The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 319
PT. 29 AL-ḤĀQQAH 34. Verily, he did not believe in Allah, the Great, 35. "And he did not urge the feeding of the poor. 4361 36. "No friend, therefore has he here this day: 37. Nor any food save the washing of wounds, 38. Which none but the sinners eat. ' R. 2. 39. But nay, I swear by all that -a you see,4362 CH. 69 إِنَّهُ كَانَ لَا يُؤْمِنُ بِاللهِ الْعَظِيمِ وَلَا يَحُلُّ عَلَى طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِينِ فَلَيْسَ لَهُ الْيَوْمَ هُهُنَا حَمِيمٌ وَلَا طَعَامُ إِلَّا مِنْ غِسْلِيْن لا يَا كُلةَ إِلَّا الْخَاطِئُونَ فَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِمَا تُبْصِرُونَ a74:45; 89:19; 107:4. 43:68; 70:11; 80:38. 14:17; 78:25-26. cubits, every cubit representing a year, with which the wicked shall be fettered. his passions and inextinguishable in a chain of a length of seventy desires; he feels the burning of that hell in the failures he meets within this life. When, therefore, he will see a never-ending despair before him in the new world, his desires will assume the shape of burning fire. The "securing" of the sinful with the chain of a length of seventy cubits reveals the same secret. The limit of man's age may generally be fixed at seventy, and a wicked person often lives up to that age in his wickedness. Sometimes, he even enjoys seventy years excluding the periods of childhood and decrepitude. These seventy years, during which he could work with honesty, wisdom and zeal he wastes away in the entanglements of the world and in satisfying his sensual passions. He does not try to free himself from the chain of desires, and, therefore, in the next world the chain of desires which he indulged in for seventy years shall be embodied 4361. Commentary: The disbelievers did not befriend the poor and did not discharge their obligations to them. So they will have no friend at a time when they will stand in need of one on the Day of Reckoning, and will be given the washing of wounds to satisfy their hunger, because they did not feed the needy and the hungry in this life; their acts of omission in this life will take in these verses in the next life. the form of the punishment described 4362. Commentary: The things which we see in the physical world, i. e. the visible facts of life, and the things which are hidden from our view, i. e. human reason and conscience, have been cited in the verses 39-40 as proofs to establish the 3215