Tafheem ul Quran
Surah 4 An-Nisa, Ayat 75-76
وَمَا لَـكُمۡ لَا تُقَاتِلُوۡنَ فِىۡ سَبِيۡلِ اللّٰهِ وَالۡمُسۡتَضۡعَفِيۡنَ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ وَالنِّسَآءِ وَالۡوِلۡدَانِ الَّذِيۡنَ يَقُوۡلُوۡنَ رَبَّنَاۤ اَخۡرِجۡنَا مِنۡ هٰذِهِ الۡـقَرۡيَةِ الظَّالِمِ اَهۡلُهَا ۚ وَاجۡعَلْ لَّـنَا مِنۡ لَّدُنۡكَ وَلِيًّا ۙۚ وَّاجۡعَلْ لَّـنَا مِنۡ لَّدُنۡكَ نَصِيۡرًا ؕ
﴿4:75﴾
اَلَّذِيۡنَ اٰمَنُوۡا يُقَاتِلُوۡنَ فِىۡ سَبِيۡلِ اللّٰهِ ۚ وَالَّذِيۡنَ كَفَرُوۡا يُقَاتِلُوۡنَ فِىۡ سَبِيۡلِ الطَّاغُوۡتِ فَقَاتِلُوۡۤا اَوۡلِيَآءَ الشَّيۡطٰنِۚ اِنَّ كَيۡدَ الشَّيۡطٰنِ كَانَ ضَعِيۡفًا
﴿4:76﴾
(4:75) How is it that you do not fight in the way of Allah and in support
of the helpless - men, women and children -who pray: 'Our Lord, bring us out
of this land whose people are oppressors and appoint for us from Yourself, a
protector, and appoint for us from Yourself a helper'?104 . (4:76) Those who have faith fight in the way of Allah, while those who disbelieve
fight in the way of taghut (Satan).105 Fight, then, against the fellows
of Satan. Surely Satan's strategy is weak.106
Notes
104. This refers to those wronged, persecuted men, women and children of
Makka and of the other tribes in Arabia who had embraced Islam, but were able
neither to emigrate nor to protect themselves from the wrongs to which they
were subjected. These helpless people suffered many forms of persecution, and
prayed for deliverance from oppression.
105. This lays down a clear verdict of God. To fight in the cause of God
in order that His religion be established on earth is the task of men of faith,
and whoever truly believes can never shirk this duty. To fight in the cause
of taghut (authority in defiance of God) in order that the world may be governed
by rebels against God is the task of unbelievers in which no believer can engage
himself.
106. Satan and his comrades-in-arms ostensibly undertake tremendous preparations
and contrive all kinds of ingenious machinations. True men of faith, however,
should not be intimidated either by such preparations or by machinations. For,
no matter what they do, they are doomed to fail.