The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5)

The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 152

disobedience and defiance of Divine laws, the Surah hints, will assume a most heinous form in time to come, which seems to be the present time, and man will be visited with such destructive and annihilating punishment as he had not known before. But just as heavenly punishment which will be meted out to the guilty and the iniquitous will be most grievous and frightful, so would the Divine favours that will be bestowed upon the righteous and the God- fearing in that age of Mammon-worship and of hankering after pleasures of the flesh, be beyond measure or count, and thus both Divine punishment and favours would show that God is "Swift at reckoning and the Master of Glory and Honour. " The Surah seems to deal particularly with the time when the power and prestige of western nations will be at their highest. And they will add to their wealth and glory by making extensive use of the great highways of the oceans and by harnessing the forces of nature. 3048