ROOT ف و ج

25:18; 67:9.

Commentary:

The main subject dealt with in the Surah is life after death and by implication the great spiritual revolution that was to be brought about by the Holy Prophet. The appeal of the Holy Prophet to the Quraish naturally split his people into two camps—the Faithful and the disbelievers. The present and the next few verses deal with the rejecters of the Prophet’s message and the fate that was in store for them. Life after death is another subject dealt with in these verses.

Important Words:

مقتحم (rushing headlong) is derived from قحم. They say قحم فی الامر i.e. he entered into the affair without consideration. اقتحم الامر means, he threw himself into the affair with vehemence and difficulty.

Commentary:

When leaders of disbelief will go to Hell, they will be told that a host of their followers will also enter into fire along with them. As the latter rushed to follow their leaders blindly and unthinkingly rejecting truth, so they will enter Hell rushing headlong.

The words لامرحباً بھم (no welcome for them) may be taken as having been spoken by the angels in charge of Hell or by the leaders of disbelief who would already be in Hell.

6:131; 39:72; 40:51.

18:100; 20:103; 27:88; 36:52.

Commentary:

On the day of the Fall of Mecca the Quraish, as if by the blowing of the trumpet, were gathered before the Holy Prophet, before whom they placed their request that their tyrannies and transgressions might be forgiven and they might be accepted into the fold of Islam.