The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 198
CH. 11 HŪD PT. 12 وَلَا تَرْكَنُوا إِلَى الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا فَتَمَسَّكُمُ And incline not toward. 114 those who do wrong, lest the النَّارُ وَمَالَكُمْ مِنْ دُونِ اللهِ مِنْ اَوْلِيَاء Fire touch you. And you will ثُمَّ لَا تُنْصَرُونَ have no friends beside Allah, nor shall you be helped. 1494 a وَأَقِمِ الصَّلوةَ طَرَفِي النَّهَارِ وَ زُلَفًا مِنَ And observe Prayer at the. 115 b الَّيْلِ اِنَّ الْحَسَنَتِ يُذْهِبْنَ السَّيَّاتِ ذلِكَ ذِكْرَى لِلذَّكِرِينَ ® two ends of the day, and in the hours of the night that are nearer the day. Surely, good works drive away the evil ones. This is a reminder for those who would remember. 1495 b "17:79. a The verse also points out how necessary it is that Muslims should become organized into homogeneous and evenly advanced community. A Muslim can easily exhort his neighbours to virtue, but he cannot convey his exhortation to Muslims scattered all over the world. It is only through a perfect organization that this supreme and stupendous task can be accomplished. By helping to maintain such an organization, a Muslim becomes part of it and a sharer in the work carried on by it in any part of the world. The Ahmadiyya Movement is, by the grace of God, the living example of such an organization in the world today. The injunction to see that our fellow-men should, like us, follow the right way also implies the need of the proper upbringing of our children as well as the care of future generations. 1494. Commentary: that we should not only reform ourselves but also our fellow-men because man is influenced by his environment, and if our surroundings are corrupt, the corruption thereof is sure to affect us sooner or later. So in the present verse we are enjoined to sever all connexion with the wicked and the unjust even though they may be our own kith and kin. The present verse is also connected with the words, exceed ye not the bounds, occurring in the previous verse. In the light of the verse under comment these words do not mean that we exceed the bonds only when we have actually committed an act of injustice, but we are equally guilty of injustice if we are accessory to another man's unjust act in any way or if we defend him when he happens to commit an offence. 1495. Important Words: طرف two end of the day) طرفي النهار In the previous verse we were told | means, the extremity or end of 1406