Transliteration:( Wa aakhareena minhum lammaa yalhaqoo bihim wa huwal 'azeezul hakeem )
8. This means the Holy Prophet's صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم beneficence is not restricted to the Noble Companions only, but will remain until the Day of Judgement. People become pure through his kind gaze, and will continue to be so. The sun of Prophethood will never set, nor will it experience an eclipse or ever become clouded.
9. In that these people will be after the Noble Companions, or that they would be unable to reach the status of the Companions. This tells us that any non-Sahabi, no matter how great a Saint he might be, can never come near the dust of their feet because they never had that beneficial companionship.
Allah be praised! The observer of the Holy Qur'aan is a Qari, the observer of the Ka'bah is a Hajee, but the observer of the luminous face of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم is a Sahabi.Thus, there will be Qutub, Ghaus, Qari and Hajee until the Day of Judgement, but there will be no Companions. Seeing the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم cannot make a person a Companion. On the same assumption, seeing Allah Almighty or the angelic world in a dream cannot be called Me'raaj.
Meraaj is a specific event of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم only and the Holy Prophet enjoys special nearness to Allah Almighty. Some pious sages who had seen Allah Almighty, or saw Paradise, etc. cannot become prophets because of this, nor can their seeing this be called Me`raaj.
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Please refer to Surah Jumuah ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 4.
5. That is, the prophethood of Muhammad (peace be upon him) is not restricted only to the Arabs but is meant for other nations and races as well, who have not yet joined the believers, but are going to be born till the Last Day. The word minhum (of them) in the original can have two meanings:
(1) That those other people will be of the ummis i.e. the non-Israelite nations of the world.
(2) That they will be believers in Muhammad (peace be upon him), though they have not yet joined the believers, but will join them later on. Thus, this verse is one of those verses which explicitly state that the Message of the Prophet (peace be upon him) is meant for all mankind forever. The other places where this theme has occurred in the Quran are: (Surah Aal-Imran, Ayat 19); (Surah Al-Aaraf, Ayat 158); (Surah Al-Anbiya, Ayat 107); (Surah Al-Furqan, Ayat 1); (Surah Saba, Ayat 28). For further explanation, see (Surah Saba, ayat 28) note 47.
6. That is, it is a manifestation of Allah’s own power and wisdom that among an un-civilized, un-lettered people He has raised a great Prophet (peace be upon him), whose teachings are so revolutionary and contain such eternal and universal principles as can provide a sound basis for the whole of mankind to be a single unified community, which can obtain guidance from those principles forever. An impostor, however hard he may have tried, could not have attained this position and rank. Not to speak of a backward people like the Arabs; even the most intelligent and talented man of the most advanced nation of the world cannot have the power that he may revolutionize a nation so completely, and then give such comprehensive principles to the world that all mankind may follow it as one community and be able to run a universal and all-pervasive system of one way of life and one civilization forever. This is a miracle which has taken place only by Allah’s power, and only Allah on the basis of His wisdom has chosen the person, the country and the nation for it.
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