The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 243
PT. 5 R. 12. AN-NISA' CH. 4 فَمَا لَكُمْ فِي الْمُنْفِقِينَ فِئَتَيْنِ وَاللهُ What has happened to you. 89 that you are divided into two اَرُ كَسَهُمْ بِمَا كَسَبُوا أَتُرِيدُونَ اَنْ the regarding parties تَهْدُوا مَنْ أَضَلَّ اللهُ وَمَنْ يُضْلِلِ اللهُ hypocrites? And Allah has overthrown them because of what they earned. Desire ye to guide him whom Allah has caused to perish? And for him whom Allah causes to perish thou shalt not find a way. 557 فَلَنْ تَجِدَ لَهُ سَبِيلًا وَدُّوا لَوْ تَكْفُرُونَ كَمَا كَفَرُوا They wish that you should. 90 فَتَكُوْنُوْنَ سَوَاءً فَلَا تَتَّخِذُوا مِنْهُمْ have disbelieve as they disbelieved, so that you may "2:110; 4:45; 14:14. Day sense of (in or on for which see Lane), the clause may also be rendered as, "He will certainly assemble you on the of Resurrection" but the more correct rendering is that given in the text, i. e. He will certainly (continue to) assemble you till the Day of Resurrection. The difference in meaning is obvious. People are born and die and will go on doing so till the Last Day. Thus the process of assembling is always going on and will continue till the Day of Resurrection, when God will call all living in the suburbs of Medina, i. e. the Bedouin tribes of the countryside, were to be treated. Some sympathized with them and recommended leniency towards them, hoping that in this way they might gradually reform themselves, while others looked upon them as a serious menace to Islam and Muslims and advocated severity towards them. As this disagreement was likely to cause a split among Muslims and divide them into two parties, the Quran here expresses its disapproval of such a course. Muslims, it says, should beware of becoming divided among themselves due to the hypocrites. They should remember that a split in their own (has overthrown them). See ranks was a much more serious affair to account. 557. Important Words: 4:92. Commentary: Believers disagreed among than a danger from outside. The hypocrites were the enemies of God, and believers should not allow them- themselves as to how the hypocrites | selves to be divided on their account. 683