The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 80
CH. 50 will be an angel to drive and an angel to bear witness. 3873 QAF PT. 26 لَقَدْ كُنْتَ فِي غَفْلَةٍ مِّنْ هُذَا Then We shall say, Thou. 23 فَكَشَفْنَا عَنْكَ غِطَاءَكَ فَبَصَرُكَ have removed from thee thy الْيَوْمَ حَدِيدُ وَقَالَ قَرِيْنَهُ هُذَا مَا لَدَيَّ عَتِيدٌ wast heedless of this; now We veil, and sharp is thy sight this day. '3874 24. And his companion will say, ‘This is what I have ready of his record'. 3875 25. We shall say to his two Companions, ‘Cast ye twain 3873. Commentary: the knife. means, he looked الْقِيَا فِي جَهَنَّمَ كُل كَفَّارٍ عَنِيْين رجل حديد. driver) may be the angel that sharply or attentively at him) سائق sits on man's left and records his bad deeds and as a punishment for them will drive him to Hell, and may be the angel that sits on his right and records his good actions and will bear witness in his favour. Or the two words metaphorically may stand for man's misused limbs and faculties and those well and properly used. See also verse 18 above; 24:25 and 36:66. 3874. Important Words: means, a man sharp of intellect or understanding (Lane). Commentary: The verse means that in the next world the veil will be lifted from the eyes of man and his vision and mental perception will become clearer and sharper. He will see the consequences of his actions in an embodied form which were hidden from his eyes in this world and will realize that which he used to regard 2 (eye) means, eye; the light merely as an illusion, was a hard and whereby the organ of sight perceives the things; knowledge; discernment; intelligence (Lane & Aqrab). stark reality. 3875. Commentary: حد sharp is derived from) حديد which means, he turned away or حد شيئا عن. averted a person from a thing غیره means, he distinguished or separated by some mark a thing from another. means, he sharpened (his companion) may signify his evil companion, or the Satan, who has been called elsewhere in the Quran, man's evil companion 4:39; 43:39, because it is at his instigation that man defies God's commandments. 2976