QURAN CHAPTER - 109
Al-Kaafiroon – The Disbelievers
Revealed - Meccan
Ruku - 1
Ayat - 6
Theme - The theme of this Surah is: The correct attitude towards those who reject faith.
- This Surah was not revealed to preach religious tolerance as some people of today seem to think, but it was revealed in order to exonerate the Muslims from the disbelievers religion, their rites of worship, and their gods, and to express their total disgust and unconcern with them and to tell them that Islam and kufr had nothing in common and there was no possibility of their being combined and mixed into one entity.
- Although it was addressed in the beginning to the disbelieving Quraish in response to their proposals of compromise, yet it is not confined to them only, but having made it a part of the Quran, Allah gave the Muslims the eternal teaching that they should exonerate themselves by word and deed from the creed of kufr wherever and in whatever form it be, and should declare without any reservation that they cannot make any compromise with the disbelievers in the matter of Faith.
- As for the esteem in which the Holy Prophet (SAW) held this Surah, it can be judged from the following Hadiths:
- Hadrat Abdullah bin Umar (RA) has related that on many occasion he heard the Holy Prophet recite Surahs Qul Ya-Ayyuhal-Kafirun and Qul Huwu-Allahu-Ahad in the 2 rakahs before the Fajr obligatory Prayer and in the 2 rakahs after the Maghrib obligatory Prayer. Tirmidhi
- Hadrat Khabbab (RA) says: "The Holy Prophet (SAW) said to me: when you lie down in bed to sleep, recite Qul Ya-Ayyuhal-Kafirun, and this was the Holy Prophet's own practice also; when he lay down to sleep, he recited this Surah." Tabarani
- According to Ibn Abbas, the Holy Prophet (SAW) said to the people: "Should I tell you the word which will protect you from polytheism? It is that you should recite Qul Ya-Ayyuhal-Kafirun when you go to bed." Tabarani
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