Lesson # 1062 from
Holy Qur’aan
Cleanliness is a Belief -2
Surah ‘TAWBAH or BARAAA-‘AH (REPENTANCE) –
Chapter – 9)
Stage – 2, Verse –
28 of 129, Section – 4 of 16 (Part – 10)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Lesson
It has come in Ahaadith (Sayings of the Messenger – grace,
glory, blessings and peace be upon Him) that Omar, the second Caliph (may God
be pleased with him) purified and cleaned the Peninsula of Arab from the
Idolaters according to a last Will and Command of the Messenger (grace, glory,
blessings and peace be upon Him). Now, it is not lawful for the Muslims to give
living permission to them in the Arab. The Sunnis (Hanafi Rules)
give them some permission that, a Muslim spiritual guide can permit them to
live temporarily if he considers it suitable. Other religious directors do not
permit even for only it.
Next, it is commanded: If you fear that your business and commerce will
take bad effect; if the Idolaters flew away, and the commodities of necessity
will be deficient, then you should drive this thinking out of your hearts,
because the actual thing is comfort, ease and satisfaction, and it cannot be
obtained during their presence. God Almighty will make the provision of the
necessities of life easy, and if He desire, will give you so much that you will
become fearless from their support. Be satisfied that God Almighty knows very
well about all these matters by which a mankind acquires riches and
sufficiency. And He is Aware of it also that which suitable time can be for
performing any particular work. Therefore as He is Knower, He is Wise too. You should
also be ready to obey His commands by giving your all works in His charge
unhesitatingly. He will correct your all works when the correct time will come
according to His Knowledge and Philosophy.
Selfishness and enmity with others; without any proper reason destroys
the human being. Those; who are crazed to make other people their slaves, and
to feed only own people; certainly, they have been excluded from the humanity. Their
mind is impure and unclean. Therefore, when it was experienced by the Muslims
that the Idolaters of Makkah, whom the Jews and the Christians have
joined, they will not let them prosper, then they were commanded: Let these mischievous disbelievers not come near
the Inviolable Place of Worship only but
drive them out of the entire Peninsula of Arab, so that you may get opportunity;
at first to moderate yourselves and then correct all the people of the world
without let or hindrance, and you may prepare yourselves for this work.
Obviously, if the Idolaters of Arab, the Jews and the Christians
desired to live with the Muslims together, then the circumstances of this case
would not be as such. Their hearts would have been purified if they had given
up enmity and stubbornness, and they would have lived with the Muslims mutually
by making treaties of peace and safety. But somehow those people did not accept
it. Therefore, such severe commands were issued and the Muslims were instructed
to arrange for them a separate place for living. The command regarding the
Idolaters has been described in this verse. In the next verse, instructions for
the Jews and the Christians will be explained.
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