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Holy
Quran Section
> English
Translation and Commentary of the Holy Quran by
Maulana Muhammad Ali (Table of
Contents)
>
Chapter
2 (Al-Baqarah - The
Cow)
> Section 20 (Verses 164 to 167) Section/Ruku 20
[Verses 164 to 167]: Unity must prevail: 1. Translation: 165 Yet there are some men who take for themselves objects of worship besides Allah,a whom they love as they should love Allah. And those who believe are stronger in (their) love for Allah.b And O that the wrongdoers had seen, when they see the chastisement, that power is wholly Allah’s, and that Allah is Severe in chastising! 166 When those who were followed renounce those who followed (them), and they see the chastisement and their ties are cut asunder. 167 And those who followed will say: If we could but return, we would renounce them as they have renounced us. Thus will Allah show them their deeds to be intense regret to them, and they will not escape from the Fire.a 2.
Commentary: 165a. The objects of worship here referred to may include idols, but the reference is apparently to the leaders who lead their followers into evil. This is made plain by the verses that follow, where “those who were followed”, i.e. the leaders, renounce those who followed them. [Back to verse 165] 165b. While Allah’s love for His creatures is the ever-recurring theme that finds expression in the Holy Qur’an, the believer’s love for Allah, or absolute submission to the Divine Being, is here declared to be stronger than all other ties of love and friendship, including that which unites a man to his idols or other false deities. [Back to verse 165] 167a. The mutual renouncement of the leaders and their followers takes place sometimes in this very life. It should also be noted that it is the intense regret for the evil deeds done, here described as being the Fire, from which there is no escape. [Back to verse 167]
Holy
Quran Section
> English
Translation and Commentary of the Holy Quran by
Maulana Muhammad Ali (Table of
Contents)
>
Chapter
2 (Al-Baqarah - The
Cow)
> Section 20 (Verses 164 to 167)
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