The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 62
CH. 19 MARYAM 58. "And We exalted him to a lofty station. PT. 16 وَرَفَعْنَهُ مَكَانًا عَلِيًّا أُولَيكَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللهُ عَلَيْهِمْ مِّنَ These are the people upon. 59 النَّبِيِّنَ مِنْ ذُرِّيَّةِ آدَمَ وَ مِمَّنْ حَمَلْنَا the whom Allah bestowed His blessings from among Prophets, of the posterity of مَعَ نُوحٍ وَمِنْ ذُرِّيَّةِ اِبْرَهِيْمَ Adam, and of the posterity of وَإِسْرَاعِيلَ وَمِمَّنْ هَدَيْنَا وَ اجْتَبَيْنَا those whom We carried in the إذَا تُتْلَى عَلَيْهِمُ أَيتُ الرَّحْمَنِ خَرُّوا posterity of Abraham and Israeli سُجَّدًا وَبُكِيان Ark with Noah, and of the and they are of those whom We guided and chose. "When the Signs of the Gracious God were recited unto them, they fell down, prostrating themselves before God and weeping. 2200 " "2:254; 4:159. 1:7; 4:70; 5:21; 57:20. 17:108,110; 32:16. read in the Bible that God walked with him (Gen. 5:24) and about Ishmael the Bible says: "Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!" (Gen. 17:18). 2200. Commentary: two 20:2; Exod. 32:1-4); and Christians in the New Testament (John 10:8) hurled at these paragons of piety and righteousness very filthy charges, the former in order to screen their own crimes and the latter in order to establish the exclusive sinlessness of Jesus. Special stress has been laid on their holiness in the verse under comment and it is in order to clear them completely of the charges to them and also to attributed demolish the wrong notion of the exclusive sinlessness of Jesus that the words "whom We guided and chose" have been used about them. This verse explains things: (1) The Prophets whose names have been mentioned in it were righteous and holy men. But in spite of the very exalted position they held they were ordinary mortals. Jesus, like them, too, was a Prophet of God and like them a mere mortal. There was nothing in him that could entitle him to some special position. Some commentators of the Quran (2) These righteous and holy men think that the words 'of the posterity were Divine Prophets and as such of Adam' refer to Idrīs, and whom we sinless. The Jews in the carried in the Ark with Noah to Testament (Gen. 9:21-23; 19:31-38; | Abraham, and the words, of the Old 1976