Here Allah commands His Messenger to convey the Message and recite the Qur'an
to people. He tells him that he will be brought back to the return, which is the
Day of Resurrection, where he will be asked about the prophethood he was
entrusted with. So Allah says:
[إِنَّ الَّذِى
فَرَضَ عَلَيْكَ الْقُرْءَانَ لَرَآدُّكَ إِلَى مَعَادٍ]
(Verily, He Who has given you the Qur'an, will surely bring you back to the
return.) meaning, `the One Who has commanded you to put it into practice among
mankind,'
[لَرَآدُّكَ إِلَى
مَعَادٍ]
(will surely bring you back to the return.) `On the Day of Resurrection,
where He will question you concerning that,' as Allah said:
[فَلَنَسْـَلَنَّ
الَّذِينَ أُرْسِلَ إِلَيْهِمْ وَلَنَسْـَلَنَّ الْمُرْسَلِينَ ]
(Then surely, We shall question those to whom it was sent and verily, We
shall question the Messengers.) (7:6) Allah said:
[يَوْمَ يَجْمَعُ
اللَّهُ الرُّسُلَ فَيَقُولُ مَاذَآ أُجِبْتُمْ]
(On the Day when Allah will gather the Messengers together and say to them:
"What was the response you received'') (5:109). And He said:
[وَجِـىءَ
بِالنَّبِيِّيْنَ وَالشُّهَدَآءِ]
(and the Prophets and the witnesses will be brought forward) (39: 69) In his
Tafsir of his Sahih, Al-Bukhari recorded that Ibn `Abbas commented on the Ayah:
[لَرَآدُّكَ إِلَى
مَعَادٍ]
(will surely bring you back to the return.) "To Makkah.'' This was also
recorded by An-Nasa'i in his Tafsir in his Sunan, and by Ibn Jarir. Al-`Awfi
also reported from Ibn `Abbas that the phrase:
[لَرَآدُّكَ إِلَى
مَعَادٍ]
(will surely bring you back to the return.) means, "will surely bring you
back to Makkah as He brought you out of it.'' Muhammad bin Ishaq recorded that
Mujahid commented on:
[لَرَآدُّكَ إِلَى
مَعَادٍ]
(will surely bring you back to the return.) He said, "Back to your place of
birth in Makkah.'' Ibn `Abbas is also reported to have interpreted it variously
referring to death, to the Day of Resurrection which will come after death, and
to Paradise which will be his reward and his destiny for putting the Message of
Allah into practice and conveying it to the humans and Jinns, and because he is
the most perfect, most eloquent and most noble of all the creation of Allah.
Allah's saying:
[قُل رَّبِّى
أَعْلَمُ مَن جَآءَ بِالْهُدَى وَمَنْ هُوَ فِى ضَلَـلٍ مُّبِينٍ]
(Say: "My Lord is Aware of him who brings guidance, and of him who is in
manifest error.'') means: "Say, O Muhammad, to those among your people who
oppose you and disbelieve you, among the idolators and those who follow them in
their disbelief, `My Lord knows best which of us, you or I, is rightly guided,
and you will come to know for which of us will be the (happy) end in the
Hereafter, and for which of us will be a good end and victory in this world and
in the Hereafter'.'' Then Allah reminds His Prophet the numerous blessings He
granted to him and mankind by virtue of sending him to them:
[وَمَا كُنتَ تَرْجُو
أَن يُلْقَى إِلَيْكَ الْكِتَـبُ]
(And you were not expecting that the Book would be sent down to you,) `Before
the revelation was sent down to you, you did not expect that revelation would be
sent down to you.'
[وَلَـكِن رَّحْمَةً
مِّن رَّبِّكَ]
(but it is a mercy from your Lord.) means, `but revelation has been sent down
to you from Allah as a mercy to you and to mankind because of you. Since Allah
has granted you this great blessing,'
[فَلاَ تَكُونَنَّ
ظَهيراً]
(So never be a supporter) i.e., a helper,
[لِلْكَـفِرِينَ]
(of the disbelievers.) rather, separate from them, `express your hostility
towards them and oppose them. '
[وَلاَ يَصُدُّنَّكَ
عَنْ ءَايَـتِ اللَّهِ بَعْدَ إِذْ أُنزِلَتْ إِلَيْكَ]
(And let them not turn you away from the Ayat of Allah after they have been
sent down to you.) meaning, `Do not let their opposition to you affect you or
put people off from following your way; do not worry about that or pay any
attention to it, for Allah will make your word supreme, will support your
religion and will make the Message with which He has sent you prevail over all
other religions.' So He says:
[وَادْعُ إِلَى
رَبِّكَ]
(and invite to your Lord) to worship your Lord Alone, with no partners or
associates,
[وَلاَ تَكُونَنَّ
مِنَ الْمُشْرِكَينَ]
(and be not of idolators.)
[وَلاَ تَدْعُ مَعَ
اللَّهِ إِلَـهاً ءَاخَرَ لاَ إِلَـهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ]
(And invoke not any other god along with Allah, there is no God but Him.)
means, it is not appropriate to worship anything or anybody except Him, and
divinity does not befit any except His glory.
[كُلُّ شَىْءٍ
هَالِكٌ إِلاَّ وَجْهَهُ]
(Everything will perish save His Face.) Here Allah is telling us that He is
Eternal, Ever Lasting, Ever Living, Self-Sustaining, Who, although His creation
dies, He will never die, as He says:
[كُلُّ مَنْ
عَلَيْهَا فَانٍ - وَيَبْقَى وَجْهُ رَبِّكَ ذُو الْجَلْـلِ وَالإِكْرَامِ ]
(Whatsoever is on it will perish. And the Face of your Lord full of majesty
and honor will remain forever.) (55:26-27). Allah used the word "Face'' to refer
to Himself, as He says here:
[كُلُّ شَىْءٍ
هَالِكٌ إِلاَّ وَجْهَهُ]
(Everything will perish save His Face.) meaning, everything except Him. It
was reported in the Sahih via Abu Salamah that Abu Hurayrah said, "The Messenger
of Allah said:
«أَصْدَقُ كَلِمَةٍ
قَالَهَا الشَّاعِرُ لَبِيدُ أَلَا كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مَا خَلَا اللهَ بَاطِلُ »
(The truest word of a poet was the saying of Labid - indeed everything except
Allah is false.)
[لَهُ
الْحُكْمُ]
(His is the decision,) means, dominion and control, and there is none who can
reverse His judgement or decision.
[وَإِلَيْهِ
تُرْجَعُونَ]
(and to Him you shall be returned.) means, on the Day when you will be
brought back, and He will reward or punish you according to your deeds: if they
are good, then you will be rewarded, and if they are bad, then you will be
punished. This is the end of the Tafsir of Surat Al-Qasas. To Allah be praise
and blessings.
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