The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 461
PT. 7 AL-AN'ĀM CH. 6 فَالِقُ الْإِصْبَاحِ وَجَعَلَ الَّيْلَ سَكَنَّا ;He causes the break of day. 97 and "He made the night for rest وَالشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَحُسْبَانًا ذَلِكَ and the sun and the moon for reckoning time. That is the decree of the Mighty, Wise. 839 the تَقْدِيرُ الْعَزِيزِ الْعَلِيمِ a113:2. 25:48; 78:11. 36:39-40; 55:6. or reckoning; also punishment, calamity or affliction with which a man is tried; the revolving firmament (Lane). arguments from nature to prove the it. means, numbering, counting need of revelation and Divine guidance. Firstly, the attention of man is drawn to the seeds and stones from which trees sprout. How insignificant is the seed, but how it grows and develops into a big tree. Similarly, you look upon man as a contemptible thing and say, Allah has not revealed anything to any man (6:92). But man also, whom you imagine to be so despicable, is like a seed and is capable of growing into something great. The words, He brings forth the living from the dead, signify that not unoften noble and great men are born of low and ill-bred parents. Why then do you wonder and think it impossible that a righteous man should rise spiritually and become recipient of divine favours? Your God has made man after the manner of a seed. He has endowed him with many faculties and has made him capable of great progress. Why do you not then understand and see the truth? 839. Important Words: reckoning) is the) حسبانا noun- infinitive from. They say i. e. he numbered or counted or reckoned 901 Commentary: The words, He causes the break of the dawn to break, i. e. the night to day, signify that just as God causes change into day, similarly He brings men from spiritual darkness into darkness of disbelief and sin into the light. He takes them out of the light of faith and virtue. The words, He made the night for works during the day, gets tired and rest, signify that just as a man, who goes to sleep at night and then gets refreshed, similarly the people among whom the Holy Prophet made his appearance had had a long night of rest, and so their powers had been renewed. The Holy Prophet had made his appearance when the time was ripe for it and when the people, with their fitted for work and could benefit most powers refreshed, were best by his advent. They were now full of energy and well able to ascend the heights of spirituality under his lead; and so it actually happened. By referring to the sun and the