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The Clear Qur'anic Exegesis (40)

Muhammad Khayr Ramadan Yusuf

Surat Al Baqarah (94-95)
{ قُلْ إِن كَانَتْ لَكُمُ الدَّارُ الآَخِرَةُ عِندَ اللّهِ خَالِصَةً مِّن دُونِ النَّاسِ فَتَمَنَّوُاْ الْمَوْتَ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ } [البقرة: 94]

94- O Messenger, say to the Jews: If you claim that you are the only winners on the Day of Recompense, come to Al Mubahalah; a group of Muslims and a group of Jews would stand before each other and supplicate Allah to destroy the liar of the two groups.


{ وَلَن يَتَمَنَّوْهُ أَبَداً بِمَا قَدَّمَتْ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَاللّهُ عَلِيمٌ بِالظَّالِمينَ } [البقرة: 95]

95- They will never wish death because of the sins and the crimes which their hands have done and because of their bad end which they knew. So, they did not respond to Al Mubahalah because they knew that if they asked for death, they feared that Allah would respond to them as they knew what they have done. Allah is the All-Knowing of them and of the kinds of oppression and sins which they have committed, and that will lead them to torment.