The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 80

CH. 19 MARYAM PT. 16 any of the senses, by seeing, feeling, and progress. But they have ignored touching etc. Commentary: The verse embodies for the western Christian nations a most grim warning about the dreadful fate that is in store for them if they did not accept the truth and give up their evil ways. It purports to say that they are proud of their material power and resources and their worldly prosperity the patent fact that wrong beliefs and a life of sin leads only to destruction. They are warned that there had lived before them people who were at least as powerful and prosperous as they are and yet on account of their evil deeds and transgressions they were so completely destroyed that no trace was left of them. 1994