The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 129
PT. 27 AN-NAJM CH. 53 ذلِكَ مَبْلَغُهُمْ مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ That is the utmost limit of. 31 أَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ ضَلَّ عَنْ سَبِيْلِهِ وَهُوَ Lord knows best him who أَعْلَمُ بِمَنِ اهْتَدَى their knowledge. Verily, thy strays from His way, and He knows him best who follows a guidance. 3987 32. And to Allah whatever is in the heavens and y وَلِلَّهِ مَا فِي السَّمَوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ belongs لِيَجْزِيَ الَّذِينَ آسَاءِ وَا بِمَا عَمِلُوا وَيَجْزِيَ whatever is in the earth, that He may requite those who do evil for what they have wrought, and reward those who do good with what is best. b الَّذِينَ أَحْسَنُوا بِالْحُسْنين الَّذِيْنَ يَجْتَنِبُونَ كَبِرَ الإِثْمِ Those who shun the graven. 33 ط وَالْفَوَاحِشَ إِلَّا اللَّمَمَ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ minor faults verily, thy Lord sins and immoral actions except is Master of vast forgiveness. d وَاسِعُ الْمَغْفِرَةِ هُوَ اَعْلَمُ بِكُمْ إِذْ He knows you full well from the اَنْشَاكُمْ مِّنَ الْأَرْضِ وَإِذْ اَنْتُمُ أَجِنَّةٌ time when He created you from the earth, and when you were فِي بُطُونِ أُمَّهُتِكُمْ ۚ فَلَا تُزَكُوا embryos in the bellies of your ط اَنْفُسَكُمْ هُوَ اَعْلَمُ بِمَنِ اتَّقَى to yourselves. He knows him mothers. So ascribe not purity best who is truly righteous. 3988 "16:126; 28:57; 68:8. 4:124-125; 6:161; 41:47. º4:32; 42:38. 13:7; 41:44. 3987. Commentary: The words of the verse seem to have been spoken ironically or by way of reproach. The utmost limit of the knowledge of disbelievers (the verse purports to say) is that they worship gods, which can do them no good nor | can they injure them, in preference to earth and Who has created all things for the service of man. Moreover their strivings are confined to the acquirement of material things of this life and they have no thought for the Hereafter. 3988. Important Words: minor faults) is derived from) اللمم he came. . . ألم بالقوم او على المقوم God the Almighty, to Whom belongs they say whatever is in the heavens and the to 3025 the people and alighted at their