In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Conclusion from Al-Tabari’s interpretation
It was summarized by Dr. Aqeel bin Salem Al-Shammari
Surah An-Nisa
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
So what do you have about two groups of hypocrites, and God will destroy them because of what they have earned
Do you want to guide those whom God has led astray?
Whoever God leads astray, you will not find a way for him
What is the matter with you, O believers, regarding hypocrites as two different groups?
God will return them to the rulings of the polytheists
Do you, believers, want to be guided to Islam?
So they agreed to acknowledge it for whom God took it
And whoever takes him away from his religion
O Muhammad, you will not find a way for him to guide him to realizing what God has taken from him
They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieve, so you would be the same
Do not take any of them as allies until they migrate for the sake of God
If they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them
And do not take from them a guardian or a helper
These hypocrites wished that you would disbelieve and deny the oneness of your Lord
Just as they denied them, so you will be infidels like them
Do not take friends from them until they leave the house of polytheism
They leave its people seeking the religion of God
If these hypocrites turn away from acknowledging God and His Messenger
They turned away from immigration
So take them, O believers, and kill them wherever you find them, from their country and other than their country
And do not take from them a friend who will take care of your affairs
There is no helper to help you against your enemies
Except for those who reach out to a people with whom there is a covenant, or who come to you
Or they came to you, determined to fight you
They are determined to fight you or fight their own people
If God had willed, He would have given them power over you and we would have fought you
If they withdraw from you and do not fight you and offer you peace
They offered you peace, but God has not made a way for you against them
Except for those of them who have reached a people with whom there is an agreement, a covenant, and a covenant between you
So they entered among them, so that their women and children would not be taken captive, and their wealth would not be taken as spoils
And also, except for those of them who came to you
Their hearts were exhausted from fighting you or their people
If God had willed, He would have given authority to those who reach out to a people between whom and you there is a covenant
And those whose hearts are restrained from fighting you
So they fought you with your polytheist enemies
But God kept them from you
If these people withdraw from you and do not fight you
They surrendered to you and made peace with you
God did not make for you a means of killing or spoiling your lives, their money, their offspring, and their women
Do not expose them to this except in a good way
You will find others who want to make you and their people safe
Whenever they are returned to sedition, they are thrown into it
If they do not withdraw from you and extend greetings to you and restrain their hands
So take them and kill them wherever you find them
And over those We have given you clear authority
These are another group of hypocrites
They used to show Islam to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and his companions
To be safe for themselves, their money, their women, and their descendants
Whenever their people called them to polytheism, they apostatized
If he does not withdraw from you, O believers
They will surrender to you and stop fighting you
So take them wherever you find them on the ground and kill them
Their blood is then lawful for you
We have given you a proof for their deserving of this
By their standing on their disbelief and their abandonment of the abode of polytheism
If he is from a people who are enemies to you and he is a believer, then free a believing slave
If there is a treaty between you and a people, then a ransom must be paid to his family and the freeing of a believing slave
Whoever does not find it, then fast for two consecutive months as a repentance from God
And God is All-Knowing, All-Wise
God has not permitted a believer to kill another believer
However, the believer may kill the believer by mistake
Whoever kills a believer by mistake must free a believing slave from his property
His relatives give it to his family
Unless the family of the dead person gives a gift to the person whose gift is required for their dead person, then they pardon him
If this dead man was a mistake from among people who are polytheists who are enemies to you in religion, and he is a believer
The killer thinks he is a disbeliever
He must free a safe slave
And if the dead person who was killed by the believer was by mistake from a people between you, O believers, and with whom there is a covenant of covenant
His killer must pay blood money to his family, which is borne by his relatives
Freeing a faithful slave is atonement for killing him
Whoever does not find a safe neck
He must fast for two consecutive months
God's help to you is to make things easy for you
God still knows what is best for His servants
Wise in what he decrees and wants regarding them
Whoever intentionally kills a believing woman?
His reward is hell
Abiding in it
And God was angry with him
And curse him
He cursed him and prepared a great punishment for him
Whoever kills a believer intentionally, kills him
His reward is the torment of Hell that remains therein
And God was angry with him and removed him from His mercy
A great punishment was prepared for him
No one knows the amount of his amount except Him, may God Almighty mention Him
O you who have believed, when you fight in the path of God, then investigate
So investigate and do not say to the one who greeted you, “You are not a believer.”
And do not say to those who greet you: “You are not a believer”; you seek the reward of this world’s life
If you seek to gain the life of this world, God is greatly in love
This is how you were before, so God is upon you, so make clear that God is Acquainted with what you do
O you who have believed God and His Messenger
If you walk in the path of God in the struggle against your enemies
So be careful in killing those whose affairs are difficult for you
They did not know the truth about his Islam or his disbelief
And do not say to those who surrendered to you and did not fight you
Showing you that he is one of the people of your religion and calling
I am not a believer, so kill him for the enjoyment of this worldly life
For God has many spoils of His provision, and His abundant blessings are better for you
And so were you before God made His religion honorable
You underestimate your religion just as this man hid his religion from his people out of fear of them
It has been said that before, you were disbelievers like them
May God be gracious to you by strengthening His religion and increasing its number of followers
And you must repent
Do not rush to kill someone whose conversion to Islam is confusing to you
God intended to kill whomever you would kill
And stop killing those whom you stop killing
And other matters for you
He has experience and knowledge of it
So that He will reward all of you on the Day of Resurrection
The benefactor with his benevolence
And the abuser with his abuse
And those who strive in the cause of God with their money and their lives
God has favored the Mujahideen with their money and their lives over those who remain in His rank
And God promised good things
So God gave the Mujahideen a great reward over those who remained silent
May God bless the Mujahideen with their money and their lives
There is only one virtue for those who remain in need of harm
God promised all of the Mujahideen their money and their lives
And those who sit among the people of harm will go to Paradise
And God has favored the Mujahideen with their money and their lives over those who remain behind and are not deserving of harm, with a great reward
Virtues and houses of dignity
He forgave them for their sins and had compassion on them
God remains forgiving of the sins of His faithful servants
Merciful to them, He bestows His blessings upon them
Indeed, those whom the angels take to death are unjust
Those who are taken by angels are unjust to themselves
They said while you were
They said we were weak in the land
They said, “Wasn’t God’s earth wide enough for them to migrate there?”
For those, their abode is Hell, and it is an evil destination
Except the weak men, women, and children, who are unable to devise anything and are not guided to a way
For those, perhaps God will pardon them, and God is Pardoning and Forgiving
Those whose souls are taken are angels
They earned themselves God's wrath and wrath
The angels said to them: What religion do you follow?
He said: Those whom the angels take away are those who wrong themselves
We were weak on earth. The polytheists treated us weak and prevented us from believing in God
And following His Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace
They said, “Wasn’t God’s land wide enough for you to leave your land to the land whose people prevent you?”
So they united God in it
Their fate in the afterlife is Hell
And Hell has become a dwelling place and shelter for its people
Except for those whom the polytheists deemed weak, men, women, and children
They are unable to migrate due to hardship and lack of resourcefulness
And poor eyesight and knowledge of the path from their land to the land of Islam
These are the weak ones
Perhaps God will pardon them for the excuse they are in
And God continues to forgive, by His grace, the sins of His servants
He covered their sins by forgiving them
Conclusion from Al-Tabari’s interpretation