Eternal Words 6-Sura Al-'An'am Verse14
Verse14
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(14) قُلْ أَ غَيْرَ اللَّهِ أَتَّخِذُ وَلِيًّا فاطِرِ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ وَ هُوَ يُطْعِمُ وَ لا يُطْعَمُ قُلْ إِنِّي
أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ أَسْلَمَ وَ لا تَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ
14. " Say: ' Shall I take a guardian besides Allah, the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and He feeds (others) and is not (Himself) fed ? ' Say : ' I have been commanded to be the first who submits himself '. And be not you (O' Muhammad) of the polytheists."
Commentary :
Again, in this verse the words are upon the unity of Allah and rejecting paganism and idolatry.
In the same time that pagans accepted that the creation of the world specified to Divine Essence, they had taken idols as their support and refuge.
For the purpose of destroying the false imagination, The Qur'an instructs the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) such :
" Say: ' Shall I take a guardian besides Allah, the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and He feeds (others) and is not (Himself) fed ? '..."
It is worthy to note that among all the attributes of Allah, here; the Qur'an has emphasized but on feeding the creatures and giving them their sustenance. Using this sense, maybe, is for the sake that most of the connections in the material life of man relate to this very material need, viz, the need in eating a piece of bread, which makes persons to humiliate themselves before the masters of wealth and power. The case may be so that sometimes they bow before them as if they worship them.
In the above-mentioned verse, the Qur'an denotes that your sustenance is in the authority of Allah, not in that of them.
Then, in answer to the suggestion of those who invited the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) to join the camp of polytheists, the Qur'an instructs him to say that besides the command of wisdom which leads him to rely on the One Who is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, he also says that the revelation of Allah has instructed him to be the first Muslim who submits himself, and never he joins the row of polytheists.
The verse says:
"...Say: 'I have been commanded to be the first who submits himself'. And be not you (O' Muhammad) of the polytheists."
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