Fasbir AAala ma yaqooloona wasabbih bihamdi rabbika qabla tulooAAi ashshamsi waqabla alghuroob (surah Qaf: 39)

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(50:39) Hence bear with patience whatever they say, *50 and celebrate your Lord's glory before the rising of the sun and before its setting;

Fasbir `alaa maa yaqooloona wa sabbih bihamdi Rabbika qabla tuloo`ish shamsi wa qablal ghuroob

*50) That is, "The fact of the matter is that We have made this entire Universe in six days and We did not become weary at the end so that We might be powerless to reconstruct it Now, if these ignorant people mock you when they hear the news of the life-after-death from you and call you a madman, have patience at it, listen to whatever nonsense they utter with a cool mind, and continue to preach the truth that you have been appointed to spread. " In this verse, there is a subtle taunt on the Jews and the Christians as well, in whose Bible the story has been fabricated chat God made the earth and the heavens in six days and rested on the seventh day (Gen., 2: 2). Although the Christian priests are now feeling shy of it and have changed "rested" into 'farigh hua " (ceased from working) in their Urdu translation of the Holy Bible, yet in King James Authorised Version of the Bible, the words"...and he rested on the seventh day" are still there, and the same words are also found in the translation that the Jews have published from Philadelphia in 1954. In the Arabic translation also the words are: fastraha ft! yaum as-sebi'.