Surah 41. Ha-Mim, Ayah 51
| وَإِذَا أَنْعَمْنَا عَلَى الْإِنْسَانِ أَعْرَضَ وَنَأَىٰ بِجَانِبِهِ وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ الشَّرُّ فَذُو دُعَاءٍ عَرِيضٍ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- 'idhaa ancamnaa calaa al- 'insaan acrad.a wa- na'aa bi- jaanib -hi wa- 'idhaa massa -hu ash- sharr fa- dho ducaa' cared. |
| Pickthall | : | When We show favor unto man, he withdraweth and turneth aside, but when ill toucheth him then he aboundeth in prayer. |
| Asad | : | And, too, when We bestow Our blessings upon man, he tends to turn aside and keep aloof [from remembering Us]; but as soon as evil fortune touches him he is full of wordy prayers!47 |
| Malik | : | When We bestow favors on man, he turns away and drifts off to another side; and when an evil befalls him, he comes with lengthy supplications. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | When We bestow favors on man he turns away and gets himself remote on his side (instead of coming to Us); and when Evil seizes him (he comes) full of prolonged prayer! 4523 4524 |
Note - 47Lit., "wide [i.e., prolonged or diffuse] prayers".
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Note - 4523The last verse and note dealt with men's distortion of
the values of life. Here we come to men's ingratitude and
hypocrisy. If they receive good, they go farther away
from Allah, instead of coming nearer to him. If they
suffer ill, they call on Allah and offer prolonged
prayers, but it is not sincere devotion and therefore
worthless.
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Note - 4524Cf. xvii. 83. A) An argument is now addressed, of a most
searching nature. Examine your own souls. See if you do
not really find something unusual in Allah's Revelation!
If you do, and yet you reject it, what a terrible
responsibility fastens itself on you? Could anything be
more foolish or more misguided than to reject a Message
which is transforming the whole world? B) 'If you resist
the convictions of the whole world, you are only forming
a Cave or a narrow obscure sect or schism, which serves
no purpose, and is unfit to live in the broad light of
Universal Religion.' Cf. ii. 176, n. 176. C) Allah's
Truth always spreads, in its own good time, across to the
uttermost ends of the earth, as it did in the case of
Islam. But its intensive spread in the hearts and souls
of people is even more remarkable than its extensive
spread over large areas. Men like the four Companions of
the Prophet-and many more-became leaders of men and
arbiters of the world's fate. Madinah from being a focus
of jarring tribes and factions that hated each other,
became the seat of heroic actions and plans and the
nursery of great and noble heroic deeds that resounded
throughout the world. It makes no difference what men may
say or do. Allah's Truth must prevail, and He knows who
obstruct and who help.
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The last verse and note dealt with men's distortion of the values of life. Here we come to men's ingratitude and hypocrisy. If they receive good, they go farther away from Allah, instead of coming nearer to him. If they suffer ill, they call on Allah and offer prolonged prayers, but it is not sincere devotion and therefore worthless. |
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Cf. xvii. 83. A) An argument is now addressed, of a most searching nature. Examine your own souls. See if you do not really find something unusual in Allah's Revelation! If you do, and yet you reject it, what a terrible responsibility fastens itself on you? Could anything be more foolish or more misguided than to reject a Message which is transforming the whole world? B) 'If you resist the convictions of the whole world, you are only forming a Cave or a narrow obscure sect or schism, which serves no purpose, and is unfit to live in the broad light of Universal Religion.' Cf. ii. 176, n. 176. C) Allah's Truth always spreads, in its own good time, across to the uttermost ends of the earth, as it did in the case of Islam. But its intensive spread in the hearts and souls of people is even more remarkable than its extensive spread over large areas. Men like the four Companions of the Prophet-and many more-became leaders of men and arbiters of the world's fate. Madinah from being a focus of jarring tribes and factions that hated each other, became the seat of heroic actions and plans and the nursery of great and noble heroic deeds that resounded throughout the world. It makes no difference what men may say or do. Allah's Truth must prevail, and He knows who obstruct and who help. |
