Verse 9
The Moon • makkah
View Aspects
36:52; 14:44.
Important Words:
مھطعین (hastening) is the plural of مھطع which is act. part. from أھطع which is transitive form of ھطع. They say ھطع الرجل i.e. the man came running in fright; or the man advanced with his eyes fixed on something from which he did not raise them. أھطع فی السیر means, he hastened and came in haste frightened. أھطع الرجل also means, the man looked with humility. مھطع means, one who looks at a thing without raising his eyes from it (Aqrab). See also 14:44.
Commentary:
This and the preceding two verses give a graphic picture of the confusion, consternation and bewilderment of the Quraish when they saw the Summoner—the Holy Prophet—whom they had driven out of Mecca and upon whose head they had set a price only a few years earlier, at the very gates of the city. The mighty prophecy embodied in these verses was made at a time when the fate of Islam itself was hanging in the balance and, humanly speaking, there was not the remotest possibility of its being fulfilled.
14:44; 36:52.
This and the preceding two verses give a graphic picture of the utter confusion, consternation and bewilderment of the Quraish when they saw the Summoner—the Holy Prophet—whom they had driven out of Mecca and upon whose head they had laid a price only a few years earlier—at the very gates of their capital city.