Surah Al-Mujadila 58:14-22 - Quran Translation Commentary

14. Did you not see those people who befriended a people upon whom Allah’s wrath fell ³⁴ They are neither from you nor from them ³⁵ They swear to lie while they know.³⁶

15. Allah has prepared a severe torment for them. Whatever they are doing is indeed very bad.

16. They have made their oaths a shield.³⁷ They are preventing people from the way of³⁸ Allah for them is a humiliating torment.³⁹

17. Neither their wealth will save them from Allah’s wrath nor their children. They are the people of the Hell wherein they will dwell for ever.⁴⁰

18. The Day Allah will raise them all they will swear before Him as they swear before you.⁴¹ And they will think that they have some standing.⁴² Lo! verily they are the liars.

19. The Satan has overpowered them.⁴³ And has made them forget the remembrance of Allah.⁴⁴ They are the party of the satan. ⁴⁵ Lo! it is the satan’s party that shall be the losers.

20. Those who oppose Allah and His Prophet will be among the humiliated.

21. Allah has written down that I and MY Prophets will overcome ⁴⁶ Verily ALLAH is Powerful, Mighty.

22. Those who have Faith in Allah and the Last Day you will never find them befriending those who oppose Allah and his prophets,⁴⁷ even it they may be their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their kindered. ⁴⁸ These are the people in whose hearts Allah has implanted Faith and helped them through spirit from Him.⁴⁹ HE will admit them to gardens beneath which rivers now. They will reside therein forever. Allah will be well pleased with them and they will be well pleased with Allah.⁵⁰ These are the people of Allah’s party.⁵¹ Lo! Allah’s party will be successful.

Commentary

34. Allah’s wrath fell upon the yahood (Jews). The Munafiqs (hypocrites) had befriended these people. They were giving preference to the interests of the jews against the Muslims.

35.These pretenders were not sincere in their faith so as to be among Muslims nor were they really faithful to the Jews so as to be among them. They are the slaves of their greed and hence they are in touch with you as well as with them.

36. Taking false oaths they claim to be Muslims and are assuring the Muslims of their wellwishing.

37. By taking false oaths repeatedly they are trying to defend themselves.

38. They are indulging in such works and making conspiracies that obstruct the path to Islam.

39. Above it was stated that there is a severe punishment for them and now it is being mentioned that there is a humiliating torment for them. The severe punishment will be due to their hypocrisy and the humiliating one because of their mean minded activities against Muslims and Islam.

40. The hypocrites too, like the open disbelievers, will suffer the never ending torment in Hell.

41. Even on the Day of Judgment they will take false oaths to prove themselves innocent. It is mentioned in Surah Anaam that they will swear of their unconcern with polytheism:

(By Allah, our Lord! we were not polytheists). (Al-Anaam: 23)

42. They will think that by taking false oaths they will be able to prove themselves Faithful and thereby gain salvation.

43. Satan only plants doubts. But when man, after being impressed by him, hands over reins of his affairs to him, satan gets control over him and renders him deviate. This is what is meant by Satan’s overcoming.

44. The basic work done by Satan (devil) to deviate man is removing the remembrance of Allah from man’s heart and distracting his attention from HIM. After becoming careless in this way it becomes very easy for man to indulge in any kind of evil.

45. These hypocrites are the companions of Satan who dance at his (Devil’s) tune.

46. Allah has decided that those who have rebelled against Allah and His prophet will necessarily have to get defeated. Either a torment from the heaven (sky) will annihilate them or they will be given a thorough defeat in Warfield by Allah’s prophet and his companions. The hypocrites met with the latter event as a result of their opposition to the holy prophet.

For further clarification please see Surah Momin, Note:75.

47. No. true Momin (Faithful person) ever befriends an enemy of Allah. One and the same heart can not accommodate faithfulness and love of Allah as well as faithlessness and love of His enemies. In modern times a number of Muslims have under the influence of secularism, adopted the path of hypocrisy but the beautiful face of secularism cannot change the truth and the fact.

48. The ayah’s aim is that the Faithful must fight with the disbelievers unsparingly even if their kith and kin get hit. When they have opposed the Allah Almighty and His prophet and when they have waged a war against Allah’s religion, how can they get a soft corner in the hearts of true faithful. How can Muslims cultivate friendly relations with them? It is a clear demand of true Faith that an enemy of Allah should be regarded as our own enemy whosoever he may be. The honourable companions of the holy prophet established a very high example of this policy. They did not hesitate at all in killing their near and dear blood relations when they waged war against Islam and the prophet of Islam.

49. When they adopted the path of sincere faithfulness they got unseen divine help at critical moments. Allah granted them such a spirit that they did not care for anything and got prepared to fight with Allah’s enemies very courageously. This spirit of fighting (Jihad) is termed as “Roohum minh.’ (spirit from Him).

50. Those who got God’s pleasure got everything. Nothing remained out of their reach. Jannat (Paradise) is the manifestation of Allah’s pleasure. They were pleased with Allah. So Allah showed them the path to paradise.

51. In ayah 19 there was a mention of Satan’s party. Here is the description of Allah’s party which is sure to succeed.