Lesson # 1072 from
Holy Qur-’aan
Hoarding up gold and silver
Surah ‘TAWBAH or BARAAA-‘AH (REPENTANCE) –
Chapter – 9)
Stage – 2, Verse – 34b of 129, Section – 5 of
16 (Part – 10)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful
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34b. And they who hoard up gold and silver and
spend it not in the Way of Allah, unto them give tiding (O Muhammad) of a
painful doom-
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34b. Wallaziina
yaknizuu-naz-zahaba
wal-fizzata wa laa
yunfiquu-nahaa fii Sabii-LIllaahi, fabash-shirhum- bi-‘azaabin
‘aliim.
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Lesson
Yaknizuuna – (they hoard up), this word is from kanz,
which means “to hoard, to collect, to deposit and to accumulate” the money;
whether in the chests of drawers or in the banks or bury in the earth. Kanz
means “treasury” also, that is to say; the place where the wealth is deposited.
It was described previously that the rabbis, monks and spiritual guides
of the People of the Scripture dropped behind collecting the wealth. They used
to tell the people untrue matters keeping in view their ease and began to heap
up and collect charity, alms, offerings, gifts and oblations etc. from them in
retaliation.
Foremost, they come in the category of those people, who run after
collecting the wealth. Therefore, one punishment for them is that they have
been collecting the wealth unlawfully. Secondly, another separate punishment for
them is that in the disguise of the religion, they receive money recklessly from
the people by deceiving them. This crime of theirs is the biggest, that they
have been aspersing, disgracing and spoiling the religion. Painful doom for
such people, who hoard up the wealth, has been described in this verse.
It is commanded: {O Messenger (grace, glory, blessings and peace be
upon Him)}! Cause to hear those people, who have been collecting the wealth and
depositing it in the treasures, chests of drawers or banks, and do not spend in
the Way of God Almighty! Only this tiding is for you that such punishment will
be given to you, due to suffering and pain of which, you will scream. Mention of
this torment comes after it.
This punishment is for those people, who accumulate the wealth by
lawful earnings. And those people who collect the wealth by unlawful ways, they
will be involved in the same difficulties, but in addition to it, they will be
punished due to committing unlawful deeds separately.
Every that way of collecting the money, due to which, the condition of
other people is deteriorated or in which improper benefit is reaped from any
other’s misery or necessity, becomes unlawful. Paying the poor-due is also not
acceptable from it, because the wealth is a good thing which must be spent on
good works. The individual, who hoards it up instead of spending at any correct
place, is ingrate of the blessing of God Almighty and he will be punished for
it.
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