The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 618
CH. 31 LUQMAN PT. 21 لِلهِ مَا فِي السَّمَوتِ وَالْأَرْضِ إِنَّ اللهَ To Allah belongs whatever. 27 هُوَ الْغَنِيُّ الْحَمِيدُ وَلَوْ اَنَّ مَا فِي الْأَرْضِ مِنْ شَجَرَةٍ اَقْلَام وَ الْبَحْرُ يَمُدُّهُ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ سَبْعَةُ اَبُحْرٍ مَّا نَفِدَتْ كَلِمَتُ اللهِ إِنَّ اللهَ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمُ is in the heavens and the earth. Verily, Allah is the Self- Sufficient, the Praiseworthy. 28. And if all the trees that are in the earth were pens, and the ocean were ink, with seven oceans swelling it thereafter, the words of Allah would not be exhausted. Surely, Allah is Mighty, Wise, 3051 مَا خَلْقَكُمْ وَلَا بَعْثُكُمْ إِلَّا كَنَفْسٍ Your creation and your. 29 وَاحِدَةٍ إِنَّ اللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ بَصِيرٌ yourýaďák resurrection are only like the creation and resurrection of a single soul. Verily, Allah is All- Hearing, All-Seeing. 3052 "2:285; 10:56; 24:65. 18:110. provision for his moral and spiritual needs. This refusal to accept a clear conclusion shows that disbelievers are an ignorant and perverse people. Moreover, while they admit in their heart of hearts that God is the sole Creator of the universe, their actions do not conform to their admission. They associate partners with Him. This fact also sets the seal upon their folly and ignorance. 3051. Commentary: Overawed by the vastness of the size of an object of nature or the extraordinary powers of a human being, men of low intellect and weak faith are prone to ascribe Divine attributes to them. It is the disbelievers are overawed into attributing Divine powers to a big object of nature, or a great man, while the great universe of which God is the sole Architect is an inexhaustible storehouse of unfathomable mysteries, infinitely larger in number than the wonderful things that meet the eye. So it is absurd on the part of disbelievers to take an object of nature or a human being as God on the score of his or its being seemingly extraordinary. It may also be noted that numbers "7" and "70" are used in Arabic to denote a very large number, and not exactly "seven" and "seventy" as ordinary numerals. untenability of this position that the 3052. Commentary: verse under comment seeks to The verse tells disbelievers that all expose. It purports to say that human beings, great or small, are 2532