The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 414
CH. 6 AL-AN'ĀM forbidden. And they are certainly liars. 776 PT. 7 nothing except this our present life, and we shall not be raised again. '777 وَقَالُوا اِن هِيَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا الدُّنْيَا وَمَا And they say, “There is. 30 نَحْنُ بِمَبْعُوثِينَ وَلَوْتَرَى إِذْ وَقِفُوا عَلَى رَبِّهِمْ قَالَ أَلَيْسَ هَذَا بِالْحَقِّ ، قَالُوا بَلَى وَرَبَّنَا قَالَ فَذُوقُوا الْعَذَابَ بِمَا كُنتُم Is not this second life the تَكْفُرُونَ 31. And if thou couldst only see when they are made to stand before their Lord! He will say, truth?' They will say, 'Yea, by our Lord. ' He will say, 'Then taste the punishment because you disbelieved. "778 "23:38; 44:36; 45:25. b46:35. 776. Commentary: The words, has now become clear to them, signify that even the enemies of God's Prophets have in their minds a certain consciousness of the truth of the Divine Messengers; but owing to their bigotry, they try to suppress such thoughts and do not make them known to anyone. On the Day of Judgement, however, these latent thoughts which they tried to conceal would become apparent, and the truthfulness of the Prophets, of which they had dim consciousness, would become manifest. The word "liars" at the end of the verse implies that, although disbelievers would desire to be sent back to this world so that they might believe in the Prophets and not reject them, yet if they were actually sent back to it, and the same circumstances in which they lived 854 before were created again, even then they would again act as they had acted before rejecting the Prophets as they had rejected them before. 777. Commentary: The things of this world and the enjoyments of the present life are, in the sight of most men, so engrossing that they never pause to think of death or of the Hereafter. Would that man could realize the object of his creation and see the everlasting life beyond the grave! 778. Commentary: The words (Yea, by our Lord) speak of deeply stirred feelings and embody a pathetic, though veiled, appeal for mercy. But the time for mercy is past and nothing but the grim reality of God's judgement now awaits them.