The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 742
CH. 36 YĀ SIN PT. 22 b قَالُوا طَابِرُكُمْ مَّعَكُمُ ابنُ They replied, Your evil. 20 ذُكِرْتُمْ بَلْ أَنْتُمْ قَوْم مُّسْرِفُونَ ) fortune is with your ownselves. have been admonished? Nay, Do you say this because you you are a people transgressing all bounds. '3225A وَجَاءَ مِنْ أَقْصَا الْمَدِينَةِ رَجُلٌ يَسْعَى قَالَ And from the farthest part. 21 يقَوْمِ اتَّبِعُوا المُرْسَلِينَ ) of the town there came a man running. He said, 'O my people, follow the Messengers, 3226 Commentary: "28:21. When as a result of their rejection of the Divine Message disbelievers are visited with heavenly punishment in the form of calamities and misfortunes, then instead of repenting and mending their ways, they seek to attribute those visitations to the "inauspicious" advent of the Prophet himself. Moses was taunted by the Israelites for having brought all the misfortunes with him in the words, "We were made to suffer before thou camest to us and even after thou camest to us (7:130). Similarly, all other Prophets were taunted and mocked by disbelievers. It is to this attitude of disbelievers that the words, "surely we augur evil fortune from you", refer. 3225A. Commentary: 17:14. sayings of the Holy Prophet. In one of his very well-known sayings the Holy Prophet is reported to have said: If. . . لو كان الايمان معلقا بالثريا لناله رجل من أبناء فارس the Faith were to go up to the Pleiades, a man from among the sons of Persia would bring it down to the earth (Bukhārī, Kitābut-Tafsir). a may (the town) in the expression (farthest part of the town) stand for (36:14) or for a i. e. the town of the Holy Prophet. In the latter sense of the word, the expression may signify that the Promised Messiah would be born in a place far away from all the second Centre and Headquarters of Islam. In another verse of the Quran (17:2), the scene of the Second Advent of the Holy Prophet has been spoken of as also means, your works. See (i. e. the Distant Mosque. 3226. Commentary: The implied reference in the word Jsignifying "a great man", may be to the Promised Messiah who has been referred to as in several 2656 Words analogous in meaning and significance to the word (running) have also been used about the Promised Messiah by the Holy Prophet in some of his sayings which point to his tireless, quick and indefatigable work for the cause of Islam.