The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 564
CH. 17 BANI ISRĀ'ĪL 28. "Verily, the extravagant are brothers of satans and Satan is ungrateful to his Lord. 1957 PT. 15 اِنَّ الْمُبَذِّرِينَ كَانُوا إِخْوَانَ الشَّيطِينِ وَكَانَ الشَّيْطَنُ لِرَبِّهِ كَفُورًا "6:142; 7:32; 25:68. in acts of disobedience; or he squandered it in a way that was not right (Lane & Aqrab). Commentary: social evils which are to be found in hotels and restaurants would disappear. This general commandment about entertainment of guests and visitors is also eminently calculated to promote peace and goodwill among different nations. The chief cause of international strife is mutual hatred. So if the entertainment of visitors should become popular in the way in which it has been inculcated by Islam, much international hatred The verse declares that the relatives of a rich person are entitled to a share in his property, and so are wayfarers and poor people. A person's relatives help him in various ways to earn his wealth. For instance, 'A' succeeds in getting a highly lucrative post as the result of the good education his parents have given him, depriving their other children of a similar would disappear. Those who returned education. The latter, therefore, possess a right in the wealth of 'A' because he rose to his high position at their expense. It is clearly stated in 51:20 that the poor and the needy have a right to share the property of the rich. As for the wayfarer, the Holy Prophet is reported to have said that a wayfarer could claim, as of right, three days' free entertainment from the residents of a place which he might visit, and if it were denied to him, he could demand it even by reasonable force (Dāwūd, Kitābul- At'ima). This injunction can only be carried out in a country where the Law of Islam is in force, for according to it the residents of a place, as a whole, are bound to act as the host to a wayfarer. If this injunction were carried into practice many of the 1772 to their country after having enjoyed the hospitality of a people would naturally remain favourably inclined towards them and would be slow to pick a quarrel with them. Thus this practice would prove a good means of promoting brotherly relations between different peoples. One meaning of the word as shown under Important Words is, "to spend for a wrong cause. " Thus, if a person gives away even his whole property for the cause of religion he will not be guilty of for the money so spent will have been spent for a right cause. 1957. Commentary: The verse purports to say that God has bestowed His favours upon men that they may make right use of them. A person who does not make right use of God's gifts is guilty of ingratitude to Him. He who