The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 393
PT. 18 AL-FURQAN CH. 25 أنْظُرْ كَيْفَ ضَرَبُوا لَكَ الْأَمْثَالَ coin 10. "See how they similitudes for thee! Thus they have gone astray and cannot find a way. 2648 & فَضَلُّوا فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ سَبِيْلان R. 2. please, will assign to thee better if تَبْرَكَ الَّذِي إِنْ شَاءَ جَعَلَ لَكَ خَيْرًا مِنْ Blessed is He Who, He. 11 ذلِكَ جَنَّتٍ تَجْرِى مِنْ تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهرُ than all that gardens through b which rivers flow and will also assign to thee palaces. 2649 "17:49. 17:92. وَيَجْعَل لَّكَ قُصُورًا the preceding verse is continued in predecessor. The words "exalted is the verse under comment. "The He" signify that the disbelievers' idea Prophet," the disbelievers say, of what a Divine Prophet should be "should have possessed treasures of like, is far removed from reality and wealth which he should have betrays their ignorance of the very distributed among his followers. He object and purpose for which should also have had other Prophets are raised. The Prophets are accessories of greatness in the form raised to lead men out of the darkness of gardens and fountains. But he has of doubt and disbelief into the light of none of these things. He seems to be certainty and spiritual bliss. The a bewitched, or, at best a self-disbelievers want to see the Holy deceived man, a man who lives in a world of his own imagination, in a fool's paradise. " 2648. Commentary: With this verse begins the refutation of the disbelievers' objections mentioned in the preceding verses. The verse purports to say that these people have a very poor concept of the real values of life, and have set up criteria of their own devising, to test the truth of Divine Messengers, with the result that instead of finding the right path they continue to grope in the darkness of doubt and disbelief. 2649. Commentary: Prophet rolling and revelling in wealth. But such an idea is inconsistent with, and casts a reflection on, the Holiness of God. The verse further signifies that although the self-devised criterion of disbelievers, namely, that to prove the truth of his mission the Holy Prophet must possess wealth, rank, gardens and palaces, has no weight or substance, yet in order to bring home to them the falsity of their position God will give the Holy Prophet and his followers more wealth and bigger and better gardens and palaces than those of the disbelievers' demand. And was not this demand fully and The verse continues the theme of its completely fulfilled? Did not the 2307