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Tafheem-ul-Quran - Abul Ala Maududi translation for Surah Ash-Shuraa — Ayah 38

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42:38

وَٱلَّذِينَ ٱسۡتَجَابُواْ لِرَبِّهِمۡ وَأَقَامُواْ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَأَمۡرُهُمۡ شُورَىٰ بَيۡنَهُمۡ وَمِمَّا رَزَقۡنَٰهُمۡ يُنفِقُونَ ٣٨

who obey their Lord¹ and establish Prayer; who conduct their affairs by consultation,² and spend out of what We have bestowed upon them;³

Footnotes

[1] This sentence is left open-ended; according to Al-Qurtubi and other exegetes the predicate is elided but can be understood as: “I would not have prevented you from retaliating.”
[2] Literally: “Who answer the call of their Lord”, that is they hasten to do whatever Allah enjoins them to do, and accept whatever Allah invites them to accept.
[3] This thing has been counted here as the best quality of the believers and has been enjoined in( Surah Aal-Imran, Ayat 159). On this basis, consultation is an important pillar of the Islamic way of life, and to conduct the affairs of collective life without consultation is not only the way of ignorance but also an express violation of the law prescribed by Allah. When we consider why consultation has been given such importance in Islam, three things become obvious:
[4] First, that it is injustice that a person should decide a matter by his personal opinion and ignore others when it involves the interests of two or more persons. No one has a right to do, as he likes in matters of common interest. Justice demands that all those whose interests are involved in a matter be consulted, and if it concerns a large number of the people, their reliable representatives should be made a party in consultation.
[5] Qira’at: Nafieʻ, Ibn ʻAmer and Abu Jaʻfar read it as: “. . . We will enter him ...We will punish him . . .”
[6] Qira’at: Abu ʻAmr read it as: “. . . what they do .”

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