Tafsir

Allah, the Exalted, informs that He is the All-Knower of the unseenof the heavens and the earth and that unto Him is the final return.

He explains that everyone who does a deed, He will give them their deed (reward for it) on the Day of Reckoning. Unto Him belongs the creation and the command. Then He, the Exalted, commands that He should be worshipped and relied upon, for verily, He is sufficient for whoever trusts and turns to Him. Concerning His statement, وَمَا رَبُّكَ بِغَـفِلٍ عَمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ(And your Lord is not unaware of what you do.) This means, `The lies (of the disbelievers) against you O Muhammad are not hidden from Him. He is the All-Knower of the conditions of His creatures and He will give them the perfect recompense for their deeds in this life and the Hereafter. He will aid you (Muhammad) and His party over the disbelievers in this life and in the Hereafter.' This is the end of the Tafsir of Surah Hud, and all praises and thanks are due to Allah.

Difference: Blameworthy and Praiseworthy

When it was said in the fifth verse (118) - ` had your Lord willed, He would have made all the people a single community' - the sense is that had it been the will of Allah, He would have made all human beings accept Islam by force. All of them would have then become nothing but Muslims without any difference remaining between them. But, such are the dictates of His wisdom that, in this world, Allah Ta` ala does not compel anyone to do something. Instead, He has entrusted man with a kind of choice under which he could do whatever good or bad he wishes to do. Then, human temperaments differ, ways differ and deeds differ. The outcome is that there always will be some people who would keep at loggerheads against the true faith - of course, with the exception of those whom Allah Ta` ala has blessed with His mercy, that is, those who have been following the noble prophets.

This tells us that ` difference' at this place means hostility and op-position to the true faith and the teachings of prophets. The difference based on Ijtihad, which is inevitable among religious authorities and jurists of Islam, an ongoing process since the period of the Sahabah, is not included under this purview, nor is it contrary to Divine mercy. In fact, it is the very dictate of Allah's wisdom and mercy. Those who have declared the differences among Mujtahid Imams to be counter to Mercy in terms of this verse, have done something which is itself counter to the context of this verse as well as counter to the consistent practice of the Sahabah and Tabi` in.واللہُ سُبحَانہ و تعالیٰ اَعلمAnd Allah is Pure and High and He knows everything best.

ولله سبحانه وتعالى علم كل ما غاب في السموات والأرض، وإليه يُرْجَع الأمر كله يوم القيامة، فاعبده -أيها النبي- وفوِّض أمرك إليه، وما ربك بغافل عما تعملون من الخير والشر، وسيجازي كلاًّ بعمله.

يخبر تعالى أنه عالم غيب السموات والأرض ، وأنه إليه المرجع والمآب ، وسيوفى كل عامل عمله يوم الحساب ، فله الخلق والأمر . فأمر تعالى بعبادته والتوكل عليه; فإنه كاف من توكل عليه وأناب إليه .وقوله : ( وما ربك بغافل عما تعملون ) أي : ليس يخفى عليه ما عليه مكذبوك يا محمد ، بل هو عليم بأحوالهم وأقوالهم وسيجزيهم على ذلك أتم الجزاء في الدنيا والآخرة ، وسينصرك وحزبك عليهم في الدارين . وقال ابن جرير : حدثنا ابن وكيع ، حدثنا زيد بن الحباب ، عن جعفر بن سليمان ، عن أبي عمران الجوني ، عن عبد الله بن رباح ، عن كعب قال : خاتمة " التوراة " خاتمة " هود " [ والله أعلم ] تم تفسير سورة هود .