Islam Guidance

Verse74

(74) فَلْيُقَاتِلْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ الَّذِينَ يَشْرُونَ الْحَيوةَ الدُّنْيَا بِالآخِرَةِ وَمَن يُقَاتِلْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ فَيُقْتَلْ أَو يَغْلِبْ فَسَوْفَ نُؤْتِيهِ أَجْرًا عَظِيمًا

74. "So let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for The Hereafter, and whoever fights in the way of Allah, then be he slain or be he victorious, We shall grant him a great reward."
Commentary:
Believers must be prepared for Holy Struggle. In this verse, as well as in a few following verses, the true muslim believers have logically and excitingly been inviled to struggle in the way of Allah. At first, it implies that only those fight in the way of Allah that are ready to sell the life of this material world for the eternal life in the Hereafter. That is, only those can be among the true strivers that are ready for such a bargain.

It says:
"So let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for The Hereafter, ..."
Then, at the end of the verse, it remarks that the fate of such strivers is quitely clear. They either become martyr, or they defeat the enemy for the sake of Allah and gain the victory. In bothcases They will be given a great reward by Allah. The verse says:
"... and whoever fights in the way of Allah, then be he slain or be he victorious, We shall grant him a great reward."
It is certain that such soldiers with wuch spiritual state have no failure in their minds, because in both cases they know themselves victorous. Even the non-Muslim scholars, who have discussed about the quick triumps of Muslims at the time of the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) and their victories after that have considered this doctrine as one of the effictive factors in progression of Muslims.

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