Hud Ayah 117

قوله تعالى: فَلَوْ لاٰ كٰانَ مِنَ الْقُرُونِ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ أُولُوا بَقِيَّةٍ يَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْفَسٰادِ فِي الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا قَلِيلاً مِمَّنْ أَنْجَيْنَا مِنْهُمْ وَاتَّبَعَ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا مَا أُتْرِفُوا فِيهِ وَكَانُوا مُجْرِمِينَ [116]

Qur’an 11:116 (M. H. Shakir): Why did not there exist, among the generations before you, those possessing understanding, forbidding mischief in the land, except a few of those whom We delivered from among them? And those who were unjust went after what they enjoyed of luxury, and they were guilty.

99- _1- فُرَاتُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْكُوفِيُّ فِي(تَفْسِيرِهِ)مُعَنْعَناً عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ) فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: فَلَوْ لاٰ كٰانَ مِنَ الْقُرُونِ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ أُولُوا بَقِيَّةٍ يَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْفَسٰادِ فِي الْأَرْضِ إِلَى آخِرِ الْآيَةِ،قَالَ:تَخْرُجُ الطَّائِفَةُ مِنَّا،وَ مَثَلُنَا كَمَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَنَا مِنَ الْقُرُونِ،فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يُقْتَلُ،وَ تَبْقَى مِنْهُمْ بَقِيَّةٌ لِيُحْيُوا ذَلِكَ الْأَمْرَ يَوْماً مَا.

99-1 / Tafsir Furat:63: Furat ibn Ibrahim al-Kufi, in his Tafsir, with a chained transmission from Zayd ibn ‘Ali (peace be upon him), regarding His saying, “Why did there not come, from the generations before you, those possessing a remainder who forbade corruption on the earth … to the end of the verse,” said: A group from us will go forth, and our example is like those of the generations before us: some of them are killed, and a remainder of them survives so that they may one day revive that matter.

99- _2- وَ عَنْهُ،قَالَ:حَدَّثَنِي جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْفَزَارِيُّ مُعَنْعَناً عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ) ،فِي قَوْلِهِ: فَلَوْ لاٰ كٰانَ مِنَ الْقُرُونِ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ قَالَ:نَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ فِينَا.

99-2 / Tafsir Furat:63: And from him, he said: Ja‘far ibn Muhammad al-Fazari narrated to me, with a chained transmission, from Zayd ibn ‘Ali (peace be upon him), regarding His saying, “Why did there not come, from the generations before you …,” he said: This was revealed about us.

قوله تعالى: وَ مٰا كٰانَ رَبُّكَ لِيُهْلِكَ الْقُرىٰ بِظُلْمٍ وَ أَهْلُهٰا مُصْلِحُونَ [117]

Qur’an 11:117 (M. H. Shakir): And your Lord would not destroy the towns unjustly, while their people were reformers.

99- _3- الطَّبْرِسِيُّ فِي(مَكَارِمِ الْأَخْلاَقِ)،فِي مَوْعِظَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ(صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ)لاِبْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ:قَالَ لَهُ: «يَا ابْنَ مَسْعُودٍ:أَنْصِفِ النَّاسَ مِنْ نَفْسِكَ،وَ انْصَحِ الْأُمَّةَ وَ ارْحَمْهُمْ،فَإِذَا كُنْتَ كَذَلِكَ وَ غَضِبَ اللَّهُ عَلَى أَهْلِ بَلْدَةٍ أَنْتَ فِيهَا، وَ أَرَادَ أَنْ يُنْزِلَ عَلَيْهِمَ الْعَذَابَ،نَظَرَ إِلَيْكَ فَرَحِمَهُمْ بِكَ،يَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: وَ مٰا كٰانَ رَبُّكَ لِيُهْلِكَ الْقُرىٰ بِظُلْمٍ وَ أَهْلُهٰا مُصْلِحُونَ ».

99-3 / Makarim al-Akhlaq:457: Al-Tabrisi in (Makarim al-Akhlaq), in the counsel of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and his Family) to Ibn Mas‘ud, said: He said to him: “O Ibn Mas‘ud, be fair to people on your own part, and sincerely advise the Ummah and have mercy on them. If you are thus, and Allah becomes wrathful with the people of a town you are in and intends to send down punishment upon them, He looks at you and has mercy on them because of you. Allah, exalted is He, says: ‘And your Lord would not destroy the towns unjustly, while their people were reformers.’”

_1) - تفسير فرات:63.

Tafsīr Furāt: 63.

_2) - تفسير فرات:63.

Tafsīr Furāt: 63.

_3) - مكارم الأخلاق:457.

Makārim al-Akhlāq: 457.