Surat Al `Imran (131-140)

{وَاتَّقُوا النَّارَ الَّتِي أُعِدَّتْ لِلْكَافِرِينَ} [آل عمران: 131]

131- Keep away from the Fire that was prepared for the disbelievers as a result for their disobedience, dealing with usury, and committing the major and minor sins.

Abu Hanifah (may Allah be Merciful with him) said: It is the most fearful Ayah in the Qur'an because Allah has promised the believers with the Fire that was prepared for the disbelievers if they do not fear Him and avoid His Prohibited matters.

{وَأَطِيعُوا اللهَ وَالرَّسُولَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ} [آل عمران: 132]

132- Obey Allah and follow the commands of His Prophet in all that he commanded you and prohibited you so that you may have mercy.

{وَسَارِعُوا إِلَى مَغْفِرَةٍ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ وَجَنَّةٍ عَرْضُهَا السَّمَوَاتُ وَالأَرْضُ أُعِدَّتْ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ} [آل عمران: 133]

133- Compete one another in doing good and haste to obtain obedience in order to have the reward of your Lord: The forgiveness of your sins and a wide Paradise its width like the width of the heavens and the earth that was prepared for the pious and believing servants of Allah.

{الَّذِينَ يُنْفِقُونَ فِي السَّرَّاءِ وَالضَّرَّاءِ وَالكَاظِمِينَ الغَيْظَ وَالعَافِينَ عَنِ النَّاسِ وَاللهُ يُحِبُّ المُحْسِنِينَ} [آل عمران: 134]

134- From the qualities of the pious, who are the people of Paradise, that they are firm on giving in charities, spend in hardship as well as prosperity and ease; nothing takes them away from Allah's Obedience, spending in the ways that Allah loves most, and being benevolent to the needy of His Servants.

They conceal their anger and rage of people and do not harm them then they show pardon, forgiveness, and seek the reward from Allah.

They people who spent, suppressed their anger, and forgave, they are benevolent and Allah loves those benevolent ones who spread intimacy among people.

{وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا فَعَلُوا فَاحِشَةً أَوْ ظَلَمُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ ذَكَرُوا اللهَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُوا لِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَمَنْ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا اللهُ وَلَمْ يُصِرُّوا عَلَى مَا فَعَلُوا وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ} [آل عمران: 135]

135- Of the attributes of the pious as well that if they committed a guilt, whether big or small, they would not insist on what they did, they did not proud of sin, but would remember Allah and the punishment that He has prepared for the sinful and the pardon and forgiveness that he promised those who seek His Forgiveness. So, the sinful sought forgiveness for their sins, repented to their Lord, and returned to Him while they know that no one forgives the sins but He, no one bestows mercy but He. Those who repent to Allah shall be forgiven as long as they admit their guilt, regret their sins, and determined to abandon it.

{أُولَئِكَ جَزَاؤُهُمْ مَغْفِرَةٌ مِنْ رَبِّهِمْ وَجَنَّاتٌ تَجْرِي مِنْ تَحْتِهَا الأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا وَنِعْمَ أَجْرُ العَامِلِينَ} [آل عمران: 136]

136- Those are the dutiful, and their reward for these good qualities is that Allah will forgive them, admit them to Paradise underneath which rivers flow, staying their forever and the best reward for their actions is Paradise.

{قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ سُنَنٌ فَسِيرُوا فِي الأَرْضِ فَانْظُروا كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ المُكَذِّبِينَ} [آل عمران: 137]

137- What happened to you in the Battle of Uhud, had been done before to nations like you. So, read the books of biographies, histories, and take lesson from that. Have faith and observe patience because your final destination, o people of faith and truth, and the punishment shall be to those who deny the signs of Allah and His Messengers. It is the way of Allah that you inflect and be inflicted and what happened of infliction is for taking a lesson.

{هَذَا بَيَانٌ لِلنَّاسِ وَهُدًى وَمَوْعِظَةٌ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ} [آل عمران: 138]

138- As for what has been mentioned about the infidels, the pious, and repentant as well as the conditions of the people who were before you, it is for explaining the bad end of the deniers in order that people take a lesson and guidance for the pious believers who take consideration and be guided.

{وَلَا تَهِنُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا وَأَنْتُمُ الأَعْلَوْنَ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ مُؤْمِنِينَ} [آل عمران: 139]

139- Do not feel weak because of what has hit you, do not let weakness enter into your hearts, and do not grieve for what you have missed because you are superior with your religion and the victorious as long as you are believers. Faith implies confidence in Allah, so you have victory and your martyrs are in heaven, whereas their final destination is to destruction as was the case of their ancestors, and the fate of their dead is to the fire.

{إِنْ يَمْسَسْكُمْ قَرْحٌ فَقَدْ مَسَّ القَوْمَ قَرْحٌ مِثْلُهُ وَتِلْكَ الأَيَّامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا بَيْنَ النَّاسِ وَلِيَعْلَمَ اللهُ الَّذِينَ آَمَنُوا وَيَتَّخِذَ مِنْكُمْ شُهَدَاءَ وَاللهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الظَّالِمِينَ} [آل عمران: 140]

140- If you have been injured and a group of you was killed, your enemies were injured and number of them was killed as well. It is the way of Allah that you hit and being hit because days pass so fast. The believers have a day and the disbelievers have another day so that the true believers who are truthful in their faith and Jihad may be distinguished from those unbelievers. The succession of hardship and prosperity reveal the reality of people, their natures, their degrees of obedience, and their forbearance for fight. That succession is for choosing martyrs among you of those who sacrifice their souls in the cause of Allah, His Religion, and His Pleasure in order that He honor them, draw them near, and grant them His blessing.

Verily, Allah does not like those lying deniers, but reckon and punish them for what they did.