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b. 38:10. (close)

3955. Commentary:

God has been Gracious and Merciful to men, in that He has sent the Holy Prophet and has revealed the Quran to him that they may understand the object of their life and, by following him, may attain it and establish a true and real connection with God. But they refuse to accept him, thinking him to be too low to be entitled to demand and command their allegiance. The verse answers this objection of disbelievers by telling them that God in His infallible wisdom has chosen the Prophet to be humanity’s infallible Guide and Teacher. How can they dare arrogate to themselves the right and role of being the distributors or guardians of the treasures of God’s mercy? (close)

2862. If disbelievers have access to the secrets of the heavens, then let them produce proofs for the allegation that the Holy Prophet is not the appointed Messenger of God. (close)

3956. Commentary:

In these verses (vv. 30-44) untenability and futility of their position in rejecting the Holy Prophet has been brought home to disbelievers. The present verse further tells them that if they claim to have access to the secrets of the heavens, then let them produce authority for the allegation that the Holy Prophet is not the appointed Messenger of God. (close)

2863. It is repugnant, says the verse, to God’s Unity that He should have even a son, and yet the disbelievers have the hardihood to assign to Him daughters whose birth is considered as a mark of humiliation and disgrace for them. (close)

a. 6:101; 37:154; 43:17; 53:22. (close)

3957. Commentary:

It is repugnant (says the verse) to God’s Unity, that He should be attributed with having even a son, and yet the disbelievers have the hardihood to assign to Him daughters whose birth is considered by them a mark of humiliation and disgrace. (close)

a. 68:47. (close)

2864. The verse seems to appeal to the good sense of disbelievers and purports to say to them that when, out of a sincere solicitude for their moral and spiritual well-being the Holy Prophet calls them to the ways of righteousness and asks for no reward for his labours, then why do they not accept him? (close)

b. 23:73; 68:47. (close)

3958. Commentary:

The verse seems to appeal to the good sense of disbelievers and purports to say to them that when, out of a sincere solicitude for their moral and spiritual well-being, the Prophet calls them to the ways of righteousness and asks for no reward for his labours, then why do they not accept him? On the contrary, they oppose and persecute him. (close)

c. 68:48. (close)

d. 86:16-17. (close)

3959. Important Words:

کید (a plot) is inf. noun from کاد i.e. he contrived, devised or plotted a thing whether right or wrong. They say کادہ i.e. he deceived him, beguiled or circumvented him; he taught him how to deceive or cheat; he fought him. کید means, deceit, cunning, stratagem; war (Lane & Aqrab).

Commentary:

The verse means that disbelievers are hatching plots against Islam but their plots will recoil on their own heads. The word کید meaning war, as it has been used in the Quran about the Battle of Badr, the reference in the verse may be particularly to that battle (8:19). According to some commentators of the Quran, the next three verses also refer to it. (close)

3960. Commentary:

In the preceding verse disbelievers were warned that they themselves would fall victims to the plots they were hatching against Islam. In this verse they are told that when the Day of Decision arrives, their false gods would not be able to render them any help, nor would they be able to help themselves, that idolatry would disappear from Arabia and the country would resound with Divine alleluias. (close)

2865. Such is the state of utter heedlessness and false sense of security of disbelievers that they do not benefit by the timely Divine warning, so much so that even if they see a piece of the sky actually falling down upon them, they would deceive themselves by considering it as a piece of God’s mercy in the form of 'piled up clouds.' (close)

a. 46:25. (close)

3961. Commentary:

In the two previous verses disbelievers were warned that Divine punishment was about to overtake them. But such is their state of utter heedlessness and false sense of security (says the verse) that they do not benefit by the timely Divine warning, so that even if they see a piece of the sky actually falling upon them, they would deceive themselves by considering it as a piece of God’s mercy in the form of 'piled-up clouds.' The disbelievers go so far as to challenge the Prophet to "cause a portion of the sky to fall upon us if thou art truthful" (26:188). (close)

b. 23:55; 52:46; 70:43. (close)

3962. Commentary:

The words 'that day of theirs' have been taken to refer to the Day of Badr. On that day a well-equipped Quraish army received a crushing defeat at the hands of a small, ill-armed and ill-equipped band of Muslims. The defeat came as a veritable bolt from the blue for the Quraish. The verse may equally refer to the day of the Fall of Mecca when the Quraish were completely unnerved at seeing the Muslim army of ten thousand strong at the very gates of the city. (close)