Transliteration:( Yaa ayyuhal lazeena aamanoo laa tarfa'ooo aswaatakum fawqa sawtin Nabiyi wa laa tajharoo lahoo bilqawli kajahri ba'dikum liba 'din an tahbata a 'maalukum wa antum laa tash'uroon )
3. Reason for its Revelation:
This verse was revealed regarding Haras Thabit him Qais(May Allah be pleased with him) who was hard of hearing and loud in speech. When the verse was revealed that keep your voices low when in the presence and company of the Holy Prophet ? he began to keep away from Masjid -e -Nabawi . When the Holy Prophet ? noticed his absence, he enquired from Hazrat Sa'd the neighbour of Hazrat Thabit bin Qais.
the reason for his absence Hazrat Sa'd then asked his neighbour his reason for staying away from the company of the blessed Prophet. Hazrat Thabit replied that I have become an inmate of Hell because of my loud voice. When Hazrat Sa'd conveyed this to the Holy Prophet, he replied that tell Thabit not to fear, as he is from the inmates of Paradise
4. This tells us that the slightest disrespect of Holy Prophet Is infidel because it is through infidelity that good deed of a person are wiped out. If good deeds wiped out just by raising the voice in presence of the blessed Messenger, then is there any need to talk of any other forms of disrespect? The purpose of this verse is to inform the believers not to talk in a raised voice in the company of the Messenger of Allah do not address him with common words which are used to address One another.
Do not address him as father, brother or an ordinary human being, but rather addre him as Messenger of Allah, the intercessor of sinners, etc.
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Please refer to Surah Hujurat ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 3.
(49:2) Believers, do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet and when speaking to him do not speak aloud as you speak aloud to one another,[3] lest all your deeds are reduced to nothing without your even realising it.[4]
3. This is the etiquette that was taught to the people who sat among the audience of the Prophet (peace be upon him) or came to visit him. Its intention was that the believers should treat the Prophet (peace be upon him) with the highest respect and reverence when visiting him and talking to him. Nobody should raise his voice louder than his. The people should not be unmindful of the fact that they are addressing the Messenger (peace be upon him) of Allah, and not a common man, or a person of equal rank. Therefore, there should be a marked difference between one’s tone of conversation with the common people and one’s tone of conversation with the Prophet (peace be upon him), and no one should talk to him in a voice louder than his.
Although this etiquette was taught for sitting in the Prophet’s (peace be upon him) assembly and its addressees were the people who were living in his time, the people of the later ages should also observe the same respect and reverence on the occasion when the Prophet’s name is mentioned, or a command of his is stated, or his sayings are explained. Besides, this verse also points out what attitude the people should adopt when talking to persons of a higher rank and status than themselves. A person’s talking before the men of a higher rank in a way as he talks before his friends or the common men, is in fact a sign that he has no respect for them in his heart, and he does not recognize any difference between them and the common people.
4. This shows what high position the person of the Prophet (peace be upon him) occupies in Islam. No one, whatever his rank and status, has a position so that his unmannerly behavior towards the Prophet (peace be upon him), would not deserve in the sight of Allah the same punishment as the punishment for disbelief. In respect of ordinary people it is at the most a sort of rudeness, an uncivilized conduct, but in respect of the Prophet (peace be upon him) a little lack of reverence is such a grave sin as can destroy all the services of one’s lifetime. For the reverence of the Prophet (peace be upon him) is indeed reverence of that God Who has sent him as His Messenger and lack of reverence for him amounts to lack of reverence of God Himself.
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