The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 617
PT. 9 AL-A'RĀF of the Hereafter is better for those who are righteous. Will you not then understand?1059 CH. 7 تَعْقِلُونَ وَالَّذِيْنَ يُمَشِكُونَ بِالْكِتُبِ وَأَقَامُوا And as to those who hold. 171 الصَّلوةَ إِنَّا لَا نُضِيعُ أَجْرَ الْمُصْلِحِينَ Prayer, surely We suffer not the fast by the Book, and observe reward of such righteous people to perish. وَإِذْ نَتَقْنَا الْجَبَلَ فَوْقَهُمْ كَانَ ظُلَّةٌ And when We shook the. 172 وظَنُّوا أَنَّهُ وَاقِعٌ بِهِمْ خُذُوا مَا a covering, and they أتَيْنَكُمْ بِقُوَّةٍ وَاذْكُرُوا مَا فِيْهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ mountain over them as though it were thought it was going to fall on them, We said, 'Hold fast that 31:23. b2:64. 1059. Important Words: (an evil generation) is a substantive from (khalafa) meaning, he came after, succeeded or remained after another. means, خلف the location or quarter that is behind; the time past; the side corresponding to the front; one who remains after another, or persons remaining after others; a remnant of people; a generation after a generation; a bad son; an evil generation; one or more persons in whom there is no good; a thing in which there is no good (Lane & Aqrab). See also 2:31; 7:70. (paltry goods) is derived from goods or commodities; booty or spoil; an object of desire; an eager desire or covetousness (Lane & Aqrab). درس they have studied is from) درسوا i. e. (1) he read or studied a book; (2) it became effaced, erased or obliterated; (3) he effaced, erased or obliterated something (Lane). See also 6:106. Commentary: The Book spoken of in this verse is the Bible and the expression, who means who inherited the Book, received the Book as a sacred trust from God through the Prophets, or through those gone before them. i. e. he عرض له الشيء They says عرض they have درسوا ما فيه The words presented, showed or offered the thing to him. means, a thing that befalls or happens to a man, such as disease, misfortune and the like; a thing that is not permanent; the paltry goods of the present world; worldly 1057 studied what is therein) may also be rendered as "they have obliterated or effaced what is therein", meaning that they were taught the Divine Book, but they forgot it and rendered it as something effaced and obliterated.