The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 26
CH. 47 MUHAMMAD 6. He will guide them and improve their condition. 3792 7. And admit them into the Garden which He has made known to them. 3793 PT. 26 سَيَهْدِيْهِمْ وَيُصْلِحُ بَالَهُمْ وَيُدْخِلُهُمُ الْجَنَّةَ عَرَّفَهَا لَهُمْ يَايُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِن تَنصُرُوا اللهَ O ye who believe! if you help. 8 يَنصُرُكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَكُمْ the cause of Allah, He will help وَالَّذِيْنَ كَفَرُوا فَتَحْسًا لَّهُمْ وَأَضَلَّ who you and will make your steps firm. 9. But as for those disbelieve, perdition is their lot; "3:196; 9:111. and on the other the bad qualities of disbelievers should become exposed. Perhaps in no other aspect of life was the moral superiority of the Companions of the Holy Prophet so clearly demonstrated as in their treatment of their fallen foes. The words "And those who are 3793. Important Words: (made known) is transitive verb from (arafa) which means, he knew it or became acquainted with it; he knew it by means of one of the senses and also by mental perception. ('arrafa) means, he عرفه الامر killed in the way of Allah-He will acquainted him with the affair. also means, rendering a thing fragrant, and adorning, decorating or embellishing it (Lane). Commentary: never render their works vain," mean that the sacrifice of Muslims slain in the field of battle would not be wasted. It was their sacrifice that firmly laid the foundation of a bright future for Islam. 3792. Important Words: Since one of the meanings of als is to follow the right path till one reaches one's destination and achieves the object of one's quest (Lane), the verse purports to say that the martyred Muslims have achieved, by their death, the object for which they gave their lives which was to attain God's pleasure and to make Islam secure and strong. 2922 The verse means that the Muslims slain in the way of Allah will be admitted into gardens of Paradise of which they had a foretaste in the present life. They had a foretaste of them in the sense that they enjoyed in their physical form all those spiritual blessings and favours which are mentioned in the Quran as having been promised to them in the next world. Or the verse may signify that Muslims had a spiritual foretaste of "the Garden" because they saw with their own eyes promises, made to