The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 371
PT. 7 AL-MĀ'IDAH CH. 5 يَا يُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنَّمَا الْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسِرُ O ye who believe! wine. 91 وَالْأَنْصَابُ وَالْأَزْلَامُ رِجْسٌ مِنْ and the game of hazard and b idols and divining arrows are عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَنِ فَاجْتَنِبُوهُ لَعَلَّكُمْ only an abomination of Satan's تُفْلِحُونَ اِنَّمَا يُرِيدُ الشَّيْطَنُ أَنْ يُوقِعَ بَيْنَكُمُ handiwork. So shun each one of them that you may prosper. 718 92. Satan desires only to create enmity and hatred among you الْعَدَاوَةَ وَالْبَغْضَاء فِي الْخَمْرِ وَالْمَيْسِرِ by means of wine and the game وَيَصُدَّكُمْ عَنْ ذِكْرِ اللهِ وَعَنِ الصَّلوة of hazard, and to keep you back from the remembrance of Allah and from Prayer. But will you keep back?719 "2:220; 5:92. b5:4. atone for the sin he committed against God by breaking his oath. 718. Important Words: wine and) الخمر والميسر فَهَلْ أَنْتُمْ مُنْتَهُونَ. meanings of are applicable here. 719. Commentary: After stating that the four things games of mentioned in the previous verse are all (abomination) in one sense or (idols and divining another, the present verse confines hazard). See note on 2:220. arrows). See note on 5:4. (abomination) is derived from which means, it was or became unclean or dirty or filthy or disliked or hated; he performed a bad or evil or abominable action. means, it made a sound or noise. means, dirt or filth; or a dirty or filthy thing; anything or any action that is disliked or hated for its uncleanness or filthiness; a sin or crime; an action that leads to punishment; punishment; unbelief and infidelity; suggestion of the devil (Lane & Aqrab). Commentary: itself to two of the four mentioned things-wine and games of hazard— and gives additional reasons against them. These reasons are, as stated in the verse, four in number and rest on political, social, spiritual and socio- religious grounds, this being hinted in the words "enmity and hatred and keeping back from the remembrance of Allah and from Prayer". The interrogation in the clause, But will you keep back?, embodies a strong admonition not to do the thing, the use of the interrogative form being the most effective form of See 2:220 & 5:4. Almost all the exhortation. See also 2:220. 811