Transliteration:( Illab tighaaa'a wajhi rabbihil a 'laa )
19. It means that Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique freed Hazrat Bilal in search of gaining the pleasure of Allah.
From this emerge a few issues:
1. The sublime status of Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique is such that Allah Almighty is the witness about his sincerity and beauty of intention.
2. Good deeds should not be done with the intention of obtaining Paradise or saving one-self from Hell but should be done for gaining the sole pleasure of Allah Almighty. Once He is pleased with you, then everything is achieved.
3. A person should bear in mind that just as he makes an effort to seek his sustenance, he should seek the pleasure of Allah Almighty more. Just as the doors of sustenance are different, so are the doors of Divine pleasure.
The tafsir of Surah Al-Lail verse 20 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Al-Lail ayat 12 which provides the complete commentary from verse 12 through 21.
(92:20) but only to seek the good pleasure of his Lord Most High.[10]
10. This is further explanation of the sincerity of the pious man. He was not indebted in any way to the people on whom he spends his wealth so that he may be doing so in order to repay for favors received, or may be giving gifts and holding banquets to them in order to further benefit from them, but he is helping such people only in order to seek the goodwill of his Lord, the Supreme. He was neither indebted to them before, nor he expects any favors from them in the future. Its best illustration is the act of Abu Bakr Siddiq, he would purchase and set free the poor slaves and slaves-girls who accepted Islam in Makkah and were cruelly treated by their masters on that account. Ibn Jarir and Ibn Asakir have related, on the authority of Amir bin Abdullah bin Zubair, that when Abu Bakr’s father saw him spending money to purchase the freedom of the poor slaves and slave-girls, he said to him: Son, I see that you are getting the weak people free; had you spent this money on the freedom of strong, young men, they would have become your helpers and supporters. Abu Bakr replied: Dear father, I only seek the reward that is with Allah.
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