In Surah al-Furqan (25:51-52), Allah, Al-Qadir (The All-Powerful, The Omnipotent), in the first ayat implies that Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, had such a magnificent rank that no Prophet was raised with him, he acted alone in giving the comprehensive and completed message of Allah and there will be no more Prophets after him. This means he is the Seal of the Prophets, the last one to come to humanity. “Prophethood is closed with his existence.”

In the second ayat, Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala commands the Prophet to fulfill two important main programs: “Do not follow the unbelievers” and “Strive against them with it (the Holy Qur’an) with a great jihad.” The first program entails always standing up against them and never conciliate with them because that is the “malady” of the call to Allah, while trying to reform them without yielding to their low desires and superstitions. The second program entails always striving against the unbelievers and the enemies of the truth with a mighty striving (jihad), with everything you have, the Qur’an, your body, intellect, soul, materially and spiritually, like all the Prophets before him did. This is an “intellectual, cultural and propagation endeavour,” not a jihad in the military sense. We know this because the ayats were revealed in Makkah and the call to a military jihad was revealed later in Medina. Plus all the previous Prophets did not fight against the unbelievers in a jihad. It can be said that Prophet Muhammad’s, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, hadith fits this ayat – “We returned from a small jihad to the greater jihad.” This greater jihad then is not only about fighting against yourself as we’ve been indoctrinated with all the time.

The mention in this ayat of using the Qur’an in this jihad against the unbelievers is clear because “it is a means for the greater warfare” against them, “it is an effective weapon whose power of explanation and argumentation, deep effect and attraction is beyond men’s imagination and power. It is an effective means that is as shining as the sun, as brightening as the day, as calming as curtains of night, as motion-imparting as winds, as great as clouds, and as enlivening as drops of rain, the qualities of which were referred to in the previous verses.” (25: 45-50) This bookmark is part of our Gaza and Palestine collection. (Taken from An Enlightening Commentary into the Light of the Holy Qur’an, Vol. 12. Al-Islam.org. Accessed from https://al-islam.org/enlightening-commentary-light... )

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