An-Nur 61: There is no hardship for the blind, and (no hardship) for the crippled and (no hardship) for the sick. (These are not burdened for things they cannot do and don’t bear sins for not doing them). And there is no sin for you in eating in your own houses, in your father’s houses, in your mother’s houses, in your brother’s houses, in your sister’s houses, in your (paternal) uncle’s houses, in your (maternal) uncle’s houses, in your (paternal) aunt’s houses, in your (maternal) aunt’s houses, in houses whose keys you hold and in the houses of close friends. There is no sin in eating separately or together. When you enter houses, greet each other (with salam) as a prayer for a blessed and beautiful life from Allah. This is how Allah explains Allah’s verses so that you will contemplate.
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There is no hardship for the blind, and (no hardship) for the crippled and (no hardship) for the sick. (These are not burdened for things they cannot do and don’t bear sins for not doing them). And there is no sin for you in eating in your own houses, in your father’s houses, in your mother’s houses, in your brother’s houses, in your sister’s houses, in your (paternal) uncle’s houses, in your (maternal) uncle’s houses, in your (paternal) aunt’s houses, in your (maternal) aunt’s houses, in houses whose keys you hold and in the houses of close friends. There is no sin in eating separately or together. When you enter houses, greet each other (with salam) as a prayer for a blessed and beautiful life from Allah. This is how Allah explains Allah’s verses so that you will contemplate.
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People who have accepted Islam and become Muslims have certain responsibilities in their religion. For example, in times of war, when the state declares mobilization and people have to participate in the war, there is a wajib on those who run away to avoid going to war. But there is no wilwaab on the amaya. The lame and the sick also have no wajib. One of them is a blind person who cannot see his surroundings, and the lame person is a cripple, and the other is a sick person who is unable to stand. Even if they are able to stand, Allah has not burdened them with any wilāb, because the brokenness and weakness of the body separates them from the normal human condition. Allah does not put on people a burden that they cannot bear.
In such religious obligations and similar situations, in religious matters in which people are judged, the lame and the lame, as well as the sick, are relieved of their responsibilities in the sight of Allah. They are not burdened with duties that they cannot perform. They are not sinful for failing to fulfill these duties.
There is also nothing wrong in eating with the blind, the lame and the sick. In the times of ignorance, people did not sit with such people and did not eat with them because they considered themselves superior to them. With this verse, the customs of the ignorance and discrimination between people have been abolished. According to the verse that Muslims are brothers, Allah (swt) has informed people that there is no harm in eating with these people.
In Islam, Allah (swt) has specified how and in whose homes and in what manners food is to be eaten between people. These people are our close relatives and people with whom we do not have a marriage. He also declares that food can be eaten in the homes of two other groups. Our close relatives are our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, uncles and aunts. We can sit and eat with them together. We can also eat separately. There is nothing wrong for us to eat in their homes.
There is nothing wrong with eating in the homes of two groups of people other than our close relatives. One of them is those who have given us their keys so that we can enter and leave their houses whenever we want, and these may be elderly people. They have entrusted us with their keys in order to take care of them and meet their needs. Since they are elderly people, they are the ones they want to control themselves, in case they are ordered to do so at any time. There is no wudhu if we eat in their homes. The second is the homes of our friends, who are people who keep each other's confidences secret and protect each other's secrets without revealing them. There is no wudhu in eating in the homes of such people. There is no wudhu in eating together or separately.
When we enter a house, greet the owner of the house, and greet yourselves (each other) as a wish from Allah for a blessed and beautiful life. Say salaam alaikum. In other words, he says, "May Allah's mercy and blessings be upon you, and wish each other well.
According to the hadith, "Spread the salaam among people", to give salaam means to ask Allah's mercy on oneself, and to ask Allah's blessings on oneself and on the other person. Since Allah (swt) is the One who responds to people's needs, by praying to each other in this way, people can both remember Allah (swt) and receive His mercy.
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Allah Almighty here sets out His Sharia rulings for us one by one. Now, in verse 61: There is no hardship on the blind. The blind – there is no hardship on him. For example, let's say a blind man is going to pray, he takes ablution, but impurity has also got on him. He doesn't know, he hasn't seen it. Deeds depend on intention, right – he takes ablution. From the impurity that splashed on him, that is the thing, (?). That is why prayer is not really performed behind such disabled people. Yes. There is no hardship on the blind. There is no hardship on the lame. There is no hardship on the sick. They are not burdened with a duty they cannot do.
That they cannot do. For example, you gave the blind man a gun: go and fire at such-and-such a place. That can't happen. You loaded this on the lame man's back, saying: carry this. He can hardly carry himself as it is. Well. What does it say to them? They are not burdened with a duty they cannot do. They do not become sinners because of what they cannot do. For you too, whether from your own houses or from your fathers' houses, your mothers' houses, your brothers' houses, your sisters' houses, your paternal uncles' houses, your paternal aunts' houses, your maternal uncles' houses, your maternal aunts' houses, or places whose keys are in your charge, or your friends' houses, there is no objection to your eating, it says.
It's all the family, the (?) who are not, that it lists here. These too – you can eat, it says.
There is no objection either to your eating together or separately. That is, it's not that they must give me food before I eat. You can ask for food from your uncle's house, from your aunt's too, and eat.
When you enter houses, as a blessed and very good wish for life from Allah, greet yourselves, one another. When entering the house, first with your right foot you will say Esselamü aleyküm. Whether there is someone in the house or not. Ve aleyküm selam – if there is no one in the house, you will return the greeting. Thus Allah explains the verses to you so that you may reflect and understand, it says. So it means we were in darkness. We did not know what to do. Allah, sending us this light called brightness, called fire, in the darkness of night – His Sharia rulings – lights up our surroundings.
If they turn their backs on (?), they leave themselves in darkness.
For people who have accepted Islam and become Muslims, in the religion they believe in, there are certain responsibilities upon individuals. For example, in wartime, when the state declares mobilization and people are to take part in the war, upon those who flee so as not to go to war there is sin. But there is no such sin on the blind. There is no sin on the lame and the sick either. One of them, the blind, cannot see his surroundings. The lame is disabled. The other is the sick person who is not able to stand. Even if he has the strength to stand, since bodily weakness and feebleness set a person apart from the normal human state, Allah has not laid a sin on them. Allah does not lay on people's backs a load they cannot bear.
See how beautifully the verses support one another here. In such religious obligations, in situations like these, in religious matters by which people are bound, from the blind, the lame and also the sick the responsibilities are lifted in Allah's sight. They are not burdened with duties they cannot do. And they do not become sinners for not being able to carry out these duties.
Also, in eating together with the blind, the lame and the sick there is no sin. In the age of ignorance, since people saw themselves as superior to such people, they would not associate with them and would not eat together. With this verse, the customs of the age of ignorance and the practices of discrimination among people were abolished. According to the verse "Muslims are brothers", Allah Almighty has made known to people that there is no objection to eating with these people. Allah Almighty makes known in whose houses, among people in Islam, and how, with what manners, one may eat. These people are our close relatives with whom marriage is not permitted.
Apart from these, He also declares that one may eat in the houses of two groups. Our close relatives are our fathers, our mothers, our brothers, our sisters, our paternal uncles, our paternal aunts, our maternal uncles and our maternal aunts – their houses. We can sit and eat together with them, and we can also eat separately. There is no harm or objection in our eating in their houses. In the houses of the two groups outside our close relatives, too, there is no harm in our eating. One of them is those who have entrusted their keys to us so that whenever we wish we can go in and out of their house; these may be elderly people; for their care and to meet their needs they have handed their keys over to us.
Since they are elderly, thinking that Allah's decree may come at any moment, they are people who want to be checked on. There is no sin in our eating in their houses. The second is our friends' houses; these are people who keep one another's private matters as secrets, who protect their secrets without revealing them. There is no sin in our eating in the houses of such people either. Nor is there sin in our eating together or separately.
When we enter houses, to the owner of the house, as a blessed and very good wish for life from Allah, greet yourselves, one another. Say Selamun Aleyküm.
That is, say: may Allah's mercy and blessing be upon you. Make good wishes for one another, He says. According to the hadith "Spread the greeting among people", giving the greeting means asking Allah's mercy for a person, praying both for oneself and for the other person to Allah Almighty. And since Allah Almighty surely answers people's needs, people, by praying for one another in this way, both remember Allah and attain Allah's mercy.