The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 420
CH. 80 'ABASA 22. Then He causes him to die and assigns a grave to him; 4582 23. Then, when He pleases, He will raise him up again. 4583 24. Nay! he has not yet done what He commanded him to do. 4584 25. Now let man look at his food: 26. "How We pour down water in abundance, 27. Then We cleave the earth- a proper cleaving— 28. "Then We cause to grow therein grain, 29. And grapes and vegetables, 30. And the olive and the date- palm, a71:12; 78:15. 678:16. did not reveal the Quran for his guidance, for nothing. Man has been created to pursue a noble ideal and achieve a great goal. 4582. Commentary: The natural powers with which man has been endowed signify that a very high spiritual destiny awaits him. But the physical body of man is too dense for an immeasurable and unending spiritual progress. To achieve his high destiny, God has decreed death for man, so that when the human soul is freed from the trammels of its physical tabernacle it should travel on the path leading to the goal of its PT. 30 ثُمَّ أَمَاتَهُ فَأَقْبَرَهُ ) ثُمَّ إِذَا شَاءَ أَنْشَرَهُ قُ كَلَّا لَمَّا يَقْضِ مَا آمَرَهُ قُ فَلْيَنْظُرِ الْإِنْسَانُ إِلَى طَعَامِةٍ انَّا صَبَيْنَا الْمَاءَ صَبَّان ثُمَّ شَقَقْنَا الْأَرْضَ شَقاق فَأَنْبَتْنَا فِيهَا حَبَّان وَعِنَبا وَقَضْبان وَزَيْتُوْنًا وَنَخْلان infinite progress. The 'grave' in this verse does not mean the tomb to which a dead body is consigned, but the state of the soul after death. 4583. Commentary: Man's humble and insignificant beginning, his having been endowed with marvellous natural powers, his death all this shows (says the verse) that death is not the end of man but that there is a life beyond. 4584. Commentary: 3316 Though God endowed man with great natural faculties and revealed Himself to him through His