The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5)

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PT. 27 لَّا يَمَسُّةَ إِلَّا الْمُطَهَّرُونَ تَنْزِيلٌ مِنْ رَّبِّ الْعَلَمِينَ افَبِهَذَا الْحَدِيْثِ أَنْتُمْ مُّدْهِنُونَ CH. 56 80. Which AL-WAQIAH none shall touch except those who are purified. 4137 81. "It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds. 4138 82. Is it this Divine discourse that you would reject"?4139 وَتَجْعَلُوْنَ رِزْقَكُمْ أَنَّكُمْ تُكَذِّبُونَ And do you make the denial. 83 ) thereof your livelihood?4140 "20:5; 26:193. 17:74; 68:10. "which has remained twelve centuries with SO pure a text. . . There is otherwise every security, internal and external, that we possess the text which Muḥammad himself gave forth and used. . . To compare their pure text with the various readings of our Scriptures, is to compare things between which there is no analogy. " "Efforts of European scholars to prove the existence of later interpolations in the Quran have failed" (Enc. Brit. ). The verse may also signify that the ideals and principles embodied in the Quran are inscribed in the book of nature, i. e. they are in complete harmony with natural laws. Like the laws of nature they are immutable and unalterable and cannot be defied with impunity. Or it may mean that the Quran is preserved in "the nature which God has bestowed upon man" (30:31). Human nature is based upon fundamental truths and has been endowed with the faculty to arrive at true judgements. A person who honestly calls human nature into action can easily recognize the truth of the Quran. 4137. Commentary: The verse signifies that only those lucky ones who by leading righteous lives will have achieved purity of the heart will be granted true understanding of, and insight into, the meanings of the Quran, and they will be initiated into those spiritual mysteries of divine knowledge to which the impure of heart are denied access. Incidentally, one should not touch or read the Quran while one is not physically clean. 4138. Commentary: The fact that the Quran is a "well- preserved Book" and that "none shall touch it except who are purified" constitutes a proof and a guarantee that "it is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds. " 3086 4139. Commentary: The verse seems to administer a subtle rebuke to disbelievers that they are so inconsiderate that they reject a Book, i. e. the Quran, which possesses such excellences and beauties as are mentioned in the preceding verses. 4140. Commentary: The rebuke administered to