Surah 2 · 2:13
Surah Al-Baqarah 2:13
Al-Baqarah · The Cow
وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ ءَامِنُو
Wa-itha qeela lahum aminoo kamaamana annasu qaloo anu/minu kamaamana assufahao ala innahum humu assufahaowalakin la yaAAlamoon
And when it is said to them, "Believe as the people have believed," they say, "Should we believe as the foolish have believed?" Unquestionably, it is they who are the foolish, but they know [it] not.
Dan apabila dikatakan kepada mereka, "Berimanlah kamu sebagaimana orang lain yang telah beriman!" Mereka menjawab, "Apakah kami akan beriman seperti orang-orang yang kurang akal itu beriman?" Ingatlah, sesungguhnya mereka itulah orang-orang yang kurang akal, tetapi mereka tidak tahu.
Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Allah said that if the hypocrites are told,
ءَامِنُواْ كَمَآ ءَامَنَ النَّاسُ
("Believe as the people believe,"), meaning, `Believe just as the believers believe in Allah, His angels, His Books, His Messengers, Resurrection after death, Paradise and Hellfire, etc. And obey Allah and His Messenger by heeding the commandments and avoiding the prohibitions.' Yet the hypocrites answer by saying,
قَالُواْ أَنُؤْمِنُ كَمَآ آمَنَ السُّفَهَآءُ
("Shall we believe as the fools have believed") they meant (may Allah curse the hypocrites) the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. This is the same Tafsir given by Abu Al-`Aliyah and As-Suddi in his Tafsir, with a chain of narration to Ibn `Abbas, Ibn Mas`ud and other Companions. This is also the Tafsir of Ar-Rabi` bin Anas and `Abdur-Rahman bin Zayd bin Aslam. The hypocrites said, "Us and them having the same status, following the same path, while they are fools!" `The fool' is the ignorant, simple-minded person who has little knowledge in areas of benefit and harm. This is why, according to the majority of the scholars, Allah used the term foolish to include children, when He said,
وَلاَ تُؤْتُواْ السُّفَهَآءَ أَمْوَلَكُمُ الَّتِى جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ قِيَـماً
(And do not give your property, which Allah has made a means of support for you, to the foolish) (4:5).
Allah answered the hypocrites in all of these instances. For instance, Allah said here,
أَلاَ إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ السُّفَهَآءُ
(Verily, they are the fools). Allah thus affirmed that the hypocrites are indeed the fools, yet,
وَلَـكِن لاَّ يَعْلَمُونَ
(But they know not). Since they are so thoroughly ignorant, the hypocrites are unaware of their degree of deviation and ignorance, and such situation is more dangerous, a severer case of blindness, and further from the truth than one who is aware.
Tafsir Kemenag RI
Ayat ini melanjutkan keterangan sifat dan sikap orang munafik pada ayat yang dahulu. Kaum munafik itu bila diajak beriman, melaksanakan amar makruf, dan nahi mungkar, mereka menolak dengan alasan bahwa orang-orang yang beriman itu orang-orang yang lemah akalnya, padahal kenyataannya tidak demikian.
Orang-orang munafik memandang orang-orang yang beriman itu bodoh dan lemah akal, seperti terhadap orang Muhajirin yang meninggalkan keluarga dan kampung halaman, bahkan mereka bermusuhan terhadap keluarga-keluarga mereka sendiri dan hamba sahaya seperti Suhaib, Bilal, dan Khabbab. Orang-orang Ansar dipandang mereka juga bodoh karena mereka membagikan harta dan kekayaan mereka kepada orang muhajirin.
Allah menandaskan bahwa merekalah sebenarnya orang-orang yang lemah akalnya, karena mereka tidak menggunakan akal untuk menanggapi kebenaran dan mereka terpengaruh oleh kedudukan mereka dalam kaumnya. Mereka tidak mengetahui iman dan hakikatnya, karenanya mereka tidak mengetahui pula apakah orang-orang mukmin itu bodoh-bodoh atau pintar-pintar. Iman itu tidak akan sempurna diperoleh kecuali dengan ilmu yang yakin. Demikian pula kebahagiaan dunia dan akhirat sebagai tujuan dari iman itu tidaklah dapat dimengerti kecuali oleh orang yang mengetahui hakikat iman.
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Word by word
وَإِذَا
wa-idhā
And when
قِيلَ
qīla
it is said
لَهُمۡ
lahum
to them
ءَامِنُواْ
āminū
Believe
كَمَآ
kamā
as
ءَامَنَ
āmana
believed
ٱلنَّاسُ
l-nāsu
the people
قَالُوٓاْ
qālū
they say
أَنُؤۡمِنُ
anu'minu
Should we believe
كَمَآ
kamā
as
ءَامَنَ
āmana
believed
ٱلسُّفَهَآءُۗ
l-sufahāu
the fools
أَلَآ
alā
Beware
إِنَّهُمۡ
innahum
certainly they
هُمُ
humu
themselves
ٱلسُّفَهَآءُ
l-sufahāu
(are) the fools
وَلَٰكِن
walākin
[and] but
لَّا
lā
not
يَعۡلَمُونَ
yaʿlamūna
they know