The placement of this verse at the end of Surah al-Baqarah has great wisdom behind it because Surah al-Baqarah is such an important and consequential Surah of the Holy Quran that a fairly large part of Divine injunctions appears in it. It gives important fundamental and subsidiary instructions regarding life in this world and the life to come. It holds details about matters such as Salah, Zakah, Sawm (fasting), Qisas (even retaliation), Hajj, Jihad, Taharah (prescribed state of purity), Talaq (divorce), Iddah (waiting period), Khul (divorcement sought by wife), Rada'ah (suckling), unlawfulness of alcohol, and interest and methods which are permissible or impermissible in matters of loans and deals. It is for this reason that in Hadith this Surah has been called Sinam al-Quran (the highest peak of the Quran).
The core of all the above mentioned deeds is Ikhlas (pristine sincerity), meaning that doing something or abstaining from something should solely be for the purpose of pleasing Allah Ta'alah. It should not be tainted with worldly desires such as earning fame or some other selfish motives. It is obvious that Ikhlas is a deed of the mind and the heart, and that acceptance of all other deeds by Allah Ta'alah depends on the presence of Ikhlas. That is why human beings have been warned by bringing this verse at the end of this Surah that it is quite possible to deceive people about whether a person is carrying out virtuous deeds or abstaining from sins, but Allah Ta'alah is Aleem and Khabeer (All-Knowing and All-Aware). He sees everything that a person does in isolation when no one else is watching him, and He knows what is inside a person's heart and mind. A person must be mindful all the time that Allah Ta'alah is watching me and knows what I am doing, and that I will have to account for it all on the Day of Resurrection. This is the spirit that Quran Karim tries to create in the minds of its followers, and once it is developed this is what starts stopping a person from disobeying Allah Ta'alah even in places where no other human being is watching him.
From Ma'ariful Quran, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi Rehmatullah Elaih
The core of all the above mentioned deeds is Ikhlas (pristine sincerity), meaning that doing something or abstaining from something should solely be for the purpose of pleasing Allah Ta'alah. It should not be tainted with worldly desires such as earning fame or some other selfish motives. It is obvious that Ikhlas is a deed of the mind and the heart, and that acceptance of all other deeds by Allah Ta'alah depends on the presence of Ikhlas. That is why human beings have been warned by bringing this verse at the end of this Surah that it is quite possible to deceive people about whether a person is carrying out virtuous deeds or abstaining from sins, but Allah Ta'alah is Aleem and Khabeer (All-Knowing and All-Aware). He sees everything that a person does in isolation when no one else is watching him, and He knows what is inside a person's heart and mind. A person must be mindful all the time that Allah Ta'alah is watching me and knows what I am doing, and that I will have to account for it all on the Day of Resurrection. This is the spirit that Quran Karim tries to create in the minds of its followers, and once it is developed this is what starts stopping a person from disobeying Allah Ta'alah even in places where no other human being is watching him.
From Ma'ariful Quran, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi Rehmatullah Elaih
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