Tafheem ul Quran
Surah 47 Muhammad, Ayat 7-11
يٰۤـاَيُّهَا الَّذِيۡنَ اٰمَنُوۡۤا اِنۡ تَـنۡصُرُوا اللّٰهَ يَنۡصُرۡكُمۡ وَيُثَبِّتۡ اَقۡدَامَكُمۡ
﴿47:7﴾
وَالَّذِيۡنَ كَفَرُوۡا فَتَعۡسًا لَّهُمۡ وَاَضَلَّ اَعۡمَالَهُمۡ
﴿47:8﴾
ذٰلِكَ بِاَنَّهُمۡ كَرِهُوۡا مَاۤ اَنۡزَلَ اللّٰهُ فَاَحۡبَطَ اَعۡمَالَهُمۡ
﴿47:9﴾
اَفَلَمۡ يَسِيۡرُوۡا فِى الۡاَرۡضِ فَيَنۡظُرُوۡا كَيۡفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الَّذِيۡنَ مِنۡ قَبۡلِهِمۡؕ دَمَّرَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيۡهِمۡ وَلِلۡكٰفِرِيۡنَ اَمۡثَالُهَا
﴿47:10﴾
ذٰ لِكَ بِاَنَّ اللّٰهَ مَوۡلَى الَّذِيۡنَ اٰمَنُوۡا وَاَنَّ الۡكٰفِرِيۡنَ لَا مَوۡلٰى لَهُمۡ
﴿47:11﴾
(47:7) Believers, if you aid Allah, He will come to your aid12
and will plant your feet firmly. (47:8) As to those who disbelieve, perdition lies in store for them13
and Allah has reduced their works to nought. (47:9) That was because they were averse to what Allah had revealed;14
so He let their works go to waste. (47:10) Have they not journeyed through the land to see the end of those
who went before them? Allah utterly destroyed them. These unbelievers are doomed
to the same end.15 (47:11) That is because Allah is the Protector of the believers whereas the
unbelievers have none to protect them.16
Notes
12. If you help Allah: If you participate in the work of raising Allah’s
Word with your life and wealth. But this has a deeper meaning too, which we
have explained in (E.N. 50 of Surah Aal-Imran). 8
13. Literally, to stumble and fall down on the face.
14. That is, they preferred the whims, superstitions, customs and moral perversion
of their former ignorance and did not like the teaching that Allah had revealed
to guide them to the right way.
15. This sentence has two meanings:
(1) The same destruction that was met by those disbelievers now awaits these
disbelievers, who are not accepting the invitation of Muhammad (peace be upon
him).
(2) The ruin of those people does not end with the torment of the world;
the same doom also awaits them in the Hereafter.
16. After being wounded at Uhud when the Prophet (peace be upon him) was
resting in a hill pass with a few companions, Abu Sufyan shouted: We have Uzza
and there is no Uzza for you. Thereupon the Prophet (peace be upon him) told
his companions to respond, saying: Our Protector and helper is Allah, and you
have no protector and helper at all. This reply of the Prophet (peace be upon
him) was derived from this very verse.