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CH. 3 ĀL-E-‘IMRĀN PT. 4 أَمْ حَسِبْتُمْ أَن تَدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ وَلَمَّا Do you suppose that you. 143 يَعْلَمِ اللهُ الَّذِينَ جَهَدُوا مِنْكُمْ وَيَعْلَمَ has not yet distinguished those الصبِرِينَ will enter Heaven while Allah of you that strive in the way of Allah and has not yet distinguished the steadfast?426 وَلَقَدْ كُنتُمْ تَمَنَّوْنَ الْمَوْتَ مِنْ قَبْلِ اَنْ And you used to wish for. 144 تَلْقَوْهُ فَقَدْرَأَيْتُمُوهُ وَأَنْتُمْ تَنْظُرُونَ B& this death before you met it; now you have seen it while you were actually looking for it. 427 was thereby destroyed. 426. Commentary: "2:215; 9:16. It is trials and afflictions which prove the worth of man; and there can be no advance or spiritual purification without them. 427. Important Words: from (looking for) is derived which ordinarily means, he ,means نظر اليه ره saw or he looked he looked at, or he looked towards, him in order to see him; or he extended or stretched his sight towards him whether he saw him or not. also means, he waited for him or it. \ means, my house faces his house (Aqrab & Lane). Commentary: proposed to fight the enemy from inside Medina, some of his Companions, particularly those who had not taken part in the Battle of Badr, said, "We had longed for this day. So go out with us to our enemies, so that they may not think that we have played the coward" (Zurqānī, i. 22). It is to this longing of the Muslims that reference is made in the words, you used to wish for this death. This longing meant that the Muslims wished to achieve something in the way of God, but God here reprimands them by saying that now they have seen that they could do nothing by themselves. This is why Islam teaches that one should never desire encounter with the The word (death) here stands enemy; but that if and when the for war, for the result of war is death. occasion actually comes, one should War was death particularly for the be brave and steadfast. The Holy Muslims, who were extremely weak, Prophet says: "Do not desire both in equipment and numbers encounter with the enemy; rather compared with their powerful enemy. ask for peace and security from In Zurqānī. we read that when, before Allah. But when you meet the the Battle of Uhud, the Holy Prophet | enemy, then be steadfast and patient 566