The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 837
PT. 23 AZ-ZUMAR CH. 39 أَفَمَنْ يَتَّقِى بِوَجْهِهِ سُوءَ الْعَذَابِ يَوْمَ Is he, then, who has nothing. 25 الْقِيمَةِ وَقِيلَ لِلظَّلِمِينَ ذُوقُوا مَا كُنْتُمْ with from the evil punishment تَكْسِبُونَ but his own face to protect him on the Day of Resurrection, like him who is secure? And it will be said to the wrongdoers, 'Taste ye what you used to earn. '3453 كَذَّبَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ فَأَتْهُمُ Those, who were before. 26 them rejected Our Messengers, so "the punishment came upon them whence they knew not. الْعَذَابُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ ) فَأَذَاقَهُمُ اللهُ الْخِزْيَ فِي الْحَيَوةِ الدُّنْيَا So Allah made them taste. 27 _ وَلَعَذَابُ الْآخِرَةِ اَكْبَرُ لَوْ كَانُوا and the punishment of the يَعْلَمُونَ humiliation in the present life Hereafter will certainly be greater, if they but knew; وَلَقَدْ ضَرَ بْنَا لِلنَّاسِ فِي هَذَا الْقُرْآنِ مِنْ And, indeed, We have set. 28 كُلِّ مَثَلٍ لَّعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ forth to men all kinds of parables in this Quran that they may take heed. 3454 "16:27; 59:3. 13:35; 68:34. 17:90; 30:59. Scriptures and some are new and unapproachable and incomparable in their excellences and beauties. 3453. Commentary: The words, Is he, then, who has nothing but his own face to protect him with, signify the severity of the punishment which disbelievers will receive on the Day of Reckoning. They will become so confused and confounded by the severe punishment that instead of protecting their faces the most sensitive part of the body they will put them forward. This condition of disbelievers is also 2751 depicted in 14:51 and 54:49. 3454. Commentary: The verse develops the argument given in v. 24, viz. that the Quran contains the best Message for mankind, in that it has comprehensively dealt with all those principles and teachings which have deep bearing on man's spiritual and moral development, and also with all those subjects which can make his life useful and pleasant. It has also provided right guidance in matters of belief and conduct about which the various existing religions disagree.