The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3)

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CH. 17 BANI ISRĀ'IL PT. 15 إِلَّا رَحْمَةً مِّنْ رَّبِّكَ إِنَّ فَضْلَهُ Except mercy from thy. 88 كَانَ عَلَيْكَ كَبِيرًا Lord. Surely, His grace towards 2017 thee is great. 2 قُل نَّبِنِ اجْتَمَعَتِ الْإِنْسُ وَالْجِنُّ عَلَى Say, “If mankind and the. 89 to jinn gathered together أَنْ يَأْتُوْا بِمِثْلِ هَذَا الْقُرْآنِ لَا يَأْتُونَ produce the like of this Quran بِمِثْلِهِ وَلَوْ كَانَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ though they ظهيران they could not produce the like thereof, even should help one another. '2018 "28:87. b2:24; 10:39; 11:14; 52:35. evidence in support of what has been said in the previous verse. The words of the present verse appear to be addressed to the Holy Prophet but as a matter of fact they are not. As the question referred to in the previous verse was not asked by him, so the answer is evidently meant for those who had asked it. The verse means to say that the human soul is so weak that, far from revealing new spiritual truths, it is incapable even of reproducing those already revealed if they happen to disappear from the world. The verse also implies a prophecy that a time would come when Quranic knowledge would depart from the earth. A similar prophecy of the Holy Prophet has been reported by Ibn Merdawaih and by Baihaqi and Ibn Majah that there would come a time when the kernel and spirit of the Quran would disappear from the earth and not all the so-called mystics and sufis of the time claiming, like their Jewish prototypes, to possess supernatural powers would be able to restore it with their concerted effort. 2017. Commentary: The meaning of the expression, Surely, His grace towards thee is great, among other things, is that when the spirit of the Quran disappeared from the world and its letter only remained, God alone could and would bring it back. 2018. Commentary: This 1814 to receive verse confirms the interpretation of the two preceding verses, for it develops the argument embodied in them. It holds out the challenge to those who indulge in occult practices and by means of these practices claim spiritual knowledge from the departed spirits that, if they seriously think their claim to possess any substance, then let all of them assemble together and summon to their aid the hidden spirits which they think can communicate to them the knowledge of spiritual matters, and with their concerted and combined effort produce a book like the Quran.