The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 115
PT. 27 AṬ-ṬŪR CH. 52 أَمْ لَهُ الْبَنْتُ وَلَكُمُ الْبَنُونَ ) 40. "Has He daughters and for you are sons?3957 أَمْ تَسْلُهُمْ أَجْرًا فَهُمْ مِّنْ مَّغْرَهِ Dost thou ask a reward. 41 مثْقَلُونَ أَمْ عِنْدَهُمُ الْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ ط from them, so that they are weighed down with a load of debt?3958 42. Do they possess knowledge of the unseen, so that they write it down? أَمْ يُرِيدُونَ كَيْدًا فَالَّذِيْنَ كَفَرُوا Do they intend a plot? But it. 43 is those who disbelieve that will d be the victims of their plot. 3959 هُمُ الْمَكِيدُونَ أَمْ لَهُمْ إِلَهُ غَيْرُ اللهِ سُبحن اللهِ عَمَّا Have they a god other than. 44 Allah? Exalted is Allah above "6:101; 37:154; 43:17; 53:22. 23:73; 68:47. 68:48. 486:16-17. for his labours, then why do they not accept him? On the contrary, they oppose and persecute him. 3959. Important Words: Prophet has been brought home to righteousness and asks for no reward disbelievers. The present verse further tells them that if they claim to have access to the secrets of the heavens, then let them produce authority for the allegation that the Holy Prophet is not the appointed Messenger of God. 3957. Commentary: It is repugnant (says the verse) to God's Unity, that He should be attributed with having even a son, and yet the disbelievers have the hardihood to assign to Him daughters whose birth is considered by them a mark of humiliation and disgrace. 3958. Commentary: The verse seems to appeal to the good sense of disbelievers and purports to say to them that when, out of a sincere solicitude for their moral and spiritual well-being, the Prophet calls them to the ways of 3011 (a plot) is inf. noun from bi. e. he contrived, devised or plotted a thing whether right or wrong. They say i. e. he deceived him, beguiled or circumvented him; he taught him how to deceive or cheat; he fought him. means, deceit, cunning, stratagem; war (Lane & Aqrab). Commentary: The verse means that disbelievers are hatching plots against Islam but their plots will recoil on their own heads. The word meaning war, as it has been used in the Quran about the Battle of Badr, the reference in the verse may be particularly to that battle (8:19). According to some commentators of the Quran, the next three verses also refer to it.