The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 37
PT. 26 MUHAMMAD CH. 47 إِنَّمَا الْحَيوةُ الدُّنْيَا لَعِبٌ وَلَهُوَ وَإِنْ The life of this world is but. 37 a sport and a pastime, and if you تُؤْمِنُوا وَتَتَّقُوا يُؤْتِكُم ورم believe and be righteous He أجُو وَلَا يَسْلُكُمْ أَمْوَالَكُمْ will give you your rewards, and will not ask of you your possessions. 3814 اِنْ يَسْلُكُمُوْهَا فَيُحْفِكُمْ تَبْخَلُوا If He ask them of you, and. 38 press you, you would be niggardly, and He would bring to light your malice. 3815 "6:33; 29:65; 57:21. وَيُخْرِجُ أَضْغَانَكُمْ deprived him or defrauded him of it circumstances, when an offer of partially or wholly (Aqrab). Commentary: As the Surah primarily deals with the subject of war, the Muslims are enjoined here that when once the fighting has started, they are not to sue for peace, whatever form or shape the fortunes of war may take. They are to win either victory or martyrdom. The verse, besides laying this heavy responsibility on Muslims, makes to them an unequivocal promise of victory in the words "You will certainly have the upper hand as Allah is with you. " But whereas, on the one hand, Muslims are not to sue for peace under any circumstances, on the other, they are not to reject overtures of peace made by the enemy even if by doing so he seeks to deceive Muslims or to gain time (8:62). Islam is a religion of peace. It has certainly permitted its followers to take up arms in self-defence, or, when refusal to fight means sure destruction. But it has also enjoined them to cease fighting, whatever the peace is made by the opposite side. 3814. Commentary: The verse purports to say that as Muslims have been enjoined to fight in the cause of God, they will have to bear the expenses of war and for this purpose they will have to make sacrifices of life and money. But God does not need their money. It is for their own benefit that sacrifices of life and money are demanded of them because no success is possible without such sacrifices. True believers must understand and realise this supreme lesson. 3815. Commentary: The verse applies to hypocrites. Though professing to be Muslims, they will not spend their money in the cause of Islam, however pressing its need might be, because their hearts are full of rancour, malice and spite against it. But whatever they may or may not do, Islam will be victorious and their rancour and malevolence would be exposed. 2933