Thursday 3 January 2013

Note 4: Imam al-Qurtubi on Q. 5:8

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Imam al-Qurtubi wrote on (Q. 5:8): “{and let not the hatred of people drive you} to abandon justice and preferring enmity over truth. In this verse there is evidence that the judgement and testimony of one enemy against the other is admissible in God['s sight], because he has been commanded to do justice even if he detests [the latter]. If his judgement or testimony had not been admissible because of his loathing, there would have been no point in [God's] command to be just regarding him. The verse also indicates that: [a] the disbelief of a disbeliever should not prevent one from justice regarding him; [b] one should not become negligent regarding those who deserve to be fought or enslaved; and [c] mutilating them is not permissible. Even if they were to kill our women and children and so cause us grief, in killing them we do not have the right to mutilate them in order to cause them grief and anguish.”
قال الإمام القرطبي في الجامع لأحكام القرآن مفسرًا للآية الثامنة من سورة المائدة: «{ولا يجرمنكم شنآن قوم} على ترك العدل وإيثار العدوان على الحق. وفي هذا دليل على نفوذ حكم العدو على عدوه في الله تعالى ونفوذ شهادته عليه، لأنه أمر بالعدل وإن أبغضه، ولو كان حكمه عليه وشهادته لا تجوز فيه مع البغض له لما كان لأمره بالعدل فيه وجه. ودلت الآية أيضا على أن كفر الكافر لا يمنع من العدل عليه، وأن يقتصر بهم على المستحق من القتال والاسترقاق، وأن المثلة بهم غير جائزة وإن قتلوا نساءنا وأطفالنا وغمونا بذلك، فليس لنا أن نقتلهم بمثلة قصدا لإيصال الغم والحزن إليهم.

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