25:30 Al-Furqaan (The Criterion)

{ وَقَالَ الرَّسُولُ } مناديا لربه وشاكيا له إعراض قومه عما جاء به، ومتأسفا على ذلك منهم: { يَا رَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِي } الذي أرسلتني لهدايتهم وتبليغهم، { اتَّخَذُوا هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ مَهْجُورًا } أي: قد أعرضوا عنه وهجروه وتركوه مع أن الواجب عليهم الانقياد لحكمه والإقبال على أحكامه، والمشي خلفه

يقول تعالى مخبرا عن رسوله ونبيه محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم أنه قال: "يارب إن قومي اتخذوا هذا القرآن مهجورا" وذلك أن المشركين كانوا لا يصغون للقرآن ولا يستمعونه كما قال تعالى: "وقال الذين كفروا لا تسمعوا لهذا القرآن والغوا فيه" الآية فكانوا إذا تلي عليهم القرآن أكثروا اللغط والكلام في غيره حتى لا يسمعونه فهذا من هجرانه وترك الإيمان به وترك تصديقه من هجرانه وترك تدبره وتفهمه من هجرانه وترك العمل به وامتثال أوامره واجتناب زواجره من هجرانه والعدول عنه إلى غيره من شعر أو قول أو غناء أو لهو أو كلام أو طريقة مأخوذة من غيره من هجرانه فنسأل الله الكريم المنان القادر على ما يشاء أن يخلصنا مما يسخطه; ويستعملنا فيما يرضيه من حفظ كتابه وفهمه والقيام بمقتضاه آناء الليل وأطراف النهار على الوجه الذي يحبه ويرضاه إنه كريم وهاب وقوله تعالى: "وكذلك جعلنا لكل نبي عدوا من المجرمين" أي كما حصل لك يا محمد في قومك من الذين هجروا القرآن كذلك كان في الأمم الماضين لأن الله جعل لكل نبي عدوا من المجرمين يدعون الناس إلى ضلالهم وكفرهم.

The Messenger will complain against His Opponents

Allah tells how His Messenger and Prophet Muhammad ﷺ will say: "O my Lord! Verily, my people deserted this Qur'an." The idolators would not listen to the Qur'an, as Allah says:

وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ لاَ تَسْمَعُواْ لِهَـذَا الْقُرْءَانِ وَالْغَوْاْ فِيهِ

(And those who disbelieve say: "Listen not to this Qur'an, and make noise in the midst of it.") (41:26). When he would recite Qur'an to them, they would talk nonsense or speak about something else, so that they would not hear it. This is a form of forsaking it and rejecting it, and not believing in it is the same as forsaking it, and not pondering its meanings and trying to understand it is the same as forsaking it, and not acting upon it and following its commandments and heeding its prohibitions is the same as forsaking it, and turning away from it in favor of poetry or other words or songs or idle talk or some other way is the same as forsaking it. We ask Allah, the Most Generous, the Bestower of bounty, the One Who is able to do what He wills, to keep us safe from doing that which earns His wrath and to use us to do that which will earn His pleasure of preserving and understanding His Book, following its commandments night and day in the manner which He loves and which pleases Him, for He is Generous and Kind.

وَكَذَلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نَبِىٍّ عَدُوّاً مِّنَ الْمُجْرِمِينَ

(Thus have We made for every Prophet an enemy among the criminals.) means, `just as there is for you, O Muhammad, those people who scorned the Qur'an, so in all the previous nations did Allah make for every Prophet an enemy among the criminals, who called people to their misguidance and disbelief,' as Allah says:

وَكَذَلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نِبِىٍّ عَدُوّاً شَيَـطِينَ الإِنْسِ وَالْجِنِّ

(And so We have appointed for every Prophet enemies -- Shayatin among mankind and Jinn) as stated in these two Ayat. (6:112) Allah says here:

وَكَفَى بِرَبِّكَ هَادِياً وَنَصِيراً

(But sufficient is your Lord as a Guide and Helper.) meaning, for the one who follows His Messenger and believes in His Book, Allah will be his Guide and Helper in this world and the Hereafter. Allah says

هَادِياً وَنَصِيراً

(a Guide and Helper.) because the idolators used to try to prevent people from following the Qur'an lest anyone be guided by it. They wanted their way to prevail over the way of the Qur'an. Allah says:

وَكَذَلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نَبِىٍّ عَدُوّاً مِّنَ الْمُجْرِمِينَ

(Thus have We made for every Prophet an enemy among the criminals.)

And the Messenger Muhammad (s) says ‘O my Lord lo! my people the tribe of Quraysh consider this Qur’ān as something to be shunned’ to be disregarded.

وَقَالَ الرَّسُوْلُ يٰرَبِّ اِنَّ قَوْمِي اتَّخَذُوْا ھٰذَا الْقُرْاٰنَ مَهْجُوْرًا (That is Rasul will say, 0 my Lord my people have forgotten and forsaken Qur'an - 25:30). There is a difference of opinion among the commentators whether this complaint of the Holy Prophet ﷺ to Allah Ta’ ala about his people would be on Dooms Day or was made in his life time. Both views appear valid. But the verse following this verse suggests that he made this complaint during his lifetime and the next verse was revealed to appease him.