تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي جَعَلَ فِي السَّمَاءِ بُرُوجًا وَجَعَلَ فِيهَا سِرَاجًا وَقَمَرًا مُّنِيرًا
Blessed is He who appointed houses in the sky and set in it a lamp and a shining moon.
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 25:61
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 25:61] Aqa Mahdi Puya says: Buruj (constellations) refers to the signs of the Zodiac, which mark the path of the planets in the heavens. See commentary of Hijr : 16.
Ali Muhammad Fazil Chinoy Commentary
Commentary on Quran 25:61-77
1. In this paragraph, God has delineated characteristics of His Divine Lights and true followers of them, who are motivated by piety, namely, avoiding the ignorant politely, spending nights in Divine devotion, in awe of Eternal punishment, spending on right purpose, not withholding right of any, not luxurious towards self, not participating in innocent murder, not fornicating, leading to worldly and eternal punishment, except under penance. For example, martyrdom, like magicians of Pharaoh’s time, and Hurr of Imam Hussain’s time, whereby their sins have been compensated and transferred elsewhere (to the real author). They avoid concerts and like entertainments and pass disregardful when forced to cross them, and carefully scrutinize Divine Commands before their application, and pray for endowment of the pious, wives, and children and are ever entreating to God for His mercy. There are, however, two forms of amusement of which they are fraught with unusual attractiveness and danger, viz. dancing and theatre-going, destructive to virtue. Late hours, expensive dressing, violent, and protracted exertion are a sufficient array of arguments showing objectionable character thereof. Their appeal to sensual nature constitutes real and by far the greatest harm. Insufficient dressing, undue exposure of the people of the females in the dance, passionate excitement and undue license allowed while whirling upon the floor to the strains of music only arouse in any strong religious normally developed young man, strongest sensual tendency and propensity of his nature. Debasing influence of the theatre, undermining moral principles, plunging into vice and sin cannot be over-estimated, especially in the lives of young men. Here, under influence of exposure and posture, which bring the blush of shame to the cheek of delicacy, previously pure young men feel the awakening power of ungovernable passion, dazzling and bewildering, letting them fall an easy prey to the barrooms, gambling dens and brothels, which cluster under the shadow of every theatre. Religious punishment will follow in eternity. 2. Note, therefore, while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, judgment is qualified by consideration of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances, and it will be found the charitable judgment carries the least injustice. 3. Piet is developed by ambition to acquire Divine Will, which is virtue in its real sense, if practiced with pure intentions to acquire Divine Will, and which, if secured, will enrich your heart, making you independent of creation, restricting your energy to eternity, and convincing you of what is destined for you with God, is much more then you possess. It disregards outward show, tending to develop hypocrisy and disregards greed, tending to develop shamelessness. it evinces a keen desire to preserve enviable character, and gain means with pure intentions to maintain self and dependents (direct or indirect) by avoiding laziness, as it is a source of misery and adopting a method, whereby you may be able to oblige others, without exceeding limits, purely by means of honest hard work, to be economical in execution of a hard work, private or public, though not at sacrifice of requisite charity viz. self-sacrifice consideration, sympathy, over-looking human weakness, to be self-supporting, to be content, to avoid illegal gratifications, to fulfil trust and refund deposit, irrespective of caste, creed, and character, to be silent, except where right is at stake ad to avoid idle talk, singing, attending dance and like engagements. Thus, two main attributes which turn man obliging are “piety and patience.”