The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2)

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CH. 7 AL-A'RĀF which We have given you, and remember what is therein that you may be saved. ' 1060 R. 22. PT. 9 تَتَّقُونَ وَإِذْ اَخَذَ رَبُّكَ مِنْ بَنِي آدَمَ مِنْ And when thy Lord brings. 173 ظُهُورِهِمْ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ وَاَشْهَدَهُمْ عَلَى loins their forth from Adam's children- out of their انْفُسِهِمْ اَلَسْتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ قَالُوا بَلَى offspring and makes them witnesses against their own شَهِدْنَا ۚ أَنْ تَقُوْلُوْا يَوْمَ الْقِيِّمَةِ إِنَّا كُنَّا selves by saying: “Am I not عَنْ هَذَا غُفِلِينَ your Lord?' They say, 'Yea, we do bear witness. ' This He does lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection, ‘We were surely unaware of this. '1061 1060. Important Words: "43:83. portion of the neck to the nearest part of the buttocks. Elsewhere the Quran uses the more familiar word نتق We shook is formed from) نتقنا They say i. e. (1) he shook it; (2) he raised it; or (3) he spread it. An Arab would say. e. God raised the mountain shaking above them (Aqrab). alb (covering). See 2:211. Commentary: Owing to the violent shaking, the Mount looked like being suspended over the heads of the Israelites as though it were a covering. See also 2:64, 94 & 4:155. 1061. Important Words: (loins) is the plural of (back) which is derived from which means, it was or became apparent, open, plain or evident. means, among other things, the back; the part extending from the lower (4:24), i. e. loins. So in the text the word has been rightly translated as "loins". Commentary: The verse may be interpreted in two ways. It may either be taken to refer to the inborn idea in man about the existence of a Supreme Being Who has created and Who governs the universe. God has embedded this idea in the very nature of man so that he may be admonished thereby and seek a way towards his Maker. The expression, out of their loins, supports this interpretation. It should not, however, be supposed that the dialogue actually took place. The words are simply meant to express a state of affairs. 1058