The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 678
CH. 8 AL-ANFĀL PT. 10 كَدَابِ الِ فِرْعَوْنَ وَالَّذِينَ 55. "Their case is like the case of the people of Pharaoh and مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ كَذَّبُوا بِايْتِ رَبِّهِمْ those before them; they rejected فَأَهْلَكْنُهُمْ بِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَأَغْرَقْنَا الَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَكُلٌّ كَانُوا ظُلِمِينَ the Signs of their Lord, so We destroyed them for their sins. And We drowned the people of Pharaoh, for they were all wrongdoers. 1143 اِنَّ شَرَّ الدَّوَابٌ عِنْدَ اللهِ الَّذِيْنَ كَفَرُوا Surely, the worst of beasts. 56 فَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ in the sight of Allah are those who are ungrateful. So they will not believe, 1144 الَّذِينَ عُهَدْتَ مِنْهُمْ ثُمَّ يَنْقُضُونَ Those with whom thou didst. 57 عَهْدَهُمْ فِي كُلِّ مَرَّةٍ وَهُمْ لَا يَتَّقُونَ ,break their covenant every time make a covenant; then they and they do not fear God. 1144A 3:12; 8:53. 8:23; 98:7. 2:28. a people of a favour which He had conferred upon them until there is first a change in their own hearts for the worse. For instance, if God grants a people dominion and power, He does not take it away from them until they lose their virtues and become wicked. The verse should also prove an eye-opener for present-day Muslims from whom God definitely withdrawn His favour. 1143. Commentary: has (Allah The verse repeats the subject matter of 8:53 above, with the change that here (1) the words punished them, lit. Allah seized them) have been changed to destroyed them); and (2) the words, We drowned the people of Pharaoh, (We 1118 etc. have been added. This is to point to the severity of the punishment and the total destruction of the disbelievers. 1144. Commentary: This verse explains 6:39, which says that the animals that move on the earth and the birds that fly in the air are better than the disbelievers; for, whereas animals and birds do not understand, because they lack the power of understanding, the disbelievers possess the power to understand and yet they fail to do so. See also 8:23. 1144A. Commentary: This verse qualifies and explains the one that precedes it.