Surat Al Baqarah (157-167)

{أُولَـئِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ صَلَوَاتٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِمْ وَرَحْمَةٌ وَأُولَـئِكَ هُمُ الْمُهْتَدُونَ} [البقرة: 157]

157– Those who are patient should praise Allah, and in return, they shall have His Forgiveness and Mercy because they are the ones who have been guided to the right and the truth through their patience and recalling that to Allah is their return.

{إِنَّ الصَّفَا وَالْمَرْوَةَ مِن شَعَآئِرِ اللّهِ فَمَنْ حَجَّ الْبَيْتَ أَوِ اعْتَمَرَ فَلاَ جُنَاحَ عَلَيْهِ أَن يَطَّوَّفَ بِهِمَا وَمَن تَطَوَّعَ خَيْراً فَإِنَّ اللّهَ شَاكِرٌ عَلِيمٌ} [البقرة: 158]

158– Verily, going between As-Safa and Al Marwah is one of the rites which Allah [Glory be to Him) legislated to Abraham [peace be upon him) during Hajj [pilgrimage). So, whoever intends to perform Hajj or `Umrah [minor Hajj), let him perform this as one of the rites of Hajj. Whoever increases the number of Sa`y [going between As-Safa and Al Marwah) or increases any supererogatory act of worship, Allah shall reward him for this. Allah knows the reward entitled for each one and shall not reduce the reward of any one.

The meaning is: There is no harm on anyone to perform Sa`y. It is not meant that there is no harm on anyone to leave performing Sa`y, else the wordings should have been: There is no harm on him not to go between them [As-Safa and Al Marwah). Al Ansar [the Supporters) found it hard to go between them [As-Safa and Al Marwah) because they did not deem it permissible to do so at the Pre-Islamic Period, so the expression was put forth this way.

{إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَكْتُمُونَ مَا أَنزَلْنَا مِنَ الْبَيِّنَاتِ وَالْهُدَى مِن بَعْدِ مَا بَيَّنَّاهُ لِلنَّاسِ فِي الْكِتَابِ أُولَـئِكَ يَلعَنُهُمُ اللّهُ وَيَلْعَنُهُمُ اللَّاعِنُونَ} [البقرة: 159]

159– Verily, The people of the Scriptures, especially the Jews, conceal the signs that indicate to very important facts that we had sent down to the messengers. They also conceal the guidance that benefits the hearts such as believing in the message of Muhammad [peace be upon him) and the obligation of following him, since Allah [Glory be to Him) has made this clear in the Books that He revealed.
In his Tafsir, Abu As-Su`ud said: "The meaning of concealing it is: Replacing it with other texts where they removed his description [peace be upon him) and wrote instead something that is contradictory." This kind of concealment is a kind of distortion and alteration.

Those who are silent about the truth and those who conceal what Allah has sent down of goodness and guidance, Allah will drive them out of His Mercy. They are also will be cursed by those whom they cursed and supplicated Allah against such as the angels and the believers of the Jinn as well as the human. Thus, they are cast away from all the people of the truth.

{إِلاَّ الَّذِينَ تَابُواْ وَأَصْلَحُواْ وَبَيَّنُواْ فَأُوْلَـئِكَ أَتُوبُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَأَنَا التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِيمُ} [البقرة: 160]

160- Those from the mentioned People of the Scriptures who repented, returned to Allah and ceased their straying, declared and admitted the truth, reformed what they corrupted and distorted and explained to the people what they used to conceal, those I shall accept their repentance. Verily, I accept repentance very often and spread mercy.

{إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَمَاتُوا وَهُمْ كُفَّارٌ أُولَئِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ لَعْنَةُ اللّهِ وَالْمَلآئِكَةِ وَالنَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ} [البقرة: 161]

161- Those who disbelieved, persist to their disbelief, concealed the truth, and did not repent, those their destiny will be expulsion from the Mercy of Allah. Allah shall curse them as well as the angels and all people constantly until the Hour is established after they were cursed from time to time in the world .

{خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا لاَ يُخَفَّفُ عَنْهُمُ الْعَذَابُ وَلاَ هُمْ يُنظَرُونَ} [البقرة: 162]

162- They will abide in the Hell-Fire forever. Their torment shall not be lightened nor shall be ceased for an hour, thus, it is permanent and unceasing.

{وَإِلَـهُكُمْ إِلَهٌ وَاحِدٌ لاَّ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ الرَّحْمَنُ الرَّحِيمُ} [البقرة: 163]

163- The only god to which all creatures direct in their worship and obedience is One who has no partner with Him. He is the Compassionate and All-Merciful with people and Whose Mercy is large, wide, and permanent.

{إِنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلاَفِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ وَالْفُلْكِ الَّتِي تَجْرِي فِي الْبَحْرِ بِمَا يَنفَعُ النَّاسَ وَمَا أَنزَلَ اللّهُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مِن مَّاء فَأَحْيَا بِهِ الأرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا وَبَثَّ فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ دَآبَّةٍ وَتَصْرِيفِ الرِّيَاحِ وَالسَّحَابِ الْمُسَخِّرِ بَيْنَ السَّمَاء وَالأَرْضِ لآيَاتٍ لِّقَوْمٍ يَعْقِلُونَ} [البقرة: 164]

164- The scenes of creation in the universe are great and delicate. One should consider and reflect on them deeply from all scientific and sapiential aspects to recognize the greatest Creator.

The heavens are characterized with their altitude, precision of their creation, their suns and planets, their rocks and atoms, their gravity and circulation, their farness from the earth or from one another with unimaginable distances like millions of light years, besides the other undiscovered suns and planets.

The earth is characterized with its mountains, seas, rivers, its fertilized land and deserts, human and Jinn, animals and inanimate, plants, trees with millions of their delicate and wonderful kinds and types, and its Marine biology: its behaviors, life, benefits, minerals, pearls, water and air, and all that was subjugated for human.

There is another sign that is the coming of the daytime and then followed by the night and vice-versa. So, light and darkness are permanent successive in absolute precision.

Another sign that is: the running of ships, steamships, and navies in the sea. Seas which are subjugated for mankind to benefit from in their travels, in transferring of their goods from one place to another, and to take out of it what may benefit them such as provisions and use it in commerce.

Another sign that is the rain that comes down from the sky by the command of Allah. Such rain gives life to plants, fruits, humans, and animals. It causes fountains to gush forth from the earth and is saved inside the earth in the form of wells after the earth had been dead and lifeless.

There is also a great sign in the wind that has been disseminated on the earth to cause life and death despite the difference of its shapes, colors, benefits, and whether strong or weak it is.

This wind although its kinds and directions, it gives mercy and bears torment or destruction. It collects and separate clouds and drives them where Allah commanded. It also carries pollen grains from male trees and plants and puts them on the female to produce fruits by the will of Allah.

These deployed clouds over the earth in their forms, types, significance, movements, subjugation, and moving from one place to another is also a sign for people.

All these signs are great facts and clear proofs to the presence of Allah, His Oneness, Ability, and Wisdom. This happens when a person considers these facts and abandons indifference and negligence, and thinks deeply in these creatures with renewed feeling and a heart seeks the truth.

{وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَن يَتَّخِذُ مِن دُونِ اللّهِ أَندَاداً يُحِبُّونَهُمْ كَحُبِّ اللّهِ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ أَشَدُّ حُبّاً لِّلّهِ وَلَوْ يَرَى الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُواْ إِذْ يَرَوْنَ الْعَذَابَ أَنَّ الْقُوَّةَ لِلّهِ جَمِيعاً وَأَنَّ اللّهَ شَدِيدُ الْعَذَابِ} [البقرة: 165]

165- Despite the prior indications to the oneness of Allah and His Singularity with creation and disposing the affairs of all creatures, there are types of people who associated partners with Allah in worship. Those people have worshipped peers and counterparts with Allah by their whims and by the insinuations of Satan, following the example of others in blind imitation or clear stupidity such as worshipping stones, trees, stars, and planets. They defend, fight for and love them as they love Allah. He is the Only One Who does not have any wife, a child, a peer or a counterpart.

As for the believers, they worship Allah with clear guidance from their Lord. They love Him sincerely and purely even more than their love to themselves because of their complete knowledge of Him, their oneness, glorification, resort to Him, and full reliance on Him.

If the polytheists and those who follow them SAW what has been prepared for them of the torment on the Day of the Recompense, they would have known that all things are under His Subjection and Power. He has full power and sole disposal, and His Torment is painful. When they know this, they will cease all error and mistakes they used to commit.

{إِذْ تَبَرَّأَ الَّذِينَ اتُّبِعُواْ مِنَ الَّذِينَ اتَّبَعُواْ وَرَأَوُاْ الْعَذَابَ وَتَقَطَّعَتْ بِهِمُ الأَسْبَابُ} [البقرة: 166]

166- Those who were the leaders of disbelief, error, and destructive calls will divorce themselves from their supporters and subjects who used to follow them when they see the Reckoning and see the Hell before them and no way out of it because their followers shall double their torment. So, they shall say to them: We have no relation with you and we did not force you to follow us. You had minds and intellectuals, so why you have been deceived with our sayings and followed us?

Their previous relations shall be cut off and turn into grudge, enmity, and dispute where the term specified for actions has ended and it is now time for retribution.

{وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ اتَّبَعُواْ لَوْ أَنَّ لَنَا كَرَّةً فَنَتَبَرَّأَ مِنْهُمْ كَمَا تَبَرَّؤُواْ مِنَّا كَذَلِكَ يُرِيهِمُ اللّهُ أَعْمَالَهُمْ حَسَرَاتٍ عَلَيْهِمْ وَمَا هُم بِخَارِجِينَ مِنَ النَّارِ} [البقرة: 167]

167- The followers, who imitate their masters and support the error and its people, said after their false gods had been discovered, the tricks had been made clear, and the facts had been showed to the people: If we had a chance to go back to the world so as to divorce ourselves from those people, we would not follow them or agree to their ideas. We should not be like slaves to them nor acclaim to them and to their misleading principles after they had divorced themselves from us and said: There is no relation between you and us and we did not force you to follow us. They are liars and if they were to be back in life, they would do what they used to do. However, Allah wants to review their actions before their eyes in order to increase their grief, regret and heartbreaking to them. Moreover, they will abide forever in the Hell.