Surat Al An`am (31-40)

{قَدْ خَسِرَ الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِلِقَاء اللّهِ حَتَّى إِذَا جَاءتْهُمُ السَّاعَةُ بَغْتَةً قَالُواْ يَا حَسْرَتَنَا عَلَى مَا فَرَّطْنَا فِيهَا وَهُمْ يَحْمِلُونَ أَوْزَارَهُمْ عَلَى ظُهُورِهِمْ أَلاَ سَاء مَا يَزِرُونَ} [الأنعام: 31]

31- Verily, they have lost themselves. They are the people who denied the Day of Reckoning, lost, and regretted when the Day of Recompense came to them suddenly, they said, after their bad actions: How bad is our regret for our negligence and the righteous actions they left in the world while they bear their sins over their backs; verily, how bad and heavy the sins they bear on their backs.

{وَمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلاَّ لَعِبٌ وَلَهْوٌ وَلَلدَّارُ الآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ لِّلَّذِينَ يَتَّقُونَ أَفَلاَ تَعْقِلُونَ} [الأنعام: 32]

32- The worldly life -in most cases- is just joy and play in terms of no benefit gained. So, a wise person should not busy himself with vanity and arrogance because it is evanescent, and of small benefit. The Hereafter and its reward, bliss, eternity, and pleasure from Allah is better and greater than this small benefit for those who keep away from disbelief and stubbornness and open their hearts for truth and faith; do not you understand to stay away from the things that Allah prohibited and proceed to the things which He exhorted you to because they contain benefit for you in the world and in the Hereafter?

{قَدْ نَعْلَمُ إِنَّهُ لَيَحْزُنُكَ الَّذِي يَقُولُونَ فَإِنَّهُمْ لاَ يُكَذِّبُونَكَ وَلَكِنَّ الظَّالِمِينَ بِآيَاتِ اللّهِ يَجْحَدُونَ} [الأنعام: 33]

33- We know the distress and sorrow that befall you because of your people's disagreement to you and their denial to you. They do not accuse you, in person, of lying because enmity is not personal between you and them but they are oppressors and aggressive because they disbelieve in the signs of Allah that are revealed to you.

The Ayah was revealed in Abu Jahl who said to the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him): We do not deny you but we deny what you came with.

{وَلَقَدْ كُذِّبَتْ رُسُلٌ مِّن قَبْلِكَ فَصَبَرُواْ عَلَى مَا كُذِّبُواْ وَأُوذُواْ حَتَّى أَتَاهُمْ نَصْرُنَا وَلاَ مُبَدِّلَ لِكَلِمَاتِ اللّهِ وَلَقدْ جَاءكَ مِن نَّبَإِ الْمُرْسَلِينَ} [الأنعام: 34]

34- You are not the first messenger whose people deny his message. There were messengers before you whose people denied them, but they observed patience, hold firm, and delivered the messages of their Lord, and were harmed because of this until Our victory which We promised came to them. Verily, no one can abolish the decree of Allah by providing victory of His Prophets over their enemies. You know of their news how they were given victory by His Support and Power. So, follow them and observe patience as the Prophets of patience observed. Verily, you have a good example in them until the promised victory of Allah comes to you.

{وَإِن كَانَ كَبُرَ عَلَيْكَ إِعْرَاضُهُمْ فَإِنِ اسْتَطَعْتَ أَن تَبْتَغِيَ نَفَقاً فِي الأَرْضِ أَوْ سُلَّماً فِي السَّمَاء فَتَأْتِيَهُم بِآيَةٍ وَلَوْ شَاء اللّهُ لَجَمَعَهُمْ عَلَى الْهُدَى فَلاَ تَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْجَاهِلِينَ} [الأنعام: 35]

35- If it is difficult for you that you see them turn away from you and their disobedience to the Qur'an, if are able to follow a tunnel or to mount stairs in the sky to get them an Ayahs better than the signs We sent so that they could believe, do that. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) was keen that the people follow him and if Allah wills, He shall gather them on guidance  and faith, but they do not love that and do not want to hear your words nor they want to proceed to goodness, so do not be keen to draw them to Islam , do not fear in the time of patience, and do not be from the ignorant.

{إِنَّمَا يَسْتَجِيبُ الَّذِينَ يَسْمَعُونَ وَالْمَوْتَى يَبْعَثُهُمُ اللّهُ ثُمَّ إِلَيْهِ يُرْجَعُونَ} [الأنعام: 36]

36- Only those who listen to you and understand what you are saying respond you. As for the ignorant disbelievers whose hearts are dead, Allah shall resurrect them from their graves to the place of gathering to be present before Allah and torture them for their actions.

{وَقَالُواْ لَوْلاَ نُزِّلَ عَلَيْهِ آيَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِ قُلْ إِنَّ اللّهَ قَادِرٌ عَلَى أَن يُنَزِّلٍ آيَةً وَلَـكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ} [الأنعام: 37]

37- The polytheists said in stubbornness and error without believing in the signs which the Messenger (peace be upon him) came with: would you send down a miraculous sign to be a proof to his prophethood?

O Prophet of Allah, tell them: Verily, Allah is All Able to send down a miraculous Ayah as He had sent it down to prophets before. Nothing fails Him because He is the Creator of the universe, but most people do not know the reasons of respite and delay. If Allah had sent it down as they wished, but did not believe in them, Allah would have punished them as He did in the previous nations. "And We sent not the signs except to warn, and to make them afraid (of destruction)." [Surat Al Isra': 59].

{وَمَا مِن دَآبَّةٍ فِي الأَرْضِ وَلاَ طَائِرٍ يَطِيرُ بِجَنَاحَيْهِ إِلاَّ أُمَمٌ أَمْثَالُكُم مَّا فَرَّطْنَا فِي الكِتَابِ مِن شَيْءٍ ثُمَّ إِلَى رَبِّهِمْ يُحْشَرُونَ} [الأنعام: 38]

38- There is no living organism on earth or a flying bird in the air but were created like you in their conditions, sustenance, and control. We did not leave anything for chance. Everything is registered and preserved in a book at Allah, which is Al Lawh Al Mahfuzh (the Preserved Tablet). All creatures are gathered before Allah on the Day of Recompense to the extent that Allah judges between bald sheep and horned sheep then He says: Be dust.

The last statement is from the saying of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) in short in his commentary on this Ayah. [Reported by Al Hakim who graded it as authentic].

{وَالَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِآيَاتِنَا صُمٌّ وَبُكْمٌ فِي الظُّلُمَاتِ مَن يَشَإِ اللّهُ يُضْلِلْهُ وَمَن يَشَأْ يَجْعَلْهُ عَلَى صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ} [الأنعام: 39]

39- The disbelievers who deny the Qur'an and all the clear proofs are like them in their lack of knowledge and understanding. They are like the deaf who do not hear and the dumb who do not speak while they are in deep darkness. They do not hear the Ayahs carefully and are not able to declare the truth because of their blind imitation and contradiction to the sound mind and intellect. They will remain in the darkness of disbelief, ignorance, and stubbornness. He (Glory be to Him) controls His Creation, so whom He finds ready for disbelief and error, He misleads him and whom He finds ready for goodness and ability for accepting the truth and refusing of faith, He guides him to the Straight Path.

{قُلْ أَرَأَيْتُكُم إِنْ أَتَاكُمْ عَذَابُ اللّهِ أَوْ أَتَتْكُمُ السَّاعَةُ أَغَيْرَ اللّهِ تَدْعُونَ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ} [الأنعام: 40]

40- O generous prophet, tell the disbeliever: Have you considered if a torment comes to you from Allah in worldly life because of your disbelief and your bad deeds, or the Hour with its terrible horrors, its accounts, and torment come to you; whom will you invoke to remove this distress? You shall only invoke Allah because nobody is able to remove it but He. If you are truthful in taking idols as deities, tell me whom you will invoke when the torment comes to you: Allah, or idols?