The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 116
CH. 52 AṬ-ṬŪR all that which they associate with Him!3960 45. "And if they should see a piece of the sky falling down, they would say, 'just clouds piled up. '3961 PT. 27 يُشْرِكُونَ وَاِنْ يَرَوْا كِسْفَا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ سَاقِطَا يَقُولُوا سَحَابٌ مَّرْكُوم. فَذَرُهُمْ حَتَّى يُلْقُوا يَوْمَهُمُ الَّذِي فِيْهِ so leave them until they. 46 يُصْعَقُونَ meet that day of theirs, on which they will be overtaken by a thunderbolt, 3962 يَوْمَ لَا يُغْنِى عَنْهُمْ كَيْدُهُمْ شَيْئًا The day when their plotting. 47 وَلَا هُمْ يُنْصَرُونَ will not avail them aught, nor shall they be helped. وَإِنَّ لِلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا عَذَابًا دُونَ ذَلِكَ And verily, for those who. 48 do wrong there is a punishment 3960. Commentary: a46:25. 23:55; 52:46; 70:43. 32:22. In the preceding verse disbelievers were warned that they themselves would fall victims to the plots they were hatching against Islam. In this verse they are told that when the Day of Decision arrives, their false gods would not be able to render them any help, nor would they be able to help themselves, that idolatry would disappear from Arabia and the country would resound with Divine alleluias. 3961. Commentary: warning, so that even if they see a piece of the sky actually falling upon them, they would deceive themselves by considering it as a piece of God's mercy in the form of 'piled-up clouds. The disbelievers go so far as portion of the sky to fall upon us if to challenge the Prophet to "cause a thou art truthful" (26:188). 3962. Commentary: The words 'that day of theirs' have been taken to refer to the Day of Badr. On that day a well-equipped Quraish army received a crushing defeat at the hands of a small, ill- armed and ill-equipped band of Muslims. The defeat came veritable bolt from the blue for the Quraish. The verse may equally refer to the day of the Fall of Mecca when as a In the two previous verses disbelievers were warned that Divine punishment was about to overtake them. But such is their state of utter heedlessness and false sense of security (says the verse) that they do not benefit by the timely Divine | the Quraish were completely 3012