The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 354
CH. 73 AL-MUZZAMMIL PT. 29 فَعَطَى فِرْعَوْنُ الرَّسُولَ فَاَخَذْنَهُ أَخَذَا But Pharaoh disobeyed the. 17 و بيلان a Messenger, so We seized him with a terrible punishment. فَكَيْفَ تَتَّقُوْنَ اِنْ كَفَرْتُمْ يَوْمًا How will you then if you. 18 disbelieve, guard yourselves against a day which will turn children grey-headed? 4427 يَجْعَلُ الْوِلْدَانَ شِيْئًان be rent asunder and His promise is bound to be fulfilled. 4428 السَّمَاءُ مُنْفَطِرُ بِهِ كَانَ وَعْدُهُ On that day the heaven will. 19 مفعولا اِنَّ هَذِهِ تَذْكِرَةٌ : فَمَنْ شَاءَ اتَّخَذَ. This, surely, is a reminder. 20 stjó إلى رَبِّهِ سَبِيلًان &1 So let him, who will, take a way unto his Lord. 4429 "20:79; 26:67; 28:41. 82:2. 20:4; 74:55; 76:30; 80:12. "I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put My word in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto My words which he shall speak in My name, I will require it of him" (Deut. 18:18-19). 4427. Commentary: "Turning children grey-headed" in the present verse, "grinding asunder of the heaven" in the next, "rolling up of heaven" in 21:105, and similar expressions used in the Quran (81:12; 82:2 & 84:2) are metaphors for most calamitous happenings which bring about disastrous changes. The reference in this and in the next verse and also in verse 15 above is to the Day of Resurrection or the Day of the Fall of Mecca. See also v. 15. 4428. Commentary: The promise referred to in the verse Iwas the total defeat and destruction of the forces of evil followed by the triumph of Islam which was fully manifested in the Fall of Mecca, when the old corrupt order died and from its ruins emerged a new and better order. This may be the meaning of the words, "the heaven will be rent asunder. " 3250 4429. Commentary: The verse contains an invincible argument in support of the Divine origin of the Quranic revelation. The Surah was one of the earliest two or three chapters revealed at Mecca at a time when the Holy Prophet himself perhaps had no very clear idea of the momentous significance of his