Does Allah need loans? Quran 2:245 explained

And His saying: “Who is he that will lend to Allah a goodly loan so He may multiply it to him many times? And it is Allah that decreases or increases (your provisions), and unto Him you shall return.”

God began the Ayah with the kindest forms of speech, which is the interrogative implying a request, and it is more eloquent in the request than the command form. The meaning is: Is there anyone who will give this good loan, to be rewarded many times over?

That spending was called a good loan to encourage souls, and to stimulate them to give. For when the giver knows that his money will inevitably return to him, his soul is comforted, and it becomes easy for him to give it out. If he knows that the borrower is rich and generous, he is more pleased with his action and more generous in his soul.

If he knows that the borrower trades for him with what he borrowed, and grows it for him and makes it fruitful until it becomes many times what he gave, he is more and more generous with the loan.

If he knows that God, in addition to all of that, will increase his grace and give him another reward other than the type of loan, then that reward is a great blessing and a generous gift, then he will not refrain from lending it except because of a defect in himself from miserliness and stinginess, or a lack of confidence in the guarantee, and that is due to the weakness of his faith. This is why charity is proof of its giver.

All these matters are under these words that the Ayah contained, for he called it a loan and informed that he is the borrower, not a loan of need, but a loan of kindness to the lender and a call for a transaction with Him, and to know the amount of profit, for God is the one who gave him his money and called him for this transaction with it.. Then he informed about what returns to him from the loan, which is the multiplied multiples.. Then he informed about what he gives him above that of the increase, which is the generous reward.”

[Al-Tafsir Al-Qayyim: Interpretation of the Holy Qur’an by Ibn Al-Qayyim” (p. 151)]

 

Alcohol is haram. It damages brain too!

The research, using a dataset of more than 36,000 adults, revealed that going from one to two drinks a day was associated with changes in the brain equivalent to aging two years. Heavier drinking was linked with an even greater toll.

“The fact that we have such a large sample size allows us to find subtle patterns, even between drinking the equivalent of half a beer and one beer a day,” says Gideon Nave, a corresponding author on the study and faculty member at Penn’s Wharton School. The team reported their findings in the journal Nature Communications.

Even a little alcohol is bad for your brain…

 

Showing compassion..

 

If my Lord asks me: ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏᴇᴍ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ɪᴍᴀᴍ ᴀʜᴍᴀᴅ ᴄʀʏ!

 

German youth reverts to Islam.