The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2)

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PT. 4 R. 15. ĀL-E-‘IMRĀN CH. 3 وَمَا مُحَمَّدٌ إِلَّا رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ 145. "And Muhammad is only a Messenger. Verily, all قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ أَفَأَبِنْ مَّاتَ أَوْ قُتِلَ Messengers have passed away انْقَلَبْتُمُ عَلَى أَعْقَابِكُمْ وَمَنْ يَنْقَلِبُ before him. If then he die or be slain, will you turn back on عَلَى عَقِبَيْهِ فَلَنْ يَضُرَّ اللهَ شَيْئًا your heels? And he who turns وَسَيَجْزِى اللهُ الشَّكِرِينَ back on his heels shall not harm Allah at all. And Allah will certainly reward the grateful. 428 a5:76. 2:144, 218; 5:55; 47:39. and know that Paradise lies under the shadow of the swords, i. e. if you die fighting in the cause of God, He will surely grant you bliss and happiness in the life to come (Muslim, ch. on Jihād). The pronoun in the words, seen it, refers to fighting. It signifies that you have now seen fighting and have, as a result of that, realized that without the help of God you possess no power to fight the enemy and can achieve nothing. The closing words, while you were actually looking for it, are intended to cheer up the spirits of believers. The reverse only brought about the very thing they were looking for. 428. Commentary: As already mentioned (3:122), the false report was spread at Uhud that the Holy Prophet was killed. The verse refers to this incident and purports to say that although the report about the death of the Prophet was untrue, yet even if it had been true, that should not have made the 567 faith. Faithful waver in their Muḥammad was only a Prophet; and as other Prophets before him had died, so would he. But the God of Islam ever lives. It is also on record that when, seven years later, the Holy Prophet died, 'Umar stood up in the Mosque at Medina with a drawn sword in his hand, and said, "Whoever will say that the Prophet of God is dead, I will cut off his head. He is not dead, but has gone to his Lord, (i. e. he has ascended to heaven) even as Moses had gone to his Lord, and he would come back and punish the hypocrites. " At this stage, Abū Bakr, who happened to be away at the time of the Prophet's death, hurriedly came back, went straight into the Prophet's chamber and, seeing that he was really dead, kissed his forehead, saying, "Sweet art thou in death as thou wert in life, and surely God will not bring on thee two deaths. " Then he came out, strong and firm, asked 'Umar to sit down and, addressing the Companions, who were gathered in