SURAH AL-IMRAN (AYAH 181 to 190)

SECTION 19

Jewish carpings at the Apostle

Jewish carpings at the Apostle’s calling for subscriptions---The Jews rejecting every Prophet who did not follow the Mosaic Law---Muslims to bear losses and hardships.

لَقَدْ سَمِعَ اللَّهُ قَوْلَ الَّذِينَ قَالُوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ فَقِيرٌ وَنَحْنُ أَغْنِيَاءُ ۘ سَنَكْتُبُ مَا قَالُوا وَقَتْلَهُمُ الْأَنْبِيَاءَ بِغَيْرِ حَقٍّ وَنَقُولُ ذُوقُوا عَذَابَ الْحَرِيقِ {3:181}

[Q3:181] Laqad sami'al laahu qawlal lazeena qaalooo innal laaha faqeerunw wa nahnu aghniyaaa'; sanaktubu maa qaaloo wa qatlahumul Ambiyaa'a bighairi haqqinw wa naqoolu zooqoo 'azaaba Ihreeq. 
[Q3:181] ALLAH (SWT) has certainly heard the saying of those who said: Surely ALLAH (SWT) is poor and we are rich. I will record what they say, and their killing the prophets unjustly, and I will say: Taste the chastisement of burning.

[Q3:181] Sesungguhnya ALLAH (SwT) telah mendengar perkataan orang-orang (Yahudi) yang mengatakan: Bahawasanya ALLAH (SwT) miskin dan kami ialah orang-orang kaya. Kami (ALLAH (SwT)) akan menuliskan perkataan mereka itu dan perbuatan mereka membunuh Nabi-nabi dengan tidak ada alasan yang membenarkannya dan Kami akan katakan kepada mereka: Rasalah kamu azab seksa yang sentiasa membakar. 

Banu Qaynqa, a Jewish tribe, were money-lenders and goldsmiths.

°          They were invited to embrace Islam, and the Holy Prophet (ALLAHuma sali ala Muhammad wa ala ali Muhammad) wrote to them exhorting, among other things, to "lend unto ALLAH (SWT) a goodly loan" (refer to commentary of al Baqarah 2:245).

°          Phineas bin Azura, a leading Jew, thought it fit to make fun of the expression, and mockingly remarked: "Surely ALLAH (SWT) is poor, since they seek to borrow for Him". The Jews who had the hardihood to slay their own prophets want only (al Baqarah 2:61) were not unlikely persons to utter words like these.

They mocked at the messengers of ALLAH (SWT), killed them, despised ALLAH (SWT)'s words and belied His prophets. They shall, surely, taste the torment of the burning.

And the Jews say: "ALLAH (SWT)'s hand is tied-up". Tied be their own hands, and damned be they for saying what they say! Nay, both His hands are open wide: He expends as He pleases. That which has been revealed to you from your Lord will certainly increase many of them in rebellion and infidelity. So We have caused enmity and hatred among them (which will last) till the day of resurrection. As often as they ignite a fire for war, ALLAH (SWT) extinguishes it. Yet they strive to spread corruption in the land, and ALLAH (SWT) does not love corrupters. (Ma-idah 5:64)

THOSE WHO ATTACH IMPORTANCE TO TEMPORAL POWER AND POSSESSIONS, LIKE THE JEWS, fail to assess the true potential and force of the spiritual and godly ability and authority.

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(3:181) Allah has heard the saying of those who said: 'Allah is poor, and we are rich. *128 We shall record what they have said, and the fact of their slaying the Prophets unjustly, and we shall say to them: Taste now the torment of the Fire.

*128. This statement was made by the Jews. On the revelation of the Qur'anic verse (2: 245): 'Who of you will lend Allah a goodly loan?', the Jews began to ridicule it and said: 'Look, God has now gone bankrupt and has begun to beg of His creatures for loans.' (For this statement made by the Jews see the Tradition mentioned by Ibn Kathir in his comments on this verse - Ed.) 

ذَٰلِكَ بِمَا قَدَّمَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ لَيْسَ بِظَلَّامٍ لِلْعَبِيدِ {3:182}

[Q3:182] Zaalika bimaa qaddamat aideekum wa annal laaha laisa bizallaamil lil'abeed.

[Q3:182] This is for what your own hands have sent before and because ALLAH (SWT) is not in the least unjust to the servants.
[Q3:182] (Azab seksa) yang demikian itu ialah disebabkan perbuatan yang telah dilakukan oleh tangan kamu sendiri dan (ingatlah), sesungguhnya ALLAH (SwT) tidak sekali-kali berlaku zalim kepada hamba-hambaNya. 

ALLAH (SWT) IS NOT UNJUST TO ANY OF HIS CREATURES. PUNISHMENT IS ONLY AN OUTCOME OF THE CULPRIT'S OWN DOINGS. In this connection refer to Ha Mim Sajdah 32:46; Jathiyah 45:15 and Zilzal 99:7 and 8.

(FOR VERSE 183)

"And the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. Fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the whole-offering." (Leviticus 9: 23 and 24). Also refer to John 13: 20 to 23; the First book of King 18: 38;  The first book of the Chronicles 21: 26; The second book of the Chronicles 7: 1.

Fire was regarded by the Jews "as one of the agents of divine will", and divine fire was expected to consume the acceptable offering. In the ancient Jewish religion and many others fire is the means whereby offerings are transmitted to the deity. And it was also perhaps this deep-rooted superstition that led the Jews of later times to offer their children as sacrifice to Molch, the God of fire.

SO, the Jews said to the Holy Prophet (ALLAHuma sali ala Muhammad wa ala ali Muhammad) that ALLAH (SWT) had charged them to believe in no prophet until he works this miracle.

Ì  FIRSTLY ALLAH (SWT)’s power may not always manifest through one and the same miracle, BECAUSE the intellect and the temperament of the people have been undergoing a constant change in upward direction. The appearance of fire to consume sacrifices offered was only suitable to the intellect of the Jews of the ancient times.

     IN ISLAM, the final, perfected and completed religion of ALLAH (SWT), ALLAH (SWT) is beneficent and merciful, and so in all accounts where a manifestation of ALLAH (SWT) is spoken of allegorically, He is represented as light (nur), never as fire.

§  It is stated in verse 24:35 of al Nur that the glow is without fire-no fire has touched it (light upon light).

§  It is not the meat or blood of the sacrificed animals that reaches ALLAH (SWT). It is the fealty of your heart that reaches Him (Hajj 22:37).

Ì  SECONDLY, if it was the working of this particular miracle that could generate belief in the Jews, and their hesitating and refusing to believe in the Holy Prophet (ALLAHuma sali ala Muhammad wa ala ali Muhammad) was on account of it, why then did they refuse to believe in those prophets who had wrought it (among other miracles), and even impetuously murdered them!

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(3:182) That is in recompense for what you have done.' Allah does no wrong to His servants.

الَّذِينَ قَالُوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَهِدَ إِلَيْنَا أَلَّا نُؤْمِنَ لِرَسُولٍ حَتَّىٰ يَأْتِيَنَا بِقُرْبَانٍ تَأْكُلُهُ النَّارُ ۗ قُلْ قَدْ جَاءَكُمْ رُسُلٌ مِنْ قَبْلِي بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ وَبِالَّذِي قُلْتُمْ فَلِمَ قَتَلْتُمُوهُمْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَادِقِينَ {3:183}

[Q3:183] Allazeena qaalooo innal laaha 'ahida ilainaaa allaa nu'mina liRasoolin hatta yaa tiyanaa biqurbaanin taa kuluhun naar; qul qad jaaa'akum Rusulum min qablee bilbaiyinaati wa billazee qultum falima qataltumoohum in kuntum saadiqeen

[Q3:183] (Those are they) who said: Surely ALLAH (SWT) has enjoined us that we should not believe in any messenger until he brings us an offering which the fire consumes. Say: Indeed, there came to you messengers before me with clear arguments and with that which you demand; why then did you kill them if you are truthful?

[Q3:183] Orang-orang (Yahudi itulah) yang berkata: Sebenarnya ALLAH (SwT) telah perintahkan kami, supaya kami jangan beriman kepada seseorang Rasul sehingga dia membawa kepada kami korban yang dimakan api. Katakanlah (wahai Muhammad): Sesungguhnya telah datang kepada kamu beberapa Rasul dahulu daripadaku dengan membawa keterangan-keterangan (mukjizat) yang nyata dan dengan (korban) yang kamu katakan itu, oleh itu mengapa kamu membunuh mereka, jika kamu orang-orang yang benar (pada dakwaan kamu itu)?
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(3:183) To those who say: 'Allah has directed us that we accept none as Messenger until he makes an offering that the fire will consume', say: 'Other Messengers came to you before me with clear signs, and with the sign you have mentioned. So why did you slay them, if what you say is true? *129

*129. The Bible mentions at several places that the token of Divine acceptance of a person's sacrificial offering was the appearance of a mysterious fire which consumed the offering. (See Judges 6: 20-1 and 13: 19-20; 2 Chronicles 7: 1-2.) The Bible does not state, however, that the consuming fire was an indispensable token of prophethood and that anyone not endowed with that miracle could not be a Prophet. The Jews in discussing the claim of Muhammad (peace be on him) to be a Messenger of God brought up the question of this miraculous sign, and used it as a pretext for denying that claim. There was even clearer evidence of the Jews' hostility to Truth: they had not hesitated to murder a number of Prophets who had been endowed with the miracle of consuming fire. The Bible mentions, for example, the Prophet Elijah who had challenged the worshippers of Ba'l to sacrifice a bull, promising that he too would sacrifice a bull. He stated that the offering of the one who was truthful would be consumed by the miraculous fire. The confrontation took place before a large crowd and it was Elijah's sacrifice which was consumed by the fire. This so antagonized the Ba'1-worshipping Queen that the henpecked King decided to put the Prophet Elijah to death. Elijah was forced to leave his homeland and take refuge in the mountains of Sinai. (See 1 Kings 18 and 19.) The Jews are told in effect: 'How dare you ask for the miracle of the consuming fire when in the past you have not even refrained from murdering Prophets who performed that miracle?' 

فَإِنْ كَذَّبُوكَ فَقَدْ كُذِّبَ رُسُلٌ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ جَاءُوا بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ وَالزُّبُرِ وَالْكِتَابِ الْمُنِيرِ {3:184}

[Q3:184] Fa in kaz zabooka faqad kuz ziba Rusulum min qablika jaaa'oo bilbaiyinaati waz Zuburi wal Kitaabil Muneer.

[Q3:184] But if they reject you, so indeed were rejected before you messengers who came with clear arguments and scriptures and the illuminating book.
[Q3:184] Oleh itu jika mereka mendustakanmu (wahai Muhammad, maka janganlah engkau berdukacita), kerana sesungguhnya Rasul-rasul yang terdahulu daripadamu telah didustakan juga; mereka telah membawa keterangan-keterangan (mukjizat) yang nyata dan Kitab-kitab (nasihat pengajaran), serta Kitab (Syariat) yang terang jelas. 

THOSE WHO BELIED THE HOLY PROPHET (ALLAHUMA SALI ALA MUHAMMAD WA ALA ALI MUHAMMAD) HAD ALREADY BELIED OTHER PROPHETS, BEFORE HIM, although they had come with clear evidences (miracles), scriptures (zubur-laws and ordinances revealed to prophets) and the enlightening books (Tawrat and Injil).

All the heavenly scriptures have been accommodated in the universal book (Hijr 15:1).

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(3:184) Now, if they give the lie to you, then other Messengers who came bearing clear signs and scriptures and the illuminating Book were also given the lie before you.

كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ ۗ وَإِنَّمَا تُوَفَّوْنَ أُجُورَكُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ ۖ فَمَنْ زُحْزِحَ عَنِ النَّارِ وَأُدْخِلَ الْجَنَّةَ فَقَدْ فَازَ ۗ وَمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا مَتَاعُ الْغُرُورِ {3:185}

[Q3:185] Kulu nafsin zaaa'iqatul mawt; wa innamaa tuwaffawna ujoorakum Yawmal Qiyaamati faman zuhziha 'anin Naari waudkhilal Jannata faqad faaz; wa mal hayaatud dunyaaa illaa mataa'ul ghuroor.

[Q3:185] Every soul shall taste of death, and you shall only be paid fully your reward on the resurrection day; then whoever is removed far away from the fire and is made to enter the garden he indeed has attained the object; and the life of this world is nothing but a provision of vanities.
[Q3:185] Tiap-tiap yang bernyawa akan merasai mati dan bahawasanya pada hari kiamat sahajalah akan disempurnakan balasan kamu. Ketika itu sesiapa yang dijauhkan dari Neraka dan dimasukkan ke Syurga maka sesungguhnya dia telah berjaya dan (ingatlah bahawa) kehidupan di dunia ini (meliputi segala kemewahannya dan pangkat kebesarannya) tidak lain hanyalah kesenangan bagi orang-orang yang terpedaya.

EVERYTHING, BESIDE ALLAH (SWT), WILL KNOW THE TASTE OF DEATH. NOTHING, SAVE ALLAH (SWT), IS PERMANENT IN ITS EXISTENCE. Also refer to verse 62:8 of al Jumu-ah and verses 63:9 to 11 of al Munafiqun.

ß  THIS AWARENESS OF CERTAIN DEATH MAKES MAN DO GOOD AND AVOID EVIL, so as to prepare himself for the inevitable day of reckoning, BECAUSE THE LIFE of this world is a merchandise of vanity-deceptive, unreal, insubstantial, as compared with the everlasting hereafter.

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(3:185) Everyone is bound to taste death and you shall receive your full reward on the Day of Resurrection. Then, whoever is spared the Fire and is admitted to Paradise has indeed been successful. The life of this world is merely an illusory enjoyment. *130

*130. Whoever considers the effects of his actions in this earthly life to be of crucial significance, and sees in them the criteria of right and wrong, the criteria of that which leads either to one's ultimate salvation or to one's doom, falls prey to a serious misconception. The fact that a person is outstandingly successful in life does not necessarily prove that he is either not prove that he has either strayed from the right way or is out of favour with God. The earthly results of a man's actions are often quite different from the ones he will see in the Next Life. What is of true importance is what will happen in that eternal life rather than in this transient one. 

لَتُبْلَوُنَّ فِي أَمْوَالِكُمْ وَأَنْفُسِكُمْ وَلَتَسْمَعُنَّ مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ وَمِنَ الَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُوا أَذًى كَثِيرًا ۚ وَإِنْ تَصْبِرُوا وَتَتَّقُوا فَإِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ مِنْ عَزْمِ الْأُمُورِ {3:186}

[Q3:186] Latublawunna feee amwaalikum wa anfusikum wa latasma'unna minal lazeena ootul Kitaaba min qablikum wa minal lazeena ashrakooo azan kaseeraa; wa in tasbiroo wa tattaqoo fa inna zaalika min 'azmil umoor.

[Q3:186] You shall certainly be tried respecting your wealth and your souls, and you shall certainly hear from those who have been given the Book before you and from those who are polytheists much annoying talk; and if you are patient and guard (against evil), surely this is one of the affairs (which should be) determined upon.
[Q3:186] Demi sesungguhnya, kamu akan diuji pada harta benda dan diri kamu dan demi sesungguhnya, kamu akan mendengar dari orang-orang yang telah diberikan Kitab dahulu daripada kamu dan orang-orang yang musyrik: Banyak (tuduhan-tuduhan dan cacian) yang menyakitkan hati. Dalam pada itu jika kamu bersabar dan bertakwa maka sesungguhnya yang demikian itu adalah dari perkara-perkara yang dikehendaki diambil berat (melakukannya).

THE BELIEVERS WILL, NONETHELESS, BE TRIED IN THEIR **POSSESSIONS AND IN **THEIR PERSONS. The people of the book, the Jews and the Christians, and the polytheists will say many hurtful sayings in the way of ridicule of the prophet and other things provocative to the believers.

So they ought to accustom themselves to patience and piety because it is ALLAH (SWT)'s resolve about human affairs.

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(3:186) (Believers!) You will certainly be put to test in respect of your properties and lives, and you will certainly hear many hurtful things from those who were granted the Book before you and those who have associated others with Allah in His divinity. If you remain patient and God-fearing *131 this indeed is a matter of great resolution.

*131. Muslims should not lose their self-control in the face of the Jews' invidious taunts and slander. The Jews' accusations, debased talk and false propaganda should not provoke the Muslims into adopting a posture either inconsistent with truth and justice or with the dignity, decorum and high standards of moral conduct that become men of faith. 

وَإِذْ أَخَذَ اللَّهُ مِيثَاقَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ لَتُبَيِّنُنَّهُ لِلنَّاسِ وَلَا تَكْتُمُونَهُ فَنَبَذُوهُ وَرَاءَ ظُهُورِهِمْ وَاشْتَرَوْا بِهِ ثَمَنًا قَلِيلًا ۖ فَبِئْسَ مَا يَشْتَرُونَ {3:187}

[Q3:187] Wa iz akhazal laahu meesaaqal lazeena ootul Kitaaba latubaiyinunnahoo linnaasi wa laa taktumoona hoo fanabazoohu waraaa'a zuhoorihim washtaraw bihee samanan qaleelan fabi'sa maa yashtaroon.
[Q3:187] And when ALLAH (SWT) made a covenant with those who were given the Book: You shall certainly make it known to men and you shall not hide it; but they cast it behind their backs and took a small price for it; so evil is that which they buy.

[Q3:187] Dan (ingatlah) ketika ALLAH (SwT) mengambil perjanjian setia dari orang-orang yang telah diberikan Kitab (iaitu): Demi sesungguhnya! Hendaklah kamu menerangkan isi Kitab itu kepada umat manusia dan jangan sekali-kali kamu menyembunyikannya. Kemudian mereka membuang (perjanjian setia) itu ke belakang mereka, serta mereka menukarnya dengan mengambil faedah dunia yang sedikit. Maka amatlah buruknya apa yang mereka dapati dari penukaran (Kalamullah dan janjiNya) itu.

Please refer to al Baqarah 2:40. The Jews and the Christians knew fully well that the Holy Prophet (ALLAHuma sali ala Muhammad wa ala ali Muhammad) was the promised prophet clearly mentioned in their books, [1] BUT not only did they suppress the information [2] BUT also made changes in the revealed books so as to keep the people in darkness.

THEY DID NOT FULFIL THE COVENANT THEY MADE WITH ALLAH (SWT) FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLDLY GAINS. THEY BARTERED IT FOR A SMALL PRICE.

Ì  The followers of the Holy Prophet (ALLAHuma sali ala Muhammad wa ala ali Muhammad) also failed to fulfil the covenant they made with ALLAH (SWT) through the Holy Prophet (ALLAHuma sali ala Muhammad wa ala ali Muhammad) at Ghadeer Khum. See commentary of al Ma-idah 5:67.

Imam Ali says:

[1] That ALLAH (SWT) takes a promise from the ignorant to learn from those who know the truth;

[2] And the knowing scholars undertake to teach those who know very little or do not know anything at all.

 VILE IS THE SCHOLAR WHO DOES NOT MAKE KNOWN THE TRUTH, AND LETS THE UNKNOWING REMAIN IGNORANT.

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(3:187) And recall when Allah took a covenant from those who were given the Book: 'You shall explain it to men and not hide it. *132 Then they cast the Book behind their backs, and sold it away for a trivial gain. Evil indeed is their bargain.

*132. Although the Jews remembered that some Prophets had been endowed with the miracle of consuming fire, they conveniently forgot their covenant with God at the time they were entrusted with the Scripture, and their mission as the bearers of the Scripture. The 'covenant' to which this verse alludes is mentioned at several places in the Bible. IN THE LAST SERMON OF MOSES, cited in Deuteronomy, he again and again calls the attention of Israel to the covenant in the following words: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your might. And these words which I command shall be upon your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.' (Deuteronomy 6: 4-9.)
THEN, IN HIS LAST TESTAMENT MOSES SAID: 'And on the day you pass over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall set up large stones, and plaster them with plaster and you shall write upon them all the words of this law, when you pass over to enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you. And when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, concerning which I command you this day, on Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.' (Deuteronomy 27: 2-4.) When the Levites were handed a copy of the Torah, they were instructed to gather men, women and children every seventh year on the occasion of the Feast of Tabernacles and to recite the entire text to them. But their indifference to the Book of God grew to such a point that seven hundred years later even the priests of the Temple of Solomon and the Jewish ruler of Jerusalem did not know that they had the Book of God with them. (See 2 Kings 22: 8-13.) 

لَا تَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ يَفْرَحُونَ بِمَا أَتَوْا وَيُحِبُّونَ أَنْ يُحْمَدُوا بِمَا لَمْ يَفْعَلُوا فَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّهُمْ بِمَفَازَةٍ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ ۖ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ{3:188}

[Q3:188] Laa tahsabannal lazeena yafrahoona bimaaa ataw wa yuhibbona ai yuhmadoo bimaa lam yaf'aloo falaa tahsabunnahum bimafaazatim minal 'azaabi wa lahum 'azaabun aleem. 

[Q3:188] Do not think those who rejoice for what they have done and love that they should be praised for what they have not done-- so do by no means think them to be safe from the chastisement, and they shall have a painful chastisement.
[Q3:188] Jangan sekali-kali engkau menyangka (wahai Muhammad, bahawa) orang-orang yang bergembira dengan apa yang mereka telah lakukan dan mereka pula suka dipuji dengan apa yang mereka tidak lakukan, jangan sekali-kali engkau menyangka mereka akan terselamat dari seksa dan mereka pula akan beroleh azab yang tidak terperi sakitnya.

Refer to the commentary of verse 178 of this surah.

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(3:188) Do not think that those who exult in their misdeeds and love to be praised for what indeed they have not done, *133 do not think that they are secure from chastisement. A painful chastisement awaits them.

*133. Such people expected praises to be lavished upon them for being God-fearing, devout and pious, for being sincere servants of the true faith, for being defenders of God's Law and for having reformed and purified the lives of people, even though none of this might be true. They wanted people to go about trumpeting that such and such a person had made great sacrifices in the cause of God and had sincerely guided people to the right way even though the facts might be the reverse of what they claimed. 

وَلِلَّهِ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۗ وَاللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ {3:189}

[Q3:189] Wa lillaahi mulkus samaawaati wal ard; wallaahu 'alaa kulli shai'in Qadeer.

[Q3:189] And ALLAH (SWT)'s is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and ALLAH (SWT) has power over all things.

[Q3:189] Dan bagi ALLAH (SwT) jualah kuasa pemerintah langit dan bumi dan ALLAH (SwT) Maha Kuasa atas tiap-tiap sesuatu.

Refer to the last part of verse 180 of this surah.

"ALLAH (SWT)'s is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and ALLAH (SWT) has power over all things" IS REPEATEDLY MENTIONED IN SEVERAL VERSES SO THAT THIS FUNDAMENTAL FACT TAKES ROOT, AND MAN, EVER MINDFUL, MUST ALWAYS WORSHIP ALLAH (SWT), THE LORD OF THE WORLDS.

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(3:189) To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is All-Powerful indeed been successful. The life of this world is merely an illusory enjoyment.

SECTION 20

The triumph of the faithful

Prayer for the promised triumph---The predicted triumph

إِنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلَافِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ لَآيَاتٍ لِأُولِي الْأَلْبَابِ {3:190}

[Q3:190] Inna fee khalqis samaawati wal ardi wakhtilaafil laili wannahaari la Aayaatil liulil albaab – 
[Q3:190] Most surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day there are signs for men who understand.

[Q3:190] Sesungguhnya pada kejadian langit dan bumi dan pada pertukaran malam dan siang, ada tanda-tanda (kekuasaan, kebijaksanaan dan keluasan rahmat ALLAH (SwT)) bagi orang-orang yang berakal; 

The HOLY PROPHET (ALLAHUMA SALLI ALAA MUHAMMAD WA ALI MUHAMMAD) said:

"Woe to him who reads this verse and does not ponder thereon ".

THE MEN OF UNDERSTANDING, who study the working of the universe and the laws governing the operation of creation, know the significance of drawing the attention of mankind to the factors mentioned in this verse.

»    Imam Muhammad bin Ali al Baqir said: “Observe and examine the creation of ALLAH (SWT).”

»    The HOLY PROPHET (ALLAHUMA SALLI ALAA MUHAMMAD WA ALI MUHAMMAD) said: "There is no form of devotion like meditation."

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(3:190) Surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth, *134 and in the alternation of night and day, there are signs for men of understanding.

*134. This section constitutes the conclusion of the present surah. It is related not so much to the verses which immediately precede it as to the entire surah. In order to grasp its significance one should particularly bear in mind our introductory remarks to this surah. (See pp. 229 ff. above.)