Surah 2. Al-Baqara, Ayah 114
| وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنْ مَنَعَ مَسَاجِدَ اللَّهِ أَنْ يُذْكَرَ فِيهَا اسْمُهُ وَسَعَىٰ فِي خَرَابِهَا ۚ أُولَٰئِكَ مَا كَانَ لَهُمْ أَنْ يَدْخُلُوهَا إِلَّا خَائِفِينَ ۚ لَهُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا خِزْيٌ وَلَهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- man az.lam min man manaca masaajid 'allaah 'an yudhkar fe -haa ism -hu wa- sacaa fe kharaab -haa 'olaa'ika maa kaana la- -hum 'an yadkhulo -haa 'illaa khaa'ifen la- -hum fe ad- dunyaa khizy wa- la- -hum fe al- 'aakhirah cadhaab caz.em |
| Pickthall | : | And who doth greater wrong than he who forbiddeth the approach to the sanctuaries of Allah lest His name should be mentioned therein, and striveth for their ruin? As for such, it was never meant that they should enter them except in fear. Theirs in the world is ignominy and theirs in the Hereafter is an awful doom. |
| Asad | : | Hence, who could be more wicked than those who bar the mention of God's name from [any of] His houses of worship and strive for their ruin, [although] they have no right to enter them save in fear [of God]?95 For them, in this world, there is ignominy in store; and for them, in the life to come, awesome suffering. |
| Malik | : | Who is more unjust than he who prevents people from the Masajid (place of worship) of Allah , forbids the mention of His name therein, and strives to ruin them ? It is not proper for such people to enter in them except with His fear. For them there is disgrace in this world and grievous punishment in the Hereafter. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | And who is more unjust than he who forbids that in places for the worship of Allah Allah's name should be celebrated? Whose zeal is (in fact) to ruin them? It was not fitting that such should themselves enter them except in fear. For them there is nothing but disgrace in this world and in the world to come an exceeding torment. 117 |
Note - 95It is one of the fundamental principles of Islam that
every religion which has belief in God as its focal point
must be accorded full respect, however much one may
disagree with its particular tenets. Thus, the Muslims
are under an obligation to honour and protect any house
of worship dedicated to God, whether it be a mosque or a
church or a synagogue (cf. the second paragraph of
22:40); and any attempt to prevent the followers of
another faith from worshipping God according to their own
lights is condemned by the Qur'an as a sacrilege. A
striking illustration of this principle is forthcoming
from the Prophet's treatment of the deputation from
Christian Najran in the year 10 H. They were given free
access to the Prophet's mosque, and with his full consent
celebrated their religious rites there, although their
adoration of Jesus as "the son of God" and of Mary as
"the mother of God" was fundamentally at variance with
Islamic beliefs (see Ibn Sa'd I/1, 84 f.).
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Note - 117There were actually Pagans in Mecca who tried to shut out
the Muslim Arabs from the Ka'ba, the universal place of
Arab worship. The Pagans themselves called it the House
of God. With what face could they exclude the Muslims,
who wanted to worship the true God instead of worshipping
idols? If these Pagans had succeeded, they would only
have caused violent divisions among the Arabs and
destroyed the sanctity and the very existence of the
Ka'ba.
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It is one of the fundamental principles of Islam that every religion which has belief in God as its focal point must be accorded full respect, however much one may disagree with its particular tenets. Thus, the Muslims are under an obligation to honour and protect any house of worship dedicated to God, whether it be a mosque or a church or a synagogue (cf. the second paragraph of 22:40); and any attempt to prevent the followers of another faith from worshipping God according to their own lights is condemned by the Qur'an as a sacrilege. A striking illustration of this principle is forthcoming from the Prophet's treatment of the deputation from Christian Najran in the year 10 H. They were given free access to the Prophet's mosque, and with his full consent celebrated their religious rites there, although their adoration of Jesus as "the son of God" and of Mary as "the mother of God" was fundamentally at variance with Islamic beliefs (see Ibn Sa'd I/1, 84 f.). |
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There were actually Pagans in Mecca who tried to shut out the Muslim Arabs from the Ka'ba, the universal place of Arab worship. The Pagans themselves called it the House of God. With what face could they exclude the Muslims, who wanted to worship the true God instead of worshipping idols? If these Pagans had succeeded, they would only have caused violent divisions among the Arabs and destroyed the sanctity and the very existence of the Ka'ba. |
