The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 596
PT. 15 CH. 17 BANI ISRĀ'ĪL 75. "And if We had strengthened thee with the وَلَوْلَا أَنْ تَبَّتْنَكَ لَقَدْ كِدْتَ تَرْكَنُ not إِلَيْهِمْ شَيْئًا قَلِيْلًان Quran, thou mightest have inclined to them a little. 2004 إِذًا لَّا ذَقْتُكَ ضِعْفَ الْحَيوةِ وَضعُفَ In that case We would have. 76 made thee taste similar الْمَمَاتِ ثُمَّ لَا تَجِدُ لَكَ عَلَيْنَا نَصِيرًا aflictions of life and similar afflictions of death, and then thou wouldst not have found for thyself any helper against Us. 2005 "25:33. proposed to him that if his nephew would only refrain from criticizing their idols, they would make him their leader and chief. See also 8:31. 2004. Commentary: Verses 14:29 and 25:33 help to explain the meaning of the present verse. In these verses respectively we have, Allah strengthens the believers with the word that is firmly established both in the present life and in the Hereafter; and, it is thus revealed that We may strengthen thy heart therewith. These verses show that in the verse under comment the words, if We had not strengthened thee, refer to the revelation of the Quran. The verse means to say that the Prophet's nature was so pure that even if the Quran had not been revealed to him and he had no knowledge of God's great intentions about him, he would never have stooped to practising shirk. In the event, however, of the Quran not having been revealed to him and his not having been blessed with heavenly light he might have perhaps compromised with disbelievers on some very minor details of doctrine or practice. But after the Quran had been revealed to him, there remained absolutely no possibility of any The verse thus sheds a flood of light compromise with them on his part. on the purity of the Prophet's heart and the greatness of his spiritual stature and does not refer to any possible weakening in his Mission on his part on account of persecution or temptations held out to him by his 1804 enemies. 2005. Commentary: The verse purports to say that if in the absence of the revelation of the Quran, the Prophet should have inclined to disbelievers, his inclination towards them would have done them no good and would not have saved them from Divine punishment. The verse drives home the supreme truth that all the Prophet's greatness was due to his being the recipient of Divine