Transliteration:( Ulaaa'ika 'alaa hudam mir Rabbihim wa ulaaa'ika humul muflihoon )
6. From this emerge two issues
1. In order to achieve success, good deeds are necessary for it Being certain of success. By remaining indifferent to good deeds is like being certain of reaping wheat after sowing barley.
2. Guidance is obtained merely through the bounty and grace of Allah Almighty. One's personal knowledge and intelligence are not sufficient for it. Highly educated scholar become infidels while uneducated people become believers. May Allah Almighty shower His grace upon us In order to obtain Paradise.
The tafsir of Surah Luqman verse 5 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Luqman ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 7.
(31:5) It is they who are on true guidance from their Lord, and it is they who shall prosper.[4]
4. At the time when these verses were sent down, the disbelieves of Makkah thought, and said so openly, that Muhammad (peace be upon him) and those who accepted his message were wasting and ruining their lives. Therefore, it was stated with full force and emphasis: “Those are the ones who will be successful.” That is, they will not ruin themselves as you seem to think in your ignorance, but they in fact are the ones who alone will attain true success, and the utter failures will be those who have refused to adopt this way. Here the one who regards true success as confined to the world, in the sense of material prosperity, will be fully missing the Quranic concept of it. To understand the real concept of the true success one should study the following verses of the Quran along with the relevant E.Ns: (Surah Al-Baqarah, Ayat 2-5), (Surah Aal-Imran, Ayat 102), (Surah Aal-Imran, Ayat 130), (Surah Aal-Imran, Ayat 200), (Surah Al-Maidah, Ayat 35), (Surah Al-Maidah, Ayat 90), (Surah Al-Anaam, Ayat 21), (Surah Al-Aaraf, Ayat 7-8) (Surah Al-Aaraf, Ayat 157), (Surah At-Taubah, Ayat 88), (Surah Yunus, Ayat 17), (Surah An-Nahl, Ayat 116), (Surah Al-Hajj, Ayat 77), (Surah Al-Muminun, Ayat 117), (Surah An-Nur, Ayat 51), (Surah Ar-Rum, Ayat 38).
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