Surah Maun ayat 7 Tafsir Quran 107:7

﴿وَيَمْنَعُونَ الْمَاعُونَ﴾
[ الماعون: 7]

107:7 And withhold [simple] assistance.

and deny aid as insignificant as a needle a hatchet a cooking pot or a bowl.

Their malevolence prevents benevolence and proves an occasion of so much discontent

Which was revealed in Makkah بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Allah says, "O Muhammad! Have you seen the one who denies the Din" Here the word Din means the Hereafter, the Recompense and the Final Reward. فَذَلِكَ الَّذِى يَدُعُّ الْيَتِيمَ ( That is he who repulses the orphan, ) meaning, he is the one who oppresses the orphan and does not give him his just due.
He does not feed him, nor is he kind to him. وَلاَ يَحُضُّ عَلَى طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِينِ ( And urges not the feeding of Al-Miskin. ) This is as Allah says, كَلاَّ بَل لاَّ تُكْرِمُونَ الْيَتِيمَ - وَلاَ تَحَاضُّونَ عَلَى طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِينِ ( Nay! But you treat not the orphans with kindness and generosity! And urge not one another on the feeding of Al-Miskin! ) ( 89:17-18 ) meaning, the poor man who has nothing to sustain him and suffice his needs.
Then Allah says, فَوَيْلٌ لِّلْمُصَلِّينَ - الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَن صَلَـتِهِمْ سَاهُونَ ( So, woe unto those performers of Salah, those who with their Salah are Sahun. ) Ibn `Abbas and others have said, "This means the hypocrites who pray in public but do not pray in private." Thus, Allah says, لِّلْمُصَلِّينَ ( unto those performers of Salah, ) They are those people who pray and adhere to the prayer, yet they are mindless of it.
This may either be referring to its act entirely, as Ibn `Abbas said, or it may be referring to performing it in its stipulated time that has been legislated Islamically.
This means that the person prays it completely outside of its time. This was said by Masruq and Abu Ad-Duha. `Ata' bin Dinar said, "All praise is due to Allah, the One Who said, عَن صَلَـتِهِمْ سَاهُونَ ( with their Salah are Sahun. ) and He did not say, `those who are absent minded in their prayer."' It could also mean the first time of the prayer, which means they always delay it until the end of its time, or they usually do so.
It may also refer to not fulfilling its pillars and conditions, and in the required manner.
It could also mean performing it with humility and contemplation of its meanings.
The wording of the Ayah comprises all of these meanings.
However, whoever has any characteristic of this that we have mentioned then a portion of this Ayah applies to him.
And whoever has all of these characteristics, then he has completed his share of this Ayah, and the hypocrisy of actions is fulfilled in him.
This is just as is confirmed in the Two Sahihs that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said,
«تِلْكَ صَلَاةُ الْمُنَافِقِ، تِلْكَ صَلَاةُ الْمُنَافِقِ، تِلْكَ صَلَاةُ الْمُنَافِقِ، يَجْلِسُ يَرْقُبُ الشَّمْسَ، حَتَّى إِذَا كَانَتْ بَيْنَ قَرْنَي الشَّيْطَانِ قَامَ فَنَقَرَ أَرْبَعًا، لَا يَذْكُرُ اللهَ فِيهَا إِلَّا قَلِيلًا»
( This is the prayer of the hypocrite, this is the prayer of the hypocrite, this is the prayer of the hypocrite.
He sits watching the sun until it is between the two horns of Shaytan.
Then he stands and pecks four (Rak`ahs ) and he does not remember Allah ( in them ) except very little.) This Hadith is describing the end of the time for the `Asr prayer, which is the middle prayer as is confirmed by a text ( Hadith ).
This is the time in which it is disliked to pray.
Then this person stands to pray it, pecking in it like the pecking of a crow.
He does not have tranquility or humility in it at all.
Thus, the Prophet said,
«لَا يَذْكُرُ اللهَ فِيهَا إِلَّا قَلِيلًا»
( He does not remember Allah (in them ) except very little.) He probably only stands to pray it so that the people will see him praying, and not seeking the Face of Allah.
This is just as if he did not pray at all.
Allah says, إِنَّ الْمُنَـفِقِينَ يُخَـدِعُونَ اللَّهَ وَهُوَ خَادِعُهُمْ وَإِذَا قَامُواْ إِلَى الصَّلَوةِ قَامُواْ كُسَالَى يُرَآءُونَ النَّاسَ وَلاَ يَذْكُرُونَ اللَّهَ إِلاَّ قَلِيلاً ( Verily, the hypocrites seek to deceive Allah, but it is He Who deceives them.
And when they stand up with laziness and to be seen of men, and they do not remember Allah but little. ) ( 4:142 ) and Allah says here, الَّذِينَ هُمْ يُرَآءُونَ ( Those who do good deeds only to be seen, ) Imam Ahmad recorded from `Amr bin Murrah that he said, "We were sitting with Abu `Ubaydah when the people mentioned showing-off.
A man known as Abu Yazid said, "I heard `Abdullah bin `Amr saying that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said,
«مَنْ سَمَّعَ النَّاسَ بِعَمَلِهِ، سَمَّعَ اللهُ بِهِ سَامِعَ خَلْقِهِ، وَحَقَّرَهُ وَصَغَّرَه»
( Whoever tries to make the people hear of his deed, Allah, the One Who hears His creation, will hear it and make him despised and degraded. )" from what is related to his statement, الَّذِينَ هُمْ يُرَآءُونَ ( Those who do good deeds only to be seen. ) is that whoever does a deed solely for Allah, but the people come to know about it, and he is pleased with that, then this is not considered showing off.
Allah said: وَيَمْنَعُونَ الْمَاعُونَ ( And withhold Al-Ma`un. ) This means that they do not worship their Lord well, nor do they treat His creation well.
They do not even lend that which others may benefit from and be helped by, even though the object will remain intact and be returned to them.
These people are even stingier when it comes to giving Zakah and different types of charity that bring one closer to Allah.
Al-Mas`udi narrated from Salamah bin Kuhayl who reported from Abu Al-`Ubaydin that he asked Ibn Mas`ud about Al-Ma`un and he said, "It is what the people give to each other, like an axe, a pot, a bucket and similar items." This is the end of the Tafsir of Surat Al-Ma`un, and all praise and thanks are due to Allah.

(107:7) and deny people the articles of common necessity. *11

And withhold [simple] assistance. meaning

*11) The word used is ma'un.
The view held by Hadrat `Ali, Ibn `Umar, Sa`id bin Jubair, Qatadah, Hasan Basri, Muhammad bin Hanafiyyah, Dahhak, Ibn Zaid, `Ikrimah, Mujahid, `Ata' and Zuhri ( may Allah show them mercy ) is that it implies the zakat while Ibn `Abbas, Ibn Mas`ud, Ibrahim Nakha`i, Abu Malik and many other scholars have expressed the opinion that it implies items of common use; for example, cooking-pot, bucket, hatchet, balance, salt, water, fire, flint ( now its successor, the match-stick ), etc.
which the people generally borrow from each other.
A statement of Sa'id bin Jubair and Mujahid also supports it.
Another view of Hadrat 'Ali also is that it implies the zakat as well as the little courtesies and kindnesses of daily Iife.
Ibn Abi Hatim has related from `Ikrimah that ma'un of the highest form is zakat and of the lowest lending of a sieve, bucket, or needle to a barrrower.
Hadrat `Abdullah bin Mas`ud says: " We, the Companions of Muhammad ( upon whom be Allah's peace ), used to say ( and according to other traditions, in the time of the Holy Prophet, used to say ) that ma `un implies lending of the cooking pot, hatchet.
bucket, balance, and such other things. " ( Ibn Jarir.
Ibn Abi Shaibah, Abu Da'ud, Nasa'i, Bazzar, Ibn al-Mundhir, Ibn Abi Hatim, Tabarani in AI-Ausat, Ibn Marduyah, Baihaqi in As-Sunan ).
Sa`d bin 'Iyad without specifying any names has related almost the same view from the Companions of the Holy Prophet ( upon whom be peace ), which shows that he had heard this from several Companions.
( Ibn Jarir, Ibn Abi Shaibah ).
Dailami, Ibn `Asakir, and Abu Nu`aim have related a tradition from Hadrat Abu Hurairah in which he says that the Holy Prophet ( upon whom be peace ) himself explained this verse saying that it implies the hatchet, bucket and other such things.
If this tradition is genuine it probably did not come to the notice of other scholars; otherwise it was not possible that other people should have given any other commentary of this verse.

Ma`un in fact is a small, little thing useful to the people.
Accordingly, zakat also is ma`un, for it is a little amount out of much wealth, which one has to give away in order to help the poor, and the other small items of common use also are ma 'un as mentioned by Hadrat `Abdullah.Ibn Mas`ud and the scholars who share his viewpoint.
The majority of the commentators say that ma `un applies to all those small things which the neighbours usually ask each other for, and asking for these is not in any way blameworthy, for the rich and the poor, all stand in need of these at one time or another.
However, to show stinginess in lending these is regarded as mean behaviour morally.
Generally these things by themselves last and the neighbour returns them in the original form after he has used them.
It would also be maim if a neighbour asks the other for a bed or bedding items on the arrival of guests, or asks the neighbour's permission to have loaves baked in his, oven, or wants to leave some valuables in the neighbour's custody when going out of his house for some days.
Thus, the verse means to impress that denial of the Hereafter renders a man so narrow-minded and niggardly that he is not even prepared to make a most minor sacrifice for the sake of others.

Which was revealed in Makkah بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Allah says, "O Muhammad! Have you seen the one who denies the Din" Here the word Din means the Hereafter, the Recompense and the Final Reward. فَذَلِكَ الَّذِى يَدُعُّ الْيَتِيمَ ( That is he who repulses the orphan, ) meaning, he is the one who oppresses the orphan and does not give him his just due.
He does not feed him, nor is he kind to him. وَلاَ يَحُضُّ عَلَى طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِينِ ( And urges not the feeding of Al-Miskin. ) This is as Allah says, كَلاَّ بَل لاَّ تُكْرِمُونَ الْيَتِيمَ - وَلاَ تَحَاضُّونَ عَلَى طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِينِ ( Nay! But you treat not the orphans with kindness and generosity! And urge not one another on the feeding of Al-Miskin! ) ( 89:17-18 ) meaning, the poor man who has nothing to sustain him and suffice his needs.
Then Allah says, فَوَيْلٌ لِّلْمُصَلِّينَ - الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَن صَلَـتِهِمْ سَاهُونَ ( So, woe unto those performers of Salah, those who with their Salah are Sahun. ) Ibn `Abbas and others have said, "This means the hypocrites who pray in public but do not pray in private." Thus, Allah says, لِّلْمُصَلِّينَ ( unto those performers of Salah, ) They are those people who pray and adhere to the prayer, yet they are mindless of it.
This may either be referring to its act entirely, as Ibn `Abbas said, or it may be referring to performing it in its stipulated time that has been legislated Islamically.
This means that the person prays it completely outside of its time. This was said by Masruq and Abu Ad-Duha. `Ata' bin Dinar said, "All praise is due to Allah, the One Who said, عَن صَلَـتِهِمْ سَاهُونَ ( with their Salah are Sahun. ) and He did not say, `those who are absent minded in their prayer."' It could also mean the first time of the prayer, which means they always delay it until the end of its time, or they usually do so.
It may also refer to not fulfilling its pillars and conditions, and in the required manner.
It could also mean performing it with humility and contemplation of its meanings.
The wording of the Ayah comprises all of these meanings.
However, whoever has any characteristic of this that we have mentioned then a portion of this Ayah applies to him.
And whoever has all of these characteristics, then he has completed his share of this Ayah, and the hypocrisy of actions is fulfilled in him.
This is just as is confirmed in the Two Sahihs that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, «تِلْكَ صَلَاةُ الْمُنَافِقِ، تِلْكَ صَلَاةُ الْمُنَافِقِ، تِلْكَ صَلَاةُ الْمُنَافِقِ، يَجْلِسُ يَرْقُبُ الشَّمْسَ، حَتَّى إِذَا كَانَتْ بَيْنَ قَرْنَي الشَّيْطَانِ قَامَ فَنَقَرَ أَرْبَعًا، لَا يَذْكُرُ اللهَ فِيهَا إِلَّا قَلِيلًا» ( This is the prayer of the hypocrite, this is the prayer of the hypocrite, this is the prayer of the hypocrite.
He sits watching the sun until it is between the two horns of Shaytan.
Then he stands and pecks four (Rak`ahs ) and he does not remember Allah ( in them ) except very little.) This Hadith is describing the end of the time for the `Asr prayer, which is the middle prayer as is confirmed by a text ( Hadith ).
This is the time in which it is disliked to pray.
Then this person stands to pray it, pecking in it like the pecking of a crow.
He does not have tranquility or humility in it at all.
Thus, the Prophet said, «لَا يَذْكُرُ اللهَ فِيهَا إِلَّا قَلِيلًا» ( He does not remember Allah (in them ) except very little.) He probably only stands to pray it so that the people will see him praying, and not seeking the Face of Allah.
This is just as if he did not pray at all.
Allah says, إِنَّ الْمُنَـفِقِينَ يُخَـدِعُونَ اللَّهَ وَهُوَ خَادِعُهُمْ وَإِذَا قَامُواْ إِلَى الصَّلَوةِ قَامُواْ كُسَالَى يُرَآءُونَ النَّاسَ وَلاَ يَذْكُرُونَ اللَّهَ إِلاَّ قَلِيلاً ( Verily, the hypocrites seek to deceive Allah, but it is He Who deceives them.
And when they stand up with laziness and to be seen of men, and they do not remember Allah but little. ) ( 4:142 ) and Allah says here, الَّذِينَ هُمْ يُرَآءُونَ ( Those who do good deeds only to be seen, ) Imam Ahmad recorded from `Amr bin Murrah that he said, "We were sitting with Abu `Ubaydah when the people mentioned showing-off.
A man known as Abu Yazid said, "I heard `Abdullah bin `Amr saying that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, «مَنْ سَمَّعَ النَّاسَ بِعَمَلِهِ، سَمَّعَ اللهُ بِهِ سَامِعَ خَلْقِهِ، وَحَقَّرَهُ وَصَغَّرَه» ( Whoever tries to make the people hear of his deed, Allah, the One Who hears His creation, will hear it and make him despised and degraded. )" from what is related to his statement, الَّذِينَ هُمْ يُرَآءُونَ ( Those who do good deeds only to be seen. ) is that whoever does a deed solely for Allah, but the people come to know about it, and he is pleased with that, then this is not considered showing off.
Allah said: وَيَمْنَعُونَ الْمَاعُونَ ( And withhold Al-Ma`un. ) This means that they do not worship their Lord well, nor do they treat His creation well.
They do not even lend that which others may benefit from and be helped by, even though the object will remain intact and be returned to them.
These people are even stingier when it comes to giving Zakah and different types of charity that bring one closer to Allah.
Al-Mas`udi narrated from Salamah bin Kuhayl who reported from Abu Al-`Ubaydin that he asked Ibn Mas`ud about Al-Ma`un and he said, "It is what the people give to each other, like an axe, a pot, a bucket and similar items." This is the end of the Tafsir of Surat Al-Ma`un, and all praise and thanks are due to Allah.

( Yet refuse small kindnesses! ) i.e. they refuse acts of goodness; and it is also said this means: they refuse the poor-due; and it is also said: they refuse things that are lent and borrowed by people such as cooking pots and utensils, and similar things, which are of benefit to people’.

And refuse Al-Ma'un (small kindnesses e.g. salt, sugar, water, etc.).

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