The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2)

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PT. 8 AL-AN'ĀM CH. 6 وَكَذَلِكَ نُوَفِّ بَعْضَ الظَّلِمِينَ بَعْضًا And in like manner do We. 130 بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ 203 set some of the wrongdoers over the others because of what they earned. 870 R. 16. يُمَعْشَرَ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنْسِ اَلَمْ يَأْتِكُمْ O company of jinn and. 131 رُسُلٌ مِّنْكُمْ يَقُصُّونَ عَلَيْكُمُ التِي to you from among yourselves men! did not Messengers come who related to you My Signs "39:72; 40:51; 67:9-10. as the weak do not sometimes accept the truth out of fear of the great, lest they should inflict loss or pain on them, similarly the great are sometimes afraid of their humbler followers and do not accept the truth, fearing lest the latter should turn away from them and desert them. Heraclius, for instance, was convinced of the truth of the Holy Prophet but did not openly acknowledge it out of the fear of his subjects who, he thought, were bitterly opposed to Islam and would rebel against him, if he declared his faith (Bukhārī). The words, we profited from one another, imply that the friendships of disbelievers are also transitory and that they will fall out among themselves on the Day of Judgement. The poor will say: "We led lives of humiliation in subjection to the big ones who derived profit from us. So, o Lord, inflict upon them a double punishment. " This also shows that the word jinn, here, does not refer to any creatures separate from human beings but to a special class of men; for if taken in that sense the above-quoted words cannot apply to them, for 927 human beings do not profit from the genii nor the genii from human beings. It is only one class of man that profits by the other, i. e. the great profit by the poor and vice versa. The words, The Fire is your abode, are addressed to the humble class of people who pleaded that they were merely tools in the hands of the great. They are told that no pleading can do them any good now, and that they must enter the Fire and remain there until God is pleased to deliver them therefrom. Both the big and the poor are alike guilty. 870. Commentary: The verse signifies that actually both the poor and the great are wrongdoers and it is on account of their sins that the poor become tools in the hands of the great. (jinn) جن This verse provides another proof of the fact that by the word is here meant only a class of human beings, viz. the great and the powerful, for it is only one class of men that is set over the other. jinn as beings different from men have never been set over men, nor men over jinn.