Transliteration:( Minal lazeena farraqoo deenahum wa kaanoo shiya'an kullu hizbim bimaa ladaihim farihoon )
70. By their religion is meant their polytheism and cutting it to shreds is meant all of them are not firm on one belief. Some believe in two gods, and some believe in three, and others believe in more than three. In the same way every sect has fabricated different religious laws, yet they themselves are not agreeable on one law
71. It means all of them are false, yet from them every sect is expressing joy by regarding his own falsehood as truth and truth itself as falsehood. This verse has no connection with differences of opinions of the Islamic jurists. Being a Shafa'ee, Maliki, Hanafi or Hambali, is not creating division in religion. There are differences in subsidiary issues but this difference is based on research and investigation and not on the basis of selfish motives. Likewise, it has no connection with the difference in opinions of the Companions of It should ﷺ the Holy Prophet were be remembered that the original religion of all the Prophets was one, but there differences in practices. Thus, this verse cannot be applied to the Prophets. However, it does include those Islamic sects, which have reached the boundaries of infidelity, like the Qadyanis, Chakraldwis, etc., because they have cut religion to shreds. The Holy Prophet had said: "My Ummah will ﷺ be divided into seventy-three sects. Besides one, all the others will be inmates of Hell".
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The tafsir of Surah Ar-Rum verse 32 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Rum ayat 30 which provides the complete commentary from verse 31 through 32.
(30:32) those who have split up their religion and have become divided into sects, each party exulting in what they have.[51]
51. This is an allusion to the fact that the real way of life for mankind is the same way of nature as elucidated above. This way of life has not evolved from a polytheistic creed to Tauhid as thought by those who invent a philosophy of religion on the basis of speculation. But, contrary to this, all the religions found in the world today have appeared because of the corruption of the original way of life. This corruption occurred because different people added their different self made creeds to the natural realities and created separate sects and everyone became a devotee of the additional thing, which was the basis of the separate sect, and gave up the original way of life. Now the only way of attaining true guidance is that one should return to the original reality which was the basis of the true faith, and rid oneself of all the later additions and excrescences and their devotees. If he still keeps any kind of contact with them, he will only be harming the true faith.
[1147]- Of beliefs, opinions, customs, etc.
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