The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 499
PT. 8 AL-AN'ĀM CH. 6 فَإِنْ كَذَّبُوكَ فَقُل رَّبِّكُمْ ذُو رَحْمَةٍ But if they accuse thee of. 148 وَاسِعَةٍ وَلَا يُرَدُّ بَأْسُهُ عَنِ الْقَوْمِ of all-embracing الْمُجْرِمِينَ falsehood, say, "Your Lord is possessed mercy, and His wrath shall not be turned back from the guilty people. '887 سَيَقُولُ الَّذِينَ اشْرَكُوا لَوْ شَاءَ اللهُ مَا Those who join gods with. 149 God will say, 'If Allah had أَشْرَكْنَا وَلَا أَبَاؤُنَا وَلَا حَرَّمْنَا مِنْ pleased, we could not have شَيْ كَذَلِكَ كَذَّبَ الَّذِيْنَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ حَتَّى ذَا قُوَابَا سَنَا قُلْ هَلْ عِنْدَكُمْ مِنْ made anything unlawful. In عِلْمِ فَتُخْرِجُوْهُ لَنَا اِنْ تَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا God's الظَّنَّ وَإِنْ أَنْتُمْ إِلَّا تَخْرُصُوْنَ) joined gods with Him, nor could our fathers; nor could we have like manner did those who were before them accuse Messengers of falsehood, until they tasted of Our wrath. Say, 'Have you any knowledge? "6:134; 7:157. 16:36; 43:21 forbid them their fats, save that which their backs bear or the intestines, or that which is mixed with a bone. It is declared in the previous verse that the only things forbidden in Islam are (1) carrion, (2) blood poured forth, (3) flesh of swine, and (4) the slaughtered animal on which the name of anyone other than God is pronounced. The Jews might, however, say that there are other things beside the above which are also forbidden them by God. The Quran, therefore, adds that it is true that there are other foods which are forbidden to Jews, but they have not been included in the prohibited things here enumerated; for, these things had been forbidden them not because they 939 were unclean but as a punishment for their transgression. So the declaration of the previous verse still remains true. 887. Commentary: The verse answers an implied objection of the Jews, viz. if God had forbidden them certain extra things, why was not the prohibition continued in Islam? The verse answers this objection by saying that whereas the divine law of punishment demanded that Jews should be punished, the law of mercy demanded that Muslims should be shown mercy. It was unfair to continue a special prohibition that had been imposed by way of punishment under dispensation. a new