Al-Anfaal (The Spoils of War)

75. “And those who believed afterwards and migrated and strove with you, they are of you, and the blood relations are nearer to each other, in the book of Allah; verily Allah knows everything.”

The objective of the first part of the verse is those who believed after the first Emigration, and they migrated, too. The verse saying:

“And those who believed afterwards and migrated and strove with you...”

It is similar to the content of Surah Al-Hashr,No. 59 ,verse 10 , which says:

“And those who came after them...”

The verse continues saying:

“…they are of you...”

This holy phrase means that they are like you and their judgment from the point of obligation of their friendship and helping them is the same as the Judgement of yours, although they believed and migrated after you.

“...and the blood relations are nearer to each other...”

That is, relatives are in precedence when they inherit. In (other words, when inheriting, some of them are more deserve from some others of the relatives.

This ordinance has been abrogated the heritage ordinance which had been issued because of Emigration and helping.

“...in the book of Allah...” Some of the commentators have said that the holy phrase “in the book of Allah” means in the ‘Protected Tablet’, while some others have said that this holy phrase here means: ‘in the Qur'an’. This holy verse can be taken as an evidence to the fact that whoever is nearer to the dead, from the point of relation, is more deserve to inheriting from him. The verse ends as follows: “...verily Allah knows everything.”