البينة
Al-Bayyinah
The Clear Proof • madinah • 8 Verses
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لَمْ يَكُنِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ مِنْ أَهْلِ ٱلْكِتَٰبِ وَٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ مُنفَكِّينَ حَتَّىٰ تَأْتِيَهُمُ ٱلْبَيِّنَةُ
16:34.
Important Words:
منفکین is derived from انفک. They say انفک الشیء عن الشیء i.e. the thing became separated from another thing. ما انفک یفعل کذاmeans, he continued to do so or did not cease to do so or did not desist from doing so (Lane & Aqrab).
Commentary:
The Quran has divided all disbelievers into two categories—the People of the Book and the idolaters, i.e. those who do not believe in any revealed Scripture. The verse purports to say that before the advent of the Holy Prophet those who had received revealed guidance as well as those who were complete strangers to it were all sunk in immorality and iniquity and had held false beliefs and wrong ideals and principles, and that if the Holy Prophet had not come and the Quran had not been revealed, they would have continued to flounder in darkness. It is to this universal moral decline that the Quran has referred in the words ظھر الفساد فی البر والبحر i.e. corruption had appeared on land and on sea (30:42).
The Qur’an has divided all disbelievers into two categories—the People of the Book and the idolaters (those who do not believe in any revealed Scripture).
رَسُولٌ مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ يَتْلُوا۟ صُحُفًا مُّطَهَّرَةً
3:165; 62:3; 87:19.
Commentary:
The expression رسول من الله is case in apposition with the word البینة in the preceding verse. The word مطھرة (pure) signifies that the Quran is completely free from all possible flaws, blemishes or defects. It possesses, on the contrary all conceivable beauty and excellence.
3:165; 62:3.
فِيهَا كُتُبٌ قَيِّمَةٌ
Important Words:
قیمة (lasting) is derived from قام . They say قام بالامر i.e. he managed, conducted or superintended the affair. قومه means, he put it right or made it straight. قیم means, true, perfect; superintendent; guardian (Lane, Mufradat & Aqrab).
Commentary:
The Quran is the compendium of all that is good, lasting and imperishable in the teachings of former revealed Scriptures, with a good deal more which those Scriptures lack but which man needed for his moral and spiritual development. All those right ideals and principles and ordinances and commandments which were of permanent utility to man have been incorporated in it. The Quran stands, as it were, not only as a guardian over those Books but comprises additional teachings that guard and protect man from moral decline and degeneration and teaches him how to make right use of his God-given faculties.
In the words صحفا مطھرة (pure Scriptures) stress is laid on the fact that the Quran has steered clear of all those defects and impurities which were found in the former Scriptures. In the expression دین القیمة (right religion) the emphasis is on those lasting and unalterable teachings which are its exclusive possession.
The Qur’an is a compendium of all that is good, lasting and imperishable in the teachings of former revealed Scriptures, with a good deal more which those Scriptures lacked, but which man sorely needed for his moral and spiritual development. All those right ideals and principles and ordinances and commandments which were of permanent utility to man have been incorporated in it. The Qur’an stands, as it were, as a guardian over those Books and has steered clear of all those defects and impurities which were found in them.
وَمَا تَفَرَّقَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ إِلَّا مِنۢ بَعْدِ مَا جَآءَتْهُمُ ٱلْبَيِّنَةُ
42:15; 45:18.
Commentary:
The verse means to say that the People of the Book had eagerly awaited the coming of a great Prophet about whom clear prophecies were found in their scriptures, but when he appeared in fact, then instead of accepting him they rejected him.
42:15; 45:18.
وَمَآ أُمِرُوٓا۟ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ مُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ ٱلدِّينَ حُنَفَآءَ وَيُقِيمُوا۟ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَيُؤْتُوا۟ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ ۚ وَذَٰلِكَ دِينُ ٱلْقَيِّمَةِ
31:33; 40:15.
Commentary:
دین (religion) means obedience; mastery; command; plan; righteousness; habit or custom; behaviour or conduct (Lane & Aqrab). The verse may signify:
(1) They should have rendered full and sincere obedience to Divine commandments.
(2) When they got mastery or ascendancy, they should have devoted all their power and prestige to obtaining God’s pleasure.
(3) All their plans should have been directed towards the achievement of the one supreme object—pleasure of God.
(4) Their fear of God and love for Him should have been completely sincere and honest.
(5) They should have imbibed Divine attributes; and all their friendships and enmities should have been for the sake of God.
إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ مِنْ أَهْلِ ٱلْكِتَٰبِ وَٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ فِى نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَآ ۚ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمْ شَرُّ ٱلْبَرِيَّةِ
إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمْ خَيْرُ ٱلْبَرِيَّةِ
3:199.
جَزَآؤُهُمْ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ جَنَّٰتُ عَدْنٍ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَآ أَبَدًا ۖ رَّضِىَ ٱللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا۟ عَنْهُ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ لِمَنْ خَشِىَ رَبَّهُۥ
9:72; 13:24; 16:32; 35:34.
36:12; 55:47; 67:13.
Commentary:
The highest stage of spiritual development is reached when man’s will becomes completely identified with the Will of God.
9:72; 13:24; 16:32; 35:34.
36:12; 55:47.
The highest stage of spiritual development is reached when man’s will becomes completely identified with the Divine Will.