105- NEITHER THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED OUT OF THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK NOR DO THE IDOLATERS WISH ANY GOODNESS TO COME DOWN TO YOU FROM YOUR LORD.  ALLAH CHOOSES WHOM HE WILLS FOR HIS MERCY, AND ALLAH HAS INFINITE BOUNTIES.

 

 

There are more Ayahs which carry the same meaning, Allah the Highest said: “IF YOU ARE AFFECTED BY SOMETHING GOOD, IT WILL DISPLEASE THEM, BUT IF AFFLICTION STRIKES YOU, IT WILL PLEASE THEM, BUT IF YOU ARE PATIENT AND PERSEVERE, THEIR PLOTTING WILL NOT AFFECT YOU IN ANY WAY, FOR ALLAH KNOW ALL THEY DO”.  (S: 3 A: 120)

 

What we should know, is that the disbelievers of any kind do not wish any goodness to come to us, neither in this life, nor in the Hereafter.  This includes the people of the book, i.e. The Jews and Christians.

 

Allah’s bounties are plenty, some are given to the every one, believer and disbelievers, like wealth and health.  Other bounties are given to the believers only, in this life and in the hereafter, they include:

 

-         Understanding Faith.  Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, said: “Allah gives of this world those he loves and those he does not love, but gives faith only to those he loves”.

 

-         This Faith, and it’s understanding, is what Allah the Highest called “Wisdom” in the Quran, it is a great bounty, for Allah the Highest said: “HE GIVES THE WISDOM TO WHOM HE WILLS, AND HE WHO IS GRANTED THE WISDOM, HE HAS BEEN GRANTED A GREAT DEAL OF BOUNTY, BUT ONLY THOSE OF SOUND MINDS WILL KNOW AND REMEMBER”.  (S:2 A:269)

 

-         There is no limit or restriction to Allah’s bounties.  Allah the Highest rewards the Muslim twice as much as he would reward other nations.  Allah the Highest said: “YOU WHO BELIEVE, BE RIGHTEOUS AND GUARD YOURSELVES FROM ALLAH’S DISPLEASURE, AND BELIEVE IN HIS MESSENGER, HE WILL GIVE YOU TWICE AS MUCH OF HIS MERCY AND WILL LET YOU HAVE LIGHTS TO WALK WITH, AND WILL FORGIVE YOU, FOR ALLAH IS MOST FORGIVING, MOST MERCIFUL”.  (S:57 A:28)

 

This Ayah is clarified by this Hadith in which Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, said: “The parable of you and the Jews is like that of a man who hired workers telling them: ‘You will work for me to midday for so much’.  The Jews worked for that much and the Christians worked for the same amount.  Then you come and work from ASR, until Magrib (i.e. mid-afternoon until sunset) for twice the payment.  The Jews and Christians get angry and say: ‘Our work is more than them but our bounty is less’.  He (Allah) says: ‘Did I hold back what is due to you unjustly?’  They say: ‘No’.  He says: “This is my bounty; I give to whoever I wish”. 

(B: Maqaqeet; 17 & T: Adab; 82 & Ma: Nekah; 48 & A: 2; 111,121 6; 95)

 

 

 

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 Da: Daremy       Ma: Ibn Magah            N: Nesae          T: Termezi  

104- YOU WHO BELIEVE, DO NOT SAY: “RAENA” (ATTEND TO US) AND SAY: “INZORNA” (LOOK AT US) AND LISTEN, AND THE DISBELIEVERS WILL HAVE HUMILIATING PUNISHMENT. 

 

Allah the Highest is addressing the Muslims saying “YOU WHO BELIEVE”.  This means that it is instructions and commands for the believers, which is different from addressing mankind, which usually takes the form of “O PEOPLE” or “O MANKIND”.   So there is a command to the believers in this Ayah.

 

The command is not to use a certain word addressing Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him.  Why?

 

When the Jews of Medina went to see Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, about something, they did not call him Allah’s messenger, but called him by the name Aba Al Qasim (Father of Qasim).  Qasim was his first son who died before he was two.

 

When they wanted to attract his attention, they said to him Raenn, which means reckless and irresponsible, twisting their tongues with the word Raena which means attend to us.  This was to covertly insult him, prayer and peace upon him. 

 

Unaware of what the Jews were doing, some of the Muslims said to Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, “Raena”, therefore Allah the Highest forbad the Muslims from using this word with Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him.  Consequently, any one who does will mean to insult Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him.

 

Allah the Highest spoke about the Jews doing this on another occasion in Sorah Al-Nesae saying: “ OF THE JEWS THOSE WHO TAKE WORDS OUT OF CONTEXT AND THEY SAY: “WE HEAR AND WE DISOBEY” AND “HEAR, BUT YOU ARE NOT BEING HEARD”, AND: “RAENA” TWISTING THEIR TONGUES WITH IT AND TO SLANDER THE RELIGION.  BUT IF THEY SAY: “WE HEAR AND WE OBEY, AND LISTEN TO US AND LOOK AT US”, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER FOR THEM AND MORE PROPER.  BUT ALLAH CURSED THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR DISBELIEF, THEY DO NOT BELIEVE, JUST FEW OF THEM”.  (S: 4 A: 46)

 

Allah the Highest is promising them a humiliating punishment.  We notice that they meant, to mock Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, and in return Allah the Highest will humiliate them.

 

There are a number of lessons in this Ayah, of them:-

 

-         The Muslims should not blindly imitate non-Muslims in what they say and do, they might find that they have been doing a great wrong and are becoming like them.  Allah’s messenger prayers and peace upon him said:  “He who imitates what a group of people do, he is one of them”.  (A:2;50 & D:Lebas;4)

 

-         Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, was not just rejected by the Jews, but they mocked him and on several occasions tried to kill him.  This is not new for them, as they did the same with other prophets and messengers of Allah.

 

 

-         All Allah messengers, peace upon them, suffered physical and verbal abuse by the disbelievers.  Allah the Highest said: “BUT NO MESSENGER EVER CAME WITHOUT BEING MOCKED”. (S:15 A:11)He also said: “OTHER MESSENGERS BEFORE YOU WERE MOCKED, HOWEVER THOSE WHO MOCKED THEM WERE TAKEN BY THE VERY THING THEY DREADED”.  (S:6 A:10)

 

-         The Muslims should never associate themselves with, or sit down with, those who mock their religion or Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, Allah the Highest said: “DO NOT TAKE THOSE WHO MOCK YOUR RELIGION OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE GIVEN THE BOOK BEFORE YOU AND THE DISBELIEVERS AS CLOSE FRIENDS AND ALLIES, BE PIOUS IF YOU ARE TRULY BELIEVERS”.  (S:5 A:57)

 

 

-         The Muslims should never mock one another, for Allah the Highest said: “YOU WHO BELIEF, LET NOT ONE GROUP OF YOU MOCK ANOTHER, FOR THEY MIGHT BE BETTER THAN THEM, NOR SHALL ONE GROUP OF WOMEN MOCK ANOTHER GROUP OF WOMEN, FOR THEY MIGHT BE BETTER THAN THEM, AND DO NOT MAKE MOCKING GESTURES ABOUT EACH OTHER, AND DO NOT CALL EACH OTHER BAD NAMES, FOR THE WORST SIN IS EVIL DOING AFTER YOU HAVE BELIEVED, AS FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT REPENT, THEY ARE THE EVIL DOERS”.  (S:49 A:11)

 

 

 

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 Da: Daremy       Ma: Ibn Magah            N: Nesae          T: Termezi  

 

102- AND THEY FOLLOWED WHAT THE DEVILS SAY ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF SOLIMAN.  SOLIMAN DID NOT DISBELIEVE, BUT THE DEVILS DID.  THEY TEACH PEOPLE BLACK MAGIC AND WHAT WAS SENT DOWN UPON THE ANGELS IN BABYLON; HAROUT AND MAROUT.  THEY DO NOT TEACH ANYONE WITHOUT SAYING: “WE ARE BUT A TEMPTATION, DO NOT DISBELIEF”.  THEY LEARN FROM THEM WHAT MAY CREATE DISCORD BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS WIFE; HOWEVER IT DOES NOT HARM ANYONE WITHOUT ALLAH’S PERMISSION.  THEY LEARN WHAT HARMS AND DO NOT BENEFIT THEM, WHILE THEY KNOW THAT THOSE WHOEVER BUYS IT (WITCHCRAFT), THEY HAVE NO SHARE IN THE HEREAFTER.  EVIL IS WHAT THEY SOLD THEIR SOULS FOR, HAD THEY KNOWN.

 

103- HAD THEY BELIEVED, AND BECOME PIOUS, ALLAH’S REWARD WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER FOR THEM, IF THEY KNOW.

 

Many of the Jews practiced witchcraft, taught it, probably still do.  They claim that it has been taught to them by Harout and Marout, two angels of Babylon, their story was narrated as follows:

 

Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him: “When Allah sent Adam peace upon him to the Earth, the angels said: “O Lord, do you place therein he who causes mischief therein and sheds blood, while we hymn your praises and sanctify you?”  Allah Said: “I know what you do not know”.  The angels said: “O Lord, we are more obedient to you than the children of Adam” Allah said: “Bring two of the angels to be sent down to live on Earth (as humans) to see what they will do”.  They said: “Our Lord, we choose Harout and Marout”.  And they were sent down to Earth.  A rose was made to be like the best looking of women.  When they saw her, they asked her for herself, but she said: “Not before you say a word of taking partners with Allah”.  They said: “Never, by Allah, we will never worship partners besides Allah”.  She went away and came back carrying a boy.  They asked her for herself again, but she said: “No by Allah.  Not until you kill this boy”.  They said: “No by Allah, well will never kill him”.  She went away and came back with wine.  When they asked her for herself, she said: “No by Allah, not before you drink the wine”.  They drunk the wine, were drunk, they had her and they killed the boy.  When they came back to their senses, the woman said: “By Allah, when you became drunk, you did every thing I asked you to do”.  They were given a choice of either punishment in this life or in the hereafter, and they choose punishment in this life”.  (Ahmed)

 

This did happen at the time of Babylon as these two angels lived in there.  The practiced Witchcraft and were particularly good at it, which I part of disbelieve they did not submit initially.  It is clear from the above Ayahs that Allah the Highest considers those who practice Witchcraft to have disbelieved, although they might still believe in God. 

 

Harout and Marout were an example of those who lived pure life but were tempted to go astray, and they became a temptation themselves.  They tempt people to teach them the power of Witchcraft, but the price is his, disbelieve.  And they warn people about that. 

 

Witchcraft is a kind of power, but evil power.  Evil things are done via Witchcraft like creating discord between a husband and wife.  To have power to do evil, makes a person very evil himself, to the point of disbelieve, even if they believe, Allah the Highest considers them disbelievers. 

 

Temptation is a part of life and part of the destiny of the sons of Adam.  No one will be left without temptation.  Allah the Highest said: “DID PEOPLE THINK THAT THEY WILL BE LEFT FOR SAYING: “WE BELIEVE, WITHOUT BEING TEMPTED”.  (S: 29 A: 2)

 

The angels are not made with a choice and they are not used to temptation and testing as humans are.  What happens to Harout and Marout shows us that to stand firm and resist temptation is much harder than to worship all the time as the angels do, but without being subjected to the temptations and difficulties of life.  Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, said: “The believer who mixes with people and tolerates their hurt and trial will have a greater reward than he who does not mix with people nor tolerate their hurt”.  (Ma: Fetan; 23 & A: 2:43)

 

Allah the Highest is clearing Solomon, peace upon him, of an Accusation made about him by the Jews, as they did about most of the prophets and messengers, peace upon them.  They claim that, Solomon controlled his kingdom and the Jinn, birds, animals etc. by Witchcraft.  Allah the Highest said “.  SOLIMAN DID NOT DISBELIEVE, BUT THE DEVILS DID”.  Meaning that he had nothing to do with Witchcraft, which Allah the Highest considers those who practice it to be disbelieves.  They also do not believe that SOLIMAN or David were prophets, but kings.  This is another issue however.

 

 

 

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 Da: Daremy       Ma: Ibn Magah            N: Nesae          T: Termezi  

99- WE SENT CLEAR SIGNS DOWN TO YOU; ONLY THE EVIL DOERS REJECT THEM.

 

100- WOULD EVERY TIME THEY MAKE A COVENANT, SOME OF THEM CAST IT ASIDE, BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT BELIEVE.

 

101- WHEN A MESSENGER FROM ALLAH COMES TO THEM CONFIRMING WHAT THEY HAVE (OF THE SCRIPTURE), THEN A GROUP OF THOSE WHO WERE GIVEN THE SCRIPTURE CAST ALLAH’S BOOK BEHIND THEIR BACKS AS IF THEY DO NOT KNOW.

 

 

Allah the Highest is again condemning the Jews for not believing.  As mentioned in the previous Ayahs, it was clear to them that the Quran comes from Allah the Highest, via the Archangel Gabriel, who they do not like, hence their disbelief.  Does this make sense to any one?

This is nothing but evil doing by evil doers.

 

They made covenants with Allah the Highest, to believe in His prophets and messengers, prayer and peace upon them all, but none of them keep their covenant.  They cast these covenants behind their backs, ignoring them, as if they had never heard of them. 

 

They see Allah’s Word in the Quran, understand it, then they cast it away behind their backs, meaning ,, as if they throw it away or ignore it.  Not out of lack or understanding or real disbelief over where it came from, but out of rejecting any thing threatening to the status they claim for themselves as God’s chosen people.

 

Would God’s chosen people reject God’s guidance, His prophets and messengers? 

 

Would God’s chosen people kill God’s prophets and messengers?

 

Would God’s chosen people, disobey Allah and become so stubborn and proud of it?

 

As the saying goes; We all make our beds and then have to lie in them.    

97- SAY: “WHOEVER AN ENEMY OF GABRIEL IS, HE BROUGHT IT DOWN UPON YOUR HEART WITH ALLAH’S PERMISSION; CONFIRMING WHAT HAS BEEN SENT DOWN BEFORE YOU, GUIDANCE AND GOOD NEWS FOR THE BELIEVERS.

 

98- WHOEVER IS ANY ENEMY OF ALLAH, HIS ANGELS, HIS MESSENGERS, GABRIEL AND MICHAEL, THEN ALLAH IS AN ENEMY TO THE DISBELIEVERS.

 

Ibn Jarir Al-Tabari reported that Qitadah reported that Omar Ibn El-Khatab went to speak to the Jews.  He said to them: “I did not come to you because I like you or your company, but because I came to listen to what you have to say”.  They asked Him: “Who is the companion of your companion (of the Angels)?”  He said: “Gabriel”.  They said: “He is our enemy, he tells Mohamed our secrets, and whenever he comes to us, he comes with war and destruction.  Our friend is Michael, when he comes; he brings us prosperity and peace”.  Omar said: “Do you recognize Gabriel and reject Mohamed?”

Meaning how they can recognize the fact the Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, receives revelations from Allah’s Archangel, then reject Mohamed as a messenger.

 

Omar left them and went to tell Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, to find that he received the above Ayahs.

 

The Jews spoke of Gabriel and Michael, Allah’s great Angels as if they have a will of their own, as if they do not do what they are commanded, but what they like.  The Angels are but messengers from Allah the Highest.  The prophets and messengers, prayer and peace upon them all, are human beings, therefore, they have a will, they have a choice, but the Angels do not have any choice.  Allah the Highest said about them:

“ALLAH SELECTS MESSENGERS FROM THE ANGELS AND FROM PEOPLE”.  (S: 22 A: 75)

Also said:

“THEY DO NOT DISOBEY A COMMAND THEY ARE GIVEN, THEY DO WHAT THEY ARE COMMANDED TO DO”.  (S: 66 A: 6)

 

If they recognized that Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, received his revelations from Allah’s Archangel Gabriel, then the revelations, that is the Quran must be truly from God.  Then the disbelief of the Jews had nothing to do with their disbelief in Mohamed being a true messenger of God, but with their own desires and intentions.

 

Hence they incur Allah’s Wrath and Anger.