The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 221
PT. 5 AN-NISA' CH. 4 لَمْ يَحْسُدُونَ النَّاسَ عَلَى مَا أَنهُمُ اللهُ Or do they envy men for. 55 what Allah has given them out of His bounty? If that is so, مِنْ فَضْلِهِ فَقَدْ أَتَيْنَا آلَ إِبْرهِيمَ okzbakiésbókákibçi الْكِتَبَ وَالْحِكْمَةَ وَأَتَيْنَهُمْ مُّلْكًا عَظِيمًا surely, We gave the Book and فَمِنْهُم مَّنْ أُمَنَ بِهِ وَمِنْهُمْ مَّنْ صَدَّ b عَنْهُ وَكَفَى بِجَهَنَّمَ سَعِيرًا Wisdom to the children of Abraham also and We also gave them a great kingdom. 529 56. And of them were some who believed in him; and of them were others who turned away from him. And sufficient is Hell as a blazing fire. إِنَّ الَّذِيْنَ كَفَرُوا بِايْتِنَا سَوْفَ نُصْلِيْهِمْ Those who disbelieve in. 57 نَارًا كُلَّمَا نَضِجَتْ جُلُودُهُمْ بَدَّلْنَهُمْ جُلُوْدًا غَيْرَهَا لِيَذُوقُوا العاب their skins are burnt up اللهَ كَانَ عَزِيزًا حَكِيمًا Our Signs, We shall soon cause them to enter Fire. As often as shall give them in exchange other skins that they may taste C the punishment. Surely, Allah is Mighty and Wise. 530 "2:254; 10:41; 61:15. hollowed out; (3) the little hollow in the back of a date-stone (Lane & Aqrab). The word is figuratively used to denote the smallest quantity. 529. Commentary: Jews, who are the children of Abraham, were given the Book and Wisdom and a great kingdom. Now if God has bestowed the same boons upon another people who are similarly descended from Abraham, as the Arabs are, the Jews should have no cause to begrudge them. At the time when this verse was revealed, Muslims had received only 661 a part of the "great kingdom" and the rest was yet to follow, but the Quran speaks of the giving of a great kingdom as an accomplished fact, because the promises of God are as good as fulfilled. 530. Commentary: Medical science has now established the fact that the skin is much more sensitive to pain than the flesh, there being a larger number of nerves in the former. The Quran revealed this great truth about 1400 years ago by saying that the skin and not the flesh of the inmates of Hell would be renewed