Tazkirul Quran, Qur’an 41:37–38
Revelations Well Expounded (Fussilat)
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
English text; the translator is not named in the archive’s data.
Translation
(37) Among His signs are the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. Do not prostrate yourselves before the sun and the moon, but prostrate yourselves before God who created them all, if it is truly Him that you worship. (38) If they grow arrogant, [remember that] those who are with your Lord glorify Him night and day and never grow tired.
Commentary
(a) The greatest human blunder is having regard for outward appearances. In ancient times, the sun, the moon and stars appeared quite dazzling to man, so he took them as deities and started worshipping them. In the present age, it is the glamour of the material side of civilization which appears dazzling. So, materialism has now been given the same status as was enjoyed in former times by the sun and the moon, though the sun, the moon and other phenomena are all creations of God. A man should worship the Creator and not His creations.
The arrogance of the proud is not related to the call of Truth but to the preacher giving that call. It appears to the leaders of an age that the preacher of Truth is smaller in stature than themselves and that therefore the message conveyed by him is also of lesser import.