The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 753
PT. 23 YĀ SIN 3253 CH. 36 مبين و أَنِ اعْبُدُونِى هَذَا صِرَاطٌ مُسْتَقِيمُ وَلَقَدْ أَضَلَّ مِنْكُمْ جِبِلًّا كَثِيرًا ۖ أَفَلَمْ تَكُونُوا تَعْقِلُونَ هذِهِ جَهَنَّمُ الَّتِي كُنْتُمْ تُوعَدُونَ you an open enemy- 62. 'And that you worship Me? This is the right path. 3254 63. 'And he did lead astray a great multitude of you. Why did you not then understand? 64. This is the Hell which you were promised. اِصْلَوْهَا الْيَوْمَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَ Enter it this day, because. 65 you disbelieved. ' الْيَوْمَ نَخْتِمُ عَلَى أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَتُكَلِّمُنَا This day We shall put a seal. 66 on their mouths, band their أَيْدِيهِمْ وَتَشْهَدُ اَرْجُلُهُ بِمَا كانوا hands will speak to Us, and يَكْسِبُونَ their feet will bear witness to what they had earned. 3255 a52:15; 55:44. 17:37; 24:25; 41:21-23. 3253. Commentary: The words of the verse seem to have been spoken more in sorrow than in anger. They are intended to bring home to sinners and guilty people the sense of their guilt by reminding them that they worked out their ruin with their own hands by deliberately and persistently ignoring and defying God's warning that they should be on their guard against Satan who was their open enemy (7:23) and who had brought about the expulsion of their forebears from Paradise (7:28). to accept Divine against the wiles and snares of Satan. In the present verse they are told that God sent His Messengers to guide and lead them to the right path, the path of salvation and eternal bliss, but they refused guidance. The inevitable result of ignoring God's warnings and of refusal to accept the lead of His Messengers is the fire of Hell in which disbelievers will burn. 3255. Commentary: The verse means to say that when the guilt of disbelievers will be established and proved to the hilt they will become dumbfounded, their In the preceding verse, the sinners mouths will, as it were, become had been warned to be on their guard | sealed and they will not be able to say 3254. Commentary: 2667