The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 361
PT. 29 AL-MUDDATHTHIR 15. And I prepared for him all necessary things. 16. Yet he desires that I should give him more. 17. Certainly not! for he was opposed to Our Signs. 4441 18. I shall soon impose on him an overwhelming hardship. 19. Lo! he reflected and calculated! 20. Ruin seize him! how he calculated!4442 21. Ruin seize him again! how he calculated! 22. Then he looked, 23. "Then scowled, 4443 he frowned and 24. Then he turned away and was disdainful. "80:2. a sons also commanded respect like him. They, too, were offered distinguished place in the assemblies which he attended. Or, Mughīra was so rich that his sons always kept company with him; not wanting to go anywhere to earn their living. 4441. Commentary: The verse purports to say that disbelievers entertain very high ambitions but those ambitions shall not materialize. On the contrary, they shall be punished; the particle being used to reject the request of a person and to reprimand him for 3257 CH. 74 وَمَهَّدْتُ لَهُ تَمْهِيدًان ثُمَّ يَطْمَعُ أنْ أزِيدَة كَلَّا إِنَّهُ كَانَ لِايْتِنَا عَنِيْدًا سَارْهِقُهُ صَعُودًان إِنَّهُ فَكَّرَ وَقَدَّرَةٌ فَقُتِلَ كَيْفَ قَدَّرَة ثُمَّ قُتِلَ كَيْفَ قَدَّرَة عبس وبسر ثُمَّ ثُمَّ ادْبَرَ وَاسْتَكْبَرَة making it (Lane). 4442. Commentary: ثُمَّ نَظَرَة Ruin seized Walīd bin Mughīrah. Three of his sons, viz. Walīd, Khālid and Hishām accepted Islam, others perished before his eyes. He suffered heavy financial losses and ultimately died in poverty and disgrace. 4443. Commentary: When the Quran was read to him, Mughīra being himself a poet of distinction, said that it was not poetry, nor was the Prophet a liar, but only a magician. He frowned and scowled in