The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 523
PT. 8 AL-A'RĀF CH. 7 وَمَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ فَأُولَيكَ الَّذِينَ And as for those whose. 10 scales are light, it is they who خَسِرُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ بِمَا كَانُوا بِالتِنَا shall have ruined their souls يَظْلِمُونَ because of their being unjust to Our Signs. 914 وَلَقَدْ مَكَّتُكُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَجَعَلْنَا لَكُمْ And We have established. 11 b فِيهَا مَعَايِشَ فَلِيْلًا مَّا تَشْكُرُونَ for you therein the means of you in the earth and provided subsistence. How little thanks you give!915 R. 2. & وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنكُمْ ثُمَّ صَوَّرُ نَكُمْ ثُمَّ قُلْنَا And We did create you and. 12 لِلْمَلبِكَةِ اسْجُدُ و الادمَ فَسَجَدُوا إِلَّا said We to the angels, “Submit then We gave you shape; then to Adam'; and they all submitted but Iblis did not; he would not be of those who submit. 916 إبْلِيسَ لَمْ يَكُنْ مِّنَ السُّجِدِينَ "23:104; 101:9-10. 15:21; 46:27. 23:15; 39:7; 40:65. d2:35; 15:30-31; 17:62; 18:51; 20:117; 38:73-75. following verse, the Quran makes the point further clear by saying, those whose scales are light, (i. e. those who have no good works to their credit or who have only evil works which carry no weight), it is they who shall have ruined their souls. 914. Commentary: The words, whose scales are light, mean, those whose good deeds are few and evil deeds many. The word (rendered as being unjust to) literally means, to put a thing in the wrong place, and is here used to signify that the disbelievers did not treat the signs of God in the manner in which they should have been 963 treated. They were meant to instil fear of God and humility in the minds of the people; but, on the contrary, disbelievers became all the more arrogant and insolent and received the signs of God with mockery and derision. 915. Commentary: The verse purports to tell the people that in spite of the fact that God has given them all necessary things, yet they are not grateful to Him. This is intended to warn men to be prepared to reap the fruits of their evil actions. 916. Commentary: The story of Adam has already been