Verses of Surah Al-Mumnoon
Related to characteristics of
Belivers. (Verse No. 1-11)
Lecture:6
Introduction
• Name:
• The surah takes its name, from Al-Mu'minun, from the first verse.
• Period of Revelation.
• Both its style and theme indicate that it was revealed during the
middle stage of Prophet hood at Makkah. Reading between the lines,
one feels that a conflict had begun between the Holy Prophet and the
disbelievers of Makkah.
Period of Revelation.
• It appears that the surah was sent down during the climax of the
"Famine" in Makkah (vv. 75-76), which according to authentic
traditions occurred during the middle stage of Prophet hood.
Moreover, according to a tradition related by 'Urwah bin Zubair,
Hadarat Umar who had embraced Islam by that time, said, "This
Surah was revealed in my presence and I myself observed the state of
the Holy Prophet during its revelation. When the revelation ended ,
the Holy Prophet remarked, 'On this occasion ten such verses have
been sent down to me that the one who measures up to them, will
most surely go to Paradise'. Then he recited the initial verses of the
surah." (Ahmad, Tirmizi, Nasai, Hakim).
Theme &Topics
• The central theme of the surah is to invite the people to accept and
follow the Message of the Holy Prophet and the whole Surah revolves
round this theme.
• Summery:
• The fact that the people who have accepted the Message of the Holy
Prophet have started acquiring such and such noble qualities of
character is a practical proof of the truth of the Message. 1 - 11
Comparison between two community
Traits of Believers
Ayah
Ayah
Comments
• 5The word Zakat literally means purification and development-to help
something grow tip smoothly and develop without obstruction. As an
Islamic term, it implies both the portion of wealth taken out for the
purpose of purifying the rest of wealth and the act of purification
itself.
Comments
• The words of the original Text mean that the Believer constantly
practices purification. Thus the meaning is not confined to the paying
off of Zakat dues only but it is extended to self-purification which
includes purification of morals as well as wealth, property and life in
general. Then it does not mean purification of one's own self, but
includes the purification of the lives of other people as well. So the
verse means:
Comments
• "The Believers are the people who purify themselves as well as
others." This thing has been stated at other places in the Qur'an -also,
for instance: "Successful is he who practiced -purification and
remembered his Lord and prayed." (LXXXVII: 1415), and: "Successful is
he who purified himself and failure is he who corrupted it." (XCI: 9-
10). But this verse is more comprehensive in meaning because it
stresses the purification of both society and one's own person.
Ayah
Main focus
• 6They are modest in every sense of the word. They are free
from sex abuse and sex perversion. They are so modest that
they even conceal those parts of their bodies which the Law
forbids to expose before others. For explanation,).
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Translation
• [1-11] Most certainly those Believers have attained true success1 who2
perform their Salat with humility:3 who refrain from vain things:4 who
spend their Zakat dues in appropriate ways:5 who guard their private
parts scrupulously,6 except with regard to their wives and those
women who are legally in their possession, for in that case they shall
not be blame-worthy, but those, who go beyond this (in lust for sexual
desires), shall be transgressors:7 who are true to their trusts and their
promises,8 and who strictly guard their Prayers.9 These are the heirs
who will inherit Paradise10 and dwell therein for ever.11
Comments
• This assertion cannot be fully appreciated unless one keeps in view
the background in which it was made. On the one hand, there were
the well-to-do and prosperous chiefs of Makkah, the opponents of
Islam, whose business was thriving and who were enjoying every
good thing of life, and on the other hand, there were the followers of
Islam majority of whom were either poor from the beginning, or had
been reduced to poverty by ruthless antagonism to Islam.
Comments
• Therefore, the assertion, "Most certainly the Believers have attained
true success", with which the discourse begins, was meant to tell the
disbelievers that the criterion of success and failure that they had in
mind was not correct. It was based on misconceptions besides being
transitory and limited in nature:
Comments
• It led to failure and not true success. On the contrary, the followers of
Muhammad (Allah's peace be upon him), whom they regarded as
failures, were truly successful, because by accepting the invitation to
the Right Guidance given by the Messenger of Allah, they had struck a
bargain which would lead them to true success and everlasting bliss in
this world as well as in the Hereafter, whereas by rejecting the
Message the opponents had incurred loss and would meet with the
evil consequences both in this world and in the next.
