The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 476
The Arabs had completely despaired of their future. They heedlessly wallowed in the quagmire of immoral ways and practices and rejected the Holy Prophet's message and refused to believe that there was a life after death and that they will be required to render an account of their deeds. Morally and spiritually they were virtually a dead people, but they received a new life through the Quran. The water of Divine revelation descended upon the bleak and barren soil of Arabia and it bloomed and blossomed and pulsated with a new vigorous life and by acting upon its teachings the Arabs, who were erstwhile the scum and dregs of humanity, became its leaders and teachers. This marvellous revolution constituted a proof positive of the fact that God Who could raise a spiritually dead people to new life had the power to raise the dead to life again after they would become bones and particles of dust. The Surah closes on the note on which it had begun, viz. the subject of the Quranic revelation, and proclaims that God has chosen Mecca as the centre for His last Message and that from this town shall emanate a divine light which will illumine the whole world. It further declares that in order to add effulgence and lustre to the light of the Quran God will show mighty Signs in every age. 2390