Transliteration:( Ashihhatan 'alaikum faizaa jaaa'al khawfu ra aytahum yanzuroona ilaika tadooru a'yunuhum kallazee yughshaa 'alaihi minal mawti fa izaa zahabal khawfu salqookum bi alsinatin hidaadin ashihhatan 'alal khayr; ulaaa'ika lam yu'minoo fa ahbatal laahu a'maalahum; wa kaana zaalika 'alal laahi yaseeraa )
41. Like at the time of drowning or death, the eyes turn as if they are swimming in water.
42. The colour of their faces reveal the fear in their hearts, while in a similar situation, signs of contentment are seen on the faces of the believers.
43. In that the believers should be victorious and the spoils of war should come into their hands.
44. And they say that they should be given a greater portion of the spoils of war, because we had fought boldly, and that you were victorious because of us.
45. This tells us that not giving support on time and making verbal claims of love, is the practice of the hypocrites. The dignified manner of the believer is that they speak little, but a more Therefore, Allah Almighty has given us one tongue to speak, but two limbs to do other work
46. He would destroy the pious deeds of the hypocrites. This tells us that no good deed is accepted with taith, while all the good deeds and charties of the hypocrites and infidels are in vain, just like the house is ruined with the foundation. It should be remembered that, here, by causing to destroy is meant to reveal the destruction. Otherwise, from the beginning their good deeds were correct.
47. Therefore. Allah Almighty has the power to reject the good deeds in a split of a second, and forgive the evil deeds of a lifetime within a second.
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Please refer to Surah Ahzab ayat 18 which provides the complete commentary from verse 18 through 19.
30. “Being miserlyâ€: Those who are not at all willing to spend their energies, their time, their wealth, etc. in any way in which the true believers are spending whatever they have. Not to speak of exerting themselves and braving the dangers, they do not want to cooperate with the believers in anything with an open heart.
31. Lexically, this verse has two meanings:
(1) When you return victorious from a war, they receive you warmly, and try to impress you with a sweet tongue that they too are sincere believers and they too have made their contribution to promote the cause of Islam, and therefore, they deserve a share from the booty.
(2) If victory is attained, these people show great powers of the tongue at the time of the division of the spoils and make great demands for their shares, recounting their services for the cause of Islam.
32. That is, Allah will make null and void all the prayers that they offered, all the fasts that they observed, the zakat that they paid, and other good works that they did after embracing Islam, and will give them no reward for these. For Allah does not judge actions and deeds according to their external form but on the basis of the faith and sincerity underlying them. When the actions are altogether devoid of this quality, there will be mere show and, therefore, meaningless. Here, one thing is especially noteworthy. A clear verdict has been given about the people who professed to believe in Allah and His Messenger, offered the Prayers, observed the fast, gave the Zakat and cooperated with the Muslims in other good works, to the effect that they did not believe at all. This verdict has been given because when they were put to the test during the conflict between Islam and un-Islam, they showed double standard, preferred selfish interests above the interests of the faith, and shirked offering their selves and their wealth and their energies for the protection of Islam. This shows that the real criterion of the judgment are not the apparent deeds but the loyalties of man. If a person is not loyal to God and His way, his profession of the faith and his worship and other good deeds are worthless.
33. That is, as their deeds and actions do not carry any value, Allah renders them fruitless without the slightest hesitation; and as they do not have any power to resist. Allah has no difficulty in destroying their deeds altogether.
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