The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 489
PT. 8 AL-AN'ĀM CH. 6 وَلِكُلِّ دَرَجتْ مِمَّا عَمِلُوا وَمَا رَبُّكَ And for all are degrees of. 133 بِغَافِلٍ عَمَّا يَعْمَلُونَ rank according to what they do, and thy Lord is not unmindful of what they do. وَرَبُّكَ الْغَنِيُّ ذُو الرَّحْمَةِ اِنْ يَّشَأْ And thy Lord is Self. 134 Sufficient, "full of mercy. If He يُذْهِبْكُمْ وَيَسْتَخْلِفُ مِنْ بَعْدِكُم مَّا يَشَاءُ please, He can do away with كَمَا انْشَاكُمْ مِنْ ذُرِّيَّةِ قَوْمٍ خَرِيْنَ what He pleases, even as He اِنَّ مَا تُوعَدُونَ لَاتٍ وَ مَا اَنْتُمْ بِمُعْجِزِينَ you and cause to succeed you raised you from the offspring of other people. 873 135. Surely, that which you are promised shall come to pass and you cannot frustrate it. 874 "6:148; 18:59. 4:134; 14:20; 35:17. 11:34; 42:32. age, and in accordance with the law enunciated in the verse under comment, there must have appeared a warner in this age too. There has indeed come a great warner in the person of Aḥmad of Qadian, the Promised Messiah, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, who has warned the world of impending disasters and called it to repentance. Let the God-fearing ponder over it. The verse also shows that the calamities here referred to are not calamities which overtake individuals only, but general calamities which smite whole peoples and nations, as has been the case in the present age. 873. Commentary: The Divine attribute of (Self- Sufficient) means, "one able to do without others" (see 2:264). As God is Self-Sufficient, He can punish 929 rejecters as and when He desires; but He is also full of mercy; therefore, He delays the hour of punishment. The words (what He pleases) have been used in preference to yo (whom He pleases) in order to combine the idea of "any other people" with that of "in any other state or condition. " 874. Important Words: اعجز frustrate is derived from) معجزين which again is derived from which means, he lacked strength, power or ability; he was or became powerless. means, he found him to be without strength, power or ability; or he made him to be without strength, power or ability; or he disabled or incapacitated him; or he rendered him unable to accomplish or attain his object; or he frustrated his endeavours; or he escaped him (Lane).