وَالۡقُرۡاٰنِ

4:75; 61:11-12.

3:196; 61:5.

Commentary:

The words, an unfailing promise that He has made incumbent on Himself in the Torah and the Gospel and the Quran, mean that the Torah, the Gospel and the Quran contain clear promises of divine favour and assistance for those who strive in the cause of God with their persons and property. The promise is general, but was to apply to Muslims alone after Islam had abrogated other religions. These words may also mean that the people of whom God purchased their lives and property in exchange for Heaven, viz. the Companions of the Holy Prophet of Islam, have been spoken of and commended in all the three Books, i.e. not only in the Quran, but in the Torah and the Gospels as well.

Commentary:

The Quran has been adduced here as an argument to prove and establish the Holy Prophet’s claim as a Messenger of God. In fact, the most effective and convincing argument to prove the truth of the Holy Prophet’s mission is the Quran. There could be no greater testimony to the Holy Prophet’s truth than the fact that being himself unlettered he gave to the world a Book which is full of wisdom and which far excels all other revealed Scriptures in its multifarious and multitudinous beauties and excellences and is a complete code of laws meant for the moral uplift and spiritual regeneration of humanity for all time. The Quran is indeed a standing miracle and an incontrovertible testimony to the truth of the Holy Prophet.

43:45.

Commentary:

The letter ص may signify "the Truthful God" or "I am Allah, the Truthful" or "God has spoken the truth" (صدق الله). For an explanation of abbreviated letters see 2:2 & 19:2.

ذی الذکر means full of admonition and exhortation or possessing eminence and honour; or acting upon its teaching the believers will achieve honour, good name and eminence.

The whole verse may mean that the Truthful God swears by the Quran that the followers of the Holy Prophet, by acting upon the teaching of the Quran and making it a rule of their lives, will achieve eminence and will come to occupy a most honoured place in the comity of nations. The verse thus constitutes a great prophecy about the glorious future of Islam.

56:78.

Important Words:

The letter ق (Qaf) may stand for the Divine attribute قادر or قدیر (Qadir or Qadir) which means, the Mighty God; or the letter may stand for القیامة حق i.e. the Resurrection is an undoubted reality. This is the last abbreviated letter used in the Quran and therefore possesses a special significance. For a detailed explanation, however, of the abbreviated letters (المقطعات) see 2:2 & 19:2.

The letter و (by) among other things may mean, 'by' or 'I swear' or 'I cite as witness or evidence.' See also 37:2.

المجید (Glorious) is derived from مجد (majada) which means, he was or became possessed of or characterized by glory, honour, dignity, nobility, etc. or he was or became glorious, in a state of honour, dignity; noble. مجدتالابل means, the camels fed in a land abounding with pasture, and satiated themselves therewith, or lighted upon abundant herbage. أمجدہ means, he made it (a gift) large or abundant. They say أمجدنا فلان قری i.e. such a one gave us a sufficient and superabundant entertainment. The Arabs say أمجدہ سباً و ذماً i.e. he reviled and dispraised him much. أمجد الدایة means, he gave the beast of carnage much fodder. Thus the primary signification of the root word is abundance or superabundance. مجد (majdun) means, glory, honour, dignity, nobility; (syn. شرف و عز & کرم) or ample glory, nobility, honour, dignity, etc., or the acquisition of glory, honour, etc., or acquired or personal glory, honour, etc., transmitted by one’s ancestors. مجید means, a man possessing or characterized by glory, honour, dignity; nobility. المجید as an epithet of God signifies the Glorious or Great in dignity, Who gives liberally or bountifully.مجید is also applied in the Quran as an epithet to the Throne (عرش) of God and to the Quran itself and signifies exalted, sublime, noble, glorious (Lane & Aqrab). Sec also 38:2. The words القرآن المجید thus may mean, the Glorious Quran, the great Quran, the Quran possessing great and abundant good. In the last sense the word مجیدmay be synonymous with مبارک which is also one of the epithets used by the Quran for itself (6:156). Elsewhere the Quran has been called the Quran full of wisdom (36:3), the Quran full of exhortation (38:2), the Noble Quran (56:78), the Quran which explains things fully (12:3).

Commentary:

The construction of this verse exactly resembles that of 38:2. Taking the abbreviated letter ق as signifying 'the Powerful God,' the versemay mean that the Powerful God swears by the Quran, or that He cites the Quran as witness, that by acting upon its teaching and making it a rule of their lives, its followers will achieve glory, greatness and spiritual and material grandeur. And by taking the letter as signifying القیامة حق i.e. the Resurrection is an undoubted reality, the verse would signify that Resurrection will certainly take place and that the Glorious Quran can be cited as an evidence to prove this claim. The proof consists in the fact: (1) that the Quran has made two claims, viz. that by acting upon its teaching the weak, oppressed and persecuted followers of the Holy Prophet will achieve glory, greatness and spiritual and material eminence and an honoured place in the comity of the world’s great nations; and (2) that Resurrection will undoubtedly take place. The fulfilment of the first prophecy, the verse implies, will substantiate and establish the truth of the second claim.