Transliteration:( Alam tara ilal lazeena 'ootoo naseebam minal kitaabi yu'minoona bil Jibti wat Taaghooti wa yaqooloona lillazeena kafaroo haaa ulaaa'i ahdaa minal lazeena aamanoo sabeelaa )
184. Reason for its Revelation:Ka'b bin Ashraf and his seventy Jewish friends went to the idolaters of Makkah and persuaded them to fight with the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم . The response of theQuraish was that since the Yahud were People of the Book, and as such near to the Muslims, they saw danger in this. If they (Quraish) were to declare war in which the Yahud decide to join the Muslims what would be their position. In order to put us at ease you must bow down to our idols. These wretches had no option but to prostrate to these idols. Thereafter Abu Sufyaan enquired from them whether they (the Quraish) are on the right path or Hazrat Muhammad. Kab replied that the Quraish were on the right path of Truth. This verse was revealed on this occasion
185.By a portion that means a portion of the knowledge, not of action because Ka'b bin Ashraf was a Jewish priest. From this we learn that the Book of Allah Almighty is divided into two parts, one is knowledge, and the other is action. May Allah Almighty bless us with both. Without action, knowledge is a curse.
186. The word TAGHOOT (SHAITAAN) in this verse is derived from TAGHA meaning rebellion or of rebellious nature. When the Shaitaan rebelled against the command of Allah Almighty. Likewise, all these satanic creatures are rebellious whether they may be from the Jinns or human demons. The Holy QURAN, too, has referred to the leaders of infidelity as Shaitaan. Anyone who refers to the Prophet as a demon (God forbid) is out of the fold of Islam, like Hoosein Ali of Wan Bhichianwala.
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Please refer to Surah Nisa ayat 49 which provides the complete commentary from verse 49 through 52.
81. Jibt signifies ‘a thing devoid of any true basis and bereft of all usefulness’. In Islamic terminology the various forms of sorcery, divination and soothsaying, in short all superstitions, are termed jibt. It is reported in a tradition that, to divine things from the cries of animals, or the traces of animals’ paws, or the flight of birds, constitutes jibt. Thus, jibt may be roughly translated as ‘superstition’. (See Abu Da’ud, Tibb’, 23; Ahmad b. Hanbal, Musnad, vol. 3, p. 477 and vol. 5, p. 60 – Ed.)
82. For explanation see (Surah Al-Baqarah, ayat 256-257) note 286, 288.
83. The obstinacy of the Jewish religious scholars had, reached such a point that they brazenly declared the followers of Muhammad (peace be on him) to be in greater error than even the polytheists of Arabia. This was despite the fact that they knew that the Muslims stood for absolute monotheism while their opponents believed in that undisguised polytheism which has been so vehemently denounced throughout the Bible.
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