Tawba 81-84
81- THOSE STAYING BEHIND WERE PLEASED BY THEIR SEAT BEHIND ALLAH’S MESSENGER, AND THEY HATED TO FIGHT WITH THEIR MONEY AND WITH THEMSELVES IN THE CAUSE OF ALLAH, AND THEY SAID: “DO NOT TRAVEL IN THE HEAT”, SAY: “THE FIRE OF THE HELL-FIRE IS HOTTER”, BUT THEY HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING.
82- LET THEM LAUGH A LITTLE AND CRY A GREAT DEAL, BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY EARNED.
83- SHOULD ALLAH SEND YOU BACK TO SOME OF THEM, AND THEY ASK YOU TO GO OUT WITH YOU, TELL THEM: “YOU WILL NEVER GO OUT WITH ME, AND WILL NEVER FIGHT AN ENEMY WITH ME, FOR YOU WERE HAPPY TO STAY BEHIND THE FIRST TIME, THEN, STAY BEHIND WITH THOSE WHO STAY BEHIND”.
84- AND DO NOT PRAY ON ANY OF THEM WHO DIE, EVER, AND DO NOT STAND OVER HIS GRAVE, FOR THEY DISBELIEVED IN ALLAH AND HIS MESSENGER AND WERE EVIL DOERS.
Those of the hypocrites who asked Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, for his permission to stay behind, were pleased that they saved themselves the trouble, the journey and expense as well as a possible fight with the Roman army. They ignored the fact however that the hellfire is much hotter than the heat of the desert.
Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him said: “the heat of the fire children of Adam light with is one 70th of the heat of the fire of Hell”. (Bukhari & Muslim & A: 2; 313)
While they were saving themselves from the heat of the desert they threw themselves into the heat of the hellfire. Trying to get themselves out of some difficulty they got themselves into a much worse situation.
They had other punishment in this life, and they were, first; that they will never go out in another army with Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, and fight an enemy with him. Second; Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, was not pray on their dead or pray for them after their death. They incurred Allah’s anger.
We usually consider the person who tries to get out of some difficulty by getting into a worse difficulty to be foolish. Yet we often do just that in our everyday life. This happens when we are too tired to pray before going to bed, when we are too shy to tell a person not to speak ill of another behind his back, while we gain as much sin by joining in the conversation or even just listening to them. These are just examples of similar wrong we do in our everyday life.
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