Tazkirul Quran, Qur’an 21:95–97
The Prophets (Al-Anbiya’)
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
English text; the translator is not named in the archive’s data.
Translation
(95) It is ordained that no nation We have destroyed shall ever rise again, (96) but when Gog and Magog are let loose and swarm down from every hillside and they spread out, [leaping across every barrier of land and sea], (97) when the true promise of God draws near, those who denied the truth will stare in amazement, crying, ‘Woe to us! We have been so heedless of this. Indeed, we were wrongdoers.’
Commentary
(a) When the Truth appears with clear arguments, a man is compelled to recognise it by the compulsion of his very nature. Now, those who accept the Truth after recognising it, remain in consonance with their nature. On the other hand, those who give importance to material things and, therefore, do not accept the Truth, are as if ignoring their nature—virtually casting a veil over it. Denial of Truth is always at the cost of shutting one’s senses. The fate of those who run this risk is that their entry into Islam becomes absolutely impossible: they are no longer receptive to the truth.
Those who fail to recognise the Truth, though presented in rational arguments, will recognise it only when the Day of Judgement tears the veil away from their eyes. But, recognition at that stage will be of no avail, because it will be time not for acceptance itself, but for reaping the benefit of an earlier acceptance of the Truth.