The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 354
CH. 14 IBRAHİM PT. 13 وَتَرَى الْمُجْرِمِينَ يَوْمَبِذٍ مُّقَرَّنِيْنَ And thou wilt see the guilty. 50 on that day bound in chains. 1704 فِي الْأَصْفَادِن سَرَابِيلُهُمْ مِنْ قَطِرَانٍ وَ تَغْشَى Their garments will be of. 51 وُجُوهَهُمُ النَّارُة b pitch, and the fire will envelop their faces. 1705 a38:39. 10:28; 23:105; 54:49. mentioned in this verse to point out that on that dreadful day all the false deities of the disbelievers will forsake them and disbelievers will realize that all government rests in God alone. Incidentally, the verse also shows that the blessings of the next life will be quite different from those of the present life; for, as the verse says, the present earth and the present heavens will be changed into a new earth and new heavens in the next world. If the same or similar earth and heavens were to be created again, in the next world, with the same fruits and the same material boons, where was the need to change the old ones? 1704. Important Words: (bound) is derived from (qarrana) which is derived from with which a thing is bound or tied; (2) favour or gift bestowed on someone, perhaps because it, as it were, binds the receiver to the giver (Aqrab). Commentary: The rewards and punishments of the life to come will represent the disbelievers' actions in the present life. As in this world sinners commit their deeds at the instigation or with the help of each other, therefore, in the life to come, they will be represented as shackled and bound together, the chains representing the misdeeds of the sinful. 1705. Important Words: قطر pitch is derived from) قطران meaning, it dropped; or it dripped or fell in drops; or it flowed drop by ;means, tar or liquid pitch قطران e drop. قرن بين الشيء و الشيء qarana). They say) he brought or placed the two things together. »✰✰ means, he bound the thing with the other, placing them together (qarrana-hu) means, he collected the thing together and what exudes from juniper or savin and from pine-tree and the like when subjected to the action of fire; is used for smearing mangy قطران قرنت الاسارى فى bound it. The Arabs say Ji. e. the captives were bound together with ropes (Aqrab). (chains) is the plural of camels (Lane). Commentary: The garment serves as a means of protection, but the garment of which means: (1) a chain or anything | disbelievers in the next world shall be 1562