Don't be an advocate for the traitors (L-593)
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إِنَّآ أَنزَلْنَآ إِلَيْكَ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ بِٱلْحَقِّ لِتَحْكُمَ بَيْنَ ٱلنَّاسِ بِمَآ أَرَىٰكَ ٱللَّهُ وَلَا تَكُن لِّلْخَآئِنِينَ خَصِيمًا. 105 وَٱسْتَغْفِرِ ٱللَّهَ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ غَفُورًا رَّحِيمًا. 106 |
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105. ‘Innaaa ‘anzalNaaa ‘ilay-kal-Kitaaba bil-Haqqi litahkuma bay-nannaasi bimaaa ‘araakAllaah. Wa laa takul-lil-khaaa-‘iniina khasiimaa. 106.
Wastag-fiRillaah. ‘InnAllaaha kaana Gafuurar-Rahiimaa. |
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105. We have revealed to you the Scripture, with the truth, so that you judge between people in accordance with what God has shown you. And do not be an advocate for the traitors. 106.
And ask God for forgiveness. God is Forgiver and Merciful. |
Tahkuma – (You may judge), it has been made from hakama, which means ‘to settle, to decide, to make a judicial decision, to command about something’.
‘Araaka – (you are caused to know or understand, you are shown), this word has come out from ‘araaa-‘ata, which is from rawayta. It means to observe, to see, and ‘araaa-‘ata means ‘to show and to cause to understand’. Here it has been used in the same meanings.
Khasiimun – (pleader), it aims ‘to plead for or against any person’, that is to say; ‘to try to adjudge any person as criminal’.
Usually this bad habit is found in the persons, who are weak in their belief that they try to change the people’s view about that crime which they have committed personally and say that it was committed by so and so person, to save themselves from the punishment, so that they may be let off and the other may be trapped. During the reign of the Messenger of God (ﷺ), there was such a Muslim, who made hole through a wall of any person, stole a bag filled with flour and some weapons from his house and brought to own home. Accidentally the bag was torn. The flour fell in the entire way constantly. He thought, “If I will keep it in my house, I will be caught”. At night he deposited both things with a Jew. When the sunlight spread in the morning, the owner of flour and weapons reached his house by tracing out of the flour, which was fallen in the way. But the both things did not exist in his house. He came out and observed that the line of fallen flour was going ahead. In short, he reached the house of the Jew. He arrested the Jew, when he saw his items at his home. The Jew said, “These things have been deposited with me by so and so person. I have not stolen them”. The thief and his family blamed that the Jew was a thief.
When this wrangling was brought to the Messenger (ﷺ) for judgment, the patrons of the thief swore that he was not thief, but the Jew was thief. Upon their evidence the Jew stood criminal and the Messenger (ﷺ) was going to decide against the Jew, but this verse and some of the next verses were revealed.
It has been
commanded in the verse, “We have revealed to you the Scripture (Holy Qur’an)
with the Truth, so that you may judge correctly among the mankind in Its light
by the Guidance which God
has shown to you. Whether the quarrelsome are good or bad, whether they are
believers or infidels, you must settle the true as a true and the liar as a
liar, and decide with justice without partiality. Since there was a fear of
partiality, so you should seek forgiveness of God, He is Ever-Forgiving,
Merciful.
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