The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5)

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General Remarks CHAPTER 92 AL-LAIL (Revealed before Hijrah) Prominent Muslim scholars, including two distinguished Companions of the Holy Prophet-'Abdullah bin 'Abbās and ‘Abdullah bin Zubair―are of the view that the Surah was revealed very early at Mecca. William Muir also agrees with this opinion. The Surah takes its title from the first word of the opening verse. The Surah possesses very close resemblance with some previous chapters, especially with Al-Fajr and Al-Balad. In the immediately preceding Surah, Ash-Shams, it was hinted that the supreme object of the building of the Ka'bah, which is the principal theme of Surah Al-Balad, could not have been achieved without a great Divine Messenger-the soul par excellence. In the present Surah we are told that when an ideal teacher, as the Holy Prophet, is blessed with ideal disciples like his Companions, advance of the cause of truth is doubly accelerated. The Surah also mentions some of the prominent moral qualities that distinguished the Companions of the Holy Prophet. In contrast, two glaring bad qualities that lead to the undoing of a man are also mentioned. 3389