The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 692
CH. 9 AT-TAUBAH PT. 10 يُحُوا فِى الْاَرْضِ اَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ So go about in the land for. 2 four months, and "know that وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّكُمْ غَيْرُ مُعْجِزى الله you cannot frustrate the plan of وَانَّ اللهَ مُخْزِي الْكَفِرِينَ Allah and that Allah will humiliate the disbelievers. 1165 وَآذَانٌ مِّنَ اللهِ وَرَسُولِةٍ إِلَى النَّاسِ يَوْمَ And this is a proclamation. 3 from Allah and His Messenger الْحَقِّ الْاَكْبَرِ أَنَّ اللهَ بَرِى مِنَ to the people on the day of the Greater Pilgrimage, that Allah is ۖ الْمُشْرِكِيْنَ وَرَسُولُهُ فَإِنْ تُبْتُمْ فَهُوَ clear of the idolaters, and so is خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ ۚ وَإِن تَوَلَّيْتُمْ فَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّكُمْ His Messenger. So if you غير مُعْجِزِى اللهِ وَبَشِّرِ الَّذِينَ but if you turn away then كَفَرُوا بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمن repent, it will be better for you; b know that you cannot frustrate the plan of Allah. And give tidings of a painful punishment to those who disbelieve, 1166 "6:135; 11:21. 9:2. 4:139. belonged, could bring no charge against God and His Prophet. Prophecies about the defeat and discomfiture of infidels and the ultimate success and triumph of Islam had been repeatedly made, and, now that all these prophecies had been fulfilled, the infidels of Arabia could no longer say that the declarations of the Prophet about the final triumph of Islam were mere empty promises. By the fulfilment of these promises, the verse says, God and His Messenger had proved their absolute freedom from the charge of making false promises. 1165. Commentary: This verse particularly refers to the fulfilment of the prophecy contained in 54:2. Disbelievers are told to travel throughout the length and breadth of Arabia for four months, (the period ordinarily required in the Prophet's time for such travel), and see whether there has remained any vestige of infidel rule and dominion in any part of the country. The infidels of Arabia opposed and persecuted the Prophet and his followers and spared no pains to crush and extirpate Islam. But Almighty God promised help to His Messenger with the result that the cause of Islam triumphed and all opposition was swept away. 1166. Important Words: 1132 (proclamation) is derived from