Tafseer Surah Baqarah Verse 40 | Surah Baqarah explanation in English | Surah Baqarah explained | Surah Baqarah Ayat 40

Tafseer Surah Baqarah Verse 40 | Surah Baqarah explanation in English | Surah Baqarah explained | Surah Baqarah Ayat 40 Translation

📗Surah Al-Baqarah

📜Verse 40

2:40 Al-Baqarah

‎يا بني إسرائيل اذكروا نعمتي التي أنعمت عليكم وأوفوا بعهدي أوف بعهدكم وإياي فارهبون 

O Banī Isrā’īl, remember My favour which I have bestowed upon you and fulfil My covenant [upon you], so that I will fulfil your covenant [from Me], and fear none but Me (Al-Baqarah 2:40)

Surah Baqarah verse 40

☘️ O Banī Isrā’īl: O children of Yaˋqūb (Jacob). The word ibn (الإبن – son/child) is from word binā’ (البناء – construction), because he is from the construction of his father. And in their being addressed by O Banī Isrā’īl is an exhortation to them to comply, and a reminder to them that their father was a righteous servant, in order for them to follow him. So Allah SWT address honour and respect in this. Remember: Be thankful. Remembering a blessing is being thankful for it. Remember it so that you don’t forget it.

☘️ My favour: His favours that He (majestic be His remembrance) bestowed upon Banī Isrā’īl include: Selecting Messengers from amongst them, revealing Scriptures to them, causing springs to gush forth from stones, and (providing) manna (a food) and salwā (a quail-like bird) as food (for them). So He (majestic be His praise) commanded their descendants to remember what He had done for their fathers in the past; for the blessings of Allāh upon the fathers are blessings from Allāh upon the children. So He commanded them not to forget what He had done for their predecessors and their fathers.

☘️ Which I have bestowed upon you: Meaning the splitting of the sea, being saved from Firˋawn, the shading of the clouds, and the rest of what Allāh (the Most-High) blessed them with. And what is meant by “upon you” is upon your fathers, for the blessings upon the their fathers are blessings upon them. Being thankful for these blessings is obedience to Him in having belief in Muḥammad (ﷺ). And then He asserted this saying, “And fulfil My covenant [upon you]” – meaning, fulfil by being obedient to Me and My covenant, which I compacted with you by the Tawrāh (Torah), and includes belief in Muḥammad (ﷺ) and what you pledged with in believing in the Prophet of Mercy and the miraculous Book.

☘️ So that I will fulfil your covenant [from Me]: I will enter you into Paradise, and make you blissful in the world. So the meaning is: Fulfil what you have pledged upon from believing in Me, and that obedience is for Me, and belief in My Messengers – and I will fulfil what I have pledged to you from being established on the earth in this world and (you will have) blissfulness in the hereafter. Indeed, Allāh commanded all His servants to be in constant fear of His punishment, so that they will act and not (simply be) reliant.

🔮This āyah has come with the command of remembering the blessings, for although it is specifically addressed to Banī Isrā’īl – it is addressed to the general. In this āyah is proof that fear should only be from Allāh, and a servant should be obedient due to fear and hope.

💎 I ask Allah SWT to help us to be obdedient servant at all times, Aameen

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