Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Surah Al Ma'ida Notes (55-63)

Your protecting friends are: Allah, His Rasool, and your fellow believers.

(5:55) Only Allah, His Messengers, and those who believe and who establish prayer, pay Zakah and bow before Allah are your friends.

(5:56) All those who take Allah and His Messenger and those who believe as their allies, should remember that the party of Allah will be victorious.

The prohibition of being loyal friends with the disbelievers.

(5:57) This Ayah discourages and forbids taking the enemies of Islam and its people, such as the People of the Book and the polytheists, as friends. These disbelievers mock the most important acts that any person could ever perform, the honorable, pure acts of Islam which include all types of good for this life and the Hereafter. They mock such acts and make them the subject of jest and play, because this is what these acts represent in their misguided minds and cold hearts.

(5:58)  Making fun and mockery when the call to prayer is announced, is similar to the characteristics of the Shaytan. When the call for prayer is made, Shaytan takes to his heels passing wind so that he may not hear the Adhan. When the call is finished he comes back and tries to interfere with the person who is praying saying "Remember this and that" which he had not thought of before the prayer, until the praying person forgets how much he has prayed. If anyone of you does not remember, then he should perform two prostrations before pronouncing the Salam.

The people of the Book are enraged at the believers because of their faith in Allah.

(5:59) The only reason why the people of the Book hate the believers is, that they believe in Allah and His Messengers even that which came before.

(5:60) The Messenger was asked by Allah to remind the Jews how Allah had cursed and incurred wrath and some of whom were changed into apes and swine, and who served the false deities. This happened when they broke the covenant of Sabbath and how the faces of many were distorted.

(5:61) The hypocrites pretend to be Believers but hide their Kufr. 

(5:62)They hurry to devour prohibited and illegal things, all the while transgressing against the people, unjustly consuming their property through bribes and Ribah.

(5:63) Ibn Abi Hatim recorded that Yahya bin Ya`mar said, " `Ali bin Abi Talib once gave a speech, which he started by praising Allah and thanking Him. He then said, `O people! Those who were before you were destroyed because they committed sins and the Rabbaniyyun and Ahbar did not forbid them from evil. When they persisted in sin, they were overcome by punishment. Therefore, enjoin righteousness and forbid evil before what they suffered also strikes you. Know that enjoining righteousness and forbidding evil does not reduce the provision or shorten the term of life.''


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