The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 905
CH. 41 PT. 25 ḤĀ MĪM AS-SAJDAH 52. "And when We bestow a favour on man, he goes away, وَإِذَا أَنْعَمْنَا عَلَى الْإِنْسَانِ أَعْرَضَ وَنَا بِجَانِبِهِ ۚ وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ الشَّرُّ فَذُو turning aside; but when evil دُعَاءِ عَرِيض touches him, lo! He starts offering long prayers. قُلْ أَرَعَيْتُمْ إِنْ كَانَ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللهِ Say, Tell me: if it is from. 53 Allah but you disbelieve in it— who is more astray than one who has drifted away from Allah?'3598 ثُمَّ كَفَرْتُمْ بِهِ مَنْ أَضَلُّ مِمَّنْ هُوَ فِي شِقَاقٍ بَعِيد سَنُرِيهِمْ ابْتِنَا فِي الْآفَاقِ وَفِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ Soon We will show them. 54 حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُمُ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ أَوَلَمْ يَكْفِ بِرَبِّكَ أَنَّهُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَهِيدٌ Our Signs in farthest parts of the earth, and among their own people until it becomes manifest to them that it is the truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord is Witness over all things?3599 "11:10; 17:84. b51:21-22. in his conceit he begins to attribute all his success to his own effort and ability. 3598. Commentary: The Surah had begun with the subject of the Quranic revelation and it has ended on the same theme. The disbelievers are here warned that if the Quran is from Allah, as it certainly is, then they incur a grave responsibility by rejecting it. 3599. Important Words: (farthest parts) is the plural of which is derived from (afaqa) which means, he went away at random or heedlessly. (ufqun) means, a side; a remote side; a border or extremity of a land or of the earth and of the sky or the horizon of the 2819 sky and of the earth i. e. country, region; horizon, the wide world (Lane). Commentary: The verse repeats in most clear and emphatic terms the prophecy about the rapid spread of Islam which was made in the preceding verses. It purports to say that Islam would spread not only nearer home among the Arabs but in the remotest parts of the earth. The prophecy was made at a time (the present Surah was revealed early in Mecca) when Islam was struggling for its very existence and humanly speaking there was every likelihood of its tender plant being nipped in the bud. Yet within the brief space of a few years the whole of Arabia accepted Islam and