The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 339
PT. 13 R. 5. IBRAHİM CH. 14 أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ بَدَّلُوا نِعْمَتَ اللهِ كُفْرًا Dost thou not see those. 29 وَاَحَلُّوْا قَوْمَهُمْ دَارَ الْبَوَارِ ج جَهَنَّمَ يَصْلَوْنَهَا وَبِئْسَ الْقَرَارُ who changed Allah's favour into ingratitude and landed their people into the abode of ruin- 1683 30. Which is Hell. They shall burn therein; and an evil place of rest is that. 1684 وَجَعَلُوْ الِلهِ أَنْدَادًا لِيُضِلُّوا عَنْ سَبِيلِهِ And they have set up rivals. 31 قُلْ تَمَتَّعُوا فَإِنَّ مَصِيرَكُمْ إِلَى النَّارِ -His way. Say, enjoy your. to Allah to mislead people from selves a while, then, surely, your journey is toward the Fire. '1685 "2:212. 2:23; 13:34. 47:13; 77:47. "the good tree" mentioned in v. 25. The verse says that the followers of Islam, which is the good tree mentioned here, will in all ages receive fresh revelation and signs from God which will be a certain means of "strengthening" them. 1683. Commentary: By "Allah's favour" is here meant Divine revelation, referred to in the previous verse as "a firmly established word. " God bestowed this favour upon the people, but the return they made was to become ungrateful and also ruin themselves by denying it. 1684. Commentary: The denial of "the good tree" (v. 25) inevitably leads to ruin and into the burning fire, which such people will get in place of a resting place. 1685. Important Words: (rivals) is the plural of which means the like of a thing particularly when it is opposed to it (Aqrab). See also 2:23. Commentary: The word (rivals), applied to those things that are taken as objects of worship instead of the true God, is used in this verse not because these gods or idols were actually opposed to God, or because the idolaters looked upon them as opposed to God, but because the very existence of such idols or gods is opposed to the dignity of God. The verse means that, after having rejected the Word of God, idolaters have taken to such foolish things as the worship of false deities in preference to the Living and Almighty God. 1547