The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 152

and eminence, and when other nations of the world will have bowed down to them in submission and have paid homage to them, then will the promise about their ultimate destruction be fulfilled. Divine punishment will come down upon them so sudden and swift that they will be taken completely by surprise. All their handiworks, the source and cause of their pride, and all their pomp, glory and grandeur will be destroyed and reduced to ashes and dust. The Surah ends on the note that the Holy Prophet has been sent as a mercy of God that he may save mankind from the curse of Atonement and may open for the sinners the gates of redemption and Divine mercy through repentance and Divine grace and that he may proclaim Unity of God to the whole world and may warn disbelievers of the great punishment that is in store for them. 2066