OCCASION OF THE REVELATION (VERSE NO. 95 - 97)

      A man came to the prophet and said:ِ

      ``I have a neighbour whose name is, AMR-AL-GHAIS. He has extorted a piece of my land. Every body knows that the piece of land is mine, but they won't help me to get it back, because AMR is a famous and influential man.''

      The prophet called AMR-AL-GHAIS and questioned him; but he denied everything. The prophet asked him to swear it. The other party said:ِ ``O, Messenger of God! This man has no faith, and can readily make his oath a means of deception and fraud!''

      When the man came forth to swear, the prophet gave them a couple of days time, to think the matter over and to decide correctly.

      Then the above verses revealed to the prophet in that occasion. When the complainants returned for the judgement, the prophet rehearsed the verses to them.

      When AMR-AL-GHAIS heard that, he said:ِ

      ``O, Messenger of God! True is all that God has said. That which is with me will vanish, and what is with Allah is everlasting. This neighbour of mine is truthful in his claim and assertion, but I don't exactly know, how much of the land belongs to him. Let him go and take whatever of the land he thinks is his; and also more, for the benefits that I have taken out of the land so far.''

THE CLEAN LIFE IS IN PLEDGE OF WHAT?

      Here again the argument goes on, blaming, those who break their covenants and fulfil not their promises.

      As a matter of fact breaking covenant is breaking Allah's Law, and whatever is obtained as the price of the breakage is miserable a price, because God's consent is lost for that.

      Here a new reward is promised the patient believer that he or she, whould be raised to live a good clean life. When faith and righteous deeds are accompanied in a man or a woman, God's Grace will revive them to a new clean life which is of course eternal. The advantages of such a life in terms of the life to come is immense, while its very good consequences in this prest life too, is evident in the believer's clean, pure, sure, and comfortable living.

      We then come to the next verse (NO.96) and read that:ِ

      ``We will pay the patients their reward according to the best of what they were doing.''

      The verse may imply that patience and endurance in the path of Allah, and particularly in observing our obligations is among the best of Man's deeds. Hazrat Imam Ali (AS) has a meaningful saying in this relation, that:ِ

      ``Acquire patience and endurance, because their relation with true faith, is that of a head to a body. There is nothing good in a body without a head. Similarly true faith can be of no use without endurance and patience.''

      The ending of the verse is about the rewards of the good doers who will be rewarded according to the best of what they were doing.

      Allah's measure for rewarding the actions of His faithful servants is the very best of their actions! Why should then we grasp the temporal advantages of here, which will vanish soon, and ignore our Lord's Infinite physical and spiritual bounties that await us in the life to come?

THE BIRDS SECRETS OF FLIGHT

Man and wonam do have some physical and spiritual differences by nature, but htis does not mean that they have any differense in humanity. In the sight of Allah none of the couple is better than the other, except in the quantity of their virtue nad piety. In other word, the nost honourd of the nen and wonen in the sight of Allah is the most pious of them.

     The above verse, explicitly shuts up the mouth of those who speak nonsense in this relation; or those who believe that the woman is inferior to man in humanity:ِ

      ``He who did a righteous deed, whether a man or woman and he or she being a believer, We will assuredly raise them to a clean life and We will pay them their reward according to the best of what they were doing.''