Surah An-Nasr - The Help
(Revealed at Mecca)
3 Verses in 1 Section
Sections of Surah An-Nasr
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God’s help brings multitudes to God’s Religion.
An-Nasr - God’s Help Brings Multitudes To God’s Religion
It is with God’s help that mankind enters God’s religion God is Oft-Turning merciful.
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
“In the name of God the Beneficent the Merciful”
إِذَا جَاءَ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ وَالْفَتْحُ
“When cometh the help of God and the Victory” (110:1)
وَرَأَيْتَ النَّاسَ يَدْخُلُونَ فِي دِينِ اللَّهِ أَفْوَاجًا
“And thou seest people entering the religion of God in multitudes” (110:2)
فَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ وَاسْتَغْفِرْهُ ۚ إِنَّهُ كَانَ تَوَّابًا
“Celebrate then the praise of thy Lord and seek thou His protection1, (for) verily He is Oft-Turning (merciful)!” (110:3)
Commentary
Verse 1 & 2
The great prophecy was wonderfully fulfilled in the bloodless conquest of Mecca, and the other Arab tribes sent their deputations to the Holy Prophet and entered the folds of the faith, Islam, one after another.
The world knows that the one, the Holy Prophet who was persecuted and hunted out of his birth-place Mecca, and who took refuge in Madina, could not be defeated or stopped from having his godly way, even by the most formidable forces of the Meccans and their confederates. His mission gradually made its way and all the wickedness and the treachery of the enemy, recoiled on the enemies themselves. Now this prophecy and the promise came from the Lord with which all the outlying parts of Arabia ranged themselves under the banner of Islam. This was the return for the conviction, sincerity, perseverance and sacrifice, in the way of the Lord. Now the tribes together offered their collective adherence, paving the way for further triumph of the faith in the outer world to its limits, remaining in store for the future.
It is said that this chapter was the last of the revelations from which people sensed the closing days of the ministry of the Holy Prophet were approaching.
The 1st and the 2nd verse refer to the apparent progress of the religion throughout Arabia and it also refers to the spiritual state of the realisation where the Holy Prophet saw every being in submission to the will of God - conforming with 3:83. (A.P.).
Verse 3
It is indirectly an ordinance for mankind to celebrate God’s grace and glory, at each event of success in life and seek His grace through prayer and earn the protection through God’s forgiveness of the shortcomings.
‘Istighfar’ in the case of a sinful being, means seeking the pardon of God and the same ‘Istighfar’ on the part of a sinless infallible one like the Holy Prophet and His Ahl Al-Bayt who have already been purified by the Lord Himself (33:33) will mean seeking further grace and the greater blessings or the further protection of the Lord against the Satanic forces. Here ‘Istighfar’ means the Holy Prophet’s asking for the protection of the Lord for himself and his followers against the satanic forces of evil, and seeking pardon of the Lord on behalf of his faithful adherents who might have been the prey of the human weakness as did Moses for his people who had yielded to the worship of the Calf.
It is said that this Surah was revealed on the occasion of the bloodless capture of Mecca. The Holy Prophet standing at the entrance of the Holy Ka’ba said, ‘‘There is no pad but Goil the One and the Only, He has fulfilled His promise and has helped His servant (the Holy Prophet)” and then entered it, and to each idol which was there in it, he pointed with his staff’ and the idol fell headlong into pieces and for those which were fixed higher into the walls, he asked Ali to mount up on his shoulders and Ali mounted and put his hand with his miraculous strength and pulled each one of the idols and dashed it to the ground It is said that even the largest and the most strongly fixed ones also were easily plucked out and even the idols of strong metals, broke into pieces.
When the Holy Prophet recited this Surah before his uncle Abbas, Abbas began shedding tears and said that the matter discloses the departure of the Holy Prophet from this world. The Holy Prophet said ‘‘It is so my dear uncle!” Two years later departed the Holy Prophet from this world.
