The Reminder · Surah 109
The Disbelievers
The affirmation of uncompromising worship.
THE REMINDER · SURAH 109
The Disbelieversالكافرون
سورة الكافرون
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S109:V1Say: ‘O you who have disbelieved! قُلْ يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْكَـٰفِرُونَ
S109:V2I will not worship what you worship,لَآ أَعْبُدُ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ
S109:V3and you will not worship what I worship.وَلَآ أَنتُمْ عَـٰبِدُونَ مَآ أَعْبُدُ
S109:V4And I have never worshipped what you have worshipped,وَلَآ أَنَا۠ عَابِدٌ مَّا عَبَدتُّمْ
S109:V5and you have never worshipped what I worship.وَلَآ أَنتُمْ عَـٰبِدُونَ مَآ أَعْبُدُ
S109:V6To you your religion, and to me mine!’لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِىَ دِينِ
Commentary
The path of the disbelievers and that of the believers are irreconcilable: believers never worship, nor will they ever worship, what disbelievers worship or have worshipped in the past, and disbelievers never worship, have never worshipped and will never worship what believers worship, namely God, the One; this has never changed throughout time. Down the ages, disbelievers have worshipped all kinds of deities: Greek gods, Roman gods, Babylonian gods, Egyptian gods, Norse gods, Indian gods, prophets, saints, ancestors, the elements of nature, jinn, angels… Disbelievers worship everything except God, the One. Believers, on the other hand, from the very first of them, Adam, have always worshipped only God, the One, and have never changed in their worship. The upright religion is to worship God without associating anything with Him, but few people remember this. Even the people of the three monotheistic religions are mostly people who associate partners with God and sectarians, though they do not realise it. Religion belongs to God alone and is not a matter of community, chains of transmission or ancestral traditions. The upright religion consists in worshipping God alone and following what He has sent down in His Books: in this case, the Quran, since it replaces the previous Books and takes precedence over them. When will religious people understand this? But most of them are merely sectarians and people who associate partners with God, and they will not agree to change their religion for anything in the world.