The Persons Who Ruin The Mosques

 

Those who desolate the Places of worship (L-140)

وَمَن أَظلَمُ مِمَّن مَنَعَ مَساجِدَ اللَّهِ أَن يُذكَرَ فيهَا اسمُهُ وَسَعىٰ في خَرابِها ۚ أُولٰئِكَ ما كانَ لَهُم أَن يَدخُلوها إِلّا خائِفينَ ۚ لَهُم فِي الدُّنيا خِزيٌ وَلَهُم فِي الآخِرَةِ عَذابٌ عَظيمٌ114.

114.  Wa man  ‘azlamu mim-mam-mana-‘a masaajidAllaahi  ‘any-yuzkara fiihasmuHuu wa sa-‘aa fii kharaabihaa ‘Ulaaa-‘ika maa kaana lahum ‘any-yad-khuluuhaaa ‘illaa khaaa-‘i’fiin.  Lahum fid-dunyaa khiz-yunw-wa lahum fil-‘Aakhirati ‘azaabun ‘aziim.

114.  And who does greater wrong than he who forbids the approach to the mosques of Allah lest His name should be mentioned therein, and strives for their ruin? As for such, it was never meant that they should enter them except in fear. Theirs in the world is ignominy and theirs in the Hereafter is an awful doom.

Masaajid – (Mosques), it is plural of Masjid which means the place, where, prayers are offered, place of worship for Muslims. The word Masjid has been derived from the word Sajdah which means ‘to bow the body and place the forehead on the ground (to fall prostrate). According to sayings by one of the Scholars, it aims the Inviolable Place of Worship, the temple of Makkah (Masjid-‘ul-Haraam).

For clearness about the occasion of the revelation of this verse two happenings are narrated:

• The Christians waged a war against the Children of Israel, burnt the Holy Scripture Torah and ruined the Temple and Township of Jerusalem.

• The Infidels of Makkah prevented the Muslims from visiting the Inviolable Place of Worship at Makkah) during sixth Hijra at the Place of Hudaybiah only due to their envy.

The limit of religious envious and forming groups in the religion by the people of the Scripture had reached such stage that respect for places of worship concerning other groups was finished from their hearts. They did not hesitate in destroying such sacred places and used to prohibit the people of other groups from entering into their places of worship. Moreover, they all used to claim that they believed in One God.

The religious scholars told that as the places of worship are made habitable and populous with the prayers, so bad deeds and talks into them will be supposed as the destruction of the mosques. Besides this, all such things, which become cause of damage of the devout and ruin of the places of worship, are included in the order of this verse. Therefore, we should abstain from those things, due to which, gaiety of the mosques is lessened and the people stop coming in the mosques.

Allaah Almighty has commanded that it is compulsory for them while they enter the mosque, that their hearts should tremble due to fear of God but as they don’t stop their depravities, so, they will get disgraced ignominy in this world and also will suffer from awful Doom on the Day of Resurrection.

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