The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2)

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PT. 5 AN-NISA' CH. 4 them remember that all honour belongs to Allah. 603 W بَشِّرِ الْمُنْفِقِينَ بِأَنَّ لَهُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيْمَان Give to the hypocrites the. 139 tidings that for them is a grievous punishment; disbelievers for friends rather الَّذِيْنَ يَتَّخِذُونَ الْكُفِرِينَ أَوْلِيَاءَ مِنْ take b who 140. "Those دُونِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ اَيَبْتَغُونَ عِنْدَهُمُ than believers. Do they seek الْعِزَّةَ فَإِنَّ الْعِزَّةَ لِلَّهِ جَمِيعًات honour at their hands? Then let وَقَدْ نَزَّلَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِي الْكِتُبِ أَنْ إِذَا already سَمِعْتُمْ أَيْتِ اللَّهِ يُكْفَرُ بِهَا وَيُسْتَهْزَأُ بِهَا فَلَا تَقْعُدُوا مَعَهُمْ حَتَّى يَخُوضُوا فِي حَدِيثٍ غَيْرِةِ إِنَّكُمْ إِذَا مِثْلُهُمْ إِنَّ ;engage in a talk other than that الله جَامِعُ الْمُنْفِقِينَ وَالْكَفِرِينَ like them. Surely, Allah will فِي جَهَنَّمَ جَمِيعَان 141. And He has revealed to you in the Book that, when you hear the Signs of God being denied and mocked at, sit not with them until they for in that case you would be all assemble the hypocrites and the disbelievers in Hell, together;604 a9:3. 3:29, 119; 4:145. 10:66; 35:11. d6:69. apostatizing from Islam again and again, as appears from this verse. For an exposition of the teachings of Islam about apostasy see "Islam and the Law relating to Apostasy" (published from Qadian). disbelief" as the verse clearly puts it. 603. Commentary: The verse gives a most graphic and painful portrait of many present-day Muslims. 604. Commentary: The verse does not signify that after so many successive acts of apostasy The reference in the words, has the repentance of an apostate is not already revealed to you, is to 6:69 accepted. Rather it is intended to where we read, And when thou seest point out that even after repeated acts those who engage in vain discourse of apostasy the door of repentance concerning Our Signs, then turn thou remains open. That door is closed away from them until they enter into a only when, after apostatizing, an discourse other than that; and if apostate goes on "increasing in Satan cause thee to forget, then sit 715