Transliteration:( Wa maa lakum allaa tunfiqoo fee sabeelil laahi wa lillaahi meeraasus samaawaati wal-ard; laa yastawee minkum man anfaqa min qablil fat-hi wa qaatal; ulaaa'ika a'zamu darajatam minal lazeena anfaqoo min ba'du wa qaataloo; wa kullanw wa'ad allaahul husnaa; wallaahu bimaa ta'maloona Khabeer )
27. In this verse a desire is created in the hearts of the Noble Companions, and through them all the believers, towards giving charity e. everything belongs to Allah Almighty, you are but temporary owners of the wealth. Therefore, why don't you spend it in the way of Allah Almighty?
28. Reason for its Revelation: This verse is revealed in favour of Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq (May Allah be pleased with him) because it is he who was the first to accept slam, the first to spend in the way of Allah Almighty and the first to serve the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم Although the revelation is specific, the rule is general. Thus, all the earlier Noble Companions are included in it, who entered the fold of Islam prior to the conquest of Makkah.
29. From this we learn that no believer can ever be equal to the Companions, and no deeds of any believer can be like that of the Companions, because the Noble Companions had the good fortune of being of service to the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم and Allah almighty had certified the acceptance of their deeds.
30. This tells us that the rewards of the deeds.are increased or decreased according to period and time. In the month of Ramadaan the rewards of Salaah, charity and fasting are greater than in other months,
31. This means Oh believers! Due to this difference you should not leve! adverse criticism against some of the Noble Companions. Although their status is different. yet their being inmates of Paradise is a certainty because Allah Almighty has assured this through a solemn promise. Through this. emerge two issues:
1. All the Companions are personification of justice and piety because Paradise has been promised for all by Allah Almighty. Promise of Paradise is never made for a wretched sinful person. Any historical event, which attempts to prove anyone's impiety is false, the Holy Qur'aan is true in this regard.
2. Those Companions, who in times of difficulties, remained in the service of Islam have a very high status. Thus. Bibi Khadijah and Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq (May Allah be pleased with them) are Companions of great calibre, as they stood by the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم in his difficult times. Says Allah Almighty: "When they both were in the Cave" (S9:V40).
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13. This has two meanings:
(1) Your wealth is not going to stay with you forever. One day you will leave it behind; then Allah alone will inherit it. Thus the best thing would be that you should spend it yourself in the cause of Allah so that your reward for it is guaranteed with Allah. If you do not spend it yourself, it will in any case return to Allah, but then you will not be entitled to any reward from Him.
(2) You should have no fear of indigence and poverty when you spend it in the cause of Allah, because Allah for Whose sake you would spend your wealth is the Owner of all the treasures of the heavens and the earth. He possessed not only what He has bestowed on you today but has much more to bestow on you tomorrow. This same thing has been expressed at another place, thus:
O Prophet, say to them: My Lord gives abundantly to whomever of His servants He wills and sparingly to whomever He wills. Whatever you spend, He replenishes it by other provisions: He is the best of Providers. (Surah Saba, Ayat 39).
14. That is, although both are entitled to the reward, yet the former are necessarily higher in rank than the latter, for they faced greater risks for the sake of Allah in difficult circumstances, which the latter not. They spent their wealth at a time when there appeared no remote chance of victory that would compensate for their expenditure, and they fought the disbelieves at a critical time when there was an ever present apprehension that the enemy might overpower and crush the followers of Islam completely. Mujahid, Qatadah and Zaid bin Aslam, from among the commentators, say that the word victory in this verse has been used for the conquest of Makkah, and Amir Shabi says that it refers to the truce of Hudaibiyah. The former view has been adopted by most of the commentators, and in support of the latter this tradition from Abu Saeed Khudri is presented: During the time when the truce of Hudaibiyah was concluded, the Prophet (peace be upon him) said to us: In the near future there will appear the people whose deeds will make you look upon your own deeds as mean and trifling, but even if one of them possessed a mountain of gold and he spent all of it in the cause of Allah, he would not attain to your spending two pounds, or even one pound of it. (Ibn Jarir, Ibn Abi Hatim, Ibn Marduyah, Abu Nuaim Isfahani). Furthermore, it is also supported by the Hadith which Imam Ahmad has related on the authority of Anas. He says: Once a dispute arose between Khalid bin Walid and Hadrat Abdur Rahman bin Auf, in the course of which Khalid said to Abdur Rahman: You people assume your superiority over us on account of your past services. When this thing came to the Prophet’s (peace be upon him) notice, he said: By God in whose hand is my lift, even if you people spent gold equal (in weight) to Mount Uhud, or equal to other mountains, you would not attain to the deeds of these people. From this it is argued that in this verse victory refers to the truce of Hudaibiyah, for Khalid bin Walid had embraced Islam after this truce and had participated in the conquest of Makkah. However, whether victory in this particular case is taken to imply the truce of Hudaibiyah or the conquest of Makkah, in any case the verse does not mean that the distinction of the ranks is confined to this one victory alone, but as a general principle it shows that those who fight and spend in the cause of Islam at the time when disbelief and disbelievers appear to be dominant and Islam seems to have no remote chance of victory, are far superior in rank to those who make sacrifices after the conflict between Islam and paganism has been decided in favor of Islam.
15. That is, Allah does not bestow His favors blindly. He sees who has performed what deeds, under what kind of circumstances, and with what motive and then determines the rank and the reward of the deed of each person with full justice and awareness.
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