Two days ago I made a post
"Blasphemy laws-Amendment required?" which inturned created a long debate.The quotation from Scholar
Ebtisam Elahi Zaheer couldnot be varified from contemporary Tafseers and translation in Quran. However it as now been proved from ancient tafseers and
Jalalian.
Ebtisam Elahi Zaheer is a leader and speaker belonging to Pakistan and is Secretary General Of Jamiat Ahle Hadith Pakistan.After graduating from Engineering university he did masters in 11 subjects which is a record in
genius book of world record of Pakistan.Here it is detail of his education. °BSC...ENGINEERING(U.E.T) °M.A...ENGLISH (P.U. LAHORE) °M.Sc..COMPUTER SCIENCE (U.E.T) °M.Phil.. MEDIA STUDIES(P.U) °M.A...ISLAMIYAT (P.U) °M.A...POLITICAL SCIENCE °M.A...MASS COMMUNICATION (P.U) °M.B.A...A.I.O.U °M.A...ARABIC (P.U) °M.A...HISTORY (P.U) °M.A...PSYCHOLOGY (P.U)
His work Experience:
- Selected as lecturer of Journalism by Public Service Commission in 1997.
- Delivered Lectures in Allama Iqbal Open University in Department of Journalism for one year at Post Graduate Level.
- Wrote a Booklet on Role of “Mosque Imam as Opinion Leader”
- Wrote a book on Solution to problems in light of Quran and sunnah
- Completed summary of Quran which is under compilation
- Working on more than a dozen topics which will be printed step by step
- Answered more than 5000 questions online at www.quran-o-sunnah.com
- Delivered more than 300 Islamic lectures which are available on Urdu Islamic website
www.quran-o-sunnah.com
Quotation mentioned in the last post was:
"In quran para 19, first rakoo a whole incident has been mentioned where Holy Prophet himself killed a person who would make fun of his face.Naouzubillah." It was also published in a local newspaper Ummat on 23/Nov/2010.Since, it was a hard time for me to make people believe that a scholar knows more than a common man,we with our limited knowledge can never be in a position to challenge his qualification.I,therefore decided to contact the scholar and the newspaper. I earlier tried to explainto my respected readers that Quran is a complex book and we often need the help from scholars to get the better understanding of it.Thatshwy we have tafseers after all.But few irritating people just like crticising instead of appreciation of the good work.I was even tagged as a "Blasphemer" astaghfirullah.May my Allah forgives them amin (as its a big sin to call a Muslim blasphemer,you are no one to attribute someone so until he/she is proved guilty by court,Strange on the other hand,they consider Asiya the cursed lady an innocent one who was proved guilty by court as she repeartedly passed derogatory comments about Holy Prophet in public and in court"
Here in this post I'll prove that the mentioned incidence from Quran was not mis represented and you can find it in tafseers.Below is the verse from 19th para first rakoo.
[25:27]{وَيَوْمَ يَعَضُّ ٱلظَّالِمُ عَلَىٰ يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ يٰلَيْتَنِي ٱتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ ٱلرَّسُولِ سَبِيلاً
Translation:
And (remember) the Day when the Zâlim (wrong-doer, oppressor, polytheist, etc.) will bite at his hands, he will say: "Oh! Would that I had taken a path with the Messenger ( Muhammad SAW). (Al-Furqan 25:27)
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Ah! Woe to me! Would that I had never taken so-and-so as a friend! (Al-Furqan 25:28)
"He indeed led me astray from the Reminder (this Qur'ân) after it had come to me. And Shaitân (Satan) is ever a deserter to man in the hour of need." (Al-Furqan 25:29).
Here do keep in mind the bold translated verse i.e
friend.
I'm going to quote respected scholar below:
1.(On the day when the wrong-doer gnaweth his hands…) [25:27]. ‘Ata’ al-Khurasani reported that Ibn ‘Abbas said: “Ubayy ibn Khalaf used to go to the Prophet, Allah bless him and give him peace, keep his company and listen to his speech without believing in him. ‘Uqbah ibn Abi Mu‘ayt, then, rebuked him for doing so, and so this verse was revealed about it”. Said al-Sha‘bi: “ ‘Uqbah [ibn Abi Mu‘ayt] was a friend of Umayyah ibn Khalaf. When ‘Uqbah embraced Islam, Umayyah said to him: ‘I do not want to ever see you if you follow Muhammad’. ‘Uqbah disbelieved again and renounced Islam to please his friend, and so Allah, exalted is He, revealed this verse”. Other commentators of the Qur’an said: “Ubayy ibn Khalaf and ‘Uqbah ibn Abi Mu‘ayt were allies. It was the habit of ‘Uqbah, upon returning from a travel, to invite the nobles of his people to eat with him. ‘Uqbah also used to keep the company of the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace. He returned one day from one of his travels, made some food and invited people and the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, to eat. When the food was placed before the invitees, the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, said to him: ‘I will not eat your food until you bear witness that there is no deity except Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah’. ‘Uqbah said: ‘I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah’, upon which the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, ate from his food. Ubayy was absent on that occasion. But when he was informed of what had happened, he said to ‘Uqbah: ‘You have renounced the religion of your forefathers?’ ‘Uqbah said: ‘By Allah, I did not. I had a man in my house who refused to eat my food unless I bore witness to him and I was ashamed to let him leave my house without him eating, and so I bore witness to him and he ate my food’. Ubayy said to him: ‘I will never be happy with you until you go to him, spit on his face and step on his neck’. ‘Uqbah did just that, and the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, said to him: ‘If I ever meet out of Mecca, I will behead you’. ‘Uqbah was later killed while in captivity at Badr. As for Ubayy ibn Khalaf, the Prophet, Allah bless him and give him peace, killed him in a duel at Uhud. And so Allah, exalted is He, revealed about ‘Uqbah and Ubayy this verse”. Said al-Dahhak: “When ‘Uqbah spat on the face of the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, his spit split into two and flew back on ‘Uqbah’s face. This caused both his cheeks to burn and the scars resulting from this burning remained visible until he died”.
2. And [it will be] a day when the wrongdoer, the idolater, ‘Uqba b. Abī Mu‘ayt — who had uttered the two-part profession [‘there is no god but God, Muhammad (s) is His Messenger’] but retracted it in order to please Ubayy b. Khalaf — will bite his hands, in regret and anguish on the Day of Resurrection, saying, ‘O (yā is for drawing attention) would that I had followed a way with the Messenger!, Muhammad (s), a route to guidance.
The above Quote is from Waheedi.'Alī ibn Ahmad al-Wahidi, Asbab al-Nuzul 'Alī ibn Ahmad al-Wāhidī (d. 468/1075), the earliest scholar of the branch of the Qur'anic sciences known as Asbāb al-Nuzūl (i.e. the contexts and occasions of the Revelation of the Qur'an). Al-Wāhidī and subsequent scholars aimed to collect and systemize information concerning all the known reasons and contexts for the Revelation of particular Qur'anic verses. This translation by Mokrane Guezzou represents the first accurate and reliable English translation of this seminal work.
About the translator
Mr. Mokrane Guezzou is a British-Algerian translator of major Islamic works. His translation of Tanwīr al-Miqbās min Tafsīr Ibn 'Abbās also appears in the Great Tafsirs of the Qur'an series. He is also the translator of Ibn 'Atā Allāh al-Iskandarī's Al-Qasd al-Mujarrad fī Ma'rifat al-Ism al-Mufrad (forthcoming with Fons Vitae).
3.Quotation from tafseer of abdullah ibne abbar radi allahu anhu* تفسير Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs
{ وَيَوْمَ يَعَضُّ ٱلظَّالِمُ عَلَىٰ يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ يٰلَيْتَنِي ٱتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ ٱلرَّسُولِ سَبِيلاً }
(On the day when the wrong-doer) the disbeliever, i.e. 'Uqbah Ibn Ma'it (gnaweth his hands) his fingers, (he will say: Ah, would that I had chosen a way together with the messenger (of Allah)) would that I had chosen, and were upright in following the religion of the Prophet!
4.There are many other incidents in which it is mentioned that Rasool salal laho aliehi wasalam has announced death penalty to those who insulted him.According to hadith of Bukharee
Kaab bin ashraf was killed by Muhammad bin maslama and
Abu rafay yahoode was killed by abdullah bin ateeq.As far as the mentioned incidence from para 19 is concerned,it has also been explained here and is quoted in books of tafseers.
The whole incident quoted in Ummat newspaper is also mentioned in the book
"Asbabe Nazool"by Waheedi.
5.Abu Dawood (4361) narrated from Ibn ‘Abbaas that a blind man had a freed concubine (umm walad) who used to insult the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and say bad things about him. He told her not to do that but she did not stop, and he rebuked her but she did not heed him. One night, when she started to say bad things about the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and insult him, he took a short sword or dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it and killed her. The following morning that was mentioned to the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). He called the people together and said, “I adjure by Allah the man who has done this action and I adjure him by my right over him that he should stand up.” The blind man stood up and said, “O Messenger of Allaah, I am the one who did it; she used to insult you and say bad things about you. I forbade her, but she did not stop, and I rebuked her, but she did not give up her habit. I have two sons like pearls from her, and she was kind to me. Last night she began to insult you and say bad things about you. So I took a dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it till I killed her.” Thereupon the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Bear witness, there is no blood money due for her.”
6.The Sunnah, Abu Dawood (2683) narrated that Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqaas said: “On the Day of the Conquest of Makkah, the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) granted safety to the people except for four men and two women, and he named them, and Ibn Abi Sarh… As for Ibn Abi Sarh, he hid with ‘Uthmaan ibn ‘Affaan, and when the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) called the people to give their allegiance to him, he brought him to stand before the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). He said, “O Prophet of Allaah, accept the allegiance of ‘Abd-Allaah.” He raised his head and looked at him three times, refusing him, then he accepted his allegiance after the third time. Then he turned to his companions and said: “Was there not among you any smart man who could have got up and killed this person when he saw me refusing to give him my hand and accept his allegiance?” They said, “We do not know what is in your heart, O Messenger of Allaah. Why did you not gesture to us with your eyes?” He said, “It is not befitting for a Prophet to betray a person with a gesture of his eyes.”
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I hope that all the confusions may have been removed by now.If still anyone has any confusions then contact me in personal.I will provide you his contact number once i get permission from him to distribute it.
References:
The Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute
Al-Tafsir
Special Thanks to Respected Scholar Ebtisam Elahi Zaheer.
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