Qur'anic Verse of the Day: Al-Baqarah ~ Verse - 272..

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate!

  O Prophet,
you are not responsible for their guidance;
Allah Himself shows guidance to anyone He pleases.
And whatever wealth you spend in charity,
it is for your own good.
As you spend of your wealth to win Allah's pleasure,
you will be given full reward for whatever you spend
and you will not be deprived
in the least of your rightful due.*1

(Surah-2 Al-Baqarah ~ Ayah-272)

Explanation:

*1- In the beginning Muslims tended to hesitate in helping
either their non-Muslim relatives
or other non-Muslims who were in need.
 They thought that helping Muslims only constituted
'spending in the way of Allah'.
This verse rejects this attitude.
The purpose of this verse is to point out that
Muslims are not responsible for forcing true guidance
down the throats of people;
conveying the message of Truth to people
absolves them of the obligation incumbent upon them.
It is, then, for Allah either to favour
the recipients of the message with true perception or not.

In addition Muslims should not shrink
from helping their relatives
in the affairs of the world on the ground that
they are not following the true guidance;
they will be rewarded by Allah for whatever help they render
to needy persons for the sake of Allah.

Qur'anic Verse of the Day: Al-Baqarah ~ Verse - 270-271

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate!

Surely Allah knows whatever you may have spent

and whatever vow you may have made,and the wrong-doers

(who spend in the way of Satan) shall have no helpers.*1"

"If you practise charity publicly, it is good;

but if you give charity secretly to the needy,

it is much better for you,*2 for this will expiate 

many of your sins.*3 Any how, Allah is well aware of

whatever you do."

(Surah-2 Al-Baqarah ~ Ayah-270-271)

Explanation:

*1- Whether or not a man spends in the way of Allah, and 

whether or not he vows to spend in the way of Allah, 

Allah is fully aware both of his intentions and deeds. 

All those who either spend for the sake of Allah or 

vow to spend for the sake of Allah will be adequately rewarded. 

As for those who have either spent or have vowed to spend for 

others than Allah, no one will save them from Allah's chastisement.

'Vow' means either a man's pledge to spend something or 

to perform some act of goodness which is not obligatory 

on him providing a particular wish of his is fulfilled. 

Provided that this vow is related to some wish which is in 

itself permissible and good and that the person concerned 

makes it to none but Allah and for the sake of Allah, then 

such a vow will be reckoned as an act of obedience to Allah

 and its fulfillment will be worthy of reward. Otherwise such 

a vow will be seen as an act of disobedience and sin and its 

fulfillment will invite punishment from Allah.

*2- If charity is of an obligatory nature it is preferable to 

dispense it openly. Non-obligatory charity should preferably 

be dispensed secretly. This principle applies to all acts. 

As a rule, it is more meritorious to perform obligatory acts 

openly and non-obligatory acts of goodness, secretly.

*3- The performance of good deeds in secret leads to 

the continual improvement of one's life and character. 

One's good qualities develop fully and one's bad qualities 

gradually wither away. This makes a man so acceptable 

to Allah that He pardons the sins that he might have committed.



Surah-2 Al-Baqarah ~ Verse: 268-269

"In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate!

Satan holds out to you the threat of poverty

and prompts you to adopt a shameless

niggardly conduct, but Allah holds out from Himself

the promise of pardon and bounty:

Allah is All-Embracing, All-Knowing.

He bestows wisdom upon anyone He wills,

and he who is given wisdom is in fact given

 great wealth,*1 but only those who have

common sense learn lessons from these things. "

(Surah-2 Al-Baqarah ~ Ayah-268-269)

Explanation:

*1- 'Wisdom' signifies sound perception and sound judgement.

The purpose of this statement is to point out that one who is

possessed of wisdom will follow Allah's path rather than 

that of Satan.

The followers of Satan believe that it is the height of wisdom

 and shrewdness to be constantly concerned with saving out 

of one's earnings, and to be perpetually on the look-out 

for higher income. But for those endowed with Divine 

perception such an attitude is sheer folly.

True wisdom consists in using one's resource moderately to

meet one's needs and in spending whatever is left for

charitable purposes. It may be possible for a person

who does not spend for charitable purposes to attain

a much greater degree of worldly prosperity than others.

The life of this world, however, is only a fraction of man's

total life which is not limited to the confines of this world.

One who risks the well-being of his eternal existence for

the sake of highly transient well-being in this world is

indeed a fool. The truly wise person is he who makes

full use of the tenure of this life and invests his resources

in prosperity in this life that will never cease.

Qur'anic Verse : Al-Baqarah Verse: 266

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate!

Would anyone of you wish that he should have

a green garden of palm trees and vines,

watered by canals and laden with all sorts of fruit

and then it should be consumed by a fiery whirlwind

at the very time when he himself has grown very old

and his small children are too feeble to earnanything?*1

Thus Allah makes His revelations clear & plain to you

that you may ponder over them.

(Surah-2 Al-Baqarah ~ Ayah-266)

Explanation:

*1 - It is obvious that a man does not like to see the 

earnings of his lifetime destroyed in his old age, 

when he needs them badly and when he can 

no longer earn.

How is it, then, that he can contemplate stepping 

into the realm of the Hereafter and finding suddenly

that he is empty-handed; that he has sown nothing 

from which he can reap the fruit?

In the Next World there will be no opportunity to begin 

earning a new. Whatever one can do towards ensuring 

one's well-being in the Hereafter must be done in this world.

If one devotes oneself totally to the pursuit of the riches 

of this world rather than to the Hereafter,one's situation 

will be as pitiable as that of the age-stricken man whose 

orchard (his source of income in his old age) is reduced 

to ashes too late for him to produce a new one.