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CH. 44 يَخْشَى النَّاسَ هَذَا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ ) PT. 25 AD-DUKHĀN 12. That will envelop the people. This will be a painful torment. رَبَّنَا اكْشِفْ عَنَّا الْعَذَابَ إِنَّا مُؤْمِنُوْنَ On seeing it the people will. 13 ©OMMEJORJE cry, "Our Lord, remove from us the torment; truly, we are believers. ' 14. How can they benefit by admonition, when there has already come to them a Messenger, explaining things clearly, 3706 اَنّى لَهُمُ الذِّكْرُى وَقَدْ جَاءَهُمُ رَسُولٌ مُّبِينٌ from him and said: 'He is ثُمَّ تَوَلَّوْا عَنْهُ وَقَالُوْا مُعَلَّمْ مَّجْنُونٌ And yet they turned away. 15 إِنَّا كَاشِفُوا الْعَذَابِ قَلِيْلًا إِنَّكُمُ the btutored, a man possessed?' 16. "We shall remove punishment for a little while, a7:135; 43:51. 15:7; 37:37; 68:52. 7:136; 43:51. Abu Sufyān, then a great leader of disbelief, came to the Holy Prophet and begged him to pray for deliverance from the scourge. The famine is said to have been so severe that the Meccans ate hides, bones and even dead bodies (Bukhārī, Abwābul- Istisqā). The famine has described by the word been (smoke) because, as the tradition goes, the hunger was so severe that people felt a sort of smoke hanging before their eyes. Or the word may have been used because there was no rain for a long time in Mecca, and the whole atmosphere had become dusty, for also means dust. which towns and cities were burnt down to rubble and the smoke that rose from their ruins filled the whole atmosphere with smoke and dust. 3706. Commentary: The verse means to say that, now that the Meccans have been visited if it is removed, they would repent with Divine punishment, they cry that and reform. Their present show of humility, however, is only a temporary phase. There has come to them a great Prophet, whose whole life lay before them like an open book. They knew that he was honest, sincere, truthful and trusty. Yet they rejected such a paragon of truth and The verse may also be taken as righteousness. What trust could then referring to the last two world wars in | be placed in their word? 2875