THE PUNISHMENT TOO, HAS AN ACCOUNT VERSE NO.21ِ25

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LOVERS OF LIGHT, LOOK FOR LOVERS OF LIGHT VERSE NO.26 Verses 21-25

      This passage too, can be considered as a complementary to the story of calumny, and it also is a warning to the believers that the Satanic temptations and traces may be weak at beginning, but gradually will become stronger and stronger. If Man does not stop following the temptations of evil, he will soon find himself subject to it.

      A believer is never cast down into the bosom of evil and corruption, suddenly and at once. But he may fall to that abyss gradually and step by step. At first he may befriend the evil doer, and in the second step, he may take part in their parties and meetings. After that he may think of committing a sin, and then do some doubtful deeds. In his fourth step, he will commit minor sins, and eventually he proceeds on major sins, and is ruined. We therefore may say that; piety, which includes the purity in heart, word, and in deed, is a high standard of believing people, and it is a measure for the evaluation of Man's spiritual grades. Therefore it can only come by the Grace of God and His Mercy, because Allah is the only protector who can protect His servants against Satanic Temptations, to which our nature is subject:ِ

      ``.... And if it was not for the Grace of Allah on you, and His Mercy, none of you would ever be sanctified; but Allah purifies whom He will, that Allah is All-hearing, All-knowing.''

      Although the next verse (NO.22), in a general application holds good for all times; that, a generous patron should not withdraw his support on account of personal anger; Some Sonni Commentators have written that the immediate reference of the verse was to ABUBAKR, the father of Hazrat Aisha. He was a wealthy companion of our prophet, and used a good part of his wealth in the service of Islam and Muslim. It so happened that one of the slanderers of Hazrat Aisha, was MASTIH-IBN-ASASIH a cousin of ABUBAKR, whom he had been in habit of supporting. When Mastih took part in spreading the calumny, ABUBAKR decided to stop his aid. Commentators say through this verse ABUBAKR was asked to forgive and forget his cousin's wrong, and hence the verse:ِ

      ``The rich and those endued with Grace among you, should not swear or decide to withhold giving kinsmen, and the poor, and the emigrants in the way of Allah. They should rather pardon and overlook.''

      Then once again in the next verse, (NO.23) the slanderers of believing women in wedlock who are unaware have been attacked and threatened of being cursed and punished in both lives:ِ

      ``Verily those who accuse the believing women in wedlock who are unaware, are cursed in this world, and in the next, and for them is a great punishment.''

      Truthful and chast women are usually indiscreet, because their mind is pure and they think of no evil.

       And the ending verses state the condition in which such a sinners may fall:ِ

      ``On the day when their tongues, their hands, and their feet shall testify against them, as to what they were doing.''

      If we do not confess bravely and do not repent seriously, then we must wait for our faculties of sight, hearing, speech, and movement, to become witnesses against us; and to complain that we have misused them.

 

 

 

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