Transliteration:( Yaaa aiyuhal lazeena aamanoo laa tattabi'oo khutuwaatish Shaitaan; wa many-yattabi' khutuwaatish Shaitaani fa innahoo yaamuru bilfahshaaa'i walmunkar; wa law laa fadlul laahi 'alaikum wa rahmatuhoo maa zakaa minkum min ahadin abadanw wa laakinnal laaha yuzakkee many-yashaaa'; wallaahu Samee'un 'Aleem )
37. This means do not do deeds like that of the devil, because accusing the chaste women and creating anxiety and hesitation about the pure Mothers of the Believers is a special mischief of the devil.
38. This tells us that the one who rejects the greatness of Hazrat Ayesha Siddiqah (May) Allah be pleased with her) is the follower of the devil, and is totally deprived, wicked, and evil.
Can there be a more shameless person than the one who accuses his mother?
39. By this is meant that the ones who made accusations and the ones who were hesitant would not have been given respite to repent, or that none of their repentance would have been accepted.
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The tafsir of Surah An-Nur verse 21 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Nur ayat 20 which provides the complete commentary from verse 20 through 21.
(24:21) Believers! Do not follow in Satan’s footsteps. Let him who follows in Satan’s footsteps (remember that) Satan bids people to indecency and evil. Were it not for Allah’s Bounty and His Mercy unto you, not one of you would have ever attained purity.[18] But Allah enables whomsoever He wills to attain purity. Allah is All- Hearing, All-Knowing.[19]
18. Satan is bent upon involving you in all kinds of pollutions and indecencies. Had it not been for the mercy and kindness of Allah Who enables you to differentiate between good and evil and helps you to educate and reform yourselves, you would not have been able to lead a pure and virtuous life on the strength of your own faculties and initiative alone.
19. It is Allah’s will alone which decides whom to make pious and virtuous. His decisions are not arbitrary but based on knowledge. He alone knows who is anxious to live a life of virtue and who is attracted towards a life of sin. Allah hears a person’s most secret talk, and is aware of everything that passes in his mind. It is on the basis of this direct knowledge that Allah decides whom to bless with piety and virtue and whom to ignore.
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