Surah 5. Al-Maida, Ayah 50
| أَفَحُكْمَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ يَبْغُونَ ۚ وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ مِنَ اللَّهِ حُكْمًا لِقَوْمٍ يُوقِنُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- li- yah.kum 'ahl al- 'injel bi- maa anzala 'allaah fe -hi wa- man lam yah.kum bi- maa anzala 'allaah fa- 'olaa'ika hum al- faasiqon |
| Pickthall | : | Is it a judgment of the time of (pagan) ignorance that they are seeking? Who is better than Allah for judgment to a people who have certainty (in their belief)? |
| Asad | : | Do they, perchance, desire [to be ruled by] the law of pagan ignorance?71 But for people who have inner certainty, who could be a better law-giver than God? |
| Malik | : | By rejecting the Divine Law do they wish to be judged by the laws of ignorance? Who is a better Judge than Allah for those who believe in Him? |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Do they then seek after a judgment of (the Days of) Ignorance? But who for a people whose faith is assured can give better judgment than Allah? 763 |
Note - 71By "pagan ignorance" (jahiliyyah) is meant here not
merely the time before the advent of the Prophet Muhammad
but, in general, a state of affairs characterized by a
lack of moral perception and a submission of all personal
and communal concerns to the criterion of "expediency"
alone: that is, exclusively to the consideration as to
whether a particular aim or action is useful or damaging
(in the short-term, practical sense of these words) to
the interests of the person concerned or of the community
to which he belongs. Inasmuch as this "law of expediency"
is fundamentally opposed to the concepts of morality
preached by every higher religion, it is described in the
Qur'an as "the law (hukm) of pagan ignorance".
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Note - 763The Days of Ignorance were the days of tribalism, feuds
and selfish accentuation of differences in man. Those
days are really not yet over. It is the mission of Islam
to take us away from that false mental attitude, towards
the true attitude of Unity. If our Faith is certain (and
not merely a matter of words), Allah will guide us to
that Unity.
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By "pagan ignorance" (jahiliyyah) is meant here not merely the time before the advent of the Prophet Muhammad but, in general, a state of affairs characterized by a lack of moral perception and a submission of all personal and communal concerns to the criterion of "expediency" alone: that is, exclusively to the consideration as to whether a particular aim or action is useful or damaging (in the short-term, practical sense of these words) to the interests of the person concerned or of the community to which he belongs. Inasmuch as this "law of expediency" is fundamentally opposed to the concepts of morality preached by every higher religion, it is described in the Qur'an as "the law (hukm) of pagan ignorance". |
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The Days of Ignorance were the days of tribalism, feuds and selfish accentuation of differences in man. Those days are really not yet over. It is the mission of Islam to take us away from that false mental attitude, towards the true attitude of Unity. If our Faith is certain (and not merely a matter of words), Allah will guide us to that Unity. |
