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The Clear Qur'anic Exegesis (4)

Muhammad Khayr Ramadan Yusuf

Surat Al Baqarah (11-14)



{ وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ لاَ تُفْسِدُوا فِي الأرْضِ قَالُوا إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُصْلِحُونَ } [البقرة: 11]
11- If they are asked to stop disbelief and disobedience for that lead to corruption on earth, whereas obedience leads to reform, they would say in foolishness and bravado: We only want reform. However, there are numerous examples of those people who have missed the balance of right and wrong and whose creed is corrupt.

{ أَلاَ إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ الْمُفْسِدُونَ وَلَكِنْ لاَ يَشْعُرُونَ } [البقرة: 12]
12- The truth is: What they adopt in terms of their creed and what they believe to be reformation is the mere corruption, but because of their ignorance, they do not feel it is corruption.

{ وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ آمِنُوا كَمَا آمَنَ النَّاسُ قَالُوا أَنُؤْمِنُ كَمَا آمَنَ السُّفَهَاءُ أَلاَ إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ السُّفَهَاءُ وَلَكِنْ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ } [البقرة: 13]

13- When it is said to the hypocrites: Believe in Islam as the people have believed without having any doubt and obey Allah and His Messenger as they did, they refused to submit to the truth and said in arrogance: Shall we believe as the fools have believed (i.e., the Companions) and be like them?! However, the truth is they are the ignorant, weak-minded, and they do not know their best interest. Because of their ignorance, they do not know that they are deep-rooted in mischief and ignorance which are worse than getting into foolishness and blindness!

{ وَإِذَا لَقُوا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا قَالُوا آمَنَّا وَإِذَا خَلَوْا إِلَى شَيَاطِينِهِمْ قَالُوا إِنَّا مَعَكُمْ إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُسْتَهْزِئُونَ } [البقرة: 14]
14- When the hypocrites met the believers, they showed faith and loyalty. They also would show them love and intimacy out of hypocrisy in order to protect themselves from their harm, begin in turn to attack and harm the believers, and to take a share from the booties.
When they went to their chiefs and leaders from the Jews, the polytheists and the hypocrites, they would say to them: We are with you, but we just mock at the believers.