The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 153
PT. 27 ركوعاتها ٣ oo ياتها ٧٩ سورَةُ الرَّحْمَنِ مَكّيَّةُ CH. 55 (AR-RAḤMĀN) 1. "In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. 4043 2. The Gracious God 3. He taught the Quran. 4044 4. He created man. b4045 5. He taught him plain speech. 4046 6. The sun and the moon run their courses according to a fixed reckoning. º4047 7. And the stemless plants and the trees humbly submit to His will d 4048 بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ الرَّحْمَنُ ) عَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَة خَلَقَ الْإِنْسَانَ ) عَلَّمَهُ الْبَيَانَ الشَّمْسُ وَالْقَمَرُ بِحُسْبَانٍ والنَّجْمُ وَالشَّجَرُ يَسْجُدُنِ "See 1:1. 96:3. 6:97; 10:6; 36:39-40. 13:16; 16:49; 22:19. 4043. Commentary: See 1:1. 4044. Commentary: God revealed Himself through His Prophets and Messengers to whom He gave His Word. The Quran constituted the culmination of Divine revelation. This revelation of God to man through His Word was not due to any good act on man's part. It was a sheer gift flowing from God's beneficence. 4045. Commentary: The word (man), besides its general connotation, may also signify here "the Perfect Man," i. e. the Holy Prophet, in whom Divine attributes 3049 found their most perfect and complete manifestation. The verse thus signifies that out of beneficence God created man in order that he may rise to the highest peaks of spiritual development and may reflect in his person Divine attributes. 4046. Commentary: Man's creation and his power to express himself was also due to God's beneficence. 4047. Commentary: See next verse. 4048. Commentary: The verse, read along with the preceding one, shows that from the largest celestial body to the smallest