The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 350
CH. 73 AL-MUZZAMMIL 3. "Stand up in Prayer at night except a small portion thereof- 4415 4. Half of it, or reduce it a little b 5. Or add to it a little—and the Quran, a good recital. 4416 6. Verily, We shall charge thee with a weighty Word. 4417 PT. 29 قُمِ الَّيْلَ إِلَّا قَلِيلان نِّصْفَةَ أَوِ انْقُصْ مِنْهُ قَلِيلان أَوْزِدْ عَلَيْهِ وَرَتِّلِ الْقُرْآنَ تَرْتِيْلان إِنَّا سَنُلْقِي عَلَيْكَ قَوْلًا ثَقِيلًا "17:80; 50:41; 52:50; 76:27. 17:107; 25:33. be received this revelation, the Holy Prophet's life was not his own. It became dedicated to God and mankind. 4415. Commentary: & Aqrab). 4417. Commentary: may have any one of the قولا ثقيلا In this and the next verse the Holy Prophet is told that praying to God in the stillness of the night will prepare him for the heavy task entrusted to him. 4416. Important Words: (recite) is derived from (ratila). They sayi. e. the thing was or became well arranged. means, the front teeth were or became even in their growth or separated one from another; were well set together and were white and lustrous. (rattala) means, he put together and arranged well the component parts of following meanings: (a) The Quran is pregnant with the highest import. (b) It is too heavy to be displaced or will continue to guide mankind and dislocated i. e. the Quranic Teaching no other teaching would ever take its place or improve upon it. (c) No word or letter of the Quran could be changed, altered or amended. (d) The Quran will break all opposition and (e) no single book or a collection of books could encompass all the knowledge contained in it. Briefly, the collective and concerted effort of all mankind will not be able to produce a Book like the Quran. a According to an oft-quoted ḥadīth, the Holy Prophet, whenever revelation descended upon him, went into a trance and felt a peculiar SO that even on an sensation extremely cold day big drops of sweat fell from his forehead and he felt a dead weight of his body (Bukhārī). The Quranic revelation the speech and made it distinct. in its original sense relates to the teeth, signifying their being separated one from the other, and when used with regard to a speech it signifies, putting together and arranging well its component parts and making it distinct. means, I recited the Quran in a leisurely manner, deliberately, distinctly and well (Lane | being 3246 "a weighty word", his