The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 188
CH. 56 R. 3. AL-WAQIAH PT. 27 76. Nay, I swear by the shooting of the stars 4133 means, needy and hungry people; wayfarers of a desert or those who alight at a desolate place. means, he spent the night hungry or in a desert (Aqrab). 4133. Important Words: > (nay) is generally used to impart emphasis to the oath, meaning that the thing which is going to be explained next is so self-evident that it does not need calling anything to bear witness to its truth. When the refutation of a certain hypothesis is intended ) is used to signify that which is said before is not correct but the right thing is that which follows. فَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِمَوقِع النُّجُومِ progress. For that purpose God has been sending His Prophets and Messengers and has been revealing to them teachings by acting upon which man could attain the object of his life, that is, continuous and eternal progress of his soul. The Quran is the Last and Complete and Perfect Divine Teaching. The verse swears by, and holds forth (portions of the Quran) as evidence to support and substantiate the claim that the Quran is eminently fitted to fulfil the grand object referred to above, as well as to establish its Divine origin. Taking as meaning, the place and مواقع النجوم (I swear). For the significance and philosophy of oaths see 37:2; 41:2 and 91:2. (shooting) is the plural of which is derived from which means, it fell. means, a place or time where and when a thing happens (Aqrab). (stars) is the plural of which among other things means, a portion of the Quran (Mufradāt). See also 53:2. Commentary: In the foregoing verses it was pointed out that there lies hidden in the inmost recesses of the human heart a longing and yearning for eternity-death not being the end or goal of life-and that adequate provision has been made in nature for the preservation of man's body. The next few verses deal with his moral and spiritual development and or time of the falling of stars, the verse signifies that it is an unfailing divine law that, at the time of the appearance of a great Divine Reformer Prophet, stars fall in unusually large numbers, and that this happened in the time of the Holy Prophet. Before him it also happened in the time of Jesus, and, in our own time, when the Founder of the Aḥmadiyya Movement announced his claim to be the Promised Reformer. may also mean those highly righteous persons among the followers of the Holy Prophet whom God favours with His special love and nearness. In this sense of the expression, the verse signifies that the treasures of divine knowledge and mysteries that are revealed to the Divinely-favoured ones constitute an irrefutable proof of the Quran being God's own revealed Word. 3084