The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 755
CH. 9 لَا تَقُمْ فِيْهِ اَبَدًا لَمَسْجِدٌ أَيْسَ عَلَى pray التَّقْوَى مِنْ أَوَّلِ يَوْمٍ اَحَقُّ أَنْ تَقُوْمَ فِيهِ founded upon piety from the 1 PT. 11 108. Never stand to AT-TAUBAH therein. A mosque which was very first day is surely more to pray therein. In it are men who love to become purified, and Allah loves those who purify themselves. 1257 فِيْهِ رِجَالٌ يُحِبُّونَ أَنْ يَتَطَهَّرُوا وَاللهُ worthy that thou shouldst stand يُحِبُّ الْمُطَّهِّرِينَ أَفَمَنْ أَسَّسَ بُنْيَانَهُ عَلَى تَقْوَى مِنَ اللهِ Is he, then, who founded. 109 وَرِضْوَانٍ خَيْرُ امْ مَّنْ أَسَّسَ بُنْيَانَهُ عَلَى His pleasure better or he who شَفَا جُرُفٍ هَارِ فَانْهَارَ بِهِ فِي نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ وَاللَّهُ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّلِمِينَ his building on fear of Allah and founded his building on the brink of a tottering water-worn bank which tumbled down with him into the fire of Hell? And Allah guides not the wrongdoing people. 1258 calmly exclaimed, "Let it be so. " The prayer met with wonderful acceptance, proving that it was Abū 'Amir himself who was the liar and not the Holy Prophet (Khamīs, ii. 144). 1257. Commentary: According to some traditions the words, A mosque which was founded upon piety from the very first day is surely more worthy, refer to a mosque at Quba which was built on the site where the Holy Prophet had alighted before entering Medina on the day of his arrival from Mecca; while, according to others, these words refer to the Mosque which the Holy Prophet himself built at Medina and which later came to be known as 1195 b i. e. "the Mosque of the Prophet. " The wording of the verse seems to support the latter view. 1258. Important Words: (water-worn bank) is derived i. e. he جرف الشيء They says. جرت from جرفه carried away or removed the whole or greater part of the thing. The Arabs say i. e. time (fortune) destroyed his wealth and reduced him to poverty. means, a bank of a valley, the lower part of which is excavated by water and hollowed out by torrents so that it remains unsound or weak with its upper part overhanging; an abrupt water-worn bank or ridge; the side of the bank of a river that has been eaten by the water so that parts of it continually