The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 665
PT. 15 AL-KAHF CH. 18 وَعُرِضُوا عَلَى رَبِّكَ صَفًّا لَقَدْ جِئْتُمُوْنَا And they will be presented. 49 to thy Lord standing in rows: كَمَا خَلَقْنَكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ بَلْ bNow have you come to Us as زَعَمْتُمْ أَلَنْ نَّجْعَلَ لَكُمْ مَّوْعِدًا We created you at first. But you thought that We would fix no time for the fulfilment of Our promise. '2089 وَوُضِعَ الْكِتُبُ فَتَرَى الْمُجْرِمِينَ And the Book will be. 50 placed before them, and thou مُشْفِقِينَ مَّا فِيهِ وَيَقُولُونَ يُوَيْلَتَنَامَالِ wilt see the guilty ones fearful of that which is therein; and هذَا الْكِتَبِ لَا يُغَادِرُ صَغِيرَةً وَلَا they will say, “O woe to us! What كَبِيرَةً إِلَّا أَحْصُهَا وَوَجَدُوا مَا عَمِلُوا kind of a Book is this! It leaves out nothing small or great but a78:39. 6:95. 39:70. the prophecy about the complete destruction of the forces of evil of Gog and Magog mentioned in the few preceding verses will be fulfilled when great rulers and leaders of nations begin to fight among themselves, or in the words of the Bible when "nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines, and pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places" (Matt. 24:7). they would be gathered in battle array, facing each other, and would fight to the bitter end. This is how God would punish them for their evil deeds. 2089. Commentary: The words, And they will be presented to thy Lord standing in rows, mean that the decree of God about their final destruction will certainly come into force. The clause, Now have you come to Us as We created you at first, signifies that they will become divested of all power and authority and will be reduced to a state of subjection and disgrace as before. Taking the word in the sense of "poor people" or "people belonging to the lower strata of society," the verse would mean that the world will become divided into two hostile camps, representing two distinct and conflicting ideologies The expression, But you thought i. e. between Capitalism and that We would fix no time for the Communism, and a war to the finish fulfilment of Our promise, means that will take place between these two they had laboured under the camps. misconception that We had lost all The expression means that control over them and had fixed no 1873