A Touchstone of the Belief (L-563)
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فَلَا وَرَبِّكَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ حَتَّىٰ يُحَكِّمُوكَ فِيمَاشَجَرَ بَيْنَهُمْ ثُمَّ لَا يَجِدُوا۟ فِىٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ حَرَجًا مِّمَّا قَضَيْتَ وَيُسَلِّمُوا۟ تَسْلِيمًا. 65 |
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65.
Falaa wa Rabbika laa yu’-minuuna hattaa
yuhakkimuu-ka fiimaa shajara baynahum summa
laa yajiduu fiii ‘anfu-sihim harajam-mimmaa
qa-zay-ta wa yusallimuu tasliimaa. |
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65.
But no, by your Lord, they will not believe until they call you to arbitrate
in their disputes, and then find within themselves no resentment regarding
your decisions, and submit themselves completely. |
Laa wa Rabbika - (no, by the Lord), the word wa has been used here for swearing. In Arabic Language, Laa is usually applied before swearing, which means, the matter is not that which is being taken by the hearer, but I swear that it is in fact as I am going to say.
Shajara - (rising up, springing up, growing), actually this word is used for the tree. Here it means ‘to dispute’. Mashaajirah has also been derived from the same, which means ‘to quarrel, to vie with, and to fall out’.
Harajun - {tightness, narrowness (in mode of speech), dislike}.
It has been commanded: If they were thinking that they should continue disobeying the Messenger of God (ﷺ) and remain believers also, then ‘by Lord (Almighty), they will become Believers at such time, when they will accept You (Prophet Muhammad - ﷺ) judge of what is in dispute among them and find within themselves no dislike of that which You decide.
It has been known clearly from this narration that bowing forehead before the decision and judgment of God and His Messenger (ﷺ) without wrangling, so that, any doubt of displeasure may not take place in the hearts, is the sign of soundness of the Belief. Otherwise, there is a fear of the disease of hypocrisy. The Muslims have been taught in these verses that the real thing in the religion is ‘the truth and goodness of the heart’. The people, who do not bear in mind the religion in their mutual matters and law-suits and refer to other persons for judgment, their behavior is against the Belief. It appears from this discussion that they do not either rely on the religion or want to run away from the justice. In the first condition, they are at a great distance from the Faith, and in the second form, they have been tied with their wishes and selfishness, and they support the violence.
What would be more faithlessness than it that they think before taking decision of their cases, that whence would they succeed? To them; rule and law is nothing. They believe in Holy Qur’an and the religion up to the limit, that these support their wishes, because their only aim is to reap worldly advantages.
Secondly, it has been described in these verses that it is useless to dispute with the hypocrites. One must turn his face entirely from their words. Nevertheless, such environment must be produced for them by engaging oneself in personal affairs that they feel repentance and abstain from their wickedness naturally.
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