The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 584
CH. 7 AL-A'RĀF PT. 9 a لَا قَطِعَنَّ أَيْدِيَكُمْ وَاَرْجُلَكُمْ مِنْ Most surely, will I cut off. 125 your hands and your feet on alternate sides. Then will I surely crucify you all together, 1014 126. "They answered, 'To our Lord then shall we return. 1015 خِلَافٍ ثُمَّ لَأُصَلِّبَنَّكُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ قَالُوا إِنَّا إِلَى رَبِّنَا مُنْقَلِبُونَ ® vengeance on us but because we وَمَا تَنْقِمُ مِنَّا إِلَّا أَنْ أَمَنَّا بِايْتِ رَبَّنَا لَمَّا And thou dost not wreak. 1127 جَاءَتْنَا رَبَّنَا أَفْرِغْ عَلَيْنَا صَبْرًا وَتَوَفَّنَا have believed in the Signs of مُسْلِمِينَ our Lord, when they came to us. Our Lord, pour forth upon us ૐ "20:72; 26:50. "20:73; 26:51. 20:74. doubts and misgivings in the mind of Pharaoh; or it may be, he simply used it as an excuse to hide his own discomfiture. By the words "its inhabitants" are here meant Pharaoh's people, who, however, were not the real inhabitants of Egypt, having wrested the country from the sons of the soil. The Bible also agrees with the Quran in saying that the magicians became believers in Moses (Exod. 8:19), with the difference that whereas, according to the Quran, the magicians became believers on the spot immediately after witnessing this and death all the more painful. Incidentally, the verse shows that even as early as the time of Moses the punishment of death by crucifixion was in vogue. 1015. Commentary: The magicians are not frightened by the threat of Pharaoh. On the contrary, they throw out a challenge to him saying, as it were: "If you crucify us, it will do us no harm; on the other hand, it will only make us return to our Lord all the more quickly and we will have the pleasure of meeting Him earlier. " Just note the miracle of Moses, according to the change that true faith had brought Bible, they believed in Moses sometime later. The Quranic account is certainly more natural. 1014. Commentary: Although crucifixion meant painful death, the punishment of cutting off the hands and feet was added to make the infliction all the more exemplary about in these hitherto worldly- minded men. A few moments before they talked of reward in the form of money and wealth, and now they were prepared to spurn all the pleasures of the world for the sake of God and were eager to meet Him as early as possible. Faith indeed is a great power and works wonders. 1024