The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2)

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CH. 3 ĀL-E-'IMRĀN PT. 3 ذلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ قَالُوا لَنْ تَمَسَّنَا النَّارُ ال That is because they say. 25 إِلَّا اَيَّامًا مَّعْدُودَةٍ وَغَرَّهُمْ فِي دِينِهِمْ مَّا except for a limited number of كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ "The Fire shall not touch us, days. ' And what they used to forge has deceived them regarding their religion. 316 فَكَيْفَ إِذَا جَمَعْنُهُمُ لِيَوْمٍ لَّا رَيْبَ How will they fare when. 26 فِيهِ ۖ وَوُفِّيَتْ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ مَّا كَسَبَتْ وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ ) We will gather them together on the Day about which there is no doubt; and when every soul shall be paid in full what it has earned, and they shall not be wronged?317 a2:81; 5:19. 3:10; 4:88; 45:27. down therein for testing the truth of a claimant to prophethood would have surely led them to accept the Holy Prophet. Or (c) that if they had faithfully acted on the teachings of their own Scriptures, which was in fact a part of the perfect and eternal teachings contained in the Quran, they would have certainly recognised the truth of the new Faith. 316. Commentary: Both Jews and Christians persuaded themselves to believe that they would be safe against the punishment of the Hereafter, the Jews thinking themselves immune owing to their being the favoured ones of God on account of their being the descendants of His Prophets, and the Christians deluding themselves with the idea that Jesus, "the son of God", had washed away their sins with his supposed death on the cross. The 470 false notion of each proved their ruin. 317. Commentary: The People of the Book are here called upon to imagine how they will fare when they will have to render an account of their deeds before God on the Day of Judgement and will find to their mortification that the fact of their being descendants of God's Prophets or their belief in the crucifixion of Jesus will not save them from the punishment of Hell. The clause, When every soul shall be paid in full what it has earned, shows that the reference to forgers of lies mentioned in the previous verse is particularly to Christians. This verse is an emphatic contradiction of the doctrine that the blood of anyone, and not one's own good works, can be a means of salvation.