Hud — Verse 122
11:122 · Hud
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وَٱنتَظِرُوۤا۟ إِنَّا مُنتَظِرُونَ ١٢٢
wa-intaẓirū innā muntaẓirūn
Hud / Hud (11:122)
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and ‘Wait: we too are waiting.’
wa-intaẓirū innā muntaẓirūn
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Allah, the Exalted, commands His Messenger to say to those who disbelieve in what he has come ...
اعْمَلُواْ عَلَى مَكَانَتِكُمْ
(Act according to your ability) This means upon your path and your way.
إِنَّا عَامِلُونَ
(We are acting (in our way). This means that we are upon our path and our way (Islam).
وَانْتَظِرُواْ إِنَّا مُنتَظِرُونَ
(And you wait ! We (too) are waiting.) This means,
فَسَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ مَن تَكُونُ لَهُ عَـقِبَةُ الدَّارِ إِنَّهُ لاَ يُفْلِحُ الظَّـلِمُونَ
(And you will come to know for which of us will be the (happy) end in the Hereafter. Certainly the wrongdoers will not be successful.)6:135 Verily, Allah fulfilled His promise to His Messenger , helped him and aided him. He made His Word uppermost (victorious), and the word of those who disbelieved lowly and disgraced. Allah is truly the Most Mighty, Most Wise.
And wait for the consequence of your affair we are also waiting’ for this.
وقل -أيها الرسول- للكافرين الذين لا يقرُّون بوحدانية الله: اعملوا ما أنتم عاملون على حالتكم وطريقتكم في مقاومة الدعوة وإيذاء الرسول والمستجيبين له، فإنَّا عاملون على مكانتنا وطريقتنا من الثبات على ديننا وتنفيذ أمر الله. وانتظروا عاقبة أمرنا، فإنَّا منتظرون عاقبة أمركم. وفي هذا تهديد ووعيد لهم.
"وانتظروا إنا منتظرون" أي فستعلمون من تكون له عاقبة الدار إنه لا يفلح الظالمون" وقد أنجز الله لرسوله وعده ونصره وأيده وجعل كلمته هي العليا وكلمة الذين كفروا السفلى والله عزيز حكيم.
ثم أمر الله - تعالى - رسوله - صلى الله عليه وسلم - بالسير فى طريق الحق بدون مبالاة بتهديد أعدائه فقال : ( وَقُل لِّلَّذِينَ لاَ يُؤْمِنُونَ اعملوا على مَكَانَتِكُمْ إِنَّا عَامِلُونَ . وانتظروا إِنَّا مُنتَظِرُونَ ) والأمر فى هذه الآية الكريمة للتهديد .ومكانتكم : مصدر مكن - بزنة كرم - مكانة ، إذا تمكن من الأمر أبلغ التمكن .أى : و قل - أيها الرسول الكريم - لهؤلاء المشركين الذين يضعون العقبات فى طريق دعوتك ، قل لهم اعملوا ما تستطيعون عمله من الكيد لى ولدعوتى ، فإنى وأصحابى مستمرون على السير فى طريق الحق الذى هدانا الله إليه ، بدون التفات إلى كيدكم وقل لهم - أيضا - : انتظروا ما يأتى به الله من عقاب ، فإنا منتظرون معكم ذلك .
حدثنا القاسم قال ، حدثنا الحسين قال ، حدثنا حجاج، عن ابن جريج في قوله: (وانتظروا إنا منتظرون) ، قال: يقول: انتظروا مواعيد الشيطان إياكم على ما يزيّن لكم ، (إنا منتظرون).* * *
( وانتظروا ) ما يحل بنا من رحمة الله ( إنا منتظرون ) ما يحل بكم من نقمة الله .
وقوله : { وانتظروا إنّا منتظرون } تهديد ووعيد ، كا يقال في الوعيد : سوف ترى .
{ وَانْتَظِرُوا ْ} ما يحل بنا { إِنَّا مُنْتَظِرُونَ ْ} ما يحل بكم.
تهديد آخر ,
The events in the lives of the prophets have been narrated in the Quran, so that the later dayees should learn a lesson from them. In these events the preacher sees that their addressee-communities quarrelled with them, abused them by giving a twist to their straightforward discourses, subjected them to all sorts of hardship and rejected them as if they had no value at all. But, finally God helped them and their word carried the day. All the attacks of their opponents failed. The different fates of the believers and unbelievers became manifest in their initial form in this world itself, and will appear in their most perfect form in the Hereafter. With the help of these examples, the call-giver acquires the confidence, based on history, that there is no question of his being disappointed by or being terrified of the difficulties faced by him while calling for the Truth. Such difficulties always arise in dawah work, but he knows that he too will finally be successful, just as success was achieved by all the previous prophets.
Difference: Blameworthy and Praiseworthy
When it was said in the fifth verse (118) - ` had your Lord willed, He would have made all the people a single community' - the sense is that had it been the will of Allah, He would have made all human beings accept Islam by force. All of them would have then become nothing but Muslims without any difference remaining between them. But, such are the dictates of His wisdom that, in this world, Allah Ta` ala does not compel anyone to do something. Instead, He has entrusted man with a kind of choice under which he could do whatever good or bad he wishes to do. Then, human temperaments differ, ways differ and deeds differ. The outcome is that there always will be some people who would keep at loggerheads against the true faith - of course, with the exception of those whom Allah Ta` ala has blessed with His mercy, that is, those who have been following the noble prophets.
This tells us that ` difference' at this place means hostility and op-position to the true faith and the teachings of prophets. The difference based on Ijtihad, which is inevitable among religious authorities and jurists of Islam, an ongoing process since the period of the Sahabah, is not included under this purview, nor is it contrary to Divine mercy. In fact, it is the very dictate of Allah's wisdom and mercy. Those who have declared the differences among Mujtahid Imams to be counter to Mercy in terms of this verse, have done something which is itself counter to the context of this verse as well as counter to the consistent practice of the Sahabah and Tabi` in.
واللہُ سُبحَانہ و تعالیٰ اَعلم
And Allah is Pure and High and He knows everything best.
(And wait) for my destruction! (Lo! we (too) are waiting) for your destruction.