The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 324
PT. 13 CH. 14 IBRAHİM 11. Their Messengers said, 'Are you in doubt concerning Allah, قَالَتْ رُسُلُهُمْ فِي اللهِ شَكٍّ فَاطِرِ السَّمَوتِ وَالْاَرْضِ يَدْعُوكُمْ Maker of the heavens and the earth? He calls you that He may لِيَغْفِرَ لَكُمْ مِنْ ذُنُوبِكُمْ وَيُؤَخِّرَكُمُ forgive you your sins, and grant إلَى أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى قَالُوا إِنْ أَنْتُمْ إِلَّا بَشَرٌ you respite till an appointed term. ' They said, b. You are but to turn us away from that which مِثْلُنَا تُرِيدُونَ أَنْ تَصُدُّونَا عَمَّا كَانَ men like ourselves; you desire يَعْبُدُ ابَاؤُنَا فَأْتُونَا بِسُلْطَنٍ مُّبِينٍ our fathers used to worship. Bring us, then, some clear proof. '1665 "6:15; 12:102; 35:2; 39:47. '11:28; 23:25. favour or gift, the expression would mean that disbelievers threw the favours of the Prophet in their faces, telling them to keep their teachings to themselves as they (the disbelievers) did not want them. The words that follow support this meaning. 1665. Important Words: (Maker) is the active participle from b. They say hi. e. he clove, split, rent or cracked it; He (God) created it, or produced it or brought it into existence, namely, for the first time, it not having existed before; originated it; commenced or began it. words signify that the Prophets referred to have not been mentioned in any of the revealed Books which have remained partially or wholly intact. The words, they turned their hands to their mouths, have been taken by some commentators to mean that disbelievers turned their hands to their own mouths in amazement at the high-sounding claims of the Prophets. To express wonder in this way is really a form of derision. In this sense the expression would mean that disbelievers treated the Prophets of God with contempt. The words may, however, also mean that disbelievers put their hands on their means, the Originator or mouths in a way so as to wish the Prophets to be silent and cease talking about their claims. It is a general practice that when a person desires another person to keep silent, he sometimes puts his hand or occasionally one of his fingers on his own mouth as a sign for the other person to keep silent. Creator of the heavens. Ibn 'Abbās says, "I did not know what was the meaning of until two Arabs of the desert came to me, disputing together respecting a well, and one of them said, bi. e. 'It was I who originated or began it. '"; means, he made the dough into bread, or baked it, without leavening it, he Taking the word in the sense of kneaded the dough and made it into 1532