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wa-ʾaʿtazilukum wa-mā tadʿūna min dūni llāhi wa-ʾadʿū rabbī ʿasā ʾallā ʾakūna bi-duʿāʾi rabbī shaqiyyan
I dissociate myself from you and whatever you invoke besides Allah. I will supplicate my Lord. Hopefully, I will not be disappointed in supplicating my Lord.’
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah Maryam – Verse 48
48. “And I will withdraw from you and what you call on besides Allah, and I will call upon my Lord: may be I shall not remain unblessed in calling upon my Lord.”
In this holy verse, Allah, the Exalted, states the words of Abraham (as) as follows:
This verse, in one side, indicates the courtesy of Abraham unto his uncle,’Azar, that when he said:
Abraham accepted; and, on the other side, it defines his conclusiveness in his belief. Abraham impliedly says that his separation from him (’Azar) is not for the reason that he has renounced his firm belief in Monotheism, but it is for the lack of preparation in’Azar unto accepting the truth. However, Abraham announces that if he calls upon his Lord, He answers him, but how miserable they are that they call upon some more miserable ones than themselves who never answer their prayer, nor they even hear them.
Explanations
Those young people who live among some deluded families, should follow the line of Abraham:
1. Invitation together with courtesy:
2. Sympathy accompanied with logic:
3. Warning followed by prayer:
Greeting together with seeking forgiveness:
And, at the end, separation:
4. Among the last stages of ‘forbidding from doing evils’ there is breaking a communication:
If we are not able to change the defective environment, at least, we must leave it.
5. One of the fundamental principals of the godly schools is repudiation from infidels, since repudiation is before mastership. At first, we must separate from infidelity, false deity, and corruption, then we may join the truth.