The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 321
PT. 29 AL-ḤĀQQAH 48. And not one of you could have held Our punishment off from him. 4363 49. And verily, it is a reminder for the righteous. 4364 50. And surely, We know that there are some among you who reject Our Signs. 51. And, verily, it will be a of regret for the source disbelievers. 4365 4363. Commentary: In verses 39-40 above it was claimed that all visible and invisible things prove that the Holy Prophet is God's true Messenger and that the Quran is God's revealed Word and not the imaginary flight of a poet's mind or the wild conjectures of a diviner. In this and the preceding three verses another irrefutable argument is given to support his claim. The argument is to the effect that if the Holy Prophet had been a forger of lies against God, God's strong hand would have seized him by the throat and the Prophet would certainly have met with a violent death; his whole work and mission would have gone to pieces, because such is the fate of a false prophet. The claim and arguments contained in these verses seem to be an exact reproduction of the following Biblical statement: "I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren (i. e. the Ishmaelites) like unto thee and will put My word in his mouth; CH. 69 فَمَا مِنْكُمْ مِنْ اَحَدٍ عَنْهُ حَجِزِيْنَ ) وَإِنَّهُ لَتَذْكِرَةٌ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ وَإِنَّا لَنَعْلَمُ أَنَّ مِنْكُمْ مُّكَذِّبِينَ وَإِنَّهُ لَحَسْرَةٌ عَلَى الْكَفِرِينَ and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. But the Prophet which shall presume to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak even that Prophet shall die" (Deut. 18:20). 4364. Commentary: Only the righteous believers and those who have fear of God in their hearts will benefit from the arguments given in the above verse. Or the meaning is that the Quran would prove a potent means of raising those, who would believe in it, to great eminence the root word 5; from which 85% is derived meaning eminence. 4365. Commentary: The verse means that disbelievers would some day regret the rejection of the Message of the Quran. Or it may mean that upon seeing the great boons and blessings bestowed upon Muslims as a result of following the teaching of the Quran, disbelievers would regret their rejection of it. 3217