The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 108
CH. 20 ṬĀHĀ PT. 16 كُلُوا وَارْعَوْا أَنْعَامَكُمْ إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ Eat ye and pasture your. 55 cattle. Verily, in this are Signs for those endowed with & reason. 2274 R. 3. لايتٍ لِأُولِي النُّهى مِنْهَا خَلَقْنَكُمْ وَفِيهَا نُعِيدُكُمْ وَمِنْهَا From this earth have We. 56 تُخْرِجُكُمْ تَارَةً أَخْرى created you, and into it shall We cause you to return, and from it shall We bring you forth once more. 2275 a10:25; 25:50; 32:28. 07:26; 71:18-19. 2274. Important Words: (reason) is derived from (naha). They say is css i. e. he forbade him to do such a thing. (nuha) is the plural of as (nuhyatun) which means, reason. It is so called because reason restrains a man from doing what is bad and from all that which is contrary to common sense (Aqrab). Commentary: reason and The truths narrated in the previous verse constitute "Signs" or proofs of the existence of God. They also prove the need of Divine revelation, because they show that if God has made so much provision for the physical needs of man, He must have made similar provision for his spiritual needs also. 2275. Commentary: The words, into it shall We cause you to return, give rise to a natural question, viz. where does human soul go after man dies and his body decays and is completely dissolved? The answer to this question as given by the Quran is that the human soul acquires a new body after its departure from its physical habitat and also an abode according to the nature of the deeds which man may Man's real sepulchre is the place to have done during his life on earth. which God consigns his soul after death according to his works in this life. It is not the pit in which his dead body is placed. It is an abode of happiness or misery according to his spiritual condition. The sentence, And from this earth shall We bring you forth once more, points to the supreme truth that man's life does not end with the extinction and dissolution of his physical body, as it is pregnant with too big an import to end with the latter's decay and death. If life had no great purpose God would not have created it, and after having created it He would not have made it subject to death unless there had been an afterlife. So if death were the end of all life, then the creation of man would have been "a mere sport and pastime" and this would have constituted a great reflection on the wisdom of God. The 2022