The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 410
CH. 79 AN-NĀZIĀT 27. Therein surely is a lesson for him who fears his Lord. R. 2. 28. Are you harder to create or the heaven that He has built?4564 29. "He has raised the height thereof and has made it perfect. 4565 30. And He has made its night dark; and has brought forth the morn thereof; 45. 4566 طع PT. 30 اِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَعِبْرَةً لِمَنْ يَخْشُى انْتُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقَا امِ السَّمَاءِ بَنْهَا رَفَعَ سَمْكَهَا فَسَوْبَهَا وَأَغْطَشَ لَيْلَهَا وَاَخْرَجَ ضُحُهَاتٌ 21:33; 31:11. 17:13. the minds of men. The Quran has 4564. Commentary: given four arguments in support of this belief: (a) Complete knowledge of God about a thing which presupposes His power to create it. (b) Creation and development of man in the mother's womb, from an insignificant sperm drop into a full- fledged human being. (c) Rising up of a people from the depths of moral degradation to the heights of spiritual glory through a Divine Reformer, such rising, in Quranic terminology, being known as their resurrection. (d) The triumph of a Prophet over his enemies, predicted at a time when the Prophet and his community are fighting for their very life, and the human mind cannot even conceive of a happy sequel to their efforts. It is to this last argument that reference has been made in the verse under The complex, but flawless and consummate, creation of the solar system, constitutes, indeed, an invincible argument about life after death, viz. that the Great God Who could bring into being from nothing such a vast universe could also give man, who is but a mere speck in it, a new life after he is dead. This is the purport of the present and the following six verses. The verses further point out that when God has created such a complete system for man's physical needs. He could not have failed to make similar provision for his spiritual needs. 4565. Commentary: comment. Incidentally, the verse refers to the double punishment of disbelievers- in this life and in the Hereafter. 3306 The verse points to the fact that it is due to the sun, the moon and other heavenly bodies that life exists on earth. 4566. Commentary: The phenomenon of night and day, which pertains to the earth, has been