The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 686
PT. 16 UŠKA JE CH. 18 AL-KAHF 79. He said, 'This is the parting of ways between me and thee. "I E قَالَ هُذَا فِرَاقُ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنِكَ سَانَبِّئُكَ بِتَأْوِيلِ مَالَمْ تَسْتَطِعْ عَلَيْهِ will now tell thee the meaning صَبْرًا of that which thou wast not able to bear with patience. 2117 أَمَّا السَّفِيْنَةُ فَكَانَتْ لِمَسْكِيْن As for the boat, it belonged. 80 to certain poor people who يَعْمَلُونَ فِي الْبَحْرِ فَاَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَعِيْبَهَا worked on the sea; and I desired to damage it, for there was وَكَانَ وَرَاءَهُمْ مَّلِكُ يَأْخُذُ كُلَّ سَفِينَةٍ behind them a king, who seized غَصْيَّان every boat by force. 2118 "3:8; 12:22. failed to receive the cooperation of Christians in even such a noble cause as the establishment of the Unity of God on earth. Says the Quran, People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you that we worship none, but Allah, and that we associate no partner with Him and that some of us take not others for Lords besides Allah. But if they turn away, then say, 'Bear witness that we have submitted to God (3:65). According to Ta'ṭīrul-Anām, v (wall) in a vision with a breach in it denotes a leader of a people or a learned man who has lost his property and the repairing of it signifies the restoration of the property of that leader. In view of these interpretations, the words, And they found therein a wall which was about to fall, signify that Jewish and Christian religious leaders would lose all influence over their followers; and the repairing of the wall denotes that that influence would 1894 be rehabilitated. These words may also refer to the progress made by the Israelites through Moses and by the Ishmaelites through the Holy Prophet. The words, if thou hadst desired, thou couldst have taken payment for it, may mean that the business instinct of the Jewish and Christian peoples would grow so strong that they would not do anything without demanding remuneration for it. 2117. Commentary: When the righteous servant of God (the Holy Prophet) saw that Moses, i. e. his followers, in spite of his earnest appeal for their cooperation in the propagation of the ideals which were common between them, would not give up their attitude of sullen that he would have to sever all aloofness and hostility, he realized connection with them. 2118. Commentary: With this verse begins an explanation of the foregoing incidents as given by the holy man of Moses' vision.