Transliteration:( ittakhazooo ahbaarahum wa ruhbaanahum arbaabammin doonil laahi wal Maseehab na Maryama wa maaa umirooo illaa liya'budooo Ilaahanw Waa hidan laaa ilaaha illaa Hoo; Subhaanahoo 'ammaa yushrikoon )
75. This teaches us that to obey anyone like Allah almighty and His Beloved Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم is equal to giving his status of a God, while obedience to the righteous Ulema. the Saints. the Pious as per Divine teachings is true obedience to the Holy Prophet. Say Allah Almighty "Obey Allah and obey the Messenger صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم and those who have power of command over you". S4 V59
The Christians and the Jews would obey their priest in opposition to Allah Almighty and have their sins pardoned through them. Therefore the words 'besides Allah' are being used here. A Muslim does not have such a belief regarding any saint or religious leader.
76. They have taken Hazrat Isa (Alaihis Salaam) as God by accepting him as son of God. The son has the same genus of the father.Â
77. This means they were given similar commands in the Taurah and Injeel.
78. This tells us these people of the Book are polytheists, even though rules regarding them are different.
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The tafsir of Surah Taubah verse 31 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Taubah ayat 30 which provides the complete commentary from verse 30 through 31.
31. “They have taken their rabbis and monks as their lordsâ€. The Prophet (peace be upon him) himself explained its true significance. According to a tradition, when Adi bin Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him), who was formerly a Christian, came to the Prophet (peace be upon him) with the intention of understanding Islam, he asked several questions in order to remove his doubts. One of these was: “This verse accuses us of taking our scholars and monks as our lords. What is its real meaning. For we do not take them as our lords.â€
As a reply to this, the Prophet (peace be upon him) put him a counter question: “Is it not a fact that you accept as unlawful what they declare to be unlawful, and lawful what they declare to be lawful?†Adi confessed, “Yes, it is so.†The Prophet (peace be upon him) replied, “This amounts to making them your lords.†Incidentally, this tradition shows that those who themselves set limits to the lawful and the unlawful without the authority of Allah’s Book, assume for themselves the rank of godhead, and those who acknowledge their right of making laws take them as their lords.
It should be noted that they have been charged with (a) attributing sons to Allah, and (b) giving the right of making laws to others than Allah. These are to prove that their claim that they believed in Allah is false, even though they should believe in His existence. But such a wrong conception of Allah makes their belief in Allah meaningless.
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