The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 1) — Page 270
CH. 2 AL-BAQARAH PT. 2 يُرِيهِمُ اللهُ أَعْمَالَهُمُ حَسَاتٍ عَلَيْهِمْ as they have disowned us. Thus will Allah show them their works as anguish for them, and & they shall not get out of the Fire. 174 R. 21. وَمَاهُمْ بِخْرِجِينَ مِنَ النَّارِة يَايُّهَا النَّاسُ كُلُوا مِمَّا فِي الْأَرْضِ حَلا O ye men, eat of what is. 169 lawful and good in the earth; "5:89; 8:70; 16:115. The verse is a stern warning to those who blindly follow their leaders and, being misled by them, reject God's Messengers. 174. Important Words: 85 (return) is the infinitive noun i. e. the کر الفارس They say. کر from horseman returned to the attack after he had raced back. means, he did it again and again. 85 therefore means: (1) returning to the attack; (2) returning to the original state (3) a turn or time (Mufradāt & Aqrab). (anguish) is the plural of which is derived from. They say i. e. the sea sank or receded from the shore. means: (1) the man was tired and wearied (2) he was sorrowful and grieved. > means: (1) feeling intense anguish at a loss sustained or harm suffered; (2) regret or compunction; (3) grief or sorrow for a thing that has escaped one (Aqrab & Tāj). Commentary: these leaders in this world just as they were disowning them in the next. But this will be only a vain desire doomed to perish unfulfilled. Nay, the selfsame desire will become a source of anguish and punishment for them. The clause, they shall not get out of the Fire, does not mean that the punishment of Hell will be unending. Islam does not believe in the eternity of Hell. While the Quran speaks of the blessings of Paradise as never- ending and everlasting, it does not say so of the punishment of Hell but simply speaks of it as being very long (11:108, 109). The sayings of the Holy Prophet also support this view. "There will come a time over Hell," he is reported to have said, "when there will remain none in it" (Ummāl). The verse only means that, being unable to bear the torment of Hell, the dwellers of the Fire will wish to come out of it, but will not be able to do so (32:21), until their term of punishment is over. The word Fire Having despaired of receiving help as used in this verse may also mean from their leaders, the disbelievers the fire of anguish and agony in will, on the Day of Judgement, wish which they shall burn on account of that they may be sent back to the their designs and cherished hopes world so that they may denounce | having come to naught. 270