Transliteration:( Nahnu ja'alnaahaa tazkira tanw wa mataa'al lilmuqween )
66. By seeing the fire of this world remember the fire of Hell. The fire of Hell is seventy times more intense than the worldly fire.
67. Nowadays all our journeys involve fire. The engines, etc. are functioning through fire. It is possible that in this there may be an unseen information regarding the conveyances.
Allah says: "And He will create what you know not" (S16:V8). A traveller derives many benefits from fire on his journey. Fire become his source of guide, it helps him to prepare his food during his journey. It is through the fire that he protects himself from the cold.
The tafsir of Surah Waqiah verse 73 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Waqiah ayat 63 which provides the complete commentary from verse 63 through 74.
33. Making the fire a means of remembrance means: The fire by virtue of its quality of being kindled at all times reminds man of his forgotten lesson that without it human life could not be any different from animal life. Because of the fire only did man learn to cook food for eating instead of eating it raw like the animals, and then new and ever new avenues to industry and invention went on opening up before him. Obviously, if God had not created the means of kindling the fire and the substances that could be kindled, man’s inventive potentialities would have remained dormant. But the man has forgotten that his Creator is a wise Sustainer, Who created him with human capabilities on the one hand, and on the other, created such materials on the earth by which his these capabilities could become active and operative. If he is not lost in heedlessness, the fire alone is enough to remind him of the favors and bounties of his Creator, which he is so freely enjoying in the world.
34. The word muqwin in the original has been interpreted differently by the lexicographers. Some have taken it in the meaning of the travelers who have halted in the desert, some in the meaning of a hungry man, and some take it in the meaning of all those who derive benefit from the fire, whether it is the benefit of cooking food or of light or of heat.
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