🟢Al-Baqarah[Part-8(2:60-71)]
Mischief = Creating disruption and chaos in the land for selfish gains. ‘Asa = Staff = Force = Conviction = Support = A united community holding on to a mission as the five fingers hold on to a cane. Moses was guided to rocks under which were hidden twelve springs of water ready to gush forth. With the strength of his conviction and with the help of his companions, Moses unclogged those springs. 7:160
A verse in the New Testament is profound in relating freedom to intellect and reality: "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32). Also, See Isaiah 61:1 ; Isaiah 42:6-7 .(edip)]
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🟠২:৬২(Unity of All Submitters)
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَالَّذِينَ هَادُوا وَالنَّصَارَىٰ وَالصَّابِئِينَ مَنْ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ وَعَمِلَ صَالِحًا فَلَهُمْ أَجْرُهُمْ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ وَلَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ
নিশ্চয় যিসকলে ঈমান আনিছে আৰু যিসকলে ইয়াহুদী হৈছে লগতে নাছাৰা আৰু ছাবেয়ীসকলৰ যিসকলে আল্লাহ আৰু শেষ দিৱসৰ প্ৰতি ঈমান আনে আৰু সত্কাম কৰে, সিহঁতৰ বাবে সিহঁতৰ প্ৰতিপালকৰ ওচৰত পুৰষ্কাৰ আছে; আৰু সিহঁতৰ কোনো ভয় নাই আৰু সিহঁত চিন্তিতও নহ’ব ।
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62(par) This has been your record, but in spite of it, you believe that you are Allah s chosen off- springs (5/18) and that paradise is reserved for your race (2/111). This is your vain imagining. Paradise is not reserved for any race. Our Law is that, irrespective of origin, any person from amongst the following:-
1. Jews, Christians, Sabaeans;
2. Those who believe in Allah without formally adopting any particular religion; and
3. Those who are Muslim only by virtue of being born in a Muslim family.
Whoever believes in Allah s Law of Mukaf at, as revealed to you O Rasool (2/137) and leads his life accordingly, will be duly compensated. Such a person will lead a life of heavenly bliss, free of fear, grief and anxiety.
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For social and ecological reasons and to inculcate the sanctity of the law in your hearts, We had commanded you to desist from fishing or working on Saturdays and to strengthen your social ties rather than going after business on that day 4:154, 7:163, 16:124. Persistent indiscipline is more befitting of an apish, rather than human mentality. 4:47, 4:154, 5:60. Note: Strangely enough, some ancient, and even modern commentators like Maududi, maintain that they were physically transformed into apes!
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For the full story of the Sabbath-breakers, and the metaphorical allusion to "apes", see 7:163. The expression ma bayna yadayha, rendered here as "their time".
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Slaughter a cow to get rid of the Pharaoh’s pagan inclinations you carry in your hearts. That is what prompted you to worship the golden calf. 2:54, 7:152
By reminding us of this event, which is narrated in the Old Testament, Numbers 19, we are expected not to repeat the errors committed by the Jews. Ironically, Muslims repeated them to the letter. Muslims, soon after the prophet's death, started doubting the sufficiency and completeness of the Quran and asked many irrelevant and ridiculous questions. To answer those trivial questions, many people fabricated stories and instructions and attributed them to Muhammed and his companions. Two centuries after Muhammed's departure, some ignorant zealots such as Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmizi, Abu Dawud, Nasai, and Ibn Hanbal started collecting and classifying the stories in numerous hadith books. These volumes of contradictory "holy fabrications" created a new occupation termed emamet, ijtihad or fiqh. Therefore, many emams, mujtahids, or fuqaha created numerous sects and orders by interpreting, reconciling, refuting and codifying these volumes of contradictory sources. These books fabricated numerous rules that included answers to frivolous questions such as: 1) in what order must one cut his fingernails, 2) with which feet must one enter the bathroom, or 3) with which hand must one eat? The blind followers of hadith and sunna are hypnotized into believing that they would not even be able to properly clean themselves in the bathroom unless they followed those teachings. Sectarian books contain chapters of extensive, yet primitive and occasionally unhealthy religious instructions on personal hygiene. Thus, God's system was transformed into the religion or sect of this or that scholar, and the medieval Arab culture and borrowings from Christians and Jews were sanctified. Through this story, God pulls our attention to the chronic cause of distortion and corruption in religion. Unfortunately, Muslims repeated the same blunder. See 5:6; 23:52; 42:21.
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🟣২:৬৮
قَالُوا ادْعُ لَنَا رَبَّكَ يُبَيِّنْ لَنَا مَا هِيَ ۚ قَالَ إِنَّهُ يَقُولُ إِنَّهَا بَقَرَةٌ لَا فَارِضٌ وَلَا بِكْرٌ عَوَانٌ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ ۖ فَافْعَلُوا مَا تُؤْمَرُونَ
সিহঁতে ক’লে, ‘তুমি আমাৰ বাবে তোমাৰ প্ৰতিপালকৰ ওচৰত দুআ কৰা, তেওঁ যেন আমাক স্পষ্ট জনাই দিয়ে যে, সেই গাইজনী কেনেকুৱা হ’ব লাগে?’ মুছাই ক’লে, ‘আল্লাহে কৈছে, সেইজনী এনেকুৱা গাই হ’ব লাগে যিজনী বৃদ্ধাও নহয় পোৱালিও নহয়, বৰং মধ্যবয়সী। এতেকে তোমালোকক যি আদেশ কৰা হৈছে তাক পালন কৰা’।
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The general rule has been given that all pure and good things are permissible to you. Your questions are very clearly answered in the Qur’an 5:15, 15:1, 22:40. The Qur’an is for all times, and while the basic Laws and Principles remain immutable, minor details are intended to be flexible according to temporal and spatial requirements 11:1. This Day I have perfected your religious law for you, completed My favor upon you, and chosen for you Al-Islam as the Way of Life. 5:3).