The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 647
PT. 21 AL-AḤZĀB CH. 33 ج يَحْسَبُونَ الْأَحْزَابَ لَمْ يَذْهَبُوا وَ إِنْ the 21. They think that Confederates have not gone should come again, they would يَأْتِ الْأَحْزَابُ يَوَدُّوا لَوْ أَنَّهُمْ بَادُونَ away; and if the Confederates فِي الْأَعْرَابِ يَسْأَلُونَ عَنْ أَنْبَابِكُمْ wish to be among the nomad وَلَوْ كَانُوا فِيكُمْ مَّا قَتَلُوا إِلَّا قَلِيلًا في Arabs in the desert, asking for news about you. And if they ☑ were among you, they would fight but little. 3089 R. 3. لَقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللهِ أَسْوَةٌ Verily, you have in the. 22 Prophet of Allah "an excellent حَسَنَةٌ لِمَنْ كَانَ يَرْجُوا اللهَ وَالْيَوْمَ الْآخِرَ model for him who fears Allah "3:32. thing in preference to others. means, niggardliness, avarice. means, niggardly or stingy, or niggardly in the utmost degree; and excessively or culpably desirous or avaricious or covetous (Aqrab & Lane). (they assail you). They say i. e. he pierced him with the lance, means, he smote him or taunted him with speech. b means, he beat him with the whip till they are very greedy of getting money and taunt the Muslims if their greed is not satisfied. In fact, niggardliness or miserliness and greediness are two facets of the same bad quality. A miser must also be greedy. A person is miser in so far as the giving of anything by him to another person is concerned and he is greedy in so far as the taking of something from someone else is. concerned | سلق البرد النبات his skin became flayed means, cold burned the herbage (Aqrab & Lane). Commentary: As shown under "Important Words" the word possesses the sense of both niggardliness and greed. Both these senses have been expressed in the words used twice in the verse under comment. In the former place the expression means that the hypocrites are very niggardly in giving help to the Muslims and in the latter the same expression means that 2561 3089. Commentary: With 13th verse the description had begun of a hypocrite's state of mind, particularly when he is face to face with danger. The picture has become complete with the present verse. The hypocrite is a coward and a defeatist. He is a liar and has no regard for pledges solemnly made. He is treacherous, disloyal and perfidious. He is niggardly and greedy. In short he is the complete antithesis of a true believer.