The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 949
PT. 25 AZ-ZUKHRUF CH. 43 إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا عَبْدُ أَنْعَمْنَا عَلَيْهِ وَجَعَلْنَهُ ,He was only Our servant. 60 "on whom We bestowed Our favour, and We made him an example for the children of Israel. 3679 مَثَلًا لِبَنِي إِسْرَاعِيْلَ وَلَوْ نَشَاءُ لَجَعَلْنَا مِنْكُمْ مَّلَيْكَةً فِي And if We so willed, We. 61 الْأَرْضِ يَخْلُفُونَ could make from among you angels in the earth to be successors therein. 3680 وَإِنَّهُ لَعِلْمُ لِلسَّاعَةِ فَلَا تَمْتَرُنَّ بِهَا But verily, he was a sign of. 62 b وَاتَّبِعُونِ هَذَا صِرَاطٌ مُّسْتَقِيمُ ) the Hour. So have no doubt about it, but follow me. This is the right path. 3681 3:50; 61:7. 17:96; 25:22-23. glad over this good tidings, raise a clamour. The verse may thus be taken as referring to the Second Coming of Jesus, which has taken place in the person of Ahmad, the Promised Messiah. 3679. Commentary: The verse gives the reason why Jesus has not been included among the false gods of the idolaters and has been spared the denunciation and condemnation to which they have been subjected. The reason is that he was a righteous servant of God and a model of virtue and piety upon whom God had bestowed His blessings. 3680. Commentary: had always commissioned men to convey His will to, and to serve as model and pattern for, men. 3681. Commentary: The "hour" here may denote the time of the end of Mosaic Dispensation and of the rise of a new Shari'ah, and the pronoun × in the expression may refer to Jesus. The verse may thus signify that Jesus was the last Prophet of the House of Israel. His fatherless birth symbolised the total spiritual sterility of the Israelite people. It also constituted a warning to the Jews that by their persistent rejection of truth and opposition to heavenly Messengers, they had forfeited the Divine blessing The verse means to say that God of prophethood and, therefore, no could, if He had so willed, send down Prophet would henceforth spring angels on earth who would have from the loins of a Jewish father. It conveyed the Divine Message, but was in this sense that Jesus was a angels could not serve as an example "sign of the Hour. " Jesus himself and model for men, therefore, God | realized this. He said to his people: 2863