The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 321
PT. 18 R. 6. AL-MU'MINÜN 94. Say, 'My Lord, if Thou wilt show me that with which they are threatened. 95. My Lord, then place me not with the wrongdoing people. '2574 CH. 23 قُل رَّبِّ إِمَّا تُرِيَنِي مَا يُوْعَدُونَ رَبِّ فَلَا تَجْعَلْنِي فِي الْقَوْمِ الظَّلِمِينَ وَإِنَّا عَلَى أَنْ تُرِيَكَ مَا نَعِدُهُمْ And certainly We have the. 96 لَقَدِرُونَ power to show thee that with which We threaten them. 2575 اِدْفَعْ بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ السَّيِّئَةَ نَحْنُ Repel evil with that which. 97 is best. We are well acquainted with the things they allege. 2576 2574. Commentary: 40:78. 13:23; 16:126; 41:35. This and the next verse constitute at once a prayer and a prophecy. The present Surah was revealed towards the end of the Meccan period. The Holy Prophet was about to leave Mecca. His departure from Mecca was a signal and a sign that as the result of persistent denial and persecution and of his expulsion from his beloved native town by the Meccans, Divine punishment was about to overtake them. In this verse the Holy Prophet is taught to pray to God that when the threatened punishment should seize the Meccans he might not be among them in Mecca. While on the one hand the actual words of the verse, viz. "My Lord then place me not among the wrongdoing people" expressed prayer, on the other, they implied a prophecy that when actual punishment overtook the Meccans the Prophet would be far away from the scene of punishment. These words a أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يَصِفُونَ may also mean: "My Lord, grant that I may not be of the wrongdoing these people are people when punished by Thee, and grant that when get mastery over them I should act with justice and equity on that occasion. " By implication the verse admonishes Muslims that in the hour of their victory they should not behave proudly and arrogantly towards their vanquished and humbled enemies. 2575. Commentary: This verse confirms the fulfilment of the prophecy and the prayer embodied in vv. 94, 95 above. The expression(are able to do) which points to the Almightiness of God emphasizes the fact that the prayer and prophecy of the Holy Prophet embodied in the preceding two verses shall certainly be fulfilled. 2576. Commentary: In the preceding two verses we were told that punishment was about to overtake disbelievers and that at 2235