The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 379
PT. 18 AN-NÜR CH. 24 صَدِيقِكُمْ لَيْسَ عَلَيْكُمْ جُنَاحٌ أَنْ brothers, or the houses of your mothers' sisters, or from that of تَأْكُلُوا جَمِيعًا اَوْ اَشْتَاتًا فَإِذَا دَخَلْتُمْ which the keys are in your بُيُوتًا فَسَلِّمُوا عَلَى أَنْفُسِكُمْ تَحِيَّةً مِنْ عِنْدِ اللهِ مُبْرَكَةً طَيِّبَةً كَذَلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ possession, or from the house of a friend of yours. There is no harm for you whether you eat together or separately. But اللهُ لَكُمُ الْآيَتِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ & when you enter houses, salute your people a greeting from your Lord, full of blessing and purity. Thus does Allah make plain to you the commandments, that you may understand. 2636 R. 9. 63. Those only are true إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِاللهِ believers who believe in Allah 2636. Commentary: "24:28. are separately. The Arabs and Jews had scruples to eat with the blind or with persons suffering from certain social disabilities, as the Hindus of India even to this day do not eat or sit with the "untouchables". Islam looks askance at all such practices and encourages interdining and free intercourse among all classes and sections of people. This verse deals with some rules of social conduct. These rules intended to dispose of those foolish prejudices that prevail among certain sections of human society and tend to restrict free intercourse between the rich and the poor. Islam enjoins complete social equality and is the avowed enemy of division of people within water-tight compartments. Here it has stressed the importance The expression and usefulness of free social intercourse and collective dining houses) includes the houses of one's among all classes of society, and has sons, and daughters because in the encouraged and preferred eating following list of the houses where together to promote familiarity and to one can eat freely the houses of sons remove those bars that keep apart and daughters are omitted while, being people of different social standing, the nearest relatives, they should have though it has not disallowed eating | been mentioned first of all. 2293 (your own