The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 677
PT. 22 AL-AḤZĀB CH. 33 خُلِدِينَ فِيهَا أَبَدًا لَا يَجِدُونَ وَلِيًّا وَلَا Wherein they will abide. 66 نَصِيرًان forever. They will find therein no friend nor helper. يَوْمَ تُقَلَّبُ وُجُوهُهُمْ فِي النَّارِ يَقُولُونَ On the day when their faces. 67 يليْتَنَا أَطَعْنَا اللَّهَ وَأَطَعْنَا الرَّسُولَا are turned over in the fire, they will say, "O, would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger! '3124 b Lord, we obeyed our chiefs and our great ones and they led us astray from the way. 3125 وَقَالُوا رَبَّنَا إِنَّا أَطَعْنَا سَادَتَنَا وَكُبَرَاءَنَا And they will say Our. 68 فَأَضَلُّوْنَا السَّبِيلَا رَبَّنَا أَتِهِمْ ضِعْفَيْنِ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ Our Lord, give them double. 69 وَالْعَنْهُمْ لَعْنًا كَبِيرًان punishment and curse them with & a very great curse. ' R. 9. يَايُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ O ye who believe! be not. 70 أَذَوْا مُوْسٰى فَبَرَّاهُ اللهُ مِمَّا قَالُوا وَكَانَ عِنْدَ اللهِ وَجِيهان like those who vexed and slandered Moses; but Allah cleared him of what they spoke "25:28. b7:39; 14:22; 28:64; 34:32-33; 40:48-49. 3124. Important Words: وجه which (faces) is the plural of. means face, direction; object and motive; deed or action to which a person directs his attention; the thing itself; the desired way. also means leaders; prominent persons. The word seems to have been used in this sense in the present verse. See also 2:113, 149. 3125. Commentary: In the preceding verse reference was made to the leaders of disbelief. 2591 Here the rank and file are mentioned. It is human nature that when mischief-makers are punished, they seek to shift the blame for their evil deeds to others. The leaders blame their followers for following them blindly and the rank and file accuse their leaders of deceiving them by superior intellect. In the next verse the followers demand that double punishment be inflicted on their leaders for their own evil deeds and for having misled them.