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PT. 27 AL-QAMAR CH. 54 كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ بِالنُّذُرِه فَقَالُوا اَبَشَرًا مِنَّا وَاحِدًا نَّتَّبِعُةَ إِنَّا إِذَا لفِي ضَلِّلٍ وشعرٍ R. 2. 24. The tribe of Thamūd also rejected the Warners". 4022 25. And they said, 'What! a man, from among ourselves a single mortal! Shall we follow him? Then indeed we would be in manifest error, and would be mad. 4023 الْقِي الذِّكْرُ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ بَيْنِنَا بَلْ هُوَ Has the Reminder been. 26 كَذَّابٌ أَشِرُ revealed to him alone of all of us? Nay, he is a boastful liar. ' 4024 سَيَعْلَمُونَ غَدًا مَّنِ الْكَذَّابُ الْأَشِرُ Tomorrow will they know. 27. who is the boastful liar. ' "69:5. 38:9. 4022. Commentary: As all Prophets are commissioned by God and their revelation proceeds from the same Divine Source and contains analogous eternal basic principles, the rejection of one Prophet amounts to the rejection of all of them. That is why the verse describes the tribe of Thamūd as having rejected all Divine Messengers while, in fact, they had rejected only the Prophet Ṣāliḥ. 4023. Important Words: demoniacal possession; punishment; vehemence of heat, hunger or thirst; fury; pain (Lane & Aqrab). 4024. Important Words: أشر (boastful) is act. part. from (ashira) which means, he exulted and behaved insolently; he behaved with pride and self-conceitedness. means, one who is insolent and behaves with pride and exults (Lane & Aqrab). Commentary: سعر madness is derived from) سعر Conceit, false pride and arrogance are man's greatest spiritual enemies. (sa'ara). They sayi. e. he They constitute the hard hurdles that provoked the war. (su'ira) bar the way to the acceptance of truth. means, the man was smitten by hot The Quran has repeatedly mentioned wind; he was or became vehemently disbelievers as having rejected the hungry or thirsty; he was or became Divine Message due to these moral mad. means, madness, insanity, | ills. See 25:8; 38:9, 43:32. 3039