The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 484
CH. 16 AN-NAHL are some among you who are driven to the worst part of life PT. 14 مَّنْ يُرَدُّ إِلَى أَرْذَلِ الْعُمُرِ لِكَيْ لَا يَعْلَمَ بَعْدَ عِلْمٍ شَيْئًا إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ قَدِيرٌ with the result that they know nothing after having had knowledge. Surely, Allah is All- Knowing, Powerful, 1871 R. 10. & 10 وَاللهُ فَضَّلَ بَعْضَكُمْ عَلَى بَعْضٍ فِي And Allah has favoured. 72 E some of you above others in worldly gifts. But those more الرِّزْقِ فَمَا الَّذِيْنَ فَضْلُوا بِرَآدِى رِزْقِهِمْ عَلَى مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُهُمْ فَهُمْ favoured will not restore any part of their worldly gifts to those "24:23; 30:29. progress have been kept open, should have remained deprived of this great blessing. 1871. Commentary: was one whose reason or intellect ever declined or was impaired. This fact clearly shows that God Who had sent these Messengers had full control over their mental powers. Hence the Almighty and the All- Knowing God alone can send down revelation embodying principles and teaching which can lead man to the realization of the noble and grand purpose of his life. Nations, like individuals, are In vv. 52-54, it was explained that the false gods of disbelievers were unable to devise a Law for the guidance of mankind, and in the immediately preceding verses it has been made clear that disbelievers too cannot make such a Law. The present verse, however, makes a more general subject to the law of decline and statement and says that a perfect Law death. After attaining to the highest can only be framed by Him Who has stages of knowledge they begin to full control over man's birth, death show signs of senility and decay or and reasoning faculties, Who knows relapse into ignorance. When one his needs and requirements and nation suffers intellectual or moral knows also how to satisfy them. God death, God makes another nation take being Almighty and All-Knowing, all its place and gives it a new Prophet these things are subject to His and a new Law. The use of the Divine control. He selects as His Messenger attributes of "All-Knowing" and only him of whom He knows that his "Powerful" at the end of the verse intellect would not suffer decline. suggests that the function of giving History bears testimony to the fact true guidance properly belongs to that whereas there have been Him Whose knowledge and powers thousands of Prophets, there never never suffer decline or impairment. 1692