Exegesis of Al-Mā'ūn (Q. 107)

In the Name of Allah the Most Merciful the Most Gracious... He, upon him be peace, was asked about the interpretation of: {Hast thou seen the one who belies the Dīn? Then, he is the one who pushes away the orphan and does not encourage the feeding of the needy. Woe to the ones who pray that are heedless of their prayer—the ones who seek to be seen and withhold assistance} The interpretation of {Hast thou seen} is a recognition, informing, and explication From Allah to His Messenger and believer in what was revealed from Book and Inspiration. It is not the vision of witnessing and the two eyes, but one of certainty and awareness. It is similar to one who intends for one to know something that is not of manifest clearness And says: "Have you seen such-and-such?" He intends by it to inform them or know From the boundaries of understanding. From what He revealed to him and showed, Allah is causing His Messenger, blessings be upon him and his offspring, To recognise the signs of all the people who seek to belie the Day of the Dīn. The Day of the Dīn is a day when Allah will recompense all who perform Deeds for what actions they committed—from the ones of guidance to deviant harm. It is the Day of Resurrection in which all debts will be proportionally remunerated. The one who performs good actions will see with their eyes what they perpetrated; As well as the one who performs bad actions, he will see what actions worked in. The liar belies the Day of Dīn. He is sceptical, and he denies that it is certain. {Then}: it is like that, so {he is the one who pushes away the orphan and does not encourage the feeding of the needy} Because he is sceptical about it and he belies it. He is insufficient in his certainty regarding it. "Pushing away the orphan" refers to: pushing him away from his right And preventing him from it. By that, the liar declares that the Dīn is a lie. He does not encourage others to feed the needy. Regarding that and other than that, The Most Merciful and the Most Gracious says: {Woe to the ones who pray} in fact. This means: those who are not righteous and God-conscious. They are transgressors, Oppressors, and hypocrites. They are those who, as Allah, the Glorified, says are: {...heedless of their prayer}. {...heedless} means: diverted from the prayer and its timings; not busy in it. They are not actively preoccupied with its rules. By it, their souls are oblivious Of Allah. Their hearts are preoccupied with other than Allah‟s remembrance. The {ones who seek to be seen} are those who are seen with the eye in the prayer, Yet they are heedless of Allah‟s remembrance, and their hearts are absent from there. Regarding {and withhold assistance}, it is what means of support that Allah made. It is that which Allah has made obligatory regarding assistance to those who need aid Other than the religious obligation of alms. It is not a lot of subsistence in these assistances. Examples include: the acquisition of fire, a hand mill, or a bucket for one to seek sustenance.
There are no necessities for one‟s family nor for one, expenditure.
There are many other examples similar to what was mentioned here.
Then, {assistance} is what they are helped by due to spending amongst the believers.
They assist by means of assistance the one who‟s assisted from amongst the seekers.
They all, by means of their assistance to him, will not be amongst the sinning.
Allah says {the ones who pray} referring to those mentioned in the beginning.
Those mentioned as withholding assistance are connected to ugliness and sin.
One knows that ugliness—its minor and major—is what Allah‟s displeased in.
The character of degradation is from its people and not that of morality.
Its existence must be shown and it‟s illegal to be within its locality.
The only exception is to make it clear and command one to illumination.
All praise is due to Allah. He is the One who makes ugly the abomination.
He is the One who graces all of what He created, with much sound advice.
He commands the clear and good and prohibits from oppression and vice.

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