The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 162
CH. 55 AR-RAHMAN PT. 27 فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّ بْنِ 35. Which, then, of the favours of your Lord will you twain deny? يُرْسَلُ عَلَيْكُمَا شُوَاظٌ مِنْ نَّارٍ وَنُحَاسُ There shall be sent against. 36 فَلَا تَنْتَصِرْنِ فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّ بْنِ you a flame of fire, and smoke; and you shall not be able to help yourselves. 4069 37. Which, then, of the favours of your Lord will you twain deny? of nature governing the universe as to overpower and master them. Try as they might, they will fail in their quest. This interpretation is in accordance with the context. According to another interpretation which also agrees with the context, the verse warns sinners: let them dare to break through the confines of the heavens and earth, they shall not be able to defy divine laws with impunity and escape Divine punishment. It may also point to the making of rockets, sputniks. etc. , by means of which the Russians and the Americans seek to reach heavenly bodies. They are told that at best they can reach only those planets which are visible to human eye. Beyond that their efforts shall fail. God's universe is unfathomable. 4069. Important Words: (flame) is derived from bl. They say bli. e. he abused such a ,means شاط الغضب. one and accused him he became excited; his anger became enkindled. means, flame or fire without smoke; heat of fire or sun; flame of fire; thirst or vehement thirst (Lane & Aqrab). نحس smoke is derived from) نحاس They say i. e. the fire had much smoke. A means, molten copper; fire; sparks that fall from brass or iron when it is beaten with the hammer; smoke; smoke in which there is no flame. (Lane, Aqrab & Mufradāt). Commentary: The the most verse points to destructive and dreadful punishment that might overtake the two hostile camps, if they did not desist from defying Divine commandments. God's wrath has become excited for "what man has wrought with his hands" (30:42), and the world seems 3058 to to stand on the brink of a terrible conflagration which threatens consume in its flames the entire human civilization and to make life extinct. Man had a foretaste of Divine punishment in the last two World Wars but what is yet in store for him staggers imagination. The verse gives a clear picture of the coming catastrophe in the form of nuclear and cosmic horrors. The words wi