The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 363
PT. 14 AL-HIJR CH. 15 لَوْ مَا تَأْتِيْنَا بِالْمَلَكَةِ إِنْ كُنْتَ Why dost thou not bring. 8 مِنَ الصُّدِقِينَ angels to us, if thou art of the truthful?'1714 renown "6:9; 11:13; 25:8. Muslims was so weak and that of their enemies so strong that, when the latter heard the claim made about them in the above verse, they simply laughed at it and declared that only a madman could make such foolish claims. praise and glorification of God; praise or eulogy of another; dispraise or evil speech; a thing that is current upon the tongue; fame, or reputation, as they say a i. e. he has fame among the people; eminence, nobility or honour; a book containing an exposition of religion and an institution of religious laws; any Book of a Prophet and especially the Quran, also the Torah; an exhortation, an admonition or a warning (Lane & Aqrab). See also had subjected Muslims to bitter 2:41, 153, 201 & 6:69. Commentary: Si. e. Exhortation or Eminence being one of the names of the Quran (21:51), the verse shows that this name was well-known to disbelievers. The calling of the Quran by the name also implied a prophecy that it was to prove a means of bringing special eminence to its followers. God says with reference to the Quran, as (wherein lies your own honour, 21:11). See Important Words. Disbelievers, however, used this word ironically, as the epithets the) الكريم the mighty and) العزيز honourable) have been used ironically about them in 44:50. The words, "madman," contain an allusion to v. 3 wherein it is said that disbelievers will often wish that they had been Muslims. When that verse was revealed, the condition of Disbelievers used the word (Exhortation or Eminence) for the Quran with a view to ridiculing the idea of its being a means of honour for Muslims. They knew that they persecution and in their arrogance thought that they would speedily crush them. So in the existing circumstances it was quite natural on their part to say that it was mere madness to say that the Quran would raise Muslims to such eminence that disbelievers themselves would begin to desire that they had been Muslims. The word (a madman) has been erroneously rendered by some translators as "possessed by a devil or by a jinn" or simply "possessed. " It does not mean that but "a mad or insane person" or "one whose intellectual faculties are impaired" (Lane & Aqrab). 1571 1714. Commentary: In the previous Surahs and also in the beginning of the present Sūrah it has been claimed that the victory of Islam will be brought about through Divine revelation vouchsafed to the