Transliteration:( huwal lazeee ar sala Rasoolahoo bilhudaa wa deenil haqqi liyuzhirahoo 'alad deeni kullihee wa law karihal mushrikoon )
It is He Who has sent [80], His Messenger [81], with guidance and true religion [82], that He may make it prevail over all religions, although the polytheists may dislike it [83].
This verse tells us that the Holy Prophet ﷺ is the reflection of Divine honour. To truly know your Creator, recognize that He is the Lord who has sent Hazrat Muhammad ﷺ as His true Messenger. The Holy Prophet ﷺ reflects the Personality and Attributes of Allah Almighty.
True Religion and guidance are intrinsically connected with the Holy Prophet ﷺ just as light is connected with the sun. The use of the Arabic connecting letter BA with “Guidance” emphasizes that the personality of the Holy Prophet ﷺ and guidance are inseparable.
Guidance cannot be obtained by abandoning the Holy Prophet ﷺ.
If guidance could be obtained through the Holy Quran alone, sending the Prophet would be unnecessary.
The Prophet ﷺ has never been separated from true Religion and Guidance, as both were sent together.
Anyone who regards guidance without the Prophet ﷺ is considered outside the fold of Islam.
Allah Almighty has abrogated all earlier heavenly religions through the Religion of the Holy Prophet ﷺ, making his religion prevail over every other.
Today, the Holy Quran dominates all religious scriptures, mosques have mastery over other places of worship, and the Prophet’s ﷺ influence is greater than that of any other leader.
It is foretold that when Hazrat Isa (Jesus, peace be upon him) returns, Islam will be the only prevailing religion; all others will cease to exist.
Anyone who dislikes the greatness and honour of the Holy Prophet ﷺ is a polytheist, opposing the truth of Islam and the divine mission of the Messenger.
The tafsir of Surah Taubah verse 33 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Taubah ayat 32 which provides the complete commentary from verse 32 through 33.
(9:33) He it is Who has sent His Messenger with the guidance and the True Religion that He may make it prevail over all religions,[32] howsoever those who associate others with Allah in His Divinity might detest it.
32. The Arabic word ad-din has been translated into ‘ways’. For the word deen, as has already been explained in E.N. 204, Al-Baqarah, is used for the ‘way of life’ or the ‘system of life’, which is followed in obedience to the supreme authority.
Now let us try to understand the significance of this verse. The object of the mission of the Messenger is to make the guidance and the right way he has brought from Allah dominant over all the other ways and systems of life. In other words, the Messenger is not sent to allow Allah’s Way to remain subordinate to other ways in order to enjoy concessions from them. He is sent by the Sovereign of the earth and the heavens to make His Way dominant over all other ways. And if a wrong way is at all allowed to remain on the earth, it should be tolerated only under its own protection by the payment of jizyah under the limits conferred by the divine system as in the cast of the system of life of the zimmis who pay jizyah.
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