Transliteration:( Yaa ayyuhal lazeena aamanoo anfiqoo mimmaa razaqnaakum min qabli ai yaatiya yawmul laa bai'un feehee wa la khullatunw wa laa shafaa'ah; walkaa firoona humuz zaalimoon )
"O Believers! [648] Spend of what We have provided for you before there comes a day when there will be no bargaining [649], nor friendship, nor intercession [650]. And the infidels are indeed unjust [651]."
✅ [648] Worship Is Obligatory Upon Believers Only
The address “O those who believe” shows that acts of worship like Zakaat and Salaah are mandatory only upon Muslims.
Without Iman (faith), no act of worship is accepted or valid.
✅ [649] Spend from What Allah Has Given You
The command to “spend” implies giving not only wealth, but also knowledge, health, time, children, and all blessings in Allah’s path.
One must use every divine gift responsibly before the Day of Judgement arrives.
✅ [650] No Help for Disbelievers on That Day
On that Day, no bargaining, friendship, or intercession will help the disbelievers.
Only Muslims, with Allah’s permission, will benefit from true friendship and intercession.
As the Qur’an says: “Friends on that day will be enemies to one another, except the God-fearing.” (Surah Zukhruf, 43:67)
✅ [651] Disbelievers Are Truly Unjust
Injustice here means using Allah’s provisions while rejecting Him.
Just as only invited guests have the right to eat at a marriage feast, only the obedient believers have the right to enjoy Allah’s bounties justly.
The disbelievers, being foes of the Prophet ﷺ, eat and live off Allah’s blessings like thieves, hence they are described as unjust.
253. Those Messengers! We preferred some of them to others; to some of them Allah spoke (directly); others He raised to degrees (of honor); and to `Isa, the son of Maryam, We gave clear proofs and evidences, and supported him with Ruh-il-Qudus ﴿Jibril﴾. If Allah had willed, succeeding generations would not have fought against each other, after clear Verses of Allah had come to them, but they differed ـ some of them believed and others disbelieved. If Allah had willed, they would not have fought against one another, but Allah does what He wills.
Allah states that He has honored some Prophets to others. For instance, Allah said,
(And indeed, We have preferred some of the Prophets above others, and to Dawud We gave the Zabur (Psalms)) ﴿17:55﴾.
In the Ayah above, Allah said,
(Those Messengers! We preferred some of them to others; to some of them Allah spoke (directly)) meaning, Musa and Muhammad , and also Adam according to a Hadith recorded in Sahih Ibn Hibban from Abu Dharr.
(Others He raised to degrees (of honor)) as is evident in the Hadith about the Isra’ journey, when the Messenger of Allah saw the Prophets in the various heavens according to their rank with Allah.
If somebody asks about the collective meaning of this Ayah and the Hadith that the Two Sahihs collected from Abu Hurayrah which states, “Once, a Muslim man and a Jew had an argument and the Jew said, `No, by Him Who gave Musa superiority over all human beings!’ Hearing him, the Muslim man raised his hand and slapped the Jew on his face and said, `Over Muhammad too, O evil one!’ The Jew went to the Prophet and complained to him and the Prophet said,
(Don’t give me superiority above the Prophets, for the people will become unconscious on the Day of Resurrection, and I will be the first to be resurrected to see Musa holding on to the pillar of Allah’s Throne. I will not know whether the unconsciousness Musa suffered on the Day of the Trumpet sufficed for him, or if he got up before me. So, do not give me superiority above the Prophets.) In another narration, the Prophet said, (Do not give superiority to some Prophets above others.)
The answer to this question is that this Hadith prohibits preferring some Prophets above others in cases of dispute and argument, such as the incident mentioned in the Hadith. The Hadith indicates that it is not up to creation to decide which Prophet is better, for this is Allah’s decision. The creation is only required to submit to, obey and believe in Allah’s decision.
Allah’s statement,
(And We gave `Isa, the son of Maryam, clear signs) refers to the proofs and unequivocal evidences that testify to the truth that `Isa delivered to the Children of Israel, thus testifying that he was Allah’s servant and His Messenger to them.
(And supported him with Ruh-il-Qudus) meaning Allah aided `Isa with Jibil, peace be upon him. Allah then said,
(If Allah had willed, succeeding generations would not have fought against each other, after clear Verses of Allah had come to them, but they differed ـ some of them believed and others disbelieved. If Allah had willed, they would not have fought against one another.) meaning all this happened by Allah’s decree, and this is why He said next,
(But Allah does what He wills.)
(2:254) O you who believe! Spend out of what We have provided you[276] before there comes a Day when there will be no buying and selling, nor will friendship and intercession be of any avail. Indeed those who disbelieve are the wrong-doers.[277]
276. This means spending in the way of God. The instruction given here is that those who have adopted the cause of the true faith should undertake financial sacrifices for its sake.
277. Here the expression ‘they who disbelieve’ signifies either those who refused to obey God and held their property to be clearer than God’s good pleasure, or those who did not believe in the Day of which they had been warned, or those who cherished the false i11usion that in the Hereafter they would somehow be able to secure their salvation and that their association with men devoted to God would stand them in good stead for they would intercede with God on their behalf.
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