They (think to) deceive Allah and those who believe, while they only deceive themselves, and perceive (it) not! [Surat Al-Baqarah (The Cow) C.2-V.9] يُخَادِعُونَ اللَّهَ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَمَا يَخْدَعُونَ إِلَّا أَنفُسَهُمْ وَمَا يَشْعُرُونَ THE INTERPRETATION OF ‘YUKHÂDIÛNA ALLÂHA WA- ALLADHÎNA ÂMANÛ’ THE hypocrites attempted deception (khidâ) of his Lord and of the believers is the verbal attestation of the truth which he declares with his tongue contrary to the doubt and denial in his heart. By it he seeks to ward off Allahs judgment of death or captivity which would otherwise necessarily fall on whoever makes a denial as he does. This verse is one of the clearest proofs of Allahs refutal of those who claim that Allah only chastises one who obstinately refuses to believe in Him after he comes to know of His Oneness and after he has been convinced of the correctness of confessing His Oneness and affirming the genuineness1 of His Books and Messenger, in doing which he stubbornly opposes his Lord. For Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta’ala) has announced that these deceiving hypocrites ... were unaware that they were mistaken about the falsehood they persisted in, and deluded about the deception they thought they were perpetrating on their Lord and those who believed in Him. Then, [in 2: 10], He announces that theirs is a painful chastisement for their refusal to recognize the prophethood of His Prophet and their conviction that they should not believe in Him, and also for their lie in claiming that they were believers when they persisted in their unbelief. THE INTERPRETATION OF ‘WA-MÂ YAKHDÂÛNA ILLÂ ANFUSA-HUM’ The hypocrites attempted deception on their Lord and the believers, but did not deceive them; rather they deceived themselves, as Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta’ala) said, and no one else.... The hypocrites deceived only themselves, because the Muslims did not take possession of any property or kin of theirs, either at the time of their attempted deception of them about it through hypocrisy or before that, so that they could really have salvaged it through their deception. They only defended it by lying to them and by declaring with their tongues something which was not truly in their minds, and Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta’ala) passed judgement on them concerning their property, their persons, and their offspring, according to the outward aspect of their affairs in terms of the religious community they affiliated with-and Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta’ala) knew the matters which they concealed. THE INTERPRETATION OF ‘WA-MÂ YASHURÛNA’ “Wa-mâ yashurûna” means and they did not know.’... They did not know that Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta’ala) was deceiving them by letting them run and baiting them, that it was Allahs way of informing them about the proof of their sin and the pardon they could have had and their way of deceiving themselves which was eventually to their detriment. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn and obey the Commands of your Lord .
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