The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 128
CH. 11 HŪD PT. 12 وَيُقَوْمِ لَا أَسْأَلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ مَالًا إِنْ And O my people, I ask not“. 30 of you any wealth in return for أَجْرِى إِلَّا عَلَى اللهِ وَمَا أَنَا بِطَارِدِ it. My reward is due from Allah الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنَّهُمْ مُلْقُوْا رَبَّهِمْ. drive away those who believe وَلكِنِّي آريكُمْ قَوْمًا تَجْهَلُوْنَ alone. And I am not going to They shall certainly meet their Lord. But I consider you to be a people who act ignorantly. 1411 "10:73; 26:110. 26:115. means, he made him cleave to the thing. means, he obliged or compelled him to do the deed (Lane). Commentary: The words, which has been rendered obscure to you, mean that "the clear proof" and the "great mercy" have come to me in such a form that you cannot see them unless you ponder over them in the right spirit and on the right lines. It is clear from this verse that in order to understand truth, one should think over it on right lines. Disbelievers cannot understand the truth because they reject it at the outset, without giving it the least consideration. In such circumstances, there can be no possibility of the truth being accepted except under compulsion. But compulsion, as the last portion of the verse makes clear, cannot be resorted to. 1411. Commentary: or personal aggrandizement that he was seeking? They knew that he asked for no reward from them. Then why should he have resorted to the abominable practice of forging lies? asked for no reward, he at least It might be argued that though Noah commanded the allegiance of his followers and that in itself constituted sufficient motive for his activities. But this objection, too, stands on no solid ground, because the Prophets of God are always the first to act upon the commandments which they enjoin upon others and they subject themselves to a greater discipline than they demand from their followers. They do not exult in the authority they enjoy. Theirs is only a life of sacrifice and service and not of dictatorial authority over others. After having defended himself, Noah goes on to defend his followers. He repudiates the strictures of his opponents against them by saying After referring to the prejudiced that, as they had professed to believe attitude of his opponents, Noah now in him, he had no right to drive them proceeds to defend himself and his away merely on the basis of followers. In the first place, he asks groundless mistrust and suspicion. what purpose he could possibly have Again, as he asked for no reward or in fabricating lies. Was it self-interest | recompense from anybody, the 1336