Surat Al `Imran (161-170)

{وَمَا كَانَ لِنَبِيٍّ أَنْ يَغُلَّ وَمَنْ يَغْلُلْ يَأْتِ بِمَا غَلَّ يَوْمَ القِيَامَةِ ثُمَّ تُوَفَّى كُلُّ نَفْسٍ مَا كَسَبَتْ وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ} [آل عمران: 161]

161- It is not entitled for a prophet to betray or take something from the booty or give it to some of the troops without giving the other; this is not a quality of a prophet. However, anyone of you betrays in Jihad and takes something from the booty without permission, they commit a sin and shall come on the Day of the Recompense carrying that thing which they stole around their necks and all the people will be looking .

Each soul shall have its reward or retribution. None shall be oppressed by increasing his punishment or reducing from his reward .

{أَفَمَنِ اتَّبَعَ رِضْوَانَ اللهِ كَمَنْ بَاءَ بِسَخَطٍ مِنَ اللهِ وَمَأْوَاهُ جَهَنَّمُ وَبِئْسَ المَصِيرُ} [آل عمران:162]

162- Are the people who exerted themselves in obeying Allah and followed the Sunnah of His Prophet equal to those disobeyed Allah and a result, they entailed Allah's Wrath and their Final End was Hell? How worse is their abode which has nothing but torment and suffering .

{هُمْ دَرَجَاتٌ عِنْدَ اللهِ وَاللهُ بَصِيرٌ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ} {آل عمران:163}

163- Both parties are in varying grades with Allah on the Day of the Recompense; grades in heaven or stages of Hell fire. Indeed, Allah is All-Seer of their actions and grades, and He shall reward or punish them for them .

{لَقَدْ مَنَّ اللهُ عَلَى المُؤْمِنِينَ إِذْ بَعَثَ فِيهِمْ رَسُولًا مِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ يَتْلُو عَلَيْهِمْ آَيَاتِهِ وَيُزَكِّيهِمْ وَيُعَلِّمُهُمُ الكِتَابَ وَالحِكْمَةَ وَإِنْ كَانُوا مِنْ قَبْلُ لَفِي ضَلَالٍ مُبِينٍ} {آل عمران:164}

164 - It was a great favor and grace from Allah to His Believing Servants that He sent them a prophet whom they understand his speech easily, whom they can talk to, listen, and benefit from. He recites at them clear Ayahs from the Noble Book of Allah, bring them up on Islamic ethics; purify them from the Pre-Islamic Period of Ignorance, from the bad morals, and from the false beliefs which they adopted; and to command them with good and forbid them to do evil and fornication. He would also teach them the Qur'an and the Sunnah before which they were indulging in manifest error and ignorance .

{أَوَلَمَّا أَصَابَتْكُمْ مُصِيبَةٌ قَدْ أَصَبْتُمْ مِثْلَيْهَا قُلْتُمْ أَنَّى هَذَا قُلْ هُوَ مِنْ عِنْدِ أَنْفُسِكُمْ إِنَّ اللهَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ} {آل عمران:165}

165- If you were hit by the defeat which you suffered on the Battle of Uhud while you hit the polytheists double your hits on the Battle of Badr, you would say: How did this happened and from where we have been hit? Say: It is because you disobeyed the commands of your Prophets when he commanded you not to leave your positions, but you refused and descended to collect the booty. Allah governs as He wants. So, if you obey, you will be successful and if you disobey, you will be defeated .

{وَمَا أَصَابَكُمْ يَوْمَ التَقَى الجَمْعَانِ فَبِإِذْنِ اللهِ وَلِيَعْلَمَ المُؤْمِنِينَ} {آل عمران:166}

166 - What afflicted you on the Day of Uhud: escape, killing, and injuries was with the destiny and the wisdom of Allah in order to distinguish the believers who observed patience, hold firm, and did not leave their positions .

{وَلِيَعْلَمَ الَّذِينَ نَافَقُوا وَقِيلَ لَهُمْ تَعَالَوْا قَاتِلُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوِ ادْفَعُوا قَالُوا لَوْ نَعْلَمُ قِتَالًا لَاتَّبَعْنَاكُمْ هُمْ لِلْكُفْرِ يَوْمَئِذٍ أَقْرَبُ مِنْهُمْ لِلْإِيمَانِ يَقُولُونَ بِأَفْواهِهِمْ مَا لَيْسَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يَكْتُمُونَ} {آل عمران:167}

167- And to distinguish the hypocrites to whom it was said: Come to fight for the sake of Allah, fight the polytheists, increase the number of Muslims, and observe patience: They said: If we knew that you will engage in fighting, we would come with you, but we know that you would not. Thereupon, the head of hypocrites, `Abdullah ibn 'Ubay ibn Salul returned with one third of the army. Those hypocrites were nearer to disbelief than to faith because previously they showed faith but when they let the Muslims down, they stayed away from faith and drew nearer to disbelief. They say with their tongues unlike that they concealed in their hearts because they were determined to retreat and apostatize. Verily, Allah knows the disbelief and hypocrisy that they conceal in their breasts and the evil and corruption that fill their hearts .

{الَّذِينَ قَالُوا لِإِخْوَانِهِمْ وَقَعَدُوا لَوْ أَطَاعُونَا مَا قُتِلُوا قُلْ فَادْرَءُوا عَنْ أَنْفُسِكُمُ المَوْتَ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَادِقِينَ} {آل عمران:168}

168- They are the hypocrites who said to their relatives when they refused to fight: If they had obeyed us and listened to our consultations when we commanded them to retreat and they agreed us, they would not have killed as happened. O Prophet, say to them: If leaving fight would save from killing and death, push away death that was prescribed on you if you were truthful in your saying! However, it will come and surely, you would suffer its agonies even if you were in fortified towers and in good health .

{وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ قُتِلُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَمْوَاتًا بَلْ أَحْيَاءٌ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ يُرْزَقُونَ} {آل عمران:169}

169- Do not think that those martyrs who passed away were actually dead even if their death was apparent to you in this worldly life because their lives are living at their Lord and having sustenance in the Last Abode .

{فَرِحِينَ بِمَا آَتَاهُمُ اللهُ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ وَيَسْتَبْشِرُونَ بِالَّذِينَ لَمْ يَلْحَقُوا بِهِمْ مِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ أَلَّا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ} [آل عمران: 170]

170- They are rejoicing with the favor of Allah and His Satisfaction to them. They rejoice with their brothers who will be killed after them in the way of Allah. Surely, they will fear no more in the future because they are indulged in Allah's Favors and they will not be sad for what they missed in the world because the Hereafter is better for them .