Quran Chptr
2-42 (Pt-1,Stg-1)(L-73) -درس
قرآن
Concealing the Truth knowingly
Surah ‘Al-‘Baqarah (The Cow) – Chapter – 2)
BisMillaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful
وَلَا تَلْبِسُوا۟ ٱلْحَقَّ بِٱلْبَٰطِلِ وَتَكْتُمُوا۟ ٱلْحَقَّ وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ (42
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42. And confound not truth with
falsehood, and do not conceal the truth knowingly.
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42. Wa laa talbisul-Haqqa
bil-baatili wa taktumul-Haqqa wa ‘antum ta’-lamuun.
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Commentary
Laa talbisuu – (do not
confound). This word has been derived from labasa, which means “to
mix up a thing with any other, so that, it may become difficult to distinguish
among them i.e. to expose the false as true or to coat the lie as such that it
appears like really true.
Taktumuu – (do not
conceal). This word has come out from the word katama. Meaning of katama is
to conceal. There are two ways to change the Commands of God Almighty, which
are as under:
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Changing the meaning or the word itself.
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Concealing the truth.
The Children of Israel
used both methods to change the foretelling about the teachings of the Heavenly
Scriptures and the last Messenger, Muhammad (SallAllaahu alayHi wa AaliHii Wasallam). Due to destruction
of Torah, some commandments of God Almighty had been disappeared or lost, then
which commands remained in existence, those were changed by these people for
the sake of their own convenience for time being.
At the time of
ascension of Islam, the scholars from the Children of Israel had ruined the
remaining form of their religion. They used to change the commandments of those
Celestial Scriptures according to their wishes. Which Scriptures had been lost;
they had produced self written books with the names of those Heavenly Books.
Often, after writing paraphrase and explanation, these were mixed up with the
original text and they did not use to mark any difference between the two. The
scholar, priest or monk, who had the Heavenly Commandments, he used to reduce
or increase it for the sake of any worldly temptation or earnings greed.
The entire signs and
foretelling regarding the birth and prophet-hood of the last Messenger,
Muhammad (SallAllaahu
alayHi wa AaliHii Wasallam) did exist in their Holy Books. But when He (SallAllaahu alayHi wa
AaliHii Wasallam) was born, they began to hide these all signs due to burning in
the fire of their jealousy and began to narrate from some of them by
perverting. So, God Almighty commanded, “Confound not truth with falsehood, and
do not conceal the truth knowingly. Due to your depravity, other people go astray
also.”
Purpose of discussion
regarding important incidents of the history in respect of the Children of
Israel, which Holy Qur’an describes, is that the Jews might be
informed about their evils on one side, and on the other hand, the Muslims
should be caused to understand properly that there is no scope in the religion
for these kinds of misguidance. So, we should meditate in these events, which
our Lord, Allah Almighty has revealed for us in the Holy Qur’aan,
and the rising and wretchedness of the Children of Israel. We should not
cause to grow the badness and evils in ourselves like this.
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