Tazkirul Quran, Qur’an 29:10–11
The Spider (Al-‘Ankabut)
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
English text; the translator is not named in the archive’s data.
Translation
(10) Some profess to believe in God, but when they suffer for God’s cause they mistake the persecution of man for the punishment of God. But when help comes to you from God, they will say, ‘We have always been with you.’ Is not God fully aware of what is in the hearts of all creatures? (11) Most certainly God will mark out those who believe and mark out those who are hypocrites.
Commentary
(a) When one who calls himself a believer, or mu’min, shows himself to be such only when some advantage is to be gained, but otherwise recants, he reveals himself to be what the Quran calls a hypocrite, or munafiq. A believer in name only, he is not prepared to pay the price of his faith. He and other people like him fail at the very juncture where they are most required to prove their moral worth.