The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 410
CH. 6 AL-AN'ĀM PT. 7 الَّذِينَ أَتَيْنَهُمُ الْكِتَبَ يَعْرِفُونَ كَمَا Those to whom We gave. 21 يَعْرِفُونَ أَبْنَاءهُمُ الَّذِينَ خَسِرُوا recognize their sons. But those أَنْفُسَهُمْ فَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُوْنَ ® the Book recognize him as they who ruin their souls will not believe. 768 & R. 3. وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ افْتَرى عَلَى اللهِ كَذِبًا And who is more unjust. 22 h than he who forges a lie against اَوْ كَذَبَ بِايْتِهِ إِنَّهُ لَا يُفْلِحُ Allah or gives the lie to His الظَّلِمُونَ Signs? Surely, the unjust shall not prosper. 769 768. Commentary: a2:147. 6:94; 7:38; 10:18; 11:19; 61:8. This verse describes the second way by which God bears testimony to the truth of the Holy Prophet, i. e. through the previous Scriptures. The previous Books contain prophecies which clearly apply to the Holy Prophet and definitely point him out as the Promised One, and it is by means of these prophecies that God bears witness to the truth of the Holy Prophet. It may be asked, if the People of the Book recognize the Holy Prophet as having come in fulfilment of the prophecies contained in their scriptures, why do they not accept him? This question the Quran answers in the words, But those who ruin their souls will not believe, meaning that the People of the Book will not believe because their souls are lost and they have no sense of honesty and faith left in them. is not recognized in the beginning, as one recognizes the sun or the moon. He is recognized only as a father recognizes his son with great probability but not with dead the region of the unseen. certainty. Faith must always begin in 769. Commentary: This verse mentions the third way by means of which God bears witness. This kind of testimony is based on human reason. Every sane man will testify that if a person claims to speak in the name of God while God has not spoken to him, and he forges lies against Him, such a person is one of the greatest culprits and God must bring him to naught; for if impostors are allowed to prosper like true Prophets, there will remain no criterion to distinguish the true from the false, and the truth will be lost. So, in order to distinguish The words, Those to whom We gave between the true and the false, God the Book recognize him as they must bring to naught the false recognize their sons, are based on a claimant. Thus the hard fact that God very deep spiritual truth. A Prophet, is helping the Prophet of Islam and or for that matter any object of faith, | causing him to prosper in the teeth of 850