Eternal Words 7- Sura Al-'A'raf Verse71
Verse71
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(71) قالَ قَدْ وَقَعَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ رِجْسٌ وَ غَضَبٌ أَ تُجادِلُونَنِي فِي أَسْماءٍ سَمَّيْتُمُوها
أَنْتُمْ وَ آباؤُكُمْ ما نَزَّلَ اللَّهُ بِها مِنْ سُلْطانٍ فَانْتَظِرُوا إِنِّي مَعَكُمْ مِنَ الْمُنْتَظِرِينَ
71. " He (Hud) said: " There have already fallen you punishment and wrath from your Lord. Do you dispute with me about names which you and your fathers have named (your idols), for which Allah has not sent any authority ? Wait then, and verily I, also with you, will be of those who wait."
Commentary :
The verse begins thus :
" He (Hud) said: " There have already fallen you punishment an wrath from your Lord. ..."
In answer to them, Hud (a.s.) said to them that the punishment was certain to be fallen on them. They had done something that they deserved the wrath of Allah. The Wrath of Allah is in the manner that He wills punishment for evil-doers.
The verse continues saying :
"... Do you dispute with me about names which you and your fathers have named (your idols), for which Allah has not sent any authority ? Wait then, and verily I, also with you, will be of those who wait."
Hud asked them whether they hostilely disputed with him about the idols that their fathers had invented and named them with divinity, while those idols had no attribute or sign of divinity and also there had come down no proof for their divinity from the side of Allah. It is evident that such a great claim needed a sharp and firm proof which should be offered by them, not by Hud. He said that he should bring evidences that Allah, One God, was their real deity, and that there is no god but He, from Whom Hud was sent as a messenger.
Some commentators have said that they had named each of their idols in a different form. Hud said that those names were from their own wishes. Therefore, they must wait for the punishment which he (a.s.) was waiting for, too.
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