The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 326
among My servants who said, a6 PT. 18 قَالَ اخْسَتُوْا فِيهَا وَلَا تُكَلِّمُونِ ® CH. 23 AL-MU'MINUN 109. God will say, "Away with you, despised therein, and speak not unto Me. 2583 إِنَّهُ كَانَ فَرِيقٌ مِّنْ عِبَادِى يَقُولُونَ There was a party from. 110 رَبَّنَا آمَنَّا فَاغْفِرْلَنَا وَارْحَمْنَا وَأَنتَ Our Lord, we believe, forgive خَيْرُ الرَّحِمِينَ فَاتَّخَذْتُمُوْهُمْ سِخْرِيَّا حَتَّى اَنْسَوْكُمْ ذِكْرِى وَكُنْتُمْ مِّنْهُمْ تَضْحَكُونَ us therefore our sins, and have mercy on us; for Thou art the Best of those who show mercy. ' 111. But you made them a laughing-stock until they became the cause of your forgetting My remembrance while you continued to laugh at them. 2584 93:17,194. means, he frightened him with grinning, severe-looking or frowning. means, severe time (Lane & Aqrab). 2583. Important Words: fully conversant with their doings. 2584. Important Words: (laughing stock) is derived mocked at, laughed at, derided or ie. he سخر منه They say. سخر from means, the سخرت السفينة ,away with you despised) is ridiculed him) اخسئوا سخره obeyed and ran its course. (sakhkhara) means, he compelled him to do what he did not like; or to work without recompense, hire or derived from which means, he ship had a good wind and voyage; it was or became vile and despised and hated. They say i. e. he drove away the dog. all means, the sight was or became dazzled or confused, or dim. despised or hated; confused, dazzled or dim (Lane & Aqrab). Commentary: ,means خاسئی سخری. wages The despisers and haters of God's Messengers will be dragged into Hellfire hated and despised and will not be allowed to offer an explanation of the wicked deeds they would have committed in their lives, God being 2240 or (sikhriyyun) سخری means mockery; scoff; derision; ridicule; one who is mocked at, scoffed at, derided or ridiculed; one who is compelled to work against his will, without wages or compensation (Lane & Aqrab). See also 2:165; 2:213. Commentary: The verse means to say that the believers were weak and the