Quran Chapter 2- 177a (Pt-2, Stg-1) (L-202)
- درس قرآن
Belief in God, Last Day, Angels, Scripture & Prophets
Surah
‘Al-Baqarah (The Cow) – Chapter – 2)
‘A-‘uu-zu Billaahi minash-Shay-taanir- Rajiim.
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast.)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful.)
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast.)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful.)
لَّيْسَ ٱلْبِرَّ أَن تُوَلُّوا۟وُجُوهَكُمْ قِبَلَ ٱلْمَشْرِقِ وَٱلْمَغْرِبِ وَلَٰكِنَّ ٱلْبِرَّ مَنْ ءَامَنَ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْءَاخِرِ وَٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ وَٱلْكِتَٰبِ وَٱلنَّبِيِّۦنَ (177 a)
177a. It is not righteousness that ye
turn your faces to the East and the West; but righteousness is this that one
should believe in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Scripture and
the Prophets;
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177a. Laysal-birra ‘an-
tuwalluu wujuuhakum qibalal-Mashriqi wal-Magribi wa
laakinnal-birra man ‘aama-na Billaahi wal-
Yawmil-‘Akhiri wal- malaaa—‘ikati wal-Kitaabi
wan-nabiyyiin.
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Commentary
‘Al-birra –
(Righteousness) it has vast meanings in Arabic language. Every kind of
justification, goodness and uprightness, comes in the comprehension
of this word.
‘Al-Mashriqu – (the East, from which
direction the sun rises), Many eastern nations have used to worship the Sun
believing as god, and because it rises in the east so uneducated nations took
it as a sacred direction. Holy Qur’an stroke this thought
severely and told that it is not the righteousness and obedience to take only
anyone direction as sacred. Completion of the righteousness exists only with
true beliefs and good deeds.
‘Al-
malaaa—‘ikatu - (the Angels) (peace be upon them), to admit the
existence of that bright creature which keeps doing the works commanded by
Allah Almighty, it is necessary to believe in them (peace be upon them).
‘Al-Kitaabu - (the Scripture) means
the entire Heavenly Scriptures. It is necessary also to have faith in all of
them.
‘An-nabiyyiin – it signifies towards
the entire Prophets (peace be upon them) who came in this world
time and time again for guidance of the human beings from God Almighty. It is
necessary too to believe in all of them.
When the Children
of Israel heard the proclamation by means of Holy Qur’an about
censure of partnership with God Almighty and punishment of infidelity, they
shivered with terror and replied by saying that we worship confronting Bait-ul-Muqaddas (Jerusalem ). So we even follow
the Heavenly Scripture. Why shall we suffer the Doom? In this verse, it has
been replied to their stubbornness.
This
verse is one of the most important verses. A comprehensive concept of the
righteousness has been mentioned in it that the virtue is not only the name of
mere devotion and worship, and it is not also the name of worship by turning
face towards any particular direction. Moreover, according to Islam, the
righteousness grows by correcting the both, the faith and the personal deeds.
It has equal importance for belief, affairs, prayers, morality, behavior,
sincerity and sacrifice (all).