The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 279
PT. 5 AN-NISA' CH. 4 يَايُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَتَّخِذُوا O ye who believe! take. 145 الكفِرِينَ أَوْلِيَاءَ مِنْ دُونِ not disbelievers for friends, in preference to believers. Do you الْمُؤْمِنِينَ اتُرِيدُونَ اَنْ تَجْعَلُوا لِلَّهِ mean to give Allah a manifest عَلَيْكُمْ سُلْطَنَّا مُّبِينًا proof against yourselves?608 اِنَّ الْمُنْفِقِينَ فِي الدَّرْكِ الْأَسْفَلِ مِنَ The hypocrites shall surely. 146 النَّارِ ۚ وَلَنْ تَجِدَ لَهُمْ نَصِيرًا be in the lowest depth of the Fire; and thou shalt find no helper for them. 609 a3:29, 119; 4:140. commotion. means, driven away or repelled from this side and that; wavering or vacillating between two persons or parties or things, not attaching oneself steadily to either (Lane & Aqrab). Another (reading) of is and yet another (mudhabdhibin) with different vowel point at the second > (Kashshāf). The expression (between this and that) means, between belief and disbelief or between believers and disbelievers. Commentary: The verse very aptly describes the condition of the hypocrites. To quote a well-known Indian maxim, they have their feet in two separate boats. A hypocrite thinks himself to be acting wisely (2:14) but his action is really the height of folly. 608. Commentary: who with them, helps the cause of disbelief against Islam and is thus sure to draw upon himself the wrath of God. The expression, in preference to believers, is added to heighten the folly of the act. 609. Important Words: (depth). They say, halli. e. the rain fell in close consecutiveness. al means, he attained, reached or overtook the thing; he sought or pursued and attained it. means, the act of attaining, or overtaking; the attainment or acquisition of an object; a consequence; an evil consequence; the bottom or lowest depth of a thing or of anything deep as of a well or sea. signifies, a stage counting downwards whereas is a stage upwards (Lane & Aqrab). (lowest) is both comparative and superlative degree from He makes friends with meaning, low or base or vile. Jew disbelievers when believers are means, lower or lowest, both engaged in a life-and-death struggle physically and in rank (Lane & 719