The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 127
PT. 27 AN-NAJM 22. 'What! for you the males and for Him the females!" 3982 23. That indeed is an unfair division. 3983 CH. 53 الكُمُ الذَّكَرُ وَلَهُ الْأُنثى تِلْكَ إِذَا قِسْمَةٌ ضِيْزُى اِنْ هِيَ إِلَّا أَسْمَاءُ سَمَّيْتُمُوهَا أَنْتُمْ These are but names which. 24 you have named-you and وَابَاؤُكُم مَّا اَنْزَلَ اللهُ بِهَا مِن your fathers for which Allah b سُلْطن إِنْ يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا الظَّنَّ وَمَا but تَهْوَى الْأَنْفُسُ ۚ وَلَقَدْ جَاءَهُمْ مِّنْ رَّبِّهِمُ الْهُدَى has sent down no authority. ' They follow naught conjecture and what their souls desire, while there has already come to them guidance from their Lord. 3984 "6:101; 16:58; 37:154; 43:17; 52:40. 7:72; 12:41;22:72. (Mu'jamul-Buldān, vol. 5, from their blasphemous practice of under 'Uzzā). Besides, it is not possible for the Satan to interfere with the purity of the Quranic text. God has taken it upon Himself to protect and safeguard the Quran against all interference and interpolation (15:10 & 72:27-29). So the whole story as invented by Wāqidī and taken undue advantage of by Muir and others of his class is a pure myth and possesses no basis in fact. It is further stated that the 53rd verse of Surah Al-Hajj was revealed in connection with this incident. The fact that the Surah under comment was revealed in the 5th year of the Call and Surah Al-Hajj in the 13th or 12th year, takes the bottom completely from under this baseless assertion. 3982. Commentary: The verse administers a further rebuke to the Meccan pagans, purporting to say to them that apart associating gods, made of wood and stone, with God the Almighty, the Creator of heavens and earth and the Lord of Glory, Majesty and Dignity, they have the hardihood to assign to Him daughters whose birth they regard as a source of disgrace and humiliation in their own case. 3983. Important Words: ضاز unjust is derived from) ضیزی which means, he deviated from the right course; he acted unjustly, wrongfully, tyrannically. Sti į skó means, he gave an unjust judgement. 3023 means, he deprived him or defrauded him of a part or the whole of his right or due (Lane & Aqrab). 3984. Commentary: Whereas a true believer stands on the bedrock of certainty and sure knowledge (12:109), an idolater possesses no rational argument and no revealed authority for his false