The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 498
Introduction CHAPTER 93 AD-DUḤĀ (Revealed before Hijrah) After the first two or three Surahs had been revealed, revelation ceased to come to the Holy Prophet for sometime. The present Surah is among those which were revealed soon after revelation started coming again. Thus the Surah should be deemed to have been revealed very early at Mecca. Nöldeke places it after Al-Balad, and Muir puts it near to Surah Al-Inshirāḥ in chronological order. It is surprising that such a bigoted Christian missionary as Mr. Wherry should also have assigned a very early date to this Surah which embodies a prophecy that every morrow of the Holy Prophet would be better than his yesterday, and this process will continue till his cause would meet with complete success. This prophecy had remarkable fulfilment in the mounting triumphs of the Holy Prophet. In subject matter, the Surah very much resembles some of its predecessors. Like them, it lays stress on the evils to which the Meccans were specially addicted, with this difference that in this Surah the Holy Prophet and his followers have been enjoined to make proper use of their money, but in the preceding Surahs a contrast was drawn between the believers' and the disbelievers' treatment of the orphans and the needy. Moreover, in the preceding Surah it was briefly stated that the righteous believer spends his wealth in the way of God but in the Surah under comment mention is made of the blessings that God bestows upon His chosen servants with a particular reference to the Holy Prophet. Thus the Surah serves as a sequel to the one preceding it. 3394