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Holy
Quran Section
> English
Translation and Commentary of the Holy Quran by
Maulana Muhammad Ali (Table of
Contents)
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Chapter
3 (Al-‘Imran - The Family of
Amran)
> Section 9 (Verses 81 to 91) Section/Ruku 9
[Verses 81 to 91]: Covenant of the Prophets: 1. Translation: 82 Whoever then turns back after this, these are the transgressors. 83 Seek they then other than Allah’s religion? And to Him submits whoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him they will be returned.a 84 Say: We believe in Allah and that which is revealed to us, and that which was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes, and that which was given to Moses and Jesus and to the prophets from their Lord; we make no distinction between any of them, and to Him we submit. 85 And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will not be accepted from him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers.a 86 How shall Allah guide a people who disbelieved after their believing, and (after) they had borne witness that the Messenger was true, and clear arguments had come to them? And Allah guides not the unjust people.a 87 As for these, their reward is that on them is the curse of Allah and the angels and of men, all together — 88 Abiding therein. Their chastisement shall not be lightened, nor shall they be respiteda— 89 Except those who repent after that and amend, for surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. 90 Those who disbelieve after their believing, then increase in disbelief, their repentance is not accepted, and these are they that go astray.a 91 Those who disbelieve and die while they are disbelievers, the earth full of gold will not be accepted from one of them, though he should offer it as ransom. These it is for whom is a painful chastisement, and they shall have no helpers. 2. Commentary: 83a. Compare 13:15, 22:18, etc., where it is said that all those who are in the heavens and the earth make submission to Allah. The verse, in fact, shows that Islam, or the rule of submission to Divine law, is a law which is seen working throughout nature, and this is an argument of the truth of the religion of Islam. [Back to verse 83] 85a. The cosmopolitan nature of the religion of Islam having been clearly set forth in the previous verse, it is now stated that anyone who refused to accept such a religion would unfailingly lose in the end. A Muslim accepts the whole truth; the truth as revealed to any prophet anywhere in the world; the followers of other religions accept only partial truth, the truth as revealed to them only, not truth as revealed to all mankind. [Back to verse 85] 86a. The persons meant are those who believed in the former prophets and disbelieved in the Holy Prophet Muhammad. Having clear signs of the Prophet’s truth with them, and professing a belief in the prophets who had foretold the advent of the last of the prophets, they still disbelieved in him. How should Allah guide a people who thus rejected guidance? [Back to verse 86] 88a. Instead of hell here it is the curse — remoteness from God — in which the guilty shall abide, and thus a light is thrown upon the nature of hell. [Back to verse 88] 90a. The persons spoken of here are the same as those spoken of in v. 86. They believed in the previous prophets but rejected the Prophet Muhammad. Their repentance is not accepted, because they show no signs of real repentance. They continued to oppose, and tried to annihilate, the Truth. [Back to verse 90] Holy
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Translation and Commentary of the Holy Quran by
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> Section 9 (Verses 81 to 91)
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