The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 975
PT. 25 AL-JĀTHIYAH CH. 45 اللهُ الَّذِي سَخَّرَ لَكُمُ الْبَحْرَ لِتَجْرِي has 13. Allah it R. 2. is "Who subjected the sea to you that الْفُلْكُ فِيْهِ بِأَمْرِهِ وَلِتَبْتَغُوا مِنْ فَضْلِهِ ships may sail thereon by His وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ command, and that you may seek of His bounty, and that you may be grateful. وَسَخَّرَ لَكُم مَّا فِي السَّمواتِ وَمَا فِي And He has subjected to. 14 الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا مِنْهُ اِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَايَتِ heavens and whatsoever is in لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ you whatsoever is in the the earth: all this is from Him. In that surely are Signs for a people who reflect. 3739 قُلْ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا يَغْفِرُوا لِلَّذِيْنَ Say to those who believe. 15 لَا يَرْجُونَ أَيَّامَ اللهِ لِيَجْزِى قَوْمًا بِمَا persecute them and fear not the كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ that they forgive those who Days of Allah, that He may requite a people for what they earn. 3740 "16:15; 17:67; 30:47; 31:32; 35:13. 22:66. Unity of God, for the establishment of which Divine Scriptures have been revealed and Prophets raised, is the quintessence of Divine guidance and those who reject and deny it are bound to meet with a sad fate. 3739. Commentary: In vv. 4, 5 and 6 one kind of argument, viz. the creation of man and all life on earth, and the alternation of day and night, had been given to prove the existence, the Almightiness and the Unity of God. The present verse gives another kind of argument to prove the same thesis, viz. that the whole universe has been created to serve man. See also 2:165. 2889 3740. Important Words:. رجا fear not is formed from) لايرجون They sayi. e. he hoped to get the thing; he feared the thing. The word is used in the sense of hoping to get a thing when the thing hoped for is good and pleasant and fearing a thing that should be feared (Aqrab & Mufradāt). See also 10:8. (days of Allah) means, the favours and punishment of God (Aqrab). See also 14:6. Commentary: The Surah under comment was revealed at Mecca in the early period of the Holy Prophet's ministry when Islam was in a very weak state and