The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 747
PT. 23 YĀ SIN CH. 36 وَايَةٌ لَهُمُ الَّيْلُ نَسْلَخُ مِنْهُ النَّهَارَ فَإِذَا And a Sign for them is the. 38 هُم مُّظْلِمُونَ ) وَالشَّمْسُ تَجْرِى لِمُسْتَقَرٍ نَّهَا ذَلِكَ تَقْدِيرُ الْعَزِيزِ الْعَلِيمِن night from which We strip off the day, and lo! they are in darkness. 3238 39. And the sun is moving on the course prescribed for it. That is the decree of the Almighty, the All-Knowing God. 3239 وَالْقَمَرَ قَدَّرْنَهُ مَنَازِلَ حَتَّى عَادَ And for the moon We have. 40 كَالْعُرْجُونِ الْقَدِيمِ appointed stages, till it becomes again like an old dry branch of a palm-tree. 3240 لَا الشَّمْسُ يَنْبَغِى لَهَا أَنْ تُدْرِكَ It is not for the sun to. 41 overtake the moon, dnor can the 17:13; 40:62; 41:38. 6:97; 55:6. 10:6. 25:63. was pairs, which simply inconceivable at the time the Quran was revealed and among the people to whom it was revealed. Science now has discovered the truth that pairs exist in all things; in the vegetable kingdom and even in inorganic matter. It has yet to unfold this truth in all its various details. Even the so-called elements do not exist by themselves. They depend upon other things for their sustenance. This scientific truth applies to human intellect also. Until heavenly light descends, man cannot have true knowledge which is born of a combination of Divine revelation and human intelligence. 3238. Commentary: "Night" in Quranic terminology represents the period during which no fresh revelation descends from heaven, and "day" represents the time when a Divine Reformer is present in the world. The verse points to the law of the alternation of day and night and from it draws the moral that as in the physical world day follows night, similarly in the spiritual realm when darkness enshrouds the world, a Divine Reformer is raised to dispel it, and, then, again, after the lapse of a long time, spiritual light disappears, and there is darkness all round. The phenomenon continues uninterruptedly in both the spiritual and physical worlds. 2661 3239. Commentary: In the spiritual realm the sun may represent a Law-bearing Prophet. 3240. Commentary: As in the spiritual sense the sun stands for a Law-bearing Prophet, so does the moon represent a Prophet who follows the Shari'ah of the Law- bearing Prophet and who derives all spiritual light and life from him.