The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 845
CH. 39 PT. 24 51. Those who were AZ-ZUMAR them said the same thing, yet all قَدْ قَالَهَا الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ فَمَا أَغْنَى before عَنْهُمْ مَّا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ that they had earned availed them not; 3473 فَأَصَابَهُمْ سَيَّاتُ مَا كَسَبُوا وَالَّذِينَ So the evil consequences of. 52 what they had earned overtook ظَلَمُوْا مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ سَيُصِيبُهُمْ سَيَّاتُ them; and those who do wrong from among these disbelievers -the evil consequences of what they earned shall also overtake them. They cannot escape. مَا كَسَبُوا وَمَا هُمْ بِمُعْجِزِيْنَ أَوَلَمْ يَعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ يَبْسُطُ الرِّزْقَ Know they not that Allah. 53 b لِمَنْ يَشَاءُ وَيَقْدِرُ اِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لايت whomsoever He pleases, and enlarges the provision for straitens it for whomsoever He pleases? Verily, in that are Signs for a people who believe. 3474 R. 6. 54. Say, “O My servants who have committed excesses against મૈં لِقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ قُلْ يُعِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا عَلَى أَنْفُسِهِ "13:27; 29:63; 30:38; 34:37; 42:13. involved in trouble he prays to God, undoing of many a people in the past. 3474. Commentary: but when he is in affluent circumstances he consigns Him to oblivion and attributes all his success The verse sums up the theme of the in life to his own ability and foregoing verses, viz. that God has knowledge. This attitude of conceit decreed that a people who are poor and arrogance has always proved a and weak should now become stumbling block in the way of powerful and prosperous by disbelievers to appreciate and accept following the Holy Prophet, and those who are rich and powerful should suffer disgrace degradation because they have rejected the truth. When this happens it will constitute a great sign to prove the truth of the Holy Prophet. truth. 3473. Commentary: The verse means to say that the attitude of conceit and self-praise to which reference has been made in the previous verse has also proved the 2759 and