The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 1) — Page 171
PT. 1 AL-BAQARAH CH. 2 "Allah knows what they conceal and what they disclose?84 اَوَلَا يَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ اللهَ يَعْلَمُ مَا يُسِرُّونَ Do they not know that. 78 وَمَا يُعْلِنُونَ وَمِنْهُمْ أُمِيُّونَ لَا يَعْلَمُوْنَ الْكِتَبَ إِلَّا آمَانِي وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ 79. And some of them are illiterate; they know not the Book but their own false notions and they do nothing but conjecture. 85 "11:6; 35:39. prophecies which spoke of his advent and bore witness to his truth. That there will be such contentions on the Day of Judgement has also been mentioned elsewhere in the Quran which says: Then surely on the Day of Resurrection you will contend with one another in the presence of your Lord (39:32). It is a weakness of human nature that a culprit, even when knowing that the judge knows the truth, tries to put up pleas in his favour. Moreover, there is a sect among the Jews who, against the teachings of their own scriptures, hold that God does not know the details of all things, and quite possibly those who reproached their brethren for disclosing such prophecies to the Muslims held a similar view and feared lest the latter should place these facts before God on the Day of Resurrection and blame them in the presence of their Lord. 84. Commentary: Dan. 2:22). So even if they do not disclose their prophecies to the Muslims, God knows the whole truth and He will judge accordingly. 85. Important Words: (illiterate persons) is the plural of which means, one who can neither write nor read. The word is said to have been derived from (mother), for an ¿ (illiterate person) continues, as it were, the same as when born of his mother (Aqrab). 3 also signifies: (1) one not having a revealed Scripture; (2) one belonging to the Arab nation (Lane). منی false notions) derived from) امانی is the plural of and meaning: (1) a desire; (2) an object of desire; (3) falsehood; (4) reading or recitation (Aqrab). Commentary: There is yet a third class among the Jews who have no knowledge of the Book at all. They have only their own The verse points out that the Jews false notions or desires, and, instead know that their own scriptures teach of trying to understand the Book and that God knows both what is hidden basing their faith on conviction, they and what is disclosed (Jer. 16:17; | depend upon their own whims. Their 171