Surah 2. Al-Baqara, Ayah 154
| وَلَا تَقُولُوا لِمَنْ يُقْتَلُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَمْوَاتٌ ۚ بَلْ أَحْيَاءٌ وَلَٰكِنْ لَا تَشْعُرُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- laa taqolo li- man yuqtal fe sabel 'allaah amwaat bal ah.yaa' wa- laakin laa tashcuron |
| Pickthall | : | And call not those who are slain in the way of Allah "dead." Nay, they are living, only ye perceive not. |
| Asad | : | And say not of those who are slain in God's cause, "They are dead": nay, they are alive, but you perceive it not. |
| Malik | : | Do not say about those who are slain in the cause of Allah (martyrs), that they are dead. Nay, they are alive, but you do not perceive it. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | And say not of those who are slain in the way of Allah: "They are dead." Nay they are living though ye perceive (it) not. 158 |
Note - 158The "patient perseverance and prayer" mentioned in the
last verse is not mere passivity. It is active striving
in the way of Truth, which is the way of God. Such
striving is the spending of one's self in God's way,
either through our property or through our own lives, or
the lives of those nearest and dearest to us, or it may
be the loss of all the fruits of a lifetime's labour not
only in material goods but in some intellectual or moral
gain, some position which seemed in our eyes to be
eminently desirable in itself, but which we must
cheerfully sacrifice if necessary for the Cause. With
such sacrifice, our apparent loss may be our real gain:
he that loses his life may really gain it; and the
rewards or "fruits" that seem lost were mere impediments
on our path to real inward progress.
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The "patient perseverance and prayer" mentioned in the last verse is not mere passivity. It is active striving in the way of Truth, which is the way of God. Such striving is the spending of one's self in God's way, either through our property or through our own lives, or the lives of those nearest and dearest to us, or it may be the loss of all the fruits of a lifetime's labour not only in material goods but in some intellectual or moral gain, some position which seemed in our eyes to be eminently desirable in itself, but which we must cheerfully sacrifice if necessary for the Cause. With such sacrifice, our apparent loss may be our real gain: he that loses his life may really gain it; and the rewards or "fruits" that seem lost were mere impediments on our path to real inward progress. |
