The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 372
CH. 75 AL-QIYAMAH 19. So when We recite it, then follow thou its recital. 20. Then upon Us rests the expounding thereof. 21. Nay, but you love the present life":4469 22. And Hereafter. you neglect the 23. Some faces on that day will be bright, b 24. Looking eagerly towards their Lord; 4470 "87:17. 88:9. to the whole world (15:10). Or the meaning may be that, because the preceding verses referred to a day of reckoning for disbelievers, the Holy Prophet was naturally anxious that the revelation bearing upon the promised punishment should come soon. He is here told that he need have no anxiety on that score, as it was God's own responsibility, when a revelation should descend and what form the punishment should take, and that the Quran should be collected, read and explained to the world. It may be convenient to set out here three quotations: "There is otherwise every security, internal and external, that we possess the text (of the Quran) which Muḥammad himself gave forth and used" (Muir). "Efforts of European scholars to prove the existence of later interpolations in the Quran have failed" (Enc. Brit. ). "The Quran is perhaps the most read book in the world. Certainly it is the most often memorized, and possibly it 3268 PT. 29 فَإِذَا قَرَأْنُهُ فَاتَّبِعْ قُرْآنَهُ ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا بَيَانَهُ كَلَّا بَلْ تُحِبُّونَ الْعَاجِلَةَ وَتَذَرُونَ الْآخِرَةَ وُجُوْهٌ يَوْمَيذٍ نَاضِرَةٌ إلى رَبِّهَا نَاظِرَةٌ قُ exerts the greatest influence on those who read it" (The Religions of Man). Besides the meaning given in the text, the verse has also been interpreted as follows: "It is Our responsibility that We should explain the Quranic revelation through your tongue" (Rūḥul-Ma‘ānī). This speaks volumes for the inviolability of the Holy Prophet's Sunnah and its indispensability as a safe and sure guide, next only to the Quran itself. For a detailed exposition, however, of this and the preceding verse see General Introduction and 15:10. 4469. Commentary The particle besides meaning, "your assertion that Resurrection will not take place is false," has been taken to mean, "it is as certain as anything that the Resurrection shall take place (Kabir). " 4470. Commentary: The verse means that the righteous