If You Obey Them, They Will Make You Disbelievers

 

Don't obey the People of the Scripture (L-428)

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِن تُطِيعُوا۟ فَرِيقًا مِّنَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ يَرُدُّوكُم بَعْدَ إِيمَٰنِكُمْ كَٰفِرِينَ 100.

100.  Yaaa- ‘ayyuhal-laziina  ‘aa-manuuu  ‘in-  tutii-‘uu  fariiqam-minallaziina  ‘uutul-Kitaaba  ya-rudduukum-  ba’-da  ‘imaani-kum  kaafiriin.

100.  O you who believe! If you obey a party of those who were given the Scripture, they will turn you, after your belief, into disbelievers.

The people of the Scripture were threatened in the previous verses, “It is not convenient for you that you mislead the people intentionally by telling them fictitious faults regarding the religion of Islam, while open tokens and proofs in respect of the truth of Islam, Holy Qur’an and the Last Messenger, Muhammad (ﷺ) have been manifested upon you”.  

It is clear that the children of Israel used to bear malice willing or unwilling. They did not refrain after listening to the advice. Therefore, along with this, the Muslims have also been advised, “You should not be taken in by these mischievous persons. They will try to make you disbelievers by tricks of various kinds. If you will follow their suggestions and obey them, then you will throw yourselves into a state of anxiety that gradually you will fall again in the darkness of the infidelity, after coming out from the light of Belief, whence it is very difficult to come back afterwards.

Ya-rudduukum – (they will make you disbelievers), origin of this word is Raddun and the word Murtad  has also come out from it. Hardest and severest punishment in Islam is for the Murtad, (renegade, the person; who turns away from Islam; is called Murtad). We cannot compel any person to accept Islam, but he cannot be forgiven who becomes Murtad (renegade of Islam), because he falls in the well of darkness of the infidelity willfully and knowingly.  

Several affairs manifest from this verse:

1.   The people of the Scripture are extremely enemies of Islam and they try always that the Muslims should be turned from the religion Islam towards infidelity and belief in a plurality of God (polytheism). It is there deliberate conspiracy.

2.   A man is known by the company he keeps and the company affects itself very soon. If the Muslims will choose friendship with the people of the Scripture, act upon their advice and accept their sayings, then in process of the time their wickedness, depravity, denial and diabolical acts will infect the Muslims too.

The Muslims should learn in such circumstances that they should neither attend more the company of the people of the Scripture, nor listen to their talks, nor be deceived and nor increase their relationship with them. It is the only form to save oneself from their wickedness. https://youtu.be/F09MREOfVwQ