A Measure Of The Sacrifice

 

Part Four

Quran Chapter 3- 92 (Part-4, Stage-1) (L-421) - درس قرآن

Standard of Sacrificing

Surah ‘Aali-‘Im-raan (The Family of ‘Imran)

‘A-‘uu-zu  Billaahi minash-Shay-taanir- Rajiim.
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast)

Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful)

لَن تَنالُوا البِرَّ حَتّىٰ تُنفِقوا مِمّا تُحِبّونَ ۚ وَما تُنفِقوا مِن شَيءٍ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ بِهِ عَليمٌ 92.

92.  LAN-  TANAALUL-BIRRA  hattaa  tunfiquu  mimmaa  tuhib-buun.  Wa  maa  tunfiquu min- shay-‘in-  fa-‘innAllaaha bihii  ‘Aliim.

92.  You will not attain virtuous conduct until you give of what you cherish. Whatever you give away, God is aware of it.

Sometimes a man hesitates from spending for piety. Its reason is that he would have to sacrifice his favorite things. There are many such things in this mortal world, which are most beloved to him. Sometimes this love extends to the extent that he feels unpleasant to be separate from them. The love of such things compels him to sacrifice everything for them. This love makes him blind and he loses the distinction between good and bad.

The life of human being passes in acquiring pleasures, honor and becoming famous, wealth and children, demand of nobility and chief-ship, and he/she loves them very much. Sometimes he sacrifices also his honesty to achieve and maintain them. In his view, the value of piety falls down as compared to these things. Like this, he becomes effigy of the selfishness, loving of the lustful desires and statue of sensuality. Gradually he turns away from the piety at all.   

As long as the selfishness is not rooted out from the human heart and if he is not taught to love the virtue more than everything, he cannot become righteous. A man who gets ready to sacrifice his most favorite thing for piety, there is no doubt in his sincerity, good intentions and his worship to God. In fact, selfishness is foundation of the entire evils, and the sincerity is the soul of all goodness.

The Jews and the Christians used to love the wealth and affluence. They had power and chief-ship over the uneducated people of their nation and this thing was very dear to them. They were afraid that if they would believe in the last Prophet (ﷺ), if they obeyed him then they would lose their nobility and strength. That is why they used to disbelieve in him (ﷺ). God commanded to them, “Till the time you will not get ready to sacrifice your most favorite thing; you would not be able to get piety”. God knows also that, “Who did spend? Which thing was spent? For whom was spent? The thing, how much favorite will be spent in the way of God, He will reward you corresponding to that as retribution.

God has determined the standard for the piety that the person should sacrifice his most favorite thing in His path. That will be considered the best virtue and God will appreciate him for it. https://youtu.be/Yl6eGjZE8P8