The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 768

CH. 9 AT-TAUBAH PT. 11 فَإِنْ تَوَلَّوْا فَقُلْ حَسْبِيَ الله لا اله But if they turn away, says. 129 b "Allah is sufficient for me. إِلَّا هُوَ عَلَيْهِ تَوَكَّلْتُ وَ هُوَ رَبُّ There is no God but He. In Him الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيمِن do I put my trust, and He is the Lord of the mighty Throne. '1276 & "39:39; 21:23; 23:117; 27:27; 40:16. you with kindness and mercy. The attributes "compassionate and merciful" applied here to the Holy Prophet are also applied to God. As a matter of fact, the attributes of God are of two kinds: (1) i. e. those that make Him distinct from His creation, e. g. (One Whose mercy extends to all); these are never applied to anyone except God. (2) i. e. those in which He resembles other beings, e. g. (Merciful); for mercy is an attribute which may be shared, in however meagre a degree, by others also. 1276. Commentary: تشبيهية رحيم The verse, which is the last of the present Surah, purports to say to disbelievers that it is for their own good that the Prophet invites them to truth and that their refusal to listen to him would do him no harm. Mighty Throne, implies a beautiful and dignified refutation of the charge that the Prophet was aiming at temporal power. The clause may mean something like this: "I seek the establishment of no temporal kingdom in Arabia or anywhere else. On the contrary, my aim and object is the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth, in the wake of which material prosperity and temporal power, very much greater than the kingdom of Arabia, are destined to come to me and my followers and no power on earth can stop that. " The words, In Him do I put my trust, and He is the Lord of the mighty Throne, with which the Surah comes to an end, also provide the essence of the spirit of Islam, i. e. (1) that the God of Islam is Supreme over all, and (2) that a true Muslim should put his The clause, He is the Lord of the trust in Him alone. 1208