The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 140
CH. 54 AL-QAMAR PT. 27 كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍ فَكَذَّبُوا The people of Noah rejected. 10 عَبْدَنَا وَقَالُوا مَجْنُونَ وَازْدَجِرَ فَدَعَا رَبَّةَ أَنِّي مَغْلُوبٌ فَانْتَصِرْ the truth before them"; aye, they rejected Our servant and said, b "A madman, and one who is spurned. '4014 11. He prayed to his Lord saying 'I am overcome, so come Thou to my help !' gates of heaven with water pouring down;4015 فَفَتَحْنَا أَبْوَابَ السَّمَاءِ بِمَاءِ مُنْهَمِرٍةٌ Thereupon We opened the. 12 فَجَّرْنَا الْاَرْضَ عُيُوْنًا فَالْتَقَى الْمَاءِ And We caused the earth to. 13 burst forth with springs, so the "6:35; 22:43; 35:26; 40:6. 23:26. 23:27; 26:118-119. 11:41; 21:78; 26:121; 37:83; 71:26. Quraish when they saw the Summoner the Holy Prophet-whom they had driven out of Mecca and upon whose head they had set a price only a few years earlier, at the very gates of the city. The mighty prophecy embodied in these verses was made at a time when the fate of Islam itself was hanging in the balance and, humanly speaking, there was not the remotest possibility of its being fulfilled. 4014. Commentary: people of Lot have received a special and somewhat detailed mention because these peoples lived on the confines of the Ḥijāz and the Quraish were with quite familiar their histories and had commercial relations with them. The people to lived in Iraq which lies to the north- whom Noah preached his Message east of Arabia, and the tribe of ‘Ād lived in Yemen and Hadramaut which form the southern part of it while the tribe of Thamūd throve and flourished in the north-west of Arabia which extends from the Ḥijāz to As briefly stated in the Palestine and the ill-fated people of Introduction, almost the entire Sūrah Lot lived in Sodom and Gommorah is devoted to a discussion of the dreadful fate which the Rejecters of former Divine Prophets had met and this fact has been adduced as an argument to prove the truth of the Holy Prophet's claim. The cases of the People of Noah, of the tribes of ‘Ād and Thamūd and that of the 3036 in Palestine. 4015. Important Words: fis (pouring down) is derived from They say i. e. he poured out the water. means, the eyes flowed with tears. means, the water poured out and flowed (Aqrab).