The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 978
CH. 45 AL-JĀTHIYAH PT. 25 الصُّلِحَتِ سَوَاءَ مَحْيَاهُمْ وَمَمَاتُهُمْ do righteous deeds, so that their life and their death shall be equal? Evil indeed is what they & judge. 3745 R. 3. سَاءَ مَا يَحْكُمُونَ وَخَلَقَ اللهُ السَّمواتِ وَالْاَرْضَ بِالْحَقِّ And Allah has created the. 23 heavens and the earth in وَلِتُجْزَى كُلُّ نَفْسٍ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ وَهُمُ accordance with an eternal law لَا يُظْلَمُونَ so that "every soul may be requited for that which it earns; and they shall not be wronged. 3746 أَفَرَءَ يْتَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ إِلَهَهُ هَوبِهُ وَأَضَلَّهُ Hast thou seen him who. 24 اللهُ عَلَى عِلْمٍ وَخَتَمَ عَلَى سَمْعِهِ وَقَلْبِهِ and whom Allah has adjudged b has taken his desire for his god, astray on basis of His knowledge, 14:52; 40:18; 74:39. 25:44. 3745. Important Words: and grandsons eventually come to believe in and accept the truth. On the contrary, the cause that is dear to the جرح commit) is derived from) اجترحوا which means, he worked or wrought with his hand; he earned. means, he wounded him. They say Si. e. evil is that which thy hands have wrought. means, he means, he earned the thing. committed a sin (Lane & Aqrab). Commentary: The verse embodies an infallible criterion to judge between truth and falsehood and between belief and disbelief. It purports to say that believers and disbelievers are never equal in life or in death. While in life disbelievers, being pitted against truth, meet with defeat and discomfiture, when they die they leave behind no one to remember them or perpetuate their memory because their own sons believers progresses and prospers and they are remembered with honour and respect after their death. The verse, in fact, gives a miniature description of the conditions of the followers of Islam and of its opponents, in this and the next life. 2892 3746. Commentary: The verse again draws attention to the supreme fact that the creation of the universe and the perfect design and order that pervade it lead to but one conclusion that adequate provision has been made for man's moral and spiritual development, and therefore in the life to come he shall have to render an account of the use he makes of God-given faculties and