Verse 3
The Declining Day • makkah
View Aspects
10:46; 65:10.
Important Words:
خسر (in a state of loss). خسر (khasira) means, he suffered a loss; he lost his way; he was ruined (Lane).
Commentary:
الانسان (man) here signifies man as mentioned in 17:12; 18:55; 36:78; 70:20, viz. the hasty, the contentious, the quarrelling and the impatient man.
10:46.
Al-Insan, (man) here signifies man as mentioned in 17:12; 18:55; 36:78; and 70:20, viz. the hasty, the contentious man, or the man who opposes Divine Messengers.
It is History’s infallible testimony that those individuals or nations, who do not make proper use of the opportunities that come to them in life, and who defy the eternal natural laws which determine human destiny, inevitably come to grief. It is such individuals and nations who are the losers in the race against Time and it is to these that the word Al-Insan in the Surah particularly refers. Divine laws cannot be defied with impunity.