Tafheem ul Quran

Surah 37 As-Saffat, Ayat 171-179

وَلَقَدۡ سَبَقَتۡ كَلِمَتُنَا لِعِبَادِنَا الۡمُرۡسَلِيۡنَ ​ۖ​ۚ‏ ﴿37:171﴾ اِنَّهُمۡ لَهُمُ الۡمَنۡصُوۡرُوۡنَ ‏ ﴿37:172﴾ وَاِنَّ جُنۡدَنَا لَهُمُ الۡغٰلِبُوۡنَ‏ ﴿37:173﴾ فَتَوَلَّ عَنۡهُمۡ حَتّٰى حِيۡنٍۙ‏ ﴿37:174﴾ وَاَبۡصِرۡهُمۡ فَسَوۡفَ يُبۡصِرُوۡنَ‏ ﴿37:175﴾ اَفَبِعَذَابِنَا يَسۡتَعۡجِلُوۡنَ‏ ﴿37:176﴾ فَاِذَا نَزَلَ بِسَاحَتِهِمۡ فَسَآءَ صَبَاحُ الۡمُنۡذَرِيۡنَ‏ ﴿37:177﴾ وَتَوَلَّ عَنۡهُمۡ حَتّٰى حِيۡنٍۙ‏ ﴿37:178﴾ وَّاَبۡصِرۡ فَسَوۡفَ يُبۡصِرُوۡنَ‏ ﴿37:179﴾

(37:171) We have already given Our promise to Our Messengers (37:172) that they shall certainly be succoured, (37:173) and that Our hosts shall triumph.93 (37:174) So, (O Prophet), leave them alone for a while, (37:175) and see, and soon they too shall see.94 (37:176) Do they seek to hasten Our chastisement? (37:177) When that chastisement will descend upon their courtyard, evil shall that Day be for those who had been warned. (37:178) Leave them alone for a while, (37:179) and see; and they too shall soon see.

Notes

93. Allah’s army: implies the believers who obey Allah’s Messenger and side with him. This also includes those unseen powers by which Allah helps the followers of the truth.

This help and domination does not necessarily mean that in every age every Prophet of Allah and his followers must attain political dominance, but this dominance has many forms, one of which is political rule as well. Wherever the Prophets of Allah did not attain any such dominance, they did establish their moral superiority even in those places. The nations which did not accept their message and adopted a way contrary to their teachings were ultimately doomed to destruction. Whatever philosophies of error and misguidance the people invented and whatever corrupt and evil practices of life they enforced died out ultimately after they had their sway for some time. But the truths preached by the Prophets of Allah for thousands of years have been unalterable before as they are unalterable today. No one has been able to disprove them in any way.

94. That is, it will not take long when they will see their defeat and your victory with their own eyes. This proved to be true as it had been foretold. Hardly 14 to 15 years had passed after the revelation of these vases when the pagans of Makkah witnessed the Prophet (peace be upon him) enter their city as a conqueror, and then a few years later the same people saw that Islam had overwhelmed not only Arabia but the mighty empires of Rome and Iran as well.