The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 185
PT. 17 AL-ANBIYA' they said, 'Certainly thou knowest well that these do not speak. '2400 CH. 21 مَا هَؤُلَاء يَنْطِقُونَ قَالَ أَفَتَعْبُدُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللهِ مَا He said, “Do you then. 67 لَا يَنْفَعُكُمْ شَيْئًا وَلَا يَضُرُّكُمْ worship, instead of Allah, that which cannot profit you at all, nor harm you? افٍ لَّكُمْ وَلِمَا تَعْبُدُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللهِ Fie on you and on that. 68 أفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ which you worship instead of Allah! Will you not understand?' 2401 then قَالُوا حَرِّقُوهُ وَانْصُرُوا لِهَتَكُمْ إِن They said, “Burn him and. 69 help your gods, if at all you "29:18; 37:96. 29:25; 37:98. 2400. Important Words: their heads were made) نكسوا على رؤوسهم or نکسه derived from They say 2401. Important Words: For (fie) see 17:24. is to hang low for shame). (nakkasahu) i. e. he turned it over or upside down; changed its manner of being or state; he turned it over upon its head. awmeans, he bent or lowered or hung down his head towards the ground for shame or by ,means نكس المريض. reason of abasement illness returned or reverted to the sick man. means, the man became weak and powerless (Lane, Aqrab & Ma'ānī). Thus the Quranic expression afweer de lem would mean, (a) they returned to their former state of disbelief, or wicked behaviour; (b) they reverted to disputation after they had taken the right course; (c) they hung down their heads in shame and were completely dumbfounded, or their heads were made to hang low for shame. Commentary: Abraham denounced the false beliefs of his idolatrous people with a courage and boldness which is the special characteristic of God's Prophets. 2099 'Abraham', says Dr. F. M. T. Bohl, D. D. , Ph. D. in Enc. Brit. 'is no leader of a Bedouin tribe seeking plunder and conquest; his significance lies rather in the field of religion. He is not, in the first instance, the progenitor of a people but the founder and leader of a religious movement. Like Muḥammad many centuries later, he stood at the head of a great movement among the Semitic peoples and tribes. . . While Abraham's forefathers served other gods (Josh. 24:2), 'the God who redeemed Abraham was the same as the God of Moses and Elijah'. See also 6:75.