Recitation 334

أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
ألسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
Dear Quran Lovers,
Let continue to recite surah 2 Al-Baqoroh (synopsis of Islam). Please refer to the text:
أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم
(188) وَلَا تَأْكُلُواْ~ أَمْوَلَكُم بَيْنَكُم بِاُلْبَطِلِ وَتُدْلُواْ بِهَآ إٍلَى اُلْحُكَّامِ لِتَأْكُلُواْ فَرِيقًا مِّنْ أَمْوَلِ اُلنَّاسِ بِاُلْإِثْمِ وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ
وَلَا تَأْكُلُواْ~ أَمْوَلَكُم بَيْنًَكُم بِاُلْبَطِلِ = "Wa La~ Taa-ku-lu~~ Am-wa~la Kum~Bai-na Kum~Bil-Ba~ti-li",  "Wa" = And, "La~" = do not, "Taa-ku-lu~" = eat, take, grasp, "Am-wa~la" = wealth, money, property, "Kum" = your (pl.), "Bai-na" = between, among, "Kum" = you, "Bi" = by, "Ba~ti-li" = falsely, unjust means, 
وَتُدْلُواْ بِهَآ إِلَى اُلْحُكَّام = "Wa Tudd-lu~ Bi Ha~~ I-lal-Huk-ka~mi",  "Wa" = and, "Tudd-lu~" = you (pl.) notify, "Bi" = of, "Ha" = it, "I-la~" = to, "al-Huk-ka~mi" = the arbitrator,
لِتَأْكُلُواْ فَرِيقًا مِّنْ أَمْوَلِ اُلنَّاسِ بِاُلْإِثْمِ = "Li Taa-ku-lu~ Fa-ri~qom~Min Am-wa~lin~Na~si Bil-Ith-mi",  "Li" = so that, "Taa-ku-lu~" = you (pl.) = eat, grasp, "Fa-ri~qon" = a portion, "Min" = of, "Am-wa~li" = wealth, "an~Na~si" = the mankind,  "Bi" = with, by, "al-Ith-mi" = the sin,
وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ = "Wa Ant~tum Taa-la-mu~~n".  "Wa" = and, "Ant~tum" = you (pl.), "Taa-la-mu~na" =  know.
"Wa La~ Taa-ku-lu~~ Am-wa~la Kum~Bai-na Kum~Bil-Ba~ti-li Wa Tadd-lu~ Bi Ha~~ I-lal-Huk-ka~mi Li Taa-ku-lu~ Fa-ri~qom~Min Am-wa~lin~Na~si Bil-Ith-mi Wa Ant~tum Taa-la-mu~~n".  = And do not any of you (pl.) ever eat, grasp other's wealth, money among yourselves by unjust means, and (do not) notify/take and use it to (bait) the arbitrator/judge so that you can grasp a portion of other people's wealth by sinful means while you know (it is not yours).
(The Hadith from Ummu Salamah that the Prophet s.a.w. said, "I am just an ordinary man, and people who quarrelled always came to me. May be some of them were good in giving excuses or evasive statements than the others that I/Muhammad made a judgment in favour of them. Thus, those whom I have given in favour of the person/s obtained other Muslimins' right, actually obtained a piece of Hell Fire. It is up to them, whether they wanted to keep them/the wrongfully obtained wealth/the piece of Hell Fire, or to leave them.".(narrated by Bukhori and Muslim).
Thus, an arbitrator or a judge may not make a correct and just judgment because he depends on what he heard and on what he saw in the evidences. Thence, Allah said, "Do not any of you ever eat, grasp other's wealth, money among yourselves by unjust means, and do not use it to bait the judge so that you can grasp a portion of other peoples' wealth by sinful means while you know that the wealth does not belong to you but it belongs to other people and you are trying to grasp it from the rightful person/s.).
(189) (to be continued).
Until we meet again in the next session, see you Quran Lovers soon.
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Abdul Hamid Mohd Yusof.