The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 464
CH. 87 4. "And Who measures guides, 4683 AL-A'LĀ and 5. And Who brings forth the pasturage, 6. Then turns it into black stubbleb. 4684 7. We shall teach thee the Quran, and thou shalt forget it not, 4685 4683. Commentary: a80:20. 18:46; 57:21. This and the preceding verse give four reasons for the glorification of God, viz. (1) God brought us into being. (2) He endowed us with all the faculties and capacities that are needed for our spiritual and intellectual development. (3) He determined man's physical and spiritual needs and (4) for the fulfilment of those needs He revealed guidance that man might attain the object of his creation. 4684. Important Words: (stubble) means, the rubbish or refuse and scum and rotten leaves mixed with the scum borne upon the surface of a torrent; decayed and broken pieces of herbage that are seen upon a torrent; a perishable thing. PT. 30 وَالَّذِي قَدَّرَ فَهَدَى وَالَّذِي أَخْرَجَ الْمَرْعَى فَجَعَلَهُ غُثَاءً أَحْوَى نقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَلي first revealed incomplete laws, suited only to the needs of the peoples and the periods in which they were revealed, and then revealed the last and most perfect Shari'ah in the form of the Quran, which was meant to guide mankind for all time? It purports to say that God has created two kinds of things: (1) Those that like herbage and pasture satisfy man's temporary needs and thus have a limited tenure of life. The former Scriptures, like these things, fulfilled man's temporary needs and, therefore, were subject to decay and death. (2) Those things such as the sun, the moon, the earth, etc. which are of permanent use for man. They will last with the universe. Like the latter the Quran is meant to be man's unerring guide till the end of time; ,ie. his hence it is immune to change ماله غثاء وعمله هباء و سعیه خفاء They say property is as rubbish borne by a replacement and the wasting effect of torrent and his work is as motes and his labour is unseen. the refuse of mankind (Lane). Commentary: time. means, The verse constitutes a subtle answer to the objection: Why God 3360 4685. Commentary: The verse develops the argument implied in the preceding one. It purports to say that the Quran being God's last Message for mankind has