ism

1462
4930 Defamation may consist in speaking ill of others by the spoken or written word, or in acting in such a way as to
suggest a charge against some person whom we are not in a position to judge. A cutting, biting remark or taunt of
sarcasm is included in the word lamaza. An offensive nickname may amount to defamation, but in any case there is
no point in using offensive nicknames, or names that suggest some real or fancied defect. They ill accord with the
serious purpose which Muslims should have in life. For example, even if a man is lame, it is wrong to address him as
"O lame one!" It causes him pain, and it is bad manners. So in the case of the rude remark, "the black man". (49.11)
RIGHT HAND:
4:3 - If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans marry women of your choice
two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them) then only
one or (a captive) that your right hands possess. That will be more suitable to prevent you
from doing injustice. 508539
508 Notice the conditional clause about orphans, introducing the rules about marriage. This reminds us of the immediate
occasion of the promulgation of this verse. It was after Uhud, when the Muslim community was left with many orphans
and widows and some captives of war. Their treatment was to be governed by principles of the greatest humanity and
equity. The occasion is past, but the principles remain. Marry the orphans if you are quite sure that you will in that way
protect their interests and their property, with perfect justice to them and to your own dependents if you have any. If
not, make other arrangements for the orphans. (4.3)
16:71 - And Allah hath favored some of you above others in provision. Now those who are more
favored will by no means hand over their provision to those (slaves) whom their right hands
possess, so that they may be equal with them in respect thereof. Is it then the grace of Allah
that they deny?
17:71 - One day We shall call together all human beings with their (respective) Imams: those who
are given their record in their right hand will read it (with pleasure) and they will not be dealt
with unjustly in the least. 22662267
2266 I have discussed the various meanings of Imam in ii. 124, n. 124. What is the meaning here? The Commentators are
divided. Some understand the meaning to be that each People or Group will appear with its Leader, who will bear
witness to its virtues or sins: Cf. xvi. 84. Another view is that the Imam is their revelation, their Book. A third is that the
Imam is the record of deeds spoken of in the next clause. I prefer the first. (17.71)
2267 Literally, by the value of a fatil, a small skin in the cleft of a date-stone: this has no value. (17.71)
29:48 - And thou wast not (able) to recite a Book before this (Book came) nor art thou (able) to
transcribe it with thy right hand: in that case indeed would the talkers of vanities have doubted.
3478
3478 The holy Prophet was not a learned man. Before the Qur-an was revealed to him, he never claimed to proclaim a
Message from Allah. He was not in the habit of preaching eloquent truths as from a Book, before he received his
Revelation, nor was he able to write or transcribe with his own hand. If he had had these worldly gifts, there would
have been some plausibility in the charge of the talkers of vanities that he spoke not from inspiration but from other
people's books, or that he composed the beautiful verses of the Qur-an himself and committed them to memory in
order to recite them to people. The circumstances in which the Qur-an came bear their own testimony to its truth as
from Allah. (29.48)
37:28 - They will say: "It was ye who used to come to us from the right hand (of power and
authority)!" 4052
4052 This is the mutual recrimination of the sinners-those who sinned, against those whose instigation or evil example led
them into sin. The misleaders in the life here below often used their power and influence to spread evil. The "right
hand" is the hand of power and authority. Instead of using it for righteous purposes, they used it for evil-selfishly for
their own advantage, and mischievously for the degradation of others. (37.28)
39:67 - No just estimate have they made of Allah such as is due to Him: on the Day of Judgement
the whole of the earth will be but His handful and the heavens will be rolled up in His right hand:
Glory to Him! High is He above the Partners they attribute to Him! 43414342
4342 See last note. The whole earth will be no more to Allah than a thing that a man might enclose in the hollow of his
hand, nor will the heavens with their vast expanse be more than a scroll, which a man might roll up with his right hand,
the hand of power and action. Cf. xxi. 104, and lxxxi. 1. (39.67)
56:8 - Then (there will be) the Companions of the Right Hand what will be the Companions of the
Right Hand?
56:9 - And the Companions of the left hand what will be the Companions of the Left Hand?
Go to UP
1462