The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 520
CH. 16 AN-NAHL they shall have a severe punishment. 1907 PT. 14 ذلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمُ اسْتَحَبُّوا الْحَيوةَ الدُّنْيَا That is because they have. 108 Y عَلَى الْآخِرَةِ وَاَنَّ اللهَ لَا يَهْدِي Hereafter, and because Allah الْقَوْمَ الْكُفِرِينَ preferred the present life to the guides not the disbelieving people. 1908 أُولَيكَ الَّذِيْنَ طَبَعَ اللهُ عَلَى قُلُوبِهِمُ It is they on whose hearts. 109 ۚ and ears and eyes Allah has set وَسَمْعِهِمْ وَأَبْصَارِهِمْ وَأُوكَ هُمُ a seal. And it is they who are الْغُفِلُونَ the heedless. 1909 10:8; 87:17. 2:8; 4:156; 7:180. 1907. Commentary: With this verse the Quran reverts to the main theme of the Surah, viz. that the day of the glory of Islam is about to dawn but Muslims will have to suffer great trials and tribulations to deserve it. They are warned that if anyone of them recanted under these trials, he would draw upon himself the wrath of God. But a person who is inwardly satisfied with Islam and only under very severe compulsion is constrained to utter words which may appear to express disbelief, may not be punished for such an expression of disbelief. But this does not mean that cowardice is condoned or that such a determine the nature of the treatment they will receive from God. The words, who is forced thereto, may refer to Jabr or 'Ammar bin Yasir but preferably to the former. 1908. Commentary: The verse purports to say that as the Quran is the revealed word of God and contains nothing but truth, dissatisfaction with its teaching can never be the cause of its rejection. It must be due to expediency, the consideration of worldly interests or mental perversion of the rejecter. But the disbeliever rejects it to his own cost. 1909. Commentary: person will be altogether pardoned. Cowardice and true belief cannot go The verse goes on to say that together. The verse holds out no rejecters of the Quran sacrifice truth Divine pardon to a coward. It is to paltry material gains and all their indeed silent about him which implies energies are directed to the attainment that final judgement in the case of of worldly objects. And as they do such persons has been reserved and not make use of their God-given that their future behaviour will faculties for their spiritual 1728