The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 54
CH. 19 MARYAM PT. 16 قَالَ أَرَاغِبُ اَنْتَ عَنْ أَلِهَتِى He replied, “Dost thou turn. 47 يَا بْرُ هِيمُ لَبِنْ لَّمْ تَنْتَهِ لَاَرْجُمَنَّكَ Abraham? If thou cease not, I وَاهْجُرْنِي مَلِيَّا away from my gods, 0 shall surely cut off all relations with thee. Now leave me alone for a long while. '2189 "21:69; 29:25; 37:98. Punishment seems more is impossible without Atonement. So the mentioning together of the Divine attribute (the Gracious) and appropriately related to God's other attributes such as (the Subduer), the Divine punishment shows that it is) ذو انتقام, the Most Supreme) القهار Avenger) etc. In fact, every not asli. e. Divine grace, which is punishment is the result of the the cause of Divine punishment, defiance or disobedience of a rather it is its denial and rejection. particular Divine Sometimes a person is punished because he defies the Divine attribute attribute. (Satan), as stated above, may signify man's evil inclinations and propensities, his bad friends and associates and evil spirits that cast their shadows upon him and lead him deeper and deeper into sin and transgression. 2189. Important Words: I shall surely cut off_all لارجمنک relations with thee) is derived from They say i. e. he stoned him (the Great Forgiver), at another time punishment comes upon him because he disobeys the Divine attribute (Most Generous) and so on. In this verse, in fact in the whole Sūrah, ≤✰i. e. idolatry, has been repeatedly denounced and condemned in the strongest and most scathing terms and the Divine attribute Ji. e. the Gracious, has also been mentioned again and again because ♫✰ (idolatry) in every shape and form is the direct result of denial of asti. e. Divine grace. The two great idolatrous peoples-the Hindus and the Christians, have hopelessly i. e. I was made to live long with such fallen victim to the most degraded a one. means, he lived long. form of idolatry because they both means, he enjoyed a thing. deny asti. e. Divine grace-the means, a while or a long time. former by believing in to death; he murdered him; he accused or slandered him; he cursed him; he abused him; he drove him away; he cut off all relations with him (Lane & Aqrab). See also 3:37. مليت فلاناً a long while). They say)ملياً ,means الليل | the مرملی من a large part of the indestructibility and eternity of matter night passed away. ୪ means, he and soul and the latter by subscribing waited for him for a long time to the foolish doctrine that salvation | (Aqrab). 1968