The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 625
PT. 21 AS-SAJDAH CH. 32 اللهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا Allah! it is Who created the. 5 heavens and the earth, and that بَيْنَهُمَا فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ ثُمَّ اسْتَوَى عَلَى which is between them, in six الْعَرْشِ مَالَكُمْ مِنْ دُونِهِ مِنْ وَلِي وَلَا شَفِيعٍ أَفَلَا تَتَذَكَّرُونَ periods; then He settled Himself on the Throne. You have no helper or intercessor beside Him. Will you not then reflect?3061 07:55; 11:8; 25:60. binding, incumbent or due or it was or became suitable to the requirements of wisdom, justice, truth and right (Aqrab & Lane). See also 2:43, 148. Commentary: In view of the different meanings of the word the verse would mean that the fact that the Quran is i. e. it has been revealed consistently with the requirements of wisdom, truth and justice, constitutes an infallible argument that it is not a forgery. Long centuries had passed since no Divine Messenger had appeared among the Arabs. It was, therefore, in the fitness of things that a Prophet should have been sent to these people. The Holy Prophet has come in the fulness of time, in accordance with the Divine plan, and the prophecies of God's great Prophets such as Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, Isaiah, Daniel, Jesus, etc. 3061. Commentary: The present Surah is the last of the J group. The central theme of these four Surahs (29-32), as shown above, is the regeneration of a people who had sunk deep in the morass of moral turpitude and who were now to be raised to the apex of spiritual glory 2539 through the Holy Prophet Muḥammad. This awakening to new life of a morally dead people has been adduced as an argument in support of Resurrection and the Hereafter. In all these Surahs this subject has been introduced with reference to the creation of the universe. The words (six periods) point to a divine law which works with equal force in both the physical and spiritual worlds, viz. that in order to find their fullest development all things have to pass through six stages of evolution and it is at the seventh stage that they attain perfection and completion. Likewise, Islam would also pass through six stages of and would see its expansion completion in the seventh stage. (For a fuller discussion of this subject see "Tafsir-e-Kabir" by Ḥaḍrat Khalifatul Masīḥ II, under 10:4). The words, "then He settled Himself on the Throne" point to the fact that just as after the creation of the physical universe God settled Himself on the Throne, which means that all the affairs of the universe began to be conducted through fixed laws of nature, similarly after the establishment of Islam on earth, all spiritual progress will be attainable