The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3)

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CH. 18 AL-KAHF PT. 15 وَتَرَى الشَّمْسَ إِذَا طَلَعَتْ تَزُورُ عَنْ And thou couldst see the. 18 sun, as it rose, move away from كَهْفِهِمْ ذَاتَ الْيَمِينِ وَإِذَا غَرَبَتْ their Cave on the right and when it set, turn away from تَقْرِضُهُمُ ذَاتَ الشِّمَالِ وَهُمْ فِي فَجْوَةٍ them on the left; and they were مِّنْهُ ذلِكَ مِنْ أَيْتِ اللَّهِ مَنْ يَهْدِ اللَّهُ E in the spacious hollow thereof. This is among the Signs of فَهُوَ الْمُهْتَدِ وَمَنْ يُضْلِلْ فَلَنْ تَجِدَ لَهُ Allah. He whom Allah guides is rightly guided; but he whom He adjudges astray, for him & thou wilt find no helper or guide. 2058 "7:179; 17:98; 39:37-38. وَلِيًّا مُرْشِدًان them behind on the left; to pass by and beyond them leaving them on its left; to turn aside or away from them on the left (Lane & Aqrab). these young men had decided that means, when it set to leave they would repair to that particular cave for shelter when persecution exceeded all bearable bounds and it became impossible for them to live any longer among their people. The words, And now when you have withdrawn from them, show that they had already been the victims of a severe social boycott and had lived apart from their people in a separate group of their own. 2058. Important Words: (move away) is in reality which is derived from (tazāwara) which again is derived from 3. They sayi. e. he visited him. (izwarra) or (tazāwara) means, he declined or turned aside from it (Lane & Aqrab). (turn away) is derived from قرضت. They say is he cut it. قرض means, I passed through or across the valley. means, he turned aside or away from the place. واذا غربت تقرضهم The Quranic expression 1852 (spacious hollow) is derived from. They say i. e. he opened the door. means, he parted his legs wide or straddled to make water. means, an opening or intervening space or an intermediate wide space between two things; a wide tract or a wide or depressed tract of land; the court or yard of a house; the part between the two sides of the solid hoof (Lane & Aqrab). Commentary: The verse describes the position of the Cave. It appears that the people referred to above lived in very high regions in the north, and the Cave was so situated that it faced north- west, for the sun passes a place which has its face to the north from right to left. The word (spacious hollow)