The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 89
PT. 16 ṬĀHĀ CH. 20 وَاِنْ تَجْهَرُ بِالْقَوْلِ فَإِنَّهُ يَعْلَمُ ال And if thou speakest aloud. 8 وَأَخْفى it makes no difference, for He knows the secret thought and what is yet more hidden. 2244 اللهُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ لَهُ الْأَسْمَاءِ He is Allah. There is no God. 9 but He. His are the most beautiful names. 2245 10. And has the story of Moses come to thee?2246 وقف لازم الحسنى وَهَلْ أَتُكَ حَدِيثُ مُوسَى 2:78; 6:4; 11:6; 67:14. b7:181; 59:25. 19:52; 79:16. worship and adoration. means, what is beneath the earth therefore He alone is entitled to our (Lane & Aqrab). Commentary: The verse means to say that as the Quran has been revealed by God Whose dominion and control extend to all that is in the heavens and the earth, So all the celestial and terrestrial forces will be pressed into service to further the cause of Islam. 2244. Commentary: Whereas the word J (secret thought) signifies the thoughts that lie hidden in a man's breast which he alone knows, the word (more hidden) comprises all those ideals, thoughts and ambitions of a person which lie hidden in the womb of futurity and have never crossed his mind. 2245. Commentary: The verse contains the quintessence and kernel of the Quranic revelation referred to in v. iii, above. It is that God exists. He is One. He possesses all perfect attributes and is completely free from all conceivable defects and imperfections and 2246. Commentary: ,(Moses) موسی the founder of Judaism, lived about 1400 years before Jesus. He was a Law-giving Prophet and the founder of a great religious system. As for the name Moses, it may be briefly stated that (Moses) is really a Hebrew name having definite derivation in both Hebrew and Arabic. In Hebrew it is pronounced and written as (Moshe) and means, "a thing drawn out of water" or "saved from water" (Enc. Bib. ). See also 2:54. موشی Against all accepted canons of history Freud in his "Moses and Monotheism" has adumbrated quite a novel theory that Moses was not an Israelite and did not belong to the Hebrew stock and also that the Israelites never settled in Egypt. He advanced the has following arguments in support of this strange and baseless claim: 2003 1. That Moses is an Egyptian name. 2. That the idea of the Oneness of