The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 913
PT. 25 ASH-SHŪRĀ be in the Garden, and a party in the blazing Fire. 3607 CH. 42 وَلَوْ شَاءَ اللهُ لَجَعَلَهُمْ أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً ,And if Allah had so pleased. 9 He could have made them one وَلكِنْ يُدْخِلُ مَنْ يَّشَاءُ فِي رَحْمَتِهِ people; but He admits into His mercy whomsoever He pleases. وَالظَّلِمُونَ مَا لَهُمْ مِنْ وَلِي وَلَا نَصِيرٍ And as for the wrongdoers, they ج will have no protector and no helper. 3608 10. "Have themselves protectors other than اَمِ اتَّخَذُوا مِن دُونِةٍ أَوْلِيَاء فَالله taken for they هُوَ الْوَلِي وَهُوَ يُخي الْمَوْتُى وَهُوَ عَلَى Him? But it is Allah Who is the real Protector. And He quickens the dead, and He has power over all things. "2:214; 10:20; 11:119. 13:17; 39:44. كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌة God is watching over the of Towns or Mother-Town). blasphemous beliefs of men and is The reference in the expression keeping an account of them and willi. e. the Day of Gathering, may punish them if they did not repent. 3607. Commentary: preferably be to the Judgement Day. i. e يوم الحشر which has also been called the Day of Resurrection (41:20), i. e. the Day of Mutual Calling see قرآناً عربياً For an explanation of 12:3 and 41:4. ie the Day of يوم التلاق (40:33) | أم القرى The reference in the words Meeting (40:16) and i. e. the Day of Reckoning (40:28), in the Quran. may also refer to that Day of Gathering when all the forces of disbelief assembled in the Battle of the Ditch to administer a coup de grace to the rising power of Islam. It may also refer to the Latter Days when the whole of mankind was to become, as it were, like one family. See also 38:12; 54:46. (Mother of Towns) may be to Mecca, because Mecca was not only the commercial and political metropolis of Arabia at the time when the Quran was revealed but was destined for all time to come to be the spiritual centre of the whole world and from its breast the whole of humanity was to suck the milk of spiritual life. Geographically also Mecca is situated in the centre of the world. The Quran has been called (Mother of the Book) and Arabic in which the Quran has been revealed (Mother of (Mother besides the translation given in the Tongues) and Mecca 2827 3608. Commentary: يدخل من يشاء في رحمته The expression