The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 424
CH. 81 PT. 30 بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ إِذَا الشَّمْسُ كُورَتْ وَإِذَا النُّجُوْمُ انْكَدَرَتْ سورة التكويرِ مَكّيَّةُ ٨١ (AT-TAKWIR) 1. "In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. 2. When the sun is wrapped up, 4589 3. And when the stars are obscured, 4590 4589. Important Words: "See 1:1. (wrapped up) is derived from ie he wound كور العمامة They say. كور round the turban upon his head. means, the light of the sun became folded up or became dim or it disappeared or the sun became ,means اذا الشمس كورت eclipsed (Aqrab when the sun shall be wound with darkness like a turban; or when it shall be wrapped up and have its light taken away or shall lose its light; or shall be divested of its light; or shall be cast away. These are some of the meanings of the verse given by Jalālain, Qatadah, 'Ikrimah Mujahid as quoted by Lane. Commentary: and It is generally said that this Surah deals with the Resurrection, when the laws and processes of nature as we know them, will cease to operate. But this does not appear to be plausible, the whole trend and tenor of the Surah speaks so patently of the conditions which obtain in the physical world that some of the verses will lose all sense if they are taken as referring to the Final Resurrection. In fact, the Surah speaks of the great changes that have taken place in the material world and in human life since the time of the Holy Prophet, particularly in our own time. The Surah thus makes a special reference to the present era- the era of the Promised Messiah. Some verses may equally be interpreted literally as well as metaphorically. the Quran as the Bright Sun (25:62). The Holy Prophet is described in The verse, therefore, may mean: all over the world the light of the When there will be spiritual darkness Spiritual Sun having become dim or having disappeared altogether. Or the verse may refer to the eclipse of the sun and the moon, which according to a well-known saying of the Holy Prophet, was to take place in the time of the Mahdi, a phenomenon that the world had never witnessed before (Quțnī, p. 188). A reference to this is also to be found in 75:10. This predicted eclipse of the sun and the moon took place in 1894 in the month of Ramadan. 3320 4590. Commentary: The word meaning stars,