Qur'aanic Verse 89:5:
Transliteration:
Transliteration:
5. Hal fee thalika
qasamun lithee hijrin
Translation:
5. Is there in this an oath for one with understanding?1
Study Note:
1. For quite some time in
the past, I have been thinking about the divine oaths mentioned in the first
four Verses of this Surah – particularly about the ten nights. What particular
ten nights could those be? I have not been able to get a definite, satisfactory,
answer. I looked for the answers in various published commentaries, and I found
them varied and based purely on conjecture. And, in this fifth Verse, Allah
Almighty is posing a question to the clueless mankind. Can anyone understand
the significance of the objects on which the oath is taken? It appears rather to
be a divine challenge to those who claim to be endowed with deep understanding.
It is as if Allah Ta’ala is telling us that our intelligence would be of no
avail at all without divine Guidance!
An extract from yet-to-be-published Qur'aanic Studies Manzil VII.
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