The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 475
PT. 8 AL-AN'ĀM CH. 6 وَلِتَصْغَى إِلَيْهِ اَفْدَةُ الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ And in order that the hearts. 114 بِالْآخِرَةِ وَلِيَرْضَوْهُ وَلِيَقْتَرِفُوا مَا هُمُ Hereafter may incline thereo مُّقْتَرِفُونَ of those who believe not in the and that they may be pleased therewith and that they may continue to earn what they are earning. 855 أَفَغَيْرَ اللهِ أَبْتَغِي حَكَمًا وَ هُوَ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ Shall I seek for judge other. 115 than Allah, when "He it is Who إِلَيْكُمُ الْكِتَبَ مُفَصَّلًا وَالَّذِينَ آتَيْنَهُمُ has sent down to you the Book b clearly explained? "And those to الكتبَ يَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّهُ مُنَزِّلُ مِنْ رَّبِّكَ whom We gave the Book know بِالْحَقِّ فَلَا تَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْمُمْتَرِيْنَ. that it has been sent down from thy Lord with truth; so be thou not of those who doubt. 856 7:53; 12:112; 16:90. b2:147; 6:21. 855. Important Words: from disbelievers with a view to winning (they may earn) is derived their applause and making them which again is derived from persist in their evil course against the. he earned for | Prophets. ق لعياله They say. قرن his family. means, he 856. Commentary: transgressed against the people and lied. means, the man lied and mixed truth with falsehood. 3 means, he peeled the skin or bark (of a tree, etc. ). means, the man The words, Shall I seek for judge other than Allah, illustrate how wicked leaders bring forward gilded speech and fallacious reasoning against the Prophets. They try to turn اقترف الذنب earned, especially an evil means, he committed the sin (Aqrab). away the attention of men from the Commentary: The subject of the previous verse is continued here. Wicked leaders from among the common people and from among the big people suggest to one another gilded speech and fallacious reasoning in order to deceive the weak-minded and in order to attract towards themselves the hearts of 915 revealed Scriptures which bear testimony to the truth of a Prophet and bring forward doubtful traditions and quotations from religious writings of human authors in support of their false notions. Or, as sometimes happens, they propose the names of certain persons to act as judges and to give their verdict after hearing the arguments of both sides.