What Has Been Said Concerning the Reason for Mankinds Disbelief and Rejection of Their Religion-it is Exaggerated Praise of the Righteous Allah , says: Oh, you People of the Book! Commit not excesses in your religion, nor say of Allah anything but the truth. The Messiah, `Eisa, the son of Maryam is no more than a Messenger of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed upon Maryam, and a Spirit proceeding from Him: So believe in Allah and His Messengers. Say not Three-desist: It will be better for you: For Allah is one God, glory be to Him [Far exalted is He] above having a son. To him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs (Quran 4:171) In this verse, Allah , Most High, forbids the Jews and Christians from exaggeration and excess in their religion, such as the deifecation by the Christians of `Eisa (as ), the son of Maryam, while the Jews went to the opposite extreme, rejecting him, but Allah refutes the claims of both, by describing Eisa (as ) as His Messenger and a Spirit from amongst the spirits created by Allah , and therefore they are obliged to believe truly in Allah , Alone, without attributing fathers, sons, wives or companions to Him, and to believe in all of the Messengers and not to belie them and not to elevate them above their true status, and to reject the belief in the trinity, and to affirm their belief in Allah as the only God Who has the right to be worshipped, as the only Rabb, Owner and Creator of the whole universe, and the sole Guardian of all creatures. Benefits Derived From This Verse 1. The forbiddance of excess in religion. 2. The prohibition of speaking according to ones own opinion in matters of religion without evidence. 3. Affirmation of the Prophethood and Messengership of Eisa. 4. A refutation of the claims of the Jews and Christians regarding the status of Eisa. 5. Affirmation of Allahs Divine Attribute of Speech. 6. Evidence of the falseness of the belief in the trinity. 7. That every aspect of Tawheed represents goodness. Relevance of This Verse to the Subject of the Chapter That the verse proves that the cause of the People of the Book leaving their religion was, in the case of the Christians, their excessive praise and glorification of Eisa (as ), and in the case of the Jews, their vilification of him. Relevance of This Verse to the Subject of Tawheed That the Christians exceeded in their praise of Eisa (as ) until they deified him and worshipped him as a partner with Allah . ..ooOOoo.. Allah , says: And they said: Do not abandon your gods: Do not abandon Wadd, nor Yaghooth, or Yaooq, or Nasr, and they have led many astray. And [oh, Allah!] Grant increase to the wrong-doers save error (Quran 71:23-24) Allah , Most Glorified, Most High, informs us in this verse about polytheists: That they are devoted to the worship of their idols as evidenced by their advising each other to worship them and not to abandon them, in particular, those mentioned in the verse. Then He, Most Glorified, Most High, makes plain that they have caused many to go astray by their false advice, and they are described as wrong-doers who deserve their punishment and who are far astray from the Straight Path of Allah . Benefits Derived From This Verse 1. That Shirk was present among the former communities. 2. That these five names mentioned in the verse are the names of the idols of the people of Nooh. 3. Evidence of the mutual cooperation of the people who practice falsehood in the perpetuation of that falsehood. 4. That permissibility of supplicating Allah against the unbelievers in general. Relevance of This Verse to the Subject of the Chapter The relevance of this verse to the subject of the chapter may be realized from the tafseer1 of some of the mufassiroon2: It is stated that these names were the names of righteous men and that their people became excessive in their love of them so that when they died, Satan whispered to them that they should make pictures of them in order to remember them; then later, when those people died, the original purpose of the pictures was forgotten and the succeeding generations began to worship them.3 Relevance of Verse to the Subject to Tawheed That the verse proves that exaggeration and excessive veneration of the righteous is an act of Shirk because doing so means that one attributes to a created being what should only be attributed to Allah , thus making them partners with Allah . ..ooOOoo.. It is reported on the authority of `Umar (ra) that the Messenger of Allah (may Peace Be Upon Him) said: Do not extoll me as the Christians extolled the son of Maryam (as ); I am no more than a slave (of Allah) and so (instead), say: Allahs Slave and His Messenger.4 In this Hadith, the Prophet (may Peace Be Upon Him) forbids his Ummah to praise him excessively so that they may never raise him above the status in which Allah has placed him. Then he makes plain that the correct way in which to speak of him is as a dependent, worshiping slave of Allah , Most Blessed, Most High, and His (may Peace Be Upon Him) Messenger; and this entails believing him in all that he says, and obeying him in what he commands abstaining from what he forbids and knowing that Allah may not be worshipped except in accordance with the Law which He has ordained. Benefits Derived From This Hadith The forbiddance of exceeding in praise of the Prophets and the righteous. The care taken by the Prophet to prevent any means that might lead to sin. Evidence of the Christians exaggeration in their praise of Eisa (as ). Refutation of those who claim that Muhammad (may Peace Be Upon Him) was more than a Messenger.
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