Tafseer Surah Baqarah Verse 12 | Surah Baqarah explanation in English | Surah Baqarah explained | Surah Baqarah Ayat 12

Tafseer Surah Baqarah Verse 12 | Surah Baqarah explanation in English | Surah Baqarah explained | Surah Baqarah Ayat 12 Translation

Surah Al-Baqarah

Verse 12

He (the Most-High) said:

 ﴿ أَلَا إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ الْمُفْسِدُونَ وَلَكِنْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ ﴾ 

📜 Unquestionably, truly it is they who are the corrupters, but they perceive [it] not (Al-Baqarah 2:12)

📚 In this noble āyah, we find a refutation against the claims of the munāfiqīn (hypocrites) and a rebuttal against them. They were commanded to obey Allāh, but they did not. And they were prohibited from disobeying him, but they did not desist. Despite this, they claimed they were reformers.

Surah Baqarah Verse 12

📚 So Allāh (the Mighty and Majestic) refuted them and exposed the reality of their condition, in that they are corruptors on the earth - which Allāh made fitting for uprightness and betterment, they have transgressed the boundaries of Allāh, and they commit sins - intensely embarking upon them. 

📚 Alā (أَلَا - unquestionably) is an opener and word of caution. A caution does not come unless it is regarding an unfamiliar matter. Our Lord cautioned the believers and made them aware of (the hypocrites’) hypocrisy and corruption on the earth. 

📚 The second affirmation came with hum (هُم - they). This āyah, despite its brevity in words, encompasses a number of emphasizing points. Of them, the opener, the caution, the affirmation with inna (إِنَّ – truly) and the separating pronoun hum (هُمُ – they), and in the identification of the predicate – a continuance that leads to an increased exactness of the rule in the mind of the hearer. And He used the definite article (ال - the), which makes evident the reality of the corruption.

📚 And in His saying, “But they perceive [it] not,” is a caution to man - who is prone to forgetfulness: Not everything that appeals to the self is correct; rather a person is guided by the Qur’ān and the sunnah. 

📚 The hypocrites used to cause corruption, but they were not aware they were corrupting their worldly life and their life in the hereafter. 

📚 Awareness is (based on a) physical, psychological, and mental (understanding) of the errors in what they do. In it is a warning, that evil has rooted itself deeply within the hypocrites, to the point where they are not even aware they have delved into it.

☀️ In times of emotional distress, do we do what appeals to us or follow The Quran and Sunnah?

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