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al-Baqara 2:198 — Trade is not a sin

The Qurʾān · Sūra 2: al-Baqara · verse 198

This commentary was written by Claude (Anthropic); it carries no religious authority and should be checked against the classical sources.

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2/198 — Trade is not a sin

"There is no sin upon you in seeking a bounty from your Lord."

The word فَضْل here means provision and gain. Whether trading during the pilgrimage season spoiled the act of worship was disputed; the verse plainly does away with the question.

The pattern لَيْسَ عَلَيْكُمْ جُنَاحٌ is a pattern of licence repeated in the sūra, and it always does the same work: to remove an extra prohibition people have laid down of themselves. What was done for entering houses from behind at verse 189 is done here too.

فَإِذَآ أَفَضْتُم مِّنْ عَرَفَٰتٍifāḍa: water overflowing and pouring from a place. The movement of the crowd is told as flowing water; the word will continue into the next verse.


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