The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 353
CH. 73 إِنَّ لَدَيْنَا أَنْكَالًا وَجَحِيْمان PT. 29 AL-MUZZAMMIL 13. Surely, with Us are heavy fetters and a raging fire,4423 14. And food that chokes, and a painful punishment 4424 وَطَعَامًا ذَاغُضَةٍ وَعَذَابًا أَلِيْمًان يَوْمَ تَرْجُفُ الْاَرْضُ وَالْجِبَالُ وَكَانَتِ On the day when the earth. 15 الْجِبَالُ كَثِيْبًا مَّهِيلًا and the mountains shall quake," and the mountains will become like crumbling sandhills. 4425 إِنَّا اَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْكُمْ رَسُولًا شَاهِدًا Verily, We have sent to you. 16 عَلَيْكُمْ كَمَا اَرْسَلْنَا إِلَى فِرْعَوْنَ رَسُولات a Messenger, who is a witness b over you, even as We sent a Messenger to Pharaoh. 4426 a56:5-6; 79:7. 33:46; 48:9. for "ease and plenty" provided to them they reject the Divine Message. 4423. Important Words: (fetters) is the plural of which means, fetter, chain, bracelet, necklace; a kind of bridle. part. means, a sandhill heaped up by the wind (Lane). هال crumbling) is derived from) مهيلا ie he put the هال عليه التراب They say earth over it. which is infinitive noun means, sand that does not remain steady in its place. Js means, means, he inflicted upon him such a running sand. means, punishment as to make him an example for others (Aqrab). 4424. Important Words: crumbling sandhill (Aqrab). Commentary: a The reference in the verse is to the Day of Resurrection, or to the Day of or the Fall of Mecca, or to any calamitous day when catastrophic changes take place and deeply-rooted institutions totter and fall and very powerful and big and influential people are blown away like chaff before the wind. (choking) is derived from They say hi. e. he was became choked with wrath. alot means, the sitting place became choked with people. also means, he became grieved or disquieted in mind. means, a thing by which one is choked; choking wrath or rage; grief or disquietude of mind (Lane & Aqrab). 4425. Important Words: is derived from. They say i. e. he scattered dust part over كتب التراب 3249 4426. Commentary: The reference in the verse is to the following Biblical prophecy about the appearance among the Ishmaelites of a great Prophet of God like unto Moses: