Allah loves (13) those who purify themselves

                                                                                         

Verse 9:108 says that Allah loves those who purify themselves physically and spiritually.
Verse 9:107 was revealed after the hypocrites built a place for prayer!
The Story was: some hypocrites thought to build a mosque and sent for Muhammad, to come to them. When they finished building this mosque, they went to Muhammad, and said: ‘We have built a mosque for the sick and the needy and also for use in rainy and wintry nights, and we would like you to come and pray in it’.
They will swear: ‘We desired nothing, by building it, but, to do good’, by way of kindness towards the poor in times of heavy rain or extreme heat and in order to provide a place of worship for the Muslims;
And God bears witness that they are truly liars, in their claim of theirs.
They had asked Muhammad to perform prayers in it.
But Allah revealed verse 9:107; it says those who chose a place of worship out of opposition and disbelief, and in order to cause dissent among the believers, and as an outpost for those who warred against Allah and His messenger aforetime, they will surely swear: We purposed naught save good. Allah is the witness that they verily are liars. Never pray in their place. Then, verse 9:108 says that Allah loves those who purify themselves physically and spiritually.

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Verse 9:107 in different translations:

QARIB:
And there are those who have taken a mosque to cause harm, disbelief, and to divide the believers, and as a place of ambush for those who fought Allah and his messenger before. They swear: 'we desired nothing but good', but Allah bears witness that they are liars.

SHAKIR:
And those who built a masjid to cause harm and for unbelief and to cause disunion among the believers and an ambush to him who made war against Allah and his messenger before; and they will certainly swear: we did not desire aught but good; and Allah bears witness that they are most surely liars.

PICKTHAL:
And as for those who chose a place of worship out of opposition and disbelief, and in order to cause dissent among the believers, and as an outpost for those who warred against Allah and his messenger aforetime, they will surely swear: we purposed naught save good. Allah beareth witness that they verily are liars.

YUSUFALI:
And there are those who put up a mosque by way of mischief and infidelity - to disunite the believers - and in preparation for one who warred against Allah and his messenger aforetime. They will indeed swear that their intention is nothing but good; but Allah doth declare that they are certainly liars.
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Then verse 9:108 says:
Never stand; never perform prayer, there,
A mosque which was founded, one whose foundations were built, upon piety from the first day, constructed the day you arrived in Medina is worthier, than that [other one], for you to stand, to perform prayer, therein; in it are men, who love to purify themselves physically and spiritually; and God loves those who purify themselves
In other words, the verse says:
Never stand; never perform prayer, in the hypocrites' mosque.
A place of worship which was founded upon duty to Allah,
Which was founded upon obedience and remembrance of Allah from the first day the Prophet Muhammad entered Medina;
It is also said this means: the first mosque ever built in Medina
Is more worthy, is more right to pray in it;
Wherein there are men who love to purify themselves, physically from filth and spiritually from the evil.
And Allah loves the purifiers, those who purify themselves
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Verse 9:108 in different translations:

QARIB:
You shall never stand there. A mosque founded upon piety from the first day is worthier for you to stand in. in it are men who love to purify themselves. Allah loves those who purify themselves.

SHAKIR:
Never stand in it; certainly a masjid (mosque) founded on piety from the very first day is more deserving that you should stand in it; in it are men who love that they should be purified; and Allah loves those who purify themselves.

PICKTHAL:
Never stand (to pray) there. a place of worship which was found upon duty (to Allah) from the first day is more worthy that thou shouldst stand (to pray) therein, wherein are men who love to purify themselves. Allah loveth the purifiers.

YUSUFALI:
Never stand thou forth therein. There is a mosque whose foundation was laid from the first day on piety; it is more worthy of the standing forth (for prayer) therein. In it are men who love to be purified; and Allah loveth those who make themselves pure.

About the author:
Safaa Abdel-Aziz
Co-Chief Editor, October Weekly Magazine,
Cairo, Egypt.


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