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CH. 22 AL-HAJJ PT. 17 لَنْ يَنَالَ اللهَ لُحُومُهَا وَلَا دِمَاؤُهَا Their flesh reaches not. 38 وَلكِن يَنَالُهُ التَّقْوَى مِنْكُمْ كَذَلِكَ Allah, nor does their blood, but it is your righteousness that سَخَّرَهَا لَكُمْ لِتُكَبِرُوا اللهَ عَلى مَا reaches Him. Thus has He subjected them to you, that you may glorify Allah for His guiding you. And give glad tidings to those who do good. 2468 هديكُمْ وَبَشِّرِ الْمُحْسِنِينَ الشمس mentioned in the verse being of | فاذا وجبت. means, the sun set وجب means, when their sides fall upon the ground; when they die and fall down (Lane). (contented) is active participle from (qania) which means, he was contented with his lot; and also from (qana'a) which means, he asked, he begged. means, he ascended the mountain. means, one who is contented with his lot; one who asks or begs; one of a people (Aqrab). is (one who supplicates) derived from ('arra). They say i. e. he vexed him; he did evil to him; he addressed or applied himself to obtain favour without asking; he came to him and sought his bounty. means, one who applies oneself to obtain favour without asking; one who comes to another to ask for a favour; a poor man (Lane & Aqrab). Commentary: secondary importance. The pilgrim is reminded of the significance of sacrifice when he slaughters an animal and thus the animal serves as a sign of God. 2468. Commentary: This verse throws a flood of light on the essence, inwardness and real object and purpose of sacrifice. It also teaches a supreme lesson, viz. that it is not the outward act of sacrifice which pleases God but the spirit it. The flesh underlying it and the motive behind or blood of the slaughtered animal does not reach God, it is righteousness of the heart which is acceptable to Him. God demands and accepts total sacrifice of all that is near and dear to us our material possessions, the ideals that are so dear to us, our honour and life itself. In reality, God wants and demands no offering from us in the form of flesh and blood of animals but the offering of our hearts. be The verse signifies that the slaughtering of camels which are brought to Mecca for sacrifice is but a symbol of man's readiness to lay It should not, however, down his life for the sake of his understood to mean that because it is Creator and Master just as camels lay not the outward act of sacrifice but down their lives for their own the motive behind it that really masters. This is the supreme object matters, the outward act is of no and purpose of sacrifice, other objects | importance. True, the outward act of 2154