The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 369
CH. 24 أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يُزْجِي سَحَابًا ثُمَّ يُؤَلِّفُ not seen that PT. 18 AN-NŪR 44. Hast thou not "Allah drives the clouds, then them up so that thou seest rain issue forth from the midst رُكَامًا فَتَرَى الْوَدْقَ بَيْنَهُ ثُمَّ يَجْعَلُهُ رُ فى الود joins them together, then piles يَخْرُجُ مِنْ خِلِلِهِ وَيُنَزِّلُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مِنْ جِبَالِ فِيهَا مِنْ بَرَدِ فَيُصِيبُ بِهِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ thereof? And He sends down like Ь وَيَصْرِفُهُ عَنْ مَّنْ يَشَاءُ يَكَادُ سَنَا بَرْقِهِ mountains wherein is hail, and يَذْهَبُ بِالْأَبْصَارِ from the sky clouds He smites therewith whom He pleases, and turns it away from whom He pleases. The flash of its lightning may well-nigh take away the sight. 2624 "30:49. 13:14. whose whole attention and efforts are devoted to material pursuits and who have no thought or time for spiritual things, and the words "the birds with their wings outstretched" would apply to those people whose spiritual condition is midway between that of the two above-mentioned categories. At one time they soar spiritually so high as to touch the very confines of the celestial firmament and at another time sink so low as to grovel in the dirt and dust of the earth. God the words, "each one knows his own mode of prayer and praise," refer to the evidence which everything bears to Divine Unity and Holiness individually and separately by carrying out faithfully the task allotted to it by God. This may be the significance of the words "his own mode of prayer and praise. " (prayer) has different meanings with reference to different objects; used about God, it means Divine mercy; used about angels, it means their asking | may forgiveness of God for men and used كل قد علم صلاته و تسبيحه The words mean: (i) each one of these beings and things knows his or its own mode of prayer and praise; (ii) God knows the reality of the prayer and praise of each one of these classes, God being the subject of the verb. Moreover, whereas the clause "Whose praises all who are in the heavens and the earth celebrate," refers to the collective testimony that the whole universe bears to the Unity and Holiness of 2283 about men it means the prescribed form of Prayer (Lane & Aqrab). 2624. Important Words: (piles up) is derived from Sv. They say i. e. he heaped up, piled up or accumulated the thing; he collected together the thing and put one part of it upon another. b means, clouds or sand collected together and piled up (Lane & Aqrab).