Surah Al-A'raaf (7) — Ayah 152
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
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➋ { وَ كَذٰلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُفْتَرِيْنَ:} Abu Qilabah (may Allah have mercy on him) recited this verse and said: “This is the punishment for every fabricator until the Day of Judgment (whether he invents acts of shirk in the religion or anything else).” Because anyone who introduces a new thing into the religion is a fabricator, and innovation is the worst kind of lie attributed to Allah and His Messenger (peace be upon him). Imam Malik and Sufyan bin ‘Uyaynah (may Allah have mercy on them both) said that “fabricators” means “innovators,” that is, the people of innovation, and every innovator will remain humiliated and disgraced until the Day of Judgment. (Qurtubi, Baghawi)
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152. 2 And this punishment is not specific to them alone; whoever fabricates (slanders) against Allah, We give him the same punishment.
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The Mass Killing of the Calf-Worshippers:
The wrath of Allah mentioned here is the same as referred to in Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 54, that such calf-worshipping polytheists should be killed so that the rest of society may be purified from shirk. Regarding the incident of calf-worship, the Children of Israel were divided into three groups: one group consisted of those who worshipped the calf; the second group did not worship it themselves but did not stop those who did; and the third group neither worshipped the calf nor ceased to forbid those who did. When these people realized the gravity of their great sin and requested repentance from Allah, He set the condition for the acceptance of their repentance that all the calf-worshipping polytheists should be killed, and those who would carry out the killing should be the ones who themselves had abstained from shirk and had also forbidden the polytheists from it.
