It is also narrated that the Arab idolaters gathered...
It is also narrated that the Arab idolaters gathered together around KAABEH under the moon light, and talked against our prophet Mohammad (SA). أَفَلَمْ يَدَّبَّرُوا الْقَوْلَ أَمْ جَاءَهُمْ مَّا لَمْ يَأْتِ آبَاءَهُمُ الاَْوَّلِينَ(( 68 )) 68- DO THEY NOT THEN PONDER OVER THE WORD, (OF GOD) OR THERE HAS COME TO THEM SOMETHING (NEW) THAT CAME NOT TO THEIR FATHERS OF OLD? أَمْ لَمْ يَعْرِفُوا رَسُولَهُمْ فَهُمْ لَهُ مُنكِرُونَ(( 69 )) 69- OR DO THEY NOT KNOW THEIR MESSENGER, THAT THEY DENY HIM?
أَمْ يَقُولُونَ بِهِ جِنَّةٌ بَلْ جَاءَهُمْ بِالْحَقِّ وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ لِلْحَقِّ كَارِهُونَ(( 70 )) 70- OR DO THEY SAY HE IS POSSESSED? NOT SO. HE HAS BROUGHT THEM THE TRUTH, AND MOST OF THEM DISLIKE THE TRUTH.
وَلَوِ اتَّبَعَ الْحَقُّ أَهْوَاءَهُمْ لَفَسَدَتِ السَّمَاوَاتُ وَالاَْرْضُ وَمَنْ فِيهِنَّ بَلْ أَتَيْنَاهُمْ بِذِكْرِهِمْ فَهُمْ عَنْ ذِكْرِهِمْ مُّعْرِضُونَ(( 71 )) 71- AND IF TRUTH WOULD FOLLOW THEIR CAPRICES, THE [ 299 ] HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, AND ALL THOSE WHO ARE IN THEM WOULD BE CORRUPTED. WE HAVE RATHER BROUGHT THEM (THE BOOK IN WHICH IS) THEIR REMINDER, AND THEY TURN AWAY OF THEIR REMINDER.
أَمْ تَسْأَلُهُمْ خَرْجاً فَخَرَاجُ رَبِّكَ خَيْرٌ وَهُوَ خَيْرُ الرَّازِقِينَ(( 72 )) 72- OR DO YOU ASK THEM FOR EXPENSES? BUT THE RECOMPENSE OF YOUR LORD IS FAR BETTER, AND HE IS THE BEST OF SUSTAINERS. وَإِنَّكَ لَتَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى صِرَاط مُّسْتَقِيم(( 73 )) 73- AND YOU, OF SURETY CALL THEM TO A STRAIGHT WAY. وَإِنَّ الَّذِينَ لاَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالاْخِرَةِ عَنِ الصِّرَاطِ لَنَاكِبُونَ(( 74 )) 74- AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT IN THE LIFE TO COME ARE DEVIATING FROM THE STRAIGHT PATH.
THE COMMENTARY THE VARIOUS OBJECTIONS VERSE NO.68ِ74 Here in this passage, the main cause of the pagan's denial, and their objections is stated in brief, which includes some knocking down answer to their flimsy pretexts that they wove. In this regard, their greatest weakpoint was their lack of thinking.
They used not their minds because their hearts were locked:ِ [ 300 ] ``Do they not ponder over the word of God, or there has come to them something new, that came not to their fathers of old?'' Qura"n is the word of God, and if we ponder over its verses and passages, we may easily understand the Message of God to Man, and become acquainted to some extent with Allah's Universal Law of creation, and the way that may lead us to salvation and prosperity.