Surah 5. Al-Maida, Ayah 43
| وَكَيْفَ يُحَكِّمُونَكَ وَعِنْدَهُمُ التَّوْرَاةُ فِيهَا حُكْمُ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ يَتَوَلَّوْنَ مِنْ بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ ۚ وَمَا أُولَٰئِكَ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ |
| Transliteration | : | 'a- lam taclam 'anna 'allaah la- -hu mulk as- samaawaat wa- al- 'ard. yucadhdhib man yashaa' wa- yaghfir li- man yashaa' wa- 'allaah calaa kull shay' qader |
| Pickthall | : | How come they unto thee for judgment when they have the Torah, wherein Allah hath delivered judgment (for them)? Yet even after that they turn away. Such (folk) are not believers. |
| Asad | : | But how is it that they ask thee for judgment - seeing that they have the Torah, containing God's injunctions - and thereafter turn away [from thy judgment]? Such as these, then, are no [true] believers.57 |
| Malik | : | But why do they come to you for judgement when they have the Taurat which contains Allah's commandments? Yet they turn back after that. In fact, they are not true believers. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | But why do they come to thee for decision when they have (their own) laws before them? Therein is the (plain) command of Allah; yet even after that they would turn away. For they are not (really) people of faith. 749 |
Note - 57This verse illustrates the strange mentality of the Jews,
who - despite the fact that they believe the Torah to
contain all of the Divine Law - surreptitiously turn to a
religious dispensation in which they do not believe, in
the hope that its verdict on certain ethical questions
might confirm some of their own wishful beliefs which
happen to run counter to the Torah. In other words, they
are not really prepared to submit to the judgment of the
Torah - although they assert their belief in it - nor the
judgment of the Qur'an, which confirms some of the laws
of the Torah and abrogates others: for, as soon as they
come to realize that the Qur'an does not agree with their
preconceived ideas, they turn away from it.
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Note - 749This is a searching question as to the motive of the Jews
in bringing their cases for decision to the Prophet. They
came either (1) to ridicule whatever he said, or (2) to
deceive him as to facts and snatch a favourable decision
which was against equity. If their own Law did not suit
their selfish interests, they sometimes twisted it. But
Muhammad was always inflexible in his justice.
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This verse illustrates the strange mentality of the Jews, who - despite the fact that they believe the Torah to contain all of the Divine Law - surreptitiously turn to a religious dispensation in which they do not believe, in the hope that its verdict on certain ethical questions might confirm some of their own wishful beliefs which happen to run counter to the Torah. In other words, they are not really prepared to submit to the judgment of the Torah - although they assert their belief in it - nor the judgment of the Qur'an, which confirms some of the laws of the Torah and abrogates others: for, as soon as they come to realize that the Qur'an does not agree with their preconceived ideas, they turn away from it. |
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This is a searching question as to the motive of the Jews in bringing their cases for decision to the Prophet. They came either (1) to ridicule whatever he said, or (2) to deceive him as to facts and snatch a favourable decision which was against equity. If their own Law did not suit their selfish interests, they sometimes twisted it. But Muhammad was always inflexible in his justice. |
