The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 540
CH. 7 AL-A'RĀF PT. 8 cannot find them;" and "they will bear witness against themselves that they were disbelievers. 938 قَالَ ادْخُلُوا فِي أُمَمٍ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ He will say, Enter ye into. 39 مِنَ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنْسِ فِي النَّارِ كُلَّمَا دَخَلَتْ the Fire among the nations of jinn and men who passed away before you. ' Every time a اُمَّةً لَعَنَتْ أُخْتَهَا حَتَّى إِذَا أَدَّارَكُوا people enters, it shall curse its فِيهَا جَمِيعًا ، قَالَتْ أُخْهُ وهُم sister (people) until, when they لا have all successively arrived رَبَّنَا هَؤُلَاءِ أَضَلُّوْنَا فَاتِهِمْ عَذَابًا therein, the last of them will say of the first of them, b‘Our Lord, ضِعْفًا مِنَ النَّارِ قَالَ لِكُلِّ ضِعْفُ these led us astray, so give them a double punishment of the Fire. ' He will say, 'For each preceding party there shall be double punishment, but you do not know. '939 a6:131. b38:62. وَلكِنْ لَّا تَعْلَمُونَ 938. Commentary: discomfiture and shall taste of the The verse gives the reasons why the punishment promised to them for opposing God's Messengers. 939. Important Words: ادار کوا rejecters of Divine Messengers deserve severe punishment. People incur the wrath of God because they (successively arrived) is treat His Messenger as a liar and derived from. They say i. e. reject the heavenly signs he brings the rain dropped with close with him. Indeed, impostors and the consecutiveness. means, he rejecters of true Messengers are attained, reached or overtook him. equally doomed and can never escape which is the same the punishment ordained for them. ادر که تداركوا as means, they attained, reached, The words, who shall have their lot overtook or came up with one as ordained, mean that the rejecters another; or the last of them attained, of God's Messengers will see before reached, overtook or came up with their very eyes the fulfilment of the the first of them. The expression 3 prophecies foretelling their defeat and means, until when they 980 حتى