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PT. 29 surely have whatever judge?4329 AL-QALAM you 41. Ask them which of them will vouch for that. CH. 68 سَلْهُمْ أَيُّهُمْ بِذَلِكَ زَعِيْمُن أَمْ لَهُمْ شُرَكَاءُ فَلْيَأْتُوا بِشُرَكَا بِهِمْ Or have they any partners. 42 إِنْ كَانُوا صِدِقِينَ of God? Let them, then, produce those 'partners' of theirs, if they speak the truth. يَوْمَ يُكْشَفُ عَنْ سَاقٍ وَيُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى On the day when the truth. 43 السُّجُودِ فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ shall be laid bare and they will be called upon to prostrate themselves, they will not be able to do so;4330 4329. Commentary: all In vv. 36-39 above, it was stated that a person who severs connection with God and defies and contravenes His laws, can never be treated like one who makes those laws a rule of life. Both these classes of men choose different ways of life and inevitably come to different ends. This is God's eternal and unchangeable laws which cannot be altered to suit anybody's wishful thinking. Further, disbelievers were asked whether there was any authority in any revealed Scripture that they would be allowed to choose a way of life of their own liking and would escape the consequences of their evil deeds. In the present verse they are told that if they possess no Scriptural authority to support their foolish ideas, and if reason and logic too, do not support them, have they then taken a covenant from God 3203 which will remain in force till the Day of Judgement that they will have whatever they like and do whatever they like and yet not suffer the consequences flowing from their actions? If they think so, the verse warns them, they are mistaken. 4330. Important Words:. (truth shall be laid bare) يكشف عن ساق ie the people. قامت القوم على ساق They say were or became in a state of distress. The Arabic idiom of means, the fight became vehement. meaning i. e. severity or hardness, the expression is explained as meaning, when the affair became distressful or when the truth of the matter was laid bare (Lane, Kashshāf and Baiḍāwī). See also 27:45. Commentary: The verse may refer to the hardness and severity of the Day of Resurrection or to the lifting of the