The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 740
CH. 36 R. 2. YĀ SIN PT. 22 وَاضْرِبْ لَهُمْ مَّثَلًا أَصْحُبَ الْقَرْيَةِ And set forth to them the. 14 إِذْ جَاءَهَا الْمُرْسَلُونَ parable of a people of the town, when the Messengers came to it. 3222 15. When We sent to them two Messengers, and they rejected إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْهِمُ اثْنَيْنِ فَكَذَّبُوهُمَا فَعَزَّزُنَا بِثَالِثٍ فَقَالُوا إِنَّا إِلَيْكُمُ them both; so We strengthened مُرْسَلُونَ them by a third, and they said, 'Verily we have been sent to you as Messengers. 3223 3222. Important Words: (the town) is infinitive-noun from. They say i. e. he قرى الماء فى الحوض. entertained the guest means, he collected the water in the pond. means, a town, a central town. It is so called because people from all quarters gather there and also because they are entertained there. The word also means, gathering of men (Aqrab). Commentary: A part of the Surah deals, in metaphorical language, with the advent of a great Reformer in the Latter Days who was to represent the Second Coming of the Holy Prophet. This important subject begins with the present verse. town or or The word may have been used here in its wider sense meaning any place, speaking metaphorically, it may stand for the whole world. The whole world has been called a here because in the Latter Days the means of commun- ication were to develop SO extensively that the whole world was to become, as it were, one town. In this sense of the word the expression may signify humanity at large. The use of the word "parable" with regard to the account of i. e. people of the town, seems to lend further support to the view that may not be a particular town that has been mentioned here. The whole account is a parable or simile. the) المرسلون word Or the word signifying a particular town may refer to Mecca, the Centre and Citadel of Islam. In that case the Messengers) will apply to the Holy Prophet in whose person all the Messengers and Prophets of God were represented. See next verse. 3223. Commentary: 2654 The verse by way of introduction to the main subject makes a brief to two reference great Israelite Prophets, Moses and Jesus, one the Founder, and the other the great exponent of the Jewish Dispensation. If the word in the preceding verse may be taken as referring to Mecca, the two Messengers mentioned