SEEKING HELP FROM HUMAN SENTIMENTS. (VERSE NO.75)

      The Arabic word `MOSTAZAAF' translated here to `HELPLESS' has its root in the weak or weakness, but it does not mean a weak person lacking physical strength. MOSTAZAAF is the man or woman who has been weakened through oppression and injustice. Therefore the cause of God is also the cause of justice and the cause of the oppressed.

      After the emigration from Mecca to Medina, some of the Muslims who were weakened by the pagan oppressors of Mecca were not able to leave their home and hearths like the others, and remained there when the persecutions were redoubled for them. They were threatened, assulted, beaten, put into chains, and cast into jails. They even could not perform their prayers and other religious duties! They cried and prayed for a protector and helper from God. God answered their prayer and through this verse encouraged Muslim fighters to rush to their help and rescue:

      ``And what is gone wrong with you that you don't fight in the way of Allah when the helpless men, women, and children who are under the savage pressure of the pagans, cry and pray to God to be rescued from Mecca whose inhabitants were then the oppressor heathens and idolaters.''