THE NECESSITY OF BEING FAITHFUL TO PROMISES (VERSE NO.1)

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THE NECESSITY OF BEING FAITHFUL TO PROMISES

VERSE NO.1

      The great commentators have known this chapter of Quran (THE FOOD) to be the last one, or of the last ones, that revealed to our prophet. For that; great emphasis has been laied upon some of the commandments, such as those about leadership in Islam, and the prophet's successors and vicegerency. Perhaps this is the cause that the Sureh, in one of the most comprehensive and elegantly concise sentences, puts the stress and emphasis upon being faithful to promises and covenants;-

      ``O ,you who believe! be faithful to your contracts.''

      All our promises, mutual agreements, our covenants, and in particular, our Divine obligations are among our contracts that we have to carry them into effect. A proverb says:- ``There is the man and his promise!''

      This sentence at the beginning of the verse and the chapter, is of a very wide mental grasp. The Arabic word UQUD, translated here to contract, has many shades of meanings, such as a written agreement between two persons, a promise, a covenant; and hence our divine obligations that arise from our spiritual nature, and our relation to God. By contract or promise here, all our various obligations are meant and wanted - We may enter into a commercial, or social or public contract. We may all enter into a marriage contract or in a construction contract. We therefore must be faithful to all our promises and, to perform all our obligations. Fidelity and truthfulness are among the most important tenets of Islam in all relations of our life. Even our contracts and promises with the non-Muslims should be perfectly fulfilled and brought to effect with utmost truth and fidelity.

      Hazrat Imam Ali (AS), in his famous commandments to MALIK-AL-ASHTAR, his deputy in Egypt, has written:- ``Among the divine commandments that are incumbent upon mankind, none is more widely accepted than, keeping on with promises, and being faithful to mutual agreements. This is because everybody knows the painful consequences of the breach of promise and compacts.''

*- Allah's orders and decrees arise out of His will, and His will is in accordance with His general plan by which the whole universe is created and controlled rightfully.

*- This verse is one of the few that are used for reasoning in Islamic jurisprudence in order to prove the position and importance of any commandment on the basis that;any promise and contract must be fulfilled.''

 

 

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