The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 610
CH. 17 BANI ISRĀ'ĪL PT. 15 earth angels walking about in have certainly sent down to قُل لَّوْ كَانَ فِي الْأَرْضِ مَلَيْكَةٌ يَمْشُونَ Say, Had there been in the. 96 مُطْمَنِّينَ لَنَزَّلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ peace and quiet, We should مَلَكَا رَّسُولًا قُل كَفَى بِاللهِ شَهِيدًا بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكُمْ Say, Sufficient is Allah for. 97 إِنَّهُ كَانَ بِعِبَادِهِ خَبِيرًا بَصِيرًا them from heaven an angel as a Messenger. '2024 bo a Witness between me and you; surely, He knows and sees His servants full well. '2025 "23:25; 25:22; 43:61. 10:30; 13:44; 29:53; 46:9. from such mental distempers might well profess to believe in the past Prophets, but their failure to recognize the truth of a new claimant to Prophethood amply proves that the faith which they profess in the old Prophets is but an empty and customary faith inherited from their forefathers and is devoid of all reality. 2024. Commentary: It is clear from this verse that what is here meant by "angels" are not real angels but angel-like men, because real angels certainly would not need other angels to come as Warners to them. The verse constitutes an effective answer to those people who in their arrogance say that, being superior to their Prophet, they should have received revelation direct from God. They are told that angels descend upon angel-like men, and not upon their opposites and that if they bring about an angelic change in their lives, angels would begin to descend upon them. with Satan they could not expect visits from angels. The verse also provides an answer to another class of men who believe that man is too puny and inconsequential a being to be the recipient of Divine revelation and that higher beings are required for this purpose. The answer given is that only beings of the same species can help their prototypes achieve their salvation, because only they can them. Thus none but a man could be serve as exemplars or models for the bearer of a Divine Message for mankind, because only a man could serve as a model for other men. The word (Messenger) here does not mean simply the bearer of Divine revelation, but the possessor of all the attributes and qualifications of a Divine Messenger. 2025. Commentary: This verse provides a telling answer to the other two objections mentioned in v. 95 viz. (a) that man is too unimportant a being to be the recipient of God's revelation; and But as they have allied themselves (b) that he is endowed with such 1818