The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 1) — Page 177
PT. 1 AL-BAQARAH CH. 2 وَإِذْ أَخَذْنَا مِيْثَاقَكُمْ لَا تَسْفِكُونَ And remember the time. 85 when We took a covenant from دِمَاءَ كُمْ وَلَا تُخْرِجُونَ أَنْفُسَكُمْ مِنْ you: You shall not shed your دِمَاءَكُمْ دِيَارِكُمْ ثُمَّ اَقْرَرْتُمْ وَاَنْتُمُ تَشْهَدُونَ blood or turn your people out of your homes'; then you confirmed it; and you have been witness to it. 91 ثُمَّ اَنْتُمْ هَؤُلَاءِ تَقْتُلُوْنَ اَنْفُسَكُمْ Yet you are the people who. 86 slay your own brethren and turn from their homes, backing up وَتُخْرِجُونَ فَرِيقًا مِّنْكُم مِّنْ out a section of your people دِيَارِهِمْ تَظْهَرُونَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِالْإِثْمِ one another against them with وَالْعُدْوَانِ وَإِنْ يَأْتُوكُمْ أَسْرَى sin and transgression. And if they come to you as captives, تُفَدُوهُمْ وَهُوَ مُ you ransom them, while their b very expulsion was unlawful for إخْرَاجُهُمْ أَفَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِبَعْضِ الْكِتُبِ you. Do you, then, believe in part of the Book and disbelieve وَتَكْفُرُونَ بِبَعْضٍ ۚ فَمَا جَزَاءُ مَنْ in part? There is, therefore, no of the righteous few among them. In this verse, as everywhere else in the Quran, the sequence of words follows the natural order of importance. The worship of the One God is mentioned first. Then mention is made of mankind, who have been divided into two classes: (1) those who deserve good treatment as a right; (2) those to whom kindness is shown as an act of charity. The first class is mentioned first, because in obedience to God are mentioned; and out of them the most important ones pertaining to the purification of the soul and the payment of religious taxes are selected; and these are placed after fellow feeling, because fellow feeling is the first step towards the moral elevation of man, who often feels impelled to it from within without reference to any law. It is noteworthy that the injunctions that are found scattered in the Bible their case there is a sort of obligation, have been placed together in a most a debt to be paid. Those who are to be treated kindly out of charity are mentioned afterwards, the degree of need in each case determining the sequence. Last of all, acts of 177 beautiful order in the Quran. 91. Commentary: See under 2:87.