Friendship with the Disbelievers

 The hypocrites try to deceive God (L-616)

إِنَّ ٱلْمُنَٰفِقِينَ يُخَٰدِعُونَ ٱللَّهَ وَهُوَ خَٰدِعُهُمْ وَإِذَا قَامُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱلصَّلَوٰةِ قَامُوا۟ كُسَالَىٰ يُرَآءُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ وَلَا يَذْكُرُونَ ٱللَّهَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا142. مُّذَبْذَبِينَ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ لَآ إِلَىٰ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ وَلَآ إِلَىٰ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ وَمَن يُضْلِلِ ٱللَّهُ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُۥ سَبِيلًا143.

142.  ‘Innal-Munaa-fiqiina  yu-khaadi-‘uunAllaaha  wa  Huwa    khaadi-‘uhum.  Wa  ‘izaa   qaamuuu   ‘ilas-Salaati  qaamuu  kusaalaa, yuraaa-‘uunan-naasa  wa  laa  yazkuruunAllaaha  ‘illaa  qaliilaa. 143.  Muzab-zabiina  bayna  zaalik,-  laaa  ‘ilaa  haaa-‘ulaaa-‘i  wa  laaa  ‘ilaa  haaa-‘ulaaa’.  Wa  many-yuzli-Lillaahu  falan-  tajida  lahuu  Sabiilaa.

142. The hypocrites try to deceive God, but He is deceiving them. And when they stand for prayer, they stand lazily, showing off in front of people, and remembering God only a little. 143. Wavering in between, neither with these, nor with those. Whomever God sends astray, you will never find for him a way.

Yu-khaadi-‘uuna – (they beguile), khaadi-‘uhum – (He will beguile them), both words are from the same origin. Base of these words is khadaaa’, which means ‘to beguile, to cheat, to deceive, to exercise cleverness’. Its aim is that the hypocrites deceive God Almighty and His servants by their own vanity assurance, while they have deceived themselves but they do not feel. God will reply them about this deceiving.

Kusaalaa – (languidly), it is plural of kaslaan, which has been derived from kasala. Kasala means laziness, idleness and indolence. Kaslaan is the person, who works with indolence, like a tired, and that, who does not work actively and with love.

Yuraaa-‘uuna – (to be seen of), it is from riaaa’, which means to work as for to be seen of the people. These persons establish the worship and offer the prayer only for the purpose that others consider them worshippers.

Muzab-zabiina – (swaying between), it has been made from zabzabah, which means “Swaying between this and that, belonging neither to these nor to those”.

Following five outward indications of the hypocrites have been described in these verses:-

1.   They have fallen themselves in the deception, but think that they deceive .

2.   They worship but languidly, like tired persons and with indolence.

3.   There is no sincerity in their prayers. They offer prayer only to be seen of the people.

4.   They seldom remember their Creator (God Almighty).

They remain lingered between the belief and the infidelity. Neither they embrace belief heartily nor can they join the infidelity clearly.

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Friendship of Infidels (L-617) 

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَا تَتَّخِذُوا۟ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ أَوْلِيَآءَ مِن دُونِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَتُرِيدُونَ أَن تَجْعَلُوا۟ لِلَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ سُلْطَٰنًا مُّبِينًا 144. إِنَّٱلْمُنَٰفِقِينَ فِى ٱلدَّرْكِ ٱلْأَسْفَلِ مِنَ ٱلنَّارِ وَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُمْ نَصِيرًا145.

144.  Yaaa-‘ayyu-hallaziina  ‘aamanuu  laa  tattakhizul-kaafiriina  ‘awli-yaaa-‘a  min-duu-nil-Mu’-miniin.  ‘A-turiiduuna  ‘an-taj-‘aluu  Lillaahi  ‘alaykum  sul-taanam-mubiinaa.  145.  ‘Innal-Munaafiqiina  fid-darkil-‘asfali  minan-Naar.  Wa  lan  tajida  lahum  nasiiraa.

144. O you who believe! Do not befriend disbelievers rather than believers. Do you want to give God a clear case against you? 145. The hypocrites will be in the lowest level of the Fire, and you will find no helper for them.

Sul-taan – (warrant, power, mastery, proof, charge, accusation and such reason, by which other person is seized.

After mentioning all wicked tricks of the hypocrites, now it has been instructed that the Muslims should not keep association with them. This commandment has already been conveyed twice earlier. Again, it is being repeated that due to friendship and social intercourse with such bad and wicked persons, you will gain nothing. If despite their vicious deeds, you will make them friends, they will harm other Muslims more on this plea. So, you should keep yourselves away from them and do not become base of loss for other Muslims, otherwise very patent and strong reason will be set up by God Almighty to punish you too.

Then; it has been described that these people are very dangerous and worse more than infidels. They will be admitted in the lowest depths of the Hell, where besides those punishments, which have been fixed for the upper stages, their torment will be separate. And aggregate of those entire anguishes will be their lot. At that time; no trickery of theirs will be useful. No matter of anybody is hidden from God Almighty. How will they deceive or cheat Him? They will flatter the Angels (Peace be upon them), who are guards of the Hell, “Relieve us only for a while” but the Angels (Peace be upon them) will neither listen to anyone, nor look at any person. They will mind their own business. There will be no form of exemption from torment for them.

For the Believers, mention of good retribution of their good deeds has been made in Holy Qur’an again and again as well as mutinous and evil-doings of infidels and hypocrites. God Almighty has described repeatedly their punishment and bad consequences for admonition and precept of human beings. This matter needs special attention that if an awful doom has been mentioned for the infidels, then a painful doom has also been described for the hypocrites. Like this, if for the infidels, is punishment of the Hell, then news for the hypocrites is the torment in darkil-‘asfali  (the lowest level of the Fire) of the Hell. 

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