The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4)

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CH. 33 PT. 21 ركوعاتها 9 سُورَةُ الْأَحْزَابِ مَدَنِيَّةُ ۳۳ ياتها ٧٤ بسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ يَا يُّهَا النَّبِيُّ اتَّقِ اللَّهَ وَلَا تُطِعِ الْكَفِرِينَ seek (AL-AḤZĀB) 1. "In the name of Allah the Gracious, the Merciful. 3075 2. O thou Prophet, protection in Allah, and follow not the wishes disbelievers and the hypocrites. Verily, Allah is All-Knowing, Wise. 3075A وَالْمُنْفِقِينَ إِنَّ اللهَ كَانَ عَلِيمًا حَكِيمًان of the وَاتَّبِعْ مَا يُوحَى إِلَيْكَ مِنْ رَّبِّكَ إِنَّ اللهَ And follow that which is. 3 كَانَ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرًان revealed to thee from thy Lord. Verily, Allah is Well-Aware of what you do. وَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللهِ وَكَفَى بِاللهِ وَكِيلًا ,And put thy trust in Allah. 4 and Allah is sufficient as a Guardian. 3076 "Seel:1. 07:204; 10:16, 110; 46:10. 3:160; 4:7; 26:218. 3075. Commentary: See. 1:1. 3075A. Commentary: In deference to his very exalted spiritual rank the Holy Prophet has been addressed as (the Prophet) in the present verse and at several other places in the Quran. No other Prophet in any revealed Scripture or in the Quran has been addressed as such. All the Prophets have been addressed by their proper names. This peculiarity of address for the Holy Prophet has been adopted to show that he alone is i. e. the Prophet par excellence. Or the reference in this form of address may be to a Biblical prophecy in which the advent of "that Prophet" has been foretold. The prophecy clearly and definitely applies only to the Holy Prophet. Incidentally, according to Quranic idiom the word (the Prophet) implies also the followers of the Holy Prophet. 3076. Commentary: In v. 2 above the Holy Prophet and his disciples were exhorted to take God as a means of protection. In this verse they have been enjoined to put their complete trust in Him alone. This insistence about reliance on Divine help and protection implied that very hard days were ahead of the Holy Prophet and the Muslims and, by this exhortation to rely on God, 2552