The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 628
CH. 32 AS-SAJDAH PT. 21 وَقَالُواءَ إِذَا ضَلَلْنَا فِي الْأَرْضِ إِنَّا لَفِي And they say, “What! When. 11 we are lost in the earth, shall we خَلْقٍ جَدِيدِ بَلْ هُمْ بِلِقَائِ رَبِّهِمْ then be raised up in the form كفُرُونَ of a new creation?” Nay, "but they disbelieve in the meeting with their Lord. 3066 قُلْ يَتَوَفَّكُمْ مَّلَكُ الْمَوْتِ الَّذِي وُكِّلَ Say, “The angel of death that. 12 بِكُمْ ثُمَّ إِلَى رَبِّكُمْ تُرْجَعُونَ has been put in charge of you will cause you to die; then to your Lord will you be brought back. ' R. 2. وَلَوْ تَرَى إِذِ الْمُجْرِمُونَ نَاكِسُوا If only thou couldst see. 13 when the guilty will hang down رُءُوسِهِمْ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ رَبَّنَا أَبْصَرْنَا their heads before their Lord, and وَسَمِعْنَا فَارْجِعْنَا نَعْمَلْ صَالِحًا إِنَّا مُوقِنُونَ say, 'Our Lord, we have seen and we have heard, so send us back that we may do good works for now we are convinced. '3066A "18:106; 29:24; 30:17. 23:101; 35:38; 39:59. and of voluntary motion; the breath of life; Divine revelation or inspiration; the Quran; angel; joy and happiness; mercy (Lane). See also 4:172 & 16:3. Commentary: becomes complete in the womb, it receives a soul; or the meaning may be that, after the spiritual development of a man becomes complete, he receives Divine revelation. 3066. Commentary: The argument has been put forward again and again in the Quran that if God can create and develop from mere earth a wonderful creation, He can also give man a new life after he is dead. or spirit in the verse may signify the divine soul, or spirit, or that subtle and incomprehensible thing in man which distinguishes him from, and establishes his superiority over, the animal kingdom and invests him, so to say, with Divine attributes. The word, as given under "Important Words," may here also signify Divine It has always happened that at the revelation, particularly the Quran. time of the appearance of a Divine The verse signifies that after the Reformer, the people to whom his physical development of the embryo | Message is addressed become divided 2542 3066A. Commentary: