The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 377
PT. 7 AL-MA'IDAH CH. 5 مَا عَلَى الرَّسُولِ إِلَّا الْبَاغُ وَاللهُ يَعْلَمُ On the Messenger lies. 100 only the conveying of the Message. And "Allah knows what you reveal and what you hide. 727 مَا تُبْدُونَ وَمَا تَكْتُمُونَ ) قُلْ لَّا يَسْتَوِي الْخَبِيثُ وَالطَّيِّبُ وَلَوْ Say, “The bad and the. 101 good are not alike,' even though أَعْجَبَكَ كَثْرَةُ الْخَبِيْثِ فَاتَّقُوا اللهَ the abundance of the bad may يَأُولِي الْأَلْبَابِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ cause thee to wonder. So fear Allah, O men of understanding, that you may prosper. 728 R. 14. يَا يُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَسْلُوا عَنْ أَشْيَاء O ye who believe! ask not. 102 を about things which, if revealed إِنْ تُبْدَلَكُمْ تَسُؤْكُمْ وَإِنْ تَسْلُوا عَنْهَا you cause to you, would حِيْنَ يُنَزَّلُ الْقُرْآنُ تُبْدَلَكُمْ عَ الله trouble; though if you ask about عَنْهَا وَاللَّهُ غَفُورٌ حَلِيمٌ them while the Quran is being sent down, they will be revealed a16:83; 36:18; 64:13. b2:78; 6:4; 11:6; 16:20. c2:268. d2:109. gesture of goodness on the part of man to show themselves. 727. Commentary: are punished and God makes another people take their place. 728. Commentary: This verse sheds some light on the Being naturally influenced by his responsibility and duty of a Prophet. environment, man is prone to follow With the deliverance of the message and imitate what others do, entrusted to a Prophet, his duty ends, particularly when they happen to be and he is not responsible if, in spite of in the majority. This verse, however, his clear warnings, the people reject is a warning against unthinking and his mission. He has not been given blind following of the majority. The the power to force them to believe. In real criterion by which the worth of a fact, each Divine Message serves as a thing is to be judged is not how many guidance for the people to whom it is people do it, but what good it given. If they live upto it and repent contains; and, God being the source of their evil ways, they find God of all good, the only true and Forgiving and Merciful; but if they unfailing test is, as the verse puts it, persist in their wicked practices, they or God-fearingness. 817