The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 351
PT. 13 IBRAHİM CH. 14 وَانْذِرِ النَّاسَ يَوْمَ يَأْتِيهِمُ الْعَذَابُ And warn men of the day. 45 when the promised chastisement فَيَقُولُ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا رَبَّنَا آخِرْنَا إِلَى will come upon them, and the أجَلٍ قَرِيبٍ أَجِبْ دَعْوَتَكَ وَنَتَّبِع wrongdoers will say, ‘Our Lord, grant us respite for a short الرُّسُلَ اَوَلَمْ تَكُونُوا أَقْسَمْتُمْ مِنْ term. We will respond to Thy call and will follow the Messengers. ' 'Did you not swear before this that you would have no fall?1699 قَبْلُ مَا لَكُمْ مِنْ زَوَالٍ "63:11. the. . ه ع الرجل They say مطع from man came running in fright; or the man advanced with his eyes fixed on something from which he did not the ,means اهطع البعير. raise them ,also means ع الرجل. lowered its head was wonderfully fulfilled by the Fall of Mecca when the Sacred House of God passed into the hands of the Muslims for all time. This verse gives a graphic description of the camel stretched forth its neck and bewilderment and consternation of the Meccans when they suddenly found the Holy Prophet at the very gates of Mecca with an army ten thousand strong, without their having the least inkling of his coming. For the man looked with humility and humbleness (Aqrab). (raising up) is derived from which is derived from. They say proof of the fact that the eyes of the اقنع رأسه. i. e. he mounted the hill الجبل means, he raised up his head and fixed it straight, turning neither to the right nor to the left (Aqrab). (utterly void) is derived from which means, it fell from a high level to a low level; or contrarily, it rose and went up. means, the firmament; an empty thing; a void; coward, because his heart is, as it were, empty, having no courage (Aqrab). Commentary: What a graphic picture of the Fall of Mecca! The great prophecy of the final triumph of the Holy Prophet and the utter discomfiture of his enemies Meccans became actually fixed in a stare and their minds were literally void and they ran about in fright with their heads raised in bewilderment, one has only to turn to any book of history about the Fall of Mecca. 1699. Commentary: This verse speaks of the to punishment that is overtake disbelievers in the life to come. Whenever the Quran speaks of the punishment of the present life, it usually refers to the punishment of the next life also, for the former constitutes evidence of the latter. 1559