The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5)

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CH. 79 AN-NĀZIĀT 10. "And their eyes will be cast down- 4558 11. They will say, 'Shall we really be restored to our former state?4559 12. "What! even when we are rotten bones?' 13. They will say, 'Then that indeed would be a losing return. ' 14. It will only be a single cry, 15. And behold! they will all come out in the open. 4560 16. Has the story of Moses reached thee?4561 وقف لا نزو وقف لازم وقف لازم PT. 30 أَبْصَارُهَا خَاشِعَةٌ يَقُولُونَ إِنَّا لَمَرُدُودُونَ فِي الْحَافِرَةِ وَإِذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا نَّخِرَةَ قُ قَالُوْا تِلْكَ إِذَا كَرَّةً خَاسِرَةٌ فَإِنَّمَا هِيَ زَجْرَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ فَإِذَا هُمْ بِالسَّاهِرَةِ هَلْ أَتُكَ حَدِيثُ مُوسَى a70:45. 17:50; 36:79; 46:34. 19:52; 20:10. 4558. Commentary: The disbelievers will get the worst of the war and their pride will be humbled into dust. 4559. Important Words: 83 (former state) is derived from حافرة. he dug the ground. . حفر means, the original state of a thing; turning back of a thing so that the end thereof is brought back to its beginning. vi. e. he became old and decrepit. means, he returned by the way by which he had gone. The verse means, "shall we be restored to our first state, i. e. to life on earth as we were" (Lane & Aqrab). 4560. Commentary: The reference in the verse seems to be to the Battle of Badr when disbelievers had a foretaste of the crushing defeats which they were destined subsequently to suffer at the hands of Muslims. 4561. Commentary: Here the Meccan disbelievers are told that they are not the first to reject God's Message. Divine Messengers had come before. They were also rejected, opposed and persecuted. Moses, was one of them. He preached the Divine Message to Pharaoh, who courted his own destruction by refusing to listen to the voice of God. The Holy Prophet's opponents should take a lesson from the ignominious end to which Pharaoh 3304 came.