The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 668
CH. 18 AL-KAHF PT. 15 وَيَوْمَ يَقُولُ نَادُوا شُرَكَاءِ الَّذِينَ And remember the day. 53 when He will say, "Call those زَعَمْتُمْ فَدَعَوْهُمْ فَلَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوالَهُمْ whom you deemed to be My partners. ' Then they will call on them, but they will not answer them; and We shall place a barrier between them. 2093 وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُمْ مَّوْبِقًا وَرَاَ الْمُجْرِمُونَ النَّارَ فَظَنُّوا أَنَّهُمْ And the guilty shall see the. 54 Fire and realize that they are موَاقِعُوْهَا وَلَمْ يَجِدُوا عَنْهَا مَصْرِفَان going to fall therein; and they shall find no way of escape therefrom. 2094 "16:28; 28:63, 75; 41:48. 21:40; 38:60; 52:14. its moral and social ailments. But this new world-order will come into being not through material means but according to God's own plan and decree and through the agency of a new Adam. 2093. Important Words: (barrier) is derived from اوبقه. ruined i. e. he was means, he destroyed him; disgraced him or imprisoned him. They say ie such a one rides الموبقات او يفعل الموبقات destruction or commits sins which ruin him. means, a place of destruction; a place of danger; prison; a barrier between two things (Aqrab). Commentary: The word as shown under Important Words means, (a) a barrier between two things; (b) destruction. According to the first meaning of the word, the Arabic expression, would mean that these nations will set up high tariff walls or iron curtains and impose economic boycott upon one another, and according to the second it means that they would become involved in deadly wars which would ruin them. If the expression of (between them) be taken as referring to the false-gods and their votaries, the verse would mean that a barrier would be set up between the two so that the false gods would not be able to hear the entreaties and supplications of their votaries for intercession when the latter find themselves face to face with Divine punishment. 2094. Commentary: see The word signifies war (5:65) and the verse means that the disbelieving nations of the West will a most destructive war approaching. They will try all possible means to avoid it but all their plans and efforts to this end will prove futile. The west has already passed through the ordeal of two most destructive wars which have 1876