The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 980
CH. 45 AL-JĀTHIYAH PT. 25 حُجَّتَهُمْ إِلَّا أَنْ قَالُوا اثْتُوا بِبَابِنَا contention is that they say إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَدِقِينَ 'Bring back our fathers, if you are truthful. ” قُلِ اللهُ يُحْيِيكُمْ ثُمَّ يُمِيتُكُمْ ثُمَّ Say, It is Allah Who gives. 27 ثُ you life, then "causes you to die; يَجْمَعُكُمْ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيْمَةِ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ then He will gather you together unto the Day of Resurrection, وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ & about which there is no doubt But most men know not. 3749 R. 4. 28. To Allah belongs kingdom of the heavens and the the وَلِلَّهِ مُلْكُ السَّمَوتِ وَالْاَرْضِ وَيَوْمَ belongs تَقُوْمُ السَّاعَةُ يَوْمَ تَخْسَرُ الْمُبْطِلُونَ earth; and on the day when the Hour shall come, on that day those who follow falsehood will be the losers. 3750 وَتَرَى كُلَّ أُمَّةٍ جَاثِيَةً كُلُّ أُمَّةٍ تُدْعَى And thou wilt see every. 29 people on their knees. Every "2:29; 22:67; 40:69. of time, the matter becomes dissolved and is destroyed; and that this is the be-all and end-all of human existence, there being no life hereafter. 3749. Commentary: The verse answers the objection raised by disbelievers in v. 25 above that there is no life beyond the present life on earth. It purports to say that God Who has the power to raise and He does raise-people who, to all intents and purposes, are spiritually and morally dead and defunct, to a new, vibrant and vigorous life, can and will certainly bring about a Resurrection in the next world. The verse further says that man was nothing. God gave him life 2894 to serve a great purpose. If man's life had no purpose, God would not have created him, and if death were the end of all life, God would be regarded as guilty of doing something Therefore a new and better life which purposeless. But He is far above that. knows no decline or end awaits him in the next world. See also 2:29. 3750. Commentary: The verse implies that as God is the King of the heavens and the earth, He will give the sovereignty of the earth to His righteous servants. The "Hour" referred to in the verse may signify the day of the final discomfiture of falsehood in this world -preferably the day when Mecca fell.