Transliteration:( Yaaa ayyuhal lazeena aamanut taqul laaha wa zaroo maa baqiya minar ribaaa in kuntum mu'mineen )
740. From this emerge two issues:
1. Piety and God-consciousness should be the object of every believer.
2. Faith precedes piety. Piety is for Faith like Wudu is for Salaah.
741. Prior to the prohibition of interest, if it was payable on the debtor and part of it was unpaid, the portion received would not hereturned after the revelation of its prohibition. However, no further interest would be taken. Similar, will be the case of that non-believer on whom interest was due but has now accepted Islam. After accepting Islam he will be relieved of the obligation of its payment. Similarly, any person who embraces Islam while having 6 or 7 wives prior to Islam, is now permitted to have amaximum of 4 wives and separate the others. Many such issues can be deduced from this verse.
742. From this verse we learn that all interest orientated trade is the practice of the non-believer, not the believer. It is unlawful to imitate any practices of the non-believers as the practise of such acts is Kufr (apostasy). Examples of these are wearing cross threads toimitate the Hindus, leaving some hair on top of the head unshaved, bowing to the cross in imitation of the Nasara, etc.
The tafsir of Surah Baqarah verse 277 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Baqarah ayat 276 which provides the complete commentary from verse 276 through 277.
(2:278) Believers! Have fear of Allah and give up all outstanding interest if you do truly believe.
There is no commentary by Abul Maududi available for this verse.
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