The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 248
CH. 61 AS-SAFF PT. 28 وَإِذْ قَالَ مُوسَى لِقَوْمِهِ يُقَوْمِ لِمَ And remember when Moses. 6 said to his people, 'O my تُؤْذُونَنِيْ وَقَدْ تَعْلَمُونَ أَنِّي رَسُولُ اللهِ people, why do you vex and ط إِلَيْكُمُ فَلَمَّا زَاغُوا أَزَاغَ اللَّهُ ط قُلُوبَهُمْ وَاللَّهُ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْفُسِقِينَ slander me and you know that I am Allah's Messenger unto you?' So when they deviated from the right course, Allah caused their hearts to deviate, for Allah guides not the rebellious people. 4225 son of Mary, said, “O children of Israel, surely I am Messenger unto you, fulfilling وَإِذْ قَالَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ يُبَنِي And remember when Jesus. 7 إسْرَائِيلَ اِنّى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ إِلَيْكُمُ Allah's مُصَدِّقًا لِمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيَّ مِنَ التَّورِيةِ that which is before me of the بِرَسُولِ يَأْتِي مِنْ بَعْدِى اسْمُةَ Torah, and giving glad tidings of وَمُبَشِّرًا أَحْمَدُ فَلَمَّا جَاءَهُمُ بِالْبَيِّنَتِ قَالُوا me; his name being Ahmad. And a Messenger who will come after when he came to them with clear and strong community, they must | worshipped the calf (7:149). When possess one code of life, one ideal, one objective and destination and one programme to achieve that objective. 4225. Commentary: asked to march into Canaan which God had promised to them they scornfully and quite brazen-facedly told Moses to go with his Lord upon Perhaps no Prophet of God suffered Whom he had relied so much; they so much mental agony at the hands of were not going to budge an inch from his followers as did Moses. Among the place where they had settled many other signs Moses's people had (5:25). Thus Moses was repeatedly seen the mighty hosts of Pharaoh insulted by, and baulked in his efforts to reclaim from idolatry, the very drown before their very eyes and yet they had hardly crossed the sea when people whom he had delivered from they wanted to revert to idolatry, and the crushing bondage of Pharaoh. seeing some people worshipping They even slandered and defamed idols asked Moses to set up one such him. It is to such vexatious act of idol for them. They defied Moses's these ungrateful people that the brother, the Prophet Aaron, and | Quran has referred in 33:70. 3144