QURAN TAFSIR ( QURAN AS IT EXPLAIN ITSELF)
SURAH AT TAUBA
In the Name of ALLAH, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful.
9:1. Freedom from (all) obligations (is declared) from Allah and His Messenger towards those of the Pagans(Mushrikin), with whom you made a treaty.
[9:4. Except for those of the polytheists (Mushrikin) with whom you have a treaty, and they have not subsequently failed you, nor have they helped others against you. So fulfill their treaty with them until their term. Allah loves those who have righteous.]
9:2. So travel freely for four months throughout the land, but know that you cannot escape Allah; And Allah will disgrace upon all who refuse to acknowledge the truth!".
[Four months of peacetime
*9:36. The Central Authority will subdue the aggressors]*
9:3. And a declaration from Allah and His Messenger to mankind on the greatest day of Pilgrimage (Hajj) that Allah is free from obligations to the polytheists (Mushrikin )and so is His Messenger. So if you repent, it is best for you, but if you turn away, then know that you cannot escape Allah. And give glad tidings to those who disbelieve of a painful punishment.
9:4. Except for those of the polytheists (Mushrikin) with whom you have a treaty, and they have not subsequently failed you, nor have they helped others against you. So fulfill their treaty with them until their term. Allah loves those who have righteous.
9:5. When the Sacred Months are past, (and they refuse to make peace) then fight the polytheists (Mushrikin) wherever you find them, and capture them and surround them, and stand against them at every point. But if they repent and perform the Salah and in setting up the Economic Order of Zakaat, then leave their way free. Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
[The four Sacred Months forbidden for any warfare: From the 12th month, Zil-Hajjahup to the 3rd month,Rabi'ul Awwal
2:193-195. And fight them so there is no more persecution, and so that the system is for Allah. If they cease, then there will be no aggression except against the wicked.
The restricted month may be met within the restricted month, and what is unlawful may be met with retaliation. Whoever attacks you, then you shall attack him the same as he attacked you; and be aware of Allah, and know that Allah is with the righteous.
*And spend in the cause of Allah, but do not throw your resources to disaster. And do good, for Allah loves those who do good.
9:36. The count of the months with Allah is twelve months in Allah book the day He created the heavens and the earth; four of them are restricted. This is the correct system; so do not wrong yourselves in them. Fight those who set up partners collectively as they fight you collectively. Know that Allah is with the righteous
Some critics of Islam call this verse as the “Verse of Sword” presenting it out of context. Also, they present it as applicable for all times while it refers only to the aggressors against the Prophet and his companions in Makkah.
9:1. Freedom from (all) obligations (is declared) from Allah and His Messenger towards those of the Pagans(Mushrikin), with whom you made a treaty.]
9:6. And if any of the polytheists (Mushrikin) seeks your protection, then grant him protection so that they may hear the Word of Allah (the Qur'an) and then escort him to a place where he can be safe, that is because since they are a people who do not know.
9:7. How can there be a covenant with Allah and with His Messenger for the Mushrikin except those with whom you made a covenant near the Al-Masjid Al-Haram ? So long as they are upright with you, then you be upright with them. Allah loves those who have righteous.
9:8. How can there be a treaty when they come over you, they do not regard the ties any rights of kinship nor any pledge.They seek to please you with their words, but their hearts deny, and most of them are definitely disobedient.
[Faasiqeen = Those who drift away]
9:9. They have purchased with the verses of Allah a little gain, and they hinder people from His way; Evil is that what they used to do.
[This trade, frequently mentioned in the Qur’an, indicates: Fulfilling selfish desires for instant gains at the cost of disregarding Permanent Moral Values]
9:10. They don't respect those who are believers, nor a kinship, nor a pledge! These are the transgressors.
9:11. But if they repent, perform the contact prayer (Salah) and give the obligatory charity (Zakah), then they are your brethren in aldeen. And we explain the verses in detail for people who know.
[The usual translation of this verse conveys the meaning that if they start praying five times a day and give 2.5% poor-due per year, then they are your brothers in religion. This interpretation goes directly against the all-encompassing Ordinance of Allah that there is no compulsion or coercion in Deen Islam.
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.]
9:12. But if they break their oaths after making their pledge, and attack your system (aldeen) with disapproval and criticism, then you fight against the leaders of Paganisam (disbelief) -- for surely, their oaths are nothing to them -- perhaps they will then cease.
9:13. Will you not fight a people who break their oaths and intended to expel the Messenger while they were the ones who who attacked you first ? Do you fear them?. But Allah has more right that you should fear Allah, if you are believers.
9:14. Fight them. Allah will punish them by your hands and humiliate them and give you victory over them, and heal the hearts of the believers ,
9:15. And remove the anger from their hearts. Allah accepts the repentance of whom Allah wills. Allah is All-Knower, All-Wise.
9:16. Or Do you think that you would be left alone?. Allah will come to distinguish those of you who striven hard and did not take other than Allah and His Messenger, and the believers. Allah is aware of what you do.
9:17. It is not for the polytheists (Mushrikin), to maintain the Masjids of Allah, while they bear witness against themselves that they are denying the truth. All their works are in vain and they will abide in the fire.
[9:107. There are those who abuse the masjid by practicing idol worship, dividing the believers, and providing comfort to those who oppose Allah and His messenger. They solemnly swear: "Our intentions are honorable!" Allah bears witness that they are liars.
30:31. You shall submit to Him, reverence Him, observe the Contact Prayers (Salat), and - whatever you do - do not ever fall into idol worship.
72:18. And the Masjids, one and all, belong to Allah alone. ((Adoration and submission are due to none but Allah.) So, do not call upon anyone along with Allah.
Pilgrimage of the House is a duty unto all mankind, not Muslims alone.
3:97. In it are clear signs: the station of Abraham. And whoever enters it will be secure. And Allah is owed from the people to make Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary, whoever can make a path to it. And whoever rejects, then Allah has no need of the worlds.]
9:18. The Masjids of Allah shall be maintained only by those who believe in Allah and the Last Day; Perform the contact prayer(Salah), and give the obligatory charity (Zakah) and do not fear except Allah. They are the ones who are rightly guided.*
[Ya’mur = Maintains or administers.]
9:19. Do you consider providing water to pilgrims and the maintenance of Al-Masjid Al-Haram as equal to the work of him who has conviction in Allah and the Last Day, and then strives in the cause of Allah? They are not equal In the sight of Allah. And Allah does not guide those people who are the wrongdoers.
[Zaalim = One who displaces something from its rightful place = Choosing to do wrong]
9:20. Those who believed and emigrated and strove in the cause of Allah with their wealth and their lives, are far higher in degree with Allah. They are the ones truly winners.
9:21. Their Rabb gives them glad tidings of mercy from Allah, and Allah being pleased and of paradise for them wherein are everlasting delights.
9:22. They will dwell therein forever. Verily, Allah has with him a great reward.
9:23. O believers! Do not Take as your fathers and your brothers as befriend if they prefer disbelief to belief. And whoever take them befriend , then those they are the wrongdoers.
9:24. Say: If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your spouses, your relatives and wealth that you have gained, and the commerce you fear a decline in it, and the dwellings in which you delight in it are more beloved to you than Allah and Allah's Messenger , and fighting for Allah cause, then wait until Allah brings command to pass. Allah does not guide the evil-doers.
9:25. Allah has helped you on many regions, and on the day of Hunayn, when you great number pleased you, but it did not avail you at all, and the earth, vast as it is, was straitened for you, then you turned back in retreat.
9:26. Then Allah did send down (Sakinah) tranquility on His Messenger, and on the believers, and sent down forces which you did not see, and punished the disbelievers. Such is the recompense of disbelievers.
[The Messenger led them from chaos back to discipline, and boosted their morale. That was the army unseen.
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.
8:10. Allah made it only as glad tiding, and that your hearts be at rest therewith. And there is no victory except from Allah. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.
9:40. If you do not help him, then Allah has helped him. When those who rejected expelled him, he was one of only two, and when both were in the cave, he said to his friend: "Do not grieve, for Allah is with us." So Allah sent down tranquility over him and He supported him with soldiers that you did not see, and He made the word of those who rejected be the lowest, and Allah word be the highest. Allah is Noble, Wise.
41:30. Surely, those who have said, "Our Rabb is Allah," then they did right, the controllers will descend upon them: "You shall not fear, nor shall you grieve. Rejoice in the good news of Paradise that you have been promised."
48:4. Allah is the One who sends down tranquility into the hearts of those who acknowledge, so that they may increase in acknowledgement along with their present acknowledgement. To Allah belongs the soldiers of the heavens and the earth, and Allah is Knowledgeable, Wise. ]
9:27. Then Allah will accept the repentance of whom Allah wanted. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
9:28. O you who believe! Verily, the polytheist (Mushrikin) are impure. So let them not come near Al-Masjid Al-Haram after this year; And if you fear poverty, Allah will make you rich if He wills by His bounty. Surely, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
[9:18. The Masjids of Allah shall be maintained only by those who believe in Allah and the Last Day; Perform the contact prayer(Salah), and give the obligatory charity (Zakah) and do not fear except Allah. They are the ones who are rightly guided.
3:97. In it are clear signs: the station of Abraham. And whoever enters it will be secure. And Allah is owed from the people to make Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary, whoever can make a path to it. And whoever rejects, then Allah has no need of the worlds.
22:27. Call out to people with the Pilgrimage, they will come to you walking and on every transport, they will come from every deep enclosure.]
9:29. Fight against those who do not believe Allah nor the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, and those who acknowledge not the system (deen) of truth, until they humbly pay tax with their own hands.
[Fight back’
9:1. Freedom from (all) obligations (is declared) from Allah and His Messenger towards those of the Pagans(Mushrikin), with whom you made a treaty.
Tasreef. Jizyah = War Reparations, Damages to be paid by the aggressors, and not any kind of ‘tribute or tax’ as generally but erroneously translated. 'Mufridaat-e-Raaghib'. The Arabic word for tribute is “Kharaj”.
18:94. They said, "O Two Eras, Gog and Magog are destroyers of the land, and so shall we make a tribute for you that you will make between us and them a barrier?"* *‘Kharjan’]
9:30. And the Jews say: “(Uzayr)Ezra is the son of Allah,” and the Christians have said the same “The Messiah is the son of Allah.” That is their saying with their mouths, resembling the saying of those disbelievers who lived before them had said. May Allah destroy them, wherever they are deluded away from the truth!
[Many Jews in the Arabian Peninsula used to believe that Osiris, the Egyptian idol, was Allah Son while others thought of Ezra, who restored the Taurat after it had been lost in the Babylonian Exile, as Allah Son. Uzayr applies to Ezra as well as Osiris.
20:88. Allah then produced for them a statue of a calf that emitted a sound. So they said, "This is your Allah and the Allah of Musa, but he had forgotten!"]
9:31. They (Jews and Christians) took their rabbis and their monks to be their Rabb besides Allah, and the Messiah son of Maryam, while they were commanded to worship none but One Allah none has the right to be worshiped but Allah. Glorified is Allah they from all that they ascribe to Allah as partners.
9:32. They want to extinguish Allah's Light with their mouths, but Allah will not allow except that Allah Light should be perfected even though the disbelievers hate it.
9:33. Allah is the one who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the deen of truth, to make it superior over all deen even though the associate others with Allah (Mushrikin)dislike it.
[5:3. Prohibited for you are animals that die of themselves, blood, the meat of pigs, and animals dedicated to other than Allah. (Animals that die of themselves include those) strangled, struck with an object, fallen from a height, gored, attacked by a wild animal - unless you save your animal before it dies - and animals sacrificed on altars. Also prohibited is dividing the meat through a game of chance; this is an abomination. Today, the disbelievers have given up concerning (the eradication of) your deen (system); do not fear them and fear Me instead. Today, I have completed your deen (system), perfected My blessing upon you, and I have decreed Submission as the deen (system) for you. If one is forced by famine (to eat prohibited food), without being deliberately sinful, then Allah is Forgiver, Merciful.*
9:31. They (Jews and Christians) took their rabbis and their monks to be their Rabb besides Allah, and the Messiah son of Maryam, while they were commanded to worship none but One Allah none has the right to be worshiped but Allah. Glorified is Allah they from all that they ascribe to Allah as partners.”
13:31. If there were a Quran/recitation with which mountains were moved, the earth were sliced, or the dead were made to speak with it, Allah is all matters. Did not those who acknowledge know that if Allah wished He would have guided all the people? As for those who reject, until Allah promise comes true, a disaster will continue to strike them or alight at near their homes because of what they do. Allah does not breach the appointment.
14:48. The day the earth is replaced with another earth, as are the heavens, and they will appear before Allah, the One, the Irresistible.
18:48. They are displayed before your Rabb as a column: "You have come to Us as We had created you the first time. No, you claimed We would not make an appointment for you!"
41:53. We will show them Our signs in the horizons, and within themselves, until it becomes clear to them that this is the truth. Is it not enough that your Rabb is witness over all things?
48:28. Allah is the One who sent His messenger with the guidance and the system of truth, so that it would expose all other systems. Allah is sufficient as a witness.
51:20. In the earth are signs for those who reason.
61:8. They wish to put out Allah light with their mouths. But Allah will continue with Allah light, even if the ingrates dislike it.
The Qur’anic Deen will prevail over all religions.
This refers to Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism and all other forms of ‘Isms’ and religion, including the sects that are now present in the name of Islam. Please remember that no sect can be considered Islamic. DEEN in the Sight of God is nothing but Al-Islam 5:3.
But next to religions, the Qur’anic System of Life will also dominate and prevail over all manmade political and social systems such as Communism, Atheism, Secularism, Secular Democracy, Despotism, Theocracy, Monarchy, all “isms” such as “Humanism” Socialism, Idol worship in any form, Sufism and Capitalism. This will happen as humanity, after the centuries old, protracted toil of trial and error will come to intellectually realize, and accept the Supremacy of the Final Testament, Al-Qur’an]
9:34. O you who believe! Verily, there are many of the Ahbar (rabbis) and the Ruhban (monks) who devour the wealth of mankind in falsehood, and hinder (them) from the way of Allah. And those who hoard up gold and silver and do not spend it in the way of Allah, announce unto them a painful punishment.
[Ahbaar = Clergy of any religion. Ruhbaan = Monks, Yogis and Sufis]
9:35. On the Day when that will be heated in the fire of Hell and with it will be branded their foreheads, their flanks, and their backs, “This is the treasure which you hoarded for yourselves. Now taste of what you used to howard.”
9:36. Verily, the number of months with Allah is twelve months (in a year), so it was ordained by Allah on the Day when Allah created the heavens and the earth; of them four are sacred. That is the right system(aldeen), so do not wrong yourselves in them, and fight against those who setup partners (Mushrikin) collectively as they fight against you collectively. But know that Allah is with those who have righteous(Taqwa).
[2:193-195.And fight them so there is no more persecution, and so that the system is for Allah. If they cease, then there will be no aggression except against the wicked.
The restricted month may be met within the restricted month, and what is unlawful may be met with retaliation.
Whoever attacks you, then you shall attack him the same as he attacked you; and be aware of Allah, and know that Allah is with the righteous.
And spend in the cause of Allah, but do not throw your resources to disaster. And do good, for Allah loves those who do good.
Mankind, through international treaties, must agree to shun all kind of warfare during these four months. This will give them a cooling off period that sense may prevail over emotions. Four Sacred Months for peacetime
2:194.The restricted month may be met within the restricted month, and what is unlawful may be met with retaliation. Whoever attacks you, then you shall attack him the same as he attacked you; and be aware of Allah, and know that Allah is with the righteous.
9:1. Freedom from (all) obligations (is declared) from Allah and His Messenger towards those of the Pagans(Mushrikin), with whom you made a treaty.
From the 12th lunar month of Pilgrimage to the third month]
9:37. Altering the Sacred Month is only an addition to disbelief: thereby the disbelievers are led astray, for they make it lawful one year and forbid it another year in order to adjust the number of months forbidden by Allah, and make such forbidden ones lawful. The evil of their deeds is made fair-seem pleasing to them. Allah does not guide those who choose to reject the truth (disbelievers).
9:38. O you who believe! What is the matter with you, that when you are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, you cling heavily to the earth. Are you pleased with the life of this world rather than the Hereafter? But the enjoyment of this worldly life compared to the Hereafter is nothing.
9:39. If you not go forth, Allah will punish you with a painful punishment and will replace you with another nation. You cannot harm Him at all, and Allah has power able to do all things.
[Only the competent nations live honorably on earth.
21:105. We have written in the scriptures (alzzaboor): 'After the reminder, the earth will be inherited by My servants will inherit the earth.
24:55. Allah promises those among you who acknowledge and promote reforms, that He will make them successors on earth, as He made successors of those before them, He will enable for them their system which He has approved for them, and He will substitute security for them in place of fear, that they serve Me and do not associate anything with Me. As for those who reject after that, they are the transgressors. ]
9:40. If you not help him, Allah helped him. when the disbelievers drove him out, the second of the two; When they were both in the cave, he said to his companion: “Do not grieve, surely, Allah is with us.” Then Allah sent down Allah (Sakinah) (calmness, tranquility, peace) upon him, and supported him with forces which you did not see, and made the word of those who disbelieved the lowest, while the Word of Allah that became the highest; And Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.
9:41. Go forth lightl or heavy, and strive hard with your wealth and your lives in the way of Allah. This is best for you, if you but knew.
9:42. Had there been immediate gain and an easy journey, they would have followed you, but the distance was long for them; and they will swear by Allah: “If we could have, we would have come with you.” They destroy themselves, and Allah knows that they are surely liars.
9:43. May Allah forgive you. Why did you grant them permission stay behind, before you could distinguish those who are truthful from the liars.
[The permission gave the hypocrites an excuse to stay back]
9:44. Those who truly believe in Allah and the Last Day, Do not ask you for exemption from striving with their wealth and their lives; And Allah is the All-Knower of those who have righteous.
9:45. It is only those ask your leave, who do not truly believe in Allah and the Last Day and whose hearts are in doubt. So in their doubts they waver.
9:46. And if they had wished to go out, certainly, they would have made some preparation for it; but Allah disliked to their being sent forth, so He made them lag behind, and it was said to them: “Stay behind with those who are sitting back.
9:47. If they Had they gone with you, they would have increased you except in confusion, and they would have been active among you nothing except disorder, and they would have hurried -- and there are some among you who would have listened to them. And Allah is the All-Knower of the wrongdoers.
9:48. They had sought to create dissension among you before, and raised difficulties for you, They did that until the truth came and the decree of Allah became manifest the order of Allah while they hated it.
9:49. And among them is he who says: “Grant me leave and put me not into trial.” Surely, they have fallen into trial. And Hell will surely surround the disbelievers.
9:50. If some good comes to you, it distresses them, and if calamity befalls you, they say: “We took our precaution beforehand,” and they turn away while they are rejoicing.