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The Clear Qur'anic Exegesis (41)

Muhammad Khayr Ramadan Yusuf

Surat Al Baqarah (96-97)


{ وَلَتَجِدَنَّهُمْ أَحْرَصَ النَّاسِ عَلَى حَيَاةٍ وَمِنَ الَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُواْ يَوَدُّ أَحَدُهُمْ لَوْ يُعَمَّرُ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ وَمَا هُوَ بِمُزَحْزِحِهِ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ أَن يُعَمَّرَ وَاللّهُ بَصِيرٌ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ } [البقرة: 96]

96- You will find them the keenest to the longevity; they would wish to live for one thousand year, because they knew their bad end. They would wish to delay the Day of Reckoning as much as they could because of what awaits them. The polytheists act like this because they do not believe in the Day of Resurrection, consider their worldly life their true Paradise, and they do not have shares in Paradise but the painful torment awaits them no matter how much they lived in this world. So, there is no way out of reckoning and punishment and Allah is All-Knowing of what the people have done whether good or evil.

{ قُلْ مَن كَانَ عَدُوّاً لِّجِبْرِيلَ فَإِنَّهُ نَزَّلَهُ عَلَى قَلْبِكَ بِإِذْنِ اللّهِ مُصَدِّقاً لِّمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَهُدًى وَبُشْرَى لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ } [البقرة: 97]
97- The Jews claimed that Gabriel (peace be upon him) was their enemy because he was the best friend of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him). They also claimed that if there was another friend with him, they would follow him as was reported in the authentic Hadith. They invented this ridiculous story when they saw that Gabriel used to come down with revelation to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The Prophet (peace be upon him) only used to do what he was told from his Lord. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said to them: "My friend is Gabriel and Allah has never sent a prophet but Gabriel was his friend." as was recorded by Imam Ahmad and others with authentic chain of narration. So, O Muhammad, say to them: "Let it be known for those who believe that Gabriel is their enemy and that Gabriel is the holy spirit who brought the Qur'an from his Lord to you by the will of Allah, confirming the previous Scriptures as guidance and glad tidings for the believers.

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The Clear Qur'anic Exegesis (42)

Muhammad Khayr Ramadan Yusuf

Surat Al Baqarah (98-99)


{ مَن كَانَ عَدُوّاً لِّلّهِ وَمَلآئِكَتِهِ وَرُسُلِهِ وَجِبْرِيلَ وَمِيكَالَ فَإِنَّ اللّهَ عَدُوٌّ لِّلْكَافِرِينَ } [البقرة: 98]

98- Whoever opposes a messenger has opposed all messengers. And whoever believes in a messenger believes in all messengers and whoever disbelieves a messenger, he disbelieves all messengers. Allah Almighty says: (Verily, those who disbelieve in Allâh and His Messengers and wish to make distinction between Allâh and His Messengers (by believing in Allâh and disbelieving in His Messengers) saying, "We believe in some but reject others," and wish to adopt a way in between. They are in truth disbelievers. And We have prepared for the disbelievers a humiliating torment.) [An-Nisa': 150-151].
Whoever opposes Allah, His Angels, His Messengers, Gabriel, and Mikael, verily, Allah will be their opponent because of their disbelief; and whomever Allah opposes will be a loser.

{ وَلَقَدْ أَنزَلْنَا إِلَيْكَ آيَاتٍ بَيِّنَاتٍ وَمَا يَكْفُرُ بِهَا إِلاَّ الْفَاسِقُونَ } [البقرة: 99]

99- O Muhammad, we have revealed to you clear signs confirming your prophethood and your truthfulness, yet none disbelieves in you and in your message but the rebels against Allah's Command and the deviants from the common sense.

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The Clear Qur'anic Exegesis (43)

Muhammad Khayr Ramadan Yusuf

Surat Al Baqarah (100-101)


{ أَوَكُلَّمَا عَاهَدُواْ عَهْداً نَّبَذَهُ فَرِيقٌ مِّنْهُم بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لاَ يُؤْمِنُونَ } [البقرة: 100]
100- How come whenever the Jews give a promise, a group of them breaks it and refuses the covenant! That was their habit; even they had broken the promise which they gave to the Prophet (peace be upon him) when he first came to Medina. Most of them do not believe in the Prophet who was sent to them and to all people, who is written in their Scriptures while they have been commanded to believe in him and support him.

{ وَلَمَّا جَاءهُمْ رَسُولٌ مِّنْ عِندِ اللّهِ مُصَدِّقٌ لِّمَا مَعَهُمْ نَبَذَ فَرِيقٌ مِّنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ الْكِتَابَ كِتَابَ اللّهِ وَرَاء ظُهُورِهِمْ كَأَنَّهُمْ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ } [البقرة: 101]

101- When the anticipated Prophet was sent to them, confirming what was revealed to them in the previous Scriptures, a group of them threw away the Book of Allah behind their backs because it contained the news of the advent of Muhammad as if they did not know.
They had left the Book and resorted to magic to learn; they left what may benefit them to things that do not benefit them, but rather, they harm others as will be later explained.

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The Clear Qur'anic Exegesis (44)

Muhammad Khayr Ramadan Yusuf

Surat Al Baqarah (102)

{ وَاتَّبَعُواْ مَا تَتْلُواْ الشَّيَاطِينُ عَلَى مُلْكِ سُلَيْمَانَ وَمَا كَفَرَ سُلَيْمَانُ وَلَـكِنَّ الشَّيْاطِينَ كَفَرُواْ يُعَلِّمُونَ النَّاسَ السِّحْرَ وَمَا أُنزِلَ عَلَى الْمَلَكَيْنِ بِبَابِلَ هَارُوتَ وَمَارُوتَ وَمَا يُعَلِّمَانِ مِنْ أَحَدٍ حَتَّى يَقُولاَ إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ فِتْنَةٌ فَلاَ تَكْفُرْ فَيَتَعَلَّمُونَ مِنْهُمَا مَا يُفَرِّقُونَ بِهِ بَيْنَ الْمَرْءِ وَزَوْجِهِ وَمَا هُم بِضَآرِّينَ بِهِ مِنْ أَحَدٍ إِلاَّ بِإِذْنِ اللّهِ وَيَتَعَلَّمُونَ مَا يَضُرُّهُمْ وَلاَ يَنفَعُهُمْ وَلَقَدْ عَلِمُواْ لَمَنِ اشْتَرَاهُ مَا لَهُ فِي الآخِرَةِ مِنْ خَلاَقٍ وَلَبِئْسَ مَا شَرَوْاْ بِهِ أَنفُسَهُمْ لَوْ كَانُواْ يَعْلَمُونَ } [البقرة: 102]

102- The Jews, who turned away from the Torah and disobeyed the Prophet (peace be upon him), followed the devils who used to lie and say that Solomon was a sorcerer and he subjugated the universe by his magic. He was a noble and good Prophet who used to supplicate Allah and he was not a disbeliever as the Jews or the devils claimed. May they be cursed! (And to Dâwûd (David) We gave Sulaimân (Solomon). How excellent a slave! Verily, he was ever oft-returning in repentance (to Us)!) [Surat Sad: 30]. However, the devils are the ones who disbelieved because they used to teach people sorcery. Sorcery was not revealed to Harut and Marut in Babel but they were there for a wisdom that we cannot know, for Allah may test His Servants with whatever He wants.
When the people who want to learn sorcery came to them, they said to them: "We are a trial and affliction to people, so do not seek sorcery because those who believe in it and in the permissibility of using it will be disbelievers. Yet, the people learned the sorcery which benefited no one, but rather, spoiled the relation and intimacy between a man and his wife. They did not harm anyone but by the will of Allah, Who may remove His Protection from any of His Servants, leaving them to the sorcery of the sorcerers, but if He did not, the sorcerers cannot harm anyone except by the leave of Allah.
Thus, they learned what may harm them in their religion because they intend to do harm to the people. The Jews who replaced faith with sorcery knew that they will have no share in the Hereafter; so how bad is their trade!
Ibn Kathir (may Allah bestow mercy on his soul) said concerning the story of Harut Marut: The output of the story is related to the news of the Children of Israel because it does not contain an authentic Hadith Marfu` (a Hadith narrated from the Prophet with a connected or disconnected chain of narration), and the Prophet (peace be upon him) did not speak out of whims. The outward of the context is to tell the story without details or verbosity because we believe in what was revealed in the Qur'an in the way which Allah intended and Allah knows best the fact of the case.

[ابوالوليد المسلم]

The Clear Qur'anic Exegesis (45)

Muhammad Khayr Ramadan Yusuf

Surat Al Baqarah (103-104)


{ وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ آمَنُواْ واتَّقَوْا لَمَثُوبَةٌ مِّنْ عِندِ اللَّه خَيْرٌ لَّوْ كَانُواْ يَعْلَمُونَ } [البقرة: 103]

103- If they believed and feared Allah by avoiding sorcery, disbelief, and polytheism which He prohibited, their reward would be better than the falsehood and evil which they satisfied for themselves.

{ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ لاَ تَقُولُواْ رَاعِنَا وَقُولُواْ انظُرْنَا وَاسْمَعُوا ْوَلِلكَافِرِينَ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ } [البقرة: 104]
104- O believers, do not resemble the Jews and the polytheists in their speech or their actions. Do not use double entendre as to say: "Ra`ina" which either means make us understand or it means foolishness as the Jews used to say to the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him). If your intention was taking care of you and make you understand step by step, you should say: "Undhurna" i.e., delay and respite us.


A painful torment is for the disbelieving Jews for what they have done and because they belittled the Prophet (peace be upon him).

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The Clear Qur'anic Exegesis (46)

Muhammad Khayr Ramadan Yusuf

Surat Al Baqarah (105-106)




{ مَّا يَوَدُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ وَلاَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ أَن يُنَزَّلَ عَلَيْكُم مِّنْ خَيْرٍ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَاللّهُ يَخْتَصُّ بِرَحْمَتِهِ مَن يَشَاءُ وَاللّهُ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظِيمِ } [البقرة: 105]
105- The disbelievers —whether they are polytheists or from the People of the Scriptures— are severe in their enmity to you. They do not wish you any good, so do not resemble them or be kind to them because of the wide mercy and great bounty that Allah granted you because their hearts are filled with hatred and envy. He sent down the revelation to Muhammad (peace be upon him) while he is living among you, so hold firm with that for which they envy you, and be grateful to Allah for His Favor so as to preserve it for you and give you more. There is nothing better than the bounty of faith and responding to the call of the Prophet (peace be upon him), so be keen to that.

{ مَا نَنسَخْ مِنْ آيَةٍ أَوْ نُنسِهَا نَأْتِ بِخَيْرٍ مِّنْهَا أَوْ مِثْلِهَا أَلَمْ تَعْلَمْ أَنَّ اللّهَ عَلَىَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ } [البقرة: 106]

106- Whatever an Ayah do We abrogate or alter its ruling to another one —such as changing a command to a prohibition or a ruling from banning to permissibility from the legislations and ordinances that fit the conditions and current affairs of people— or We make the Prophet (peace be upon him) to forget or erase what We will but the latter will be better or at least of the like according to the circumstances and the reformation of humanity. Nothing fails Allah and He is the Able to do anything.

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The Clear Qur'anic Exegesis (47)

Muhammad Khayr Ramadan Yusuf

Surat Al Baqarah (107-108)

{ أَلَمْ تَعْلَمْ أَنَّ اللّهَ لَهُ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ وَمَا لَكُم مِّن دُونِ اللّهِ مِن وَلِيٍّ وَلاَ نَصِيرٍ } [البقرة: 107]

107- O Prophet, did not you know that Allah is the Disposer of all things as He wishes unlike His Servants? For Him only the command and prohibition, abrogation and alteration and He changes or confirms the rulings for His Servants as He wishes for He knows them very well and knows the things which reform them, as he knows their conditions. They only have to listen, obey what they are commanded, and avoid what He has prohibited. There is no guardian for the believers to enforce and guide them or even a helper to aid and give them victory except Allah. So, be careful not to get affected with what your enemies say to you and beware of their misguidance and deception.

{ أَمْ تُرِيدُونَ أَن تَسْأَلُواْ رَسُولَكُمْ كَمَا سُئِلَ مُوسَى مِن قَبْلُ وَمَن يَتَبَدَّلِ الْكُفْرَ بِالإِيمَانِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ سَوَاء السَّبِيلِ } [البقرة: 108]

108- Or do you, some Companions, want to ask your Prophet as the Children of Israel asked their prophet Moses (peace be upon him) out of denial and stubbornness?
Beware and know that those who ******* disbelief with faith have strayed away from the Straight Path and entered into the darkness of ignorance and error. That was the case of those who used to ask their Prophets what they do not need out of stubbornness and disbelief. So, they changed their credence and belief to disagreement and denial. So, beware of that and beware that the Jews may lead you to that because its final end is error.

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The Clear Qur'anic Exegesis (48)

Muhammad Khayr Ramadan Yusuf

Surat Al Baqarah (109-110)


{ وَدَّ كَثِيرٌ مِّنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ لَوْ يَرُدُّونَكُم مِّن بَعْدِ إِيمَانِكُمْ كُفَّاراً حَسَداً مِّنْ عِندِ أَنفُسِهِم مِّن بَعْدِ مَا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الْحَقُّ فَاعْفُواْ وَاصْفَحُواْ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ اللّهُ بِأَمْرِهِ إِنَّ اللّهَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ } [البقرة: 109]

109- Verily, most Jews and Christians wished to get you back to disbelief as you were and to take away this goodness to which you were guided out of envy and hatred from their selves. That is because they do not like goodness for the people and after they knew that Muhammad is truly the Messenger of Allah whom they found written in the Torah and the Gospel. However, they disbelieved in him out of envy and oppression that he was not one of them.
Do not treat them with bad manners but be of good manners; do not punish or even rebuke them, but rather, forgive and pardon them until the command of Allah comes; which is the permission to fight or killing Banu Quraydhah, the evacuation of Banu An-Nadir or humiliating them by imposing taxes upon them. Verily, Allah is All-Able on everything and Able to take revenge of them whenever He wants.

{ وَأَقِيمُواْ الصَّلاَةَ وَآتُواْ الزَّكَاةَ وَمَا تُقَدِّمُواْ لأَنفُسِكُم مِّنْ خَيْرٍ تَجِدُوهُ عِندَ اللّهِ إِنَّ اللّهَ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌ } [البقرة: 110]

110- Offer Salah to Allah, keep to worshipping Him, pay Zakah (obligatory charity) of your properties and engage yourselves in what is beneficial to you so that you may attain goodness on the Day of Recompense. Whatever good or evil you do, whether secretly or publicly, He knows it well and saves it for you then holds you accountable for it.

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The Clear Qur'anic Exegesis (49)

Muhammad Khayr Ramadan Yusuf

Surat Al Baqarah (111-112)

{ وَقَالُواْ لَن يَدْخُلَ الْجَنَّةَ إِلاَّ مَن كَانَ هُوداً أَوْ نَصَارَى تِلْكَ أَمَانِيُّهُمْ قُلْ هَاتُواْ بُرْهَانَكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ } [البقرة: 111]
111- The Jews and the Christians were arrogant when they thought that they were alone on the straight path. Each group of them said: None shall enter Paradise except a Jew or a Christian. It was their wish but without right and a claim with no proof. So, tell them, O Messenger: What is your proof to that? Mention one if you are truthful of what you claim.

بَلَى مَنْ أَسْلَمَ وَجْهَهُ لِلّهِ وَهُوَ مُحْسِنٌ فَلَهُ أَجْرُهُ عِندَ رَبِّهِ وَلاَ خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلاَ هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ } [البقرة: 112]
112- The general rule is: He who submits himself to Allah in obedience, follows the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and does good deeds in sincerity, his reward is guaranteed by Allah, so he should not fear the future or be sad on what he has left behind. Allah used the word "turned his face to Allah" because it is the most honorable organ, the utensils of feelings, the prostration position (in Salah) and the position where the traces of submission are obvious which is one of the signs of sincerity as Abu As-Su`ud said in his Tafsir.

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The Clear Qur'anic Exegesis (50)

Muhammad Khayr Ramadan Yusuf

Surat Al Baqarah (113-114)


{ وَقَالَتِ الْيَهُودُ لَيْسَتِ النَّصَارَى عَلَىَ شَيْءٍ وَقَالَتِ النَّصَارَى لَيْسَتِ الْيَهُودُ عَلَى شَيْءٍ وَهُمْ يَتْلُونَ الْكِتَابَ كَذَلِكَ قَالَ الَّذِينَ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ مِثْلَ قَوْلِهِمْ فَاللّهُ يَحْكُمُ بَيْنَهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ فِيمَا كَانُواْ فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ } [البقرة: 113]
113- Then each party claimed that the other party is in error and deviant from faith, and started to show hatred and enmity towards each other. So, the Jews said: The Christians are not right, denying the Prophethood of Jesus (Peace be upon him) and the Gospel. The Christians said: The Jews are not right, denying the prophethood of Moses (peace be upon him) and out of disbelief in the Torah as happened to the delegation of Najran with the rabbis of the Jews before the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) as was reported in a Hadith of a good chain of narration. Each group reads in its book the truthfulness of those whom they denied. Each book of them was authentic in its time, however they denied that out of stubbornness and disbelief and faced falsehood with falsehood. So, Allah will gather them on the Day of Recompense, judge between them with His Justice, and give each group the torment it deserves.

- { وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّن مَّنَعَ مَسَاجِدَ اللّهِ أَن يُذْكَرَ فِيهَا اسْمُهُ وَسَعَى فِي خَرَابِهَا أُوْلَـئِكَ مَا كَانَ لَهُمْ أَن يَدْخُلُوهَا إِلاَّ خَآئِفِينَ لهُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا خِزْيٌ وَلَهُمْ فِي الآخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ } [البقرة: 114]
114- There will be no one more unjust than those who forbid that Allâh's Name be Glorified and mentioned frequently in masjids. Moreover, they strive to disable, destroy, and ruin these masjids. It was not proper for those to enter these masjids but in fear and humbleness rather than daring to destroy or disable them. The polytheists dared to prevent the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) on the Day of Al Hudaybiyah from entering Al Masjid Al Haram (the Sacred Mosque in Makkah), so if you can prevent them to enter it, do that.

They were truly prevented when Islam became victorious and the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) commended that the Jews and the Christians should be evacuated from the Arabian Peninsula and that was indescribable disgrace by killing, capturing, and humiliating them. They will have a great torment for the sanctity of the House which they violated by setting up idols around it, invoking other than Allah there, among other deniable acts they used to do.