Tawba 106
106- THERE ARE OTHERS WHOSE CASE IS POSTPONED AWAITING ALLAH’S COMMAND, EITHER TO PUNISH THEM OR PARDON THEM, FOR ALLAH IS MOST KNOWING AND MOST WISE.
Allah the Highest, is telling us about two groups of the Muslims who did not go on the Tabok campaign:
- The first group including Abu Lobaba and others, admitted to their guilt and tied themselves to pillars in the mosque, and swore not to go until they were pardoned, and Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, unties them with his own hands.
- The second group consisted of three men, who went to Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, admitting that they had no excuse for not going, and saying that they would accept whatever was done to them. Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, told them that they would have to wait for Allah’s ruling concerning them.
Allah the Highest left it unknown, whether He would punish them or pardon them. Allah the Highest tells us, that He knows all things, therefore He knows why they did what they did, and is wise enough to know whether they deserve to be pardoned or punished.
Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, said that Allah the Highest said: “My Mercy overcomes my Anger”.
I have no doubt that we hope this will save many a neck, mine first of all.
Tawba 107-110
107- AND THOSE WHO USE A MOSQUE TO DO HARM AND TO FOSTER DISBELIEF AND DIVISION BETWEEN THE MUSLIMS, AND AS A FOCAL POINT FOR THOSE WHO FIGHT ALLAH AND HIS MESSENGER, BUT THEY SWEAR BY ALLAH THAT THEY WANT TO DO GOOD, BUT ALLAH BEARS WITNESS THAT THEY ARE LIARS.
108- DO NOT EVER RISE THERE TO PRAY, FOR A MOSQUE FOUNDED ON PIETY FROM THE FIRST DAY IS MORE WORTHY TO PRAY IN, WHERE THERE ARE MEN WHO LIKE TO PURIFY THEMSELVES, AND ALLAH LOVES THOSE WHO PURIFY THEMSELVES.
109- IS HE WHO FOUNDED HIS BUILDING ON PIETY AND FEARING AND PLEASING ALLAH BETTER, OR HE WHO FOUNDED HIS BUILDING ON THE EDGE OF A CLIFF WHICH COLLAPSED WITH IT INTO THE FIRE OF THE HELL, AND ALLAH DOES NOT GUIDE THE TRANSGRESSING PEOPLE.
110- THE BUILDING THEY BUILT IS STILL BUT DOUBT AND SUSPICION IN THEIR HEARTS, UNLESS THEIR HEARTS ARE CUT DOWN, AND ALLAH IS MOST KNOWING AND MOST WISE.
A man called Abu Amer El-Raheb (the monk) was one of the Arabs of the Medina who embraced Christianity, and read the bible, which gave him special status in Medina before Islam arrived.
When Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, and the Muslims migrated to Medina, Abu Amer went to Makah and there he did his best to enthuse the people there to fight the Muslims. He was with the disbeliever’s army who fought the Muslims at Ohud. It is said that he was the one who dug the holes for the Muslims to fall into at Ohud, and Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, fell into one during the battle. Abu Amer also travelled to see the Roman Emperor in Sham asking him to send an army to fight Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, and the Muslims.
Amer wrote to the hypocrites in Medina telling them to build a mosque near the mosque of Kebaa, to be their focal point and a meeting place for them and their supporters. Also, they used it as a place for making their plans against, Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, and the Muslims.
After they built the place, one of them asked Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, to perform Salah there as an endorsement of the place. This was shortly before going away on the Tabok campaign and he said to him: “I am travelling, but Allah’s willing, when I come back”.
On the way back from Tabok when he had a day or less travel to the Medina, he received these Ayahs. He called some of the Ansar and commanded them to go on ahead of them, demolish that mosque and burn it down, which they did. Later on, its site was used for waste disposal.
This tells us that a mosque should be a place for worship and also for discussing matters that are good for the Muslims in general. Nothing should take place in a mosque that may cause division and dissent among the Muslims.
The Mosque which is founded on piety and fearing God here is Allah’s messenger’s mosque in Medina, for two Muslims were arguing whether it was the Mosque of Medina or the Mosque of Kebaa, and Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, said: “It is my mosque”. (A: 3; 89 & T: Tafseer & N: Masajed)
Purification mentioned here are both the physical and morale, purification.
Before Islam, there were people in Medina who used to clean themselves with water after urinating or defecating. Morale and spiritual purification are very important and are essential for the Muslim’s purification.
A mosque should never be divisive. Some people build a mosque for a particular group of Muslims, or for Muslims from a particular ethnic back ground, or who belong to a particular sect. In such a mosque, other Muslims will feel alien and unwelcomed, particularly when the Khotba on Fridays or the lessons are in a particular language. The Mosques are Allah’s houses on Earth, and they should be for every Muslim, regardless of their ethnicity or sex or language.
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