Tafseer Surah Baqarah Verse 80-82 | Surah Baqarah explanation in English | Surah Baqarah explained | Surah Baqarah Ayat 80 to 82

Tafseer Surah Baqarah Verse 80-82 | Surah Baqarah explanation in English | Surah Baqarah explained | Surah Baqarah Ayat 80 to 82 Translation

Surah Baqarah Verse 80-82

🗯 Ayaat 80-82: We will get what we earn.

Despite doing all the wrong things, the Jews claimed that the Fire will not touch them except for a few days. Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala refutes their statement by asking if they have taken a covenant with Him that He will never break. The ayah proclaims: If you had a promise from Allah for that, then Allah will never break His promise. However, such promise never existed. Rather, what you say, about Allah, you have no knowledge of and you thus utter a lie about Him.

Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala says, the matter is not as they have wished and hoped it to be. Rather, whoever does an evil deed and abides purposefully in his error, coming on the Day of Resurrection with no good deeds, only evil deeds, then he will be among the people of the Fire. On the other hand, those who believe in Allah and His Messenger ﷺ and perform the righteous deeds conforming with the Islamic law, then such people will be among the people of Paradise. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to save us from the punishment of the grave, and the punishment of the Fire, and make us and our loved ones among the people of Jannah, ameen.

🗯When Small Sins gather, they bring about destruction

In the ayah, Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala says, “…and his sin has encompassed him,” the scholars have said that these are the sins that a person commits without seeking repentance and correcting his ways. When the sins accumulate and the person does not stop committing evil finally destruction takes over him.

Imam Ahmad recorded ‘Abdullah ibn Mas’oud radhiAllahu ‘anhu said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said,

إِيَّاكُمْ وَمُحَقَّرَاتِ الذُّنُوبِ فَإِنَّهُنَّ يَجْتَمِعْنَ عَلَى الرَّجُلِ حَتّى يُهْلِكْنَه

“Beware of the belittled sins, because they gather on a person until they destroy him.”

He then said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave them an example,

كَمَثَلٍ قَوْمٍ نَزَلُوا بِأَرْضِ فَلَاةٍ، فَحَضَرَ صَنِيعُ الْقَوْمِ فَجَعَلَ الرَّجُلُ يَنْطَلِقُ فَيَجِيءُ بِالْعُودِ وَالرَّجُلُ يَجِيءُ بِالْعُودِ، حَتّى جَمَعُوا سَوَادًا وَأَجَّجُوا نَارًا فَأَنْضَجُوا مَا قَذَفُوا فِيهَا

“This is the example of people who set up camp on a flat land, and then their servants came. One of them collected some wood and another man collected some wood until they collected a great deal. They then started a fire and cooked what they put on it.”

We should, therefore, really be conscious of our actions and immediately repent as soon as we realize our mistake. We should continue to seek forgiveness for the sins that we know and those that we do not know, forgiveness for the sins that we committed intentionally and those that were committed unintentionally. 

🔮 May Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala grant us sincere repentance, ameen.

رَبَّنَا تَقَبَّلْ مِنَّا ۖ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيم

“Our Lord, accept [this] from us. Indeed You are the Hearing, the Knowing.” [Al-Baqarah 2: 127]

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