Surat An-Nisa' (131-140)

{وَللّهِ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الأَرْضِ وَلَقَدْ وَصَّيْنَا الَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ الْكِتَابَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ وَإِيَّاكُمْ أَنِ اتَّقُواْ اللّهَ وَإِن تَكْفُرُواْ فَإِنَّ لِلّهِ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الأَرْضِ وَكَانَ اللّهُ غَنِيّاً حَمِيداً} [النساء: 131]

131- To Allah belongs the dominion of heavens and earth and He is the Controller therein, so nothing can fail Him in regard of the conditions of the spouses or anything else.

Verily, We have commanded the People of the Scriptures with piety and obedience as We commanded you, o people of the Qur'an. So, if you turn away from that Allah commanded you or disbelieve, nothing of what you do can harm Him as nothing of your thanks and piety can benefit Him. Indeed, He is the Owner of the heavens, the earth, and that is in between. He is Self-Sufficient and does not need His Creation or their worship. He is praised whether people praised Him or denied His Grace.

{وَلِلّهِ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الأَرْضِ وَكَفَى بِاللّهِ وَكِيلاً} [النساء: 132]

132- Allah is the Creator and the Owner of heavens and the earth, and He can destroy them as well. He has all freedom and dominion to do whatever He likes therein and everyone in them are in dire need to Him. It is enough witness to Him that everyone serves Him and He disposes all their affairs, so nothing is asked but from Him, no supplication but to Him, and no one rely but on Him.

{إِن يَشَأْ يُذْهِبْكُمْ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ وَيَأْتِ بِآخَرِينَ وَكَانَ اللّهُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ قَدِيراً} [النساء: 133]

133- If Allah wants to destroy you, o people, He is Able to do so and replace you with another people who are better and more obedient to the instructions and commands of Allah. That is so easy for Allah because He is All Able for what He wills and nothing fails Him.

{مَّن كَانَ يُرِيدُ ثَوَابَ الدُّنْيَا فَعِندَ اللّهِ ثَوَابُ الدُّنْيَا وَالآخِرَةِ وَكَانَ اللّهُ سَمِيعاً بَصِيراً} [النساء: 134]

134- Anyone wants a worldly benefit by their actions Allah shall give them whatever benefits He likes and more from the benefits of the world. Moreover, He shall give them what is more beneficial and everlasting which is the reward of the Hereafter; this reward is for those who believed and did good actions. So, anyone asks Him from the benefits of this world and the next, He shall give them both. Anyone asks for the worldly benefits only, He shall give them the world and deprive them from the Hereafter, such as the hypocrites who showed faith to win the booty and as the disbelievers who do not care but for the world as they do not believe in the Hereafter. Verily, Allah hears the supplications of people, well acquainted with what they ask, and knows their purposes.

{يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ كُونُواْ قَوَّامِينَ بِالْقِسْطِ شُهَدَاء لِلّهِ وَلَوْ عَلَى أَنفُسِكُمْ أَوِ الْوَالِدَيْنِ وَالأَقْرَبِينَ إِن يَكُنْ غَنِيّاً أَوْ فَقَيراً فَاللّهُ أَوْلَى بِهِمَا فَلاَ تَتَّبِعُواْ الْهَوَى أَن تَعْدِلُواْ وَإِن تَلْوُواْ أَوْ تُعْرِضُواْ فَإِنَّ اللّهَ كَانَ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيراً} [النساء: 135]

135- O believers, be just in all your affairs, do not turn away from justice for any reason, and seek only the pleasure of Allah, not for a worldly benefit or personal interest, and whether your justice or saying the truth will be for your own benefits or against you. If you are doing that for a benefit, you shall achieve it and if you do it against yourselves, Allah shall give you a way out and compensate for you.

Even if the testimony against the parents or the relatives, the truth still the truth and it should be said in favor or against anyone and should be given priority to anything else.

If the truth is against the rich or the poor, saying the truth does not give preference to the rich for his money and does not pity for the poor for their conditions. Indeed, Allah shall undertake their affairs, so let their affairs to Allah.

Do not let your inner selves incline to falsehood and turn away from the truth because if you distorted the testimony, refused the truth in all your matters, and abandoned justice, Allah is All knowing of your sinful act, knows what you have altered and changed, and shall punish you for that with the worst.

{يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ آمِنُواْ بِاللّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَالْكِتَابِ الَّذِي نَزَّلَ عَلَى رَسُولِهِ وَالْكِتَابِ الَّذِيَ أَنزَلَ مِن قَبْلُ وَمَن يَكْفُرْ بِاللّهِ وَمَلاَئِكَتِهِ وَكُتُبِهِ وَرُسُلِهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الآخِرِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ ضَلاَلاً بَعِيداً} [النساء: 136]

136- O believers, believe, be firm on your faith, be loyal to Allah alone, and believe in His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) the seal of the prophets. Believe in the Qur’an that He revealed to Prophet Muhammad and believe in all Scriptures that were revealed before the Qur’an. Anyone disbelieves in the pillars of faith: faith in Allah, His Angles, His Scriptures, His Messengers and Prophets, the Day of the Recompense, and in Destiny has turned away from the truth, kept away from the way of guidance, and was one of the straying ones.

{إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ ثُمَّ كَفَرُواْ ثُمَّ آمَنُواْ ثُمَّ كَفَرُواْ ثُمَّ ازْدَادُواْ كُفْراً لَّمْ يَكُنِ اللّهُ لِيَغْفِرَ لَهُمْ وَلاَ لِيَهْدِيَهُمْ سَبِيلاً} [النساء: 137]

137- Verily, those who have believed then went back to disbelief then came back to faith then went back to disbelief, increased their aberrance, insisted on their disbelief, and continued to that until they died, Allah shall not forgive them. He will not guide them to the truth while they preferred falsehood to guidance after they had known the truth and left it on purpose. Moreover, they manipulated with the true faith and belittled it, so their retribution was bad as mentioned.

{بَشِّرِ الْمُنَافِقِينَ بِأَنَّ لَهُمْ عَذَاباً أَلِيماً} [النساء: 138]

138- Verily, this is the nature of the hypocrites who manipulate with religions, therefore, give them glad tiding with a painful torment and a Fire that will eat up their hearts along with a perpetual stay in torture.

{الَّذِينَ يَتَّخِذُونَ الْكَافِرِينَ أَوْلِيَاء مِن دُونِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَيَبْتَغُونَ عِندَهُمُ الْعِزَّةَ فَإِنَّ العِزَّةَ لِلّهِ جَمِيعاً} [النساء: 139]

139- Indeed, the hypocrites took the infidels as friends from whom they seek help, aid, and victory. On the contrary, they do not take the believers as friends although they show faith publicly, but they show their inner selves before their supports and helper of the infidels to befriend them and seek their intimacy.

Do they seek power, protection, and victory over Muslims by showing intimacy to them? Indeed, the power and ability is only at Allah alone who gives it to whom He wants; His friends. “But honor, power and glory belong to Allâh, and to His Messenger (Muhammad peace be upon him), and to the believers, but the hypocrites know not.” [Surat Al Munafiqun: 8]. O Muslims, resort to Allah, the Almighty because He shall give you victory and power while the hypocrites are in manifest error.

{وَقَدْ نَزَّلَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِي الْكِتَابِ أَنْ إِذَا سَمِعْتُمْ آيَاتِ اللّهِ يُكَفَرُ بِهَا وَيُسْتَهْزَأُ بِهَا فَلاَ تَقْعُدُواْ مَعَهُمْ حَتَّى يَخُوضُواْ فِي حَدِيثٍ غَيْرِهِ إِنَّكُمْ إِذاً مِّثْلُهُمْ إِنَّ اللّهَ جَامِعُ الْمُنَافِقِينَ وَالْكَافِرِينَ فِي جَهَنَّمَ جَمِيعاً} [النساء: 140]

140- Allah had revealed to you in the Qur’an that if you are going to meet some people who disbelieve in the Glorious Qur’an and show mockery at it, do not sit with them until they speak about something different. Allah (Glory be to Him) says: “And when you (Muhammad peace be upon him) see those who engage in a false conversation about Our Verses (of the Qur’ân) by mocking at them, stay away from them till they turn to another topic. And if Shaitân (Satan) causes you to forget, then after the remembrance sit not you in the company of those people who are the Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrong-doers).” [Surat Al An`am: 68]. If only sitting with them is not permissible, how about taking them as friends and helpers?

If you agree to sit with them while they disbelieve in the Ayahs of Allah and mock at them and you agreed to that, you have participated in disbelief.

Allah shall gather the hypocrites and the infidels in Hell Fire forever as they participated in disbelief and took one another as friends in the world in order to taste the humiliating torment and the everlasting torture.