QURAN TAFSIR ( QURAN AS IT EXPLAIN ITSELF)
3:101. And how can you reject when the revelations of Allah are being recited to you and with you is His messenger? And whoever holds firmly to Allah has been guided to the straight path.
[3:144. And Mohammed is but a messenger, like many messengers who have passed before him. If he dies or is killed will you turn back on your heels? And whoever turns back on his heels, he will not harm Allah in the least. And Allah will recompense the thankful. ]
3:102. O you who believe, reverence Allah as He deserves to be reverenced, and do not die except as ones who have submitted.
3:103. And hold firmly to the rope of Allah, all of you, and do not be separated. And remember the blessing of Allah upon you when you were enemies and He united your hearts. Then you became, with His blessing, brothers; and you were on the edge of a pit of fire and He saved you from it; it is thus that Allah clarifies for you His signs that you may be guided.
[The Rope of Allah is the Qur’an which is an Unbreakable Support
2:256. There is no compulsion in the system; the proper way has been clarified from the wrong way. Whoever rejects evil, and believes in Allah, indeed he has taken grasp of the strongest hold that will never break. Allah is Hearer, Knower.
6:165. And He is the One who made you inheritors on the earth, and He raised some of you over others in grades, to test you with what He had given you. Your Rabb is swift to punishment, and He is Forgiving, Merciful.
30:31. Turn to Him, and be aware of Him, and hold the contact prayer, and do not be of the polytheists.
Huda= Guidance = Walk the right path = Travel on a lighted road]
3:104. And let there be a nation from among you who calls towards goodness, and orders kindness, and prohibits vice. And these are the successful ones.
[ 2:143. And as such, We have made you a balanced nation so that you may be witness over the people, and that the messenger may be witness over you. And We did not make the focal point that you became on except to distinguish who follows the messenger from those who will turn on their heels. It was a great thing indeed except for those whom Allah had guided; Allah was not to waste your belief. Allah is Merciful and Compassionate over the people.
3:110. You were the best nation that emerged for the people, you ordered kindness and prohibited vice, and believed in God. If the people of the Book believed it would have been better for them; from among them are the believers, but the majority are the wicked.
22:78. And strive in the cause of Allah its truly deserved striving. He is the One who has chosen you, and He has made no hardship for you in the system, the creed of your father Ibraham; He is the One who named you 'those who have submitted' from before and in this. So let the messenger be witness over you and you be witness over the people. So hold the contact prayer and contribute towards purification and hold tight to Allah, He is your patron. What an excellent Patron, and what an excellent Supporter.
assign this duty to the entire Muslim community. Ma'roof = Virtue = Kindness = All that is good = Declared Ma’roof by the Qur’an. Munkar = Vice = Evil = All that is wrong = Declared Munkar by the Qur’an.
2:143. And as such, We have made you a balanced nation so that you may be witness over the people, and that the messenger may be witness over you. And We did not make the focal point that you became on except to distinguish who follows the messenger from those who will turn on their heels. It was a great thing indeed except for those whom Allah had guided; Allah was not to waste your belief. Allah is Merciful and Compassionate over the people.
3:109. And to Allah is all that is in the heavens and the earth; and to Allah all matters are returned.
23:1. The believers are indeed successful.
61:2. O you who believe, why do you say what you do not do? ]
3:105. And do not be like those who separated and differed after the clarity had come to them. And for them is a painful retribution.
[Bayyinaat’ = Clear evidences. Sectarianism, geographic and political schism, and ethnic divisions stand in the way of unity of all mankind.
6:159. Those who have divided their system and become sects, you are not with them in anything. Their matter will be with Allah, then He will inform them of what they had done.
30:32. From those who have divided their system and become sects, each group is happy with what it has.
42:13. He has decreed for you the same system He ordained for Nuh, and what We inspired to you, and what We ordained for Ibraham, Musa, and Isa: "You shall uphold this system, and do not divide in it." Intolerable for the polytheists is what you invite them towards. Allah chooses for Himself whoever He wills; He guides to Himself those who repent.]
3:106. The Day on which faces will be lightened and faces will be darkened; as for those whose faces will be darkened: "Did you reject after believing? Taste the retribution for what you rejected."
3:107. As for those whose faces will be lightened, they are in the mercy of Allah, in it they abide..
[11:118-119. And if your Allah had wished, He could have made all the people one nation, but they still would have continued to disagree.
Except whom your Rabb has mercy upon; and for that He has created them. And the word of your Rabb came true: "I will fill Hell with the Jinn and the people together!"]
3:108. These are the revelations of Allah, We recite them to you with the truth. Allah does not want wickedness for the worlds.
3:109. And to Allah is all that is in the heavens and the earth; and to Allah all matters are returned.
[Lillah= For Allah = For the sake of Allah = In the cause of Allah = Belonging to Allah = Being subservient to Him = Working to fulfill the Divine Plan]
3:110. You were the best nation that emerged for the people, you ordered kindness and prohibited vice, and believed in Allah. If the people of the Book believed it would have been better for them; from among them are the believers, but the majority are the wicked.
[The believers accept the Qur’an as the Criterion of right and wrong.
3:4. From before as a guidance for the people, and He sent down the Criterion. Those who rejected the revelations of Allah, they will have a severe retribution, and Allah is Noble, exacting in Revenge.
It educates people on the Permanent Moral Value System and distinguishes clearly what the otherwise vague terms of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, and ‘good’ and ‘evil’ would mean]
3:111. They will not harm you except in being an annoyance, and if they fight you they will turn and flee, then they will not be supported.
3:112. They are struck with humiliation wherever they are encountered, except for a rope from Allah and a rope from the people. And they stayed in the wrath of Allah and were struck with humiliation; that is because they were disbelieving in the revelations of Allah and killing the prophets without right; that is for what they disobeyed and were transgressing.
3:113. They are not all the same, from the people of the Book are a nation that is upright; they recite the revelations of Allah during the night hours and they prostrate.
3:114. They believe in Allah and the Last Day and order kindness and prohibit vice, and they hasten in goodness; these are of the good doers.
3:115. And what they do of good will not be turned back, and Allah is aware of the righteous.
[Muttaqeen = Those who walk on a secure path = Those who seek to journey through life in security = The observant = Those who live upright.
2:41. And believe in what I have sent down, authenticating what is with you, and do not be the first to disbelieve in it! And do not purchase with My revelations a cheap gain, and of Me you shall be aware.]
3:116. As for those who rejected, neither their money nor their children will avail them anything from Allah. These are the people of the Fire, in it they abide.
[Reward and punishment are built-in as the logical consequence of actions e.g. disuse of muscles causes them to atrophy. Allah does not punish people like human tyrants, out of rage or vengeance.
3:182. This is for what their hands have delivered, and Allah does not wrong the servants.
4:111. And whoever earns any sin, then he has brought it on himself. And Allah is Knowledgeable, Wise.
20:15. "The Hour is coming, I am nearly keeping it hidden, so that every soul will be recompensed with what it strived."
7:147. And those who deny Our revelations and the meeting of the Hereafter, their works have collapsed. Will they not be recompensed except for what they used to do?
27:90. And whoever comes with the bad deed, their faces will be cast in Hell. Are you not being rewarded for what you used to do? ]
3:117. The example of what they spend in this world is like a wind in which there is a frost; it afflicts the field of the people who wronged themselves, and thus destroys it. Allah did not wrong them, but it was their souls that they wronged.
3:118. O you who believe do not take as an inner-circle any from besides yourselves; they will only disrupt you greatly. They wish that you deviate; the hatred is apparent out of their mouths and what their chests conceal is even greater! We have made clear for you the signs if you comprehend.
3:119. Here you love them while they do not love you, and you believe in the entire Book. And if they meet you they say: "We believe," and if they are alone they bite their fingers out of frustration at you. Say: "Die in your frustration, Allah is aware of what is in the chests."
3:120. If any good befalls you it disturbs them, and if any bad befalls you they rejoice with it. And if you are patient and righteous their planning will not harm you at all. Allah is Encompassing all they do.
[Taqwa = Living upright = Being observant = Seeking to journey through life in security = Be on guard. 2:41]
3:121. And as you departed from your family to prepare for the believers their stations for battle - and Allah is Hearer, Knowledgeable.
3:122. When two parties from among you were obsessed that they would fail; while Allah was their supporter. In Allah the believers should trust.
[3:151-152.We will cast terror in the hearts of those who have rejected, because of what they have set up besides Allah while He never sent down any authority to do so, and their destiny is the Fire. Miserable is the abode of the wicked.
And Allah has fulfilled His promise to you, that you would overwhelm them with His permission; but then you failed and disputed in the matter and disobeyed after He showed you what you had sought. Some of you want this world, and some of you want the Hereafter. Then He let you retreat from them that He may test you; and He has pardoned you. Allah is with great grace over the believers.]
3:123. Allah had granted you victory at Badr, while you had been the lesser, so reverence Allah that you may be thankful.
3:124. When you said to the believers: "Is it not enough for you that your Rabb would supply you with three thousand of the angels sent down?"
[Fearlessness, determination, inner calm, and courage are the angels Allah sends down upon those who strive in His cause.
8:9. You called on help from your Lord and He answered you: "I will provide you with one thousand angels as defenders."
41:30. Those who have said: "Our Rabb is Allah" then they did right, the angels will come down upon them: "You shall not fear, nor shall you grieve. Rejoice in the good news of the Paradise that you have been promised.
Taking such verses literally, leads us to wrongly conclude the utter feebleness of 'angels' - the Battle of Badrwas fought between
313. Muslims and about 1,000 opponents]
3:125. Indeed, if you are patient and are righteous and they come and attack you, He will supply you with five thousand of the angels battle trained.
[Musawwimeen= Clearly marked = Those given a clear assignment = Branded horses = Destined to succeed = Special forces = Specialized. Once again, the term refers to invincible determination]
3:126. And Allah did not give this except as good news to you, and so that your hearts may be assured with it. Victory is only from Allah, the Noble, the Wise.
3:127. Thus He will sever a group of those who reject, or disgrace them; then they will turn back frustrated.
[Yaqta' = He cut off = Sets apart = Sets aside. 'Aw' in this case more appropriately indicates 'and']
3:128. You will have no say in the matter, for He may pardon them, or punish them; for they are wicked.
[The matter will be decided according to law. Zaalimoon = Oppressors = Violators of human rights = Those who commit unjust aggression = Who displace right with wrong = Those who relegate the truth = Those who choose to do wrong]
3:129. And to Allah is what is in the heavens and in the earth, He forgives whom He pleases, and He punishes whom He pleases; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
[8:42.When you were on the near side, and they were on the far side, then the supply line became directly beneath you. And if you had planned for this meeting, you would have disagreed on its timing, but Allah was to enforce a command that was already done. So that He would destroy those to be destroyed with proof, and to let those who will live be alive with proof; and God is Hearer, Knowledgeable.
Individuals and nations get to choose which law applies to them. Yasha carries the connotations of 'will', ‘deserve’, ‘choose’, 'due measure' and 'law']
3:130. O you who believe, do not consume usury, compounding over and over; and reverence Allah that you may succeed.
3: 131. And be aware of the Fire that has been prepared for the rejecters
[Kaafireen rejecters in this context reveals another shade of meaning that is clearly defined in 5:44, “Whoever does not judge and rule according to what Allah has revealed, such are the disbelievers.”]
3: 132. And obey Allah and the messenger so that you may obtain mercy.
3:133.. And race towards forgiveness from your Rabb and a Paradise whose width encompasses the width of the heavens and of the earth; it has been prepared for the righteous.
3:134. The ones who spend in prosperity and hardship, and who repress anger, and who pardon the people; Allah loves the good doers.
3:135. And those who, if they commit lewdness, or wrong themselves, they remember Allah and seek forgiveness for their sins. And who can forgive the sins except Allah? And they do not persist in what they have done while they know.*
3:136. To these the recompense will be forgiveness from their Rabb and estates with rivers flowing beneath them; abiding therein. Excellent is the recompense of the workers.
3:137. Many nations have come before you, so roam the earth and see how the punishment was for the deniers.
[Mukazzibeen= Those who deny the truth in practice but not verbally = Those who deny the truth = Who live by conjecture instead of the unalterable Divine laws]
3:138 This is a clarification for the people and a reminder for the righteous.
3:139. Do not be weak, and do not grieve, for you will have the upper hand, if you are believers.
3:140. If you are wounded, then know that the other group is also wounded. And such are the days, We alternate them between the people, so that Allah will distinguish those who believe, and so He may make witnesses from among you; and Allah does not love the wicked.
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