1. Home
  2. Attfseer Book
  3. Al-Maida (1-81)

الآية رقم (67) - يَا أَيُّهَا الرَّسُولُ بَلِّغْ مَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِن رَّبِّكَ وَإِن لَّمْ تَفْعَلْ فَمَا بَلَّغْتَ رِسَالَتَهُ وَاللّهُ يَعْصِمُكَ مِنَ النَّاسِ إِنَّ اللّهَ لاَ يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْكَافِرِينَ

(67) - (O Messenger, announce that which has been revealed to you from your Lord, and if you do not, then you have not conveyed His message. And Allah will protect you from the people. Indeed, Allah does not guide the disbelieving people.)

The Messenger’s mission is to announce what has revealed to him from Allah (swt), thus when Allah (swt) says:

(… يَا أَيُّهَا الرَّسُولُ بَلِّغْ مَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِن رَّبِّكَ ) (O Messenger, announce that which has been revealed to you from your Lord …): That is, keep announcing no matter how much they hurt you, no matter how much they wronged you, and no matter how much they fought you.

(… وَإِن لَّمْ تَفْعَلْ فَمَا بَلَّغْتَ رِسَالَتَهُ …) (…and if you do not, then you have not conveyed His message …): The message cannot be divided, so we take from it what we want and leave what we do not want. The fault for Muslims in the world is that they deal with the Holy Qur’an according to their interests; they take the permissible and left what is obligatory; for example, it is permissible for a man to marry more than one woman, but the obligation is to be justice and not harm his first wife, likewise when someone inherits, he immediately asks for his share, while he forgets that he has orphaned siblings, and he has to spend on them.

(… وَاللَّهُ يَعْصِمُكَ مِنَ النَّاسِ …) (…And Allah will protect you from the people …): ‘Aishah narrated that:

“The Prophet (saws) was being guarded until this Ayah was revealed: ‘Allah will protect you from the people.’ So the Messenger of Allah (saws) stuck his head out from the room and said: ‘O you people! Go away, for Allah shall protect me.'”[1]

The Prophet (saws) used to bear the harm, but no one could kill him or prevent him from fulfilling the Message. And this verse is the greatest evidence that the Holy Qur’an is from Allah (swt) and not from human; for how can the Prophet (saws) while he was facing a lot of enemies from the Jews, the hypocrites and the infidels of Quraish, then remained without guards?

(  إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْكَافِرِينَ… ) (…Indeed, Allah does not guide the disbelieving people): Because they are infidels, so Allah (swt) does not guide them. Allah (swt) has revealed the heavenly messages to you so that you may believe and not be an infidel. We have two types of guidance: the guidance of directing; it is for all people, and the guidance of support for the believers. Hence, if you disbelieve by your choice, so Allah (swt) does not support you.

[1] Sunan at-Tirmidhi: The Explanation of Quran, Surah al-Maida, Hadith No. 3046.