The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 604
CH. 17 R. 10. BANI ISRĀ'ĪL PT. 15 وَيَسْلُوْنَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ قُلِ الرُّوحُ thee 86. And they ask concerning the soul. Say, 'The مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبّى وَمَا أُوتِيَتُمْ مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ soul is by the command of my إِلَّا قَلِيلًا Lord; and of the knowledge thereof you have been given but a little. '2015 hardships with a brave heart. The verse means to say that God treats men according to their motives and intentions. He takes into consideration not only the actions of man but also his intentions and motives. As all the efforts of disbelievers are for this world, they do not deserve to be the recipients of God's help and favour. This and the preceding verse apply as much to the Jews as to the idolaters of Mecca. the Meccan idolaters, probably at the instance of the Jews of Medina, when the news reached the latter that he had claimed to be a Divine Prophet. In reply the Prophet recited to them the present verse. When, however, he came to Medina the question appears again to have been put to him by the Jews and he must naturally have recited to them the same verse, thus giving rise to the wrong notion held by some traditionalists that this verse was revealed in Medina or that, after having been first revealed at Mecca, assigned to the word (soul) by fact is that it was only revealed once it was again revealed at Medina. The 2015. Commentary: Various meanings have been scholars of different schools of Muslim religious thought. According to some of the commentators it applies to all angels; according to others it means only the angel to whom is entrusted the task of the creation of the world; yet others think that it particularly applies to the Archangel Gabriel. Some scholars, however, are of the view that means the word of God, while some others take it as applying to the Quran. But the most appropriate meaning of this word is "the human soul. " The question regarding the nature of the human soul was first put to the Holy Prophet at Mecca by some of and that was at Mecca. As stated above, the appropriate meaning of the word most is the human soul. The soul has been described here as something created by the direct command of God. As a matter of fact according to the Quran all creation falls under two categories: (1) Original creation which is brought about without the aid or help of any substance or matter previously created. (2) Subsequent creation which is brought about with the aid and help of means and matter previously created. The former kind of creation falls under the category of (lit. command) for which see 2:118, and the latter is known as (lit. creating). 1812