The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 437
PT. 14 AN-NAHL CH. 16 وَالْاَنْعَامَ خَلَقَهَا ۚ لَكُمْ فِيْهَادِفَ And the cattle too He has. 6 وَمَنَافِعُ وَمِنْهَا تَأْكُلُونَةٌ created; you find in them warmth and other uses; and some of them you eat. 1807 "6:143; 23:22; 36:72-74; 40:80-81. guidance vouchsafed to him by God, begins to question His powers and prerogatives. Some men are SO presumptuous as to say that God could not bring the universe into existence from non-existence and that it had come into existence by itself. Others say that God did not create matter, but has only arbitrarily subjected it to His control. Yet others object that God has no right to impose a law upon man and that man is a free agent and can frame a law for his own use. In this way these people begin to deny the favours of God and declare themselves independent of Him. The verse have come into being. God's purpose in creating the universe must have been quite different and much higher and nobler. If such is the case, then why should men wonder when there appears in the world a noble personage who fulfils the real object and purpose of God's creation? The verse also implies a reply to an objection raised by the opponents of the Prophets. They look down upon them and regard them as contemptible persons unworthy of such distinction. The opponents of the Holy Prophet held similar views with regard to him, as is apparent from 43:32. The verse draws the attention supplies an answer to all these of disbelievers to man's humble and objections. The verse also implies the beautiful hint that while on the one hand man, in spite of being created from an apparently contemptible substance, begins to arrogate to himself such greatness as even to presume to dispute God's authority; on the other he refuses to admit that God Who created him from a mere sperm and endowed him with such noble qualities has the power to raise an apparently lowly and humble man to the rank of a Prophet. The verse may also suggest that it certainly could not be the object of the creation of the universe that only a disobedient and sinful man should lowly beginning to point the moral that when from such humble beginnings men can rise to great eminence and glory, why is it impossible that God should raise to spiritual eminence a man who appears contemptible and humble in 1645 their eyes? 1807. Commentary: This verse contains a crushing reply to man's arrogance referred to in the previous verse. It purports to say that though he has been created by God, yet he claims to be independent of Him. As regards himself, however, he exercises control over things which he has not created and freely subjects