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Al-Baqarah 2:143

Juz 2 · Page 22

وَكَذَٰلِكَ جَعَلْنَٰكُمْ أُمَّةً وَسَطًا لِّتَكُونُوا۟ شُهَدَآءَ عَلَى ٱلنَّاسِ وَيَكُونَ ٱلرَّسُولُ عَلَيْكُمْ شَهِيدًا وَمَا جَعَلْنَا ٱلْقِبْلَةَ ٱلَّتِى كُنتَ عَلَيْهَآ إِلَّا لِنَعْلَمَ مَن يَتَّبِعُ ٱلرَّسُولَ مِمَّن يَنقَلِبُ عَلَىٰ عَقِبَيْهِ وَإِن كَانَتْ لَكَبِيرَةً إِلَّا عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ هَدَى ٱللَّهُ وَمَا كَانَ ٱللَّهُ لِيُضِيعَ إِيمَٰنَكُمْ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ بِٱلنَّاسِ لَرَءُوفٌ رَّحِيمٌ ١٤٣

And thus we have made you a just community that you will be witnesses over the people and the Messenger will be a witness over you. And We did not make the qiblah which you used to face except that We might make evident who would follow the Messenger from who would turn back on his heels. And indeed, it is difficult except for those whom Allah has guided. And never would Allah have caused you to lose your faith. Indeed Allah is, to the people, Kind and Merciful.

Context

The change of the qibla to the Kaaba

142–150

According to the reports, after the hijra the Prophet prayed toward Bayt al-Maqdis in Jerusalem for about sixteen or seventeen months, while longing in his heart for the qibla to be turned to the Kaaba, turning his face toward the sky. As narrated from al-Bara b. Azib in Bukhari, when these verses were revealed the qibla was changed to the Sacred Mosque, and a congregation that learned of the change during prayer turned toward the Kaaba as they stood. When some of the Jews and hypocrites said, “What has turned them from the qibla they were on?”, the verses answered these objections as well.

Buhârî 40, 4486; Müslim 525

Revelation context of the surah

Surah-wide

Al-Baqarah was the first surah revealed in Medina, coming down in portions over an extended period beginning in the first years after the Hijra. Its main context is the founding of the Muslim community in Medina, relations with the People of the Book (especially the Jewish tribes), the conduct of the hypocrites, and the change of the qibla (2 AH). It contains foundational legislation on fasting, pilgrimage, family law and the prohibition of usury; the usury verses are reported to be among the last revealed.

Klasik tefsir mukaddimeleri; Buhârî ve Müslim rivayetleri

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