38- SHOULD THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE REFRAIN, THEY WILL
BE FORGIVEN WHAT THEY DID IN THE PAST, BUT IF THEY RETURN TO DOING THE SAME,
THEN THE EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE DID TO PEOPLE EARLIER HAS BEEN SHOWN.
39- FIGHT THEM SO THAT THERE WILL BE NO TEMPTATION
AND PROSECUTION AND THE WHOLE RELIGION BECOMES ONLY THAT OF ALLAH’S, BUT IF
THEY REFRAIN, THEN ALLAH SEES AND KNOWS ALL THEY DO.
40- BUT IF THEY TURN BACK, THEN KNOW THAT ALLAH IS
YOUR GUARDIAN AND ALLY, AND HE IS THE BEST GUARDIAN AND ALLY.
Allah the Highest is telling us about three important
principles in these three Ayahs:
1-Repenting from
sin leads to total forgiveness.This
includes all sins, which involves disbelieving in Allah the Highest.Allah’s
messenger prayer and peace upon him said: “Islam pardons whatever sins
committed beforehand and repentance pardons what was committed beforehand”.(Muslim: Eman & A:4;205)
As for
those who continue sinning, the same sins after Islam, they will have to
account for their sins before as well as after Islam.Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him
said: “Whoever does good deeds in Islam, he does
not have to answer for what he did before Islam, and whoever does evil in
Islam, he will have to account for what he did before and after Islam”.(Bukhari & Muslim & Darmy &
Ahmed)
Indeed,
Allah the Highest promised the sinful and idle worshippers who become Muslims,
and do good deed, to be rewards by rewarding them for the sins committed as if
they were good deeds do.Allah the
Highest said: “EXCEPT THOSE WHO REPENT, BELIEVE
AND DO GOOD DEEDS, ALLAH WILL TURN THEIR SINS INTO GOOD DEEDS, AND ALLAH IS
MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL * FOR HE WHO REPENTS AND DOES GOOD DEEDS, HE
HAS TRULY REPENTED TO ALLAH”.(S: 25 A: 70-71)
2-The Muslims Should
be fighting the disbelievers who fight the Muslims and who try to tempt them
from their faith, and corrupt their life and character.Those who work on corrupting our Religion
should be fought, but when they stop, we should stop fighting them.
This
fighting does not always have to involve taking arms against them, for there
are other and possibly better ways, depending on the circumstances.Words, education and giving good example may
succeed where armed struggle does not.
Allah
the Highest will punish such people now and in the future just as He did in the
past, for Allah is the same God and the policy is the same policy.
3-Should people
turn their back on us, and we do not have any help and support in this cause,
and should we have no allies of people, Allah’s support is sufficient.Allah the Highest is the best Guardian, Allay
and Supporter for the believers, and if we have Him on our side, and struggle
as we should, no one can defeat us.Allah
the Highest said: “SHOULD ALLAH SUPPORTS YOU, NO ONE
CAN DEFEAT YOU; BUT IF HE ABANDONS YOU, NO ONE CAN SUPPORT YOU AFTER HIM, AND
IN ALLAH THE BELIEVERS SHOULD PUT THEIR TRUST”.(S:3 A:160)
When we see that Allah the Highest is Not Supporting us
against our enemies, we should look carefully at ourselves to see what is it we
do that deviates us from Allah’s Path and deprive us from His help and support.
