Day 5 - Ayah 3-5

Surah Al-Baqarah: Ayahs 3-5
Date: April 1st, 2013
Attendance: A.U.A.H

الَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ وَيُقِيمُونَ الصَّلَاةَ وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ يُنْفِقُونَ

3. "Who believe in the Ghaib and perform As-Salât, and spend out of what we have provided for them."

وَالَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِمَا أُنْزِلَ إِلَيْكَ وَمَا أُنْزِلَ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ وَبِالْآخِرَةِ هُمْ يُوقِنُونَ

4. "And who believe in what has been sent down to you and in what was sent down before you, and they believe with certainty in the Hereafter."

أُولَٰئِكَ عَلَىٰ هُدًى مِنْ رَبِّهِمْ ۖ وَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ

5. "They are on guidance from their Lord, and they are the successful."

After Allah mentioned al-muttaqoon in the second verse, He mentioned in these verses some of their characteristics that made them among the guided and successful. So He سبحانه وتعالى mentioned their Iman in the ghayb (the unseen) and in what Allah sent of books to His messengers. Then He mentioned their Iman in the akhirah (afterlife). Likewise, He سبحانه وتعالى mentioned their establishing of as-Salah and their spending of what He provided for them.

The one who contemplates on these verses finds the following:

1. Allah سبحانه وتعالى made success the consequence of two matters:

The first linked on Iman:

يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ

يُؤْمِنُونَ بِمَا أُنْزِلَ إِلَيْكَ وَمَا أُنْزِلَ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ وَبِالْآخِرَةِ هُمْ يُوقِنُونَ

and the second linked to the al-‘amal as-Salih (good actions).

وَيُقِيمُونَ الصَّلَاةَ وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ يُنْفِقُونَ

just as Allah سبحانه وتعالى connected al-Iman and good actions in many verses:

الَّذِين آمَنُواْ وَعَمِلُواْ الصَّالِحَاتِ

2. After Allah سبحانه وتعالى mentioned the iman in the ghayb, He came back to mentioning iman in the akhirah which is a part of the ghayb. This is from the style of mentioning the specific after the general, in order to make its importance stand out. Iman in the ghayb is from the aqeedah and Iman in the akhirah is an important matter of it. The Muslim should remember the akhirah continuously striving for it multiples of multiples more than his striving for the dunya.

3. When Allah سبحانه وتعالى mentioned al-ghayb, al-akhirah and the revealed book, explicitly mentioned iman in them. But, when He mentioned the good actions and spending, He mentioned performing them, i.e. al-qiyam bihaa, which indicates that iman is other than the shariah rules. Iman is confined to at-Tasdeeq al-jazim (decisive belief) like Iman in Allah, the day of judgment, the angels, the book, the Prophets and the decree (al-qadr) the good and the bad of it.