إِنَّ الَّذِينَ فَرَّقُوا دِينَهُمْ وَكَانُوا
شِيَعًا لَّسْتَ مِنْهُمْ فِي شَيْءٍ ۚ إِنَّمَا أَمْرُهُمْ إِلَى اللَّهِ ثُمَّ يُنَبِّئُهُم
بِمَا كَانُوا يَفْعَلُونَ (159)
Verily, those who divide their
religion and break up into sects (all kinds of religious sects)[1],
you (O Muhammad صلى
الله عليه وسلم) have no
concern in them in the least. Their affair is only with Allâh, Who then will tell them what they used to
do. [Sûrah 6. Al-An‘âm: 159]
(V.6:159) It
is said that the Prophet صلى
الله عليه وسلم recited
this Verse and said: “These people are those who invent new things (Bid’ah) in
religion and the followers of the vain desires of this nation, and their
repentance will not be accepted by Allâh.” (Tafsîr Al-Qurtubî).
It has been narrated in the Hadîth Books (At-Tirmidhî, Ibn Mâjah and Abu Dâwûd) that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: “The Jews and the Christians will be divided into
seventy-one or seventy-two religious sects and this nation will be divided into
seventy-three religious sects, - all in Hell, except one, and that one is: on
which I and my Companions are today, i.e. following the Qur’ân and the Prophet’s Sunnah (legal ways,
orders, act of worship, statements)”].
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For Arabic please
refer to https://quran.ksu.edu.sa/tafseer/katheer/sura6-aya159.html
For English translation of the Ayah (159) & Hadîth please refer to Translation of The Noble Qur’ān in the English Language by Dr. Muhammad Taqî-ud-Dîn al-Hilâlî and Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khân, Part 8 page.198. Published by King Fahd Complex For The Printing Of The Holy Qur'ân, Madinah K.S.A.
For English translation of the Ayah (159) & Hadîth please refer to Translation of The Noble Qur’ān in the English Language by Dr. Muhammad Taqî-ud-Dîn al-Hilâlî and Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khân, Part 8 page.198. Published by King Fahd Complex For The Printing Of The Holy Qur'ân, Madinah K.S.A.
