Transliteration:( Wa la udillannahum wa la umanni yannnahum wa la aamurannahum fala yubat tikunna aazaanal an'aami wa la aamurannahum fala yughai yirunna khalqal laah; wa mai yattakhizish Shaitaana waliyyam min doonil laahi faqad khasira khusraanam mubeena )
361. It should be remembered that if the desire of long life and material wealth, etc. become an obstacle in your remembrance of Allah Almighty, then such things are works of the devil.Â
On the other hand, if these are described as a means of pleasing Allah Almighty then they would be regarded as an act of worship.
362. From this, we learn that reverence of the cow, to paint the horns of the animals during Diwali, and Holi, to follow the customs of the polytheists are all included in the works of the devil.
It is obligatory upon the Muslims to refrain from such practices. Infact to honour their big days, to show respect to River Ganges. etc. are all acts of infidelity.
363.From this we learn that Allah Almighty has given the devil knowledge of the unseen
because what he had prophesized for the future is coming true today. If the power of disease is such, then the power of medicine and treatment must be much greater.
Prophets and Saints are treatment: the devil is the disease. Shaving of the beard too is included in this as it amounts to altering the creation of Allah Almighty. Just as it is forbidden for a woman to shave off the hair from her head so is the case with men who shave off their beards.
364. This verse is a commentary to all those verses in which prohibition of taking anyone as a friend besides Allah Almighty. This verse has clearly shown that friend besides Allah Almighty is the devil and people who are followers of the devil. Friends of Allah Almighty are someone else. friends beside Allah Almighty are different. One should be mindful of this differentiation.
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The tafsir of Surah Nisa verse 119 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Nisa ayat 116 which provides the complete commentary from verse 116 through 122.
(4:119) and shall lead them astray, and shall engross them in vain desires, and I shall command them and they will cut off the ears of the cattle,[147] and I shall command them and they will disfigure Allah’s creation.’[148] He who took Satan rather than Allah for his guardian has indeed suffered a man-ifest loss.
147. The reference here is to a superstitious Arabian custom. It was customary among the Arabs that after a camel had given birth to five or ten young to slit her ears and let her go in the name of their deity; they considered it forbidden to put her to any work. Likewise, the male camel that had caused the birth of ten camels was consecrated to some deity. The slitting of ears symbolized this consecration.
148. To alter God’s creation in some respect does not mean changing its original form. If that was meant, human civilization would have to be considered Satanic in its entirety. For civilization consists essentially of man’s putting to use the resources endowed by God. Hence the alteration of God’s creation, which is characterized as Satanic, consists in using a thing not for the purpose for which it was created by God. In other words, all acts performed in violation either of one’s true nature or of the intrinsic nature of other things are the result of the misleading promptings of Satan. These include, for instance, sodomy, birth control, monasticism, celibacy, sterilization of either men or women, turning males into eunuchs, diverting females from the functions entrusted to them by nature and driving them to perform the functions for which men were created. These and numerous similar measures are enacted by Satan’s disciples in this world, which amounts on their part, to saying that the laws of the Creator were faulty and that they would like to ‘reform’ them.
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