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Just as surahs before surah 5 were mainly about getting rid of rifts between individuals and communities and brining them closer to tie them in brotherhood for caring and sharing life with each other and thereby organisation became important for the human community this surah is mainly about constitution and its importance for community and its proper implementation. The absolute importance of constitutional obligations is made absolutely clear as backbone of the community and its success in terms of progress and prosperity. Unless a community is well organised and works hard according to a sensible plan or course of action things will not work out. This surah leaves us in no doubt that better goal a society has and better it is organised and better it works then there is no reason for it not to succeed. However aimless life and baseless random goals and implementations only and only lead to life of misery for a people. So nations that want to succeed must live up to requirement of their set goal or they will not succeed in accomplishing their set out mission or task.
Surah 5 AL MAAIDAH= The Constitution and implementation
In the name of Allah the gracious the merciful.
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O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, fulfil all your constitutional obligations properly. Lawful is for you to do all that helps you progress and prosper save what is clearly stated for you as not lawful such as predatory behaviour because regarding that you are under restriction. Indeed Allah commands according to whatever serves His declared plan/goal.
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O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, when you have installed the constitution of Allah fully from then on do not violate constitutional obligations of Allah nor constitutional restrictions or any given instruction or contractual agreements or people in any peaceful social institution seeking knowledge and livelihood according to the declared will of their Lord. However while you are living without divine constitution in place you are allowed to live as normal yet let not the influence of some people who prevent you from the installation of divine institution incite you to commit transgression against them instead you people cooperate with each other in doing what is beneficial and consistent with Allah and humanity but cooperate not with each other in doing harm to mankind by going against the guidance of Allah. So be consistent with advice of Allah for the good of the mankind, for Allah is strict in bringing about result of your own actions.
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Unlawful for you is; to live like the dead or to be ineffective, to cause bloodshed, to profiteer, to proclaim sovereignty of other than Allah, to hinder progress, to kill thought process, to return to double standards, to destroy community by harming each other, to approach prosperity half heartedly rather than purposefully and forcefully, to look for excuses to escape responsibilities, or to become divided and a target practice for others. All these are acts that are against the advice of Allah. As of this time period those who oppose the installation of the constitution of Allah will have to give up on their hope of you ever giving up on your fight for the installation of the constitution of Allah. So take no notice of their enticing temptations or threats instead stick to My advice. As of this time period I have finalised for you your constitution whereby I will complete My bestowing of My blessings upon you in abundance and that is how I will show My approval for you regarding DEEN=the constitution AL-ISLAM= for peace. Meanwhile anyone who is compelled to take law in to one’s own hand due to oppression and suppression or lack of just and fair law and order or its enforcement, not intending wilful transgression, will find Allah protecting him through blissful revelation.
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They will ask you what is lawful for them to do during transitional period? Say, all that is beneficial for you the people as a whole is lawful for you to do as well as what you have trained the parties to produce upon which depends your survival and livelihood because you have trained them with the knowledge granted to you by Allah. So participate in all that they assign for you thus reflect the glory of Allah thereby. That is why you should be consistent with Allah and humanity because Allah is strict in making people face the results of their actions.
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As of this time period all that is beneficial has been made lawful for you the followers of the Quran and so is participation of the people of the book made lawful with you and your participation with them is made lawful. All is allowed to ensure the protection of the peaceful communities from among yourselves as well as protection of the communities from among the people given the book before you provided you give them their contractually agreed dues desiring freedom from harm, neither causing bloodshed nor conspiring for bloodshed. Any party that commits treachery with peace deal, all its good works will come to nothing and in the end it will become of those who lose right to protection.
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O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, when you rise up to install divine rule submerge yourselves fully with the cause and your supporters till objective is achieved and that is how you should remain connected to your administrations as well as with your foundational communities till completion of both the main tasks, the installation of divine constitution and prosperity of mankind. So if you have any confusion then free yourselves from it. However if you are weak in the knowledge of the process or you are on a journey to learning or any of you have come from a humble background or are stuck with your communities and you have no access to complete divine revelation then fulfil your objective by doing what benefits the people. Thus you should tackle objectives yourselves and your supporters thereby. Allah does not want to place burden upon you but he wants to free you from all ills in order to complete His favour upon you so that you become a community worth the name.
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Therefore strive hard for spreading blissful revelation of Allah with you which is His agreement, the one by which He held you under obligation when you said, we hear and we support. So be consistent with Allah and the mankind because Allah makes evident your motivations in your minds through your actions.
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O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, be the ones who rise up for installing the rule of Allah so that you make manifest the divine justice through your actions so let not the animosity of a people incite you to commit injustice. Do justice, that is right course of actions for consistency between people and it is consistent with constitution of Allah, surely Allah is fully aware of all that you do.
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Allah has promised those who are committed to working for peace such as remove obstacle for others to path of peace that for them is security from painful suffering as a great reward.
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As to those who themselves oppose Our rule and deny others access to Our revelations, they are the people who are companions of the painful suffering.
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O you who claim to be working for peace, spread the blissful revelation of Allah which He bestowed upon you because that is how He restrained the hands of those who sought to harm and destroy you by making them join you so be consistent with Allah for the benefit of humanity, for it is revelation of Allah upon support of which should rely those who are truly committed to working for peace.
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That is how Allah bound together children of Israel through His constitution whereby We brought forth from them a reformed community after putting them through very hard work. It was because Allah said to them, I am with you if you establish My constitution and attain freedom from all ills thereby and commit to working for peace along with My messengers and support them and offer whatever good you have generously for the cause of Allah so that thereby I could remove of you your difficulties and land you into blissful kingdoms throughout which rivers flow of livelihood. However if any of you after this violates this agreement then he will indeed have gone stray from the way that is proper.
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Yet they breached their agreement and as a result We condemned them to the results of their own actions so We let them end up with thoughtless minds like lifeless stones. It is because they tamper with Our revelations taking them out of their proper contexts and they neglect much of what they were bound to, to do. Moreover you will always hear about them conspiring against you except for a minority of them therefore show them the mirror to let them know you are alert but overlook their tricks, for Allah supports those who are kind to others.
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and likewise We bound together by our guidance those who claim to be Christians but they too have neglected much of what they were bound to, to do. As a result We left them also to the results of their actions so they ended up in animosity and hatred between themselves that will last till the day they rise up for installing the constitution of Allah and soon Allah will inform them about all that they have done.
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O people of the Book, there has indeed come to you Our messenger to reveal much of what you have concealed in your constitution and overlook much of that no longer needed. Surely there has come to you from Allah a new light of knowledge in form of a clear book,
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with which Allah will guide those who seek to follow His declared path the path of peace, that is how He will bring them out of depths of darkness of ignorance into the light of knowledge according to His plan in order to guide them to the way that is firmly founded.
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Indeed they oppose Our guidance who claim that Allah is he the anointed successor of Mary. Say to them, who has the power to prevent Allah if He chose to destroy the anointed successor of Mary, his community and all those in the earth? Because to Allah alone belongs sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is in between them. He evolves what He plans and He has set laws over all things to operate.
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Yet the Jews and the Christians say, we are children of Allah and very dear to Him. Ask them, why then He lets you suffer for your transgressions against His rule? No, you are not His children rather you are normal human beings like other people which He has evolved. He protect those who work towards it and He let suffer those who fail to do so because to Allah belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is in between them and it is up to Him to set the goal for mankind.
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O people of the book, surely there now has come to you Our that very messenger whom you were expecting, making things clear for you after slowing down of long list of the messengers in case you say, the one expected never came to give us good news of prosperity or to warn us with bad news of suffering. So there has come to you that deliverer of good news and warning so listen to him, for Allah has set laws of nature to govern over all things.
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Call to mind the incident when Moses said to his people, O my people! Remember the favours which Allah has bestowed upon you. He raised prophets from among you thereby bestowed you with authority in the land that is how He gave you that which had not been given to any nation in the world.
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O my people! Enter the land that is good for you which Allah has assigned for you but is taken away from you unjustly. So do not turn back because if you do then you will be the ones who will suffer the loss.
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The cowards amongst them said, O Moses! Therein are now living a people who are warriors so we will not set our foot in it until they leave it themselves but as soon as they leave we will be ready to enter.
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Thereupon two leading men from among the thoughtful group upon both of whom Allah had bestowed His favour said, attack directly at the city gate because once you enter it then you will surely be victorious. So put your trust in laws of Allah if you are truly committed to working for peace.
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The cowards replied, O Moses! We will never enter it so long as they remain in there. Therefore both you and your Lord should go and fight meanwhile we rather stay where we are.
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Hearing this from them Moses said, O my Lord! I have no authority from people to take steps on behalf of anyone save myself and anyone who supports me. Therefore decide the matter between us and between people who are rebellious against Your commandment.
26 ) Thereupon Allah foretold Moses, this being the case they will not be able to takeover this land for another forty years and during this time let them be on a journey of knowledge through the land to learn some sense so grieve not over behaviour of these rebellious people.
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Instead recite to them the lesson in the story of two children of Adam. Behold, they each approached life their own chosen ways, the approach of one was accepted while that of the other was not. The latter said, I will destroy you. The former replied, Allah only accepts the approach of those who are consistent with His declared will.
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So even if you use ways and means at your disposal to destroy me, I shall not use ways and means at my disposal to destroy you, for I am mindful of Allah’s guidelines who is the Lord of all the nations.
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I intend to let you bear the burden of my harmful actions as well as yours so that you become the inmate of the painful suffering, for that is the law of consequences set for those who transgress against the guidelines of Allah.
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Thus the mindset of the latter prompted him to fight his brother so he fought him and became of the losers.
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In order to prevent situations like this Allah revealed His messages as divine constitutions so that man explores the land to fulfil his needs accordingly to see how he can work for betterment of his fellow human. Alas! He cried, I failed even to realize that I am not even a good example for my less fortunate brother! So he became full of regrets.
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On that basis We ordained for the children of Israel that whoever destroys a life except for murder or for creating wars in the land without justification, it will be as if he has destroyed all the human beings. And whoever saves a life it is as if he has saved the whole humanity. Yet even though Our messengers came to them one after the other with clear revelations, it was not long before most of them committed excesses in the land.
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Surely response to such as enter war against the rule of Allah by waging war against His messenger and strive to create troubles for people in the land is that they should be fought against or arrested or their means of power and their footholds for opposition should be removed or they should be expelled from the land. This is their humiliation in this world and for them in hereafter will be yet grievous suffering,
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except such as reform before you apprehend them and you should know that Allah is protector of humanity through blissful revelation.
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O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, be consistent with constitution of Allah for the good of mankind by exploring the ways to installing it therefore strive hard in His cause so that you could end up prosperous.
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As for those who oppose Our rule, if they have everything that the earth contains or twice as much to offer as a ransom to redeem themselves from the consequences of their actions on the day of uprising, it will not be accepted of them and they will suffer the painful consequences of their course of actions.
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They will desire to get out of the fire of hatred ignited by themselves but will not be able to get out of it instead for them will be suffering constant.
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Moreover any group of administration or any party of the community that is guilty of usurping the rights of others, remove their protection as a result of their crime against community as a deterrent from Allah because Allah is mighty wise.
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However if any repent and reforms after committing the crime against community then Allah turns to such through His guidance because Allah protects mankind through his blissful revelation.
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Are you people not aware that to Allah alone belongs sovereignty of the heavens and the earth? He lets suffer a nation the terrible consequences of its actions that works to that end and He protects a nation against harm and destruction that works to that end because Allah has set laws for governing all affairs of everything.
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O you the messenger! Do not give importance to those who plunge headlong into opposition of Our guidance by their actions, those who say with their tongues only, we are committed to working for peace, because in their minds they are not committed to working for peace. Moreover worry not about Jews who listen to lies and spy for other people who had never come to you to know things for themselves. They twist the words of Allah by taking them out of their proper contexts and tell others, if you are given such and such commandment then accept it but if it is other than this then reject it. If Allah intends to put any group of people through a terrible ordeal due to its actions, you have no authority in the least to save it from Allah. Such people are those whose minds Allah does not see free of their harmful and destructive ambitions and desires, they are well stuck on the path to humiliation in this world and a well deserved grievous suffering in the hereafter.
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That is because they heed to falsehood and participate in what is strictly forbidden. Therefore if they come to you with their cases for decision, you may judge between them or you may step away from them. Even if you step aside they will not be able to harm you even in the least but if you do act as a judge between them then judge between them with fairness, for Allah supports those who are fair in their judgment.
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Moreover the question is, why they come to you for Judgment when they have the Torah with them which contains the criterion for judgement from Allah? They know you are man of great character yet they turn away from supporting you. Because they themselves are not really committed to working for peace.
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We surely revealed the Torah in which there is guidance and light of wisdom whereby judged matters all the prophets who were committed to peace regarding those who call themselves Jews and so did the properly knowledgeable teachers and jurists of the law. That is why they were entrusted with the protection of Allah’s constitution because they themselves were evidence of glory of Allah’s constitution. They were told, fear not the opposing people rather pay attention to My goals and guidelines and never trade My constitution for petty personal gain at the expense of your community, for those who judge not by the constitution revealed by Allah, they are the ones who really reject and oppose it.
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We advised for them in the Torah that one people complement the other people just like one eye complements the other eye and one nostril works with the other nostril and one ear operates with the other ear and one tooth works with the other tooth and damaging this combination is like breaking the law of equity for restoring the damaged relationship. So any community that abides by this standard that will be its road to trouble free life but any people who do not abide by the constitution revealed by Allah they are the ones who work against it.
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That is why at length in the footsteps of those prophets We sent Jesus the successor for community of Mary confirming whatever was there before including the Torah and We gave him the Injeel wherein was guidance and light of wisdom corroborating what was revealed in the Torah a guidance and an advice for those who wished to be consistent with Allah and mankind.
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Therefore let the people who claim to follow the Injeel abide by the constitution revealed therein by Allah and those who do not abide by the constitution revealed by Allah they are the ones who transgress against the constitution of Allah for inflicting damage upon humanity.
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Therefore now We have revealed this constitution for you the mankind for a set purpose to confirm whatever of the scriptures came before it and to succeed it. Therefore decide matters between the people according to this new revealed constitution of Allah and yield not to their make beliefs diverging from the truth which has come to you. We ordained a constitution and a clear way for law formation for all of you the mankind because if it was the plan of Allah then He must have done things the way that would have made all of you a single nation. That is why He put you through struggle for self development using what He has provided you with therefore try to excel one another in doing good for each other. Ultimately you all should turn to constitution of Allah then He will show you clearly the truth of those matters in which you dispute.
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That is why you should pronounce judgment among people according to the law which Allah has revealed and follow not their make beliefs and beware of them lest they tempt you away from a part of that which Allah has revealed to you. If they reject you as a judge then know that it is law of Allah to let such people suffer for some of their transgressions against His constitution. The fact is most of the people work against Our advice.
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By rejecting Our constitution do they wish to abide by their own make belief customs of ignorance? Who is better than Allah in setting up standard for people who need self confident?
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O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! Take not those who conspire against you from among Jews or Christians as your supporters because they are only supporters of each another. Whoever of you ignores this commandment should be counted as one of them. Surely Allah does not guide a people who transgress against His constitution.
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Yet you will see among Muslims those whose minds suffer from disease of double standards moving about around the Jewish camp expressing their concerns to each other, we should keep other options open just in case a turn of fortune strikes us while we are in the Muslim camp. However when Allah opens up the way to success of your mission or His set out goal through your decisive action according to His plan then they will be made to regret what they harbour in their minds.
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At that time those committed to working for peace will say, are these the same people who solemnly swore by Allah in the strongest manner that they would stand by you? All their actions are void of any good and they are of those who lose.
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O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! Whoever from among you turns away from mission of Allah let him be informed that soon Allah will replace such with others whom He will support and who will support His cause and will bring dignity to those who are committed to working for peace and will command respect against those who reject and oppose His rule striving hard in the way of Allah and will have no fear of reproach from any debased critic. Such is provision of Allah which He bestows upon whoever works for it and that Allah makes amply manifest.
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O mankind, surely your supporter is Allah through His revelation and His messenger through delivering His message and your fellow humans who are committed to working for your progress and prosperity- the ones who strive hard for installing and maintaining the constitution of Allah in order attain freedom from all manmade ills thereby because they bend/mould themselves according to requirements of Allah’s constitution.
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So let whoever takes Allah and His Messenger and fellow humans committed to working for peace as his supporters be informed that party of Allah will surely reach its goal.
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O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! Take not for supporters those who reject and oppose Our rule not even from among the people given the book before you such as take your mission of peace for the good of mankind for a joke having no sense of purpose instead be consistent with the constitution of Allah if you are truly committed to working for peace.
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Behold! When you invite them to setting up Allah’s constitution they take it for a joke having no sense of purpose and they do so because they are a people ignorant about making sense of things.
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Say to them, O people of the book! What turns you against us other than the fact that we have committed ourselves to working for peace according to constitution of Allah as it has been revealed to us just as it was revealed to you before us? The fact is most of you are rebellious against the rule of Allah.
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Say, shall I tell you about those who caused much worse mischievous propaganda than that which you are causing against the rule of Allah? They were those whom Allah condemned and let them stay the way they chose mischievous like monkeys and senseless and greedy like pigs because they became slaves to their harmful and destructive ambitions and desires, such were the ones who became people of harm and destruction so they were worse in rank and far more astray from the right path than you.
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Likewise when these people come to you they say, we are committed to working for peace but in fact they were warmongers when they came and so they departed with the same mindset but Allah makes manifest what they hide in their minds.
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Therefore you will see most of them try to beat each other at doing worse against humanity out of animosity for mankind by participating in things that are against the divine constitution. Harmful and destructive indeed is for humanity that which they do.
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Why don’t their scriptural teachers and their administrators of constitution stop them from promoting and participating in things that are against Our constitution and destructive for humanity? Harmful and destructive indeed are their works.
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Yet the Jews dare say, hand of Allah is tied up! Nay! it is their own hands that are tied up through hoarding and profiteering because of their tricks based on their selfish greed they have gone far away from the guidelines of Allah as is obvious because they say, do not use what you have for the benefit of others. Say both of His hands are free but He uses things as He has planned them. However it is due to the fact that the revelations that have come to you from Allah are causing many of them to increase in their destructiveness in opposition to them. We have thereby let lose among them animosity and hatred till the day of uprising. Every time they conspire to kindle the fire of war, Allah extinguishes it. Nonetheless they remain committed to striving for spreading wars in the land but Allah supports not those who spread disorder in the land.
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If the people of the book had committed to working for peace properly and had become consistent with Our rule, We would certainly have removed their self created ills and entered them into the blissful kingdoms.
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If they had observed the constitution in form of Torah and the Injeel and other revelations which were sent to them from their Lord, they would have certainly enjoyed abundance of good things from above them and from underneath them. Though there are some among them on the right course of actions but most of them do nothing but that which is harmful and destructive for mankind.
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O you the messenger! Deliver the message which has been revealed to you from your Lord because if you do not do that then you do not fulfil your set out mission because Allah has appointed you for protection of the mankind peoples. So rest assured that Allah will not let the opposers of his guidance succeed.
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Say, O people of the Book! You have no ground to stand upon unless you observe properly the Torah and the Injeel as well as other revelations that have come to you from your Lord. This guidance which has come to you from your Lord will surely increase the rebellion and opposition in many of them but you should worry not about those who oppose it.
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Rest assured that those committed to working for peace, be they Jews, the Sabians or the Christians - whichever people work for peace according to the constitution of Allah and for the good end result for humanity - will have no to worry for their future or regret what they would have done for establishing the constitution of Allah.
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Certainly We bound the Children of Israel to Our constitution and sent them messengers. Whenever there came to them a messenger with a message that did not go with their make beliefs they called him an impostor and they fought against him.
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It is because they thought no hard work would be required to fulfil the mission but it was yet they remained inactive like blind and deaf. Allah turned to them yet again through this revelation but many still after this revelation has come to them remain inactive like blind and deaf but Allah is seeing all that they do.
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Certainly they have covered up the truth in their given scripture by their make beliefs who claim, Allah is the saviour, the successor appointed for Mary despite the fact that the saviour himself used to say, O children of Israel! Commit to working for peace according to the constitution of Allah who is my Lord as well as your Lord. Surely any people who attribute sovereignty to any other than Allah then denial of constitution of Allah will cost such people blissful kingdom and instead painful suffering will be such peoples’ aboard. There will be no helper for such as transgress in matters relating sovereignty of Allah.
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Certainly they have covered up the truth in their divine scripture by their make beliefs who claim, Allah is one of the three in a Trinity because there is no god other than one God. If they do not stop saying what they say, a painful suffering will befall those among them who oppose Our rule.
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Will they still not turn to Allah and consult His revelation for their own security? For Allah protects mankind only through his blissful revelation.
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The defender appointed for protection of Mary was no more than a messenger, many messengers had already passed away before him. His community was faithfully consistent with Our mission. They both together participated in Our mission. See how the revelations are made clear to them to know the truth yet see how they ignore the truth!
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Ask them, would you rather serve someone other than Allah who can neither harm nor benefit you whereas Allah is He who observes all that benefits or harms and makes it manifest as well?
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Say, O people of the book! Add not to your divine constitution anything without proof of its benefit or harm and yield not to make beliefs of those who went astray through their make beliefs before you, They misled many others and have themselves strayed away from the path that is set properly.
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Condemned were those who covered up the truth in the scripture with make beliefs from among children of Israel by the tongue of David and Jesus the guardian of Mary because they opposed Our constitution and worked against it persistently.
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They would not stop people from inflicting harm and destruction upon each other therefore harmful and destructive indeed were their actions.
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As you can see yourselves many of them are supporting the side of those who oppose installation of Our constitution. Harmful indeed is that which they themselves are doing for their future because they have strayed away from the guidance of Allah so in painful suffering they are going to live all their lives unless they repent and reform.
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The people from among the Jews and the Christians who claim to have committed to working for peace had they really committed themselves to working for peace according to the constitution of Allah along with this prophet as per that which was revealed to him, they would not have taken as their supporters those from among Jews and Christians who oppose Our rule but most of them are rebellious and work against Our mission.
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You will find that extreme in enmity to those who commit to working for peace are some of those who claim to be Jews as well as those who commit to rule of other than that of Allah but nearest in affection to those who are committed to working for peace are some of those who claim to be Christians. That is because among them there are some people who are wise and thoughtful who discourage animosity towards other human beings so they behave not ignorantly and arrogantly towards others.
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So much so that when they hear that which is revealed to this messenger, you can see their eyes filled with tears of realisation because they recognize the truth. They say, our Lord! We commit to working for peace therefore join us with those who bear witness before people manifesting glory of Your constitution.
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What reason do we have not to commit to working for peace according to constitution of Allah when the purpose of revelation has been made clear to us? Why should we not hope that our Lord joins us to be party of those who work for the good of each other according to His set out plan?
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Therefore Allah will reward them with kingdoms in which things of need and desire will flow like rivers and they will live in that state for as long as they live according to Our advice. Such is the outcome for those who do what is good for humanity.
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As for those who reject and oppose Our goals and guidelines, they are those who will remain in painful suffering unless they repent and reform.
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O you who commit to working for peace! Do not transgress the set limits by making unlawful that which is made lawful by Allah because it is beneficial, surely Allah supports not those who transgress His set limits.
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So partake in that which is lawful and beneficial of that which Allah has provided for you, thus be consistent with constitution of Allah according to which you claim to be committed to working for peace for the good of mankind.
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Allah does not hold you liable for that which has no potential for harm in your constitutional addendums but He does hold you liable for that which does have potential for harm and destruction of the community in your constitutional addendums and amendments because the purpose of constitution is to cater for the community under its jurisdiction on average scale of your peoples’ needs and desires or to give freedom to community regarding worries about its livelihood. So any who wish to be in the administration who do not find themselves capable of serving community this way should join a training program comprised of three periods that are sufficient for the purpose. That should enable you to interpret and add your amendments to the constitution properly and will protect your constitution against misuse and abuse. That is how Allah makes clear to you His goals and guidelines so that you becomes a worthy people that others look up to.
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O you who claim to be working for peace! Surely struggles for power through struggles for wealth thereby becoming divided and a target practice for each other are destructive therefore are works fit only for the opposer of the rule of Allah therefore stay away from them so that you could prosper.
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The opposer of constitution of Allah desires to stir up enmity and hatred between you as a people by means of power struggle through rivalry for wealth to take your minds off of the revelation of Allah as regard community support network, will you then not abstain from negative competition against each other?
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So be supportive of the constitution of Allah by supporting the messenger by abstaining from things that are harmful and destructive for you the human community but if you do not then be warned that duty of Our messenger is only to pass on Our message clearly.
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They do no bad who truly commit to working for peace through taking steps to remove obstacles in the path of others towards peace because that is how they work when they participate in the community to be consistent with constitution of Allah and humanity. That is why they commit to working for peace so that they take steps to remove obstacles in path of others towards peace. They just want to be consistent with constitution of Allah through commitment to working for peace, they just want to be consistent with humanity through doing what benefits mankind and Allah approves such as work for the benefit of each other.
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O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! Allah puts you through struggle for anything worth the effort for getting hold of it that is within your jurisdiction within your reach/means in order to make evident such people in community as show concern for its future but any who transgress the clearly set out limits for getting things thereafter for such is painful suffering as a consequence.
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O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! Do not destroy or let go that which is worth the effort to hold on to while you are prohibited to do that. So if any of you destroys it or lets it go to waste deliberately then his penalty is equivalent of whatever one has destroyed or any compensation equal to loss as valued by the local community or any other settlement for that matter as fairly judged by the court and as advocated by two representatives of the parties involved and that penalty or compensation should be handed over at the apex of justice to stop reoccurrence of such terrible act in the future though Allah orders that whatever happened in the past before the proper installation of the constitution be settled in the best interest of the community but if anyone repeats it in future then Allah will let him suffer the penalty as a consequence because Allah holds people to constitutional obligations strictly through outcomes of their actions.
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Lawful is for you to seek the abundance of prosperity through His provision for your livelihood as the community but it is prohibited for you to gather anything good as individuals at the expense of the community far as long as you are under the jurisdiction of the sacred constitution. For the good of each other therefore be consistent with the constitution of Allah who has gathered you all under His constitution.
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Allah has set the apex goal of the constitution as a firmly founded sanctuary for mankind with clear restrictions through guidance by way of terms and conditions as landmarks so that you become aware that it is Allah who makes manifest for you whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth because Allah has set laws to make all things manifests.
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Therefore beware that Allah is strict in enforcing His law of cause and effect but Allah is also protector of mankind through blissful revelation.
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The duty of the messenger is nothing less than passing on the message and Allah makes known through your actions whatever you do against mankind openly as well as whatever you do against humanity in private.
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Say, the harmful and the beneficial ways of life are not the same in their effects on the mankind even if collecting the abundance of good things at the expense of harming the human community amazes some of you for a while because it does not last therefore be consistent with constitution of Allah for the good of humanity O people who have sense so that you could really prosper!
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O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! Do not question people about things they have done in the past before the installation of the constitution because if you changed your path in that direction then you will harm your mission to be a community worth the name. So think again whether you still want to question them about those things whereas the Quran is revealed to change you the people for the better, that is how Allah compensates you about those things because Allah is protector of mankind as the revealer of the blissful revelation.
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Indeed communities before you did raise such questions and due to that they broke up that is how they ended up in opposition to the mission of Allah.
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Allah did not allow the individual hoarding at expense of community because he did not allow slavery of some by others and He did not allow individual ownership of land because He did not allow animosity between mankind yet those who reject and oppose constitution of Allah tell lies against Allah, for most of them have no sense because they bother not with learning sense.
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When it is said to them come to what is revealed by Allah and come to the messenger so that you become organised people. Their reply is, sufficient is for us the way upon which we found our forefathers. What! Even if their forefathers knew nothing and followed no guidance?
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O you who claim to be committed to working for peace! The responsibility for well being of your people rests upon yourselves as a community and administration and any who move away from this concept can do you no harm if you yourselves remain on the course advised, which is the goal set by Allah for all of you to turn to and that is how Allah teaches you what you should be doing.
The following verses are not about making will when one is to die because when, where, how, why one dies no one knows so it will look silly for God telling people to make will when you are facing death. This only happens when one is about to be hanged for crime of murder or something and one is asked what is your last wish. These verses as is obvious from their context that they are about constitutional obligations and about administration and community. This is more about swearing in a new administration and ensuring that out going administration has done what it was supposed to do and that new administration is reminded about its role regarding community that it must fulfil. The outgoing administration is held accountable by community as well as the new administration that is going to take over its legacy. If the outgoing administration has done anything wrong it is duty of incoming administration to let community know so that new administration is not held accountable for what the old administration did wrong. So the following verses detail procedure for changing administration. The conflict of interest is dealt in these verses ie any person coming in to administration to serve community must do so and not try to take advantage of his position in the administration at the expense of the community. Each and every member of the community has rights and responsibility just like each community institution and administration so all are to work within their assigned sphere. In other words constitution is supreme and all must live by it and judiciary and law and order departments are to ensure that all are doing what they are supposed to do so that the community as whole is running as smoothly as possible.
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So O you who claim to be committed to working for peace, when you put in place a new community administration- to take over the legacy as time for expiry approaches for any of your existing administrations- make them declare under oath among yourselves that they will take care of community before two people from justice department from among you the people or use some other arrangement to secure your community while you are on the move in the land towards this objective in order to avoid falling in danger of extinction. Gather both of the administrations after the changeover network is in place for swearing in the new administration by making them swear in the name of Allah as if by your prompting saying, we do not participating in this administration for any undue gain be the beneficiaries our close relative and we will not hide any evidence before Allah or community and if we do then we will be of those who work to harm the mission of Allah and damage the community.
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However if it becomes clear that either of the two administrations are guilty of perjury then let two others better qualified witnesses from among those people of the community who were deprived of their right come forward and testify under oath saying, by Allah our statement of account is more complete than theirs. We have not transgressed in our testimony because if we did, it will be inflicting a great harm upon the community.
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By this procedure it is more likely that the administrators will bear true witness or at least fear that their testimonies under oath could be challenged by opposing testimonies of others under oath. So be consistent with Allah and heed His advice for the good of humanity because Allah guides not a people who rebel against His constitution.
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On the day of final accountability when Allah gathers the messengers and asks, what response were you given by your people you were sent to? They will say, we have no knowledge outside what you already know, only You know all there is to know about it.
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In turn Allah will ask, O Jesus the successor of Mary! Recall my favour upon you and your community. Remember how at the time I strengthened you with divine revelation therefore you could speak to the people wisely with maturity and how I taught you the book, the wisdom, the Torah and the Injeel? How you were able to revive a people lying in the dust into a community the like of a soaring bird by My revealed plan by breathing into it a new breath of life and how you were able to heal the people ignorant of divine knowledge by birth as well as how you were able to end the isolation of a neglected people by My plan and how you were able to bring the destroyed nation back to life by My guidance? Furthermore call to mind how I protected you from the violence of the Children of Israel when you came to them with clear goal and guidelines yet those who opposed my guidance among them said, this is nothing but a manifest conspiracy against our religion and the existing way of life?
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And remember when I inspired the disciples to commit to working for peace on My behalf by supporting My messenger and they said, we commit to working for peace so bear witness that we are of those who have committed themselves to working for peace.
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Behold! The disciples asked, O Jesus successor of Mary! Is it possible for your Lord to reveal for us a heavenly program? He replied, be consistent with Allah if you really are committed to working for peace that is the heavenly set goal for you.
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They said, we surely intend to participate in it because our minds are satisfied and we intend to make it evident to others that you have told us the truth and we act as an example about it for others to see.
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Said then Jesus successor of Mary, O Allah our Lord! Reveal for us a set course of action from the heaven and let it be the program for happiness for the first of us as well as for the last of us and a proof of your divinity thereby grant us our sustenance because You are unique of the Sustainers.
115)Allah said, I will reveal it for you but if any of you fails to fulfil its obligations then I will let him suffer the torment like of which I have never allowed for any of the nations in the world.
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Therefore on the day of accountability Allah will ask, O Jesus son of Mary, did you ever say to the people, take me and my community as sovereigns instead of Allah? He will say, glory of sovereignty only belongs to You! How could I say what I had no right to say? If I had ever said so, you would certainly know it. You know what is in my mind even but I know not what is in Yours because You have full knowledge about all things.
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I never said to them anything other than what You commanded me to say which was to serve the rule of Allah, Who is my Lord and your Lord. I bore witness to them to this fact for as long as I remained among them but when You brought my life with them to an end, You were the One Who watched over them and surely You are witness over everything.
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If You let them suffer the consequences of their actions then they surely were Your creatures but if You protected them through Your revelation then You are surely Mighty in Wisdom.
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Allah will say, this is the day on which the truthful will benefit from their truth. They will have gardens through which flow rivers of livelihood to live therein for as long as they deserve. Allah is well-pleased with them and they are pleased with Him. This is the mighty achievement.
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To Allah belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is in between them and He has set laws governing over all things.