The Reality, The Inevitable — Verse 44

And had he namely the Prophet s fabricated any lies against Us by communicating from Us that which We have not said

ولو ادَّعى محمد علينا شيئًا لم نقله، لانتقمنا وأخذنا منه باليمين، ثم لقطعنا منه نياط قلبه، فلا يقدر أحد منكم أن يحجز عنه عقابنا. إن هذا القرآن لعظة للمتقين الذين يمتثلون أوامر الله ويجتنبون نواهيه.

"تقول" أي تكلف وأتى بقول من قبل نفسه. وقرئ "ولو تقول" على البناء للمفعول.

( لأَخَذْنَا مِنْهُ باليمين ) أى : لأخذنا منه باليد اليمنى من يديه ، وهو كناية عن إذلاله وإهانته .أو : لأخذناه بالقوة والقدر ، وعبر عنهما باليمين ، لأن قوة كل شئ فى ميامنه .والمقصود بالجملة الكريمة : التهويل من شأن الأخذ ، وأنه أخذ شديد سريع لا يملك معه تصرفا أو هربا .

يقول تعالى ذكره: ولكنه (تَنـزيلٌ مِنْ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ ) نـزل عليه، (وَلَوْ تَقَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا ) محمد، (بَعْضَ الأقَاوِيلِ ) الباطلة، وتكذب علينا، (لأخَذْنَا مِنْهُ بِالْيَمِينِ ) يقول: لأخذنا منه بالقوة منا والقدرة، ثم لقطعنا منه نياط القلب، وإنما يعني بذلك أنه كان يعاجله بالعقوبة، ولا يؤخره بها.

"ولو تقول"، تخرص واختلق، "علينا"، محمد، "بعض الأقاويل"، وأتى بشيء من عند نفسه.

وَلَوْ تَقَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا بَعْضَ الْأَقَاوِيلِ (44) هذه الجملة عطف على جملة { فلا أقسم بما تبصرون وما لا تبصرون } [ الحاقة : 3839 ] فهي مشمولة لما أفادته الفاء من التفريع على ما اقتضاه تكذيبهم بالبعث من تكذيبهم القرآن ومَن جاء به وقال : إنه وحي من الله تعالى .فمفاد هذه الجملة استدلال ثان على أن القرآن منزل من عند الله تعالى على طريقة المذهب الكلامي ، بعد الاستدلال الأول المستند إلى القَسم والمؤكدات على طريقة الاستدلال الخَطابي .وهو استدلال بما هو مقرر في الأذهان من أن الله واسع القدرة ، وأنه عليم فلا يقرر أحداً على أن يقول عنه كلاماً لم يقله ، أي لو لم يكن القرآن منزلاً من عندنا ومحمد ادعى أنه منزَّل مِنا ، لما أقررناه على ذلك ، ولعجّلنا بإهلاكه . فعدَم هلاكه صلى الله عليه وسلم دال على أنه لم يتقوله على الله ، فإن { لو } تقتضي انتفاء مضمون شرطها لانتفاءِ مضمون جوابها .فحصل من هذا الكلام غرضان مهمان :أحدهما : يعود إلى ما تقدم أي زيادة إبطال لمزاعم المشركين أن القرآن شعر أو كهانة إبطالاً جامعاً لإِبطال النوعين ، أي ويوضح مخالفة القرآن لهذين النوعين من الكلام أن الآتي به ينسبه إلى وحي الله وما عَلِمْتُم شاعراً ولا كاهناً يزعم أن كلامَه من عند الله .وثانيهما : إبطال زعم لهم لم يسبق التصريح بإبطاله وهو قول فريق منهم { افتراه } [ يونس : 38 ] ، أي نسبه إلى الله افتراء وتقوّله على الله قال تعالى { أم يقولون تقوَّله بَلْ لا يؤمنون } [ الطور : 33 ] فبين لهم أنه لو افترَى على الله لما أقرّه على ذلك .ثم إن هذا الغرض يستتبع غرضاً آخر وهو تأييسهم من أن يأتي بقرآن لا يخالف دينَهم ولا يسفه أحلامهم وأصنامهم ، قال تعالى : { قال الذين لا يرجون لقاءَنا إيْتتِ بقرآننٍ غيرِ هذا أو بَدِّلْه } [ يونس : 15 ] . وهذه الجملة معطوفة عطف اعتراض فلك أن تجعل الواو اعتراضية فإنه لا معنى للواو الاعتراضية إلاّ ذلك .والتقول : نسبة قول لمن لم يقله ، وهو تفعُّل من القول صيغت هذه الصيغةَ الدالة على التكلف لأن الذي ينسب إلى غيره قولاً لم يقله يتكلف ويختلق ذلك الكلام ، ولكونه في معنى كذب عُدي ب ( على ) .والمعنى : لو كذب علينا فأخبر أنا قلنا قولاً لم نقله إلخ .و { بعضَ } اسم يدل على مقدار من نوع ما يضاف هو إليه ، وهو هنا منصوب على المفعول به ل { تقوَّل .والأقاويل } : جمع أقوال الذي هو جمع قول ، أي بعضاً من جنس الأقوال التي هي كثيرة فلكثرتها جيء لها بجمع الجمع الدال على الكثرة ، أي ولو نسب إلينا قليلاً من أقواللٍ كثيرة صادقةٍ يعني لو نسب إلينا شيئاً قليلاً من القرآن لم ننزله لأخذنا منه باليمين ، إلى آخره .

فإن هذا ظن منهم بما لا يليق بالله وحكمته فإنه لو تقول عليه وافترى { بَعْضَ الْأَقَاوِيلِ } الكاذبة.

"تقول " أي تكلف وأتى بقول من قبل نفسه .وقرئ " ولو تقول " على البناء للمفعول .

It literally means, ‘whatever you see and whatever you do not see bear testimony to the veracity of this discourse’ that is, whatever knowledge was at the command of humanity at the time the Quran was revealed and whatever was going to come within its reach thereafter, both go to prove the truth of the messenger’s utterances. Neither the present available knowledge contradicts the Quran being the Truth, nor will future knowledge be able to do so. In spite of this, those who do not accept it simply prove that they are not serious about Truth and Untruth.

وَلَوْ تَقَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا بَعْضَ الْأَقَاوِيلِ ﴿44﴾ لَأَخَذْنَا مِنْهُ بِالْيَمِينِ ﴿45﴾ ثُمَّ لَقَطَعْنَا مِنْهُ الْوَتِينَ ﴿46﴾ And had he forged some statements in Our name, We would have certainly seized him by the right hand, and then severed his life-astery,…(69:44-46) The word taqawwul means 'to forge, fabricate or concoct' and the word watin refers to 'aorta or life-artery'. This is the main artery that carries blood from the heart to other parts of the body. Once this artery is cut off, death occurs instantly. The foregoing verses refute the outrageous thoughts of the disbelievers. They used to accuse the Prophet o ﷺ of being a poet and a soothsayer. They said that the Qur'an was the word of a poet or the word of a soothsayer. The Qur'an denounces their argument - it is not the word of a poet nor the word of a soothsayer; it is a revelation from Allah to His Messenger ﷺ . In other words, in verses [ 37-38] it was claimed that all visible and invisible things prove that the Prophet is Allah's true Messenger and that the Qur'an is Allah's revealed Word and not the imaginary flight of a poet's mind or the wild conjectures of a diviner. In this and the preceding three verses another invincible argument is given in support of his claim. The argument is to the effect that if the Prophet ﷺ had been a forger of lies against Allah, Allah's strong hand would have seized him by the throat and cut off his life-artery and he would have certainly met with a violent death. The invincible argument is put forward in a strong language - assuming the impossible - to make the ignorant realise the worst-case scenario. The expression 'right hand' is used probably because when a convicted criminal is to be executed, the executioner stands in front facing the condemned person. The executioner's left hand faces the guilty person's right hand. The executioner holds the condemned person with his left hand and attacks him with his right hand. A Cautionary Note This verse refers to a theoretical situation relating to the Apostle of Allah in particular that lest, God forbid, if he were to concoct a word and impute it to Allah, this is the way he would have been dealt with. A hypothetical situation is a possible situation, not an actual situation. Thus this does not necessarily set down a universal principle that any and every impostor, who lays claim to prophethood, would be destroyed as a matter of general rule. History records that many impostors laid claim to prophethood, but no such destructive punishment was ever imposed on them.

And if he had invented) and had Muhammad (pbuh) invented (false sayings concerning Us) lies against Us and attributed to Us that which We did not say,

And had he fabricated any lies against Us, He said:That is, if he said that which he had no permission [from Us] to say.

If the Prophet forged anything against Allah, then Allah would punish Him Allah says, وَلَوْ تَقَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا (And if he had forged a false saying concerning Us,) meaning, `if Muhammad forged something against Us, as they claim, and added or removed anything from the Message, or said anything from himself while attributing it to Us, then We would surely be swift in punishing him. And of course, Muhammad ﷺ did not do any of this (as the disbelievers claimed).' Thus, Allah says, لأَخَذْنَا مِنْهُ بِالْيَمِينِ (We surely would have seized him by his right hand,) It has been said that this means, `We would seize him by the right hand because it is more stronger in grabbing.' ثُمَّ لَقَطَعْنَا مِنْهُ الْوَتِينَ (And then We certainly would have cut off Al-Watin from him,) Ibn `Abbas said, "It (Al-Watin) refers to the artery of the heart, and it is the vein that is attached to the heart." This has also been said by `Ikrimah, Sa`id bin Jubayr, Al-Hakim, Qatadah, Ad-Dahhak, Muslim Al-Batin and Abu Sakhr Humayd bin Ziyad. Muhammad bin Ka`b said, "It (Al-Watin) is the heart, its blood, and whatever is near it." Concerning Allah's statement, فَمَا مِنكُم مِّنْ أَحَدٍ عَنْهُ حَـجِزِينَ (And none of you could have prevented it from him.) means, `none of you would be able to come between Us and him if We wanted to do any of this to him.' The meaning behind all of this is to say that he (Muhammad ﷺ) is truthful, righteous and guided because Allah determined what he is to convey from Him, and Allah helps him with fantastic miracles and definite proofs. Then Allah says, وَإِنَّهُ لَتَذْكِرَةٌ لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ (And verily, this (Qur'an) is a Reminder for those who have Taqwa.) meaning, the Qur'an. This is just as Allah says, قُلْ هُوَ لِلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ هُدًى وَشِفَآءٌ وَالَّذِينَ لاَ يُؤْمِنُونَ فِى ءَاذَانِهِمْ وَقْرٌ وَهُوَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَمًى (Say: "It is for those who believe, a guide and a healing. And as for those who disbelieve, there is heaviness (deafness) in their ears, and it (the Qur'an) is blindness for them.") Then Allah says, وَإِنَّا لَنَعْلَمُ أَنَّ مِنكُم مُّكَذِّبِينَ (And verily, We know that there are some among you that deny (this Qur'an). ) meaning, with this explanation and clarification, there will still be among you those who reject the Qur'an. Then Allah says, وَإِنَّهُ لَحَسْرَةٌ عَلَى الْكَـفِرِينَ (And indeed it (this Qur'an) will be an anguish for the disbelievers (on the Day of Resurrection).) Ibn Jarir said, "And verily this rejection will be anguish for the disbelievers on the Day of Judgement." He (Ibn Jarir) also mentioned a similar statement from Qatadah. It is possible that the meaning of the pronoun (it) may also refer to the Qur'an, in which case the verse would mean that the Qur'an and belief in it are a cause of anguish for the disbelievers. This is as Allah says, كَذَلِكَ سَلَكْنَاهُ فِي قُلُوبِ الْمُجْرِمِينَ لاَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِهِ (Thus have We caused it (the denial of the Qur'an) to enter the hearts of the criminals. They will not believe in it.) (26:200,201) And Allah said, وَحِيلَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ مَا يَشْتَهُونَ (And a barrier will be set between them and that which they desire) (34:54). Therefore, Allah says here, وَإِنَّهُ لَحَقُّ الْيَقِينِ (And verily, it (this Qur'an) is an absolute truth with certainty.) meaning, the right and truthful news in which there is no doubt, suspicion or confusion. Then Allah says, فَسَبِّحْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الْعَظِيمِ (So glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most Great.) meaning, He Who sent down this magnificent Qur'an. This is the end of the explanation (Tafsir) of Surat Al-Haqqah. And to Allah belong all praise and blessings.