The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 926
CH. 42 ASH-SHŪRĀ PT. 25 وَلَمَنِ انْتَصَرَ بَعْدَ ظُلْمِهِ فَأُولَيكَ There is no blame on those. 42 مَا عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ سَبِيلٍ who defend themselves after they have been wronged. 36 3631 إِنَّمَا السَّبِيْلُ عَلَى الَّذِينَ يَظْلِمُونَ النَّاسَ The blame is only on those. 43 ط وَيَبْغُونَ فِي الْأَرْضِ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ without أُولَكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمُ the earth in "who wrong men and transgress justification. Such will have a grievous punishment. 3632 وَلَمَنْ صَبَرَ وَغَفَرَ اِنَّ ذَلِكَ لَمِنْ عَزْم And he who is patient and. 44 الأمورة forgives that surely is a matter of high resolve. 3633 "10:24. '16:127. for eye. " It adopts the golden mean. The next three verses shed some further light on this subject. 3631. Commentary: Islamic principles about punishing an offender may not appeal to visionaries and unpractical idealists, but as a practical religion, Islam lays down most wholesome and practical solutions for problems of law, of economics and morals. Not only does it give to the aggrieved party the right to have the wrong done to him righted at the expense of the offender, but it also regards self-defence as the moral duty of a Muslim. The Holy Prophet is reported to have said: "He who is killed in defence of his property and honour is a martyr" (Bukhārī, Kitābul-Mazālim wal ghaṣab). 3632. Commentary: This verse further elaborates the theme of the previous two verses and purports to say that it is not those who claim recompense for the injury 2840 done to them who are to blame; on the contrary, the blame lies on those who go about trampling underfoot the rights of other people and creating mischief and disorder in the land. They will and must be punished. 3633. Commentary: Though Islam has given the aggrieved party full right to have the injury done to him recompensed at the expense of the guilty person, the noblest course recommended to him, however, is to bear with patience the injury and to forgive the aggressor. But it is given to extremely few- only to God's Beloved and Elect―to possess this very noble moral quality. Our Holy Prophet gave a practical demonstration of this moral quality at the time of the Fall of Mecca. He did not utter even a single word of reproach to, much less punish, his bloodthirsty enemies, who had hounded him out of his native place and had killed in cold blood his poor