The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 1) — Page 141
PT. 1 AL-BAQARAH CH. 2 وَإِذْ قَالَ مُوسَى لِقَوْمِهِ يُقَوْمِ إِنَّكُمْ And remember the time. 55 when Moses said to his people: ظَلَمْتُمُ أَنْفُسَكُمْ بِاتِّ O my people, you have indeed فَتُوبُوا إِلى بَارِيكُمْ فَاقْتُلُوا wronged yourselves by taking the calf for worship; turn ye slay your own people; that is Rájkájáéí اَنْفُسَكُمْ ذَلِكُمْ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ عِنْدَ therefore to your Maker, and بَارِ بِكُمْ فَتَابَ عَلَيْكُمْ إِنَّهُ هُوَ best for you with your Maker التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِيمُ ) Then He turned towards you with compassion. Surely, He is Oft-Returning with compassion, and is Merciful. 61 Pentateuch, but to the Ten Commandments that were written on the tablets. The verse would therefore mean that God gave Moses not only the Book or the Commandments written on the tablets but also such clear Signs and arguments, and brought about such events as led to clear discrimination between truth and falsehood. According to the Quran, is not the name of any particular thing; but every Sign and every instance of divine assistance discriminating truth from falsehood and every argument which serves the فرقان same object is termed The Quran uses the word about itself (25:2) and also calls the Battle of Badr, which so eminently helped to break the power of the Quraish, i. e. the Day of Discrimination (8:42). Dr. Wherry's criticism that the Quran is wrong in stating in this verse that the Torah was revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai betrays his ignorance of the Arabic language. He was 141 apparently unaware that in Arabic the word is used in a much wider sense than "book". His inadequate knowledge of the Arabic language has also led Wherry to observe that the Prophet of Islam must have borrowed the word from the Syrians. 61. Important Words: بری Maker is derived from) باری which means, he shaped or fashioned a reed into a pen, or he shaped an arrow. G means, one who forms or fashions a thing by cutting; one who shapes out or pares a thing. is to be distinguished from for whereas the latter word means, one who brings a thing into existence according to the proper plan or measure, or one who brings a thing into existence from a state of nonexistence, the former word, i. e. signifies one who fashions a thing into its proper shape. Generally, however, is used as somewhat synonymous with , for it is the