The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 290
CH. 13 AR-RA'D PT. 13 قُلْ مَنْ رَّبُّ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ قُلِ Say, “Who is the Lord of. 17 الله قُل اَفَاتَّخَذْ تُمْ مِنْ دُونِ اَوْلِيَاءَ لَا Allah. Say, Have you then the heavens and the earth?' Say, taken beside Him helpers "who يَمْلِكُونَ لِأَنْفُسِهِمْ نَفْعًا وَلَا ضَرًّا قُلْ have no power for good or harm هَلْ يَسْتَوِي الْأَعْمَى وَالْبَصِيرُ أَمْ هَلْ for themselves? Say even Can the blind and the seeing تَسْتَوِى الظُّلُمَتُ وَالنُّورُ اَمْ جَعَلُوا be equal Or, can darkness be لِلَّهِ شُرَكَاءَ خَلَقُوا كَخَلْقِهِ فَتَشَابَهَ assign to Allah partners who الْخَلْقُ عَلَيْهِمْ قُلِ اللهُ خَالِقُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَهُوَ الْوَاحِدُ الْقَهَّارُ equal to light? Or, do they have created the like of His creation so that the two creations appear similar to them?' Say, 'Allah alone is the Creator of all things, and He is the One, the Most Supreme. '1628 23:87. 25:4. 11:25; 35:20. power of disbelievers may grow, they cannot succeed against the Holy Prophet. 1628. Commentary: The words, who have no power for good or harm even for themselves, spoken about false deities point to a strange coincidence. Generally, the lives of all those persons who later came to be worshipped as deities were full of hardship and privation. Jesus, Imām Husain, Rama, etc. , all led very hard lives. This fact seems to entail a strong warning to their misguided worshippers that they could expect no benefit or help from those who could not even protect themselves from harm or danger. In the words, Can the blind and the seeing be equal?, disbelievers are told 1498 that they, being spiritually and morally blind, should not be deceived by their power and their numbers against the Holy Prophet, as even an army of blind men is powerless against one person who has eyes. The Prophet and his followers possess sight, while disbelievers are blind. the The powerlessness of disbelievers is further brought home to them in the simile of light and darkness referred to in the words, can darkness be equal to light? Disbelievers are told that as darkness possesses no independent existence, being only the negation of light, it must flee before light. So disbelievers cannot stand against the Holy Prophet. In the last part of the verse disbelievers are challenged to produce anything which they think