Tafseer Surah Baqarah Verse 16 | Surah Baqarah explanation in English | Surah Baqarah explained | Surah Baqarah Ayat 16

Tafseer Surah Baqarah Verse 16 | Surah Baqarah explanation in English | Surah Baqarah explained | Surah Baqarah Ayat 16 Translation

Surah Al-Baqarah

Verse 16

2:16 Al-Baqarah

‎ أُولَئِكَ الَّذِينَ اشْتَرَوُا الضَّلَالَةَ بِالْهُدَى فَمَا رَبِحَتْ تِجَارَتُهُمْ وَمَا كَانُوا مُهْتَدِينَ 

Those are the ones who have purchased error [in exchange] for guidance, so their transaction has brought no profit, nor were they guided (Al-Baqarah 2:16)

Surah Baqarah Verse 16

☘️Those: The ones who were characterized earlier with their abhorrent qualities that are distinct to them. And “Those” is a demonstrative pronoun for one who is far, indicating their distant place in an evil and wicked state.

☘️Ḍalālah (error) is deviating from the objective, while hudā (guidance) is directing towards it.

☘️Purchased error [in exchange] for guidance: Meaning they exchanged their capital sum in favour of profit, for īmān is the capital sum, and obedient acts are profit. If the capital sum is lost, then there is no profit. 

☘️For this reason, their transaction has brought no profit; in fact, there was loss. Nor were they guided ever to the causes of profit, for they exchanged guidance.

☘️The hypocrites chose perversity and abandoned guidance, and similarly the disbeliever, who chooses disbelief in place of īmān. So this became a purchase of theirs for disbelief and perversion, taking it by abandoning what they left from guidance. 

☘️Every disbeliever exchanges īmān with disbelief, by acquiring the disbelief that is found in him, instead of the īmān that he was commanded with.

🔮When a believer reaches to that stage where everything in his heart depends on what pleases Allah, that is true imaan.

💎 Imaan is like a tree. If not watered by good deeds it will wilt, little by little and die.

I ask Allah SWT to increase our Imaan everyday, Aameen

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