Day 27 / Gem 27
Surah Humazah, ayah 1: "A warning to the slanderer and backbiter..."
وَيْلٌ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُّمَزَةٍ
Wayl = Destruction.
The word is used when someone is extremely frustrated at someone else. I.e. A frustrated parent might say to a disobedient son waylaka aamin! (destruction to you, believe!)
In these verses, Allah is frustrated at the greedy corrupt people who have wealth but dont spend it on the needy, but instead want to get more and more even if they’re not deserving of it. So wayl to the mutaffifeen and the humazah. Wayl is used 27 times in the Quran, including 10 times in surah Mursalaat [surah 77].
Wayli hasra = Irrevocable regret. So the people who fit the character of being cursed, they will have a regret on the Day of Judgment, but they cannot return back to mend their errors.
Similarly “wayka anna” in surah Qasas [28:82]
"They began to say, “‘How astonished I am, how Allah extends provision to whom He wills of His servants and restricts it!"
Humazah -Lumazah (fu’ala) – Khutamah. All these words are Connected together. They allude to something that happens alot, and they all alude to a similar in meaning/interchangable in the ways they are used in speech.
The Explanation of Humazah and Lumazah:
Ar-Razi; Ibn abbas said humaz is behind the back and lumaz is infront of the face.
Humazah is to insult someone behind their back (and they do this alot because the word humazah/fu’ala suggests this person does it often), and lumazah means to insult people infront of their face too.
Allah is cursing those who do either of the above.
When does humaz and lumaz occur? Usually gossiping. When a persons mind isn’t covered in a higher purposed mindset. And thats why in the previous surah, surah Asr, Allah mentions the types of people who are in loss.
It’s only the people who have a low character who survive off picking on faults and insulting people.
Az-Zamakshari commented: It is qasr (breaking something) – someones self-worth. Lumaz = sarcasm in someones face to insult them. I.e. “You’re genius“. Both the abuser and abused know its an insult but the abused cant defend themselves due to the sarcasm being used against them.
Someone cursing someone / foul language and laughing at someone falls into lumaz.
Ruh al Ma’ani – Al-Aloosi;
1 – Wayl is used as an emotion – condemnation, anguish.
When someone is insulted behind their back and cursed by someone in their face, they feel saddened. They are experiencing a form of self destruction (wayl) due to the bullying they are continuously facing.
But in this ayah/verse, Allah defends the weak and abused by saying – Wayl (destruction) to the slanderer and backbiter. So He is defending the weak by promising to destroy the oppressors who attempt to destroy the weak.
May Allah protect us from following into gossiping into slander or backbiting and make us of those who are of noble character, ameen.
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