The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 701
PT. 10 AT-TAUBAH CH. 9 قَاتِلُوهُمْ يُعَذِّبْهُمُ اللهُ بِأَيْدِيكُمُ Fight them, that Allah may. 14 punish them at your hands, and وَيُخْزِهِمْ وَيَنْصُرُكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَيَشْفِ humiliate them, and help you to صُدُورَ قَوْمٍ مُّؤْمِنِينَ victory over them, and relieve the minds of a people who believe:1177 وَيُذْهِبْ غَيْظَ قُلُوبِهِمْ وَيَتُوبُ اللهُ And that He may take away. 15 the wrath of their hearts. And Allah turns with mercy to whomsoever He pleases. And Allah is All-Knowing, Wise. 1178 even then he directed that their women and children and their religious devotees, as well as their churches, should be spared (Muslim, Ṭaḥāwī & Dāwūd). Those, who regard the wars of Moses as holy, have certainly no reason to criticize the wars of the Holy Prophet of Islam. 1177. Important Words: means, I relieved (relieve) is derived from They say di. e. he cured him (of disease) and restored him to convalescence. him from doubt. at means, he relieved him from doubt respecting the question. Jmeans, he will please thee if he speaks, i. e. his speech will please thee (Lane). Commentary: عَلَى مَنْ يَّشَاءُ وَاللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمُ form of Divine punishment that had been prescribed for them, and it was inflicted on them after they had themselves started hostilities. It was most certainly not resorted to in order to compel them to embrace Islam. 1178. Commentary: The pronoun "their" in the words, the wrath of their hearts, refers to disbelievers, and the sentence means that God may thereby do away with the wrath that had been kindled in the hearts of disbelievers against Muslims. This could be done in two ways: (1) by crushing their power completely and forever; or (2) by making them accept Islam. Both of these means are intended here, for there were some who were destroyed and their power crushed and there were others who saw the light and voluntarily embraced Islam. The following words, And Allah turns with mercy to whomsoever He pleases, obviously refer to the latter The verse shows that the enemies of Islam had made themselves deserving of Divine punishment by their treacherous and wrongful conduct; and fighting was only a class. 1141