Transliteration:( Yaqooloona la'ir raja'naaa ilal madeenati la yukhrijannal a'azzu minhal azall; wa lillaahil 'izzatu wa li Rasoolihee wa lilmu'mineena wa laakinnal munaafiqeena laa ya'lamoon )
24. After reaching returning from this battle.Madina Shareef, on
25. These wretches had called their group as honourable and the believers as dishonourable.
26. From this, emerge a few issues:
1.Every believer is honourable. To regard many Muslim nation as dishonourable or to refer to it as dishonourable, is forbidden.
2. The honour of the believer is due to his faith and good deeds and not due to worldly riches:
3. The honour of the believer is eternal and not temporary. It is for this reason that his body and grave, too, are objects of respect.
4. The one who calls the believer disho-nourable is himself dishonourable in the eyes of Allah Almighty.
27. Thus, a few days after this incident, Ibn Ubay died in a most disgraceful manner and to this day, he is an object of ridicule and curse. The one expelled out of his blessed court does not find peace, even after his death.
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Please refer to Surah Munafiqun ayat 5 which provides the complete commentary from verse 5 through 8.
(63:8) They say: “When we return to Madinah, the honourable ones will drive out from it those that are abject.”[15] In truth, all honour belongs to Allah, and to His Messenger, and to the believers.[16] But the hypocrites do not know.
15. Zaid bin Arqam says: When I reported these words of Abdullah bin Ubayy to the Prophet (peace be upon him), and Abdullah bin Ubayy came and disowned them on oath, the elderly people of the Ansar, and even my own uncle, reproved me for this; so much so that I felt that the Prophet (peace be upon him) had also mistaken me for a liar and Abdullah bin Ubayy for a truthful person. This caused me great anguish and grief. Then, when these verses were revealed, the Prophet (peace be upon him) called me, and taking hold of my ear, said: The boy’s ear was truthful Allah has himself testified to what it had heard. (Ibn Jarir. In Tirmidhi also there is a tradition on the same subject).
16. That is, all honor belongs to Allah in virtue of His essence, to the Prophet (peace be upon him) in virtue of his prophethood, and to the believers in virtue of their faith. As for the disbelievers, the wicked people and the hypocrites, they have no share whatsoever in the real true honor.
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