The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 873
PT. 24 AL-MU'MIN disbelievers is of no avail. 3531 R. 6. CH. 40 إِنَّا لَنَنْصُرُ رُسُلَنَا وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا فِي Most surely We help our. 52 الْحَيُوةِ الدُّنْيَا وَيَوْمَ يَقُومُ الْأَشْهَادُن Messengers and those who believe, both in the present life and on the day when the witnesses will stand forth, 3532 53. The day when their excuses will not profit the wrongdoers, and theirs will be the curse and theirs the evil abode. 3533 يَوْمَ لَا يَنْفَعُ الظَّلِمِينَ مَعْذِرَتُهُمْ وَلَهُمُ اللَّعْنَةُ وَلَهُمْ سُوءُ الدَّارِ وَلَقَدْ أَتَيْنَا مُوسَى الْهُدَى وَاَوْرَثْنَا And indeed We gave Moses. 54 بَنِي إِسْرَاعِيلَ الْكِتَبَ the guidance, and made the Children of Israel heirs to the Book- "10:104; 30:48; 58:22. 13:26. 2:88; 17:3; 23:50; 32:24. 3531. Commentary: The verse signifies that the efforts of disbelievers against God's Prophets always prove futile and abortive, not that their prayers are not accepted. God does answer the prayers of a distressed person when he calls upon Him whether he be a believer or disbeliever (27:63). The verse only means that it is the prayers of disbelievers against the Prophets of God that go in vain. 3532. Commentary: The verse embodies a message of hope and good cheer for believers. It holds out an emphatic promise to Divine Messengers and their followers that God's help and succour will always be with them and that, try as they might, the evil designs of disbelievers against them are bound to fail. The truth of this Divine promise has been demonstrated again and again in the history of revealed religions, and it saw its fullest manifestation in the time of the Greatest of all Prophets and Divine Messengers the Holy Prophet Muḥammad. The Day of Judgement has been called here "the day when the that will be a day of witnesses par witnesses will stand forth," because excellence. On that day the Prophets shall bear witness (39:70); the angels will also be present to witness the Divine judgement (83:22) and even the tongues and eyes and hands of disbelievers will bear witness against the guilty (24:25 and 41:21-22). 3533. Commentary: 2787 In the presence of such infallible witnesses as have been referred to in the preceding verse, no excuse, plea