The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 528
PT. 14 AN-NAHL إِنَّمَا جُعِلَ السَّبْتُ عَلَى الَّذِيْنَ اخْتَلَفُوا for was punishment CH. 16 125. "The profaning the Sabbath فِيْهِ وَاِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَيَحْكُمُ بَيْنَهُمْ يَوْمَ imposed only on those who had الْقِمَةِ فِيْمَا كَانُوا فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ differed about it, and thy Lord will surely judge between them on the day of Resurrection about that in which they differed. 1925 اُدْعُ إِلى سَبِيلِ رَبِّكَ بِالْحِكْمَةِ Call unto the way of thy. 126 وَالْمَوْعِظَةِ الْحَسَنَةِ وَجَادِلْهُمْ بِالَّتِي exhortation, and argue with Lord with wisdom and goodly them in a way that is best. هِيَ أَحْسَنُ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ Surely, thy Lord knows best بِمَنْ ضَلَّ عَنْ سَبِيْلِهِ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ who has strayed from His way بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ and He knows those who are rightly guided. 1926 "2:66; 4:48,155. 3:56; 22:70. 41:35. d6:118. "following the way of Abraham" only mean, following and imitating him in things mentioned in the preceding verse he was a paragon of virtue and yet was humble and grateful to God. The Holy Prophet was by far a nobler character than Abraham and Islam a much better religious system than any previous one. 1925. Commentary: The Jews believed that their national degradation and misery were due to their breaking the Sabbath and that they could regain their former high position and lost glory by re- establishing its sanctity. In some previous verses they had been invited to embrace Islam so that God might remove their present degradation and make them heirs to His special 1736 favours and blessings. But the Jews held firmly to the belief that their degradation was really due to their violation of the Sabbath and that their acceptance of Islam could not be of any avail to them. In the present advent of Islam they were punished verse they are told that before the for the breach of the Sabbath, the observance of which was a Divine command, but now that the old commandments with regard to Sabbath have been superseded by the new Dispensation-Islam-they could retrieve their departed glory only by accepting it and not by observing the Sabbath. 1926. Important Words: The word a translated as wisdom