The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5)

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CH. 46 AL-AḤQĀF disobedient people shall be destroyed. 3787A 3787A. Commentary: PT. 26 hardships and privations, and it is In this verse the Holy Prophet is after they will come out of the ordeal new told that with his advent a heaven and a new earth would be born. The old decrepit order would die and a new and better one would emerge from its ruins. But before that great and glorious day his own mettle and that of his followers would be put to a severe test. They will have to bear, with patience and fortitude, like great Prophets of God, very great triumphantly and unscathed that their cause will prevail. That would be a glorious day for believers; and for the disbelievers a time of heart-burning and gnashing of teeth. So severe and swift and overwhelming would be God's punishment that compared to it a whole life spent in comfort and ease would seem but an "hour". 2916