165. "and yet, of men, there are some who take unto
themselves
(for worship) objects other than allah, and love them as the love
due to allah; but for those who have faith, their love of allah is
more intensive. and if only those who are unjust could see
(what they will realize) when they behold the punishment,
that the power is wholly allah's,
and that allah is severe in (enforcing) the penalty."
commentary:
disbelievers have gone
astray. their affection to things other
than allah, is like the wish and desire of a sick person unto eating the
food which is harmful for his sickness but the patient ignorantly persists
on having it. in contrast with them are the believers. so those who have
faith surely love allah very intensively and more than anything or
anybody else.
the pagans, who have done unjustly to themselves, will see their
miserable destination on the day of reckoning, when they will
recognize their wrong thought and their deviation. on that day they will
understand fully that the entire power belongs to allah and that they
had gone a wrong way when they had referred to other than him. the
intensive punishment of allah, on that day, will be upon those who,
thoughtlessly and unreasonably, had left out the attachment to allah
and clung to some vain and chaffy imaginations.
then, it is so that in sura 'an`am, no. 6, verse 102, to guide
them, allah warns them thus:
" that is allah, your lord, there is no god but he; the creator of all things,
therefore serve him, and he
has charge of all things."
by the way, it is narrated by muhammad-ibn-muslim that imam
muhammad baqir (a.s.) and hadĪrat sadiq (a.s.) , speaking about the
phrase: "...but for those who have faith, their love is more intensive
" had
said: " they are the progeny of muhammad (p.b.u.h.) ".1