Al Quran Surah 2:272 "LAYSA ALAYKA HUDA-HUM.."

 Muslim people may be interested in this. I really hope you are. Non Muslim readers can skip but it may give you a better understanding too. 

I received an early morning WhatsApp from a friend who had been reading the following in the Quran. This is from Sura 2, verse 272 or Sura 2:272.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is my own rerun of 2:272 :

 

Surah 2:272 It is not upon you to guide them but it is Allah who guides whoever He wills. And whatever you spend from that which is good is for yourselves, and you do not spend except to seek the countenance of Allah. And whatever you spend from that which is good - it will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.

Note the highlighted part:

Laysa - It is not

alayka - upon you

huda - to guide

hum - them

wa laa kin - but / except 

Allaah - Allah

yahdi - guides

man yashaa - whoever He wills

My comments : It is not the duty of people to guide anyone.  Certainly you can inform people. Like I am sharing this info with you. This is just information. But it is not my job to take a ruler or tape measure and come running after you to see whether you have "followed" what I have said or whether you 'believe' what I have said here.

As the verse says "Laysa alaykum huda hum... : It is not upon you to guide them..".

There is a simple and logical reason for this : no one can vouch if another person is really guided.  You cannot possibly know. You really cannot know who is guided or who is a devil. You really cannot know who is a shaytaan or a malaikah.  

And from what I have seen (and read), too often the fellows with those beards and robes are the biggest shaytans. 

Sadly the jahil people (the ignorant people) call them by titles like "maulana", which I have explained before. In the Quran the word 'maulana' (protector) is preserved only for Allah. Not for any human and certainly not for any of these beardos.

That is also why again and again the Muslim societies are burning to the ground (literally). Because they go around measuring each other's levels of "guidance". 

"I am better than you, I am holier than you, I will kill you"

Surah  43:36 And those who disregard the message of the Most Gracious, we appoint for him a SATAN (SHAYTAAN) to be his constant companion.

Surah 43:37     And surely they (satans)  will divert them from the path, yet make them believe that they are guided.

They only think they are guided but they are actually the followers of satan. Sadly this is what has been going on.

The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of MMKtT.