Brother-hood – Favor Of God Almighty

 

Brotherhood - Kindness of God (L-432)

وَاذكُروا نِعمَتَ اللَّهِ عَلَيكُم إِذ كُنتُم أَعداءً فَأَلَّفَ بَينَ قُلوبِكُم فَأَصبَحتُم بِنِعمَتِهِ إِخوانًا وَكُنتُم عَلىٰ شَفا حُفرَةٍ مِنَ النّارِ فَأَنقَذَكُم مِنها ۗ كَذٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ اللَّهُ لَكُم آياتِهِ لَعَلَّكُم تَهتَدونَ103b.

103b.  Waz-kuruu  ni’-matAllaahi  ‘alaykum  ‘iz  kuntum  ‘a’-daaa-‘an-  fa--‘allafa  bayna    quluubikum  fa-‘asbahtum  bi-ni’-matihiii  ‘ikhwaanaa,  wa  kuntum  ‘alaa  shafaa  hufratim-  minannaari  fa-‘anqa-zakum-minhaa.  Kazaalika  yubay-yinUllaahu  lakum  ‘aayaatiHii  la-‘al-lakum  tahtaduun.

103b.  And remember God’s blessings upon you; how you were enemies, and He reconciled your hearts, and by His grace you became brethren. And you were on the brink of a pit of fire, and He saved you from it. God thus clarifies His revelations for you, so that you may be guided.

Before Islam, the inhabitants of Arab were ignorant, impolite and incautious in manners. They had fallen into idol-worshipping, polytheism, malice and obstinacy. A brother was enemy of the other. The wars and bloodsheds were at increase. Events of theft and highway robbery were common. In short, those people used to pass their lives like beasts of prey, by falling down from the grade of humanity.  

In such circumstances, Mercy of God was excited. His Light was disclosed. He sent His last Messenger Muhammad (ﷺ) for the guidance of the mankind, who purified the human beings from the entire evils, guided them towards goodness and happiness, and made them brothers of one another.

Above mentioned verse signifies towards such Bounty and favor of God. He has been reminding to the Muslims concerning His Beneficence. He made them mutual intimate friends and sympathizers of one another by discharging their hundreds of the years’ old malice and enmities from the hearts of the people by His Management. He collected them upon one religion due to which such trust established that their enemies were overawed by feeling their unity. This society and unity are so much big Graciousness of God, which could not be gotten by the Muslims by spending their entire treasures.

God exemplified it to manifest the life before Islam that the people were standing upon the brink of an abyss of fire (Hell) due to Infidelity and disbelief, and they were near to destruction. God saved you by catching your hands and bestowed the Light of Belief by means of His Last Messenger (ﷺ). If the people remember these magnificent religious and worldly kindnesses of God, then they will never return astray. For this reason, God has described His tokens and verses openly, and signified the life of dissensions as the Hell. https://youtu.be/ZbUul8DjEAE