The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 604
CH. 30 AR-RŪM PT. 21 وَيَوْمَ تَقُوْمُ السَّاعَةُ يُقْسِمُ الْمُجْرِمُونَ And on the day when the. 56 Hour shall arrive the guilty will مَا لَبِثُوا غَيْرَ سَاعَةٍ كَذَلِكَ كَانُوا swear that they tarried not save يُؤْفَكُونَ an hour thus were they turned away from the right path. 302 وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْعِلْمَ وَالْإِيْمَانَ لَقَدْ But those who are given. 57 knowledge and faith will say, لَبِثْتُمْ فِي كِتَبِ اللهِ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْبَعْثِ tarried 'You have indeed according to the Book of Allah, till the Day of Resurrection. And this is the Day of Resurrection, but you did not care to know. '3030 b 58. So % on فَهُذَا يَوْمُ الْبَعْثِ وَلكِنَّكُم كُنتُم لَا تَعْلَمُونَ فَيَوْمَبِذٍ لَّا يَنْفَعُ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا that day, their مَعْذِرَتُهُمْ وَلَا هُمْ يُسْتَعْتَبُوْنَ excuses will not avail the wrongdoers; nor will they be allowed to make amends. 3030A 3029. Commentary: 10:46; 46:36. 16:85; 41:25; 45:36. The verse means to say that when the hour of the triumph of Islam arrives and disbelief suffers defeat, the disbelievers will realize to their mortification and sorrow that the time of their prosperity and glory was indeed very short. It was but an hour! 3030. Commentary: The verse purports to say that when disbelievers will have realized to their discomfiture that the time of their prosperity and progress was very short, they will be told by true believers that according to divine decree they (disbelievers) were left alone to indulge in vice and sin up to the Day of Resurrection i. e. till the 2518 advent of a Divine Prophet, when all their prosperity and grandeur was to have come to an end. Thus the words "Day of Resurrection" do not refer to Resurrection after death but to the rise and fall of nations in this world. The disbelievers or Christian nations of the West are here warned that their final destruction will take place after the renaissance of Islam in the Latter Days and not, as they misunderstand, in the time of its first phenomenal rise and spread. 3030A. Important Words: allowed to make amends) is) يستعتبون derived from. They say i. e. he was angry with him; he reproved means, I ما عتبت بابه. or censured him