Tafseer Al-Baqara: 62 | Sheikh 'Ata Abu Al-Rashtah

Extract from the book 'At-Tayseer Fee Usool At-Tafseer' written by the Ameer of Hizb ut Tahrir, Sheikh Ata Ibn Khalil Abu Al-Rashtah.

Contributed translation by a brother May Allah Ta�Aalaa reward him with goodness.

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(62) Those with Imaan, those who are Jews, and the Christians and Sabaeans, all who have Imaan in Allah and the Last Day and act rightly, will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel no fear and will know no sorrow.

The one who scrutinises this verse cannot but become humble before Allah (??????), as he grasps completely that this is Allah�s speech (??????) and the great miracle of Rasool Allah (??? ???? ???? ????).
This verse explains a promise from Allah � ?? ????? � to all humans with their differing deens, with a condition.
???????? i.e. if they fulfil the condition, then the conditional matter is realised.
All of that is in a short verse of a few words in number, but great in value.

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includes the doctrinal meaning for al-Iman, which is decisive belief in the aqeedah of Islam, and it includes everyone who believes in what the Prophets of Allah came with in every age and place since Adam (???? ??????) and whoever believed in him, until Nooh (???? ??????), and whoever believed in him, and those who believed in Ibrahim (???? ??????) � until the seal of the messengers Muhammad (??? ???? ???? ????).

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includes everyone associated with Judaism, since it was founded until Allah inherits the earth and those on it.

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includes everyone associated with Christianity, since its beginning until its end.

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are those who have no deen. It comes from ????????? which is to incline away from the true path, or those of left the deen of their people for another.
It comes from ??? to come out of something that it was inside.
???? ?????? : the stars came out, so became apparent after they weren�t.
??? ????? ???? ???? ??? i.e. he appeared in that place after he wasn�t there.
So, ????????????? are those people who have no deen, or the one who has left his deen for another deen, or to having no deen.

Therefore,
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�Those with Imaan, those who are Jews, and the Christians and Sabaeans� includes all types of people, whether having a Deen or not.

Here, the following is explained:

1.
The verse is general, as ????????? is from the general styles.
??????????? and ????????????? both have ?? at the beginning, which is a general style, so their generality includes all people, as we have already mentioned.

2.
This verse came after Allah (??????) had explained in the previous verses the severe punishment for the Jews, as a result of what they fell into of kufr, killing and disobedience.
As though the noble verse is an answer to the question about those Jews, who indulged and indulged�
Is it possible for good to come after them, such as accepting Islam, or that some of them are rewarded for what came before or after?
So Allah (??????) explains in this noble verse that the Jews and others of those mentioned in the verse will have a reward if the established the good that Allah � ?? ????? � explained, as a condition for getting the reward.

3.
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So those who believe, if they remain firm on their Iman and do good actions, and those who are jews, Christians or Sabi�een, if they believe in Allah and the day of judgement and do good actions, all of the them ???????? and this is the conditional matter ???? ????? i.e. if they are as Allah explained, then

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�will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel no fear and will know no sorrow.�

4.
???????? came indefinitely (?????? ????????) i.e. not (?????? ???????????), while the indefinite (????) carries the meaning of multiples and not from one type. As for ???????????, it is general in the good that Islam came with.
This includes those who believed before Islam and did good actions according to their deen of that time, and those who believed with Nooh (???? ??????) and acted according to his shari�ah, and so on with the later Prophets, so all of them have their reward with allah and there is no fear on them and they will not grive.

If the condition on the reward was acting according to the good explained by Islam, then the situation of the believers with the previous Prophets would be outside of the promise of reward. So, those previous believers who acted according to the good of the legislation of their Prophets, will have their reward as promised by allah and they will not fear.
Rasool Allah (??? ???? ???? ????) said, addressing Salman al-Farisi, about the preists that Salman used to accompany before his Islam:
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i.e. whoever was on the true Deen that Esa (???? ??????) came with and died before Islam, so he is on the good, with Allah�s permission.
As for the one who lived after Islam and did not believe in Islam, then he is a disbeliever (????) and will have a terrible punishment.
5.
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As we said about the previous verse (38)
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i.e. they will not fear what will happen to them in the future and they will not grieve about what happened in the past, so the meaning is:
No fear for them from what will be brought before them on the day of judgement, and they will not grieve for what they left behind them of the dunya and its life when they see what Allah has prepared for them of reward and blessings that He has.