10:66 Yunus (Jonas)

ألا إن لله كل مَن في السموات ومن في الأرض من الملائكة، والإنس، والجن وغير ذلك. وأي شيء يتَّبع مَن يدعو غير الله من الشركاء؟ ما يتَّبعون إلا الشك، وإن هم إلا يكذبون فيما ينسبونه إلى الله.

يخبر تعالى‏:‏ أن له ما في السماوات والأرض، خلقًا وملكًا وعبيدًا، يتصرف فيهم بما شاء من أحكامه، فالجميع مماليك لله، مسخرون، مدبرون، لا يستحقون شيئًا من العبادة، وليسوا شركاء لله بوجه الوجوه، ولهذا قال‏:‏ ‏{‏وَمَا يَتَّبِعُ الَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ شُرَكَاءَ إِنْ يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا الظَّنَّ‏}‏ الذي لا يغني من الحق شيئًا ‏{‏وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَخْرُصُونَ‏}‏ في ذلك، خرص كذب وإفك وبهتان‏.‏ فإن كانوا صادقين في أنها شركاء لله، فليظهروا من أوصافها ما تستحق به مثقال ذرة من العبادة، فلن يستطيعوا، فهل منهم أحد يخلق شيئًا أو يرزق، أو يملك شيئًا من المخلوقات، أو يدبر الليل والنهار، الذي جعله الله قياما للناس‏؟‏‏.‏

ثم أخبر تعالى أن له ملك السموات والأرض وأن المشركين يعبدون الأصنام وهي لا تملك شيئا لا ضرا ولا نفعا ولا دليل لهم على عبادتها بل إنما يتبعون في ذلك ظنونهم وتخرصهم وكذبهم وإفكهم.

Why surely to God belongs all who are in the heavens and all who are in the earth as servants possessions and creatures. Those who call upon those who worship besides God that is other than Him idols are not following associates of His in reality exalted be He above this they are following nothing but conjecture in this matter that is their supposition that these are gods who intercede for them and they are only telling lies in this matter.

It was said in the last verse (64) that, for the friends of Allah, there is the good news in the worldly life and in the Hereafter. As for the good news of the Hereafter, it will come at the time of death when the spirit of the deceased will be taken to Allah. At that time, he will hear the good news of Paradise being for him. Then, on the day of Qiyamah, when he rises from his grave, he will receive the good news of being welcome to Paradise. This is similar to what al-Tabarani has reported from Sayyidna Ibn ` Umar ؓ narrates that the Holy Prophet ﷺ said: ` People who recite: لا إلہ إلا اللہ (la ilaha illallah: There is no god but Allah) will not experience any fright at the time of death, nor inside the grave, nor at the time they rise from it. This is as if my eyes are seeing the scenario of that time when these people will, shaking the dust off, rise from their graves, saying: الْحَمْدُ لِلَّـهِ الَّذِي أَذْهَبَ عَنَّا الْحَزَنَ (Praised is Allah who has removed from us [ all ] grief - 35:34) '

As for the good news in this world, the Holy Prophet ﷺ said, `(they are) the true dreams one sees himself or are seen by someone else with him in it and, in which, there is good news for them. (Reported by al-Bukhri from Sayyidna Abu Hurairah ؓ .

Another basharah (good news) of this world unfolds in the form that Muslims at large love someone and take him to be good without any personal motive or interest. About it, the Holy Prophet ﷺ said: تِلکَ عَاجِلُ بشرَی المؤمِن that is, ` being taken as good and praiseworthy is, for a true Muslim, good news in ready cash.' (Muslim and al-Baghawi)