Manzil 2
Ruku 86 - 171
Starting from Surah Al-Maida through Surah At-Tawba (5 Surah)
Fulfil your obligations. Cooperate in piety and not in transgression. Haram - (Forbidden) meat. Al-Islam is declared to be the complete and perfect Deen (way of life). All good and clean things are made lawful. The food of the People of the Book is made lawful and marriage with their women is permitted.
Order for making wudhu (ablution). Permission of Tayammum. Stand as a true witness and establish justice. The plot of the Jews to kill the Prophet and his eminent companions.
Salah and Zakah were obligatory for the Jews also. The Jews' habit of being deceitful. Christians too have neglected most of their Book. Jews and Christians are commanded to embrace Islam. Jesus, son of Mary, is not God or son of God. False claim of Jews and Christians of being the children of God. An invitation to Jews and Christians to become Muslims.
Behavior of the Jews with their own Prophet Musa (Moses). Curse of Allah on the Jews for 40 years.
Story of Adam's sons, one of whom committed the sin of murder. Decree of Allah regarding the killing of a human being. Punishment of waging war against Allah and His Rasool.
Jihad is the way to success. No ransom will save the unbelievers from the punishment. Punishment for the crime of theft. Do not provide lip-service; be True believers. If Allah intends to punish, the Rasool cannot save.
Laws of Taurat (Torah). Those who do not judge by the laws of Allah: (a) They are unbelievers; (b) They are wrongdoers; (c) They are transgressors. Diversity of human race. Establish justice based on Allah's revelations.
Do not take Jews or Christians as your protectors. Your protecting friends are: Allah, His Rasool, and your fellow believers.
Do not befriend those people who make a mockery of your religion. Jews' deceiving behaviour. Jews' slandering Allah. If only the people of the Book had believed, they could have had best of both worlds.
The Rasool's mission is to deliver Allah's Message. Attitude of the Jews towards the Rasools. Those who say Jesus is God are disbelievers. Who was Jesus, son of Mary?
Disbelievers among the Children of Israel were cursed by the tongues of David and Jesus. Christians are closer to the Muslims than the Jews and Pagans. Good Christians recognize the truth and accept Islam.
Do not make Halal things Haram on your own. Kaffarah (penalty) for breaking the oath. The prohibition of intoxicants (liquor and drugs) and gambling. Rasool's duty is only to pass on the Message of Allah.
Prohibition of hunting during Hajj. Ihram (wearing pilgrim garb). Kaffarah (penalty) for hunting during Hajj Ihram. Allah has made Ka’ba in Makkah, an eternal value for mankind.
Do not ask questions like the nation of Musa (Moses). Superstitions are prohibited in Islam. Last will and testament, and the required testimony of witnesses.
Favors of Allah upon Jesus and the miracles he was given. The disciples of Jesus asked for a Table Spread of food as a miracle.
Testimony of Jesus on the Day of Judgment about Christians.
Allah is the same One God, Almighty in both the heavens and the earth. If Allah had sent a written Book and an angel with it, the unbelievers still would not have believed.
Allah has decreed mercy for Himself that is why He does not punish in this world. What punishment will be on the Day of Judgment? The Qur'an is revealed to admonish and to declare that there is only one God: Allah.
Prejudice has made the people worship deities other than Allah. For sure there is a life after death?
Those who deny the Prophet Muhammad, in fact, deny Allah's revelations. Those who listen, will accept the Truth. Use your common sense to learn from the signs of nature. Do you not call Allah Alone in real distress?
Prosperity in this world is not a reward, but a respite. Who can restore your hearing and sight if Allah takes them away? Rasools never claimed that they know the unseen or that they are angels.
Admonish the unbelievers with this Qur'an. Real belief is a favor of Allah and is irrespective of worldly status.
Allah Alone has the authority of passing Judgment and He Alone knows the unseen.
Allah has appointed guardian angels over you. Allah is the One Who delivers you from calamities. Do not sit with those who argue about Allah's revelations. Do not associate with those who take their religion as a matter of amusement.
Believers are commanded to become Muslims, to establish Salah and to fear Him. Ibrahim learned faith through the study of nature with his common sense. Arguments of the mushrikin with Prophet Ibrahim about Allah.
Descendants of the Prophet Ibrahim including Musa, Isa and Muhammad: none of them were mushrikin.
Allah is He Who has revealed the Taurat and the Quran. Those who invent a lie against Allah will face a disgraceful punishment.
Examples from Allah's creation are clearly spelled out for the understanding of mankind.
How could Allah have a son without a spouse? Clear proofs have come to you, if only you could open your eyes to understand. Do not insult the deities to whom the mushrikin offer their worship. Guidance depends on the attitude of individuals.
All Rasools of Allah had opposition from Shaitan and his followers. Eat only that meat on which Allah's name has been pronounced.
Eat only that meat on which Allah's name has been pronounced. When good and bad are treated alike, criminals are appointed as their ringleaders. Whomever Allah wants to guide; He opens up his chest to Islam. Jinns, and human beings who are misled by them, will all be cast into hell.
On the Day of Judgment kuffar (unbelievers) will confess that they were indeed kuffar (unbelievers). Mushrikin give their deities preference over Allah. Mushrikin falsely attribute their self- imposed prohibitions to Allah.
Give Zakah of agriculture on the harvest day. Falsely attributed prohibition of livestock are clarified.
Correct prohibitions of livestock are spelled out. Explanation of the Jewish prohibitions of livestock. The mushrikin’s excuse for being mushrikin.
In Islam, forbidden things are based on fundamental moral principles.
The Book of Allah has come to you for guidance so that there may be no excuse about the true Word of Allah. Those who divide religion into sects are not Muslims. Declare: "My Salah, my devotion, my life and my death are all for Allah."
The Rasools as well as the people to whom they were sent shall be questioned on the Day of Judgment.
The story of Adam and Iblees. Iblees vowed to mislead Adam and his descendants. Shaitan cunningly seduced Adam and Eve to disobey Allah. Their repentance and Allah's conditional acceptance.
Children of Adam are warned not to fall into the trap of Shaitan like Adam. Allah never commands what is shameful.
Command of Allah to wear proper and decent dress and eat good food. Children of Adam are directed to follow the Guidance of Allah provided to them through His Rasools.
The gates of heaven shall not be opened for the disbelievers. Only believers shall enter paradise. Dialogue between the residents of paradise and the inmates of hell.
Dialogue between the people of A'rãf and the inmates of hell. Inmates of hell shall beg for water and food from the residents of paradise.
Allah is the One Who created this universe. Pray to Allah with fear and hope.
Prophet Nuh's address to his people, their disbelief and their fate.
Prophet Hud's address to his people, their disbelief and their fate.
The Prophet Saleh's address to his people, their disbelief and their fate. The Prophet Lut's address to his people, their disbelief and their fate.
The Prophet Shuaib's address to his people, their disbelief and their fate. Behavior of the unbelievers with Prophet Shuaib.
Adversity and affluence are reminders from Allah.
Stories of prior nations are narrated to teach a lesson. The Prophet Moses was sent for the guidance of Pharaoh and his chiefs.
Moses' confrontation with the magicians of Pharaoh.
Pharaoh's revenge against the people of Moses.
Scourge of Allah against Pharaoh and his chiefs, and their final destruction. Allah rescued the Children of Israel but they still disbelieved in One God.
Prophet Musa's communication with Allah. Musa was given the written tablets of Taurat (Torah). Arrogant people cannot get guidance.
Israelites started worshipping the calf after witnessing their miraculous deliverance.
Worshippers of the calf incurred the wrath of Allah. The advent of the Prophet Muhammad was described in Torah and Gospel.
Muhammad is the Prophet for all of mankind. Allah provided food and water in the desert to the people of Musa.
Jews' test on the day of Sabbath. Jews' violation of Sabbath and Allah's scourge. Jews' wrong belief about Allah's forgiveness.
Mankind's testimony at the time of Adam's creation that Allah is their Rabb. Example of those who deny Allah's revelations. Misguided people are like animals, even worse.
Those who deny Allah's revelations are, step by step, drawing closer to destruction. The Prophet himself has no power to benefit anyone or to avert any harm.
Allah created all of mankind from a single soul. Reality of those gods whom people worship beside Allah. Allah is the Protecting Friend of the righteous. Show forgiveness, speak for justice and avoid the ignorant. When the Qur'an is being recited, listen to it with complete silence.
Commandment relating to the spoils of war (booty). Battle of Badr, a battle between truth and falsehood.
Allah's help during the Battle of Badr. Allah's decision between Muslims and kuffar.
The worst people in the sight of Allah are those who do not use their commonsense. Guard yourselves against temptations.
If you become Godfearing, He will grant you wisdom to judge between right and wrong. The lawful guardians of Ka’ba are those who have fear of Allah.
For the unbelievers, who embrace Islam, their past is forgiven. Rules about the distribution of spoils of war.
Order of Allah to remain firm during combat against enemy.
Victory of the believers and the painful death of the unbelievers. Allah does not change His blessings unless people change themselves. Treaties must be honoured unless broken with proper notification.
Order to remain prepared for war against the unbelievers. Make peace, if the enemy is inclined towards peace.
Allah's promise to make the believers victorious over armies 2 to 10 times larger than the believers.
Treatment of prisoners of war who embrace Islam. Muslims living in non-Muslim countries.
Proclamation to dissolve the "Treaty of Hudeybiyah".
Commandment of Allah to honour the treaty so long as the unbelievers honour it. If the unbelievers violate the treaty, then fight against their ringleaders.
Mushrikin are forbidden to be the caretakers of Masjids. Service to pilgrims is not equal to true belief in Allah, in the Last Day, and making Jihad. Do not take your fathers and brothers as your friends if they prefer Kufr (unbelief) over Iman (belief).
Allah's help is with the quality and not the quantity of the believers. The prohibition of mushrikin from entering Masjid-al-Haram.
The Jews and Christians, who call Azra and Jesus the sons of God, are mushrikin. Do not be like Rabbis and Priests who misappropriate the wealth of people. The number of months in the book of Allah is 12, of which 4 are sacred.
Allah's order to bear arms against the unbelievers, if necessary.
Those who do not participate in Jihad are hypocrites. Excuses of the hypocrites for not bearing arms against the unbelievers.
Categories for the distribution of Zakah. Order of Allah not to molest the Prophet. Punishment for those who make fun of the religion.
Hypocritical actions and their punishment. Believers' actions and their rewards.
Allah's order to make Jihad against hypocrites and unbelievers. Behavior of the hypocrites relating to the bounties of Allah.
The hypocrites did not join the war against the unbelievers. The prohibition of offering Funeral prayer for the hypocrites.
Genuine exemptions for staying behind from the battlefront. Those who make excuses to avoid serving in armed struggle for the cause of Allah (when needed) are hypocrites.
The categories of hypocrites. Commandment for the collection of Al-Zakah.
Allah has purchased the persons and wealth of the Believers and in return has promised them paradise. Do not seek forgiveness for the mushrikin. Allah forgave those three who lagged behind but were sincere.
Believers are only those who prefer the life of the Rasool over their own. The requirement of obtaining understanding of religion.
Qur'anic verses do increase the faith of the believers. Character of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). A Prayer taught by Allah.