Qisas al-Anbiya by Ibn Kathir (قصص الأنبياء لابن كثير) — Page 536

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

وَهَكَذَا مُوسَى عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ : كَانَ اللَّهُ قَدْ أَمَرَهُ أَنْ يُجَنِّدَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَأَنْ يَجْعَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ نُقَبَاءَ كَمَا قَالَ تَعَالَى : ﴿ وَلَقَدْ أَخَذَ اللَّهُ مِيثَاقَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَبَعَثْنَا مِنْهُمُ اثْنَيْ عَشَرَ نَقِيباً وَقَالَ اللَّهُ إِنِّي مَعَكُمْ لَئِنْ أَقَمْتُمُ الصَّلَاةَ وَآتَيْتُمُ الزَّكَاةَ وَآمَنتُم بِرُسُلِي وَعَزَّرْتُمُوهُمْ وَأَقْرَضْتُمُ اللَّهَ قَرْضاً حَسَناً لَّأُكَفِّرَنَّ عَنكُمْ سَيِّئَاتِكُمْ وَلَأُدْخِلَنَّكُمْ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ فَمَن كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ مِنكُمْ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ سَوَاءَ السَّبِيلِ

And so it was with Moses, peace be upon him: God had commanded him to mobilize the Children of Israel and to appoint leaders over them, as the Almighty said: 'And God had taken a covenant from the Children of Israel, and We raised from among them twelve leaders. And God said, "I am with you, if you establish prayer, give zakat, believe in My messengers, support them, and lend God a goodly loan, I will surely remit your sins and admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow. But whoever among you disbelieves after that has certainly strayed from the right path."'

يَقُولُ لَهُمْ : لَئِنْ قُمْتُمْ بِمَا أَوْجَبْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ ، وَلَمْ تَنْكُلُوا عَنِ الْقِتَالِ كَمَا نَكَلْتُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ ، لَأَجْعَلَنَّ ثَوَابَ هَذِهِ مُكَفِّراً لِمَا وَقَعَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ عِقَابِ تِلْكَ ، كَمَا قَالَ تَعَالَى لِمَنْ تَخَلَّفَ الْأَعْرَابُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فِي غَزْوَةِ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ : ﴿ سَتُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى قَوْمٍ أُولِي بَأْسٍ شَدِيدٍ تُقَاتِلُونَهُمْ أَوْ يُسْلِمُونَ فَإِن تُطِيعُوا يُؤْتِكُمُ اللَّهُ أَجْراً حَسَناً وَإِن تَتَوَلَّوْا كَمَا تَوَلَّيْتُم مِّن قَبْلُ يُعَذِّبْكُمْ عَذَاباً أَلِيماً

He says to them: 'If you fulfill what I have obligated upon you, and do not shrink from fighting as you shrank the first time, I will surely make the reward for this an expiation for the punishment that befell you for that [previous act],' just as the Almighty said to those among the Bedouins who stayed behind from the Messenger of God during the expedition of Hudaybiyyah: 'You will be called to fight a people of great military might; you will fight them or they will submit. If you obey, God will give you a good reward, but if you turn away as you turned away before, He will punish you with a painful punishment.'

وَهَكَذَا قَالَ تَعَالَى لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ : ﴿ فَمَن كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ مِنكُمْ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ سَوَاءَ السَّبِيلِ ﴾ ثُمَّ ذَمَّهُمْ تَعَالَى عَلَى سُوءِ صَنِيعِهِمْ وَنَقْضِهِمْ مَوَاثِيقَهُمْ كَمَا ذَمَّ مَنْ بَعْدَهُمْ مِنَ النَّصَارَى عَلَى اخْتِلَافِهِمْ فِي دِينِهِمْ وَأَدْيَانِهِمْ ، وَقَدْ ذَكَرْنَا ذَلِكَ فِي التَّفْسِيرِ مُسْتَقْصًى وَلِلَّهِ الْحَمْدُ

And thus the Almighty said to the Children of Israel: 'But whoever among you disbelieves after that has certainly strayed from the right path.' Then the Almighty condemned them for their evil deeds and their breaking of their covenants, just as He condemned those who came after them from among the Christians for their differences in their religion and their faiths, and we have mentioned that in the Tafsir (exegesis) in detail, and praise be to God.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (31 verbs · 38 nouns)

• أَمَرَ — to command
• جَنَّدَ — to recruit
• جَعَلَ — to make
• سَلَام — peace
• نَقِيب — leader
• مِيثَاق — covenant