The Guiding Light — Page 450
S u rah ash-Shams, Chapter 91 450 to the spiritually dark world. Or it may refer to those religious Divines and Reformers---particularly the Promised Messiah as ---who borrow the light of truth from the Holy Prophet sa and transmit it to the world to remove the darkness of moral and spiritual turpitude. Í ‘$ p κ ¨ ]9 $ # u ρ # s Œ Î ) $ y γ 9 ‾ = y _ ∩∪ [91:4] And by the day when it reveals its glory, Commentary: “The day” may signify the time during which the Message of Islam and the truth of its Founder was further fortified and foundations were laid for the universal propagation of the vital doctrines of the new Faith. The reference in the verse may particularly be to the time of the rightly-guided Caliphs—the first four successors of the Holy Prophet sa. In their time the light of Islam revealed its glory and splendour to the world. È ≅ ø ‹ © 9 $ # u ρ # s Œ Î ) $ y γ 8 t ± ø ó t ƒ ∩∪ [91:5] And by the night when it draws a veil over it,