The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 41
PT. 11 YŪNUS CH. 10 كَذلِكَ حَقَّتْ كَلِمَتُ رَبِّكَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ Thus is the word of thy. 34 فَسَقُوا أَنَّهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُوْنَ ) Lord proved true against those who rebel, that they believe not. 1309 قُلْ هَلْ مِنْ شُرَكَابِكُمْ مَّنْ تَبْدَوا Say, Is there any of your. 35 الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ قُلِ اللهُ يَبْدَوُا الْخَلْقَ creation and then reproduces ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ فَأَنِّى تُؤْفَكُونَ associate-gods who originates it?' Say, 'It is Allah alone Who originates creation and then reproduces it. Whither then are you turned away?' 1310 a10:97; 40:7. "See 10:5. rabbs (lords): (1) those that are not everlasting and are subject to the law of decay and death, their nourishing being temporary and imperfect; (2) He Who is necessarily existing and is free from death. This is Allah, Who is not only our Rabb but is also Eternal and Everlasting. His bringing up of man is therefore perfect and free from all limitations and lost indeed is the man who abandons Him and has recourse to other lords and masters. 1309. Commentary: The verse points to the natural law that he who rebels against the authority of God and defies His Prophets is deprived of opportunities to believe. 1310. Commentary: The real test of a creator is his ability to reproduce what he has once created; otherwise the claim is open to serious objection and can be made by anyone. The verse under comment thus contains an incontrovertible 1249 argument against polytheism, viz. that a creator is one who is able to reproduce his creation. In fact, not only creation but reproduction or repetition thereof is the true test of divinity, because, firstly, it is the only infallible proof of God's being the Creator, and secondly, because it provides the basis of the actual working of the universe. After having laid down this test of divinity, the Quran asks idol-worshippers, who among their so-called deities is the author of this system of creation and reproduction which has been working from the beginning? It is also clear from this verse that when God had brought into existence a consummate and unending system of creation, He could not have, after having given guidance to a certain generation, deprived the succeeding generations of it. He Who originated creation and continued the system of reproduction could not possibly make such an invidious distinction between one generation and another.