakes and see the results of their actions that help them do better next time.
42) As for those who commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind and act to remove rifts from between people to unite them in peace for progress and prosperity of mankind We never burden any such community with responsibilities more than it can fulfil, so those who do, they become people worthy of blissful life wherein they can abide for whole of their lives if they keep up with the given program.
43) That is how We remove whatever ills they have in their minds against one another. Rivers of love, respect and livelihood flow between them because they express through their character and conduct that sovereignty belongs to Allah alone Who provided us with guidance to all this, because we could never have achieved all this had Allah not guided us. The messengers of our Creator and Sustainer surely came to us with the set purpose. That is how they will hear some people saying to others, this is blissful kingdom which you have inherited because of your own hard works.
44) The people of blissful kingdom will call out to the dwellers on painful life saying, we have indeed found the promises of our Creator and Sustainer fulfilled, have you too found the promise of your Creator and Sustainer fulfilled? Yes, they will answer and a crier will reply, the universal system and laws set by Allah to govern the universe will always prove true against those who transgress against His program, constitution and law for the good of mankind.
45) Such as turn others away from the way of Allah by turning it in to make beliefs and ritualism. That is how they remain a worthless people to the end.
46) Therefore between the two there is a clear characteristic distinction. It is because at the heights of excellence in terms of knowledge, character and conduct are to be administrators who are able to recognize all the people capable of working for blissful life by their characters and features. They are to welcome those who will work for blissful life saying, achieving peace through progress and prosperity depends upon you! They will not have attained peace yet though they will have the true commitment to it to hope to do so.
This verse is telling mankind a very important things that people with knowledge are the people who should be listen to when decisions are made for community affairs. It is because these people can recognise useful people in the community who should be put in place for running the community affairs of that community so that it could be led to successful life. These people are wise because they look at things and people in light of real world realities for the benefit of human community. They know which people are harmful and destructive for community life, so they will always advise community to keep them in check and out of community affairs just like Iblees was kept in check and out of community affairs.
47) It is because when their eyes based on wisdom through life experience will turn towards the people who work for making lives hell for themselves and others they will say, our Creator and Sustainer! Do not make us a part of these people who rebel and transgress against Your guidance and humanity.
48) That is how people at the heights of excellence will call out to certain people whom they will recognize by their features saying, have you found out that neither your exploitation of each other through wealth, power and indoctrination nor through your positions of influence over people have availed you?
49) Are the people who have achieved blissful life for themselves not the very same people about whom you used to swear that Allah will never bestow His blessings upon them in form of peace, progress and prosperity? So enter you too the blissful life so that you too have nothing to worry about or to regret.
50) That is why the people working towards painful suffering and destruction will call out to those working towards peace, progress and prosperity of mankind, give us some water of heavenly knowledge or some food for thought that Allah has provided you with so that we too could get out of our misery into a blissful life. They will say, Allah has certainly let both of these slip away from the people who opposed His rule,
51) people who took their harmful ambitions and destructive desires for the rule of law just for amusement and play that is how they were deceived by themselves about the goal of life in this world. That is why We let them fail in making progress just as they failed to see coming about of this situation in time if they continued along the path they chose for themselves. All this happens because they ignore Our revealed goals and guidelines.
52) Surely We sent them a book in which We detailed things based upon Our knowledge a guidance for blissful life for those who will commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
53) So, are these people waiting for anything other than the yet worse results of their own actions? When the time for such results of their actions comes upon any people those who have been disregarding it end up saying, surely the messengers of our Creator and Sustainer did come with a mission set out for them by Allah. Are there any interveners now who could intervene on our behalf or is there a way we could be sent back in time so that we do not do as we have done before. In fact, such people are lost in themselves and the things they invent against rule of Allah leave them in the lurch.
54) Surely your Creator and Sustainer is Allah Who evolved all the galaxies including this galaxy in six periods of time by this right He established His sovereignty over the kingdom of the universe. He causes the phenomenon of night by rotating the earth to cover the zone of the earth from the sunlight by way of rotation of the earth thus day and night follow each other by rotation and likewise He made subservient to His set up system and laws the sun and the moon and the stars. Be aware that to Him belongs the creation therefore the sovereignty of the universe to dictate system and laws for it. Blessed is Allah with such capabilities the Creator and Sustainer of all the nations in the world.
Word SITTA has two roots SEEN, TAA and TAA as well as SEEN, DAAL and SEEN. Concrete meaning of this root means six or sixth or a starting point in time as oppose to finishing time. Or a simple state of existence of something that evolves or develops with time into a complex or sophisticated existing thing.
55) So always rely upon system and laws of your Creator and Sustainer for support purposefully and sincerely but remember always that He never likes those who rebel against His goal and guidelines for mankind,
56) therefore conspire not to create rifts and wars between people in the world after rifts between mankind have been removed instead refer to and rely upon His system and laws regarding all matters that worry you or you desire. Surely the blissful program revealed by Allah will always make possible for those who seek proper balance in their world.
57) Likewise as per His set system and laws it is He Who raises the winds bearing vapour as good news of His blessings for mankind. Until they become heavy clouds which We move along to a dead land and make the rain fall upon it and bring forth all kinds of fruits and growth thereby. Likewise We raise the nations that are dead back to life through rain of heavenly revelation so that you become a people worth the name.
58) The good soil yields rich produce due to plan of Allah and barren soil yields nothing but poor produce. Thus do We explain Our revelations over and over again for those who want to become a worthy people.
These verses need to be interpreted in wider context of all kinds of developments eg biological, psychological and sociological etc etc. They have political, social, cultural and economic implications for mankind.
59) Indeed We sent Noah to his people and he said to them, O my people! Serve program, constitution and law of Allah because there is no ruler for you save Him. This I say because the way you live your lives, I fear for you the coming of time of harm and destruction upon you as a result of your own course of actions.
60) The state and religious chiefs of his nation said, surely we see that you are in manifest error.
61) He replied, O my people! I am not in error on the contrary I am a messenger from the Creator and Sustainer of the nations of the world.
62) I am appointed to deliver the message of my Creator and Sustainer to give you a friendly advice for I am made aware by Allah about something that you do not know.
63) Do you wonder that there has come to you a message from your Creator and Sustainer through a man from among yourselves to forewarn you so that you become consistent with rule of Allah for the benefit of human community by receiving His blissful revealed program, constitution and law and acting upon it?
64) But they denied all that he told them so We saved him and all who were with him in the same boat and let the rest destroy themselves who refused to live by Our goal and guidelines. Surely they were a crowd of dumb and blind people.
65) For the people of Aad We sent their brother Hud who said to them, O my people! Establish the rule of Allah because you have no ruler other than Him. Will you then not be consistent with Him as well as each other for your own benefit?
66) The political and religious chiefs of his nation who opposed his message said, we can see that you are crazy and we think that you are lying.
67) He replied, O my people, I am not crazy on the contrary I am a messenger from the Creator and Sustainer of all the nations in the world.
68) I am conveying the message of my Creator and Sustainer to you and I am a honest and sincere adviser for you.
69) Do you wonder that a reminder from your Creator and Sustainer has come to you through one of your own men to forewarn you? Remember that He made you successors after the people of Noah and gave you a tall stature or better status compared to other people till you remained on His path. Therefore reflect on the goal and guidelines that you have received from Allah, so that you may progress and prosper again as you once did.
70) They replied, have you come to us with the demand that we abide by rule of Allah alone and give up those rulers whom our forefathers have been serving? Well, bring us what you are threatening us with if what you say is true!
71) Hud said, you have already fallen in pain and suffering by going against the rule of your Creator and Sustainer. Are you disputing with me over personalities which you and your forefathers have erected and taken as rulers for which Allah has revealed no authority? If so then wait for yet more serious consequences for your course of actions I too will wait along with you.
72) At length We saved him and his companions through their actions according to Our set goal and guidelines and We let cut off the roots of those who opposed Our revelations themselves and denied others their rights and access to Our revelations because they did not commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
In all these past stories the same idea is repeated that if people will live by rule of Allah then end results of their actions will benefit them ie they will have peace, progress and prosperity as a community but if they refuse and do as they like then results of their actions will only and only land them into hell hole of their own making. They will remain in that state till they repent and reform or die away. These verses challenge mankind to prove otherwise if they can. The truth is it is not possible for any nation to avoid consequences of its own actions. Allah never destroys any nation is also clear from these verses. If anything he warns people well in time not to be stupid and use your heads and senses properly and don’t act like animals dumb and blind thinking we are too clever we cannot be victims of our own actions.
People need to realise from these verses that these people are moistly descendents of past generation that were already guided but after some generations they became derailed from the right path and were sent messengers to put them back on same track that they followed but thye became so ignorant and stupid that they saw no sense in what they were told by their messengers. So it is always necessary to take interest in learning and teaching things which matter for mankind as a community. People must always learn how to build themselves into nations that are beneficial for mankind as a whole. Once people become ignorant about nation building the humanity becomes lost. This is a good standard to measure knowledgeable people in communities.
73) For the people of Thamud We sent their brother Saaleh who said to them, O my people! Establish the rule of Allah because you have no ruler other than Him. Now a clear proof has come to you from your Creator and Sustainer, here is a program for your recovery from Allah in form of his revelation to be as you once were when you used to follow His guidance, so let it rule freely in the land of Allah and approach it not with wrong intentions to use and abuse each other in case you end up in agony by inflicting harm and destruction upon each other.
Word NAAQAH is from root NOON, WOW and QAAF. Concrete meaning of this root is something that is cable of carrying burden or something that can provide some solid foundation for something. This is why this root has meaning of beast of burden or she-camel or something elegant, something that is pleasant to look at, something that makes something amiable or dainty, a way of requital or repayment or compensation etc etc.
Divine revelation is capable of providing mankind solid foundation for basing their way of life upon hence it is called NAAQAH because it is a program, a constitution and a law all in one.
74) Remember how you were made the heirs of Aad and settled in the land capable of building mansions in the valleys and carving out homes in the mountains. Therefore strive hard to spread the message of Allah instead of spreading wars in the land by working against each other.
75) The political and religious leaders who thought they were a big people from his nation asked the oppressed masses among them who had committed themselves to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind; do you know if Saleh has really been sent as a messenger by his Creator and Sustainer? They replied, we truly are committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind on the basis of guidance with which he has been sent.
76) The people in position of power and influence among them said, we reject and oppose all that on basis of which you have committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
77) That is how they blocked the way to implementation of rule of Allah and defied the sovereignty of their Creator and Sustainer and challenged Saaleh saying, bring the destruction you have warned us about if you truly are of the messengers.
This is repeated in the Quran that each time a people were told to behave properly with each other as a good human community, the dominant people in a community always opposed the idea of community spirit, they always went for ruling others to use and abuse them at will. This worked for each nation for a time but then as corruption, use and abuse spread widely the communities ended up destroyed by hand of each other. Not only that but as a community became weak through internal strives the outsiders found it easier target and enslaved it as well. So people who do not live by community spirit soon become victims of their own ways of life because their own masses rise up against them and so people who think they are immoveable are over thrown in no time.
78) At length the uprising took them by surprise thus new era dawned in their institutions under their jurisdiction uprooting their rule.
79) That is why at length Saaleh moved away from them saying, O my people! I did indeed convey to you the message of my Creator and Sustainer and gave you a good advice but you love not those who give you advice that is beneficial for a people as a whole.
80) Moreover We sent Lot who said to his people at the time, why do you live by rule of other than Allah whereby you commit such excesses that no community in this land has taken the lead in this direction other than you?
Word FAAHISHAH is from root FAA, HAA and SHEEN. Concrete meaning of this root is to mix two or more things in such a way that they become diluted so end up losing their originality or recognition. In the Quranic context this word has meaning of adulteration and the reason is because people who were originally put on right path by their earlier divine messenger over a period of time became distant from the right path because they fell victim to confusion that was created by their people in positions of power eg rulers, priests and moneylenders etc. Since any other way of life people live by lands them in hell of their own making due to their mistreatment of each other this is why any other way is opposite of way that is appointed by God for mankind.
People of Lot were not the first people ever to do that but they were first in the area to take the lead in that direction. The question to ponder here is, how do people lose the right way of life? It is because Islamic way of life is an open way of life for all people to enter into. Since it gives people a good life to begin with it falls victim to its own success when the world is yet living by other way of life that lead to hell of their own making. Once hell breaks lose they try to escape it looking for somewhere better to settle. That is how people move in a rush to an Islamic state and because Muslim community is only a small community compared to rest of humanity, it is quickly swamped by new entrants educating whom to bring them up the to standard is not easy. This creates a state of confusion and then others take advantage of this situation and set up themselves as rulers and then put in place priests to secure their rule and then wealth becomes a means to control people. This way originally established divine kingdom is lost and world is once more thrown back into chaos and confusion. That is how more prophets were raised to put thing right again and again. In those times to preserve divine messages was not easy either nor it was easy to spread them widely. However with time mankind progressed and things became easier bit by bit so much so that today things are very different from what they originally were. This change will continue for many generations yet to come. Human world is not as ignorant as it was once upon a time but there is still a lot that needs to be done to educate everyone throughout the world. Without everyone having education and doing all one can humanity cannot make progress full speed ahead. So long as humanity lives short of this goal, it cannot attain full prosperity therefore peace in the world. This is why the message of the Quran must be given all necessary attention. So long as humanity will commit excesses with divine message, it will remain stuck in rut and communities will keep ending in self destructions.
Only people who study universal realities and on that basis divine message can succeed in real world. Why? Because when you were born the first thing you learned was how to use your brain and then how to use your senses and then your limbs and rest of body etc. After that you learned to interact with other things in your environment. It shows very clearly that first man must learn real world realities before he can make sense of divine message. The dive message does not teach man basics that man has to learn al by himself and that is why he is give a brain that capable to self programming like self programming robot. Man does not need revelation for study of things he can find out for himself by interacting with things within the universal environment. Only things beyond his reach he can learn from divine message. This is why people who do not learn about universal realities do not understand the divine message either. First experience of humanity is use of brain and senses and learning by interaction with things through trial and error. How many times one tries to sit and falls as a baby? How many times one tries to catch things but keeps failing till one gets to a stage through a lot practice that one can catch things? Likewise when man has learned to make sense of things only then he tries his hand at making sense of divine message. Once again it is not a straight forward process. It is because God being God gave mankind his messages but man being man has to make many mistakes before man understands the divine message properly. It is because man learns to better himself each moment of the day. Just like scientists makes many mistakes in trying to understand universal realities so people who try to understand the divine message keep making mistakes because all works ever done on divine message were human works. These works were and are needed to help us one day make proper sense of divine message. So each person who has ever done any work on universal realities or on divine revelations has made contribution towards better and better understanding of them both. Each rung on ladder of human success helps extend the ladder. This is why people who put in place next rung on the ladder of success need encouragement not condemnation.
81) You are a people who use positions of political, religious and economic power to further your own harmful ambitions and destructive desires against the masses. Indeed you are a populace that has transgressed beyond set limits.
82) The influential people of his nation had no solutions for the problems he pointed out to them instead they said to their masses, drive such people out of your jurisdiction because they are a people who want to clean up your township of things they see wrong in there!
83) However We rescued him and all his people from influence of these people except his leadership and its following because this party was of those who regressed beyond rescue.
84) So We let loose upon them problems like rain due to their course of actions therefore imagine what else could be the end of such like criminals.
Each time a population perishes it is due to its own failure in steering the right course of actions that raises people to heights of dignity. When a people fail they become surrounded by problems which lead them to dead end.
85) Likewise for Madyan We sent their brother Shuaib who said, O my people! Live by the rule of Allah because there is no sovereign other than Him. There has indeed come to you a clear standard from your Creator and sustainer so fulfil your obligations to each other according to this measuring standard that is properly balanced therefore do not withhold things from the people they are rightfully due and do not cause fights and wars thereby in the land after everything has been set in order. This is for your own benefit if you are really committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
86) Therefore do not sit in ambush on every path threatening with animosity and hindering from following the program, constitution and law of Allah those who commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind thereby seeking to turn it into an unworkable make belief. Remember how He multiplied you when you were a few in numbers and think also about what was the end of the warmongers and conspirators in nations before you.
87) So if there is a group among you who commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind on the basis of that with which I have been sent with and another group who do not commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind then be steadfast each of you on your courses of actions respectively until Allah decides between us because He is unique of those who make decisions.
88) The people in positions of power in his nation said, O Shuaib! We will certainly drive you and those who have committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind along with you out of our jurisdiction or you will have to abide by rules we have in place as our tradition. He replied, What! Will you make us live by your tradition even though we detest it because it is harmful and destructive for our community?
89) We will indeed be attributing a lie to Allah if we accept to abide by your harmful and destructive tradition after Allah has rescued us from it by giving us His own program, constitution and law. It is not possible for us to return to your tradition unless it becomes based upon plan of Allah our Creator and Sustainer. Our Creator and Sustainer controls everything through wisdom not force. We surely rely upon system and laws of Allah therefore express our desire, our Creator and Sustainer! Decide between us and our nation according to whoever is consistent with your guidance, for You are unique of the decision makers.
This verse shows what is meaning of abiding by law of Allah. It is not about religious beliefs and rituals but abiding by divine rule of law. If a people do not struggle to be able to abide by rule of Allah then all their claims about being believers in God are worthless. Not only that but it also makes clear what rule of God is. It is struggling for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind through just, fair and compassionate dealing with each other as a brotherhood of humanity. No rivalry, animosity, hatred, cruelty towards each other. Unless people accept to live by this way of life it is not acceptable to God and it should not be acceptable to humanity.
90) The gang leaders who opposed Our guidance from among his people said to others, if you follow Shuaib then you will indeed be of the losers.
91) Thereafter in due course the uprising by their victims took them by surprise and the new era in their institutions under their jurisdiction overturned their ruling system.
92) Those who called Shuaib a liar were as though they never ruled therein that is how those who called Shuaib a liar ended up being the real losers.
The ruling elite, their mullahs and moneylenders think very big of themselves but when masses realise things after they become educated enough to see what is really going on with them and who is doing it then revengefulness takes its course and so nation after nation goes through revolutions after revolutions to bring change in their nations.
93) Shuaib left them saying, O my people! I did indeed convey to you the messages of my Creator and Sustainer and I did give you a beneficial advice sincerely so how can I be sorry for a party of rejecters of divine rule and warmongers against it?
94) We never sent a prophet to any township but We found its people afflicted with adversity and painful misfortunes because they worked against each other. We sent the prophets so that they learn to be humble and helpful towards each other by accepting Our guidance.
95) Then if they did, We changed their adversity into good fortune through their own hard work according to Our given plan till they became very affluent and said, our forefathers also had their adversity and affluence so it has nothing to do with guidance from Allah. So they went back to working against each other and that is how in time We found them taken by surprise by uprising because they paid no attention to what they were doing to each other as a people because they victimised each other.
96) Had the residents of the townships committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind and became consistent with Our program, constitution and law and thereby with each other then We would have showered upon them riches from the heavens and the earth but they opposed Our program instead therefore We found them seized by effects of their misdeeds.
97) Behold! Have people of any townships ever been able to protect themselves by living against Our system and laws? No, rather reached them consequences of their own actions even when they were asleep in their homes during night.
98) Or have people of any townships ever been able to protect themselves by living against Our rule? No, rather reached them results of their own actions in broad daylight while they were going about their daily business as usual.
99) So do these people of yours still think they can achieve peace, progress and prosperity without following the program, constitution and law of Allah? Not at all, the fact is no people can achieve peace, progress and prosperity by ignoring the roadmap of Allah other than those who are hell bent on their own destruction.
100) In what happened to people before is it not obvious for those who inherited the earth after its earlier occupants that We do make nations face the results of their own actions that is why We let nations before face the consequences of their own harmful and destructive actions against each other because their minds remained isolated from what We told them so they heeded not Our warnings?
101) Such like were the townships whose stories We relate to you and certainly their messengers came to them with revelations based upon evidence to guide them but they would not commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of human community on that basis because their ancestors rejected the guidance earlier so they blindly followed their behaviour. Likewise Allah finds these people who oppose His guidance mentally isolating themselves from His warnings.
102) Moreover We did not find most of them true to their claim of commitment to Our rule instead We found most of them were rebellious who did things they were told not to do.
103) Then at length after them We sent Moses with Our revelations to Pharaoh and his chiefs but they too treated Our revelations with contempt so look at what was the end of those who conspired for rifts, fights and wars in the land against Our advice.
104) Thus said Moses, O Pharaoh! I am a messenger from the Creator and Sustainer of all the nations in the world,
105) responsibility has been placed upon me that I proclaim nothing about Allah save what is His right. I have come to you with a clear message from your Creator and Sustainer and the message is that you let ideological children of Israel abide by His rule under my guidance.
106) He said, if you have come with any proposal then place it before my counsel if what you claim is worthy of consideration.
107) So he placed His program before the full court of Pharaoh for consideration and it clearly moved the counsel.
108) That is how he smoothly stripped off the cover of Pharaoh’s power to expose reality before people that it amazed even those who were present.
109) The chiefs of Pharaoh’s nation said to each other in presence of Pharaoh, this person indeed has great knowledge and skill to transform people and lead them,
110) and maybe he intends to drive you and your people out of your ideological landscape. After knowing all this Pharaoh asks his chiefs, what do you propose how should I deal with this?
111) They said, put him and his brother off for a while and send your messengers to all the cities to gather
112) and bring to you every person skilful and knowledgeable in the art of ideological debate.
113) And that is how came to Pharaoh people who knew the art of ideological debate and said, we must have some suitable reward if we prevail.
114) Yes, he answered and you will certainly become my highly ranked administrators as well.
115) Then they asked Moses, will you go first or should we be the first to go?
116) Moses said, you go first. So when they put forth their proposals and arguments they created a great impression in the eyes of the people by display of great skill in winning peoples' minds.
117) So We said to Moses, now put forth your claim and arguments to demonstrate your divine authorization. And behold! It quickly rendered the skills of the competitors' of no consequence.
118) That is how the right of Allah to rule was proven and all that they put forth against it was proven mere falsehood.
119) That is how Pharaoh and his ideological supporters were overwhelmed through reason and made to reflect upon their position
120) and so the masters of art of ideological debate were forced to accept the truth regarding rule of Allah
121) saying, we commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according to the program, constitution and law of the Creator and Sustainer of the nations of the world,
122) the Creator and Sustainer of Moses and Aaron.
123) Pharaoh said, how dare you commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind along with Moses before I give you my permission? In fact this is a plot which you all have cooked together to throw our people out of their ideological landscape and take over our kingdom but soon you will come to know the consequences for doing that.
124) I will isolate you from both sides by removing you from your positions of power in your own communities and by removing you from the communities you come from and that is how I will keep you all in my control and under my strict rule.
125) They said, we have turned towards rule of our Creator and Sustainer.
126) So you are going to stop us simply because we have committed ourselves to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according to guidelines of our Creator and Sustainer that have reached us. They said, our Creator and Sustainer! Give us courage and steadfastness in our goal thereby help us complete our mission for being a people committed to peace, progress and prosperity of humanity.
127) The political, religious and economic chiefs of Pharaoh’s nation said to him, will you leave Moses and his supporters free to cause wars of dissention and territorial secession in the land and to forsake your rule through your chiefs? He said, we will gradually without their realizing destroy the leadership of their nation by making them exploit the weak people of their own community and that way we will have unbreakable control over them.
128) Moses said to his people, help yourselves by acting on revealed program of Allah with persistent steadfastness in achieving your set out goal. The world belongs to Allah alone and He gives it in control of those of His people whom He finds capable of inheriting and maintaining it. Moreover rest assured the success is ultimately for those who are consistent with rule of Allah for the benefit of mankind.
This verse should leave one in no doubt that Allah wants people to rely on his universal system and laws ie do things on basis of cause and effect not just sit their praying to God to do things for people. This is why people who fight for their God given rights inherit the land and resources to use them for benefit of mankind and those who sit idle get nothing. This verse also explains what predestination means. It means set up system and laws for universal operation so people must understand them and do things as necessary. It does not mean what people are to do is already predetermined and fully decided but that laws of cause and effect are in place so results will follow peoples’ actions.
129) They said, we have been put through harm and destruction before you came to us as well as since you have come to us and we see no end to our troubles. He replied, it is quite possible that through ignoring His program your Creator and Sustainer may let your enemies destroy themselves and make you inherit the land instead due to following His program then see for how long you follow His program, constitution and law for the benefit of humanity.
Here the community tells their messenger that they have been suffering before he came and that remains the case even after he has come. The earlier suffering was result of people leaving divine path and going about daily life the wrong way so that had to be the ends result for them. Why there is still suffering after divine messengers have come to their people? Because it takes time for a divine messenger to educate people on basis of divine teachings to form a community before they can start campaign. Once campaign starts opposition becomes aware of things and tries all it can to keep the masses down so for a while suffering of people increases till they overcome their opposition. Once opposition is overcome, that is not the end of troubles because now a nation must be built from scratch which needs a lot more work by all people in the nation till the nation is back on its feet. After that people must keep up with it to maintain it. Any slackness and the whole thing will come tumbling down. So people who think divine messenger do things supernaturally or magically need to use their brains.
130) Due to inflicting harm and destruction upon each other We found people of Pharaoh caught in bad traditions and customs resulting in loss of their productivity therefore We gave them a program to refer to.
131) But instead whenever they had prosperity they said, It is due to our traditions and customs but whenever scarcity and hardship struck them due to their own wrong ways of conducting their affairs they ascribed that to bad luck due to Moses and those with him. Beware! The misfortunes were theirs due to set laws of Allah as consequences of their own actions yet most of them bothered not to learn even from results of their own actions.
This is an old trick by rulers that when things go wrong for their masses due to their mismanagement of people and resources they blame external factors outside their control and that is how their priests become handy telling people it is not fault of their rulers but that God is angry with them so he is punishing them for their sins because they did not go by religion. So people go for all kinds of rituals to get rid of imaginary divine curse. The Quran is exposing all tricks of rulers and priests and moneylenders. It is telling people that this real world operates on basis of law of cause and effect. If you do not sow seed on time in right conditions then it is not going to grow. You can pray to God all you like or curse God all you like. Things will happen only as the set out system makes them happen and there is no favour or resentment involved ie it matters not whether seed is sown by a Hindu, Parsee, Jew, Christian, Muslim or Sikh etc, it will only grow if the conditions are fulfilled for its growth. Prayers to God will have no effect on making things happen because for things to happen law of cause and effect must be followed. This is why communities that do nothing perish and communities that do things to survive, survive.
132) Instead they said to Moses, no matter whatever explanation you may bring us to convince us with, we are not going to commit ourselves to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind along with you.
133) Due to their harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour against Our revelation We let them bring upon themselves calamities such as religious conflicts, tribal, racial and caste conflicts and class conflicts and thereby the bloodshed although Our revelations made these things very clear to them well beforehand yet they persisted in their ignorance due to their arrogant leadership because they were a kingdom of criminals who worked hard in opposing Our program, constitution and law.
These verses make it amply clear that God does not intervene in human affairs ie he has created universe and in it he has given each player its role to play so that role cannot be played by anyone else. God does his part and man has to do his part. If man says, I leave my part for God to do then he is an ignorant fool.
134) Each time they fell in their self created troubles they came to Moses and said, O Moses! Call upon your Creator and Sustainer on our behalf on basis of whatever agreement He has with you, if you help remove the troubles from us then we promise you that we will truly commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind along with you and let the ideological children of Israel go along with you.
135) But each time We removed their troubles from them for a time behold! They broke their promises.
What these verses are telling us is that people became ignorant and did not do things the way they were supposed to do and as a result they ended up in all sorts of troubles. When Moses tried to educate them they ignored him but in the end troubles forced them to take advice from him and when he told them a certain way of solving their certain problems they managed to solved them but instead of keep going on the way they were told they returned to their old ways and so troubles came back to them. The main reason each time they went back to their old ways was the leadership among them which wanted things its way. So when they followed their chiefs they ended up back into same situations.
When people follow leadership of rulers, priests and moneylenders, they end up divided so rivalries and animosities lead them to hatred and wars and when that happens people cannot produce things they need for fulfilling their needs eg to grow food people need peace and stability not wars. Wars harm and destroy what is already there and stop production of new things so growth is lost.
136) That is how We let them drown themselves in the sea of their own wrong doings because they denied each other access to Our goal and guidelines and ignored them paying no attention to the forewarned consequences
137) and that is how We made that nation which was oppressed the inheritor of all that piece of land from east to west which We had blessed. This is how the word of your Creator and Sustainer was fulfilled for the children of Israel because they faced difficulties with hard work and persistent courage thus We brought to end the rule of Pharaoh and his people which they installed against Our set limits
138) and that is how We made ideological children of Israel cross the sea of troubles yet when they came across a people who were serving other rulers than Allah they said, O Moses install for us a ruler like the kings these people have. He replied, you are surely a people ignorant about what you are asking for,
139) because in whatever these people are devoting their lives to is their own destruction, for make belief and falsehood is all that they are practicing.
140) He further said, should I seek for you a ruler other than Allah when it is He alone Who has raised you for the task of taking His message to the nations in the world.
141) So call to mind the time when We saved you from the people of Pharaoh who put you through a terrible ordeal by gradually destroying your leading people by setting them up against your masses and to come through all that with help of revelation of your Creator and Sustainer was a matter of great struggle for you.
142) That is why We appointed Moses to change the dark periods of hardship for nation of Israel so that We completely establish it as a community and that is how he met the target set out by his Creator and Sustainer for changing hardship with prosperity. Thus said Moses to his brother Aaron, support me regarding my nation in order to put it right and do not follow the way of trouble makers and warmongers.
143) When Moses presented himself to meet Our set out target because his Creator and Sustainer spoke to him Moses said, O my Creator and Sustainer! Show me the task that I may see through Your mission. He said, by no means can you fulfil My mission unless you pay attention to the mass of people and set it on its proper course only then you will be able see through My mission, because as his Creator and Sustainer saw the mass of his people He found it scattered and dispersed in its thoughts and actions thus Moses was overcome by thoughts of gravity of his task. Eventually he came round saying, sovereignty belongs to You alone and I turn to you for guidance and I am of those who are committed to foremost degree for working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
This verse is telling people that it is not the divine messenger that changes things for better for mankind but all people working together who agree with his message. If people do not come to their senses once divine messengers tries to educate them then they end up destroying themselves by keep going on the same path that leads them to destruction.
144) Allah said, O Moses! I have chosen you for delivery of my messages to the people so take what I give you and be of those who implement it thereby become a worthy people.
145) So We prescribed for him goal and all essential guidelines with all necessary lessons about everything for setting up a worthy human community saying, hold onto these firmly and tell your people to hold on to these the best of precepts. Soon I will direct you to townships of those who live their lives against Our program, constitution and law.
146) Those who behave arrogantly in the land due to holding positions of influence in defiance of My set out rights and responsibilities for mankind without having any authority or right to do so. They are such that even if they are shown the need for every term or condition for peaceful life they will still not commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind and even if they are placed the right guidance in front of them yet they will not go by that, instead if they are shown a way in opposition to that they will go for it. It is because their aim is to deny Our set out rights to others that is why they ignore them.
147) For this reason those who deny Our set out rights and responsibilities for mankind and ignore the harmful and destructive end results of their own actions their works are void of intention for benefiting each other. What can their reward be other than what they have earned?
148) Even people of Moses in his absence brought about a power structure as per their make beliefs due to their desires and ambitions which proved divisive and harmful. Did they not realise that it served them no useful purpose nor could it lead them to any beneficial end? Yet they did it and thus became transgressors against Our set out universal system and laws and suffered the consequences.
149) However when they suffered harm by their own hands some realized that they had gone astray so they said, if our Creator and Sustainer does not guide us through His blissful revelation and thereby removes from between us division based on rivalry and animosity that leads to hatred we are going to be of the losers.
150) That is why when Moses referred to his people to examine their situation after coming back he was extremely sad so he said to his people, what a harmful and destructive way you have assisted my mission in my absence! Were you in a hurry to trip the law of consequences by your Creator and Sustainer? However he laid down the foundational guidelines for his people as a community to judge their actions by and got hold of his brother the community head to his side seeking clarification as to what had happened. Aaron said, O son of my nation! Some of our people with influence did not support me instead they were almost ready to fight me, so do not make my opponents happy by counting me among the wrongdoers.
151) At this Moses said, O my Creator and Sustainer! Remove any rift between me and my brother and raise us all in dignity through blissful revelation because You are graceful and full of blessings for mankind.
152) Surely those who brought about divide to derail Our mission incurred condemnation of their Creator and Sustainer as well as disgraceful life in this world, that is how We show results of actions of those who invent harmful and destructive ruling ideologies, systems, structures, procedures and practices against Our guidelines.
153) As for those who do harm to others in ignorance but then stop and reform thereafter and commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity your Creator and Sustainer indeed protects them through blissful revealed program.
154) That is how sadness of Moses subsided because he held on to prescribed guidelines in which there was guidance to blissful life for those who wished to live in accordance with rule of their Creator and Sustainer.
155) For that reason Moses chose a large number of people from his nation to accomplish Our set out task for them but seeing they were overwhelm by the vastness of the task he said, my Creator and Sustainer! Give them courage, for had it been Your plan, You could have let these people destroy themselves by their own hands long ago and well before this mission. Will You then let us all end up destroyed for the harms and destruction caused by some ignorant people from among us against others? This struggle is only for establishing the goal You set for us whereby You let stray and suffer whoever works towards that end and guide to blissful life whoever works to that end. Your guidance is all we rely upon therefore remove our difficulties by inspiring us with Your blissful message, for You are uniquely graceful to mankind.
156) Thus ordain for us what is beneficial in life at present as well as in future life, for sure we have turned to You for our guidance. He replied, I will let suffer those nations that deserve it due to ignoring My advice but My blissful program covers everything for prosperity of mankind. I will especially bless those nations that are consistent with My set out program and struggle to attain freedom from all ills from among themselves by committing to working for peace, progress and prosperity on basis of My set out universal system and laws .
157) Such as support the messenger, the universal prophet, whom they find described in the Torah and the Injeel. Who invites people to do what is for common benefit of mankind and discourages them from doing what is harmful for humanity, he declares lawful for people to do what is beneficial for mankind and he declares unlawful for people all that is harmful and destructive for mankind, making obvious to them their self created problems as heavy burdens around their necks showing them the way to free themselves from them. Therefore those who commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind with him and are sincere with him and support him by being consistent with the light of guidance with which he is sent will be the ones who will be successful and prosperous.
158) Say, O you the mankind! I am the messenger of Allah to all of you to whom belongs the kingdom of all the galaxies including this galaxy. None has the right to rule this kingdom save Him Who brings nations to life if they follow His laws and lets them perish if they do not. Therefore commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according to the program, constitution and law of Allah along with His messenger, the universal prophet, who has committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according to the program, constitution and law of Allah for the benefit of humanity according to His universal system and laws so be consistent with him so that you are guided to a blissful way of life.
Verses like this inform humanity that there are two distinct systems and laws that people must understand ie natural laws and legal constitution for human organisation.
159) Among the people of Moses there was a community that guided each other for this set purpose therefore they established a just system
160) so We turned them round into an exemplary community. That is why We revealed to Moses the guidance when Moses sought to temper his people so We told him to use your divine revelation as your foundation to build your community upon that is how sprung forth the community based upon knowledge therefrom whereby each of the people became aware of their obligations to each other. That is how We sheltered them from harm and destruction by sending them Our guidance for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind saying, make use of all beneficial things We have provided for you to better yourselves. They did no harm to Us by going away from Our set out goal and guidelines but harmed themselves
161) when it was said to them remain peaceful and progressive to prosper and participate in your community as you wish inflicting no harm upon each other entering new way of life while being faithful to Our program, constitution and law so that We protect you from harming each other as well as increase all the more the reward for those who work for benefit of each other as a community.
162) Yet people with harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour among them changed the goal and guidelines that were set for them and as a result We let come upon them the heavenly ordained painful suffering for their transgression against each other.
163) Ask them about the township that was built upon troubled waters. At that time they transgressed against peace and stability of the township even though during period of their stability their livelihood came to them easily and plentiful but during the period of instabilities they could not obtain it even by a very hard work, thus We left them to struggle because they transgressed against Our program, constitution and law even after being forewarned of the consequences,
164) Some even asked warners, why do you advise a people whom Allah will let destroy themselves for ignoring His advice? They replied, to fulfil our duty by our Creator and Sustainer and so that they may become consistent with program, constitution and law of Allah for the benefit of humanity.
165) However when they ignored warning We let those who warned against harming each other prosper but We let those who broke Our laws suffer the painful consequences of their transgressions.
166) That is why when they persisted in their harmful and destructive ways even after Our warning We said to them, remain low life the way you are learning no sense for a purposeful life.
167) Moreover it is law of your Creator and Sustainer that if a people do not turn to His program, constitution and law then He lets rise among them people who keep inflicting upon each other grievous torment till the day they establish his program, constitution and law. Effective is universal system and law of consequences as set up by your Creator and Sustainer that is how He protects mankind through His blissful revealed program.
This verse explains how divine system and laws of nature operate in the universe and how divine revelations for mankind help them guide themselves to blissful life.
168) That is why We found mankind divided into groups and communities in the world - some of them do good for each other but some of them inflict each other with harm and destruction - We let them all struggle for doing good to each others as well as for doing harm to each other so that they come back to their set goal and guidelines.
This verse shows very clearly how people are given a set limit to work within through laws of nature to keep each other in check so that mankind do not end up destroyed. Other than that they are free to move towards their own betterment by way of interaction between themselves with help of divine revelation.
169) Once they are back on track yet in due course people who live by the book are succeeded by worse generations who participate in life of this world harmfully and destructively because they say, we will face no painful consequences despite living through them. This is why if similar opportunities come their way, they will get hold of them again and again. Were they not asked to commit to living according to their book and that they will not attribute anything to Allah except what is consistent with their given book because they have been given lessons about things in the book? So the best end goal for those who want to be consistent with program, constitution and law of Allah is to be consistent with humanity for the benefit of mankind, why don’t you learn things to understand this?
170) As for those who strictly abide by the book by struggling for establishing the divine system, surely We never let the reward of such as act to mend human society go to waste.
171) That is how at the time We shook off of the children of Israel the mountain of calamities like a smothering cover upon them and they thought this situation was going to destroy and crush them under its weight. We said, hold firmly on to what We have given you as Our guidance out of such like situations so be consistent with what is in it so that you could guard and protect yourselves against such harms and destructions.
172) This way throughout time your Creator and Sustainer helped children of Adam survive by means of having their children to succeed them and made some of them witnesses for their own coming generations. This is why they were asked, am I alone not your Creator and Sustainer? They replied, yes, we bear witness that You are. We advise and explain all this so that on the day when Our rule becomes established you do not say, we were not made aware of all this goodness before therefore we ended up the terrible way that we did.
If one reads Suarh one, it is not just about introduction of God but also an agreement between God and mankind that people will live by the book of Allah so that they do not end up in painful suffering by doing things their own way. However mankind ignore that agreement with God and do things their own way and then blame their creator for wrong they do themselves. This verse is telling about a process that Allah sent his guidance and told each generation of people to pass it on to their next generation so that no human generation lives without divine guidance. However, humanity has either failed to pass on divine message to to its coming generations or passed on the divine message the wrong way and then the coming generations paid no proper attention to divine message either so humanity ended up in a lot of trouble that it created for itself as family by giving support to people from among itself with harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour, ignoring those who had beneficial and constructive mindset, attitude and behaviour. It is same thing as was talked about by prophet Jacob when he was to leave this world. He asked his children who they will take as their ruler and they said Allah, the ruler of their ancestors. The so called Christian Lord’s prayer is actually the same thing. The prayer is not about asking God for things but appreciating God and reminding ourselves about the divine covenant. What was the agreement? It was about us human beings living by revealed program, constitution and law of God so that we really live as told and save ourselves from a lot of unnecessary troubles which we all are doing through by ignoring that agreement. This is what this verse is about.
173) or in case you claim our forefathers started the tradition of rule by other than Allah through rulers, priests and moneylenders and we just followed them being their descendants not knowing sovereignty only belonged to Allah. Will you then let us destroy ourselves on account of what followers of falsehood did?
174) That is why We detail Our goals and guidelines for you so that you could turn to them and create a blissful life for yourselves.
175) So inform them about the story of a party to whom We sent Our revelations as goals and guidelines but some people in the party ignored them and instead the leadership persuaded the nation in the opposite direction so most of the community ended up off the proper track.
176) This was the very reason We sent Our guidance so that through that light of knowledge We elevate humanity but instead it sunk itself deep into the ditch of ignorance by following its own make beliefs. Therefore its similitude is like that of a useless person that if you place some responsibility on him or leave him without any responsibility, he remains unaffected. Such is the similitude of human populace that denies others access to Our revelations but tell them this parable anyway perchance they reflect.
When some people deny others access to divine revelation, it means they are denying them information that makes them knowledgeable people. People who have knowledge learn the sense of rights and responsibilities and therefore they become less prone to use and abuse by others who think themselves clever. This is why they can demand rights and fulfilment of responsibilities by each other which helps regulate a human society better. Since this stops use and abuse by dominant people hence they try their best to keep masses ignorant and enslaved.
177) Very bad is the example set by those people who deny Our guidelines due to which they inflict great harm and destruction upon their own people.
178) Only that nation which works hard according to guidance of Allah is rightly guided but any that misleads itself such are the people that end up in loss and destruction.
179) That is how We let a lot of people from among the leadership and the masses set for themselves life of painful suffering as their gaol because they have brains but they use them not for thinking things through and they have eyes but they use them not to see where they are heading and they have ears but they use them not to hear the calls to the path that is proper. They are just like animals or even worse than them when it comes to having any worthy goals to pursue because they are those who ignore Our set goal and guidelines for them.
Here again the Quran is making a very important point that before understanding divine message mankind must learn how to use their brains and senses and bodies and then through interaction within the universal environment they can become knowledgeable people. All this is based on trial and error ie when you try to use your brain you make a lot of mistakes till you get things right and the same happens when you try to use your senses and limbs and rest of body. By the time you have learned things about universal realities you come to realise that divine revelation is needed to go beyond that level of knowledge but when you try to understand the divine revelation same thing happens ie you make loads of mistakes to see what the words and text of divine revelation actually means till you get it as close to what it means as it is possible for you according to your own level of knowledge. This is why it becomes clear why all works based on divine revelation have mistakes in them ie because they are human works and human endeavour to try and find out what God is saying to humanity. It is like we have higher level maths books but a baby will have to keep learning till one day he reaches that level to understand those books. Meanwhile he wil have to make loads of mistakes to get there. This is why people who think they know better and the divine books contain mistakes need to think over what they are saying. They say this because they study works on divine books by those who have been making loads of mistakes about them. For example, most of the Quranic interpretations have been written by people who had no knowledge about universal realities so they took the Quran in totally wrong direction. Now anyone who judges the Quran based on their interpretations will not think the Quran is not a divine book because it contains loads of mistakes. One may even say, I can write a better book than that. So this attitude and approach of humanity is not right to condemn a divine book on basis of what ignorant people have written about it. If one is really learned person then one must study the divine book in its original language and must learn how that language came about and works and how the Quran uses the language that it uses. So once a person knowledge the real universal realities and the Quranic text properly only then one will have possibility of reaching the right conclusion about the Quran.
180) If you think you are human beings with brains and senses then you must learn to use them properly so that you realise the fact that from Allah alone come precepts for you to abide by that are capable of giving you a properly balanced existence therefore you should rely upon them and keep in check those who try and cause confusion and chaos about these precepts. If they are not stopped then soon the mankind will see the results of going about life their own ways.
181) Among those whom We have created there are some human populations that guide others to what is consistent with program, constitution and law of Allah whereby they try to establish a properly balanced way of life for mankind.
182) As to those who oppose Our goal and guidelines for mankind We let them draw themselves step by step closer to their own destruction through ways that they do not bother to understand
183) and even though I grant them respite to stop and reform My rule of cause and effect is ever at work effectively indeed.
184) Has it never occurred to them that their companion is not a man struck by any mental abnormality rather he is a warner clearly alerting against the obvious result of people inflicting harm upon each other?
185) Have they not pondered over the running of kingdom of the heavens and the earth and whatever Allah has evolved as to how Allah has set up laws to operate all things therefore their moment of destruction may be closer as a result of their course of actions against His program, constitution and law? On basis of what other better message after this will they then commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind?
186) Such as find no guidance from the message of Allah there is none to guide them so He lets them wander about in their harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour as a result of their transgressions against program, constitution and law of Allah and humanity.
187) They ask you about the exact time of such destruction as to when exactly will it take place. Say, knowledge about that rests with my Creator and Sustainer alone and none can make it obvious save His set up universal system and laws and at the time that is right when all conditions for it are fulfilled. So be aware that occurrence of that destruction rests heavily on the laws operating in the heavens and the earth. It does not come but as a sudden revolt as happened to people before. They ask you about it as if you have the ability to see into the future so you are aware of it. Tell them, that ability only rests with Allah as He told it in His books though most of the mankind bother not to learn and understand how things are set up and work in this universe.
188) Say, how can I know precisely when the promised destruction will befall you when I do not even have the ability to know things to benefit myself or to protect myself from harm rather I too depend upon set up universal system and laws of Allah? If I possessed any such ability beyond human means to know the future as you assume then I would have secured many great things for myself and no harm would have touched me but as you can see we are all in the same boat as human beings therefore we must learn to abide by program, constitution and law of Allah. I know this because I am a messenger from Allah to alert you the mankind against the ways of life that will land you in painful suffering therefore I am also bearer of good news about the better future for those who will commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind therefore they will end up in blissful life.
In these verses it is made very clear that the Quran is not a human work because if it was then the prophet ought to claim many things to make fool of people to get hold of them and then use and abuse them like kings and priests and moneylenders to get what he wanted because that is the way people have been used and abused always by clever people. Instead in these verses he is explaining to people how the universe works so that they could see their own role in it and stop living like brainless animals.
The promised destruction is result of what people do and has been happening throughout the world ie when masses find out how they have been made fool of and have been used and abused then they take revenge against each other and the outcome of that is never that good for any of the people who are at it. It is talk about bloody revolutions in the world and wars by people against each other for controlling each other or for freedom from control of each other. The Quran is not a book of history but it brings in certain events just to explain the ideas involved for better understanding of things by people.
189) It is He alone who evolved you the mankind from a single source of life and from that He brought about all life forms so that through this process of mutual support the life could continue progressing. Eventually there came a time when humanity was able to carry simple responsibility that is how it continued developing on that basis. As human community grew and was able to see it could carry bigger responsibility as both the leadership and following relied upon universal system and laws of Allah so far, they showed desire for heavenly guidance that if they had it then they will abide by it and use all that is provided accordingly to become a worthy human community.
190) However when He gave them revelation to bring about a beneficial human community they ended up taking rulers other than Him against the advice that was given to them. Nonetheless, the fact is Allah does not approve mankind having rulers other than Him in His own kingdom.
191) Do they take other rulers than Him who can create nothing but are themselves created
192) such as have neither the ability to support them nor can they support even themselves?
193) If you ask them for guidance to live your lives better they cannot support you. It is all the same for you whether you rely on them for anything or you do not.
194) In fact those upon whom you rely as your rulers instead of laws of Allah are mere people like you with limited information. If not then ask them for guidance and let them respond to you if what you claim about them is not your own make belief but true!
195) Have they any real basis to continue even their own survival or any such powers to have real control over things? Have they such powerful eyes of the mind to see all they need to see or the ears to to be aware of all they need to be constantly maware of? Say, rely upon your make belief partners of Allah and collectively plan against my plan and give me no time to escape your plan and see if you can do anything better in opposition to system and set laws of Allah than what I have already explained to you.
196) My foundation is system and laws of Allah alone Who has revealed this book and He is also solid foundation for all those who act to bring about a community that is at peace within itself.
197) On the contrary those rulers upon whom you rely other than Him have neither the ability to support you with such like guidance nor can they even support themselves.
198) If you ask them to fulfil your request for guidance, they cannot and they will even ignore your request as if they are unable to hear you. You will see them looking at your request arrogantly and confused because they have no mind to think things through thoroughly to reach proper conclusion or decision about things.
199) So O prophet, commit to showing compassion to people and keep fighting for justice for them thereby turn round those uneducated people through wisdom instead of getting annoyed and turning away.
200) If any of the opposing leadership with harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour tempts you, seek protection through program, constitution and law of Allah for the benefit of mankind because He makes His wisdom based upon vast observation manifest for mankind to benefit from.
201) Those who are committed to be consistent with humanity according to program, constitution and law of Allah when they are attacked by any of the leadership with harmful and destructive desires and ambitions they should refer to guidance of Allah that is how the proper way of life will become manifest through them.
202) As for ideological supporters of those with harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour they drag each other into deeper and deeper troubles leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to oppose Our rule.
203) Despite being in such a mess because you do not bring them the revelation they desire, they say, have you not managed to invent something yet? Say, I follow only what is revealed to me from my Creator and Sustainer. This book contains verifiable insights from your Creator and Sustainer, a program for prosperity of those who are sincere about committing themselves to working for peace to make progress.
204) Therefore when the Quran is being proclaimed, act upon it so that you end up in peace by making progress towards prosperity.
205) That is why you should strive hard day and night to spread the manifesto of your Creator and Sustainer among your human community with humility and smoothness without being a loud mouth and never be of those who ignore and neglect Our advice.
206) Surely those who are truly committed to the mission of your Creator and Sustainer are neither arrogant nor rebellious in carrying out His mission that is how they work hard to manifest His glory through their commitment to His mission.
Re: God, a proven fact or a mere fiction?
I guess that definitely settles the question.
However, I prefer evidence like this: Allah & Muhammad Written On Afghan Girl .
There is also a video: Kabul girl miracle, Allah and Muhammad names on face, Wagma - YouTube (if you can access it).
Re: God, a proven fact or a mere fiction?
SURAH 8 AL ANFAAL- The Reserves
This Surah is named AL-ANFAAL. Word ANFAAL is from root NOON, FAA and LAAM. Concrete meaning of this root is something that is additional, surplus or over and above or in excess of or extra in some sense. Just as it means more than what is required it also means something that is done illegally or above the law because it is outside the law ie it is extra judicial hence comes under transgression. In the Quranic context this Surah is so named because people who are supposed to judge themselves as a community according to the Quranic standard must go extra mile than what is required of them so that excellence is achieved. That is important because Muslims are supposed to be an exemplary community for rest of the world to see and copy, so that glory of God becomes manifest for whole of mankind to see.
As explained already the same Quranic text has parallel meanings and same is true in case of text in this Surah. Just as on one hand followers of the Quran must work extra hard and be extra productive so on the other hand they must fight against use and abuse, corruption and aggressions. If we look at it another way what Muslims are supposed to achieve through working extra hard is security against all sorts of poverty eg poverty of ideology, poverty of information and its understanding or knowledge, poverty of unity and organisation and poverty of action. In other words unless people fight against ignorance, regression and stagnation etc they cannot win. So the verses of the Quran can be interpreted both ways ie in sense of dos as well as in sense of don’ts. It is because if you do what you are not supposed to do then you are in trouble but you are also in trouble if you don’t do what you are supposed to do. This is why the Quranic commands are for freedom as well as against oppression and suppression. On one hand it dictates justice and on the other hand condemns injustice. On one hand it commands compassion and on the other condemns cruelty. Likewise just as it commands hard work for prosperity it also condemns sitting idle and becoming victim of poverty.
However since the Quran is not a manual of war but peace so interpreting the Quranic text as a manual of war is not its right interpretation. Moreover the Quran does not stop anyone from fighting for self defence and it is natural instinct that when law and order is not fair or is not implemented fairly then all people are free to do as it suits them. It will be silly for God to tell antisocial and anti Islam forces to not to attack Islam or Muslims because if that is what they want to do then they will do that and they will not stop just because God tells them to. It is because such people have no respect for God or humanity. They only understand the language of power and violence because for them only might is right. Likewise it will be silly for God to tell human community or Muslims when you are attacked do not fight back because that way community or Muslims will be wiped out as sitting ducks for target. This is why, the Quran only puts before humanity two options a) all people commit following the divine advice and live as a family and b) if not then fight it out between yourselves as you wish till you get fed up and give up fighting or keep fighting till last man remains standing. In either case people have the level playing field. God did not create mankind for fighting with each other yet if they do that, it is their own choice. He created mankind to be sensible and creative and organise and use things provided by God appropriately so that situations do not arise whereby people end up fighting each other over things of need. So those who oppose this idea are people with harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour and unless rest of humanity keeps such people in check these people will make life hell for everyone.
This is why God told people not to do things in ways that lead to fights and wars but if some do create situations for fights and wars then it is very important that rest of humanity keeps itself strong and sufficiently able to take hold of them so that such people do not become so powerful that the whole human race becomes their hostage. So God of Islam is not interested in fights and wars between mankind but if some people are then others need to be well prepared so that they are not only able to defend themselves but should be able to defeat anti social parties in order to save mankind from terrible painful suffering at their hands.
The main reason for troubles is control of people and resources by some people in order to hold rest of humanity hostage. This is why the Quran keeps repeating that mankind must manage manpower and resources properly. If people are not used properly to produce and distribute things properly then peace is not possible because people have needs which cannot be met and when going gets tough people are forced to disturb law and order and so human community becomes fractured. This is why this Surah puts emphasis on proper planning and thinking ahead and production not just for fulfilling the needs but for excess or extra production so that some of the things could be kept in reserves or storage so that they could become useful when needs arise due to various factors eg when suddenly more people arrive in the Islamic state for some reason or famine strikes or any other emergency takes place for whatever reason etc etc.
Proclaim! In the name of Allah, the provider of psychological, sociological and biological needs of mankind,
1)They will need an explanation of you about reserves. Tell them, savings are advised for you the community by Allah along with the messenger. So be consistent with advice of Allah for the benefit of the community therefore put in place proper mechanisms for production and distribution of things between yourselves to be fully self sufficient at all times. This is how you should be consistent with program, constitution and law of Allah along with His messenger if you are truly committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of human community.
Any people who have no sense of looking ahead to their better future have no future at all but if a people do look ahead then that means planning ahead for all eventualities so that a community is fully able to cope with all sorts of variations that may take place. There are at least four main factors that a community must plan ahead for a)natural disasters b)manmade disasters c)normal variation due to natural movements in human population that cause variations in numbers or measures of things produced for distribution and d)future investments and reinvestments for research, exploration and developments etc. Efficient planning, organisation and action is must for proper management of manpower and resources for proper production and distribution of things of need. If goods and services are not delivered efficiently and properly at points of need and use then community is not going to do well. The main point one needs to note under this verse is need for producing surplus. To produce surplus community has to do a lot more work than it will need to do just to meet its basic needs or bare necessities. Not only that it will have to be very efficient because if it is not then even if production is fine the distribution may not be up to requirement and so even though things are there they will not reach the end user and go to waste. In other words it is a huge responsibility to be part of production and distribution mechanism.
2) The truly committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of human community can only be those who when they are told about program of Allah their minds become excited because when His goal and guidelines are recited to them their self confidence grows that is why they end up relying on the universal system and set laws of their Creator and Sustainer,
The Quranic program is such that it cannot fail to attract such people as have just, hard working and compassionate mindset, attitude and behaviour. It is precisely the reason that rulers, priests and moneylenders misinterpreted divine program and misrepresented it to masses causing mankind confusion. This is why people who hate talking about God and his system are increasing in the world. This is not failure of God and his message but of humanity itself as has been explained in detail. The mistake people are making is not studying the divine message in its original text and context. If humanity will not come to its senses and see the divine message as it ought to look at it then it will have no future, however it is unlikely that humanity will continue on this path for very long because people will have to learn sense sooner rather than later by questioning their mindset, attitude and behaviour toward God, his message and humanity itself.
3) It is people with such mindset, attitude and behaviour who establish social structures, systems, procedures and practices whereby they open up whatever We have provided for their sustenance for the benefit of each other as a human community.
4) They are the ones who are truly committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of humanity as they ought to therefore belong to them heights of dignity according to set laws of their Creator and Sustainer because they attain protection against all ills through securing honourable provision for themselves as a community.
5) It is due to this struggle for the set purpose your Creator and Sustainer brought you out of your comfort zone that you the people were in even though some of those who committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of human community were hesitant.
6) The hesitant group sought explanation of you the people with clarity of the purpose about the purpose of the mission that had been made clear to the community already. Due to not knowing this information they thought as if they were being led to a meaningless debate as they were accustomed to expect.
7) However Allah had already set for you one of the two parties as target even though you settled for the one that was least equipped as your target but Allah planned to prove His program true by His testimonial evidences in order to undermine the way of those who opposed His mission,
These verses are about open discussions and debates between people belonging to opposing ideologies in order to establish which ideology is beneficial for adopting as a way of life for mankind. Whenever there is a debate or competition between people the dominant people usually challenge weaker people than themselves because they know they can defeat them but in this case the target are dominant and clever people, which is found unusual. The idea is to prove using the divine testimony which way is really worth following for mankind because it could give them a life worth living if they really followed it.
8) It was necessary that He proved the provable truth true and the falsehood false even if those who commit crimes against humanity detest it.
9) Call to mind the time when you the people sought support of your Creator and Sustainer so He responded that I will help you with a force of one thousand men well trained and fully organized and equipped fit for the missionary task.
It is one thing to win arguments by debates but another to win hearts and minds by helping people understand the message properly and that needs a lot more people to help spread the proper message properly for the success of the mission. No movement or mission can succeed unless people are convinced and trained and sent back out on the mission to gain more support for it. God is telling people already working as missionaries, worry not more and more support is on the way so carry on.
10) By means of this good news Allah raised confidence in your minds that support cannot come from anyone save through hard work according to program of Allah, because Allah is a mighty wise ruler of this kingdom of universe.
11) Remember long before the commencement of the battle for the mission He filled you the people with confidence from Himself by raining down upon you the heavenly inspiration to free you thereby of any doubt or to remove from you any harmful and destructive thoughts caused by any opponent of heavenly rule and to strengthen your minds thereby and to help you take firm steps for the success of the mission for establishing the kingdom of your Creator and Sustainer.
12) At the time your Lord revealed to you the messenger for the people on the mission the message that I am with you and told you to give courage for firmly establish those who are truly committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of human community. I will thereby bring fear of defeat in the minds of those who declare war against My rule therefore go for the very foundation and lifeline of their society and dismantle each of their principles aspects they stand upon in every way till they see sense.
The proper education, discussion and debate has to be very tough and demanding therefore it should be conducted by people who have the necessary wisdom so that such people deliver the proper information or message properly. That will attract support for the mission. If ignorant and people with vested interests will do this then the message will become adulterated and lead people to confusion so people could become suspicious of the message and distance themselves from the message will could lead to damage to the mission.
13) Do this to them because they commit atrocities against each other in defiance of program, constitution and law of Allah through His messenger and any people who declare war against mission of Allah via His messenger should beware that Allah has firmly put in place the law of consequences.
14) It is therefore proper that you the criminals face the result of your own actions because it is put in place for those who ignite the fire of war against installation of Our rule.
15) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of human community! When you are challenged you must be fully prepared to strive against those who wage wars against the rule of Allah by oppressing and suppressing humanity and never should you budge from your position in the battlefield.
This verse tells missionaries to prepare well so that you do not end up losing your fight against the oppressors and suppressers of mankind. If antisocial elements win then humanity will suffer very badly if it does not end up totally destroyed, so people must keep their minds sharp and eyes and ears open at all time. As soon as any problem arises from any direction deal with it instantly so that it does not grow and become uncontrollable.
16) Be warned! Whoever leaves his position on such an occasion unless it be for battle strategy such as to join his supporting forces will be left by Allah in painful suffering and how awful will that life be for him!
In these verses people who claim to be committed to acting upon divine message are told not to run away from discussions and debates instead prepare well and fight the corner in such a way that opponents remain in no doubt the word of Allah is supreme and final. It is because testimonial proof from Allah is so comprehensive that it does not fail to make itself known as such. All people need to do is learn things and help each other understand them better and better. People who think they are clever they are challenged and defeated clearly in their harmful and destructive desires and ambitions for humanity.
17) And it is not you the people who defeat them rather it is testimonial proof of Allah that defeats them. So whatever explanations you share with them they are not shared by you rather they are shared with them by Allah through you so that He puts those who commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity through this struggle successfully, Allah makes evident for people indeed His vast observation.
What is so special in testimonial proof of Allah that defeats opposers of rule of Allah? It is information that explains how world is set up to work so none can work outside that setup system and laws. Whenever and wherever the naturally set balance is disturbed it forces mankind to react against it because it becomes a threat for survival of humanity. So humanity cannot escape setup system and laws no matter what. This is what proves the Quran as a verifiable divine book.
18) And that is something for you to think about because that is how Allah neutralises all plots of those who oppose installation of His rule whereby they make each other suffer.
19) If you wanted the heavenly truth made clearly manifest for you then it has been made obvious for you. So if you will stop acting harmfully and destructively against each other then that will benefit you but if you will continue doing things the old ways after the proper way of doing things is made clear for you then Our setup system and laws will continue making you face results of your own actions and your numbers however large will not avail you at all because revelation of Allah supports those who commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
20) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind, be consistent with program, constitution and law of Allah along with His messenger and do not turn your backs on His message now that you have heard it.
21) Do not be like those who say, we hear the message but they do things like those who have not bothered to hear and understand the message.
A very important point is made here that if people do not do things they are told or do things they are told not to do then end result has to be the same as those who have not bothered listening to the message or understand and act on it. So people who claim to be followers of the Quran but do not act upon it, their declaration of commitment to this message becomes very much questionable.
22) Surely most harmful and destructive people in judgement of Allah are those who act as if deaf and dumb to His goals and guidelines having learned no sense.
23) Had Allah found in them beneficial and constructive mindset, attitude and behaviour towards mankind then He would have indeed made their heeding to His guidance evident through their actions. Even though He had made sure that His message is delivered to them yet they had turned away and that is the clue that they heard it not.
24) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind, respond appropriately to the message of Allah and the call of His Messenger when he calls you to that which is for giving you a great future, that is why you should make this fact obvious through your actions that message of Allah does make difference to the mindset, attitude and behaviour of man therefore surely in due course it is He under Whose program, constitution and law you will all be assembled as a single community.
25) So that you guard yourselves thereby against tumult and upheaval that results from oppression and suppression through your brotherhood because rift and civil strife not only affects those of you who cause it but you too as individuals and families will be dragged into it, so be warned that Allah is strict in making people face the results of their own actions.
26) Call to mind how He sheltered you when you were a few in numbers and were lacking in power in the land, always worrying in case your enemies would kidnap and enslave you. He made you strong through His revelation and provided you a safe asylum and gave you guidelines to participate in all that is beneficial for mankind so that you show to others that you have appreciated through establishing His rule.
27) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind! Do not betray knowingly the mission of Allah via His Messenger nor violate or breach your trusts in each other as a community
28) rather you should make manifest through your actions that things you have and children you have are in fact a means of helping you in this struggle to see how you deal with each other and surely it rests with Allah to reward you greatly should you work for the benefit of each other.
29) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind! If you really desire to be consistent with constitution of Allah for the benefit of human community then He will inspire you with sense of understanding of criterion and its use whereby you can judge between your mutual beneficial and harmful participation to free you from wrongdoings against each other and thus protect you from any resultant harmful effects for you because it is Allah alone who bestows dignity and honour upon mankind through knowledge based action.
30) And call to mind how the opponents of heavenly rule plotted against you the people. They sought to take you captive or kill you or exile you. They conspired to do things their way but Allah planned to do things His way and Allah is unique of the planers.
31) Moreover call to mind the time when Our revelations were proclaimed to them and they said, we hear them and if we wish, we too can produce the like of them because these are just tales of the ancients.
When God reports what a people said or did, the wording must be interpreted in context of the level of information and understanding those had at the time. So in this verse God is telling us people understood the Quranic text as mere stories of the past people. They failed to realise the purpose behind reporting of these stories. In other words these people took the Quranic message as mere made up stories by story tellers. They had not yet developed the proper understanding of the message to see it in its proper context.
32) Therefore they said, O Allah! If this Quran is truly from You then rain down upon us stones from the heavens or afflict us with some dreadful punishment to punish us for refusing to accept this Quran.
This verse shows how people were misled by their rulers, priests and moneylenders in to believing all sorts of nonsense about God, his message and his messengers. They thought of God as a tyrant monster who gets angry for no reason and blesses people for no reason. A God who does things without any plan or purpose. This is why whenever there came a divine messenger to them, they asked him to prove his claim by showing supernatural events. Since this has been explained already I will simply say that such miracles were never produced by divine messengers to prove their divine authorisation. These people were put up to this by their religious leadership so that they get no such miracles so they believe not any true claimant of divine messengership and remain slaves of their rulers, priests, feudal landlords and moneylenders etc. Miracles do not and cannot prove divine origin of anything because proof is only an explanation of events by a witness in form of testimony that proves reliable through verifiable evidences. This is why the Quran is a testimonial proof and not a miracle in the sense these ignorant and misled people expected. The question for people to consider is it God himself who created people without knowing anything but capable of learning. God cannot get angry with people if they make mistakes during their learning process. So all make belief based doctrines are false and stand no chance against divine truth. In the Quran we can repeatedly see how Allah explains things to help people become sensible instead of getting angry with them due to their foolishness. Problems are only those people who make their decisions on bases of personal gains at the expense of community spirit. Even then their problem is left to community to sort it out by educating itself. If community does not educate itself then that is not fault of God. It is because each person is given brain and senses and all necessities to become aware of oneself and one’s environment and things in it and then turn to divine revelation for further guidance for living a better life.
33) But Allah could not leave them to keep suffering the painful torment as result of their own actions the while you were in their midst delivering His message to help them uplift themselves. Nor is Allah such that, He lets suffer the terrible pain any people while there are among them such as are truly seeking protection through His blissful guidance.
34) But how can guidance of Allah protect them when they themselves avoid learning it and put obstacle in the path of movement for establishing the heavenly kingdom and they are not its supporters? Its supporters can only be those who are consistent with its goal and guidelines for the benefit of humanity yet most of them do not learn sense to understand and realise this.
To establish a state based on universal goal of peace, progress and prosperity of mankind and values such as justice, fairness, compassion and brotherhood is not an easy task at all. People need to have a lot of information about a lot of things and need to enable themselves to be able to understand all that before they can really see in which direction they should move and why. In short education based revolution is a very slow process. One only has to think back how long it took humanity to arrive at where it is today from where it all started. This gives mankind idea how many more human generations will pass before humanity is anywhere near establishing true heavenly kingdom. However struggle continues.
35) Their community governing system in their jurisdiction is only for gaining influence on people to dominate their people to take undue advantage of each other. So We say, then suffer the consequences because of your opposition to Our goal and guidelines.
36) Surely such people oppose Our guidance by using whatever they have at their disposal to stop people from the way of Allah. However whatever they use in doing that in time it will become a regrettable thing for them because they will be completely undermined by each other. That is how those who oppose and strive against Our rule will end up all together in ditch of fire of hatred against each other.
37) In order that Allah may separate the people with harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour against humanity from the people with beneficial and constructive mindset, attitude and behaviour for humanity, He lets harmful and destructive people come together as a mass as if piled up on one another and lets them land in the pit of fire of hatred of their own making because they are of those who follow the path that lands them in loss.
38) Tell those who oppose Our rule, if they stop opposing Our rule from now on their past behaviour will be overlooked but if they persist then let them reflect upon the consequences for those passed before them.
This verse makes it very clear the way to reconciliation between mankind. The best way is to draw line under the past and make a new start. One has to note the very important point here and that is basis for reconciliation and new start. It is no longer abiding by old ways of life which means giving everything back to community that was taken from community as personal gain at the expense of all the rest due to living by rule of rivalry and animosity. Dog eat dog way of life concept must be given up and living for benefit each other way of life must be adopted. This means rich and wealthy will have to work hard like anyone else to help community so that nation building could take place. It is matter of switching from one way of life to another. This is not possible unless a great number of people have been convinced and brought together and are ready to switch over and have the ability to make things work. Not only that when one breaks from the existing system some end up winning others losing. This could start internal and external fights and wars between the two parties. This is why the one leading people has to be fully prepared to take the risk ie be reasonably sure that one can win with the support one has. On the other hand fighting for a good way of life is worth it at any time for mankind because otherwise most of them will have to live miserable lives anyway due to any rivalry based way of life. This is why the current system of life is mainly democratic in the hope that at least it is a majority decision but even then a great minority will still have to live as an underclass. This is why billions of people around the world are living below the poverty line despite the fact that a very small minority has its banks full, which back only such politicians and priests and their supporters that back their cause to keep them rich and wealthy and in return they keep them in power as rulers and priests. This setup has undermined humanity very badly because manpower and resources have been so badly mismanaged and so the world is in terrible painful suffering. Only Quranic way of life can get humanity out of this situation provided people make sense of what the Quran is actually saying.
39) But if they still persist then campaign against them until they are unable to cause wars anymore and actions of people are entirely judged by rule of Allah alone but if they stop and reform then Allah will surely make obvious all that they do for the good of mankind.
40) If they turn their backs on this advice then let it be known that revelation of Allah supports you, not them because He is provider of foundation and provider of support for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
Here the Quran leaves one in no doubt that any people who take humanity forward on basis of common good are the ones who stand on the right spot as far as Allah is concerned. People who hinder peace, progress and prosperity of humanity are not approved by Allah. Such verses tell people that just saying I am a Muslim is not good enough unless one understand the Quran and becomes truly committed to message of the Quran by acting according to it as per one’s own situations and circumstances. First step is understanding the Quran oneself and then spreading it and helping others understand it. Once people become convinced by the message of the Quran then they should organise and expand this organisation till it has enough population in one place to turn it into an exemplary Islamic state. So that rest of the world could see what is best way of living their lives and adopt this way of life.
41) Due to this help of Allah you are made aware that anything you produce as a community at least one-fifth of it is to be kept as reserve in the name of Allah and rest of it is for the messenger to use it for the community for its individuals such as settled and the newcomers if you are truly committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according to the program, constitution and law of Allah on basis of that which We have revealed upon Our man for purpose of differentiation between rule of Allah and rule of man for the reason of unity between any two factions that stand in opposition to each other. It is because Allah has setup system and laws to govern over all things.
This verse is telling mankind very clearly that all belongs to Allah alone and people have his authority only if they use all things as per his advice. Any wrong use of his provision is condemned by Allah again and again. Here the Quran talks about anything mankind get their hands on must be used in community spirit. It is advised here that whatever community has it must keep some part of it as reserve and the rest should be used very sensibly for the well being of the community and its individuals. The decision for that rests with all members of the community because it has to be based upon mutual consultation. When people have all they produced before them and have the needs of community before them then they can divide things as will serve the community the best. The Quran does not allow mentality that one could say since I produced this or that therefore it only and only belongs to me. This is due to the fact that man has not created anything at all eg he did not create land or its resources. He is only and only a consumer and for that he has to work and whatever he gets from his work, it does not belong all to him because a lot of work done by nature was due to setting up things by God. Not only that but whatever he has learned in his life time is also commonly accumulated heritage. In other words had humanity not taught man things he has learned to do, one could not do anything. Interdependence of mankind is very much obvious. Now if man depends on others for everything he needs then what is wrong if others in return depend on him? This is why one is not right if one has no concern for community and its members ie fellow human beings. This is why any system that kills community spirit and promotes individualism is not acceptable. Likewise there is no community spirit if community itself oppresses and suppresses its individuals because that prevents individuals from developing into useful members of community. This is why a healthy working balance has to be reached and maintained for a peaceful, progressive and prosperous community and its individuals.
42) Behold! You were on one side of the divide on a higher ground but they were on the other side of the divide and their commitment was to a lower objective than you which was harmful for all of you. Even if you had made a mutual appointment to fight it between yourselves yet you would have failed but Allah sought to accomplish what He had planned so that those who still went for path of painful suffering and destruction may do so after clear proof has been placed before them and those who wanted blissful life and bright future may do so after clear proof is placed before them. That is how Allah makes evident for mankind that He is aware of all affairs comprehensively.
The divide between mankind on the basis of how groups of people wish to live their lives is a very serious one and had been there for a very long time and all groups have been fighting over it always verbally as well as with weapons. It start with a divine messenger coming with message from his creator and telling all in his jurisdiction to turn to a way of life advised by God because it is good for human community. People with vested interest oppose and if matter is not resolved by education and learning then people try to sort things out by wars. It is result of some people setting up a way of life that gives them domination over others and others when they get opportunity fight for their freedom from this situation that imposed upon them. God always wants people to educate themselves and solve all problems between them through reason based discussion and debates or dialogues. However, people who live like less than animals do things as they see fit for themselves so fights and wars between factions become inevitable at times.
43) Remember, in your thoughts Allah made them appear to you very limited in their objectives and the supportive arguments, had He shown them to you strong then you would have surely lost courage and instead you would have quarrelled even amongst yourselves about this matter and that is how Allah helped you win peace because He makes evident the very motives in minds of people through results of their own actions.
44) Remember the time when you locked them in the battle of wits He exposed them to you as a people weak in objectives and arguments before your very eyes whereas He saw them taking you as merely an ill equipped minority in their eyes yet Allah let the truth about His program be established through that very party because ultimately only according to set laws of Allah all affairs are settled.
45) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind! When you are faced with opposition you should be strong, that is how you should spread the message of Allah widely so that you could end up successful in your given mission.
46) That is why you should be consistent with program, constitution and law of Allah along with His Messenger and argue not with one another senselessly against the mission that unites you because you will disintegrate and weaken your strength therefore instead show endurance and persistence in following set out objectives and guidelines because Allah supports those who take steps steadfastly but sensibly towards the set goal.
This verse is telling people that to begin with they must be sure within themselves about their cause that it is worth taking up or supporting. Once they know this then they must unite and organise properly before taking on the opposition. Otherwise if they doubt their cause due to being ignorant and go forth disorganised then rather than confronting opposition people will start arguing or fighting among themselves. Confusion and chaos does not lead to any worthwhile outcome.
47) So do not be like those who come forth from their positions in disarray and confused just for purpose of showing off people that they are invincible that is how they intend to stop others from the way of Allah but they forget that Allah confines all their moves against installation of His rule.
48) Behold! When the leading hypocrite among you approached the leadership of your opponents and made their course of actions attractive to them saying, none of these people can overcome you today because I am at hands to help you. Yet when both the parties came face to face with each other, he turned back on his word saying, I cannot support you anymore because I can see which way things are going which you fail to realise. I am now more concerned about success of mission of Allah because mission of Allah is strongly reinforced.
When people have no knowledge about divine mission they think it is just a conspiracy by someone against their way of life therefore easy to defeat but when they come across people who really know about the mission, they find it fully secure from all sides and fail to succeed in their attacks against it.
49) Before testing their strength against Our mission the hypocrites and those who had destructive designs in their minds were saying to each other about followers of the Quran, their ideology for living their lives has deluded them. But the fact is, anyone who relies on setup universal system and laws of Allah will find Allah a mighty wise ruler of this universe.
Here the Quran is telling people about some peoples’ wrong approach to divine program. That is instead of assumption that the Quran is word of God and then scrutinizing it for its truth as per its declared purpose they assume that it is not word of God and then without having any sense about it they just attack it. This is like telling a person who claims to be a witness to an event, you are not a witness and we are not going to pay any attention to your testimony. This means people fail to give benefit of the doubt to the claimant which is not right way to approach this case. The clear argument is that none can negate existence of God because to negate existence of God one has to be capable of knowing for sure that there is no God. Since no creature is that capable therefore to say there is no God cannot be right way of approaching this matter. This is why if anyone claims that I can explain whether there is God or not then that person must be listened to just in case he has found the answer to this question. This is why reading the scriptures becomes absolutely necessary if the scriptures are claimed to be divine testimonies, however if there are sure contradictions between scriptures then not all scriptures can be accepted true but if any of them proves true then that scripture can be used as a criterion to sift through information in other scriptures as well and that is how wrong statements can be identified and disregarded. To disregard each and every scripture is only proper if no scriptural text in its own context makes proper sense as per its claimed purpose. It cannot be justified to disregard any scripture just because one found some mistakes in its translations or interpretations. That is because all educated people know how scriptures have been misused by rulers, their priest and moneylenders to control, use and abuse masses in the name of God. The misinterpretations and misrepresentations are clearly obvious to those who educate themselves about rules of wisdoms. It is because of a word or verse can be interpreted in a sensible way then to interpret it in a way that renders it senseless is not justified. The foundational rules for judging the truth from falsehood are not based on opinion of people therefore in that case majority or minority of people makes no difference. It is rule of logic that if we have two exactly opposite statements then both cannot be true. Now if all people claim, no, this rule is false, the rule remains true. The same is true about the rule that so long as something can be explained properly so that it makes sense or the explanation works then trying to explain it the way it makes no sense and does not work is not right approach. If people do not accept certain rules as absolutely true, people cannot solve any problems at all. They must start from somewhere and make some basic or foundational assumption or supposition and then build on it and keep building on it so long as it keeps working. At the point it stops working only then one has to look for alternative.
This is how we learned to use our brains and senses. We did something and got it wrong and tried against and again till we succeeded and that is how we built a picture of our life time experiences. As soon as we give up trying that is the end of our existence. So all allegedly divine testimonies deserve a decent hearing, if we do not give them fair hearing or disregard them then leaves us nowhere. However it is not an easy task and that is why discussions and debates to help each other learn and clear any problems are necessary. This is why God gave us books to educate us to be real human beings rather than acting like worst than animals. The Quran repeatedly tells mankind to look at universal setup system and the laws according to which the world works but why? So that bear evidences that God is a mighty wise ruler and by following his appointed way of life humanity can also function nicely. Since the Quran points out to us such ideas, it cannot be work of humans. It is because humans were not clever enough even to realise these things so how could they write about these things? Moreover people try to hide information from each other due to rivalries and animosities because they do not want their rivals become clever but scriptures are open knowledge for all to learn from.
50) And if you could just imagine the time that is coming when those who oppose installation of Our rule are delivered fully results of their own harmful and destructive actions and the people who strive for establishing His kingdom confront their leaders as well as their supporters saying, taste the result of the fire of hatred you have created and spread among yourselves.
This verse is telling a community of people who have become totally unreasonable a very important point which is verification of what people are told will happen in due course ie as time goes on and people carry on living the way they live based on rivalry and animosity the time will come when oppression and suppression, injustice and unfairness will increase hatred between people that will peak and there will no longer be any tolerance between people due to complete breakdown of community spirit and so situation will arrive that people will either have to accept the way of life as proposed by the Quran or the will perish. At that time those who warn them through the Quran will confront leaders and supporters of such people that the way of life you followed has finally brought you where we told you, you will end up so there you are. Has the Quran therefore proved right or wrong?
Looking back in history we should ask ourselves, why people have been changing the ruling systems throughout the world? It is precisely because they did not work and the reason was they were all based on power struggle between rulers, priests and moneylenders on one side and masses on the other. Each time a system saturated it created widespread suffering and so masses reacted and some power was taken away by masses from their opponents. Some people were sensible enough to see the change coming so they saved themselves by putting forward something better than what was already there which made life tolerable for masses to some degree so they were saved from total self destruction but others who were too stupid perished by killing each other. Likewise when the prophet delivered the message from God, some people were sensible enough to see things but others ended up destroyed due to their foolishness. God fulfilled his responsibility and his messengers and missionaries did their duty but if people have no sense, who can stop them from going about their daily life the wrong way? This is why the Quranic message is only for those who are mentally alert or alive, mentally dead individuals and nations have no future. The Quran is not about doctored indoctrination of make beliefs and rituals or religious life but about a program for a comprehensive way of life that leads mankind to peaceful, progressive and prosperous life in this world. If people succeed in this life only then they will have a better future life because then they will have proven that they deserve it by their works. So those who fail will have only themselves to blame which will lead them to all sorts of worries and regrets.
51) This terrible situation you brought upon yourselves by your own courses of actions because universal system and laws setup by Allah never deliver wrong results to any people.
52) The same thing happened to people of Pharaoh and to those that had gone before them. They also opposed the goal and guidelines of Allah and victimised their people so Allah found them caught in their own mutual destruction. Surely Allah is mighty and strict in enforcing His setup universal laws.
53) That is why Allah never changes the blissful state of existence which He has bestowed on a people due to their following of His set goal and guidelines until they themselves change their state of existence for the worst by falling away from His goal and guidelines and that is how Allah makes obvious for mankind that His advice is comprehensive and should not be taken lightly.
54) This very same law of consequences was applied to the people of Pharaoh and those who have gone before them, they rejected the set goal and guidelines of their Creator and Sustainer so We caught them in time in the process of their mutual destruction because they did terrible things to each other as a whole nation.
55) This is why the most harmful and destructive people in the sight of Allah are those who reject and oppose Our rule because they do not want to commit themselves to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind as a whole.
56) Such as those who make treaties with you and time after time violate their treaties and show no concern for the advice of God or humanity.
57) So if you decide to counter them by declaring war against them then defeat them decisively making an example of them for others who may be thinking of following their example so that they all may learn a good lesson.
58) Also if you have good evidence to fear treachery from any of the factions with whom you have any treaty then you must finish off the treaty with them well before you decide to attack them because Allah supports not a people who keep not to their words.
59) Let not the opposers of Our rule think that they can get better of those who commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind, surely they can never succeed in frustrating them.
60) However be well prepared against them in every way including the military strength or at least a fighting force that you can muster so that you could use this strength as deterrent against these like enemies of goal and guidelines of Allah and your enemies to prevent them from attacking you and also others besides them who are not obvious to you but obvious to Allah. Remember that whatever you use in the way of installation of kingdom of Allah will be paid back to you in full because you will not be treated using unjust laws in that kingdom.
61) However if these enemies of program of Allah and humanity incline towards peace then accept their offer but remain alert by relying on setup system and laws of Allah. That is how He makes obvious to mankind that He is comprehensive in His advice for them.
The Quran repeats the idea about relying on Allah which means doing things as they should be done in this world ie keep an eye on things and do what is needed to be done. It does not mean just say I trust in Allah and go to sleep and thus give opportunity to enemies to get you while you are asleep. This world works according to a setup system and operates according to some laws so do things keeping this mind. It is not a good idea to leave your camel, horse or donkey loose and go to sleep then expect it will be there when you wake up. You tie your animal securely and go to sleep and then hope that it will be there when you wake up that is what the Quran calls TAWAKAL ALALLAH. It is because this world is based on cause and effect. If you do not build your house wall strong and put heavy roof on it, it is going to come down on you while you are asleep. This is why when your enemies say they are your friends don’t lower your guard straightaway but stay alert and let them build trust over a period of time by doing things they should be doing for this purpose. Once you have the confidence that you can trust the people only then you lower your guard completely.
62) And should they intend to deceive you then setup universal system and laws of Allah should be relied upon by you. He is the One Who has strengthened you thereby with those who have committed themselves to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind
63) by inspiring sense of brotherhood in their minds. If you had spent all that which is in the earth even then you could not have united their minds this way nonetheless Allah has united them because He is mighty wise ruler of this kingdom of universe.
These verses leave one in no doubt what Allah expects of mankind and how they should deal with each other both when there is peace and when there is war situation.
64) O Prophet! Surely universal setup system and laws of Allah are sufficient for you to rely upon and for those who support you of those who are committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
65) O Prophet! Rouse those who claim to have committed themselves to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind to prepare themselves for war also. They should train to such degree that if there are twenty fully trained among you then they should be able to vanquish two hundred and if there are one hundred they should be able to overcome one thousand of those who oppose Our mission because they are enemies of humanity as they are a people who lack the sense of brotherhood and sacrifice for the good of each other.
When a person is fully convinced that one has a cause to fight for the size of task or number of opponents matters not. Because it is cause in which people have confidence that wins the war not number of people. The war does not have to be physical fighting using arms but mental as well for winning hearts and minds of opponents. This is why this Surah starts with mental arguments for convincing other side but ends up on actual war and how to win it. If one really thinks about it, it is all about fighting crime against advice of God and humanity. Here we are talking about antisocial elements among us human beings. To tackle them community needs to be powerful enough to stop them in their track. This is why war are fighting crime is not possible if a people as a community are ill prepared. Also everything involved must be proper because if a community is based on oppression and suppression, injustice and unfairness then this in itself is a crime both against God and humanity and there is no way to fight and win against a people who fight against such ideology its systems, structures, procedures and practices.
66) Just now as things are Allah is informing you that you are not well prepared for wars because there are individuals among you who are weak in their knowledge and fighting skills yet as things stand if there are one hundred good fighters among you, they should be able to vanquish two hundred and if there are one thousand, they should be able to overcome two thousand because that is the declared plan of Allah for you and Allah backs those who stand for His set goal as per His guidelines so that they stand their ground.
The point made here is that when there is a war then even if all people are not fully prepared yet if some of them are then still war can be won due to those who are well prepared. That is because they can use people and resources in a way they can be effective in defeating the enemy. In other words in any such case leadership has to be capable of using its following and resources sensibly. This is why a community must choose leaders who have the ability to carry out the leadership responsibilities fully. The task of leadership is to prepare their supporter and followers to bring them up to the standard required for the task ahead. It is important that a doctor is a good doctor, a farmer is a good farmer, a road sweeper is a good road sweeper, a judge is a good judge, a teacher is good teacher etc etc etc.
67) But remember that in case of war it should not be objective of a prophet to make people his prisoners or to cause aimless bloodshed in the land. Would you therefore go for the short term worthless gains whereas Allah plans the better end goal of installation of lasting blissful kingdom for you? That is because Allah is mighty wise ruler of this kingdom of the universe.
68) That is the reason Allah has given you the program so that you forge ahead by understanding and implementing it lest you are caught in terrible painful suffering like others who inflict harm and destruction upon each other.
69) Therefore take part in all that is lawful because it is productive and beneficial for you that is how you should be consistent with program, constitution and law of Allah for the benefit of mankind. Surely Allah offers protection to mankind through His revealed blissful program.
70) O Prophet! Tell those under your leaderhip in your care of those with limited means that if Allah finds improvement in your mindset, attitude and behaviour due to His message then He will give you even better than what you have been found with and remove your difficulties from you. For Allah protects mankind from harm and destruction through His blissful revelation.
71) And if they still have treacherous designs against you after you set them free from ignorance and poverty then that will not be anything new they have already demonstrated deception to Allah and humanity that is why He gave them under your care for reformation so let them go when they are ready so that they may demonstrate if they have mended their ways. That is how Allah makes obvious for mankind that He is the wise ruler of the kingdom of the universe.
72) As for those who claim to be committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind and migrated mentally and physically and made efforts in the way of Allah with whatever they have and their persons as well as those who helped them, giving them asylum and support are indeed the true supporters of one another. As to those who declared commitment to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind yet emigrated not mentally and physically, you are under no obligation to protect them until they emigrate but it is your obligation to help them if they are oppressed by any other people in matters of their legal rights except against a people with whom you have a treaty and they have accepted to live under their rule. Surely Allah is aware of all that you do to each other or for each other.
73) As to those who oppose Our rule they support each other against it. So if you fail to do as told then there will be wars in your world and great corruption and destruction for you the mankind.
74) Those who have committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind and migrated mentally and physically and made efforts in the way of installing the rule of Allah and those who gave them asylum and support, they are the true supporters of Our guidance. They will in time have freedom from all ills and honourable provisions once the heavenly kingdom becomes fully established in the land.
75) Those who committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind afterwards and migrated mentally and physically and joined you in your ideological struggle to establish the rule of Allah according to His program, constitution and law, they too are your brethren just like people bound by kith and kin relationships with each other according to the book of Allah. Indeed with Allah rests the responsibility of making all things essential obvious for mankind.
This Surah covers a lot of ground from start to finish in nation building process. However, what happens after a community is set up and has sorted out its internal problems? The focus shifts to to outside world so the question arises, how to deal with external problems that are caused by people of other communities, nations or countries etc? This is part of next Surah.
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To the above learned text (and more to come), I would like to add some experiences of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna that I mentioned in my earlier port (I hope nobody minds or takes offence). This is quoted from Ramakrishna’s Wikipedia page:
Ramakrishna had many spiritual and mystical experiences - an interesting and fascinating life.
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SURAH 9 AL TAUBAH - General Amnesty
This Surah is named AL-TAUBAH from root TAA, WOW and BAA. This word was also pronounced AL-THAUBAH therefore it has alternative root as well THAA, WOW and BAA. Concrete meaning of this root is dropping the aimless random action that leads nowhere in favour of a purposeful complete plan of action that leads to definite required or desired end result. This is why it is given various meanings eg return, repent, refer, fabric, network, net, benefit, useful, stones stacked on top of each other, clothes, to come to a gathering, a ditch to which water returns, a place of gathering, a goal, a platform, a resort, reward, consequence, recompense, repetition, volunteer etc etc. The use of word depends on its text in context. In some places context may emphasise one meaning of this word and in another context another meaning. For example, if a person is travelling from place a to place b but along the way he goes of the track then one has lost the way to one’s destination and in order to get to destination one must stop from keep going in the wrong direction and return to the original path for the destination and then continue the journey from where one left it till one finds one’s destination. This means one’s reference is destination as well as the path for it and if something goes wrong then there is also involved a whole process for putting things right. Likewise if one aims for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind but along the way loses the track to it then, one cannot achieve peace, progress and prosperity for mankind unless stops going against that and returns to right path and carries on from there on. It is precisely because one returns to one’s reference point, and overcomes one’s mistake one made along the way that it leads one to benefit of achieving one’s purpose. Had one kept going in the wrong direction, one would have been in loss due to loss of path because of which one could not get to the right destination instead of gain in form of reaching where one was going.
As previous Surah was about formation of an organised community or nation building and dealing with related issues, this Surah deals with issues that arise when one community or nation deals with others. The program, the constitution and the law that bind an organisation or a community or a state do not bind other organisations, communities and states because they have their programs, constitutions and laws for themselves that bind them as such. Therefore need arises to form some sort agreements between organisations, communities or countries for practicalities of life. Just as without a program, a constitution and law a group of human population will be lost so if there is no program, constitution and law between organisations, communities and countries they will be lost. In short random or uncertain existence of human community cannot lead it to peaceful, progressive, prosperous and secure life. Therefore need for humanity to organise itself properly or live a life full of painful suffering because uncertainties lead to anxiety and worries and depression even if nothing bad really happens to any one person or any one community. Agreements between individuals, organisation, communities and countries therefore take out these uncertainties and give people at least some security if not total immunity from anxiety and worries that come into play due to lack of such agreements and treaties between individuals and communities etc. So this Surah deals with inter-communal or international relations and issues.
Since this Surah deals with international relations and issues and not all people accept Allah as the sole ruler of this universe hence the formula verse (bismillah) is not part of this Surah and this is purely a matter for humanity to decide between themselves as to how they want to deal with each other so that all could have some security from each other. It is because there are only three possible ways to live a)total peace between all human beings at all times b)total war between all human beings at all times and c) in between these two extremes. Total peace for all times is not possible between all people unless all people educate themselves properly and learn to live by precepts the Quran states. Total war at all times between all people is also not possible because people do not have that much foolishness or that much energy or resources to do that even if they were all hell bent on destroying each other. As the Quran explains, Allah did not create mankind to destroy each nor people have the ability to destroy each other completely. So the only options on the table are, more war than peace or more peace than war. Since no one wants fights and wars at all times with everyone so humanity is bound to have periods of peace and it is all up to mankind themselves to increase these periods of peaceful existence so that mankind could make some progress and prosper and that in turn can lead to more and more peaceful periods between more and more people in more and more places. So we can see why this Surah is named AL-TAUBAH ie to save mankind from moving in direction of self destruction by putting forth proposals for people to come toward better terms and condition for a better reason ie peace, progress and prosperity of human community as a whole. It is because when there are treaties in place and people can interact with each other it gives them opportunities to educate each other and over a period of time this could lead mankind to better end results because through exchanging ideas people can arrive at better conclusions about each other and this could lead to improvements in human communities including chances for unity.
This Surah explains very clearly the divide between people who are consistent with the actual teachings of the Quran and their opponents. All this is down to who has the best goal for life and the best terms and conditions for unity of mankind. All mankind therefore as they educate themselves are going to move towards the goal stated in the Quran and under the terms and conditions stated in the Quran. That is because humanity cannot think of better goal and terms and conditions than those stated in the Quran. The rest of the Quran is all about explanation of these to settle any concerns, reservations and arguments mankind may have about the goal and terms and conditions or guidelines etc. So the people who claim to follow the Quran cannot join those who do not follow the Quran in matters where they differ but they can all come together on basis of common grounds they find between themselves. This is why discussions and debates between all people are necessary to find out where each side stands and why they take the stand they take and what are the common grounds between them and what could be common grounds between them for the betterment of both the people. The whole purpose of divine teaching is to encourage people to educate themselves so that they could become creative enough that they can find solutions for the problems that face them.
1) This is a proposal for inter-communal peace and security of mankind from Allah for His messenger concerning all those communities out there with whom you should enter treaties because they have taken for rulers other than Allah.
This verse points out the need for prophet and his community to enter agreements with rest of communities who do not live by rule of Allah for the purpose of inter-communal or international peace and security. It is precisely because other communities live their own ways, they must be convinced to enter agreements for inter-communal peace and security for better relations and end results for all side of the divide that enter these treaties otherwise random bloodshed between people belonging to different communities cannot be stopped which leads to harm and destruction of people on each side of the divide. This advice from Allah gives all communities opportunities for their own developments through freedom from aggression by each other at random if they all stick to it. This verse is not about disregarding treaties already in place because if treaties are only made to be disregarded then what will be the point in having such agreements in the first place that are not worth the paper they are written on? The whole world will be at a standstill and there will be no movement by people from land to land because people have no security to move about freely in the world so there will not be much research and exploration work in the world to learn from. Treaties are not new but an old way of trustful existence between people belonging to different tribes and kingdoms. The Quran was not revealed to make world a worst place than it already is but to make it much, much better than what it is. A constitution in a country is a treaty between all people who live by it in its jurisdiction. Tribal customs were also treaties or agreements whereby people decided matters concerning their daily living. Allah is simply telling his messenger to make sure you enter agreements with all people who live by different rules than provided by Allah. If such agreements were not in place or were not respected then humanity will be in big loss through uncontrollable troubles. International treaties in a way bind humanity on basis of human brotherhood despite their differences. Through these like treaties it is possible that one day all people become educated and developed enough to see their main benefits lie in coming together as a single family on basis of terms and conditions stated in the Quran for the purpose of peace, progress and prosperity. However, till that time people can join together on terms and conditions that are not that great but better than fighting wars all the time.
2) So that you all have the opportunity to help the masses, develop and prosper for a period of time and be aware that you cannot defeat this plan of Allah because Allah lets those who work against His plan end up humiliating themselves.
Word FASEEHOO is from root FAA, SEEN and WOW. Concrete meaning of this root is to make room. This is why it means to create space or opportunity or a way for doing something ie to facilitate something or accommodate something for something for some purpose. Show open mindedness or be a big heart person or be open to accepting an idea or a thing etc etc.
This verse tells people the reason why Allah proposes international treaty ie to let mankind have opportunity to develop themselves through interaction with each other. People are told fighting and wars between people is not a good way to live their lives because this holds back humanity from progress and prosperity. It is like one person builds a house and the other comes and destroys it and vice versa, so when these two will get over this situation to start on doing other things they need to do? This is why all people must reach some sort of working relationship that suits everyone to some degree even if not completely.
3) Therefore this is an open declaration from Allah via His messenger for all the people concerned on the day of the Grand Assembly that Allah through His messenger hereby grants general amnesty for those who live by rule of other than Allah. So if you people stop your breach of treaties then it will be beneficial for you but if you keep going back on your word then be warned that you cannot derail the mission of Allah. Moreover tell those who oppose Our rule that painful suffering will be continuing theirs as a result of their course of actions
In this verse, it is made clear to the mankind that they must learn to respect inter-communal treaties for the reasons already told and should not take treaties lightly as some of them have been doing that in the past between each other. If they will still do that then they will get what they have been getting in the past ie mutual harm and destruction at the hands of each other. Where did that get them so far other than their own humiliation? It is also made clear that past incidences and bad behaviour will not count instead it will be a new start so a level playing field for all if in future all parties respect their agreements between each other. People who kept their treaties in the past have been given the credit for it and are told to continue likewise in the future as well and reap the similar benefits.
4) save for those who live by rule of other than Allah yet at least have honoured their treaties with you in every detail and aided none against you. So fulfil your treaties with them to the end of their term because Allah supports those who are consistent with rule of Allah for the benefit of humanity.
5) However if naked aggressions becomes exposed against you by any party of those who live by rule of other than Allah then on that ground you are free to retaliate against such as break the treaty from among those people who live by rule of other than Allah as you see fit wherever you find them causing you trouble, you should seize them, besiege them and lie in wait for them to ambush them using any appropriate stratagem of war yet if they stop their hostilities against you and help you establish Our system and attain freedom from doing any harm to others then help them to be that way, surely Allah is protector of mankind through His blissful revealed program.
Word SALAKHA is from root SEEN, LAAM and KHAA. Concrete meaning of this root is bring something into the open eg flesh of an animal striping off its hide. To bare to the bone, extricate, depart from a reference point or agreement or standard or requirement etc etc.
Word AL-ASH-HURU is from root SHEEN, HAA and RAA. Concrete meaning of this root is an open declaration of something eg when moon is cited it is an open declaration of new month. When sword is drawn it is open declaration of war. It also means to make manifest or known to public at large. This root therefore means fame or famous, something could be famous for good or bad reason. Something or someone notorious etc etc.
Word ALHURUM is from root HAA, RAA and MEEM. It means something that someone is stopped from doing because doing it will lead to harm or destruction. The main things the Quran stops humanity from doing is fighting with each other and wars or bloodshed. The root has been explained already, this is just a reminder.
This verse contains words AL-ASH-HURUL HURUM. In the context of this Surah they mean open aggressions or declaration of warfare. It is because one people are committing acts of open aggression against another that are forbidden between communities by way of treaties between them. So if that happens then the prophet and his community are free to retaliate appropriately till aggression is fully dealt with so that there is no longer any such threat any sooner again. This is necessary because if such situations are not dealt with sensibly and sincerely in time then they could lead to terrible consequences in time to come. The other point made here is that people can switch sides at any time because as dialogues, discussion and debates continue between people and more and more people become more and more educated they will change their minds so it is not right to treat anyone as permanent enemy. This is why door must be kept open for reconciliation between warring people.
6) Even if any party of those who live by rule of other than Allah requests you first for the treaty for peace and security, grant it the assurance of peace and security so that the party may hear about the goals and guidelines of Allah that is how you should lead it to a stage whereat it feels itself truly secure. This is to be done for such people because they are not yet aware of the message of Allah.
This verse tells followers of the Quran that even if any community that is not aware of message of Allah requests for a treaty, grant it and take advantage of the situation by helping them to educate themselves so that they could understand the message of Allah. It is because in the message of Allah rests program for peace and security of mankind. When mankind will understand the message of Allah they will find that it is a win, win situation for all human beings to act upon it but till then people who claim to be followers of Quran must remain ready to help each other as well as people of other communities.
7) How can Allah advise His messenger to enter the treaty with people who take for rulers other than Allah when they keep on breaking the treaty but exception is for such as live by rule of other than Allah with whom you ratified a treaty on behalf of heavenly kingdom and they never breached the treaty? Therefore stick to the treaty with them so long as they keep sticking to it, because Allah supports those who are consistent with Allah for the benefit of mankind.
In this verse clear distinction is drawn between communities that stick to their treaties and those who keep breaching their treaties. Treaties are not based on whatever people believe and do in the names of their religions. The context of the Surah is about entering the agreements between communities whatever their beliefs and practices may be. So long as any community gives no troubles to any other the treaty is fine. Treaty is only put aside when one community repeatedly ignores its agreed obligations and inflicts harm and destruction upon the other at each opportunity, so opportunist treaties are no treaties at all because they are only used as a ploy by one community for taking undue advantage of another community. Therefore Allah is warning his messenger be careful who you enter in agreement with and its purpose.
8) So do not enter in agreement with those who repeatedly breach the treaty, how can you trust any such people who when they see any advantage over you breach the treaty showing no responsibility towards any relationship based on that agreement? So they simply try to take you into confidence by their smooth talk but in their minds they have other plans because most of them work against the rule of Allah as well as against benefit of humanity.
When a people prove by what they do repeatedly that they cannot be trusted then any agreement with such people is useless so no point in continuing this useless exercise. Instead they need to be taught a good lesson to drive home the point that antisocial mindset, attitude and behaviour to this degree is unacceptable and must be retaliated to wipe it out for peace and security of mankind. When a part of body becomes so damaged that it cannot be repaired in any way and becomes a danger for survival of rest of the body then time has come for amputation. Such people who have no respect for humanity therefore must be first isolated by international community and if that does not work then should be eliminated to save rest of humanity. It is because each of the communities must follow some way of life whereby it could be judged whether it can be trusted or not for a workable inter-communal relationship. If a people fail even in up keeping with common human decency and become a danger for human race then humanity will have to be better without such people who try to damage and destroy humanity.
9) Such poeple have traded the terms and conditions of kingdom of Allah for the benefit of mankind for their individual gains at the expense of human community that is why they hinder others from His advised way of life. Harmful and destructive indeed is their course of actions for the human community.
10) They neither help others by honouring the obligations based on social relationships nor observe the obligations of treaties with those who claim to have committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind. These are such a people indeed who have transgressed beyond all bounds of human decency.
11) Yet if they stop doing all this and accept responsibility for their wrong doings and start helping you establish Our system in order to help you attain freedom from all ills in the community then they are your ideological brethren under Our constitution. That is how We explain Our goal and guidelines in detail for people who wish to understand and implement them.
12) But if they violate their peace treaty with you yet again after agreeing to it and start interfering with your installation of Our constitution within your jurisdiction then you are free to fight with such chiefs and their personnel who are blood thirsty warmongers. Since their peace agreements prove worthless so war is the only way to stop them from their harmful and destructive designs against mankind.
13) Why should you not fight against such people as have broken their peace treaties again and again and conspired to expel the messenger as well as they were the first to start the open aggressions against you? Are you people trying to show such concern for them that they do not really deserve? No, you shouldn’t instead it is Allah’s goals and guidelines that are more deserving of your attention if you really are committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind because peace is not possible with people who only want war.
If a person moves away from fighting but the other keeps coming after him and starts fighting with him then it becomes necessary that the fighter is taught a lesson till he has learned it and never forgets it. The Quran does not allow people to give in to harmful and destructive elements in human society.
14) Therefore fight and defeat them that is how Allah will make them suffer the painful consequences of their actions by your hands in order to contain them that is why He will support you against them and that is how He will soothe the hearts and minds of those who are committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind by putting back their trust in human community.
When a people prove untrustable due to their treachery and deception, it is a big blow to international relations that is why it is a very serious matter. This trust cannot return till steps are taken to reinstate it by completing defeating such elements. This is why no individual or community must deceive anyone because then they will lose their support once found out. It is never easy to rebuild the lost trust nor confidence.
15) That is how He will take away all the arrogance and rancour from their hearts and minds making them realise the truth after their defeat because Allah turns towards His blissful revelation whoever so desires and works towards it, that is how Allah makes obvious for mankind that He alone is the ruler of this universe the one full of wisdom.
16) Do you think that if you fight them not then you will be left alone by these people? Not at all and Allah has not yet made known amongst yourselves as to which of you people have exerted your utmost effort in His cause and which of you did not rely on other than revelation of Allah through His messenger and those who claim to have committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind, that is how Allah shows that He is well aware of all that you people need to do.
17) It cannot be expected of any such leadership and its following that keeps breaching the treaties from among those who live by rule of other than Allah that they can install and maintain the constitutional institutions of Allah because they make it amply clear for all communities involved to see by their such actions against the goals and guidelines of Allah. It is such people whose actions lead to harm and destruction whereby all end up in painful suffering through fire of hatred.
18) The institutions of Allah for serving humanity can only be installed and maintained by those who really commit themselves to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according to the program, constitution and law of Allah for the good end result for the mankind by way of establishing heavenly system for eliminating all ills in the community by paying full attention to nothing other than set up universal system and laws of Allah. It is they who are expected to implement His goal according to His guidelines faithfully.
Here attention of followers of divine message is drawn to a very important point that even though international relations are very important yet other people who do not yet accept message of the Quran cannot be expected to implement it. So followers of the divine message must carry on with their duty of implementing the divine program by using the Quran as constitution and guidelines for formation of laws. Put in place in the kingdom state institutions and administrations as told in the Quran for serving community faithfully. Once this is done and people of other communities see heavenly inspired kingdom working properly it should pull them to do the same for themselves. The other point is that no matter what any people claim, it matters not till they bring forth the evidence for what they claim. So the community that claims to follow the Quran, if their claim is true then they must have something to show for it, therefore one has to ask, have they anything to prove themselves as followers of the Quran? If other communities look at state of Muslim community, they will not be willing to accept the Quran is divine or Muslims are any better people than rest of them. This is because a tough question arises for Muslims to answer, if Muslims are truly following the Quran and it has landed them into this sort of life then the Quran is definitely not divine in its origin. Or if the Quran is definitely divine then Muslims are most certainly not followers of the Quran, looking at the state they are in. This question needs to be answered by Muslim Ummah with certainty and soon. Unfortunately for the time being Muslims cannot answer this question because that needs knowledgeable people and currently of education in Muslim countries is shameful. This is why people who ought to be leading mankind are left far behind in matters of importance. When Ummah is going to catch up with rest of humanity is anyone’s guess. There are not many proper universities, colleges and schools to cater for such huge ignorant population of Ummah. Muslim have grossly misunderstood the message of the Quran and are spreading worst ignorance based concepts about Islam so it is a spiral of downhill slide. Odd intellectual arise among Muslims but they are buried under tonnes of ignorant mullahs who are sent out of thousands of madrassas around the world funded by foreign agencies to keep Ummah tangled up in its ignorance so that it cannot play its real part in its international position among nations.
Before mankind could appreciate AL-ISRA= the journey of knowledge, it is absolutely necessary that we think over relationship between creation, divine revelation and mankind.
If we ask ourselves, what happened after we were born? The only answer will be we started on our journey of discovery. Discovery of what? Knowing ourselves, our environment, our past and thoughts about our future.
Let us take our self awareness first, did we know who we are when we were born? The answer is, no, we did not know who we are. In fact we did not even know if we have a brain or how it works. The first thing we learned on our journey of discovery was to learn how to use our brains. The brain needed external input before it could start learning its own use. Let us begin with eyes. Did our brain know how to use our eyes? No, it did not know how to get information from the eyes and what to do with it. However, once it tried to look at information that it received through the eyes, it tried to get more and more information from the eyes and then it started to make sense of it little by little.
When brain tried to look at something it could not look at it straight away rather it missed the target again and again but gradually through a lot of trial and error it finally learned how to control movement of eyes. Please look at babies and see how long it takes them to focus their eyes properly. This is why the saying practice makes perfect. Brain learned through help of eyes to look at things then learned to make judgements about the information received from the eyes eg what the things is, how big it is, how far it is, what colour it is, what shape it is etc etc. So you can see that brain had to learn how to use itself and its senses eg eyes, ears, nose, tongue, limbs and rest of body etc etc. Now think about how much time was involved in each of these steps and how many mistakes were made during that time to master the techniques involved in learning each of these skills.
Just as our brains made countless mistakes in learning how to use eyes properly, so they did when they started to learn use of our ears. The information received through the ears told us where is the sound coming from, how far the sound is coming from, what is making this sound etc etc. How long it took our brains to learn how to use our ears properly and how the brain made sense of the information received through the ears and how many mistakes we made while learning all this? So far there is no God or revelation journey just self discovery. How long it took us to perfect use of our hands and feet? Did you catch the ball the very first time when your mummy or daddy thrown a ball to you? No, your hands were here, there and everywhere but nowhere near the ball to catch it. How long it took us to learn how to throw a ball and catch it and how many mistakes did we make before we learned the skill?
Think about how long it took us to sit up or crawl or stand up or to walk and run or jump etc? How many mistakes we had to make to learn each of these like skills?
After being able to learn about ourselves we began exploring our environment ie our toys, our relatives, our household and wider world. How long that takes us to learn skills to interact with things within our environment and in wider universe and how many mistakes are made along the way?
Let us ask ourselves a question? Is it at all possible for humans to learn anything without making so many mistakes? The answer is no, it is not possible. We humans are self programming robots. We are created with ability to learn things but along the way we are prone to making loads of mistakes because that is what being a human being means.
All this is called life experience or information and understanding or knowledge. So far I have not talked about God and revelation. What does that tell us? It tells us God and revelation is not the start of the journey of discovery. It is the other end of it ie when we have learned about ourselves and our universe and things in it only then questions arise in our minds, what is all this set up out there, who set it up and for what purpose. Now comes the journey of discovery based on God and revelation after our life experiences force us to ask some very basic and very fundamental questions.
Once we discover ourselves we are still like other animals, when we learn about our environment we are still like other animals because they too know how to use their brains and senses and find their way around to carry on with their lives just like people. The only time we rise above animals is when we start asking questions that animals do not ask. Those questions set us on journey to discovery of God through his revelation but in light of what we have learned already. If we did not have this experience, we could not understand the need for divine revelation nor could understand it in general because it is like seeing something the very first time or hearing something the very first time or feeling something the very first time. When our mothers called us the first time we did not know they were our mothers or that they were calling us. So think about it how could you understand the divine book if it was given to you before all this life experience? Now think also about the fact that if you were given anything that contradicted your self awareness or your life experience could that be acceptable to you? The answer is, no. It is because your life experience is the only thing that you trust and live by and if anything takes that away then you have lost your whole personality ie you will be like a brainless something but not a thinking a person. This is why divine revelation ought enrich and enhance human experience and personality, not destroy it.
Not everyone rises to this level of thinking rather most people live like animals and die away. Those who start on this journey of discovery, they do not end up necessarily on the right spot. Why not? Because like our self discovery and discovery of our environment this journey is not free of making loads of mistakes either. Also life is a limited period of time in which one can only learn so much.
Here we must realise two things. a)God is God so his word must be supposed to be purposefully perfect. b) We must necessarily due to our life experience accept that man is created without knowing anything ie with clean slate brain. The first step for man is that he must learn about himself and then about universe in which he is born because that is his environment and when he has learned enough he then should try and understand the divine revelation accepting the fact that he is going to make a lot of mistakes before he gets it near about right.
What does this tell us? It tells us people who are ignorant about their own self awareness or lack awareness of universal realities cannot be people who can understand divine message because they do not have the needed information that helps decode divine message.
Let us take the Quran for example, how many people understand its text in its context properly? Not the people who live their lives like animals, not interested in learning things. It matters not what they claim to be their level of information and its understanding exposes them whether they are truly learned or mere big mouth for their own reasons.
Other than the Quran, all sources of information are human works. This includes works on the Quran itself ie tafaseer of the Quran. They are all either true or false attempts at getting what the Quranic message may be. I say true because not all people who try to make sense of the Quran are insincere nor all are sincere because all people only do what they want to do and all do as much as they think they need to do. So we all have our reasons for saying and doing things that we say or do. That either makes us sincere or insincere with work we undertake. Learning is an open ended thing, none can claim I know each and everything there is to know. It is a very long journey because it is a very long road to travel upon. All we can do is make our journey and cover as much of the distance as much we can and hope for the best. So all we need to do is make sure as much as it is within our capability to make sense of things purposefully. This helps cutting out confusion and chaos to some degree.
This is why reading the Quran aimlessly is useless. If one reads it for finding out what it actually says then one has to spend some time on it because that involves a lot of thinking and going back and forth many times over to try to get as close to what it really means as possible. Leading lives by asking useless questions of others about God or his message and never using one's own brain leads one nowhere other than confusion and a useless life like animals. It is because it is a purposeless life.
One must always remember the Quran is sole divine source of knowledge for Islam in the whole wide world. Reports collected in form of ahadith books are human source of information which is not free of fabrications so one needs to be very careful in using hadith books, particularly if one has no sense of the Quranic text in its own context. Relying on hadith reports more than the Quran is not a good idea. The main thing for all should be the Quran and after having learned the Quran one will have some idea how to use ahadith and which ahadith are more likely to be fine and which may not be sound or dependable for reasons explained by collectors and criticisers of hadith works.
The same idea should be used for islamic history books, biography of the prophet and fiqh or islamic jurisprudence etc. People have been inventing and attributing a lot of false information to God and his messengers. The proof is, the Quran has repeatedly said don't tell lies about God or so and so people lied about God or his messengers. By not trying to look at things in their proper context one is not doing oneself and others any favours.
If it is difficult to understand the Quran , it is not easy to understand hadith either. Was it an easy journey for us to become aware of ourselves? No. Was it easy to learn about our own environment and the universe? No. Why should then we expect that understanding the message of God will be a piece of cake? Skills are not learned easily that is our life time experience but that does not mean we should giveup on learning things and live like animals. That humanity must never do or it will find its life more and more difficult, not easy.
Humanity is one big family so this family must help each other out in order to learn things so that we end up with better life than we have. The Quran is a book that can give us solid foundation for our journey towards a better future.
The main point from all this explanation one must realise is, never to interpret the divine message against real world realities because understanding of the divine message fully depends upon it. You cut off the Quran from real world realities then you have destroyed your base upon which your whole life experience is founded. Any book that is interpreted that way becomes useless for people and that is why people must not follow brainless people who claim to be scholars of holy books but interpret them in ways that they disconnect them from real world realities or set them against real world realities. Always remember if something is useless in this world it is useless in any world. People need help with way of living in this world to begin with. In other words God matters more in this world than any other world as far as humanity is concerned. So if God was useless in this world he will not become useful for any other world. People need to have right concepts about God as he has told them in his message. This is why attributing harmful and destructive ideas to God is a very bad idea because this renders human differences irreconcilable, which defeats the very purpose of human creation and divine revelation.
This should also explain what word ISRAA means, a journey to an imaginary world or something more down to earth? The Quran takes humanity on a journey of learning so that it could set up its world in a way that helps humanity live a blissful life. The stories of past people are told as lessons for us as to what they got out of life when they followed divine precepts and how they suffered and ended up destroying themselves by going about life like worse than animals. Choice is ours to learn things and make use of our learning for the benefit of ourselves or just do as we please and then see what happens to us as a human population.
People therefore should avoid nonsense stories ignorant people have invented and spread about God, his messengers and other people. They are only invented for a purpose and people should try and discover that purpose from those stories. God sent his messages to turn a human shaped animal into a proper human being and not the other way round. No prophet was sent to be master of any other human being as his slave. Even God himself did not create man to be his slave. God created man to be a man to appreciate creativity of God through being creative himself.
There is nothing wrong if we call God or his messengers or others masters in sense of teachers. We have wrong understanding of a lot words and terms used in the Quran because we have lost interest in studying the Quran objectively for its purpose. We have turned God into a tyrant monster and need intermediaries to save us from this tyrant. This is not how God introduces himself to us. How many time we say bismilla yet never bother to ponder on the concepts attached to these words. We have not appreciated God yet as we ought to because we have not pondered over the text of the Quran in its proper context. That is what we should do if we are at all interested in knowing what is actually in the Quran.
The mullahs we follow are not aware of even themselves let alone the universal realities, this is why they cannot teach us the Quran as it ought to be taught. This is why they interpret verses of the Quran as they wish and not on basis of real world realities. This is why muslims as an ummah are most confused people. This condition of ummah cannot change unless we start getting interested in learning real information about real things and understand it and then study the Quranic text in that light.
Sir syed told this ummah that but mullahs went after him, Dr Iqbal was also pursued by mullahs for similar views about Islam. May be it is time to reconsider stance of Sir Syed and Iqbal if we are at all interested in our rise as an ummah. In fact we need another Sir Syed for our time who could see into distant future as of today. We surely do not need stupidity of mullaiyat or priesthood any more if we really want to get out of this mess we have created for ourselves by going about things the foolish way.
19) Do you take as equals those who are committed to giving life to warfare and cultivating an environment against bringing about heavenly kingdom to those who are committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according to program, constitution and law of Allah for the better end goal for the mankind by struggling in the way of Allah? They are not same in sight of Allah and Allah does not impose guidance on those who work against it.
20) Those who truly commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind and leave their homes in support of cause of Allah and struggle using whatever ways and means they have along with their people as a community are surely raised very high in dignity by Allah because they attain and maintain peace through progress for prosperity of mankind.
21) Their Creator and Sustainer gives them program for blissful life through revelation from Himself as a reference so that it provides for them the basis for blissful kingdom wherein are blessings of all sorts that last.
22) they abide therein for as long as they live by rule of Allah. Surely it is Allah in whose program rests great life as a reward for mankind.
23) O you who claim to have committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind! Supports not your community leaders and your fellow community members if they love waging wars against each other instead of striving for peace, progress and prosperity of the human community, so if any of you will back them up then such people are of those who transgress against program, constitution and law of Allah.
24) Say to such people, if despite their working against rule of Allah your leaders, your followers, your community fellows, your team members you work with, the people you socialise with, the things you have acquired, the things you have traded for due to fear of loss and the ways in which you are set are more valuable for you than working for establishing the rule according to the revealed constitution of Allah through His messenger and struggling for installation and implementation of program of Allah then wait till law of consequences as set by Allah shows its effects, and remember, Allah guides not those who learn not His advice and instead rebel against it.
This verse makes it very clear for humanity that if people are ok the way the life is for them then Allah will not do anything to get them out of it, he will only get them out of any way of life with which they are unhappy but he will only get them out of it the way he has told them in his message and not any other way no matter whatever they try. So if any people want any change then first thing they need to do is educate themselves about the state in which they exist and look for reasons that got them into that situation. After that look for state of existence that they would like to be in realistically and then look for realistic ways to get there and once all is sorted out act on it and be there. A clear lesson for mankind, that, it is all up to people themselves not up to God. God has already provided people with all they need including his revelation so when people educate themselves to use provided things properly and use them their problems will be solved. So long as people stick to each other on baseless grounds they will remain as they are and keep facing the same results for their same actions. Only when they base their relationships with each other on foundation of heavenly revealed precepts they will have the proper change that will really benefit them. So God does not offer mankind magical, mysterious, miraculous or supernatural solutions at all. Instead he wants mankind to work very hard for what they want thereby encourages them to be creative and dependable and self reliant people, not looking for saviours with supernatural powers. This is proof the Quran is word of other of human beings because it talks about down to earth solutions for problems of humanity.
25) Allah has indeed helped you on many occasions in life and most recently during the period of turmoil that faced you because at the time you valued yourselves very high as individuals against each other due to your arrogance and rivalries and animosities against each other, so your that mindset, attitude and behaviour did not help you at all. The land despite its vastness seemed closing in upon you as a people yet you retreated from the brink of destruction due to His revealed program.
Here Allah is reminding these people who are in two minds that he sent the Quran only because humanity was in need of guidance because it was at the brink of self destruction but this guidance is not going to guide them if they will ignore it and carry on living as usual or if they will try to use this guidance as a tool for using and abusing each other in the name of God . When people have gone so far in rivalries and undercutting each other through cutthroat competition then, animosity and hatred settles in and hopelessness takes over because community spirit is no longer there so there is no compassion and goodwill in minds of people for each other. This is where divine help is still at hands if people decide to refer to it but if they do not then the setup divine system and laws of nature remain constantly at work and people get what they deserve. The Quran is full of stories about past nations as to what they deserved and what they got by doing what they did.
26) And that was due to Allah sending His manifesto and constitution through His messenger for people to commit themselves to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind and thereby He revealed to you for your rescue forces which you did not realise before yet the opponents of the message remained in painful suffering and that is how He made opponents of His rule suffer the painful consequences of their own actions.
When people took themselves to the brink of destructions through their course of actions due to the way they lived, Allah dropped them a life line to cling onto to save themselves. Some did others did not. However, some who were saved then are at it again so they are reminded what happened to them earlier and same is going to repeat if they takes things back to the way they were then. The other thing we are told about here are forces that these people were unaware of. Of course, the Quran reveals the forces it is talking about and those forced are knowledge and people who learn it and act upon it. That is how the divine messengers were successful because they were able to educate their people and thereby unlocked the potential of their supporters for succeeding in fight for life or survival. Knowledge is power and anyone who has knowledge is very powerful indeed. One only has to see where man is today as compared to when he was living in caves. Forces of nature need to be understood by mankind and used for its own benefit is the lesson of the Quran. Allah has created all for man to use it for his benefit through his own creativity and hard work. It is a matter of sky is the limit ie man is only limited by his own imagination as far as the Quran is concerned.
27) Despite their such mindset, attitude and behaviour Allah kept the door to His guidance opened for all of them so that any who make effort to learn it, benefit from it, because Allah is protector of all mankind but He secures them only through His revelation that can lead them to prosperity.
28) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind! No matter what beware of those who take for rulers other than Allah because they are fully submerged in harmful and destructive motives and designs against humanity therefore do not let them undermine program, constitution and law of Allah within the jurisdiction of heavenly kingdom after a period of general amnesty and reconciliation so that they stop harming the community spirit and reform. If you are concerned about poverty of constructive thought and action in people, soon Allah will enrich you through His program because that is what His plan is about. That is how Allah makes evident for mankind that He is the ruler who has the wisdom to run the kingdom of universe.
Word NAJASUN is from root NOON, JEEM and SEEN. Concrete meaning of this root is something that is not free of impurities. The same root is used to mean charm, amulet, profanity, filth, dirt, impure, unclean or desecration etc. In the Quranic context this word means harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour people have towards each other from which the Quran stops people because it harms humanity.
Words AL-MASJID AL-HARAAM means kingdom or state or institution based upon divine teaching ie sacred kingdom or heavenly inspired kingdom. A kingdom based on the concept of submission to will of God for the benefit of mankind. The institutions that are put in place to carry out divine work for serving humanity are also called AL_MASAAJID. This word does not mean temples or places of worship as it is usually translated because Islam is not a religion ie a dogmatic creed that needs places for carrying out religious rituals. Islam is a AL-DEEN ie a program or a roadmap for mankind to live their lives by for a set goal ie peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
Humans are material beings and all their needs are material needs eg a biological body cannot come into existence or continue its existence without food and water and because people are born with brains so they need psychological food as well which is knowledge and due to being biological and emotional beings people need social interaction. People need God only because otherwise they cannot make sense of life. So understanding divine message and acting according to it is called spiritualism or divine inspired way of life. The superstition, the magic, the mystery etc etc has nothing to do with Islamic spiritualism. If human mind could get in touch with God all by itself then that would have eliminated the need for concept of divine revelation just like people do not need divine revelation for self awareness and awareness about the universal realities. All that is needed for that is brain and senses and ability to use them to feel the way around things. This is not the case when it comes to God and his revelation. In this case even though man is not capable of reaching God but God is capable of reaching man so if man wants to know what God wants of him then he has to look for his message in light of real world realities. Once man find divine message and understands it and does what is required him he will get the results of his actions as promised by God.
29) So campaign hard against those who do not commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind within the heavenly kingdom according to program, constitution and law of Allah for bringing about the new era that is beneficial for mankind- because they stop not each other from doing what Allah has forbidden through His messenger by embracing not the standard for their judgement which is proper because it is beneficial for the mankind- until they are convinced and become consistent with universal laws of Allah that are beneficial for mankind or they will be humbled in time even if such people belong to the people of the book.
Word JIZYAH is from root JEEM, ZAA and YAA. Concrete meaning of this root is result of an action. Wage for the work done or effect of a cause. The same root also means to stand for, taxation, to pay tribute, requital, reward, verdict, decision or judgement etc.
These verses in the Quran are dealing with people belonging to different communities in different respects in context of Islamic state and its jurisdiction. The Quran tells its followers to make all people live by their own accepted ways of life so that whatever people do as communities it does not cause inter-communal troublesome problems. This is done to stabilise world situation so that all people know clearly where they each stand with respect to each other. In a confused and chaotic situation people become totally stuck due to lack of trust between communities because no one knows what to expect at any moment in time so life becomes potentially hazardous for all. This is why if you accept to live within a certain jurisdiction you must abide by its rules or leave the state and go live where you can the way you want. If you live within a state then state laws apply and if you travel to other states then international laws apply as well as the laws of others states that you are travel to or through. All laws regarding entry and exist or transit must be adhered to at al times or people will create troubles for themselves as well as others.
This verse tells mankind that all people must be made to live by some sort of standard they choose for themselves so that chaos and confusion could be taken out of inter-communal or international relation between people so that they could work together on common grounds. It is this kind of working relationship between people that let people move from place to place and that is how people were able to bring about the world that we have today despite all the difficulties that faced humanity along the way. So in this verse the Quran urges all people to live by laws of lands and advises that all laws of all lands must be as beneficial for people as they can be so that humanity has a way open to keep progressing till it reaches its full potential. All people are urged to fight against laws in any land to change them if they are far too oppressive and suppressive that end result has to be chaos and confusion. It is left up to people to decide for themselves how much freedom they want for themselves from each other. Likewise non-Muslims living in Muslim lands must be given appropriate freedom in return for loyalty to Islamic state. None is allowed to create a state within a state be one a Muslim or a nonMuslim. Just as all communities need inter-communal or international working relationship so all the individuals within a state need a working relationship within the state. If anyone falls outside that then, one will have to face the consequences. This is why this verses is talking about people giving up their freedom in context of protection from the state. You cannot take up arms against the state and claim the citizenship of the state as well. It has to be one or the other. Islam is not interested in what people believe and practice in religious sense but it is very much interested in how human society is setup, structured or systemised for its procedures and practices for management of people and resources. All people are given equal rights to livelihood regardless they are religious or not. God has no problem with people but people do have problems with people and God shows mankind how those problems can be solved. It is up to people to make each other see sense.
30) The party of Jewish priests claims the priestly order established in the name of Ezra is proper Judaism according to Allah and the party of Christian priests claims the priestly order established in the name of Messiah is proper Christianity according to Allah. That is what they claim on basis of hearsay accounts without any proof, borrowing the make beliefs and ritual practices of those who used to oppose Our rule in the past. Challenge of Allah is upon them to prove their claims so that they come to know how disconnected they are from His guidance due to giving themselves to make beliefs.
Here Jews, Christians and all other communities including Muslims are challenged by God to prove their religions are actually revealed by God. It is because God never revealed any religion. God simply revealed his programs, constitutions and laws for all people to abide by. The main sources for basis of religions are also revealed ie hearsay accounts about religious personalities. This verse leaves one in no doubt that Torah as claimed by Jews is not actual the Torah that was given to Moses that was just like the Quran. This writing the Jews have as Torah is attributed to Moses and Joshua not God. Similar is true about Injeel that was given to Jesus. That too was like the Torah and not the Gospels that Christians have today that are attributed to disciples of Jesus. This does not mean that these books have no actual divine message in them but that that message is copies from the original sources and these books are not original divine works like the Quran is. They are more like Muslim collections of Hadith works wherein all information originates from human sources and some of it is false because it contradicts the Quran. Further more Muslims too are victims of Mullahism or priesthood just like Jews and Christians and Parsees and Hindus etc etc. All nonsense make beliefs and rituals are found among Muslims as well just like other communities which are against the teachings of the Quran. Humanity has a very long way to go yet before it can see errors in its ways of life.
31) They have taken words of their Rabbis and priests to base their lives upon instead of taking the revelations of Allah through the appointed leader of community of Mariam as foundation for their communities despite being commanded to take words of God as the sole basis for formation of laws for setting up the heavenly kingdom because none has the right to rule but He alone. Dignity for mankind lies only in His rule and it is not possible through rule by any other and He is free of any partners and rivals in His sovereignty of this universe.
Here the Quran dismantles completely all the religions by telling mankind a simple fact that religions were invented by priests against what was revealed by God and why. In other words God is disowning religions and telling us what he actually revealed and why he revealed it. This can be proven from existing religious scriptures themselves ie they clearly contain commandments which only and only apply to human community relationships where as religion are private and personal affair of individuals. A clear contradiction between what scriptures state and what priests say. Priesthood among Muslims also suffers from same disease that it tells people Islam too is just a religion like any other religion. The question is why Muslim priests say the same thing as priesthood of any other religions? It is because when people turned to Islam in great numbers from all religions they overwhelmed existing original Muslim community so they kept living by same concepts they were brought up with in their original religious communities. Over a period of time their ideas became labelled as Islam because people who converted to Islam were much bigger populations than those who invited them to Islam. Whenever a smaller community will open its door for other communities it will become swamped if it is not careful.
32) These religious leaders wanted to extinguish the light of Allah's guidance by spreading their make beliefs and falsehood in His name but Allah will establish His light for guidance of mankind fully in due course despite the opposition of such like people who dislike and discourage His rule.
33) Behold! It is He Who has sent His messenger with His goal and guidelines as a program, constitution and guidelines for law for mankind so that He makes its benefits amply distinct in comparison to all other ways of life even if those who take rulers other than Allah dislike and oppose its establishment.
34) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind! Surely most of the Rabbis and priests take away the God given rights of the people to His provisions by spreading their self invented beliefs in the name of Allah and that is how they hinder them from the proper way of life as set out for mankind by Allah. They do all this to keep all the treasures of useful things including gold and silver under their control as their personal wealth so they open not things of use for the cause of Allah to benefit their communities therefore alert them about the painful consequence of their such actions.
This verse hits the nail on its head exposing priesthood fully and why these priests do what they do ie to enslave people both mentally and physically. By controlling people through doctored religious indoctrination and by controlling things the people need they can be used and abused at will. So one can see why the whole world has ended up seriously confused, corrupt and in chaos. More and more people are ending up depressed and more and more are ending up committing suicide and billions are living below poverty line because they are forced to do so. All because there is a deliberate conspiracy against masses by rulers, priests and money lenders who are working as a team. No wonder then the Quran had to be misinterpreted and misrepresented to keep its real message hidden so that these people could continue their use and abuse of rest of mankind. This should also clear confusion about why mullahs are supported by nonMuslim sources to keep madrassas going to keep Ummah in this confusion through mullahs. Why not build proper schools, colleges and universities and hospitals and industries to enable a people stand on their own feet? Why conditions must be attached with aids given that actually destroy communities? Moreover little aid reaches those who need it most and most of it ends back in pockets of those who give it and loans are given to communities to keep them enslaved through interest on capital instead of helping them develop. A perfect setup and mechanism for use and abuse of masses all over the world. All this shows lack of community spirit and personal gain at heart. No wonder then that hatred between communities is increasing due to spread of distrust through disinformation which lead to increase in suspicion and animosities. It is therefore important that just as dominant elite is united so should masses in communities to fight this domination for use and abuse of all masses in all communities throughout the world.
35) Unless they avoid this mindset, attitude and behaviour the day is surely coming in due course when their treasures which they stole from others will produce heat of hate like hell among their own people whereby their leaders, their team members and their backers and supporters or followers will end up being targeted by their victims for revenge. They will be told by them, this is the outcome of your act of stealing and storing the treasures for your future so taste the pleasure of what you hoarded for your future generations.
When a few people try to control land and resources and means of production and distribution and thereby mismanage or rather use and abuse human power and resources then needs of people cannot be met and when that happens people end up reacting to this in a terrible way. When some people try to destroy lives of others than they end up taking revenge for that and so whole communities end up destroyed. The Quran is full of stories about past generations of humanity and historical records back it up. So there is plenty to learn from if people would educate themselves about things.
36) In order to avoid such unnecessary bloodshed and chaos by sudden outbreak of violence and upheavals by one party against the other it is prerequisite in sight of Allah that sound understanding of things must be allowed to prevail massively among mankind for a developed exemplary human community to come about according to the book of Allah, since the day humanity became divided into people in positions of power and the people stuck in the rut the progress and prosperity of mankind became restricted and strangled. That is the way mankind lived therefore do not keep your people in the same situation of painful suffering by keep going along the same path instead campaign against those who take for rulers other than Allah altogether just as they campaign against you as a team. Moreover let it be known that Allah is with those who work for the benefit of the mankind.
37) Surely ignoring this advice causes increase in acts of revengefulness among people about which are in confusion those who oppose Our rule due to their arrogance that even thought they hold it binding in some aspects sometimes they ignore it in other respects at other times, so that that way they could create a situation that is consistent with their harmful and destructive desires and ambitions and that is how they make lawful what is forbidden by Allah. Their such harmful course of actions seemingly gives them advantage over others that is why Allah guides not a people who instead of learning and understanding His program oppose it.
The Quran is clearly calling on mankind to not to be ignorant fools to be trapped by scheming dominant people ie rulers, priests and moneylenders etc instead learn things and become educated through helping each other and stay alert and expose them for what they stand and campaign against their plots and conspiracies against masses as a team and save mankind from painful suffering. It is precisely because masses are not bothered to get up for their rights that dominant people use and abuse them.
38) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind! What is the matter with you that when you are asked to march forth in the way of Allah for the benefit of mankind some of you cling to the ground? Are you becoming complacent to the terrible standard of life that you have at present for yourselves instead of trying to change it for the better in the hope of better future? If so even the little comfort you have will not last for very long because harmful ways of life will keep on spreading through these people if you sit idle and that will render your works you have already done to nothing and if you are already too late then any effort you make will be useless once you are fully trapped. Behold! Comfort in your life as your life is will prove short lived as compared to the life you can bring about for your future so letting that opportunity slip is not going to be anything great for you.
Here the Quran is telling people, it is not enough to declare commitment to the divine cause rather one must prove oneself true to the cause by acting for it and in time ie one has to prove one’s words by one’s deeds by fulfilling the goal. Actions must speak louder than words. You deem an objective good after clearly understanding it then why hesitate in supporting it by action so that it is accomplished as well? You want better life then work for it. It is not going to come about all by itself. God only helps those who help themselves as well. Sitting on prayer mat asking God to serve you is very disrespectful if one comes to think of it. God is like a good parent who gives advice to his children but it is up to children to live their lives successfully. Where is sense in turning round and telling your parent, go on you do the work as well I am going to sit tight. This is disrespectful both for parents as parents and children as children. It shows one has no self respect and no respect for others. God tells people, he does not change condition of a people if they do not play their part in it.
39) Still if you do not see need for marching forth with the message for the benefit of the mankind then He will let you remain in your painful suffering as per His set system and laws so in time He will find you replaced by another people because you cannot find any disruption in His setup system and laws, for Allah has set up universal laws for disposing off all affairs about everything.
Here those who declare their commitment to divine cause are clearly warned that if they want results they must act for getting those results. God cannot be persuaded by praises or crying or condemnations. He has setup system and laws and those who will do things according to that setup will get the results. It is same in any legal battle that if you do not fight your case you do not win no matter how much you praise the judge. Also God could not please everyone any way because all people have opponents and each side will be asking God for help so how can God help both people fighting against each other? This is why it is all systematic based on laws and if anyone follows the system as its laws dictate then one will get the results accordingly. No prayers required. A prayer is more of a personal wish and to turn it into a reality one has to rely on system and laws setup by God for running the universe. A prayer is also about refreshing the covenant or promise with God that you will live as explained by God so that mankind have peaceful, progressive and prosperous life.
40) It is unlike of you the people to not to support Our messenger because you know full well that he is supported by Allah for His mission. Call to mind the time when the opponents of his mission drove him out of his township and they were just two men at the time but look at your numbers now, the while they were in the cave during migration the second of the two said to his companion, worry not because Allah is with us. At length Allah fulfilled His word that was sent to him and in due course strengthened him with forces which you could not imagine at that time and that is how We rendered the influence based on arrogance of those who opposed Our rule ineffective because program of Allah is supreme and Allah is mighty wise ruler of this kingdom of universe.
41) So march forth regardless equipped lightly or heavily and campaign for the establishment of the rule of Allah in the land using whatever you have along with your personnel. That will be beneficial for you indeed if you will bother to understand and implement it.
42) As for the evaders of the campaign, had this been a short journey for the trade with vast personal gains then they would have certainly accompanied you but this journey for the mission of Allah seems too far and too hard for them to undertake. To justify their evasion they even call Allah to be their witness saying, if we were able to then we will have certainly marched with you. That is how they try to defeat the very purpose of existence of the community by not supporting their people in accomplishing their mission but Allah makes obvious through results of their own actions that they are inconsistent with their declaration of commitment to His mission.
43) Allah has granted you success in campaign without such peoples’ support but why did you let them stay behind? It was better if you had not because it could become clear to you which of them declared their commitment to the mission indeed and which of them did not so they invented false excuses to be exempted from the campaign for the mission.
44) Surely those who are really committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according to program, constitution and law of Allah for the good end result for the mankind never ask you for exemption through false excuses from going on a missionary campaign with whatever they have along with their personnel. Thus Allah makes evident those who are consistent with His mission for the benefit of humanity.
45) Only those ask for exemption through false excuses who are not really committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according to program, constitution and law of Allah for the good end result for the mankind because their minds are filled with confusion about the success of the mission due to their remaining ignorant about it so they have no solid reason to support the mission.
This verse explains a very important point that people need to have some solid reason to do anything or to support any cause and unless one familiarises oneself with an objective and the need for it one cannot make up one’s mind whether one should fight for a cause or not. A very strong refutation of mullahs who tell ummah to use brain about matters concerning Quran is not allowed in Islam because Islam is just a matter of personal faith. The truth is Quran does not accept such people as true human beings who do not use their brains to learn sense and understand things properly, so how can such people be accepted as truly committed to cause of Islam or mission of God? The Quran wants people to equip themselves with knowledge or what is the point of God sending the Quran?
46) Had they really intended to march forth with you then they would have certainly made some preparations for it but they did not, that is how Allah exposes them as not fit to go forth for His mission and instead He let them sit idle at home so they were told, stay at home along with those who stay behind.
47) Had they gone with you they would have added nothing but mischief and they would have made efforts to create disorder among your ranks and there would have been some among you who would have listened to them. This is how Allah exposes those who still work against His mission.
48) Indeed they had plotted sedition before and created disturbance to make you unsuccessful until the truth became manifest and the plan of Allah prevailed even though they worked against it.
The more people try to undermine the divine mission the more it succeeds in ways people cannot realise or stop.
49) Among these people there is such a party that says, grant me exemption and put me not through trouble of learning and spreading the message of Quran. Have they not fallen into trouble already by avoiding learning the Quran and the campaign against harmful and destructive forces? Surely painful suffering encircles those who ignore and oppose rule of Allah because letting ignorance and arrogance based harm and destruction have its way cannot lead to peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
Here people are told not to let ignorant, arrogant, harmful and destructive elements in human community succeed or community will live to regret it.
50) If you gain success in your campaign, it grieves them but if you face hardship and setback they say, we already knew this outcome of the campaign so they go back to their homes rejoicing.
51) Tell them, we do not expect any outcome for our campaign other than what Allah has planned for us according to His universal system and laws. He is our supporter so in universal system and laws of Allah should put their trust those who really commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
52) Say, how can you therefore expect any other outcome for our campaign other than either of the two beneficial states, the struggle for installation of rule of Allah for betterment of humanity or its maintenance once it is fully in place? That is why we expect for you according setup universal system and laws of Allah a terrible life as results of your own actions against each other or against us. So wait if you will we too are waiting for things to happen in due course to see who proves right in this regard in the end.
These verses make clear that whenever there is a divide between people, it is always based on some intended goal or expectation of each group of people as to what they want or how they want it. As struggle begins between the groups, things take time and ultimately one of the sides is proven right in what it stood for. Here we have two groups of people one clear in its mind about Islam and other confused. The group with clear mind knows what it is fighting for and what will be outcome of this struggle but confused group is here, there and everywhere ie has no real goal and expectation but a false hope that these people fail in their campaign. The human society at any given time is reflection of mindset, attitude and behaviour of its members because it is the resultant outcome of their participation in their world. Some people play active roles in various causes and others sit idle and yet others oppose those who are active for their goals and all this keeps society going in the direction the resultant end result takes it. In other words God has created this world, setup the system and laws in it and left it to mankind to understand and make use of it. This needs self awareness before anything else then awareness of the universal realities and then making sense of all this in divine scheme of things so that we could make proper use of things for our own betterment or development and prosperity. It means even though we are born ignorant we cannot afford to remain ignorant if we want to know and open up our full potential. So people who sit idle cannot make any meaningful contributions to society. Not only that it is also very damaging if people deliberately keep each other ignorant and out of participation in society because this way people fail to contribute to betterment of human society so it loses its manpower for nothing. For example, if men keep women locked up then 50% of human power is gone and that will reflect badly on human development. However same will be the result if people were set up against each other on basis of all sorts of wrong foundations eg on basis of state and religion, rich and poor, class and caste, race and sexual orientation etc etc. Each negativity based divide between mankind only dissipates its time and energy which could have been spent on better things. This is why as time goes on human participation in this world leaves behind a trace as to where it was and where it is now and has it done better or worse for itself. This should help people plan their future participation better. The world we are given to live in is like a car, if we will know it properly then we will use it properly and benefit from it but if we will not bother to know it then we will end up using it abusively or fail to maintain it properly so it will give us troubles.
53) Say, regardless you participate in community during time of ease or in time of difficulty your participation is not for benefiting the community because you are a kind of people who work against program, constitution and law of Allah for personal gains at the expense of community.
54) The reason their participation is not approved by Allah and the community is, they oppose the program, the constitution and the law of Allah through His messenger because they show reluctance for full installation of His system so they support it as it suits them therefore they do not offer their due contributions but reluctantly as if they are forced out of them.
55) For this reason let not be of any significance in your sight what they have or their following because Allah has setup the system and law of consequences to reward such like people with painful suffering in the life as it is as a result of what they do because they stay away from the campaign for His mission due to their confusion and opposition to program of Allah.
56) They call Allah to be their witness that they are indeed part of you the community but they are not part of you because they are a people of opposite mindset, attitude and behaviour due to their harmful and destructive ambitions and desires for personal gain at the expense of each other whereby they create divisions in the community.
In these verses it is made amply clear what a true Muslim community is, it is fully based on teachings of the Quran both in word and deed. The Quran here makes amply clear that mere declaration that I am a Muslim because I believe in one God and messengership of Muhammad is not enough. One must have community spirit and form a community if it is not already there and live for it. Anyone who claims to be a Muslim yet lives on basis of personal gains at the expense of Muslim community is not a Muslim. The true test of a Muslim is whether one lives for the betterment of others or uses others for betterment of oneself at their expense ie the Quran here tells about two different mindsets, attitudes and behaviours. One lives for others and the other uses and abuses others to get what one wants. This however does not mean that one should not want anything at all but that one should wish for the same for others and try to get it if he can and at the same time must ask others to help to get it. Islam is all about people working together as a team and not that one works hard and others sit idle waiting for him to bring them everything. That is use and abuse which Quran wants to get out of human system. Each and every person must do all one can then all share everything they have managed to get with each other. Wealth creation by all for the benefit of all is the lesson of the Quran. Islam is all about proper management of people and resources. If one is not part of human community this way then there is no community and no Islam and no Muslims. No matter what people claim to be, it is ground reality that matters.
57) If they could find a place of refuge or a cave or any hiding place wherefrom they could take everything they desire under their control for personal power, they would have certainly run to it with an obstinate rush.
This verse exposes mentality of such people who want to control everyone and everything but at the same time want to remain safe from the consequences for doing that so that they could enjoy being gods of all. They have this urge to be masters of all but yet do not want to anticipate the thought themselves being slaves of others. The truth is people who do not want to be slaves of other people must give up the desire to be masters of others as well otherwise interaction will always lead to fights and wars due to conflict of interest between people with similar mindset, attitude and behaviour as well as those who do not want to be slaves nor masters of each other because they promote human brotherhood instead.
58) This is why people like these raise false allegation against people like you the community administration concerning the assignment and fulfilments of rights about the community provisions. If they are assigned rights and delivered of the provision they are well pleased even though they are already self sufficient and if they are not assigned rights to provision or delivered provision because they do not need it then they are full of rage.
As explained already word SADAQAAT is from root SWAD, DAAL and QAAF. It means meeting of words and deeds. If you say, you are going to do something then go ahead and fulfil your word then you have spoken the truth otherwise you have lied or you have proven yourself a liar. The Quran promises fulfilment of its stated rights for people by people who claim to be implementers of the Quranic program. So if Quranic program is brought to life then people are bound to have the rights and that their rights are bound to be fulfilled if people who claim to follow the Quran wish to be proven truthful indeed. SADAQAAT does not mean charity for poor that is false interpretation because Islam does not allow such divisions instead it wants to remove such divisions from among mankind through promoting brotherhood among human beings. A family does not give charity to its own family members. It is below human dignity. Humanity has to bind itself in brotherhood through helping each other while maintaining human dignity and self respect for individuals. All are created by God and all are told to do certain things by God because all are indebted by favours from God. Therefore any who contributes to human community is doing it both for God and his own betterment. It is because if humanity does better than all mankind benefit including the contributor. That is because if society is not stable and in peace then nothing can get done, infighting and wars only harm and destroy. Peace is only possible if all people are peaceful and to help people stay peaceful all must work together as a team, which mean all must contribute whatever they can to keep human community peaceful.
In these verses it is made plan that as individuals come together and organise and start working towards the set out goal it is a transition period and things that are to be expected at the completion of various stages must not be demanded before time when the community has not yet reached the stages whereat it can meet those demands. If people start controversy over this during transitional period then they are either ignorant or trouble makers. Ignorant need educating and trouble makers need to be identified and dealt with appropriately or they will end up destroying the whole thing.
These verses also make clear that Islamic state is a welfare state however it is not possible to cater all needs of all people right from the start, so things should be taken in stages. As state become more and more organised and manages its people and resources better and better things will start easing after a while so all will have to endure hardship equally till state becomes self reliant and is then able to take on more and more responsibilities for looking after its citizens better and better. It matters not how bad the situation is at the beginning if there are enough hard working knowledgeable people in the community and they have enough land for resources then there is sufficient chance for its success. This will increase with time if community keeps up with missionary work properly because more and more communities will join in and more land and resources will become available through them and if the whole process is managed sensibly then state will go from strength to strength.
59) It would have been beneficial for them if they were consistent with what Allah through His Messenger had assigned for them as their proper right and had said, rule of Allah will make us self sufficient because soon Allah will complete His program for our prosperity through His messenger. Indeed to revelation of Allah we turn in that hope.
These verses expose what greedy people do and why ie they try to create troubles in community to break it up into fragments because they want to secure their position as leaders and once they get that then they gradually move into position to try and control land and resources and production and distribution because they know when they have succeeded in doing that then people cannot escape their trap. Because these people know that right to livelihood is very important for people they try to tell them your rights are taken away from you in order to cause trouble. Ignorant people follow their lead and cause trouble but people who have knowledge know what they are really up to. This is why Muslims cannot afford to be ignorant and stupid because then others who are cleverer than them can exploit their lack of knowledge about things. This is why one has to ask, why the Quran was revealed and why it was spread as a divine manifesto and used by people who came together as a constitution for their community and why its guidelines were used to help form laws for regulating the community? It was about educating people about everything necessary for them so that they could be good citizens of an Islamic state that was being built. Stupid people cannot build nations nor can they maintain them. So thinking that Islam is just a religion like any other is very silly indeed. It is a governing system for a state that is peaceful, progressive and prosperous.
60) Surely fulfilment of the assigned rights of those with needs and wants in the state is an obligation upon their state administrators to the point of satisfaction of their minds through feedback monitoring systems of institutions such as set the standards for various offices according to the program, constitution and law of Allah even when the state its administration and its community is going through process of transition for the betterment of all involved. This is a constitutional obligation from Allah and that is how Allah makes evident that His rule is based on wisdom.
Word AAMILEEN is from root AIN, MEEM and LAAM. Concrete meaning of this root is act. It depends on whether this root is used as a verb-fail, as a subject-faail or as an object-mafool. In this verse it is used as a subject in plural third person form, so it is about people who are responsible for distribution of assigned provisions to those who have right to have them from the administration of the Islamic state. An irrefutable proof that Islam is ADDEEN, not MAZHAB.
Word RIQAAB is from root RAA, QAAF and BAA. Concrete meaning of this root is keeping an eye on something or standing guard on something so that if something goes wrong it is detected right away and action is taken to put it right. This is why same root also means check post, monitoring tower, slave, prisoner of war, a person held by his neck, held in bond, to pay attention to something, stand in awe of something etc etc. In this verse this word is used for monitoring system of the community to ensure people are getting what they need as much as the state can deliver so that none is left without things of need by mistake of the state administration. This system also helps state see what else it may need to do to improve community life. It is a feedback system involving various ideas eg public complaining or demanding. Also administration people going out to find things out what else people need or want and what administration need to do to meet those needs and demands of public.
Word GHARIMEEN is from word GHAIN, RAA and MEEM. Concrete meaning of this root is burden or weight. The same root means responsibility, indebted, torment, be in pain for love, rival, opponent, a person who gets in debt for helping others, a person who gets in trouble for helping others etc etc.
These verses are clear indications of what an Islamic state ought to look like, what its administration is supposed to be doing about its people and its resources and what its people are supposed to be doing. There is no free lunch in Islamic state, it is based on principle of all working hard as a team to make ends meet as a family to share the burden of community so that none of them is under excessive pressure that reaches the threshold which could lead any of them to depression and total breakdown. Work load if shared sensibly by a team them even its weak members can be of great help and get by. On the contrary rivalries and animosities and hatred etc between could cause breakdown even of very strong people because they are under much more excessive burden from each other than they really need to be. No doubt all human beings need to do whatever they are capable of but if it is done through helping each other then more could be accomplished than if it done by undercutting each other and undermining each other. In that case a lot of time and energy is wasted in beating each other to throw each other out of the game. When win, win situation is possible and can work better, then, why must people follow win lose idea? Is it because people love putting each other through painful suffering? In that case why condemn each other when people hurt and kill each other because we should accept the results of what we do to each other? If not, why not?
61) Despite his doing all this for the community there are still some ungrateful people among them who try to damage the prophetic mission by saying, he lends his ears to everyone. Say, it is all for your benefit that he listens to all of you for what you have to say because he then does what benefits you the whole community as He is committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of humanity according to program, constitution and law of Allah so he is committed to working for peace and prosperity of those also who themselves are committed to working for peace and prosperity of those who are committed to working for peace and prosperity of humanity from among you. As for those who try to inflict damage upon the mission of the messenger, they will end up in painful suffering if they stop not and reform.
It is a very sad state in which humanity has fallen that it does not appreciate things that it ought to appreciate because they could lead it to dignified life. Most people are rather happy supporting corruption and terrible state of existence whereby they are tearing each other apart like wolves. The same they did with divine messengers that instead of supporting them they back stabbed them every now and tries to bring down whatever they tried to build for them. This verse warns people that if you do not stop this behaviour then you yourselves could end up back in state that you were in before the coming of this message and this messenger and it were you people yourselves who asked for guidance to get out of trouble that you were in. Now that he is trying to bring you out of it you want to fall back in there.
62) They assure you Muslims community in the name of Allah in order to regain your confidence but the proper thing to do for them was to support implementation of the program, constitution and law of Allah along with His messenger if they were truly committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
63) Don’t they know that any people who oppose Allah by opposing His messenger are bound to end up in life of painful suffering for as long as they live unless they repent and reform? That surely is the worst humiliation that such people bring upon themselves.
64) These hypocrites the evaders of community responsibilities are afraid lest a Surah is sent about them revealing to Muslim community what is really in their minds. Say, fool about if you will but Allah is to bring to light all that you are trying to hide in due course through your own actions.
In the Quran there are plenty of verses talking about hypocrites but the question is, what does the Quran mean by hypocrites? It is people who do not accept Islam as addeen but they are ok with it as a dogmatic creed. That is what they did in their past communities ie they divided people on basis of state and religion. These people who are hypocrites are dominant people of society because they believe in personal power and wealth ideology and not in community spirit. Such people only turned Muslims by name because rest of their people accepted Islam as addeen because their previous community divisions led them to terrible life from which they wanted to come out. These people who had good life by making and keeping others their slaves want to turn the clock back. This is why they are at it every now and then and don’t miss opportunities for trying to derail Muslims from their proper path. This is why their interference in prophetic mission is a very serious matter indeed. If these people have external support as well then one can imagine what these people can do together to an Islamic state and that is what they did after the prophet passed away within 1st century. As Islam expanded rapidly Muslims were left dumb founded because they were swamped by the incoming communities as they could not educate them properly and people within Muslim community were already waiting for chance to bring back their old way of life so all this played a big role in bringing the prophet built Islamic state down.
65) If you questioned them as to what are they up to? They will say, we are just discussing things to pass time. Say, are you taking program of Allah and His guidelines through His messenger for a joke as you do not go forth on a campaign for their implementation?
66) Make no excuses you have committed yourselves to opposing guidance of Allah after declaring your commitment to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind. Even if We accept repentance and reformation of some of you We will leave others of you to suffer the consequences of their own actions because they are such criminals who refuse to repent truly and truly reform.
In any community it is very tricky to handle conspirators because some people truly become their supporters from within the community who lack in information and its proper understanding and this creates a situation of civil war. It is particularly difficult thing to handle the while community is going through transitional stages and these people also have external links that support them to bring down their community setup, system and structure etc. If a people have internal fights then people from other communities get discouraged from becoming part of the community.
67) The hypocrites in the leaderships and the hypocrites in the communities back each other. They promote what is harmful and destructive for the communities and discourage from doing what is beneficial and constructive for the communities that is how they make moves to take things into their control. They ignore guidance of Allah so He lets them ignore it and face the consequences because hypocrites do things against the program of Allah.
68) It is promise of Allah to the hypocrites in the leaderships and the hypocrites in the communities as well as to the open opposers of His program that they are bound to end up in fire of hatred they have ignited to abide therein for as long as they live as a result of their own actions unless they repent and reform. Allah lets them move away from His blissful program as they choose therefore they are bound to suffer the terrible pain that lasts unless they repent and reform,
69) just like those who ruined themselves before you even though they were mightier than you in power and much more prosperous in all kinds of wealth and a great community when they followed Our advice. They enjoyed their portion of life before you just as you enjoy your portion but beware that you are entering the same make belief based course of actions ignoring realities of real world as they did. As time went by their make belief based deeds turned them into more and more useless people regarding life at present and in future that is how they became of the losers.
70) Have they not heard the news of those who have gone before them? The people of Noah, Ad and Thamud, the people of Abraham, the men of Madyan and the cities which were turned upside down by upheavals and civil wars. Their messengers came to them with clear warnings against their make belief based actions that is how Allah helped them to prevent them from harming themselves but instead of benefitting from the advice of Allah they ignored and opposed it that is how they ended up harming their own people so much so that they ended up destroyed by each other.
71) This is why the leaderships committed to working for peace and the communities committed to working for peace are supporters of one another as a nation that is united. They promote what is constructive and beneficial for the mankind and discourage what is harmful and destructive for humanity that is why they help establish the divine system whereby they attain freedom from all manmade ills in their society thus they show they are committed to implementation of the program, constitution and law of Allah along with His messenger for the good of human community as a whole. Such are the ones through whom comes peace based on progress and prosperity that is promised by Allah, surely Allah is a mighty wise ruler of this kingdom of the universe.
72) Allah has promised such administrations and communities as are committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind blissful kingdoms in which flow rivers of all they will need and desire to abide therein for as long as they will live by rule of Allah. Moreover they will have beautiful mansions in these blissful kingdoms that will last them for their life time. They will achieve all this due to program of Allah, the great and that is the major achievement.
73) O you the Prophet! Strive hard using the Quran with utmost effort for convincing those who oppose Our rule openly as well as those who oppose Our rule secretly through conspiracies and be steadfast in this struggle against them making clear to them that painful suffering is their destiny and therein they will remain unless they repent and reform and that is the worst of states to be in.
74) They call upon Allah to be their witness to assure you that they took no steps against the state when in fact they conspired against the state ruled according to the constitution of Allah that is how they made obvious that they have committed themselves to opposing the rule of Allah after they declared their commitment to live by it and they thought of a plot which they were unable to carry out. They had no reason to be revengeful instead that had every reason to appreciate that Allah through His messenger has enriched them by His revelation based peace, progress and prosperity. So if they repent and reform it will be better for them but if they turn back to their old way of life then Allah will let them fall in painful suffering from start of their journey to finish and they will have none in the world to support and protect them.
75) There are some among them who made a promise with Allah saying, if He bestows us with His provision in abundance then we will surely use it for the benefit of others and become truly of those who commit to working for peace by removing rifts from between people,
76) but when He did bestow of His bounty upon them they became stingy and turned back on their promise and became evasive instead.
77) That is how He found hypocrisy taking roots in their minds, attitude and behaviours instead so it will last in them till the day they meet His set out consequences for it due to which they breached their commitment to program of Allah and due to which they denied rights to provisions for others.
78) Did it not dawn upon them that Allah makes their secret motives and their secret counsels obvious through results of their own actions and that Allah knows full well all that is hidden from them?
79) It is they who falsely accuse those who are part of the administration of those who are committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind for provisions of their rights to them as well as they throw ridicule at those who just offer their services for the benefit of the community. Soon Allah will show them result of their ignorance and arrogance based accusations and ridicule because in time their this mindset, attitude and behaviour is bound to land them in painful suffering.
80) Therefore it is the same whether you assign them with rights to provision for their security and satisfaction or not they will continue doing what they do. Even if you assigned them with rights to manifold more provision yet Allah does not find them feeling secure and protected under His program, constitution and law. That is because they oppose the rule according to the constitution of Allah as revealed to His messenger. So Allah does not guide such people to prosperity who do not learn and implement His program and instead work against it.
81) Happy they were in their opposition and in their sitting idle at home against the call of the messenger of Allah because they hated joining in the struggle using whatever they had and their personnel for the mission of Allah. Moreover they say to each other, do not join this struggle due to the hardship it involves. Let them know, the hardship that makes life hell due to fire of hatred between people is yet worse from which they are being saved, if only they could realise it.
82) Let them not be too happy about it because they have a lot to cry about as a result of what they did to their community by staying away from the struggle for implementation of the program of Allah.
83) As of now if Allah brings you among them again to set out on another mission and any of them asks your permission to go forth on a campaign say, you are not allowed to accompany me anymore nor fight an enemy in my company. You chose to sit idle at home the last time therefore you can sit idle this time as well along with those who stay at home ignoring my call.
84) Moreover you should never support any of these people when they are faced with their destruction as a result of their own course of actions nor ever accept their ideological stance because they oppose program of Allah through His messenger whereby they have cut themselves off from the community because they are a rebellious people.
85) So let not be of any significance in your sight what they have or their following because Allah has set the law of consequences to reward them with painful suffering due to their own actions in this very life as they are cutting themselves off this community because they are still keeping themselves confused therefore oppose the program of Allah.
86) All this because when a Surah is revealed by Allah telling people to commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according to program, constitution and law of Allah and strive along with His messenger to spread the message, the leading people among them say, leave us with those who are to stay at home.
87) They choose to be with those who remain behind as a result of resistance they have developed in their minds against working for the benefit of the community and they show this by avoiding understanding of the benefits for striving to establish the rule of Allah in the world.
88) On the other hand the messenger and those who are committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind along with him strive with whatever they have and their personnel. They are the ones who will end up with benefits and they are the ones who will be prosperous.
89) Allah has prepared for them a roadmap to land them in blissful kingdoms in which flow rivers of all things of their need and desire wherein they will abide for as long as they deserve and that will be a worthy achievement for them.
90) Just like them some from among the desert Arabs also came with their excuses begging for exemption from partaking in the campaign to stay behind, that is how those who make false declaration of commitment to program of Allah through His messenger sit idle and contradict their words by their deeds. Soon a painful suffering will seize those of them who actually oppose Our program instead of supporting it.
91) Surely there is no blame - on the old, the disabled and the sick or those lacking the means - for staying behind so long as they stand for the implementation of the program of Allah with His messenger. There is also no blame for staying behind on such as are truly committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind and work for it within their own capacity within their own assigned places because Allah is protector of such through His blissful revelation.
There is no blame for not going on a campaign for spreading the message of God on those already working in their offices or stations serving the community already.
92) Likewise is the case of those who came to you the prophet and the community requesting the conveyance and you said, I am unable to provide you the conveyance and they returned home with their eyes streaming with tears because they were filled with sorrow that they had no resources for going along with you on a campaign for the mission.
93) The blame is only on those who begged for exemption although they are a people of means and physically fit so they had no excuse to remain behind yet they chose to be with those who remained at home because Allah found them with resistance in their minds against doing things that could benefit their own community as they bother not to learn what is really good for them to do or not to do.
These verse expose fully people with certain mindset, attitude and behaviour ie those who only do things for their personal gain at the expense of community. This is major sign of hypocrisy.
94) They will apologize to you when you return to them. Say, apologize not because we will not accept it of you as Allah has already informed us about your affairs. However Allah and His messenger will see how you conduct yourselves in the future therefore you are directed to guidance of Allah Who makes known in the future result of people present actions and that is why He informs you what you ought to be doing for your better future.
95) They will swear to you by Allah when you return to them in order to assure you about their loyalty and support so that you may let them off the hook. So leave them alone because their heads are filled with opposition against rule of Allah therefore agony has to be their abode the fitting consequences for their misdeeds.
96) They will swear to you under oath in order to assure you so that they are accepted back into the community by you but even if you do accept them back Allah will never approve of such tricksters who promised to work for the implementation of rule of Allah but actually did nothing to fulfil their declared commitment.
97) Some of the desert Arabs are worst in opposing and conspiring against the installation of program of Allah because they are least inclined to learning and abiding by the set limits that Allah has revealed to His messenger whereas Allah makes it obvious that He rules the kingdom through wisdom.
98) It is due to their ignorance based arrogance that some of the desert Arabs look upon the assigned community responsibility in form of community revenue as a penalty and wait for some misfortune to befall you. Misfortune can strike them due to their such mindset, attitude and behaviour if they do not repent and reform through learning, that is why Allah makes obvious for mankind to learn why must they abide by His advice because He is comprehensive in His knowledge of things.
Another very important point raised in these verses is that there is no community if people are unwilling to contribute for the well being of each other. What kind of parenting is that which does not take responsibility of raising its kids properly? What kind of community is that which does not care what happens to its members? However if you do decide to become a community then you have to be willing to take on the burden of community life and community has to be willing to on take on burden of its member. It is a two way process and that is why word UMMAH must be paid full attention. It is root from which comes word UMMI-mother of nation as well as word IMAAM-father of nation. Just as parents need to work hard for raising their children and children work hard to lookafter their parents so nation is mother and father of individuals and individuals are children of UMMAH. Each must work hard in order to ensure the other is fine. If each worked to harm or destroy other then it will not take long before human race becomes extinct as a species. There is no guaranty the last man will live because he too could be killed by diseases present in the environment. So there is no sense in rivalries and animosities and there is every reason that people must learn to live as a family. This calls for open ended commitment by all without any unnecessary barriers that work against survival and betterment of human race.
99) It is because some of the desert Arabs are learned therefore they are truly committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according to program of Allah for the good end result for the mankind so they look upon whatever they are assigned as the community responsibility in form of community revenue as a means of bringing them closer to establishing the rule of Allah through supportive networks set up by the messenger. Surely closer they are brought to their objective by their such actions therefore soon Allah will land them in life of prosperity through His program for blissful life because Allah is the protector of mankind through His program whereby He leads mankind to blissful life.
100)This is why those who took lead to begin the movement and those who supported them from among those who migrated and those who helped shelter them out of goodwill for the community Allah found them consistent in their commitment to the cause and their course of actions and they too found His guidance consistent with its purpose. That is what He prepared His plan for to land them in life of blissful kingdoms in which flow rivers of all they need and desire wherein they will stay for as long as they deserve it and that is indeed the achievement that was worth their effort.
101) Just as those people were consistent with Our guidance so are there some from among the desert Arabs around you hypocrites and so are some from among the residents of the city, fanatical in their hypocrisy. You should not expose them but We will expose them in due course through their own actions because soon We will find them caught in double the agony where in they will suffer severely.
This verse gives people and important advice that you should never try to expose people merely by word rather wait till thye expose themselves by their deeds. This way the risk of divide in community could be avoided.
102) There are also some who have owned up to what they have done wrong. They have mixed records constructive as well as destructive. It is likely that Allah will turn to them through His blissful revelation if they worked towards it because Allah is protector of mankind through His blissful program.
103) Do accept from them the part of what they have and offer happily as social fund as their assigned community responsibility so that thereby they make evident their full commitment to the implementation of the rule of Allah, that is how you should stay in touch with them because your supportive network will give them confidence and comfort that their works are accepted by Allah and community, that is how Allah makes evident for people that He is comprehensive in His wisdom.
104) Know they not already that Allah accepts repentance and reformation of those of His people who truly follow His set goal and guidelines that is how He accepts their offerings in His name for helping others? Surely Allah is unique in accepting such people gracefully as turn to His guidance so that He blesses them with prosperity.
105) Therefore tell them, conduct your affairs as you should being alert that Allah and His messenger as well as those committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of humanity are watching your mindsets, attitudes and behaviours as members of the community because that is the reason you are brought under His constitution Who makes evident the results of your actions in the future for what you do at the present, that is how He informs you about all that you do whether you are getting near your goal or moving away from it.
106) There are still others regarding whom Allah has not made His decision obvious yet. It is up to His set universal laws whether they will suffer the painful results of their own actions or whether He will find them turning to His advice and reforming that is how Allah makes obvious for mankind that His rule is based upon wisdom.
The community can only survive as a community if all its members show genuine concern for well being of each other and thus keep each other in check and on the proper path for better future as a community.
107) As for those who have conspired to install an institution to spread misinformation and disinformation to create mistrust and distrust to cause suspicion thereby animosity in order to bring about disunity through fights between those who are committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind on directions of such a leadership that declared wars against Allah and His messenger already, they will indeed call upon Allah to be their witness in order to assure you that their intentions were only to benefit the community but Allah made evident by their actions that they are liars.
This verse is very, very important to understand because it explains how people in due course expose themselves by doing what is in their minds. People who did not want to contribute to well being of community set-up another organisation and put in place a new institution and claim they have done it for the benefit of the community. The fact is the likeminded people have come together to plan demise of emerging ummah but the interesting question is, what sort of system they wanted to set-up? A system that has been explained already in the verses gone by ie to turn Islam into religion because that way they become leaders of people and set-up priesthood in the name of Quran and Islam and off they go into business of making fool of masses as they used to. This is same thing which some of the people did to community of Moses. The priest in time of Moses the Samaritan tried to turn those people religious so that he could recreate a status for himself among masses. He failed and these people are trying to do the same among Muslims and they too are caught in time and their this step is rendered ineffective. It were these like people who took advantage of confusion after the prophet and turned Islam into religion from deen. This is having its effects and people are again looking for ways to get out of this situation. It is only a matter of time before people realise that religions are utterly false things because they lead people to ignorance and poverty by diverting their attention and focus from vital goals and guidelines which help humanity survive and prosper.
108) You O messenger are not to support their stance for divide between people ever. Certainly the organisation and institution founded according to the constitution of Allah for the benefit of humanity right from the very first day is fitting and proper that you should stand by it as a central goal of your mission because out of loyalty to that goal are involved courageous people in the struggle to free themselves from all ills as a community. That is how Allah supports those who struggle to free themselves from all sorts of harms to be a trouble-free community.
Masses need to be very careful in supporting people, their set-up organisations and their set-up institutions because they must find out their goals and guidelines, programs, constitutions and laws. Only if they go by the Quran they should be supported ie if they are really there for the betterment of human community. If instead they are for inflicting damage on human community then people should get together and bring them down in order to secure their own future. This is a very serious matter so it needs a lot of learning and getting to the core of the matter before taking any steps. They must ensure that they are going about things the proper way or they may end up destroying something that actually is for their benefit. This again shows how important being educated is, because people always need knowledge of things before they oppose or support them. Ignorant people could end up supporting things that cause them damage and opposing things that help them. This is why mullahism is a very dangerous thing because it tries to impose ignorance and make beliefs on community by force where it can. This renders community lifeless and so people who give in to make beliefs become stuck and end up destroyed over a period of time after prolonged painful suffering. The Quran warns people again and again about it.
109) Which person has proper knowledge and takes the proper action the proper way, he who builds the building of community on the solid foundation provided by Allah for the benefit of mankind according to His program or he who lays his building of community on an unstable crumbling foundation that tumbles down with him into the ditch to destruction? However Allah guides not such people as learn not His program and do things against it.
Allah has given people the goal and guidelines to organise their human community according to but if they do not learn his message and do as they like then they are left to do as they see fit for themselves. However that does not mean that people will not hurt each other or react to each other when they hurt each other. If one person abuses another then reaction could come as the one abused decides. It could be inaction, abuse in return or an even worse. Each of these reactions decides whether mankind make life better or worse for themselves as a whole.
110) The structure of those who so build is never free from instability even in their own minds pulling their minds in different directions thus ending up torn apart. That is how Allah makes obvious for mankind to see that His program is based upon wisdom therefore stable.
These verses explains that just as each and every aspect of a building must be paid full attention if one is going to build a building so one should when one builds a nation. The foundation of any building is its purpose and then a proper building plan and then worked carried out exactly as required by the plan using the proper material. If a building has no purpose to begin with or plan is drawn by a person who has no idea what is involved or work is carried out by people who have no skills then end result is obvious. This is why if Ummah wants to be an Ummah worth the name then it must give its backing to knowledgeable who know how to build a community. Backing stupidity of mullahism is not going to get it anywhere other than deeper and deeper ditch of hell.
111) Surely Allah has an agreement of those who claim to be committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of humanity that they will work hard together to bring about blissful kingdoms using their personnel and whatever they have. That is why they should struggle hard to implement the program of Allah for the benefit of humanity even if it leads them to fight those who are hell bent on making life hell for each other and even if they themselves are fought against by them due to taking up this cause. This agreement was always the same as was stated in the Torah and the Injeel and now in the Quran and who has more right to fulfil of His agreement than Allah? Therefore fulfil the agreement with Allah and enjoy its fruits as He promised you and that will be a great achievement for you the mankind.
This verse takes us back to very first Surah wherein God introduces himself and then asks mankind to live by his program to be in peace through progress for prosperity. If humans will go by the book of God then universal system and laws set-up by Allah will not fail to deliver humanity whatever they deserve as a result of their actions. Also it is a constant struggle on two fronts a)to do what is needed to be in peace ie make progress and be prosperous but b)people become divided every now and then and this also needs to be taken care of. This is where a lot of effort is needed to educate people to become united and stay united so that all could work for the same goal using same guidelines and end up with similar outcome. Since not all people are interested in education things become problematic for mankind eg some do not want education because it needs hard work from which most people shy away. Also some people want to keep information under lock and key because knowledge is power and those who have some do not want others to have this power therefore the copyright laws and then spying on each other to see what we are hiding in our closets. This prevention from learning then takes form of rivalries and animosities and fights and wars become inevitable consequences of such like mindsets, attitudes and behaviours. This is why this verse deals with all that do get the job done. Muslims must never shy away from struggle for the betterment of mankind even if they have to go to war for it to keep in check antisocial elements among mankind. It is because if playing field was left at the mercy of harmful and destructive elements in society then we can forget about betterment of this world and humanity in it.
People must distinguish between priesthood created make beliefs in forms religions and the actual scriptures. That is how they will discover real true message of God from the very same scriptures they have. No scripture tells people to deceive or lie to each other or to take human life in vain. One has to question, what happens if people deceive each other or lie to each other? If we all did things scriptures stop us from then what kind of world will come about for mankind to live in? All scriptures show they are not religious scriptures at all because religions are a private matter not something to base human community life upon. On the contrary scriptures contain commandments for formation of good human community. This is how conspiracies by politicians and priests and moneylenders become so obvious for masses to see but only if they have learned some sense. Politicians, priests and moneylender do not turn up on community functions because they are Godly people but because they are all one in fooling public at large. Why kings sat at feet of priests and vice versa? And the same is true about moneylenders. All these people look for opportunities to exploit humanity in various ways ie politicians use and abuse people politically, priests religiously and moneylenders financially. If they were truly Godly people then politicians will know scriptures properly and live by them. What does that mean? It means they will look for ways to manage people and resources in ways that works perfectly for mankind. Priests if they knew scriptures they would be most knowledgeable people on face of the earth leading humanity not hiding behind people. Moneylenders will not be bloodsuckers sucking humanity dry. Instead they would look for ways to make production and distribution of goods and services work best for mankind not what is best for profiteering for individuals.
112) Such are those who stop doing wrong and reform by turning to His guidance moulding themselves accordingly for their own good by serving His constitution taking only Him as the sole ruler of the universe, they move about in the land for implementation of His program for the good of themselves and others, bending themselves according to His directions and submitting to His constitution, promoting what is beneficial for the mankind and discouraging what is harmful for humanity and that is how they observe the limits as set by Allah, therefore should proclaim the blissful program for the benefit of such people who would commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
113) It is therefore not right for the prophet and those who are committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind that they should let such people abide among themselves who take rulers other than Allah and rebel against the blissful kingdom of Allah even if they be their own close relatives after it has become obvious to them that these people are enemies of program of Allah and betterment of humanity because they conspire and collaborate with enemies against the heavenly kingdom to destroy it and its people. All this because these people are fully consumed by fire of hatred and animosity and are fully committed to its destruction.
114) Just as it was not right for Abraham to remain associate of his community leader beyond Our binding limit set in Our guidance. So when it became clear to him that he was an enemy of program of Allah for the benefit of humanity, he disassociated himself from him. The fact is Abraham was a right minded, steadfast person who followed Our guidance faithfully.
115) It is not the way of Allah to allow people to live in chaos and confusion after He has granted them guidance that is why He makes clear for them what they ought to protect themselves against in order to prosper because Allah has taken it upon Himself to make obvious for mankind all things necessary for them to do to prosper.
116) It is Allah alone to Whom belongs the kingdom of the universe including this earth. He brings nations to life when they follow His program and lets them perish if they do not. That is how you should come to know that you have nothing other than program of Allah to protect you and support you.
117) That is why through His revelation Allah turned to the prophet and those who migrated and their host supporters who stood by him in the time of hardship even though a party of them changed their minds thereafter but they came back to their senses and that is because Allah proved to them that He is a blissful ruler through His program for prosperity.
118) Likewise He turned to the case of the three whose case was pending for decision. So despondent were they that the earth with all its vastness seemed to them suffocating and even their own people seemed to close their doors upon them suffocating them yet more. That is how they were made to realise that there was no security against set laws of Allah save in abiding by His laws. That is how He turned to them after they turned to His advice and reformed. Surely for them He is a beneficial adviser to blissful life.
This verse could be talking about three individuals who made excuses for exemption from campaigns or three leading groups of people eg the tribal chiefs, the priests and the wealthy people who decided to create an alternative movement in opposition to the program of the prophet and were caught red handed. It seems from the verse that they stopped their activities against the state and became reformed members of the community. In either case there is no death penalty involved even in case of treason but threat of expulsion from the state is present for anti state activities unless people repent and reform. If they do then they must prove from then on by their word and deed that they are loyal to program of God and their community. If they do then they should be accepted as part f community otherwise threat of expulsion should be carried out. The Quran does not hold people responsible for their religious make beliefs so long as they do not interfere in affairs of Islamic state. People can believe and do whatever they like in the Islamic state but they cannot act against the state whereby they endanger lives and liberty of each other or end up destroying whatever has been built so far.
119) So O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind! Be consistent with program, constitution and law of Allah for the benefit of mankind thus be of those who prove their declared commitment true.
120) It was therefore not right for the people of the City or the desert Arabs of the neighbourhood to oppose the mission of the messenger of Allah in any way or to make demands for personal benefits against the program given to the prophet. That is because they struggle not for removing lack of knowledge and poverty of all sorts or suffer any hardship for implementation of the program of Allah nor take any step which provokes the opponents of Our guidance or receive any injury from an enemy but it is credited to them because Allah does not let go to waste the hard works of those who take the necessary steps to mend rifts between individuals and communities in order to achieve peace for mankind for making progress towards prosperity of human community.
121) Moreover they do not use anything small or large or cut across any valley for preaching or battle but is written to their credit therefore Allah rewards them according to the best of their actions for the benefit of the mankind.
122) Remember also that it is not proper that those who are committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind should all go forth together at once on any missionary campaigns rather a reasonable party from each community should stay behind as well so that they learn the proper understanding of Our program, constitution and law and pass it on to people on the mission when they return so that they too become aware of any new information and abide by it.
This verse tells Muslims that not all of them should go out on missionary work among other communities rather a reasonable number of people must stay back so that community life at home is not affected or suffers because of it. Moreover opponents should not be given chance to attack homes of people on mission finding them easy targets. Home security is emphasised along with missionary duty. In other words all things should be done in a sensible way so that people do not suffer any setbacks due to making silly mistakes along the way.
123) O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind! Strive hard against those who attack you from among the opponents of Our rule so that they find indefectibility in you. That is how you should make it obvious to them that program of Allah provides solid foundation for those who are consistent with it for the benefit of mankind.
Word YALOON is from root LAAM, WOW and YAA. Concrete meaning of this root is turn. It also means to twist or cause severe dispute or to attack something to turn it back from something. To cause something to wither away from something, to bend , to coil, a banner etc etc.
124) This is why whenever a Surah is revealed some of them ask others, whose commitment to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind has increased by this Surah from among you? Certainly the commitment to peace, progress and prosperity of mankind increases among those who have already truly committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind therefore they rejoice over it.
125) However those in whose very core of their person rests animosity against rule of Allah and humanity it further adds rage to their existing agony so they are consumed by it the while they oppose it.
126) Do they not see that they are put through hardship every year once or twice? Yet they neither accept their wrong doings and reform nor learn any lesson from this.
127) This is why whenever a Surah is revealed one of them looks at the other in a questionable way as if one is saying to the other, is anyone watching our behaviour? Then they quietly slip away unnoticed. Allah has found at heart of their personalities no interest in His guidance because they are a people who bother not to learn things for understanding them.
128) O people, surely there has come to you a messenger from among yourselves who grieves at your loss and who is excessively anxious for your peace, progress and prosperity and who tries to benefit and dignify those who claim to be committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
129) If they still turn away from Our message that you deliver to them then say to them, system and laws of Allah are sufficient for me to rely upon for fulfilment of my mission. There is no sovereign in this universe but He. Upon His universal system and laws I rely, for He alone is the ruler of all this huge kingdom of the universe.
Re: God, a proven fact or a mere fiction?
Surah 10 Yunus-The man with community spirit
This Surah is named with word YOONUS which has three roots. NOON, WOW and SEEN, ALIF, NOON and SEEN, and NOON, SEEN and YAA. These roots include meanings like people, mankind, lowly people, mate, subordinate people, masses, party, community, intimate friend, man, women, person, cobweb, rubble, oblivion, deprived, forlorn, friendly, tamed animal, to forget or to be forgotten, to shake, to detect, to perceive, to seek gently, to come to know, to gather information, to be blown about, to drive an animal, to slacken, to hang down, to abandon, to overlook, to move about, sociable, something of little value or in simple state of existence etc etc.
The reason this Surah is named with word YUNUS is not because it is name of a prophet and that that prophet and his community is mentioned in this Surah but because in this Surah the Quran deals with what community spirited humanity is all about. Word YUNUS means a person who has mindset, attitude and behaviour of a person who thrives on community spirit and concern for betterment for others as opposed to a person who thrives on a mindset, attitude and behaviour of a selfish person who does anything to others in order to gain personally. The Quran wants people to rise to dignified life by being community spirited and stop living for personal gains at the expense of putting others through hell. If this advice is not adhered then there is no way for mankind to live peacefully, progressively and prosperously. This is why the Quran start in this Surah with discussing the Quran itself and the need for it and brings in what happened to nations before this people and why that happened to them.
Proclaim! In the name of Allah, the provider of psychological, sociological and biological needs of mankind,
1)Alif Laam Raa. These are wisdom based goals and guidelines of Our constitution for the administration of Our kingdom.
2) Why should the mankind find it strange that We have revealed Our guidance to a man from among the humans themselves so that he warns the mankind against doing harm to each other and delivers the program for better future for those who will commit themselves to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind, so that they base their community on a truly solid foundation provided to them by their Creator and Sustainer? Those who oppose Our guidance the political, the wealthy and the religious elite says, this man is indeed a conspirator against our way of life.
3) Surely that is not that case rather your Creator and Sustainer is such Who created the farthest galaxies as well as this galaxy in six stages/steps and by that right He established His sovereignty over the kingdom of the universe therefore He runs the affairs of the universe through His set out universal system and laws. Nothing can intervene or can be made to happen in His jurisdiction without being part of His planned process. Such powerful and wise sovereign Allah your ruler is, so abide by His program, constitution and law. should you therefore not be rather reflective and thoughtful people?
4) To His program you should all turn for guidance because promise of peace, progress and prosperity for mankind by Allah will proves true when acted upon by mankind. He is the One Who initiated the process of creation and automated it for continuation so that He rewards those who commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind by taking actions to mend rifts between mankind according to His set out properly balanced standard. As for those who oppose His advice they have given themselves to thoughts of rivalry and animosity among mankind so they are bound to undergo painful suffering as a result of their actions because they hide the message of Allah from the masses and opposed His universal system and laws.
5) He is the One Who through the set-up system and laws gave the sun ability to burn brightly and the moon its ability to reflect the light pleasantly whereby He set her phases that thereby you could learn to compute the years and other such measures. Allah evolved them for a set purpose as He has explained in His revelations for people who observe and learn to understand things.
6) Indeed in the mechanism whereby alternation between the night and the day is achieved and in the mechanism whereby whatever else Allah has created and put to work throughout the galaxies including this galaxy there are evidences for those who want to be consistent with program, constitution and law of Allah for the benefit of humanity.
7) As to those who do not look forward to meeting Our set standard due to being submerged in life of this world ignorantly against Our guidance with desire for personal gain, such are the ones who fail to realise the fact that even their personal peace, progress and prosperity does not lie in their neglecting of Our goal and guidelines,
8) instead they will remain in state of agony due to agitations, worries and anxiety as a consequence of whatever harms they inflict upon each other.
9) On the contrary surely those who commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity for mankind and work hard to reconcile mankind to Our set out goal according to Our guidelines for the betterment of the mankind their Creator and Sustainer due to their true commitment to cause of peace will guide them to rivers flowing with all they will need and desire in the blissful kingdoms.
10) That is why they will say, O Allah, Your guidance is free of defects because their lives based upon it in there will land them in peace and that how by their deeds they will prove that glory of sovereignty belongs only to Allah the Creator and Sustainer of the universe.
11) Had Allah set up the system and laws for results of harmful actions of mankind in quick succession as they look for the quick gains regardless of the consequences of their actions then the respite given to the people would not have been put in place. However We decided to leave those alone for a set period of time to do as they please who entertain not the hope of meeting Our set standard to wander about in their rebellion as some make others suffer for their personal gains for personal gratification.
12) That is why when consequences of human on human violence affect mankind severely then humanity turns to Our set out goal and guidelines till it establishes Our program and gets itself relieved of its painful suffering thereby therefore either it continues on this path or as soon as We remove its affliction, it walks away from Our advice as if it never needed to rely on Our set out goal and guidelines for removing that affliction which touched it! That is how works of those who work oppose Our program for mankind seem proper to themselves.
13) Likewise We found generations before your time destroying themselves by inflicting harm on each other despite the fact that their messengers came to them with clear goals and guidelines for their guidance but they did not learn and commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind! That is how We let those face the results of their actions who committed crimes against Our rule.
14) Then We made you their successors in the world so that We let you have a period of time to demonstrate your conduct towards Us and each other in light of Our guiding standard.
15) Yet when Our clear goals and guidelines are proclaimed among them, those who look not forward to meeting Our set standard for betterment of mankind say to you, bring us a Quran different than this or make some changes in it. Tell them, it is not my right to change it because it is not my word rather I am supposed to follow what is revealed to me by Allah. Surely I cannot be inconsistent with my Creator and Sustainer and mankind because I fear that if I did that then I too will end up doing harmful things like you and like you I too will end up with their consequences bringing about the terribly painful period of time upon mankind.
16) Say, if Allah wanted things to be any other way then I could not have proclaimed this Quran to you, nor could He have made you aware of it. Indeed a whole lifetime I lived among you before its revelation and never proclaimed anything like it. Why do you then not develop and use your ability to understand and judge things properly?
17) And who can be more harmful and destructive than the party of rulers, priests and moneylenders that itself forges a bundle of lies and attributes them to Allah or denies to people their heavenly assigned rights to provisions thus opposes His revelations? Indeed people and communities that commit such crimes can never prosper.
18) They subject themselves to rules of others than Allah who can neither prevent them from death and destruction nor can they secure them life of peace, progress and prosperity yet they assume them capable of intervention against the set-up system and laws of Allah. Say to them, are you informing Allah of what He knows exists not either in the heavens or in the earth? Right of rule belongs to Him alone and He is free of having any rivals and partners in sovereignty they attribute to Him.
19) Remember always, it is not fitting or beneficial for humanity to be anything other than one single family or community under Our rule yet they remain divided through inventing various harmful and destructive ways of live. Had your Creator and Sustainer not already given His guidance and a time period for people to live in this world then the matters in which they differed would have certainly been settled a long time ago.
20) As regards their saying, why no proof has been sent to him from his Creator and Sustainer? Say, to decide about matters relating to future rests upon set-up system and laws of Allah alone and that is the way He sends His proofs so wait if you will, I too am waiting along with you for promised results of our actions.
21) When We show peace, progress and prosperity to mankind due to following Our guidance after they have suffered at hands of each other, the dominant people from among them begin to conspire again and plot against Our very goals and guidelines that brought them salvation. Tell them, set-up system and laws of Allah are strict in letting your plots take you down again by surprise because Our set-up system and laws are put in place to deliver to you results of your own actions.
22) He it is Who due to those set-up system and laws enables you to travel in the land just as when you board a ship and travel by sea. That is how the ships sail with them aboard due to favourable wind so they are happy with it but as comes a stormy wind and the waves reach them from all sides and they think they are going to be drowned by them then they rely sincerely upon the set laws of Allah alone saying to each other that if we are delivered from this trouble then we will become a people who use provision by Allah properly.
This world is a ship in which whole humanity is passengers and this ship can run smoothly if people in it behave but if they start making holes in the ship to drown each other then ship will not land them on the shores or on the right shore where they are heading. This is why, all people must find out where they are heading and why and make sure they are boarding on the right ship and are willing to travel together for the same agreed destination. No point fighting in the middle of journey over things people should have known before they boarded the ship.
23) Yet, when He does deliver them from their self created troubles through His program the very same people become rebellious in the land having no proper regard for each other’s rights to His provisions. Say, O mankind! Your rebellion against each other is only harming and destroying your own kind because you destroy each other for the transitory pleasure of this world which you can also have by working for each other rather than against. No matter what in the end you will turn to Our guidance and when you will from then on We will tell you how to live your lives properly.
24) Another example of Our set up universal system and laws in life of this world is that of water, We send it down from the heaven then it is absorbed by the soil which then helps vegetation that becomes food for the people and the animals to grow till it covers the land with beauty like gold ornaments and as the people think they can now harvest it there comes fulfilment of Our decree by the very same water as storm by night or in broad daylight and mows it down thoroughly as if nothing existed there a day before. That is how We explain Our goals with guidelines for those who would learn to think properly to understand things.
People suffer due to natural disasters because they have not bothered to educate themselves about nature so that they could do things to prevent harm to themselves and to be able to use these forces of nature for their benefit. The more people fight each other and let a huge amount of man power go to waste instead of organising and working together properly to explore universe to overcome the problems nature poses for humanity, the more mankind are going to suffer and delay their own development and progress.
25) Through these like proofs Allah invites you the mankind towards peaceful and prosperous life because He guides any people who want to work towards the path of life that is firmly founded for this purpose.
26) So those who compete more and more for benefiting each other the most they will never face bleak future nor will they suffer any situation that puts them to shame. Not only that but they will be a people who will end up in blissful kingdoms wherein they will live for as long as they carry on living that way.
27) As for those people and communities that inflict harm and destruction on others, they are bound to face the results of their own actions likewise therefore disgrace will cover them because they will have none to protect them from set-up universal system and laws of Allah. Their sorrow will be visible on their faces as if their faces have been covered with patches of the dense darkness of night. They are the people who will abide in agony for as long as they live unless they stop inflicting harm and destruction on each other and change themselves by living by a proper way of life.
28) Because they inflict harm and destruction upon each other that is why in due course We find them gathered together in painful suffering so We tell them, stay in the state and condition that you have brought upon yourselves, you and the people you have taken for your rulers. We find them in due course divided and in pitched battles against each other because those whom they took for their rulers disown them saying, you never really took us as your rulers, you rather stuck with us due to your petty personal gains
29) and testimony of Allah is sufficient as an evidence between you and us so we disregard claims of your service to us.
30) That is how each person/nation will come to know in time what it has sent forth for its future as they are made to face the results of their own actions by set out universal system and laws of Allah their rightful sovereign and that is how their false claims and make beliefs will leave them in the lurch.
People can argue with each other all they like but in the end it is the result of their own actions that they will have to accept. If people will harm each other then result is not going to be really great for humanity that it could be proud of.
31) Ask mankind, who provided you with sustenance from the heaven and from the earth? Who provided you with sense of hearing and sight? Who raises nations from the dead to life by giving them His program to follow and who lets them perish when they fail to keep up with His set-up system and laws? Who regulates all affairs about everything in the universe? They will soon enough reply, Allah, after facing the dire consequences of their actions. Say, if it is all due to Allah then why are you not consistent with His program, constitution and law for the good of each other?
This Surah explains the set-up universal system and laws and how they work and never fail to deliver. The point made in these verses is that origin of all things is due to Allah. It all shows an intelligent being at work. There are only two possibilities for existence a)existence is eternal and b)it is finite or limited. Since finite existence does not explain eternity or infinity therefore existence has to be eternal. If existence is eternal then it has to be either intelligent or random. Random existence could not give rise to intelligent existence therefore it makes better sense to accept existence of an eternal intelligent being ie God. If we suppose there is a God then we cannot discount possibility of divine revelation. The question therefore arises, do people have any such claim that God revealed anything to anyone? Yes, there were always claims that God has sent messengers. This leads us to next question, how do we know if what is claimed as message of God is in actual fact message from God and not just a false claim by some people to take advantage of each other? This we cannot know unless we enable ourselves to examine the alleged divine revelations. If we wish to examine alleged divine revelations then we must remember that we must presume or suppose certain things and see how they come together and once all necessary points come together fine then suppositions become solid facts. It is not possible to start things without a supposed starting point and then adding supposed points in there and then seeing whether they make any sense or not. For example, we suppose existence of God then along it we put revelation and then what that supposed revelation tells us and then see if it all fits together or falls apart. If one supposed point sticks with the other fine then the whole thing become a solid ground that gives us solid starting point to build the rest of things upon it. This is how we grow out of our childhood or this is how we learn science.
32) That is how Allah proves to you that He is your Creator and Sustainer indeed. What way of life is left for you to follow after you give up following what is right and proper other than straying into fallacies and make beliefs? How can you do such a thing having being bestowed with such powerful brain and senses?
33) Thus have the universal system and laws of your Creator and Sustainer proven true as regard those who rebel instead of committing to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
34) Ask them, can any of them whom you have taken as your rulers other than Allah create anything like Allah and then automate it for continuation? No, not at all. Say, Allah created the universe and automated it for continuation. Then how is it that you are so ignorant and misled about it?
35) Ask them also, is there any among those whom you have taken for your rulers who can guide you to the way of life that is proper for you? No, not at all. Say, Allah guides to the way of life that is proper for you. Then who is more worthy to be followed as a guide, He that can guide to the right path or he that cannot and is himself in need of guidance? What is the matter with you, how did you arrive at the wrong conclusion that you have?
36) The fact is most of the people follow nothing but make beliefs and make beliefs in no way can be substitute for the provable reality. Surely Allah makes people aware of all they do through results of their own actions.
37) It is due to such stated facts in it, it is not possible that this Quran could have been produced by any of those whom you the mankind take for rulers other than Allah and also because it is the set standard for confirmation of the revelations that were sent before it and it explains what was written in all the earlier scriptures as guidance for the mankind, so there can be no doubt in the fact that it is from the Creator and Sustainer of the universe.
Words TAFSEELAL KITAAB mean making things distinct from each other for clarity that are told about in this book as compared to what mankind have invented by themselves ie there is a clear distinction between work of God and work of man in everything the book talks about. So people should educate themselves to a level whereat they can see this clear difference. Manmade things, manmade programs, manmade laws, manmade books etc etc.
The points made in this verse are very important because they prove the Quran is word of God or not. The main point is that mankind cannot create or change the universal system and laws they can only discover them and use them to benefit from them. The program, the constitution and the guidelines for laws are best possible that are stated in the Quran that cannot be equalled or improved upon. So to come up with anything parallel to the Quran is therefore impossible for mankind. They have difficulty even in understanding the scripture due to their lack of knowledge let own be able to produce one like it.
38) Do they still claim he has invented the Quran all by himself? Tell them, if what you claim is true then produce a book containing a program, a constitution and a set of guidelines for laws like it that explains all essential things in such great detail within such a limited text, you may call to your aid any of those whom you take as your rulers other than Allah.
39) No, they cannot produce the like of it rather they deny and oppose that which they cannot fathom with their level of knowledge and they have not yet seen its predictions unfold. The same harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour was shown by those who passed before them towards Our similar books earlier. However, they should also see what was the end of those who indulged in make beliefs and ritualism against Our guidance. They ended up destroying each other.
40) Of these people there are some who commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind but there are others who do not and your Creator and Sustainer surely makes people aware about those who conspire to cause rifts and wars between people by denying each other their heavenly rights to provisions.
Again and again Quran tells people that unless you respect God given rights of each other and help each other to get them you are a useless, harmful and destructive people no matter whatever you claim to be by your own mouths.
41) If they still reject say, I should be held responsible for results of my actions by mankind and you should be held responsible for results of your actions by mankind so that you do not suffer harm because of my actions and I do not suffer harm because of your actions.
If people refuse to accept God or his word or his authority then this does not absolve people from their responsibilities to humanity itself. People still need to come to some sort of understanding so that they could live in peace with each other ie they have no other way than to live and let live or rivalries and animosities, fights and war, harm and destruction cannot be avoided. The Quran makes both ways clear for people ie to live by guidance of God or follow your own ways but at least take care of your responsibilities to each other as human being. Failing that man is labelled worse than all animals not worth the name.
42) There are some among them who can hear you delivering Our message but they are not bothered with using their brains, how can you then get the message across to such people who are not bothered with thinking to understand things?
43) There are also some among them who stare at you as if you are something strange for them, how can you guide such people who are utterly ignorant and not bothered with learning at all so that they could understand things through development of their mental faculty?
These verses are not condemning ignorance in people by birth but their mindset, attitude and behaviour that they have no curiosity about things to find out about them. A people who have no questions and are not interested in answers never learn so they die as they were born. No change in the world can be expected through such people. The divine message only resonates with people who are lively toward getting information and trying to make sense of it. This is why people ask no questions of each other or the right questions because all this needs self awareness as well as awareness of one’s environment in which one interacts and tries to make sense of it. For this much one needs nothing other than one’s own brain and senses. Only such people then could think about higher level of information and ask that kind of questions and look for those kinds of answers. A person who has not yet thought about how to use his own brain and senses cannot understand universal system and laws of nature. This is why if people have no idea what are all the scriptures about it is not surprising. It is one to memorise information and another to have understanding of it. This is why there are millions of people who have committed the Quran in their memory but have little idea what it is all about.
44) This explains the fact that Allah does no harm to mankind in any way but that people harm themselves by not using the provided capabilities and facilities properly and that is why they end up inflicting harm and destruction upon each other.
45) However in time through His program and their effort of learning He will bring them together under His constitution to abide by His law and they will think they have lived in painful suffering just for a short while till the light of knowledge enlightened them that is how they will recognise each others’ contribution among themselves for getting out of that state of existence. That is because they will come to realise that those who denied themselves opportunity of meeting the set standard of Allah have always perished due to denying themselves the benefits of Our guidance.
Word YALBASOO is from root LAAM, BAA and SAA. Concrete meaning of this root is inactive. This root also has other meanings eg remain, stay, stop, hesitate, spend time in same state or place, to be slow to doing things, to be late in coming, to linger on, a mixture or a cross-section of various things or people etc etc.
Word SAA’AH is from root SEEN, WOW and AIN. Concrete meaning of this root is spectrum. It also means spread, range or scale. To go grazing, to spread out, to facilitate, to give room to, a period of time, a section or segment of time of the day, a portion or part of, to leave something alone, a moment in time, an hour etc etc.
Allah has created mankind in simple state of existence to develop themselves through self learning like self programming robots and rise to power with help of divine guidance where that becomes necessary so that one day they could be proud of their such high level of creativity that is only second to God himself the creator and sustainer of the universe. Allah did not create mankind to put them through test to know what they were going to do and to punish or reward them for acting like slaves to Allah or going against his orders about some religious rituals. To think like that is actually an insult to majesty of God so people need to come out this mindset, attitude and behaviour. No matter what people do to themselves or each other it is all adding to their life experience which in turn is gradually leading them in the right direction. The proof is right before our eyes that world is not where it was and nor humanity is where it was when it began. Whatever humanity has accomplished so far it was through learning experiences of all the past generations of human beings. Had mankind followed divine guidance it would have helped mankind cut down on time and effort and a lot of painful suffering but if humanity is happy to go mainly by its self learning experience then so be it. It is therefore not fault of God if humanity has taken its own road and along the way it has to suffer the consequences till it has learned its lessons the hard way.
46) Regardless We show you (the people) some of the results of your actions as We promised them or as We promised you, to Our constitution their return is inevitable because universal system and laws of Allah are ever standing guard watching all that they do.
The Quran repeatedly tells people that they are bound to face results of their own actions as a human community but when exactly the balance will tip is only going to happen when all conditions for warnings are met. So it is all a matter of if and then. When people are warned about uprisings, revolutions and revivals it is all condition bound warnings as per laws of cause and effect and results of peoples’ own actions. So it is up to people to bring such events about or avoid them or to try to avoid them as much as they can. However, when stated conditions are met then events will happen as told.
47) Remember, for every nation there has been an appointed messenger and when their messenger came to them Our criterion for judgement was passed on to them for justice so that they do not inflict harm and destruction upon each other.
48) They ask you, when will this promise of result of their actions be fulfilled if what you say is true?
This is question by people who have little sense because they have let themselves be misled by their rulers, priests and moneylenders etc. They told their followers some strange criterion for recognising divine personnel which is not met by anyone from God. It is because they have been led to believe in supernatural beings and supernatural powers of people therefore unless one fulfils their criterion one is not a divine messenger so they can mock him as much as they like. It shows how people can put each other on wrong path about anything unless people have learned to be sensible for their own good. So this dialogue is between two parties who stand on two different grounds. One believes in all sorts of nonsense and others is trying to educate it out of its ignorance through straight forward explanations that involve no magical stuff but confused people can only come out of their confusion if they decide to educate themselves about things properly.
49) Say, I have no control over anything even to prevent any harm to myself nor can I secure my future save whatever Allah has planned. For every nation there is a set period of time based on certain conditions and when their tipping points are reached then they cannot delay them even for a moment just as they cannot advance them for a moment so you too will be dealt with the very same way.
50) Say, have you considered that if His stated painful suffering in form of your revolt against each other falls upon you by night or by day, how will you survive it? What then is there that those who commit crimes against humanity against advice of Allah wish to hasten other than their own painful suffering at hands of each other?
51) Will you commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind only when such painful suffering by hands of each other actually overtakes you? But then you will wish for its removal although it had been your own wish to hurry it on.
52) At that time it will be said to those transgressors who will then declare their commitment to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind, taste the painful suffering you asked for the while it lasts. Why should you not be made to face the results of your actions when all others before you have been put through the same process?
53) They want to be informed, is what you are telling us really true? Tell them, yes, according to my Creator and Sustainer and it proves true through its fulfilment. You are not in any position to control set-up system and laws of Allah to derail this process.
The proof of divine revelations is the fulfilment of what is explained within them. The explanation given in them are purposeful and work the way they are explained and all points fit-in with each other purposefully.
54) The requital process at work is so strict in its operation that even if each person who has inflicted any harm and destruction on others possessed all that is in the earth he will surely be willing to pay it for avoiding to go through this process of requital, however regretful shame will cover such when they come face to face with painful suffering at hands of each other and that is how the matter will be decided between them on basis of requital process and they will not be made to go through anything beyond that.
55) Beware, all that is in the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah and beware that promise of Allah is a self evident truth yet most of the mankind bother not to learn what they should be doing to avert the life of painful suffering in this world.
56) He is the One Who brings nations to life through His program and He lets nations perish if they fail to follow His program so to His advice you all should turn for guidance.
57) O you the mankind! There has surely come to you an advice from your Creator and Sustainer, a protection against any harmful or destructive ambition or desire you may harbour in your minds against each other, a guidance for those who will commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of humanity.
58) Say, this Quran is based on wisdom of Allah as a blissful program revealed for your guidance to prosperity, so let the mankind create a blissful life for themselves by using it, for it is more beneficial to do as it says than all that they can gather as personal possession through harming and destroying each other.
59) Say, do you realise that out of all that Allah has provided for your use to have peaceful, progressive and prosperous life, you yourselves have declared some things lawful and others unlawful to take undue advantage of each other whereby you inflict harm and destruction upon each other against the guidance of Allah? Ask them, did Allah permit you to do that or do you attribute such falsehood to Allah by inventing such lies?
This verse should leave one in no doubt that Allah never declared any act by anyone unlawful save on the basis of its harmful results on human community and its individuals within community framework. Declaring anything unlawful therefore on any other basis is anti Islamic law. Allah only commands mankind to do what benefits mankind and forbids them to do anything that harms mankind. Allah does not forbid things but their possession or use. Just as Allah does not allow anyone to interfere in his set-up system and laws in the universe, he does not allow any human being either to break his set limits. Word limit must be paid attention because it carried sense in it of range within which one must remain. Stepping outside that set range causes confusion and chaos. For example, if people play football game without set limits of the game then what will be the result? How would people know who has won or lost? Who has played the game well and who has performed badly in the game? Not only that if people take out the referee from the game who will then ensure that each and every player is playing according to rules of the game?
In the verses before this the main things was whether the Quran is divine or not in its origin but after putting forth irrefutable explanations about the origin of the Quran God now emphasises the vital importance of setting limits or restrictions as to how mankind should live so that they could have peace and progress and prosper. It is not right of a human being to limit or restrict freedom of any other human being and mankind could never do that either because they lacked necessary information needed for this purpose even today a huge majority of people is not self aware let alone being aware of universal realities. This is why even those who oppose idea of God still are seriously confused even today as to what should be the basis for their law formation. This is why those who have a little power over others make laws as it suits them and keep them going for as long as they can till there arise problems for the rest of mankind and they rise up against those laws and the people who legislated them and enforced them. All this happens because unjust people legislate unfair laws and enforce then unjustly and that leads to painful suffering many people who then react the way they can to make it known they no longer accept this nonsense and stupidity of politicians and moneylenders. After this the religious leaders become focus of these angry because they talk about God and utopia state if rule of God was implemented which is in fact mullahs self created law just like politicians. If these priests are brought to power, they do with them exactly the same as the politicians but in the name of God so as painful suffering increases people start slapping around mullahs and then it is turn of politicians again who pretend they are their saviours. These foolish people go for them again and so the cycle keeps repeating because these people do not learn to be sensible themselves. The same happens when a state is based on multi party democratic system. One party is brought into power by masses by being fooled by them and after they have had enough of use and abuse they bring into office the other party but in actual fact all parties are part of the very same system and game plan so nothing much really changes for the betterment of mankind. However mankind kind do learn some lessons from all this use and abuse and may be one day when they are educated enough will bring in the scriptural system and law and play the game by the book. This needs a lot of time or a mass educational movement that helps people think better for themselves and others. So long as education is a very controlled process and people have rivalry and animosity based mindset, attitude and behaviour against each other that is unlikely to happen any time soon. Meanwhile painful suffering of mankind will continue because unless people themselves change this state of affairs for themselves it is not going to change. The Quran only gives a program for people who have educated themselves sufficiently to make sense of its program therefore people who keep depending on others to save them will remain in the state that they find themselves in. The rivalry and animosity system that is in place only dictates that each is for himself. This has turned world into dog eat dog world. When there are enough human beings in this world then they will be able to change it into a world that is good for human beings.
60) What will be the thoughts of those who invent lies today and attribute them to Allah at the time when they are made to face the results of their own actions? Surely program of Allah is for bestowing dignity upon mankind through their own hard work to prosperous life yet most of them use not things provided appropriately as advised.
The results of having or doing things or not having or not doing things on basis of any other criterion than the one provided by Allah leads to people inflicting harm and destruction upon each other and in time that is bound to lead to lawlessness and total chaos due to breakdown of law and order in human society. The idea is that doing things wrong way never leads to good end results. When bad results of peoples’ deeds face them they wish to avoid them and regret doing those deeds but it is already too late. The Quran invites people to learning sense and deciding matters on basis of their outcome with which mankind would be happy. This is like building a house without paying much attention to it and when you are in it, it collapses on you. Then regretting is useless when you have suffered the consequences already. It is therefore necessary to pay attention to things when one is building the house so that there are no defects in the building while it is being built because no point in crying after it has collapsed due bad workmanship or other defects like bad design or planning etc. YOWMAL QIYAAMAH is not necessarily any set apart day but a permanent state of living under divine system and laws that keeps dealing with situations as they occur. What matters is why things are decided, how things are decided and that they must be decided appropriately within appropriate time period. If you place your hand in fire it burns you and that is how you do something wrong and face the consequences. You sow the seed and you reap what you sow in due course as appropriate. Likewise when people do wrong to each other and it spreads widely then one day lots of people get fed up with this way of life and stand up against it. This is rising up day when revival of community spirit starts taking place. Humanity will keep learning and improving itself here in this life here in this universe for as long as it lasts. It will one day become so advanced that it will increase its life span and be able to live on other planets as well in this universe. Humanity in a way already has permanent life because it survives through its future generations. This can be thought of as family tree of life. This is why our struggle should be to make our world a better place for all of us rather than killing each other in the hope of afterlife which is not going to be pleasant for anyone who has not made anything good out of this life. Moreover YOWMAL QIYAAMAH also means standing system and law in place as a reference point whereby all things happen or are supposed to be judged or decided. Word YOWM does not mean just day or a period of time but a period of time based on light of knowledge and knowledge is all about law and way of doing things properly or in an orderly manner to achieve in end result or objective. YOWM also means universe, the world, the time, an era or a reference point etc. Likewise word QIYAAMAH also had many meanings including something standing like a guard to ensure all is functioning or working properly. YOWMAL QIYAMAH also means the period of time when DEEN becomes fully established in the world and all mankind live by it.
61) No matter whatever affairs you are engaged in and no matter which part or what stage of the Quranic program you are working on yet whatever you are doing Our system and laws are present and fully engaged in there, because there is not even an atom of anything in the earth or in the heaven that is beyond control of set-up system and laws of your Creator and Sustainer, not even anything smaller than that or even larger than that but it is governed by clearly set-up universal laws.
This verse fully explains what is told in the verses above ie what is meant by judgement of Allah. It is simply how set-up divine system works and how laws in it operate to keep things on course. This is why there is no escape for humanity from judgement of Allah and that Allah is not waiting for judgement rather it is being carried out all along ad things happen.
62) Behold! The people who rely on goal and guidelines of Allah have nothing to worry about or anything to regret about.
63) Such as commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind and prove themselves consistent with program, constitution and law of Allah for the benefit of humanity.
64) for them there is a good news of blissful life as soon as they start living by the Quranic program right to the end of their lives so long as they continue living by the Quranic program because system and laws put in place by Allah will never change to ensure that outcome always so they remain ever present and fully engaged constantly. Being that successful therefore will be a worthy achievement for those who decide to take that path.
65) So let not the falsehood invented by those who attribute lies to Us damage your mission. Remember always that dignified life for mankind lies only in the way of Allah because He makes His program known to mankind due to His comprehensive knowledge of all things.
66) Be aware! Whatever is in all the galaxies including this galaxy belongs to Allah alone so those who declare their allegiance to rulers others than Allah follow nothing but self deception and preach nothing but falsehood whereby they inflict harm and destruction upon mankind.
67) He is the One Who has brought about the night for you to rest therein and the day so that you can see and do things. Indeed there are evidences in all this for those who observe things to heed Our guidance.
68) Some even claim Allah has a successor! Sovereignty belongs to Him alone and He is self-sufficient! To Him alone belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth. Have you any proof for what you claim or are you so ignorant that you are attributing to Allah something about which you have no proof whatsoever?
69) Say, those who attribute lies to Allah will never be able to prosper as a beneficial human community.
70) Even though they may have gathered some personal gains at the expense of human community they are bound to come back to Our guidance even if due to facing terrible consequences of their actions because of their opposition to Our guidance.
No matter which way people head in the end when they had enough they will come back in search of right way of life and that is when they will find the same guidance they rejected earlier guiding them aright. It is all about wake up call for mankind and different people wake up at different times in their lives so things are going to take their time before they take the right turn.
71) Relate to them the story of people in time of Noah. Once upon a time Noah invited his people for an open dialogue saying, O my people! If gaining ground of my viewpoint is difficult for you to accept as I spread the messages of Allah because I rely upon guidance from Allah for convincing people then you too can get together for your response to my campaign along with those whom you take for your rulers ensuring your task is not obscure for yourselves then argue your case against me and give me no time to prepare myself for this discussion.
72) But should you move away from discussing this matter openly and sensibly then I do not expect any reasonable outcome of this matter from your side and in that case I leave outcome of my effort upon set-up system and laws of Allah because He has advised me that I should commit to abiding by His guidance for peaceful, progressive and prosperous life.
73) However they denied him the opportunity to openly discuss his standpoint with them so We saved him and those who were with him in the same boat and We made them successfully inherit their land and We let drown those arrogantly ignorant people in their own mischiefs who rejected and opposed Our revelations so they ended up destroyed by inflicting harm and destruction upon each other. Therefore you can see what was the end of those who were forewarned about the consequences of their course of actions.
Communities in due course fall away from guidance of Allah and end up in troubles and Allah raises people to help them re-establish themselves but not all listen to reason therefore some continue living the wrong way that lands them in mutual self destruction the while others who heed the message that brings nations to life make a comeback from the brink of mutual self destruction.
74) Then at length after him We sent messengers to their descendants because they fell apart repeatedly as a community in due course. The messengers came to them with clear goals and guidelines as to how they should come together to be a successful community but some of them did not commit themselves to working for peace, progress and prosperity as a community on the basis of Our guidance which some of their ancestors had rejected before them. That is how We let those who inflict harm and destruction upon each other isolate their minds from Our guidance.
75) Then later on We sent Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh and his chiefs with Our instructions. But they too showed arrogance because they were a people that opposed Our guidance and inflicted harm and destruction upon each other.
76) When Our guidance came to them they said, this is indeed a conspiracy against us.
77) Moses replied, is that all you can say about the guidance of Allah when it has come to you? Is this really a conspiracy against you when I am helping you to learn to be good to each other? Conspirators never educate their enemies to be good to each other rather they take undue advantage of them by setting some of them up against the others thereby put them on the road to their own destruction therefore they can never prosper.
This is a very important point that is made in this verse that enemies never try to make their opponents clever than themselves they know they will take undue advantage of them. Only people who have real concern for betterment of whole mankind go and do such things as educate even those who consider them as enemies and bring them on solid ground for their secure future. So long as a people have provably sound values and stand on that solid ground then try to help others to use same values as have helped them develop then to consider such people as enemies is nothing less than paranoia. However people who are already living on basis of rivalry and animosity based divided society, they cannot consider anyone their friend and well wisher unless they think they can gain something out it according to the values they live by. This is why they look suspiciously at those who try to help them because they are living a life based on misinformation and disinformation, mistrust and distrust and suspicion because this is the end result of negative competition based society. Each person is looking for a chance to undercut and undermine others so how can one trust others in such a foolish society? This is why people need to come out of such mindsets, attitudes and behaviours if they really want to make their lives worth living or lots of people are bound to suffer unnecessary worries leading to paranoia, depression and anxiety who find themselves not being able to fight their corner to survive.
78) They said, have you come to turn us away from the way of life of our forefathers in order that you two become the rulers in the land? We will never commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind along with you.
79) Pharaoh said, bring me every skilful person who is well versed in the art of debate.
80) When the experts in debate came Moses said to them, demonstrate whatever arguments you wish to put forth.
81) So when they had demonstrated their skills Moses said, the claims and arguments to prove them which you have put forth the revelation of Allah can surely undermine them because Allah does not let works of those succeed who cause divisions and wars amongst people in the world.
82) By His words alone Allah proved what was beneficial for humanity, much as to the dismay of those who opposed His guidance and worked against it.
83) None of the people committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind along with Moses save youths from his own community because of fear of Pharaoh and his chiefs lest they persecute them and certainly Pharaoh was so powerful in that land that he did not hesitate to cross any limit.
84) Moses said, O my people! If you are really committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according to program, constitution and law of Allah then you should rely upon His set-up universal system and laws and get on with doing what you ought to be doing if you have really submitted to work for peace.
85) They replied, upon system and laws of Allah we rely and they said, our Creator and Sustainer! Do not let us suffer at the hands of a people who inflict harm and destruction upon each other,
86) and deliver us through your blissful program from the nation of such trouble makers who oppose installation of Your rule in the kingdom.
87) We revealed Our plan to Moses and his brother saying, take your people and set up in Egypt organised institutions and make your those institutions basis for organisation of your people to help establish Our system in order to implement program for prosperity to bring about good news of blissful life for those who commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of human community.
88) But Moses said, our Creator and Sustainer! You let Pharaoh and his chiefs have control over things that make life blissful for mankind in life of this world but our Creator and Sustainer, instead of behaving appropriately they have misled people about Your set goal and guidelines and have taken away rights of people to Your provided sustenance. Our Creator and Sustainer, let us go for whatever they have taken from us because of their terrible mindsets, attitudes and behaviours due to which they will not commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of humanity unless they see the painful suffering with their own eyes.
89) Allah said, your concern will be addressed in time but remain steadfast and follow not the path of those who ignore Our goal and guidelines.
90) That is how We led the ideological children of Israel across the sea of troubles because Pharaoh and his hosts pursued them relentlessly with animosity and oppression until they saw themselves drowning in their own self created harm and destruction, he then said, I now commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind in His name other than Whom there is no ruler, He in Whose name are committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind children of Israel so I too am of those who submit to His goal and guidelines.
91) He was told, now you declare your commitment to working for peace, progress and prosperity of humanity when you have lost your position of power but a while before you were terribly rebellious and one of those who conspired for divisions and wars in the land.
92) However We will save you in your body of works now so that you are a lesson for the succeeding generations even though most of the mankind pay no attention to Our revealed information for their guidance.
This verse informs about a few things eg a)a person in power if he does not benefit humanity but instead oppresses and suppresses people and inflicts harm and destruction upon them and thereby he is brought down by people due to his atrocities against them then there is no strength in his word if he gives himself up to people and promises them heaven because he is in no position to deliver. b)people who are oppressed and suppressed will find a way in the end to fight back if the oppressor and suppressor does not stop his atrocities against a people. c)even names and works of harmful and destructive people should be saved as a reminding lesson for coming generations to steer them away from going in the wrong direction so that they take the right road. d)people who oppress and suppress do end up destroyed through divisions and infighting among themselves in the end so this is not the right way to live. e)it is never a good idea for people to discriminate against each other because that is start of harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour. Any country, any community, any family, any organisation, any company that is based upon discrimination is bound to face self destruction or at least strangled progression. All forms of negative discriminations must be ended among all people if world has to be a better place for all the people as a single human family.
93) That is how We founded children of Israel upon foundation of provable truth and provided them with beneficial things for life. They divided not until after Our revealed guidance had come to them and they stepped aside from it ending up with rivalries and animosities between themselves. Surely your Creator and Sustainer decides the matter in which they dispute among them by way of set-up system and permanently at work laws.
The judgement of God is ever present in form of his set-up system and laws in the universe to bring things back into equilibrium after they are upset by mankind. This is why when humanity reaches the end of range and crosses its set limits nature takes its course as designed.
94) If at all any of you the people are in doubt regarding what We have revealed for you then consult those people as well who have been properly studying, properly following and properly proclaiming Our revealed information before you. You will surely find that it is a provable truth indeed that has come to you from your Creator and Sustainer therefore you people should not be of those who are confused and in doubt,
95) so help not those who deny rights of provision to others thereby oppose goals and guidelines of Allah or you too will end up of those who are in loss.
96) Despite Our guidance and forewarnings those concerning whom the universal laws of your Creator and Sustainer must fulfil their role will not commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of humanity
97) even though every kind of explanation has been brought to them until they see their own painful end by their own hands as a result of their own course of actions.
98) Was there any township as a whole which foresaw the revolt coming and fully committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity as a community and their commitment to peace, progress and prosperity of each other then benefited them except the people of Yunus? When they committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of their community We saved them from the harmful and destructive revolt and let them enjoy their life of this world till they remained on that course of actions.
99) Had it been a matter of enforcing His will for your Creator and Sustainer then all the people of the world would have committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind but He let them have their choice so will you then compel mankind against their will to commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind instead of letting them choose to do as they please and face the consequences?
100) Since people are given ability to choose to do things, it is not possible for anyone to commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind unless they pay attention to guidance of Allah to understand and act upon it otherwise He lets people remain in their ignorant, harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour who do not use their brains to learn to be wise.
101) Say, look at the people in positions of power and the masses stuck in the ditch. Our goal and guidelines and forewarnings do not benefit such people as do not pay due attention to them and commit not to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind according to them.
102) So are these people waiting for days when ignorant followers revolted against their harmful and destructive leaders like the ones that befell the people who passed away before them? Say, wait if you will I too am waiting with you till the coming of that time.
Here it is made clear that oppression and suppression is not put up with for very long even by ignorant people but whenever they react they bring about bloody revolts not organised education based changes or reforms. So better not go down that road or think about what happened in the times long ago. The Quran brings in only relevant human history to prove its point and not as a lesson in history of the world. The same it does when it brings in scientific evidences for proving its points.
103) But beware that whenever such a time came, We saved Our messengers and those who committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind this is Our way, We take it upon Ourself as Our responsibility and their right upon Ourself that We save those who commit indeed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
104) Say, O mankind! If you are in doubt concerning my proposed standard for your living then know this much that I will never serve those whom you take for rulers other than Allah nor will I follow your harmful and destructive systems and laws for living my life instead I stand to serve program, constitution and law of Allah the sole sovereign of this kingdom who will make you face full consequences of your own actions and I am commanded to be of those who commit themselves fully to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind.
105) Therefore establish as your goal the way of life for living your lives that is human friendly and do not be of those who take rulers other than Allah.
106) and never rely on law of any ruler save Allah who can neither prevent you from getting harmed nor can give you a secure future, yet if you will do that then you will become of those who go beyond Our set limits.
107) Remember always that if Allah lets a calamity afflicts you as a result of your own wrong doing then none can help you overcome its effect but He alone by guiding you out of it and if He lets a blissful favour come your way then again none can withhold His provision for you. However He bestows His blessing in form of prosperity upon whichever of His people works for it according to His plan because He is protector of mankind by means of His blissful program for them.
108) Say, O mankind! The truth based upon testimonial proofs has come to you from your Creator and Sustainer! Any nation and its person that follows His guidance follows it for its own benefit and any that goes astray does so by risking its own demise and I am not a standing over you to keep you right rather I am a messenger from Allah.
Here it is made clear that Islamic state is not a police state but a state where each and every person must watch his own words and deeds as well as of each other in light of revelation of God as well as their effects on his community. If what one is doing harms oneself and one’s community, one must stop and take corrective measures without delay to remedy the situation. If need be inform authorities. This does not mean there should not be any department for policing the community because that is always necessary so that state remains alert about its people and people remain alert about their state and each other. This is the only way to ensure internal and external security of community and its people. Monitoring community is necessary for state in various ways to keep track of things and that everything is taken care of on time so that problems do not arise or remain unsolved and become bigger problems in due course.
109) Therefore support by word and deed that which is revealed to you the mankind and be steadfast till Allah brings about His rule in the world and He is unique of all those who claim sovereignty for themselves.
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SURAH 11 HOOD-The guided leader
This Surah is named using word HOOD from root HAA, WOW and DAAL. Concrete meaning of this root is a rock that becomes uncovered or visible by itself and it is then used as a landmark by people to find their way in the land. A person who learns oneself and becomes visible to community as learned person and to whom then community looks for help to learn and do things. A guided leader. Other meanings of this root are a person belonging to Jewish community, a learned person, a person who stops doing wrong things and reforms, a person who mends his/her ways, a person who gets involved in things, a person who always has tendency toward reconciliation in case of a dispute, a person who does things gently but solemnly, a person who sings, a person who intoxicates etc etc.
Like previous Surah this Surah is not named HOOD because it is name of a prophet but because it deals with subject matter that is related to the name given to this Surah. This Surah is mainly about guidance ie what is guidance, why it is needed for people, where it comes from, how it reaches people and how people guide each other and how divine guidance plays its part in life of mankind. After making clear that the Quran cannot be from other than God, the Quran starts bringing stories of past people to inform people what happened to those who followed the Godly advice and what happened to those who did not and why it will continue happening always for all people to come. Not only why things happened but also how they happened. The set-up universal system and laws are explained for mankind to observe and live by so that mankind save themselves from unnecessary hardships and troubles. It is made clear that keeping an eye on nature as to how it works man can plan his life very nicely eg people can become aware when to plant seeds and when they will be ready for them and what problems can occur and how to overcome them etc etc. The Quran keeps emphasising need for self awareness and awareness of local, national and international, global and even universal environment. The Quran is very scientific and technical in its teachings as well as very much about politics and economics.
Proclaim! In the name of Allah, the provider of psychological, sociological and biological needs of mankind,
1) Alif Laam Raa. This is a constitution articles of which are permanent and made distinct by the One Who rules this kingdom wisely whereby He makes mankind aware of His sovereignty,
This verse explains very clearly that the Quran is not a religious scripture but a divine constitution for mankind to abide by forever. Its articles or clauses are lasting and firmly founded ie it is not possible for mankind to come up with anything like the Quran. The reason is because it provides mankind permanent and durable basis to find their community upon and keep building on that solid foundation. If they do that, they are guaranteed peaceful, progressive and prosperous life forever. However people are given the ability to choose so they can go their own ways they like but consequences have been fully explained for doing that. Going their own way only means mankind finding their ways of life upon nonsense unstable foundations that lead them to self destruction in due course.
2) therefore declare allegiance of sovereignty to none other than Allah. I am from Him to you the mankind a warner and a bearer of program for peace, progress and prosperity.
This verse advises mankind not to set-up or take any other ruler than Allah. When a person declares there is no ruler save Allah and Muhammad is his messenger, it binds that person to prove that declaration true by deeds ie by abiding by program, constitution and law of Allah. If one declares that I accept no ruler other than Allah and then lives by rule of any other than Allah that means one is not living up to one’s words or one is not true to one’s commitment to that one has declared. When there are contradictions in words and deeds of people the Quran declared them MUNAFIQEEN. Munafiqeen are such people who say one thing and do another and the Quran declared them munafiqeen because they declare commitment to the Quranic way of life yet live in opposition to its instructions or injunctions. The problem with that kind of living is that one can never achieve peaceful, progressive and prosperous life because one fails to bring about a community that is needed for having peaceful, progressive and prosperous life. Community cannot come about if people say one thing to each other and do another because this kind of life gives rise to all sorts of deceptions among people which brings about mistrust, distrust and suspicions leading to all sorts of destabilising factors.
3) Therefore you should seek protection of your Creator and Sustainer against all sorts of poverty by turning to His guidance so that He grants you beneficial provision and sustenance until an appointed time as per His set-up system and universal laws. That is how He bestows His abound provision and sustenance on every people who work for it. However should you ignore this program then I fear for you a very long period of time that will be full of painful suffering.
This verse tells mankind the fact that building a decent human society is not an easy task at all. If certain precepts are not given vital importance in lives of people then human will have to suffer for a very long time before it learns from its mistakes and changes its direction. The very first verse of the Quran tells mankind that Allah has provided all that humans need for building a good human society including his roadmap. Failing to make proper use of divine revelation, manpower and resources is not going to help humanity prosper instead the gap between where people take themselves and where they ought to be will become very large with time till they have reached dead end and then start their journey back.
4) No matter what in the end you the mankind will turn to roadmap of Allah because He has set-up system and laws for governing everything including program for regulating human life.
Human life is also regulated along with other things but in two different ways a)naturally ie natural processes and laws are at work and b)mankind are also given laws to regulate themselves accordingly. This guidance tells people very clearly that they have a creator to whom belongs everything and they should learn about things and use the provided things properly so that they do not end up in problems unnecessarily. This is why the more people become aware of things the better they become at using them but they need guidance for proper use of things because due to misuse of things humanity suffer a lot of setbacks.
5) Although you make clear for the masses what things are and how things work, be aware that rulers, their priests and moneylenders will still twist things for them due to their twisted mindset, attitude and behaviour so that they could hide the true sense of things from the masses so that they could keep their make beliefs alive in masses for their personal gains. However even when the leading elite think they have covered up scriptural truths fully with their invented make beliefs to prevent masses from knowing things properly yet Allah makes the truth manifest for all to see regarding that which they hide and that which they disclose in order to confuse people. Indeed He exposes every secret within their minds through results of their own actions.
This verse is disclosing the fact that some among the people twist things in order to deliberately cause confusion. Their motive is discussed in the next verse ie to control land, its resources, means of production and distribution. However it is made clear that if people learn then even in what these people have tried to cover up will become visible to them. IT is because truth has its ways to shine through if one has the eyes to see it. As explained already all priests of all religion have covered up the divine message by twisting scriptures in to religious books for personal faith and salvation yet if one looks in the twisted translations and interpretations of the scriptures one cannot remain blind to the fact that all scriptures worth the name have instructions that are for founding a good human community. Which proves the point that scriptures do not teach personal faith and salvation but good life for all through a well organised and a well regulated human community. Likewise people themselves can observe at macro and micro level how things work based on cause and effect principle. So all make belief ideas are false and people with little bit use of brain can see all this themselves. People will find that the whole universe is a systematic unit and involves processes and mechanisms. It is automated thing and that is the way it had to be because God wanted man to learn things through self experience like a self programming robot at a very high level. God did this to be appreciated as a great designer, creator, provider and sustainer. This is why God created man knowing nothing with a very powerful brain and senses to make sense of universe and revelation and discover his own full potential in order to appreciate God.
God did not create man for test but for struggle from simple state of existence to the most sophisticated state of existence. This is very much obvious from his of humanity ie is man living today as ignorant as he was right at the start? Is he where he was in the beginning, if not why not? Worshipping ritualism needs no much sense even a kid can do all that but living a life well organised and well regulated needs a lot of use of brain power. This very clearly knocks out religious reasons for human creation by God. God created man for reasons of DEEN for accomplishing great tasks using his self learned creativity to show what God has created in form of a human being. So twisting of scriptural texts to tilt them towards religious make beliefs by priests is very clearly evident. The other point is very simple ie the motivation. It is because by fooling masses some people can grab their things the while they busy doing something else and not paying attention to things they should pay attention to. If one wants to steal your things he will try to direct your attention elsewhere so that he gets the opportunity to nick your things. That is how adults fool kids when playing games with them. How can grown up people be so stupid that they let fellow human beings fool them so easily in the name of God, religion and scriptures especially when scriptures themselves expose these con artists? Every scripture including the Quran tells people look out for con artists who will try all they can to con you by fooling you. So people must learn things to the level that they help them stay safe from the imposters. Likewise this verse tells people at large be careful because there are people who help you know things properly but there are also people who are satans who twist everything to fool you to dispossess you of your God given rights to provisions. They hide what they should tell you because it is beneficial for you and tell you what they should not because that is harmful for you.
6) There is not a living being or a moving creature in the world for whom Allah is not responsible for its provision and sustenance but that He enables it to know its way to get to its provision on time because that is the way to its survival. It is all systematic and according to universal laws.
This verse explains the fact that Allah is creator and sustainer of all that exists but he has put in place systems, processes, mechanisms and laws according to which all is supposed to happen automatically. As for human beings they are also given books in which they are told to go by the book and you will do fine otherwise suffer the consequences don’t complain because it is mainly all you own fault if you do not educate yourselves and do as taught by the book. What does the book tell us? It tells us to come together to form a community, organise properly and regulate community well and get on with whatever you need to do for having peaceful, progressive and prosperous life as a human family. What does humanity need to do? It needs to find out what it needs and wants and why then explore the existing world to see where it can get things from and how it can get them etc etc. If more than half of the world is starving it is not because there are no enough things in the world or world is not able to provide for human needs but because we are busy reproducing to kill and maim each other instead of using each and every person available to get the job done. So long as we stop so many people from education and education based work and then pick fights with each other and that way waste our manpower and resources then is there any wonder we are not getting anywhere? Who is to blame for all this carry on? This is why all societies based on personal gains of individuals at the expense of community spirit are dangerous because that leads mankind to harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour. This is the main problem with mindsets, attitudes and behaviours of rulers, priests and moneylenders and their supporters. This is why true scriptural foundation needs to be found out to base our human community upon and then get on with life to make it better for all.
This verse explains evolutionary mechanism for survival ie in order to survive things must learn to get what they need in time from wherever they need to get from. If they fail then that is the end of them. Not only that but as people fail to get what they need things will become less and less and then things will end up fighting over them. This is particularly an important point in case of human beings that they have been given a great brain to use for this purpose. If instead they misuse it then consequences are going to be terrible every time. So why misuse something to our own demise than properly using it to reach a life of dignity? This verse leaves in no doubt that life is a tough struggle for mankind and so long as they do things as told they will keep rising from stage to stage or strength to strength but as soon as they become stagnant things will stop and then start rolling backwards and regression can takeover. This is the real message of this verse that keep moving with time or you will live to regret it.
7) That level of designer and creator is He Who brought about - by means of planning and putting in place systems, processes, mechanism and laws - all the galaxies including this galaxy in regressively assimilated periods of time and His ability of creating all this kingdom of universe rested upon the fountain of knowledge, in order to put you the mankind through struggle to demonstrate to each other which of you works for the benefit of each other to rise through ranks of dignity to appreciate your Creator and Sustainer through understanding His work. However when you tell them that due to this program by understanding and using it properly you the people will indeed be raised to heights of dignity after you have lost the hope, the opponents of this program will certainly say, this is nothing but a fantasy and a false hope.
This verse like many other verses is using words SITTATI AYYAAM. Word SITTAH is usually translated as number six but it also has other meanings as well eg it means two things joined in such a way that on one end they are same but very different at the other end. If we take a linear graph or a ramp and imagine it is cut into sections then if we can see how at the cut one side is going downwards and the other upwards. The very point at which one section ends and the other starts is called sittah. So in these like verses the Quran is telling us very clearly the evolutionary stages of the universe. Not necessarily just six stages but consistent and constant stages one after the other. It is like a main process with lots of embedded processes in it. It is as if one process completes and another starts and so it continues. So universe is constantly running nonstop and these stages or processes just come and go at their own time and in their own way.
8) However through this knowledge when We move away from them the harm and destruction they inflict upon each other for a limited period of time, they surely ask, what is holding it back? Beware! The day it arrives nothing holds it back from them and they are completely encircled by that which they take for a joke.
The way the system is set to work according to laws of nature, it keeps people safe so long as they go by the divine book but as they fall away from that, things take their natural course. When people stop living by the book the unity and compassion between them turns to rivalry and animosity and cruelty and hatred and gradually in due course people reach their lowest. This is not punishment from God, it is result of what people are told not to do. They were told not to live this way because it will cause them problems. Fire is created for benefit of mankind but if they will misuse it, they will get harmed. Just because God created things does not mean you must misuse them and get harmed by them. People have invented knife, gun and car etc but they did it for the benefit of people. If some misuse these things then is that fault of inventers or users? Only foolish people take a serious good advice for a joke. It does not mean advice is necessarily laughable but it could mean people have no sense to understand it.
9) The fact is when We let mankind taste prosperity due to following Our program thereafter in due course We find mankind caught up in hardship due to moving away from Our guidance. Surely it is due to mankind not using Our provisions properly.
10) And if We let mankind taste any prosperity again due to coming back to Our program after adversity has afflicted the mankind, the mankind claims, all its sorrows are gone because of its own efforts and in due course mankind become intoxicated due to power and rebel against Our guidance.
In these verses mindset, attitude and behaviour of certain people from among mankind is explained that these people when suffer due to their own actions against divine advice they blame God but when they succeed in life they claim all credit for themselves as individuals, not thinking of who has contributed to their this success and how. This lack of sense then misleads them and instead of they too contributing back to society sensibly cause problems by trying to undermine others. As they get a bit of dominance over others they become arrogant and treat other human beings with contempt and put in place divide as masters and slaves. However, not all people are like that rather some people take things differently and try to inform and educate others. So this becomes a struggle between constructive and destructive elements in human society. Since being constructive is a much more difficult task so human society remains stuck in rut for a very long time and gets deeper and deeper in trouble till it finally decides to listen to some sensible voice which then puts is back on track. It does not take very long before human society falls down again but each fall and rise results in more lessons being learned by humanity and this process will continue till mankind have learned enough to guard against coming about of destructive elements. Once humanity succeeds in doing that then the only way will be full speed ahead. As the Quran says, our mistakes do not damage us because we learn from our mistakes but dwelling on those mistakes and making them a way of life is what sets human back.
11) save such as remain steadfast in their hard works for reconciliation between mankind and between mankind and resources for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind such are the ones for whom is secure and dignified life as a result of their own constant and consistent works according to plan.
The Quranic wording is not possible to translate word for word because there are no words that can express the very same message in other languages. It is all an exercise to translate the message rather than the word and that is also not easy because each and every verse uses words in such a way that same verse leads us to parallel concepts that make perfect sense eg take words SABAROO and SAALIHAAT. SABAROO is not only about showing patience when things are out of one’s control but also about showing steadfastness when taking action. SALIHAAT is not only about reconciliation or repairing broken relationships among mankind but taking such actions that benefit or make things work ie it involves sense of coming up with ideas, procedures and practices that lead mankind somewhere in sense of progress. It is as if Quran is telling us good people are those who are inventive ie those who come up with new ideas and invent things for benefit of mankind. Putting these meaning of these words side by side with what mullahs have been feeding masses the contrast is self evident. Mullahs have turned people lazy and crazy instead lively and inventive. Creativity is key foundation according to the Quran and the very purpose of human creation yet this is what mullahs forbid. How did they manage to fool masses so much?
12) So O messenger, you should never think about giving up any of this program which has been revealed to you or feel defeated within yourself just because the opponents of this program may say, why has he not been sent with a treasure or why has he not been sent with a person with power over people? Surely you have not been sent to conquer people by shear use of force instead you have been sent with a message to educate and forewarn people against inflicting harm and destruction upon each other, so that they become fully aware that Allah deals with all affairs as per His plan according to His set-up system and laws.
This verse makes it clear for those on missionary work that in this task there lie ahead tough times and difficulties so they should prepare themselves mentally and physically for all eventualities to be able to deal with them as they come effectively but properly. People who have not prepared themselves cannot fulfil conditions of missionary task properly. In short unprepared people could cause more harm to the Quranic mission and humanity than benefit.
13) Do they say, he has created this program himself to fool mankind? Say to them, bring then a program like this for bringing about such a human community by yourselves and invite all those you can to help you do this other than Allah and see if you can prove your this claim true.
This challenge is repeated in the Quran and if we look at the state in which we find humanity, it is very clear why such a program cannot be from mankind themselves. If people were so clever then they would not be doing the stupid things to each other as they do and the world would have been a great place but it is not. People are so jealous of each other and rivalry is so rampant among people that animosity and hatred is order of the day. After all who are we making the weapons of mass destruction for? Why are we hiding all kinds of things from each other and why do we spy on each other to find out what we have in our secret cupboards? Why we have copyright on information as intellectual property and our inventions patent catalogued? We claim we have human rights laws yet we do not help people suffering from diseases and poverty. Instead of getting busy creating opportunities for each other to contribute to human society we are busy plotting and executing those pots in order to deliver knockout blows to each other. Keeping all this in mind, who has the time or money to write books and spend time to to help educate others unless one truly accepts existence of God and goodwill towards humanity? Why otherwise anyone rather be sacrificial goal? People with harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour due to damaging ambitions and desires cannot be expected to do things for the benefit of mankind. If humanity has this kind of personality because in their view if they do not then they cannot survive in this dog eat dog world then who is going to waste his time in trying to get people out of this mindset, attitude and behaviour? If people have this mindset, attitude and behaviour, why the hell anyone will bother writing a book that tells people to change their way of life 180 degrees? Why would anyone write a book that nobody wants? There are a lot of questions that people need to think about before they can really say scriptures are not divine in their origins. In other words it is not going to be easy even if not impossible to prove the Quran is a human work and that is because of its program for mankind to implement as a goal according to set guidelines.
Any book written by people ought further human ambitions which are anti Quran. Even rulers, their priests and moneylenders had to bend scriptural teachings by force to fool ignorant and uneducated people to get them to do their dirty works. Evil done by humanity is so obvious that anything good that came out of it seems merely by product. It is because if humanity has been doing good then evil as by product could not have damaged the human mind, attitude and behaviour so badly as we all witness it everywhere round the globe. Word ASHAR not only means ten in count but also a community based way of life. Word SUWARIN is plural of SOOR. It means a protective wall around a fort or a castle. In the Quranic context it means ways of life that gives human communities security. It could also mean ten suras like the suras of the Quran. The ideas is again not just text but a text when it is acted upon results in true human community because that is the message contained in the suras of the Quran.
14) But if they fail to respond to this challenge then mankind should come to know that this Quran was sent for making evident program of Allah for them so that they come to know that there is no ruler of this universe save Him. Will you the mankind then submit to program of Allah and live by this way of life that leads to peace, progress and prosperity?
15) Those who go for a way of life that helps them make personal gains at the expense a of way of life based on community spirit, We reward them with full results of their actions without any loss.
All things get what they work for including humans but it is better if people live by way of life as told by the Quran ie having community spirit rather than living on the basis of personal gain at the expense of community spirit. The problem with life based on personal gain is that in the end rivalry leads to animosity and hatred and fights and wars and so end result is not any good for anyone.
In the Quran words HAYATUDDUNYAA does not mean life of this world but life lived at lower level ie living like animals having no sense of higher life. Lower life is living for oneself and higher life means living for others. This is why living for oneself does not and cannot bring self respect and good life whereas living for others brings good life and self respect both. This is why end results of two ways of living are very different from each other. However most of the mankind live a very confused life.
16) They are the ones who have nothing to gain in the end save painful suffering whereby they come to know their greed and make belief based actions were wrong because they were harmful and destructive for others as well as themselves.
17) Can they be same as those who have self evident program from their Creator and Sustainer and to whom a messenger from Himself proclaims and they also have the book given to Moses before them a guidance towards blissful life? Such are the people who really commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind due to the scripture but those factions who oppose Our guidance will have their promise fulfilled to them that they shall end up in agonising life. So O people, be not in any doubt about the Quranic program because it is the provable truth from your Creator and Sustainer even though most of the mankind do not commit themselves to working for peace, progress and prosperity according to it,
This verse tells us that people who claim to be committed to working according to the scripture may not be actually doing that if their words do not match their deeds, which means their verbal commitment cannot be taken seriously.
18) and who can inflict more harm and destruction upon mankind than the one who invents lies and attributes them to Allah? Such people in time will be confronted by those with understanding of program of their Creator and Sustainer thereby they will prove that these are the people who have invented lies against Allah their Creator and Sustainer. Be aware! Those who go beyond set limits of Allah remain away from blessings of blissful program of Allah unless they stop and get themselves on the right path.
19) Such are the people who hinder others from the path of Allah and seek to make it obscure because they deny the masses the blissful life that could come about due to Our program.
20) These people cannot prevent Our program from reaching the mankind throughout the world ultimately because there will be none to support them against the plan of Allah. So people who support their plots for now are putting mankind through painful suffering repeatedly because they support not those who stand for what is beneficial for mankind or stand themselves for that because they have no sense to observe things properly nor have they learned to use their minds to understand things properly.
21) They are a people self centred and lost in their own selves and the nonsense they invent against Our guidance leaves them in utterly confused and in chaos.
22) There can be no doubt therefore they are bound to lose in the end.
In these verses Allah leaves people in no doubt that his program will reach mankind ultimately through mankind themselves and opposition to will fade away as education takes root among mankind and people realises need for divine guidance. It is obvious that as more and more people will come to right path less and less people will remain on the wrong road so opposition to message of God will ultimately fade away. The bigger the effort people make in helping each other educate themselves the sooner this period of darkness will disappear.
23) As for those who commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind therefore strive very hard for reconciliation between mankind and between mankind and resources to implement program of their Creator and Sustainer for peace and prosperity of mankind will ultimately end up in blissful life for as long as they are alive and steadfast.
24) The example of these two sections of people is like two persons, one of whom is blind and deaf, and the other who can see and hear. Are they equal? Will you then not learn to understand the lesson?
When the Quran uses certain words they need to be understood in sense of the message they convey. Here words blind and deaf tells us about a person who lacks sense to understand things as well as to observe things properly and both of these are needed to reach proper understanding of thin g or right decisions about issues. The seeing and hearing means being able to understand and observe things properly so that one is able to decide things properly or deal with problems appropriately. This seeing is with eyes of mind not eyes on the face.
25) That is why We sent Noah to his people saying, I have come from Allah to warn you plainly,
26) take no ruler other than Allah so you do not remain a divided people one group set against the other otherwise I fear for you the consequences of a painful day of uprising.
27) The chiefs of his people said, we do not see you but a man like ourselves and we see that no one has followed you except the meanest among us whose judgement abilities are immature and we find nothing in you which gives you superiority over us. In fact we think you are a liar.
28) He said, O my people, consider this that if I am upon a clear guidance from my Creator and Sustainer and He has bestowed on me a program for your peace, progress and prosperity from Himself but you act like blind to it, should we then compel you to accept it when you abhor it?
29) O my people! I do not ask you to hand over all that you have to me because fulfilment of my needs rests upon the program of Allah and I am not going to drive those away who have committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind along with me because they are sure they can work hard to meet the standard set for them by their Creator and Sustainer but I sense that you the chiefs are acting arrogantly out of your foolishness.
30) And tell me O chiefs of my people! Who will support me against Allah if I drive them away if what I claim is true? Will you not even try to understand such a simple point?
31) I do not say to you that I have the treasures of Allah in my personal control nor do I claim that I have the power to know and secure my future and I do not claim to be a king nor do I say about those who are mean in your eyes that Allah will not grant them prosperity because only Allah can let them manifest what is in their minds. If I claim anything to mislead you then I will indeed be transgressing my God set limits.
32) They said, O Noah! You have argued with us and argued far too much, now bring upon us the revolt with which you threaten us if what you say is true.
33) He replied, Allah surely lets results of your actions be upon you at the time and as He has planned and you cannot escape them.
In these like verses it is make clear that judgement of Allah comes constantly and persistently as per set system and laws of Allah. When tipping point is reached things happen but exactly when this tipping point is reached is anybody’s guess. This is why people need to observe ground realities and see the state in which humanity is at any given point in time. If it is in good state of affairs then society is healthy so bad things will not happen but if state of humanity in the world is terrible then actions and reactions decide what is going to happen and how soon. Not only that but if humanity pays attention to its well being then it will find out things in time and take corrective measures and that will keep humanity safe from all sorts of disasters. Only when people fight each other that they lose attention to things and then when disasters strike them they are caught unaware. This is why a driver cannot afford to not to pay attention to things on the road because as soon he goes to sleep on steering wheel or others with him draw his attention away from the road the accident happens. Likewise if rulers, priests and moneylenders will fail to fool the masses they will lose control over masses. When that happens, master slave relationship will end unless these people succeed in re-establishing their control over masses by some new ideas. This is how absolute monarchy ended and this is how priests lost control over masses and now it is turn for moneylenders to lose control over masses. When there is fight between rulers, priests and moneylenders that is the time when masses will get chance to be free from all sorts of master slave relationships. When exactly that will happen is anyone’s guess.
34) My counsel will not benefit you no matter how much I desire to give you good advice if set laws of Allah your Creator and Sustainer find you on the wrong path because according to His set laws alone you are made to face consequences of your actions.
35) Do they say he has forged all this? Tell them, if I have forged it indeed then I ought to have some personal motive to benefit myself at your expense that ought to have harmful and destructive consequences for you which ought to be all clear to you, yet I am free of inflicting any harms upon you which you inflict on each other due to your such motives, so how do you explain your accusation of forgery against me when I am instead stopping you from inflicting harm and destruction upon each other so that you do not end up destroying each other?
36) Regardless of their false accusations against you, it was made obvious to Noah that no more of your people are committing to working for peace save those who have already committed. So there is no point you grieving at their mutually harmful and destructive mindsets, attitudes and behaviours against each other
37) Instead go build a separate place away from these people according to Our guidance as we revealed it to you and remember not to side step Our guidance on behalf of those who oppose Our program by working against it because they are all set for destruction at their own hands according to Our set laws.
38) So he started building a place and whenever the chiefs of his people passed by him they laughed at him. He said, laugh at us now if you will but time is coming when we too will laugh at you as you are laughing at us.
39) Soon you will come to know who will be seized by a humiliating revolt and who is to be afflicted with destructive consequences of his destructive course of actions.
40) Finally when time for fulfilment of Our warning came because the social environment heated up with hatred in society and the trouble broke out so We said to Noah, take refuge in that place you built and take aboard each of the leadership and of the community of yours who are committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of community letting those who want to stay behind remain there against whom the law is already in place so they will face end result of their own actions. However those who committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of human community with him were only a minority.
41) Thus he said to them, undertake this journey to a new way of life in the name of Allah according to whose laws is its beginning and its completion, surely guidance by my Creator and Sustainer alone is protector of mankind because He is provider of blissful program for them.
42) So the journey started with them in middle of massive waves of people. Even in this troublesome time when Noah called upon chief of his community to live by rule of Allah as he stood aside from it saying, O son of my nation! Join us and be not with chiefs and priests or masses that oppose rule of Allah.
43) He said, I rather betake myself to join the masses they will rescue my rule from this sea of troubles. Noah said, no nation survives such troublesome time due to set laws of Allah save any that builds itself upon the program He has provided for it. Thereupon a wave of people came between them and the chief joined those who were destined to end up destroyed.
44) Thus it happened that Allah said, O land! Swallow up your water and O sky! withhold your rain and so the water disappeared and that is how warning of Allah was fulfilled by way of drought and famine. On the other hand journey of Noah and his supporters for dignity became complete and it was said to them, let there be a distance between those who transgress Our limits and those who abide by them.
The troubles broke out among people of Noah because it was a divided society without sense of community spirit so when there came drought and rulers and priests and moneylenders had no solutions for their problems they turned against each other and rulers were killed by masses in rage to avenge the use and abuse they received at their hands for so long. Meanwhile Noah took himself and those who supported him to safety and started a new life based on his revelation from God.
45) Behold! Noah called out to his Creator and Sustainer at the time when he though chief was in trouble saying, O my Creator and Provider! My community chief is part of my community and surely Your promise to save my community is true because You are unique of those who claim to be the rulers.
46) Allah said, O Noah! He is not of your community because he is not of those who act to put things right for the benefit of human community. So do not question My decisions unreasonably. I educate you so that you do not act like those who act foolishly.
47) Noah said, my Creator and Sustainer! I seek refuge in Your revealed wisdom so that I do not question your decisions due to my lack of proper understanding of things but unless You dignify me through Your guidance I surely will be lost.
When divine messengers came their battles were mainly against chiefs of their communities because they turned masses into their slaves instead of leading people to a successful and prosperous life so that people could develop and grow and humanity progresses. This deliberate mismanagement of human and natural resources created divisions among people which led to terrible bloodshed between people for no good reason. However it was always hope of messengers that they succeed in their divine missions without hurting people and causing loss of life but in real life things depend on all participants and not just on God, his prophets and their followers. If opponents do not see sense and keep carrying on their onslaught against humanity then drastic measure become inevitable to put a stop to all this carry on though minds of divine messengers remain open for people to stop and change their way and join them but most of the times it only remain a wish because people with harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour rarely change the last minute.
48) It was said, O Noah! Settle down now on basis of program, constitution and law for peace, progress and prosperity of humanity from Us so that there is peace, progress and prosperity for you and for the people that are with you. As for generations to come from them, We will grant them also their provision thereby but if they learned and behaved not properly then they will have to face painful suffering as per Our set-up system and laws.
49) O messenger, these are some of the facts from the past which We have now revealed to you, neither you nor your people knew about it before this revelation. So be steadfastly persistent because the success in the end is for those who are consistent with program of Allah for the benefit of humanity.
These like verses do not mean people had never heard any stories about past people but that they had not been explained to people by their priests in the context the Quran explains them ie in non-religious context. People twisted even the texts of their divine books turning them out of their proper contexts. The same is happening today that most people only buy into religious nonsense rather than looking into scriptures themselves and discovering the true sense that the scriptures give rise to in their own contexts. Religions have given people wrong reasons as purposes for origin of creation. God has been portrayed as a tyrant who gets angry at drop of a hat and destroys nations after nation and a whole a load of nonsense. This is why if people want to know the truth about God and creation then they need to give up religious mumbo jumbo and look into scriptures in light of universal realities that face humanity.
50) Likewise to people of Aad We sent their brother Hood. He said, O my people! Live by program, constitution and law of Allah because you have no ruler save Him. Surely you live by nothing but make beliefs and falsehood that is harmful and destructive for living as a community.
51) O my people! I do not demand of you anything for personal gain at the expense of all the rest of you rather my goal is set only by Him who has created me. Will you then not use your sense to understand and follow it?
52) So O my people! Seek security of your future from your Creator and Sustainer by turning to His guidance and shape your community life accordingly. He will send you from the heaven abundant rain and He will add strength to your strength. So oppose not His goal and guidelines to inflict harm and destruction upon each other.
53) They said, O Hud! You have not come to us with any clear proof that we demand so we are not going to leave our rulers, priests and wealthy people just on basis of your claims and arguments nor are we going to agree to terms and conditions for our peace, progress and prosperity that you propose.
54) As we believe things we can only say that some gods of ours have afflicted you with madness the way you are talking to us about things. He said, I present testimony of Allah as my evidence for my claim and I call upon you too to present your evidences as well for your claims otherwise I am staying clear of those whom you take for rulers
55) instead of God, so plan all of you together a full dialogue with me and give me no time to prepare myself for this debate.
56) I rely upon guidance, universal system and laws of Allah the Creator and Sustainer of mine and yours. There is not a living creature whose purpose of existence is not decided by Him according to His set-up system and laws. The guidance from my Creator and Sustainer indeed leads along the path of life that is firmly founded.
57) So even if you turn away from fully debating the issue with me sensibly, at least I have conveyed to you the message I was sent with. If you do not abide by His roadmap in time my Creator and Sustainer will raise some other people in your place and you can do Him no harm whatsoever. Indeed my Creator and Sustainer has taken all measures for security and proper functioning of all things in the universe.
These verses very clear show two parties arguing about some issues in their own ways. The main thing to realise here is that one is party of religious people using its scripture for religious purposes as explained already and other party that uses divine scripture as it ought to be used. The religious party is made of rulers, priests and rich people supporting each other against masses by justifying why each party has the right to be there in sight of God and masses eg kings put in place priests and priests provide basis for kings to be kings on basis of religion ie these people are chosen by God to rule them so they must be obeyed or God will curse them and make their life hell. Rich people spend what they make from masses to build temples and tombs and other religious structures to further the same aims and objectives and because they spend money in the name of God so they are loved by God and they too should be given respect in society and obeyed by masses. Poor are poor because that is the way God made them to be and they will get whatever they desire when they die provided they accept the will of God and live as the men of God tell them ie the priests. A complete way of exploitation of ignorant masses and this is why religions are known as tools for exploitation of masses. This was the case always accept when some divine messenger came along and challenged this whole empire of faith and defeated it. However it never failed to make a comeback because people do not keep up with education and learning so being born ignorant and avoiding education and learning does not go well for mankind. This is why empire of faith still stands strong because top elite is ensuring ignorance prevails. There are no absolute monarchs today or priests with absolute powers but that is only because moneylenders have replaced them ie today rulers and priests are controlled by people with money ie the bankers. It is difficult to say how long this money based rule is going to last but once it too saturates that will be the end of it. That is when new world order will come about and that will be free of monarchy, priesthood and capitalistic ideology. God sent human values will become restored gradually because they are firmly based on idea of well being of humanity as a whole. This is where Quran will become fundamental text as basis for new set-up in the new world and rest of scriptural world will follow the lead provided by the Quran. That seems to be the final world order that will come about to stay forever and once humanity has sorted itself out it will concentrate on turning this world into a paradise or divine kingdom. So we are a very long way away from where we ought to be as far as the teachings of the Quran are concerned. That is how prophet mission will become fully established.
58) So when Our law of consequences delivered them results of their own actions in due course We saved Hood and those who committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of human community along with him through dignifying program from Us and that is how We saved them from life of terrible painful suffering.
59) Such were the people of Aad. They opposed the goals and guidelines of their Creator and Sustainer and did not support His messenger but instead supported the rule of every terrifying oppressor.
60) Therefore they were followed by life full of humiliation right from the start to the very end through rivalries and animosities that led them to their own destruction. Be warned! Aad denied the rights of provision to each other against the guidelines of their Creator and Sustainer. So be informed! Gone are Aad, the harmful and destructive people of Hood.
61) To the Thamud people We sent their brother Saleh. He said, O my people! Abide by program, constitution and law of Allah alone as you have no ruler save Him. It is He Who brought you forth in a simple state and evolved you therefrom so that in due course you seek your security by referring to His guidance and moulding your life according to it. Indeed the guidance and the set-up system and laws of my Creator and Sustainer are ever present and respond to your needs and actions.
62) They said, O Saleh! Till now you were the one in whom we had great expectations! Will you now stop us from serving the rulers, the traditions and the customs that our forefathers put in place and served? Indeed we are strongly suspicious of that to which you are calling us.
63) He said, O my people! Consider this, if I have a clear proof from my Creator and Sustainer that He has granted me a program for peace, progress and prosperity of human community from Himself, who then will help me against set-up system and law of Allah for consequences if I abide not by His program? What would you add to my person other than making me yet bigger loser than yourselves?
64) So O my people! This beneficial guidance of Allah is a reference for you to live by so let it rule in the land of Allah freely and hinder it not otherwise you are bound to find yourselves caught up in severe consequences of your harmful and destructive actions against each other.
65) But they prevented its implementation so he said, you have three periods of time at most to stop the way you live and reform yourselves and your institutions or in due course such consequences will ensue that you will regret what are doing because the set-up universal system and laws never fail in delivering results of peoples’ actions.
66) So when Our set law of consequences began showing its dire effects after things reached the tipping point, from that period of humiliation We saved Saleh and those who committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of human community along with him through roadmap for their survival and prosperity from Us. Surely your Creator and Sustainer is consistent and powerful enough to see through His plan.
67) Then after a long period of mutual humiliation the sudden uprising took these transgressors against Our rule by surprise thus new era in their jurisdictions uprooted their rule
When a people keep living the way that increase harm and destruction in their population then in due course tipping point is reached when some of them over throw the rule by old rulers replacing them with new ones to make a new start. These are bloody revolutions because new rulers keep old ways and so its is only a matter of changing faces or to give a new people chance to rule to see if this will work for a while. That too comes to an end in time. So long as people do not wake up to education based revolution, bloody revolutions will keep coming about. Once people become aware of things through education then they will be in better position to see exactly what they want and how they can get it. All this need cooperation and coordination and that can only come from divine scripture as foundation to start from. Words DAYAARI HIM do not mean their personal houses but their government buildings or offices and institutions and jurisdictions that helped them run their terror campaigns against their own masses.
68) as if they had never flourished there. Be warned! Thamud people denied each other rights to provisions in opposition to rule of their Creator and Sustainer. So gone are the people of Thamud due to their harmful and destructive mindset, attitude and behaviour against each other.
69) For the very same reason there came to Abraham Our missionaries to help him with program for peace, progress and prosperity of his people. They said, we come to you to offer our help to you for bringing about a peaceful, progressive and prosperous community. He said, you are welcome to help me establish peaceful, progressive and prosperous community so he did not wait long to bring them a fully worked out action plan for the missionary work.
Word HANEEZ is from root HAA, NOON and ZAAL. Concrete meaning of this root is something that is fully prepared or properly cooked eg a properly worked out plan of action or properly cooked meat etc. The same root is used for slimming horse through working out ie a hose is taken through tough exercises to make it fit for its purpose. The same root is used for mixing wine with water. It also means roast meat, hot water etc etc.
Word IJLIN has various meanings as already explained but here in this verse it means a plan of action to get the job done eg a means to an end just as a ladder is used to get from one end to another. This root has other meanings like camel litter, rush, hurry, calf, ladder, wheel etc etc.
These people came from another nearby community and were sent by their prophet to deliver some messages to Abraham. This verse shows there were at least six divine messengers present at the same time in different communities eg Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Lot, Jacob and this prophet who sent Abraham his missionaries to deliver him messages and to help Lot and his supporters etc.
70) However he sensed hesitation on their part because they did not seem to take the matter further so he felt concerned about their response. They too noticed his concerned look and said to him, worry not about it just now as we are on another mission concerning people of Lot.
71) It is because his society became stuck in the rut and an object of scorn so he became worried about it therefore through these people We gave his community good news about leadership of Isaac as well as Jacob.
In the Quranic context, it is not necessary that Isaac and Jacob were biological son and grandson of Abraham but because Abraham was a community leader therefore he was a father figure for his community members. However ideological children can be biological children as well but not necessarily the other way round.
72) The community said, alas for me! How can I get a good successor for leadership when I am not able to produce one and the leadership I already have is not able to deliver? This news is indeed a strange thing!
73) They said, do you the community find the plan of Allah strange whereby Allah will land you in life of prosperity in abundance O you the supporters of the nation building program? Surely He alone has the right to sovereignty.
74) When concern of Abraham was addressed through good news that reached him, he began asking Us if anything could be done to stop people of Lot from doing terrible things they were doing to each other.
75) Indeed Abraham was easy going and tender hearted for the mankind because he was fully devoted to Our mission.
76) We said, O Abraham! Don’t put yourself into worries over this matter because the set-up system and laws of your Creator and Sustainer always deliver to people results of their own actions as they are already warned, so they are all set for facing the terrible results of their own harmful and destructive actions against each other and that is an unstoppable process.
77) Later on Our missionaries came to Lot, he was alright with them except that he was hesitant to go along with them as regard their plan. After hearing their plan he said, this is a very distressful time.
78) Behold, there came rushing to him his people when he called upon them who were long addicted to all sorts of atrocities against each other so he said to them, O my people! Here are my guidelines to help you, they are necessary for you to adhere to in order to free you from your wrong doings against each other. So be consistent with program, constitution and law of Allah for the benefit of each other and do not make me look as an irresponsible fellow in the eyes of my guests. Is there no man among you of an appreciable leading character?
79) They said, you already know your guidelines are not acceptable to us and you also know well how we want to live our lives.
80) He said, I wish I had authority to prevent you from doing harm to each other or that I could betake myself to get help from some rightly guided powerful community.
81) Upon witnessing all this the envoys said, O Lot! We are sent to support mission of your Creator and Sustainer and majority of these people have made it clear that they are not going to support your mission of community building so leave this place with your supporters as darkness of ignorance still covers it therefore let none of you stay behind but rebellious people of your community only. It has chosen for itself that it should face the same fate as its chiefs, their priests and well of people. The new beginning that was promised to them, has time for that new beginning not arrived for them yet?
82) When time for fulfilment of Our promise came We caught the place turned upside down by sudden revolt because We made obvious to it importance of organised institutions and record keeping in a classified way,
83) as described by your Creator and Sustainer. Yet they ignored all this therefore such uprising is never far away from those who instead keep harming each other against Our set out goal and guidelines.
These verses show us that God wants people not to waste their time in petty quarrels among themselves over little things instead they should get busy in educating each other and organising themselves as a community based upon divine constitution for fulfilling the heavenly set goal by regulating themselves properly. So long as people keep ignoring this and keep wasting their time in all sorts of nonsense they will keep going through this cycle of aimless existence and painful suffering.
84) Likewise to the people of Madyan We sent their brother Shuaib who said to them, O my people! Abide by program, constitution and law of Allah because you have no ruler other than Him. So do not fall short in measurement in reference to this set standard. I see your future prosperous if you follow my advice but I also fear for you the time when the results of your actions against this standard could encircle you.
85) So O you my people! Fulfil your needs and wants according to the measures set as standard that is properly balanced and do not defraud people out of their rightful provisions so that you do not end up causing rifts and wars between mankind in the land.
86) That which is proper in sight of Allah for the good of mankind is beneficial for you if you would truly commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of human community and remember I am not set upon you as a guard to stop you from harming each other by force rather this is up to you people yourselves as to how you choose to organise your community, as per my heavenly message or your own make beliefs.
87) They said, Oh Shuaib! Does your way of organising the community demand that we give up serving all other rulers whom our forefathers served or that we give up our traditions and individual rights to doing what we choose to do with our own things at the expense of the community because you surely seem to think that you are the only one steadfast and upright man in the land?
88) He said, O my people! You see, if I have a clear proof of guidance from my Creator and Sustainer and He has granted me a beneficial program for setting up His provided sustenance for the benefit of mankind then how can I go against that? I am not opposing you in what I am forbidding you just because I intend to harm or destroy you rather I desire your reformation for the benefit of all of us so far as it is within my capacity. My success does not depend on anything other than my hard work according to the revealed program of Allah for my guidance because in His program I have full confidence that is why I turn to it for guidance about everything.
89) So O my people! Let not your disputing with me bring upon you the doom similar to that of the people of Noah and Hood or Saleh and people of Lot are not far off in time from you either,
90) therefore seek protection through program of you Creator and Sustainer against inflicting harm and destruction upon each other by turning to His guidance and reform accordingly because my Creator and Sustainer is protector of the mankind through His program that is comprehensive for security of humanity.
91) They said, O Shuaib! We do not want to know much of what you say because we see you just as an average person among us. Were it not for your supporters, we certainly would have thrown you out of this place because on your own you are not strong enough to stand against us.
92) He said, O my people! Do you regard my tribe or ideological following to be more powerful than Allah that you have disregarded His advice totally as a thing cast behind your backs? Surely within grasp of my Creator and Sustainer is all that you do.
93) O my people! You keep on doing things your way and I will keep on doing things my way, and soon you will find out who ends up in humiliation through self imposed way of life that leads to harm and destruction and that way proves is a liar! Wait if you will, I too am waiting along with you!
94) When the time for fulfilment of Our warning came, We delivered through security provided by Our program Shuaib and those who committed themselves to working for peace, progress and prosperity of humanity along with him but the uprising took these transgressors against Our set-up universal system and laws by surprise that is how new era in their jurisdictions uprooted their rule
95) as if they had never flourished therein before. Behold! Like Thamud gone are the people of Madyan!
96) And thereafter We sent Moses with Our objectives and guidelines with authority that was self evident
97) to Pharaoh and his chiefs because they lived by rule of Pharaoh and rule of Pharaoh was not based upon proper guidance.
98) That is how he led his people to the day of uprising because he led them into the fire of hatred. How awful was the state of painful suffering in which they landed themselves?
99) Humiliation followed them into this state of existence and so they ended up facing the day of upheaval. The harmful and destructive result of harmful and destructive course of actions.
When a people start from an affluent position and stop paying attention to things that bring them that affluency then gradually progress slows down and finally halts and people become stuck and things start going backwards ie regression begins and at any these stages masses could rise against their rulers, priests and moneylenders as rivalry based animosity leads to hatred between people and finally civil war begins as people start robbing each other for living. All these are part of concept of YOWMAL QIYAAMAH because that is how a nation is made to face results of its own actions.
100) Such are the stories of the nations before you which We reveal to you, of them some people have survived and some have ceased to exist.
101) It were not Us who harmed them rather they harmed each other and thereby ended up destroying themselves. The rulers they served instead of Allah did not avail them at all when the law of consequences set by your Creator and Sustainer showed them results of their own actions because they added nothing to their lot but mutual harm and destruction.
Again and again Allah explains that he is not a tyrant punishing people for their sins. That is not what he created this world for. He created mankind to learn things and improve themselves so much so that one day the human beings become good managers of the universe for their own benefit and see glory of God in their own creativity.
102) And likewise your Creator and Sustainer found nations caught in consequences of their own actions whenever He found a township transgressing against each other against His advice, surely going against His advice has such terrible consequences.
103) In fact, there is an undeniable proof in all this for such individuals and nations as pay attention to the terrible end results of harmful and destructive actions. That is why there is to come a period of time that will unite all the people and that is the era worth bringing about,
104) so We delay it not but according to set-up universal system and laws.
A time is coming when mankind will start living by divine standard having failed to find anything better after so many trials and errors. By then humanity would have learned the lesson the hard way that living by a properly balanced law is the only way to live peacefully to make progress and be prosperous.
105) When that era comes about none will do anything but it will be judged according to His set standard. That is how it will be decided who is law breaker and who is law abiding.
106) As to those who will break the law they are bound to end up in agony wherein they will have only sighs and sobs.
107) They will remain in that state for as long as the heavens and the earth will last according to plan of your Creator and Sustainer. Surely your Creator and Sustainer decides matters according to His set-up universal system and laws.
These verse means that community will become based on law of Allah and they will decide the cases of people thereby and this process will continue for as long as people will stick to this way of doing that. If they carry on doing things this way that could carry on for as long as the world will continue existing. This does not mean individual criminals will be put in agony for ever but only for a time till they repent and reform and become useless members of human community.
108) As for those who are law abiding they are bound to end up in blissful kingdom and they will remain in there for as long as the heavens and the earth will last according to plan of your Creator and Sustainer. A lasting grant.
This verse does not mean individual people will live in this kingdom for ever but that community that will live by divine law will keep on prospering for as long it abides by divine program. This however does not means that mankind will not discover one day the way to live much, much longer than today. It is possible that humans will overcome things that cause them to age and may also be able to stay young for longer and longer.
109) Therefore be not in confusion concerning the people whom these masses take for their rulers instead of Allah. They do not take whomever they take for their rulers but just as a matter of tradition of their ancestors before them not using their give brains. So We too will make them face the results of their own such actions without any abatement.
This verse makes it clear that if people do not take the one who has right to rule and take every other tom dick and harry as their ruler then they should not complain about what those rulers do to them. There is no point in supporting such people who have no right to rule mankind and when they do to them what they told them they will do to them then running to get prayer mat and start crying to Allah to remove the afflictions caused by the very people helped by the victim to come to power. Mankind need to stop personality worship and concentrate on educating each other about abiding by law instead and ensuring the law if just and fair. This need can only be fulfilled by the Quran but how can mankind know this unless they study the Quran the way they should. Even people who claim to be followers of the Quran think it is a book for getting their dead forgiven of their sins. No one may be as bad personality worshipper as these people. They are seen lying on graves everywhere seeking help for real life problems of the dead. This is where one ends up when one is foolish and reads the Quran because only guides people who are self aware and aware of the world in which they live.
110) Even though We gave Moses the book as a manifesto, as a constitution and as a law to unite people according to it yet divisions were created in its name. The very purpose the book was sent to them by your Creator and Sustainer was so that they decide all matters between them according to it but instead of learning to understand it to implement and abide by it they remained ignorant therefore confused and in chaos.
No book or information is useful for such people as do not bother to use it. People just do not bother getting out of make beliefs, personality cults and self gratification through personal gains etc. For proper development understanding about information and process of making sense of it is very important. We need to understand what information is and what understanding of information is and how we come to understanding of anything at all. The questions that each person needs ask oneself are, what is information, do we discover it or does it come to us or is it a bit of both but in what order if any? To think about such questions is very important because then we come to realise difficulty and hard work involved in all this process. Once we come to know answers to such questions only then we can appreciate what difficulties we ourselves have been through and what difficulties and hard works others have gone through in this regard due to which we are where we are ie because of contributions of each and every person whether we know people personally or not. The world of knowledge we have inherited we did not created it nor did we create ourselves. So information whatever we have and whatever we are going to discover is just an effort of discovery on our part. Some discover more of it others less depending on our individual circumstances and situations.
The basic fact no matter what is that we either get information or it is fed to us ie either we learn things by ourselves or we are taught things by others. When we learn things ourselves, we have our own reasons to do so and when others teach us they have their reasons to teach us and we have our reason to learn it. So whatever we know is not necessary unadulterated but it is possible to get what is beneficial and leave what we think is harmful. This is where criterion becomes fundamental to see why something is beneficial or harmful and whether it is personal gain at the expense community that should be important for us or gain of community whereby all its members including ourselves can benefit.
The other questions are also important eg why we learn things, why we learn one thing rather than another, why others teach us what they teach us, why they teach us one thing rather than the other? We must think about these like questions seriously, why? It is because then we come to realise we have motives and agendas to satisfy. When we come to realise these like points then we become aware of problems and pitfalls which we should avoid so that our conclusions become satisfactory rather than biased and prejudiced unsatisfactory and confused leaving us in lurch. This is why we need clear criterion to judge things at each and every step of our way. The problem with most of us is that we take things as black and white but that is never a reality. World is what it is and people are what they are. Ideologically we can have a starting point and we can have a finishing point. But we must never overlook the middle bit or the grey areas.
We each start from somewhere therefore we cannot dispute that. However, we must question where we are going from where we are and why we are going where we are going? If we could help it we should never have started our journey without knowing where we are going but that is where we are lost. That is because once we are born we start our journey without knowing where we are going. Ask yourself if you knew where you were heading and that will sort the problem out for you. Mankind were on the move as soon as they were born but they did not know where they were going. It took them ages to become self aware and the reason is they are self learning robots to begin with. People are unable to learn about their own environment till they become self aware to that degree whereat they can learn about other things. It takes years for us to learn how to wipe our back sides properly. This is why we are not in school as soon as we are born because we know we cannot learn things we are taught at school level at that age and we need more experience and leaning before school age. Even when we are of schooling age, we do not start at the very end instead we start at the very beginning and as time goes on if we are interested in learning we complete our school education. All this shows our development in stages with time and effort we put in doing things.
This means you do not end up at the end of your learning journey as soon as you start rather it takes its time and your effort or hard work. This being the case how right are we to dismiss people about their views and their contributions to human society? Why we expect others to be Gods but it is ok to be as we are for ourselves? Why do we expect people to not to make any mistakes when this is not even our own life experience about ourselves and others who develop right before our own eyes eg our younger brothers and sisters and our own children etc? Not only that it is not human to not to go through trials and errors in learning process. This is the way we humans are designed to be. There is nothing inherently wrong with this process itself. What we need to learn is to appreciate what each of us has managed to learn and better ourselves and each other. We need to put ourselves in a frame of mind whereby we look at each other as humans full of mistakes but some of us getting better of themselves and rising above the rest in minimising their mistakes or overcoming them. It seems we have been indoctrinated through make beliefs far too much to think we were perfect in every way right from the start but we have fallen from that perfection, the question in that case is, how could we be perfect if we fell down? What kind of perfection was that which fell apart at first hurdle or trial? If being perfect we have fallen apart then what gives us hope that being broken into pieces we are going to become perfect? If pieces can make us perfect then how could our perfection right from the start could not keep us perfect? Is it therefore not better to accept that we were not perfect at the beginning but we are becoming perfect through learning and practicing?
This is what we are looking at when each baby comes into this world and starts his journey of discovery. As one learns so one improves oneself and that is why there can be hope that one day man can rise to a level of information and its understanding that he will be surprised himself. A human is like seed that grows with time give the right conditions to its full potential. So we must become self aware and environmentally aware and rise to level fit for humanity with help of divine guidance. This is why we should not be critical of those people in a destructive way who have proven themselves to us they are great human beings just because they have made mistakes along the way. Making mistakes is part of being a human being otherwise a human being cannot learn. They are examples or role models for us to follow in things they achieved and we do not need to follow them where they have made mistakes. That is how they have shown us the way. They were perfect in their individual given or undertaken tasks if they were worth pursuing not otherwise yet they were never free of going through life of trials and errors. As we can see a lot of knowledge is needed to realise what they accomplished. None of them was free of trials and errors and it is foolishness to think human beings are not human beings but Gods. Turning God into a human is as silly as turning a human being into a God. Each is fine in his own place and we will be doing ourselves a great favour by not mixing up things for ourselves and thereby getting confused.
111) However it is a fact that your Creator and Sustainer always made each of the nations face the results of their actions in full and that is how He made obvious for mankind that He is fully aware of all that people do and therefore able to advise mankind as to what they ought to be doing for better outcome of their actions.
112) Therefore stand firmly upon this revealed foundation as you are commanded altogether along with those who have turned to program, constitution and law of Allah along with you and transgress not the set limits therein by inflicting harm and destruction upon each other and remember, He is ever watching all that you do.
113) However never incline towards those who inflict harm and destruction on each other in case you too are caught in painful suffering as a result of your mutual such actions because you will have no protection against set-up universal system and laws of Allah nor will you be supported.
114) Therefore strive as hard as you can from the start of the day till you are well into the night to establish Our system. Surely actions taken to create a properly balanced society removes the causes for harmful and destructive effects. This is a lesson for those who pay attention to it and think about things thoroughly to understand and spread it.
115) Be steadfastly persistent in your mission because Allah never lets the effort of those who work hard to benefit each other go to waste.
116) Just think about it, why despite Our provision of guidance there were not among the generations before you any people with sense who could educate each other out of mindset, attitude and behaviour based upon rivalry, animosity and warmongering in the land save a minority whom We delivered from the harm and destruction of each other? It is because those who had harmful and destructive mindsets, attitudes and behaviours pursued their worldly ambitions and desires against the way We advised them because they chose to establish themselves through committing crimes against each other for personal gains at each other expense.
117) Behold! It was never the case that set-up system and laws of your Creator and Sustainer destroyed any townships the while their habitants were committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of their human communities.
This verse totally destroys the idea of God putting people in hell for their sins as their punishment. Instead God created universe for his purpose of expressing himself in form of his creativity to be appreciated by mankind but through self development and personal effort and creativity. Not at all blind faith and stupidity created by priestly classes to fool masses. The case is simple that God put in place a system and laws and informed mankind how things work and warned them going about life the wrong way about serious consequences. It is then left up to people themselves to keep each other on the right course. So now if people instead of going about life the right way take wrong turns and end up in their self created troubles then how can God be responsible for their this behaviour? If people live the right way they will end up in pleasant life but if not they will land themselves in unpleasant life. This surah tells about what happened to people so far and what will keep happening, so is it not the time for mankind to change their ways of living their lives in such a way that they could end up in a life that is pleasant?
118) Had your Creator and Sustainer enforced His will He could have certainly made mankind one single nation but He chose to give them ability of choice with guidance and put them through struggle to accomplish peace, progress and prosperity for themselves, so they will continue to differ
119) except those upon whom He has bestowed understanding of His guidance because they made efforts to learn it to use things accordingly. That is how the word of your Creator and Sustainer finds its fulfilment that He finds most of the destructive leaders and their destructive followers ending up digging their own ditch or grave.
120) All these stories of the past messengers and people that We relate to you are for strengthening your mind therewith. Through these you the mankind have received the correct information about things as well as those who are committed to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind have obtained advice and guidance.
121) As to those who do not commit to working for peace, progress and prosperity of mankind say to them, do as you want and so will we.
122) Wait if you like for results of your courses of actions, we too are waiting for results of our course of actions indeed. That will prove decisively who is on the course of actions that leads to peace, progress and prosperity of mankind and who are on the courses of actions that lead to wars and destruction.
123) It is because to rule of Allah alone belongs the future in the heavens and the earth so it is prerogative of Allah alone to set goals and guidelines for everything including humans therefore serve His program, constitution and law by founding yourselves as a human community upon His system and laws and remember always that your Creator and Sustainer is never unaware of whatever you need to do or whatever you end up doing.
Re: God, a proven fact or a mere fiction?
Sorry Mughal1 ... I didn't quite get that ... Can you say it again?
in a different way?
Re: God, a proven fact or a mere fiction?
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