The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 641
PT. 21 AL-AḤZĀB CH. 33 kindness to your friends. This also is written down in the Book. 3079 فِي الْكِتَبِ مَسْطُورًا وَإِذْ اَخَذْنَا مِنَ النَّبِيِّنَ مِيْثَاقَهُمْ وَمِنْكَ And remember when We. 8 took from the Prophets their 3079. Commentary: 93:82. The verse removes another possible misunderstanding. The Islamic brotherhood which had come into being through the spiritual fatherhood of the Holy Prophet might have led to the misconception that Muslims could inherit each other's property. It is this misconception that the verse under comment seeks to remove. It purports to say that (1) only blood relations can inherit each other and (2) that from among the blood relations only the believers can inherit, the disbelievers having been debarred from inheriting their believing relatives. This verse clears a possible ambiguity that might have arisen from misunderstanding the injunction contained in v. 6 above. While in that verse the believers were enjoined to "call them by the names of their fathers," in the present verse the Holy Prophet by implication has been called the father of the Faithful. In fact, the preceding verse speaks of blood-relationship and the verse under comment speaks of the spiritual relationship that subsists between the Holy Prophet and the Faithful. It purports to say that in his capacity as their spiritual father, the Holy Prophet stands closer to them than even their own selves and that his wives being their spiritual mothers ought to be treated by them with greater regard and respect than the mothers who gave because spiritual relationship stands which was but a temporary measure, on a much higher plane than physical adopted to rehabilitate the Migrants relationship. It is to this supreme from Mecca, ceased to exist, and reality that the Holy Prophet has blood relationship and not faith alone, drawn attention in a well-known became the decisive factor in saying of his, viz. "the faith of a determining inheritance and other believer does not become perfect kindred matters. But the wider unless the love he bears to me brotherhood of Islam continued and transcends all worldly connections and Muslims were expected to treat one relationships" (Bukhārī, Kitābul-Īmān). | another like brothers. them birth, on the The verse also abolished that form of brotherhood which was established between the Migrants of Mecca and the Helpers of Medina, former's arrival in Medina, according to which a (Migrants) would even inherit the property left by an 2555 (Helper). After this verse was revealed that form of brotherhood