Obedience of the Messenger (ﷺ) (L-573)
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مَّن يُطِعِ ٱلرَّسُولَ فَقَدْ أَطَاعَ ٱللَّهَ وَمَن تَوَلَّىٰ فَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَٰكَعَلَيْهِمْ حَفِيظًا
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80.
Many-yuti-‘ir-Rasuula fa-qad ‘ataa-‘Allaah. Wa
man-tawallaa famaaa ‘arsal-Naaka ‘alay-him
hafiizaa. |
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Whoever obeys the Messenger is obeying God. And whoever turns away—We did not
send you as a watcher over them. |
Tawallaa – (turned away), it means ‘to disobey, to revolt’.
Hafiizun – (a warder, a guard), that is to say; the Watching, who hinders and the protector.
A valuable advantage has been mentioned in this verse, which, due to coming of the last Messenger of God (ﷺ) in this world, can be acquired by the people. It is the fruit of the Belief that the people, who have believed in God as ‘their and the entire worlds’ Creator, Preserver, Nourisher and Supplier of all needs’, surely they desire to obey Him. How a great light is for them in it that God sent a Man duly appointed as His selected Messenger (Muhammad) (ﷺ), and proclaimed that the person, who will obey his orders, will be Our obedient and who will disobey him, he will be considered as he disobeyed Us. He will not be able to please Us (God) by means of any other way. How a big kindness of God is that He made His own obedience so much easy and practicable for the mankind.
Then He commanded to His Messenger (ﷺ), “Explain those instructions continuously before the people, which they have to do. If someone does not act upon your sayings, in this matter you will not be held responsible. We have not appointed you as a warder or guard over them. We will decide concerning the disobedient people at Our Own. You must neither grieve and nor care for them”. Alas! Some people think that they can make their lives good by following the rich, the proud and the haughty people, leaving such a kind and loving Messenger (ﷺ).
God has established this principle forever in this verse that the person, who wants to be His obedient, should obey His Messenger, and who will not obey the Messenger (ﷺ), will be His disobedient. Such person will be punished with the same torment, which has been fixed for the disobedient. In the earlier verses, it has been described clearly that if the punishment is awarded to you, that will be from God and cause of it will be your own deeds. The Messenger (ﷺ) can neither be held responsible, nor does the blame rest upon him (ﷺ).
There is also
an invitation towards the easy path for the human being in this verse, as well
as a severe threat too along with it. If you will obey the Messenger of God (ﷺ), your life of
this world and the Hereafter will be rectified, because due to obedience you
will become obedient servant of God and there is nothing better than it to adorn
the life. Moreover, if you will disobey, then you must not charge the Prophet (ﷺ) for being
punished. The only duty of the Messenger (ﷺ) is to deliver the Message of God. It does
not include in his duty to drive you forcibly on the Straight Path. Due to
disobeying the orders of the Messenger (ﷺ), you disobeyed God. Now God will punish
you Personally.
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