The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 979
PT. 25 AL-JĀTHIYAH " and whose ears and whose heart He has sealed up, and on whose eyes He has put a covering? Who, then, will guide him after Allah has condemned him? Will you not then heed?3747 b6 CH. 45 وَجَعَلَ عَلَى بَصَرِهِ غِشْوَةً فَمَنْ يَهْدِيهِ مِنْ بَعْدِ اللَّهِ أَفَلَا تَذَكَّرُونَ وَقَالُوْا مَا هِيَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا الدُّنْيَا نَمُوتُ And they say, There is. 25 وَنَحْيَا وَ مَا يُهْلِكُنَا إِلَّا الدَّهْرُ وَمَا we die and we live here and nothing but this our present life; nothing but Time destroys us. " But they have no knowledge of that; they do but conjecture. 3748 لَهُمْ بِذلِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ ۚ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ وَإِذَا تُتْلَى عَلَيْهِمْ أَيْتُنَا بَيْنَتٍ مَّا كَانَ And when Our clear Signs. 26 are recited unto them, their only powers in this life. "2:8; 6:47; 16:109. 6:30; 19:67; 23:38; 36:79. 3747. Commentary: The verse develops the theme of the preceding verse and purports to say that as man has been created to serve a sublime object and has been endowed with great powers and faculties for the fulfilment of that object, and as the whole universe has been pressed into service for him in order to help him in its achievement, so, if, instead of making a proper use of his God-given powers he worships gods of his own fancy or imagination, he works out his spiritual ruin with his own hands. people. means, he over came him; he prevailed upon him or surpassed him. means: (a) time from the time long or short, any period or beginning of the world to its end; portion of time; (b) fate, fortune; (c) age, epoch; (d) course of events, vicissitudes of time, calamity; and (e) custom, habit, a desire, etc. (Aqrab & Lane). Commentary: disbelievers are told that they will The verse purports to say that when have to render an account of their deeds before God in the next life, they refuse to believe that there is or can be such a life. On the contrary, they allege that people die and other people take their place and this i. e. an evil event befell the process goes on till, with the passage 3748. Important Words: (Time) is infinitive-noun from (dahara). They say 2893