The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 304
CH. 13 R. 5. AR-RA'D PT. 13 have been mocked at before وَلَقَدِ اسْتَهْزِئَ بِرُسُلِ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ And surely, Messengers. 33 فَامْلَيْتُ لِلَّذِيْنَ كَفَرُوا ثُمَّ اَخَذْتُهُمْ فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عِقَابِ قف thee; but I granted respite to those who disbelieved. Then I seized them and how terrible was My punishment! 16 1644 "36:31. 22:45. Prophet, yet they rejected that evidence. "The dead being spoken to" may also mean the appearance of the dead in dreams and visions and their bearing witness to the truth of the heavenly Messenger, but evil-minded people reject this evidence also. Both these things happened not only in the time of the Holy Prophet but also in the case of Aḥmad, the Promised Messiah. The word "dead" also applies to the spiritually dead. The word has been used in this sense in the Quran (8:25). In this sense, the verse would mean that by means of the Quran those spiritually dead will not only be quickened into a new life, but will also be made to speak words of wisdom and will preach the Message of the Quran to the world. The words, the matter rests entirely with Allah, mean that though these things may appear impossible, yet they will surely come to pass, because the Almighty God with Whom "the matter rests entirely" and to Whom nothing is impossible has Himself foretold their occurrence. To this Almightiness of God the attention of disbelievers is pointedly drawn in the words, Have not the believers yet come to know that if Allah had enforced His will, He could have 1512 surely guided all mankind? In the following sentence even the time is specified when these things will come to pass. The words, disaster shall not cease to befall them for what they have wrought or to alight near their home, until the promise of Allah comes to pass, mean, that calamity after calamity shall continue to befall the Meccans, and they shall suffer reverses one after another, till the prophecy relating to the utter destruction of their power is fulfilled. wonderful manner. In spite of the This prophecy met its fulfilment in a witnessed and the many reverses they many signs the disbelievers had had suffered at the hands of Muslims, they refused to see the truth till at the head of ten thousand devoted followers or, to use the words of the Bible, "ten thousand saints," the Holy Prophet marched towards Mecca and encamped "near their home," and with his triumphant entry into that city the power of pagan Arabia was completely broken and its glory departed forever and all vestige of unbelief and idolatry disappeared from the country. 1644. Commentary: To the repeated objection of the opponents of the Holy Prophet as to