QURAN CHAPTER - 49
Al-Hujurat - The Rooms
Revealed - Madinan
Ruku - 4
Ayat - 18
Theme - The subject matter of this Surah is to teach the Muslims the manners worthy of true believers.
- In the first 5 verses they have been taught the manners they should observe with regard to Allah and His Messenger.
- Then, they have been given the instruction that it is not right to believe in every news blindly and to act according to it, without due thought.
- If information is received about a person, a group or a community, it should be seen carefully whether the means of the information is reliable or not.
- If the means is not reliable, it should be tested and examined to see whether the news is authentic or not before taking any action on it.
- Then, it has been told what attitude should the other Muslims adopt in case two groups of the Muslims fall to mutual fighting.
- Then the Muslims have been exhorted to safeguard against the evils that corrupt collective life and spoil mutual relationships.
- Mocking and taunting each other, calling others by nicknames, creating suspicions, prying into other people's affairs and back biting are the evils which are not only sins in themselves but they also corrupt society.
- After this, the national and racial distinctions that cause universal corruption in the world have been condemned.
- Nations and tribes and families pride of Ancestry and their looking down upon others as inferior to themselves and their pulling down others only for the sake of establishing their own superiority is an important factor that has filled the world with injustices and tyranny.
- Allah in a brief verse has cut at the root of this evil by stating that all men are descendants of the same one pair and their division into tribes and communities is only for the sake of recognition, not for boasting and pride, and there is no lawful basis of one man's superiority over the other except on the basis of moral excellence.
In conclusion, the people have been told that the real thing is not the verbal Profession of the Faith but to believe in Allah and His messenger truly, to obey them in practical life and to exert sincerely with one's self and wealth in the cause of Allah.
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