The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 364
CH. 15 AL-HIJR PT. 14 مَا نُنَزِّلُ الْمَكَةَ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ We do not send down angels". 9 وَمَا كَانُوا إِذَا مُّنْظَرِينَ but by due right, and then they are granted no respite. 1715 إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَ إِنَّا لَهُ لَحَفِظُونَ Verily, We Ourself have. 10 sent down this Exhortation, and most surely We will be its Guardian. 1716 "6:9. 36:70; 65:11. Holy Prophet. In answer to this claim, disbelievers dubbed the Holy Prophet a madman, tauntingly saying that, as he claimed that his revelations were brought to him by angels, the latter ought to have been visible to other men also. Since nobody ever saw these angels it was evident that he suffered from hallucinations and that his mind was affected. 1715. Commentary: The word (due right) here signifies either (1) the True Word of God, or (2) the due right. In the former sense the verse signifies that as angels descend with the true Word of God, therefore they descend only on His chosen Messengers. But as disbelievers who demanded the appearance of angels (see the preceding verse) were neither Divine Messengers nor deserved a Divine Message, angels could not possibly descend on them. According to the second meaning of the word the verse would mean that the only angels who could descend on disbelievers could only be angels of punishment; for angels only descend according to due right i. e. they bring down mercy for the righteous and punishment for the wicked. In this case, when the angels of punishment came, disbelievers would be granted no respite and would be destroyed. It may also be incidentally noted here that revelation varies in quality according to the spiritual condition of the recipient. Just as there is a great difference between the quality of the revelation received by a Prophet and that received by an ordinary believer, the Word of God revealed to different Prophets also varies in quality to their respective capacities and the degree of their Perfect Word of God, viz. the Quran, spiritual status. Hence it is that the was revealed to the Holy Prophet, the Greatest and most Perfect of all Divine Messengers. 1572 according 1716. Commentary: This verse furnishes a powerful proof of the truth of the Quran and of its Divine origin. In fact, the promise about the preservation of the Quran made in this verse has been so remarkably fulfilled that even if there had been no other proof of the truth of Islam, this alone would have sufficed to establish its Divine origin.