The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 560
CH. 29 AL-'ANKABŪT PT. 20 إِنَّمَا تَعْبُدُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللهِ اَوثَانًا You only worship idols. 18 وَتَخْلُقُوْنَ اِفْعًا إِنَّ الَّذِيْنَ تَعْبُدُونَ مِنْ lie. Those whom you worship دُونِ اللهِ لَا يَمْلِكُونَ لَكُمْ رِزْقًا فَابْتَغُوا عِنْدَ اللهِ الرِّزْقَ وَاعْبُدُوهُ وَاشْكُرُواله إِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ beside Allah, and you forge a beside Allah have no power to provide sustenance for you. Then seek sustenance from Allah, and worship Him, and be grateful to Him. Unto Him will you be brought back. 2952 وَاِنْ تُكَذِّبُوا فَقَدْ كَذَّبَ اُمَرَّ مِنْ And if you reject, then. 19 generations before you also قَبْلِكُمْ وَمَا عَلَى الرَّسُوْلِ إِلَّا الْبَلغ rejected. And the Messenger is الْمُبِينُ only responsible for the clear conveying of the Message. '2953 اَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا كَيْفَ يُبْدِ اللهُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ See they not how Allah. 20 originates creation, then repeats it? That surely is easy for يُعِيدُهُ إِنَّ ذَلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرُ Allah. 2954 10:19; 16:72; 22:72. 16:36; 24:55; 36:18. 10:35; 21:105; 27:65; 30:12, 28. 2952. Important Words: comfort the Holy Prophet that if he has been rejected and accused of is falsehood, great Prophets before him تخلقون you forge lies) تخلقون أفكا formed from. They say si. e. he measured it, or he determined its measure, or proportion, he designed, or fashioned, or planned it; he made it according to a certain measure, or design; He (God) created it; He originated it; he forged a story or lie; he fabricated a saying. An Arab would say i. e. such a one related to us fictitious stories (Lane & Aqrab). See also 3:50 & 26:138. 2953. Commentary: After citing the cases of Noah and Abraham, the Surah proceeds to like Noah and Abraham were also rejected. 2954. Commentary: In this verse the attention of disbelievers is drawn to the divine law of creation and reproduction and they are told that God has designed and decreed that He would create through the Holy Prophet a 2474 new humanity and a new order on the ashes of the old one, and that if they persisted in their rejection of him they will be doomed and another people will take their place.