Surah An'aam Tafsir | Part 27 | Quran | Sheikh Azhar Nasser | English
Channel: Why Quran?
Date: 2017-12-27

Sheikh Azhar covers verses 142-149 of Surah An'aam. Topics include:
- Attributing false laws to God
- Challenging cultural practices done in the name of Islam
- Satan doesn't make you commit major sins, he makes you commit minor sins and those minor sins become the stepping stones to major sins.
- Balance between God's mercy and his justice
- Free will and the trials of this world
- Importance of applying knowledge one has learnt so far

English translation of the verses covered:

6:142 - Of the cattle [some] are for burden and [some] for slaughter. Eat of what Allah has provided you and do not follow in Satan’s footsteps; he is indeed your manifest enemy.

6:143 - Eight mates: two of sheep, and two of goats. Say, ‘Is it the two males that He has forbidden or the two females, or what is contained in the wombs of the two females? Inform me with knowledge, should you be truthful.’

6:144 - And two of camels and two of oxen. Say, ‘Is it the two males that He has forbidden or the two females, or what is contained in the wombs of the two females? Were you witnesses when Allah enjoined this upon you?’ So who is a greater wrongdoer than him who fabricates a lie against Allah to mislead the people without any knowledge? Indeed Allah does not guide the wrongdoing lot.

6:145 - Say, ‘I do not find in what has been revealed to me that anyone be forbidden to eat anything except carrion or spilt blood, or the flesh of swine—for that is indeed unclean—or an impiety offered to other than Allah.’ But should someone be compelled, without being rebellious or aggressive, indeed your Lord is all-forgiving, all-merciful.

6:146 - To the Jews We forbade every animal having an undivided hoof, and of oxen and sheep We forbade them their fat, except what is borne by their backs or the entrails, or what is attached to the bones. We requited them with that for their rebelliousness, and We indeed speak the truth.

6:147 - But if they deny you, say, ‘Your Lord is dispenser of an all-embracing mercy, but His punishment will not be averted from the guilty lot.’

6:148 - The polytheists will say, ‘Had Allah wished we would not have ascribed any partner [to Him], nor our fathers, nor would we have forbidden anything.’ Those who were before them had denied likewise until they tasted Our punishment. Say, ‘Do you have any [revealed] knowledge that you can produce before us? You follow nothing but conjectures, and you do nothing but surmise.’

6:149 - Say, ‘To Allah belongs the conclusive argument. Had He wished, He would have surely guided you all.’

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