[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:93]
[Shakir 23:94] My Lord! then place me not with the unjust.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:94]
[Shakir 23:95] And most surely We are well able to make you see what We threaten them with.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:95]
[Shakir 23:96] Repel evil by what is best; We know best what they describe.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:96]
This verse lays down the Islamic point of view to deal with evil. Turning the other cheek "to the forces of evil" as the Christian church suggests, is to encourage wickedness, corruption and exploitation which shall never bring peace, order and harmony in the human society. Islam teaches man to do what is best to repel the evil. At all events the power base of evil must be destroyed.
[Shakir 23:97] And say: O my Lord! I seek refuge in Thee from the evil suggestions of the Shaitans;
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:97]
Not to fall into the trap of evil we must not go near the evil nor pay attention to the temptations, allurements and the theories of the leaders of falsehood the disciples of the devil put before us, for which it is necessary to seek Allah's help at all times.
[Shakir 23:98] And I seek refuge in Thee! O my Lord! from their presence.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:98] (see commentary for verse 97)
[Shakir 23:99] Until when death overtakes one of them, he says: Send me back, my Lord, send me back;
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:99]
The wicked cling to falsehood until they face the reality of death. Then they ask for another chance, but it will be too late then. The time for repentance and amendment will then have passed.
Barzakh means a partition, a barrier-the place or state in which people will be after death and before the day of resurrection.
Aqa Mahdi Puya says:
The condition and the state of barzakh has not been described. What the Holy Prophet and his Ahl ul Bayt have said about this interval or intermediary state should only be accepted as true.
[Shakir 23:100] Haply I may do good in that which I have left. By no means! it is a (mere) word that he speaks; and before them is a barrier until the day they are raised.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:100] (see commentary for verse 99)
[Shakir 23:101] So when the trumpet is blown, there shall be no ties of relationship between them on that day, nor shall they ask of each other.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:101]
With the announcement of the end of the world and beginning of the judgment all relationships of this world will be dissolved. Each soul will stand on its merits. Those who have done good deeds will attain salvation (al falah) as mentioned in verse 1 of this surah), and those who have done evil will burn in hell for ever. Refer to Araf: 8 and 9.
Aqa Mahdi Puya says:
When the whole universe along with its components, animate and inanimate, angelic and human, take the final form and shape to which they are destined, the trumpet will be blown. Before reaching that state the relations between the parts or components to each other and the whole is subject to change. For example a seed contains the parts and components of the tree, and each is related to the other, but when the process of growth begins in the fertile seed the relation of the parts also begins to change. There appear roots, stem, branches and leaves and the final form becomes a tree. In this process the parts which were in the earlier stage co-related or played procreative role in subsequent stage of growth, change their relation with each other. Likewise the universe with its evolutionary movement to the absolute, along with its parts and components, will not retain the same relation in the final stage; but it does not mean there will be no relation at all. The life in the hereafter is more spiritual and sublime than here. There the relation will take a different form.
The Holy Prophet said:
"All distinctions and relations shall cease to exist on the day of resurrection except the distinction and relation connected with me."
On this basis the Holy Prophet said:
"O Ali, you are my brother in this life and in the life of hereafter."
"Salman is of my Ahl ul Bayt."
Some will be far away from the stem of the spiritual parentage as the son of Nuh was declared to be not his son by Allah.
Some will be azwajum mutakharah (purified mates) as mentioned in al Baqarah: 25 and some wives will be ordered to "enter hell with those (who are condemned) to enter it"-Tahrim: 10
Every aspect of human life will be weighed and for each aspect there will be a different scale. The scale of scales is the Imam. Refer to the commentary of Araf: 6-to 9 and Anbiya: 47.
[Shakir 23:102] Then as for him whose good deeds are preponderant, these are the successful.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:102] (see commentary for verse 101)
[Shakir 23:103] And as for him whose good deeds are light, these are they who shall have lost their souls, abiding in hell
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:103] (see commentary for verse 101)
[Shakir 23:104] The fire shall scorch their faces, and they therein shall be in severe affliction.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:104] (see commentary for verse 101)
[Shakir 23:105] Were not My communications recited to you? But you used to reject them.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:105]
[Shakir 23:106] They shall say: O our Lord! our adversity overcame us and we were an erring people:
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:106]
[Shakir 23:107] O our Lord! Take us out of it; then if we return (to evil) surely we shall be unjust.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:107]
[Shakir 23:108] He shall say: Go away into it and speak nat to Me;
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:108]
[Shakir 23:109] Surely there was a party of My servants who said: O OUI . Lord! we believe, so do Thou forgive us and have mercy on us, and Thou art the best of the Merciful ones.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:109]
[Shakir 23:110] But you took them for a mockery until they made you forget My remembrance and you used to laugh at them.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:110]
The ungodly disbelievers were so occupied in the ridicule of the godly believers that the believers became the unconscious cause of the disbelievers' negligence of Allah's reminders and warnings. The disbelievers are responsible for the mischief. They must pay the penalty.
[Shakir 23:111] Surely I have rewarded them this day because they were patient, that they are the achievers.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:111]
[Shakir 23:112] He will say: How many years did you tarry in the earth?
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:112]
[Shakir 23:113] They will say: We tarried a day or part of a day, but ask those who keep account.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:113]
Aqa Mahdi Puya says:
However long may be the stay in this world, it is very very short compared to the stay in the next world, but the short stay in this world is not purposeless as stated in verse 115.
[Shakir 23:114] He will say: You did tarry but a little-- had you but known (it):
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:114]
[Shakir 23:115] What! did you then think that We had created you in vain and that you shall not be returned to Us?
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:115]
Allah's creation is not without a serious purpose. The life in this world is not vain, nor mere play or sport. What we do here will be the basis of our reward and punishment on the day of resurrection.
[Shakir 23:116] So exalted be Allah, the True King; no god is there but He, the Lord of the honorable dominion.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:116]
[Shakir 23:117] And whoever invokes with Allah another god-- he has no proof of this-- his reckoning is only with his Lord; surely the unbelievers shall not be successful.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:117]
Aqa Mahdi Puya says:
Though there are countless proofs of the unity of Allah, but there is not a single evidence that there is any god save Him.
[Shakir 23:118] And say: O my Lord! forgive and have mercy, and Thou art the best of the Merciful ones.
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 23:118]
