The Story of the Hypocrite man who asked Allah to give him wealth then…

                                                                                         

In the Noble Quran, Allah is asking mankind some important questions.
It seems compulsory for the serious one who is looking for the truth to have a look at those questions and if possible to answer them.
Allah' questions are many. In this series, these questions are chosen randomly.
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In verses 9:75-78 of the Noble Quran, Allah asking mankind this question: Do not they know that Allah knows their secret, what they conceal within themselves, and their confidential talks, and that God is the Knower of all the hidden things? Allah knows all the unseen things. Also, the verses describes the hypocrites which turn away from their promise and from obedience to God in aversion and become niggardly with their money
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Verses 9:75-78 of the Noble Quran give the question of this article and talk about it.

The meanings of the verses 9:75-78

Verse 9:75 says:
And some of them i.e. of the hypocrites, have made a covenant with God [saying]: ‘If He gives us of His bounty, we will give voluntary alms and become of the righteous’; we shall give from it what is due to Allah and will use it to keep our ties of kinship (and become of the righteous) of the thankful.
A man asked the Prophet Muhammad to supplicate on his behalf so that God would give him wealth, of which he would give every needy person his due.
The Prophet thus supplicated for him and he became wealthy, but stopped attending the Friday prayer and congregational prayers and refused to pay the alms-tax.

Verse 9:76 says:
Yet when He gave them of His bounty, they failed to give the right due to Allah as they had promised and they turned away, from their promise and from obedience to God in aversion and they became niggardly with their money.

Verse 9:77 says:
So Allah made the consequence in their case (to be) hypocrisy, fixed, in their hearts, until the day they meet Him, that is, God, on the Day of Resurrection, the Day of Judgment, because they failed God in what they promised Him and because they broke their word to Allah that they promised Him) because of breaking his promise, and because they lied.
The man of this story then brought the payment of his alms to the Prophet Muhammad who said to him, ‘God has forbidden me to accept it from you.

Verse 9:78 says:
Know they not i.e. the hypocrites that Allah knows their secret, what they conceal within themselves, and their confidential talks, what they confide in each other, and that God is the Knower of all the hidden things? Allah knows what is concealed from the eyes and knows all the unseen things.
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Verses 9:75-78 in different translations:

Verse 9:75
QARIB: some of them have made a covenant with Allah, 'if Allah gives to us of his bounty, we will give charity and be of the righteous. '
SHAKIR: and there are those of them who made a covenant with Allah: if he give us out of his grace, we will certainly give alms and we will certainly be of the good
PICKTHAL: and of them is he who made a covenant with Allah (saying): if he give us of his bounty we will give alms and become of the righteous.
YUSUFALI: amongst them are men who made a covenant with Allah, that if he bestowed on them of his bounty, they would give (largely) in charity, and be truly amongst those who are righteous.

Verse 9:76
QARIB: but when Allah had bestowed his bounty on them they became greedy and turned away, swerving aside.
SHAKIR: but when he gave them out of his grace, they became niggardly of it and they turned back and they withdrew
PICKTHAL: yet when he gave them of his bounty, they hoarded it and turned away, averse;
YUSUFALI: but when he did bestow of his bounty, they became covetous, and turned back (from their covenant), averse (from its fulfilment).

Verse 9:77
QARIB: he has caused hypocrisy to be in their hearts till the day they meet him, because they have changed what they promised Allah and because they were liars.
SHAKIR: so he made hypocrisy to follow as a consequence into their hearts till the day when they shall meet him because they failed to perform towards Allah what they had promised with him and because they told lies
PICKTHAL: so he hath made the consequence (to be) hypocrisy in their hearts until the day when they shall meet him, because they broke their word to Allah that they promised him, and because they lied.
YUSUFALI: so he hath put as a consequence hypocrisy into their hearts, (to last) till the day, whereon they shall meet him: because they broke their covenant with Allah, and because they lied (again and again).

Verse 9:78
QARIB: did they not know that Allah knows their secret and what they conspire together, and that Allah knows all the unseen?
SHAKIR: do they not know that Allah knows their hidden thoughts and their secret counsels, and that Allah is the great knower of the unseen things?
PICKTHAL: know they not that Allah knoweth both their secret and the thought that they confide, and that Allah is the knower of things hidden?
YUSUFALI: know they not that Allah doth know their secret (thoughts) and their secret counsels, and that Allah knoweth well all things unseen?

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


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