The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 1) — Page 131
PT. 1 AL-BAQARAH CH. 2 وَإِذْ نَجَّيْنَكُمْ مِنْ آلِ فِرْعَوْنَ And remember the time. 50 يَسُومُونَكُمْ سُوءَ الْعَذَابِ يُذَبِّحُونَ Pharaoh's people who afflicted when "We delivered you from you with grievous torment, أَبْنَاءَكُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ نِسَاءَكُمْ وَفِي slaying your sons and sparing ذلِكُمْ بَلَاءٌ مِّنْ رَّبِّكُمْ عَظِيمٌ your women; and in that there was a great trial for you from your Lord. 56 14:7; 20:81; 44:31, 32. b7:128, 142; 28:5. for him. All Prophets are therefore but they are only in their own respective spheres. Abraham is a for those who followed him and Moses is a for those who followed him and so on. But with the advent of the Holy Prophet of Islam, all other connections have come to an end; for the message of the Holy Prophet is for all time and all mankind. Even the present-day followers of Moses or Jesus cannot turn to these Prophets for because spiritually they are now ,شفاعة under the regime of the Holy Prophet of Islam, the regimes of the previous Prophets having come to an end. As a matter of fact, as explained by the Quran itself, the real is God alone. Says the Quran: There is no helper nor (intercessor) for you except Allah; will you not then ponder? (32:5) Now as God alone is the reali. e. He is the One connection with Whom really matters, the Prophets of God become secondary way only. Whosoever among the Prophets represents God on earth at a particular time and in a particular place becomes a for the people of that time and that place. From this it follows that the Prophets of God who passed before in شفیع a 131 Islam were for their own followers and in their own time only; with the advent of Islam the period of their acle came to an end. Now the Prophet of Islam is the only for all times and all peoples. Being a perfect image of God he is (1) the perfect and, having a universal mission he is (2) the universal; and having cancelled all previous connections he is now (3) the only (peace and blessings of God be on him). For proof of the fact that the Holy Prophet has himself put forward the above claim, the reader is referred to a hadith where the aforesaid distinction of the Prophet on the Day of Judgement is most vividly set forth (Muslim ch. on Īmān). 56. Important Words: or JI (people) is derived from the verb Jwhich gives the sense of returning or governing or exercising control or the family or party of a man, managing. The noun J thus means followers of a leader, or subjects of a ruler to whom they constantly return or who governs or exercises control over them. The word Jo is also sometimes taken to be another form of the word J and means what the latter word means.