The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 389
PT. 29 AL-MURSALĀT 18. We will now cause the later ones to follow them. 19. Thus do We deal with the guilty. 4512 20. Woe on that day unto those who reject the truth! 21. Did We not create you from an insignificant fluid,ª 22. And We placed it in a safe resting place, 23. For a known measure of time? 24. "Thus did We determine and what excellent Determiner We are!4513 25. Woe on that day unto those who reject the truth! 26. Have We not made the earth so as to hold 4514 4512. Commentary: CH. 77 ثُمَّ نُتَّبِعُهُمُ الْآخِرِينَ كَذَلِكَ نَفْعَلُ بِالْمُجْرِمِينَ وَيْلٌ يَوْمَيذٍ لِلْمُكَذِّبِينَ الَم نَخْلُقَكُم مِن مَّاه مهينة فَجَعَلْنَهُ فِي قَرَارٍ مَّكِيْنٍ إلى قَدَرٍ مَّعْلُومٍ فَقَدَرُنَا فَنِعْمَ الْقَدِرُونَ وَيْلٌ يَوْمَيذٍ لِلْمُكَذِّبِينَ اَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ الْأَرْضَ كِفَاتًا a23:14; 32:9; 36:78. b23:15. 7:26. The guilty never go unpunished, and the punishment, in the time of a Divine Messenger, takes place on a larger scale, involving whole communities and nations. 4513. Commentary: This and the preceding three verses refer to the extremely subtle process of development of the sperm drop in the womb into a full-fledged human being, which indeed is a great wonder of creation. This process of creation is advanced as an argument in support of the Resurrection. The Quran has 3285 repeatedly used this argument, for there exists a beautiful parallelism between the two, the mother's womb being likened in the Quran to man's life on earth and his birth to the Resurrection. 4514. Important Words: (so as to hold) is derived from which means, he or it hastened or was quick or swift. They say i. e. he drew the thing together to himself and contracted, grasped or took it. 6 is a place in which a thing is drawn together or comprehended and collected or congregated. The words mean: "Have