The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 590
CH. 17 BANI ISRĀ'ĪL PT. 15 إِنَّ عِبَادِى لَيْسَ لَكَ عَلَيْهِمْ سُلْطن As to My servants, thou. 66 وَكَفَى بِرَبِّكَ وَكِيلًا shalt certainly have no power over them, and sufficient is thy Lord as a Guardian. 1995 رَبُّكُمُ الَّذِي يُزْجِي لَكُمُ الْفُلْكَ Your Lord is He Who. 67 drives for you the ships in the فِي الْبَحْرِ لِتَبْتَغُوا مِنْ فَضْلِهِ إِنَّهُ كَانَ sea, that you may seek of His بِكُمْ رَحِيمًا bounty. Surely, He is merciful toward you. 1996 a15:41; 38:84. 14:33; 22:66; 45:13. sons of darkness to entice men away from the right way: (1) They try to intimidate the poor and the weak by holding out threats of violence to them. This is the significance of the words, And entice. . . with thy voice. (2) They use more drastic measures against those who are not frightened away by verbal threats of violence by forming alliances against them and making a concerted attack upon them and persecuting and oppressing them in every way. This is the sense of the words, urge against them thy horsemen and footmen. (3) They seek to entice away the powerful and the more influential among the followers of a Prophet by offering to make them their leaders if only they give up his cause. All these measures and stratagems have been adopted by the enemies of truth against the Prophets of God and their followers throughout the ages. But they have never succeeded in arresting or retarding the progress of truth. 1995. Commentary: The verse purports to say that man is amenable to the enticement of Satan SO long as he is not "resurrected" i. e. as long as his faith does not attain its full stature. The verse also teaches man the secret of becoming safe from the attacks of Satan. It is that he should give himself up wholly to the care and protection of God and, instead of depending upon his own resources and efforts, should rely upon Him alone, for Satan can cause no harm to one who is under the guardianship of God. 1996. Commentary: The verse points out that all amenities of life are God's gifts bestowed upon man, although they are not always recognized or appreciated by man as such. For example, the use of ships has made the interaction possible between dwellers of the main lands and the 1798 islands, who would have remained permanently isolated from each other without them. There is also in the verse an implied reference to the fact that Islam will spread throughout the world on land and sea and for this purpose sea-