"Leave alone those who take their religion for mere play n amusement,and are deceived by the life of this world.But proclaim(to them)this(truth0:that every soul delivers itself to ruin by its own acts.It will find for itself no protector or intercessor except God:if it offered every ransom(or reparation)none will be accepted:such is the end of those who deliver themselves to ruin by their own acts.(surah vi(An-am)70)" Please explain to me this. thank you
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Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be
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"Leave alone those who take their religion for mere play n amusement,and are deceived by the life of this world.But proclaim(to them)this(truth0:that every soul delivers itself to ruin by its own acts.It will find for itself no protector or intercessor except God:if it offered every ransom(or reparation)none will be accepted:such is the end of those who deliver themselves to ruin by their own acts.(surah vi(An-am)70)" Please explain to me this. thank you
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Answer:
In the name of Allah, We praise
Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness.
Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray,
none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person,
no grave, no prophet, no
imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and
we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His
Messengers.
Allah Subhanah says in the Holy Quran
Chapter 6 Surah Anaam verse
68-70When thou seest men engaged in vain discourse
about Our Aayahs,
turn away from them unless they turn to a different theme. If Satan ever makes thee forget, then after recollection, sit not thou in the company of the ungodly.On their account,
no responsibility falls on the righteous, but (their duty) is to remind them that they
may (learn to) fear Allah. Leave alone those who take their religion to be mere
play and amusement and are deceived by the life of this world. But proclaim (to them) this (truth): that
every soul delivers itself to ruin by its own acts: it will find for itself no protector or
intercessor except Allah: if it offered
every ransom (or reparation) none will be accepted: such is (the end of) those who deliver
themselves to ruin by their own acts:
they will have for drink (only) boiling water and for punishment one most
grievous: for they persisted in
rejecting Allah.
If one reads the Aayah 70 with the context of the preceding Aayahs 68 and 69, he will be able to get a full picture
of these Revelations of Allah Subhanah.
Ref: Leave alone those
who take their religion to be mere play and amusement and are deceived by the
life of this world.
Allah Subhanah
is reminding the believers that the duty of the believers is only to remind and
warn the disbelievers to fear Allah Subhanah and the
Last Day. The believers are guided that
after reminding and cautioning the disbelievers in the best manner, they are to leave the them alone, who are content with the life of this
transitory world, and have taken their
religion to be the name of a few self-invented rites and rituals, and are thus treating religion as a mere play
and amusement!
Ref: But proclaim (to them) this (truth):
But, before the believers leave the
disbelievers alone to follow their evil paths,
Allah has commanded and made it a duty unto the believers to declare to
them these Truths:
Ref: Truth-1: that every soul delivers itself to
ruin by its own acts:
Truth No.1 is that every person
will be responsible for his own deeds, and no one else’s!
Ref: Truth-2: it will find for itself no protector
or intercessor except Allah:
Truth No. 2 is that these people
continue in their denial and disobedience of the Guidance of Allah because they
have chosen for themselves some protectors and intercessors to intercede and protect
them from the Wrath and Punishment of Allah Subhanah
on the Day of Judgment! It is this
false belief and delusion which some people have been made to believe, that encourages
them to do much evil, and disobey, and deny the Guidance of Allah Subhanah in the life of this world; for they are guaranteed and assured by their
self-declared ‘holy men’ and ‘priests’ that they will protect them and
intercede for them in the Just Court of Allah Subhanah
on the Day of Judgment! Allah cautions
and warns these people that there will be no protectors and intercessors on
that Inevitable Day, except Allah Subhanah!; for
indeed, Intercession and Protection on
that Tumultuous Day will be in the Power of Allah Subhanah
Alone! It is He Alone Who will decide who
deserves protection and intercession, and who will be the intercessors; not these evil and unscrupulous mushriks and disbelievers!
Ref: Truth-3:
if it offered every ransom (or reparation) none will be accepted:
Truth No. 3 is that some of
these disbelievers,
who continue to deny the guidance of Allah and do evil
deeds, think that if at
all they are ever brought to account for their evil deeds, and if ‘perchance’ they do not
get support from their chosen intercessors and protectors, they will be able to get away from the
Punishment of Allah Subhanah by paying some sort of a
ransom or fine! Allah Subhanah blocks even this window of their hopes; and declares here
and in other Aayahs of the Quran, that even if they offered the whole wealth of
the earth and more (if they possessed it);
it would not be accepted from them!
For, the
currency of the Hereafter is not wealth,
or gold, or cash, etc.; but the currency of the Hereafter is ‘one’s
own deeds’!
Ref: such is (the end of) those who deliver
themselves to ruin by their own acts:
they will have for drink (only) boiling water, and for punishment one most
grievous: for they persisted in
rejecting Allah.
And finally Allah Subhanah concludes the inevitable fate of their evil deeds:
that the end result of those who
persist in rejecting the Guidance of Allah Subhanah
of their own free will,
and because of their own self-invented whims and delusions is
that they will have everlasting and unbearable punishment in the
Hereafter, where the only drink that
will satisfy their intense thirst will be the drink of boiling water!
The message of the above
beautiful and comprehensive Aayah of Surah Anaam verse 70 is declared
in various ways all over the Quran!
The believers duty is only to
convey the Message of their Lord clearly and in the best manner to all mankind; whether they
believe in it or not!
If the disbelievers, mushriks
and the hypocrites deny the Message after hearing it, leave them alone to their whims,
fancies, delusions, plays and amusements!
That every soul will alone be
responsible for his own deeds! No
bearer of burden will bear the burden of another! In the life of the Hereafter, ever person will
himself have to give a full account of
what deeds he did in the life of the transitory world. The doers of good will receive Allah’s Mercy, Forgiveness, and Grace;
and the doers of evil will deserve Allah’s Wrath, Anger,
and Punishment!
The false belief and delusion of choosing and
appointing of one’s own protectors and intercessors is condoned! No person, no matter who he is, will have any influence or power to change
Allah Subhanah’s Decision on that Tumultuous
Day! Protection and Intercession are
in the Sole Power, Domain,
and Control of Allah Subhanah
Alone!
The other false belief and hope
that ‘if’ they are called to account for their evil deeds on the Day of
Judgment by Allah Subhanah, they will be able to pay some sort of a
ransom and get away from the Just Punishment of Allah Subhanah
is also completely shattered! No amount
of ransom, not
even the wealth of the whole world, nor
even the barter of lives of their most loved ones; nothing….absolutely nothing, will be accepted from the evil doers and
rejecters of the Truth, in lieu of their
impending and ever lasting punishment!
The end result of their evil
deeds, in spite
of their being appropriately cautioned,
will only be Displeasure,
Wrath, Anger, and the Severe Punishment of the All Mighty
Lord of the Worlds!
The Truth is brother, that in the above
beautiful Aayah,
Allah Subhanah has summarized the character
and beliefs of the doers of evil! They
have denied and rejected the clear guidance and teachings of Allah Subhanah,
because they do not want to amend their deeds! And Shaitaan has
made their deeds fair-seeming to them,
by giving rise in their hearts of some false beliefs, whims,
hopes, and delusions that: ‘do whatever you want, for the Lord is Merciful and somehow or the
other, either by intercession of by offering
a ransom, etc. you
will be saved!!!!’ Allah Subhanah declares time and again in the Quran, that these false
hopes and delusions are the works of the accursed enemy of man (The Shaitaan), and none
of these false hopes will ever come true!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 29 Surah Ankaboot verse 38:Shaitaan made
their deeds fair-seeming to them and misled them from the right path, although they were sensible people.
Whatever written of Truth and
benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error
is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He
is the Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in Islam,
Burhan
