The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 603
PT. 21 AR-RŪM CH. 30 وَمَا أَنْتَ بِهِدِ الْعُمُيِ عَنْ ضَللَتِهِمْ إِنْ Nor canst thou guide the. 54 blind out of their error. Thou تُسْمِعُ إِلَّا مَنْ يُؤْمِنُ بِايْتِنَا فَهُمْ canst make only those to hear مُسْلِمُونَ who would believe in Our Signs and they submit. 3027 R. 6. اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُمْ مِنْ ضَعْفِ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ It is Allah Who created you. 55 مِنْ بَعْدِ ضَعْفٍ قُوَّةَ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنْ بَعْدِقُوَّةِ ;weakness gave you strength b= ضَعُفَا وَشَيْبَةٌ يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَاءُ وَهُوَ الْعَلِيمُ الْقَدِيرُ in a state of weakness, and after then, after strength, caused weakness and old age. He creates what He pleases. He is the All-knowing, the Powerful. 3028 All- "10:44; 27:82. 40:68. spiritual renaissance of a morally decrepit people. A people virtually as good as dead receive a new life through a Divine Prophet. 3027. Commentary: The verse points to another natural law, viz. that it is man himself who his destiny. No Prophet or Divine revelation can lead a man to God unless he has the will to makes or mars listen to truth. He who refuses to listen to truth ends by his heart having been sealed up, but he who is prepared to listen to truth is led up to it. The initiative first must come from man himself, the result then follows from God. 3028. Commentary: the been created weak or in a state of weakness. This form of expression has been used to emphasize man's weakness, the words signifying that he is the very embodiment of weakness. A parallel expression has been used in 21:38 where expressioni. e. man has been created of haste, means that impatience and haste form a part of man's nature. The implication of the verse may be that from extremely will rise to a very high political and insignificant beginnings the Arabs spiritual stature through the Holy attained the heights of glory and then after having Prophet, and grandeur will relapse into their original obscurity and weakness. Or may have a general application pointing to the law of the rise and fall of nations. ضعف The clause which the verse خلقكم من | literally means, He created you from weakness, really means that man has 2517