The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 174
PT. 17 فَلَا تَسْتَعْجِلُونِ CH. 21 AL-ANBIYA' Signs but ask Me not to hasten. 2378 وَيَقُولُونَ مَتَى هُذَا الْوَعْدُ اِنْ كُنتُم And they say, “When will. 39 صدِقِينَ this promise be fulfilled, if you are truthful?'2379 لَوْ يَعْلَمُ الَّذِيْنَ كَفَرُوا حِيْنَ لَا يَكْفُونَ If only the disbelievers. 40 knew the time when they will عَنْ وُجُوهِهِمُ النَّارَ وَلَا عَنْ not be able to ward off the fire ظُهُورِهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يُنْصَرُونَ from their faces nor from their backs, and they will not be helped! 2380 من. "34:30; 36:49; 67:26. 2378. Important Words: The clause means that haste forms a part of man's being and is so prominent a trait of his character and he is so hasty by nature that he can be said to have been created, as it were, out of haste i. e. he has been given a hasty disposition. The words "but ask me not to hasten," support this meaning. At another place in the Quran, we have (30:55) which also means that man by nature is very weak. Similarly, the verse من means, that Satan خلقتني من نار و خلقته طين by nature is a fire-eater and man is by nature submissive (7:13). When the Arabs have to express a prominent natural characteristic of a person they sayai. e. he has been created of it. . i. e خلقت من لعب An Arab would say thou hast been created of sport i. e. "you love and indulge very much in sport" (Lisān). Commentary: The verse means to say that disbelievers treat the Holy Prophet 2088 with contempt because of the delay that has occurred in the Divine punishment overtaking them. They are warned that this delay should not mislead them into believing that they will go scot-free and that they should not reject the Message of Islam in haste and that the time was fast approaching when the prophecies made by the Prophet about the triumph and victory of Islam will be fulfilled and the punishment of God will descend on them swift and hard. 2379. Commentary: The reference in the words, when will this promise be fulfilled, is to the sign of punishment referred to in the preceding verse. The disbelievers demanded that they should be punished for their rejection of the Holy Prophet there and then. It is to this impatience of theirs that the verse refers. 2380. Commentary: The context shows and the wording