Faaminoo billahi warasoolihi wannoori allathee anzalna wallahu bima taAAmaloona khabeer (surah Taghabun: 8)

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

(64:8) So believe in Allah and in His Messenger and in the Light that We have sent down. *18 Allah is fully aware of what you do.

Fa-aaminoo billaahi wa rasoolihee wannooril lazeee anzalnaa; wallaahu bima ta`maloona khabeer

*18) That is, "When this is the truth and the whole human history testifies that the real cause of the destruction of the nations has been their disbelieving the Messengers and their denial of the Hereafter, then they should not insist on meeting the same doom by following their example, but should believe in the guidance presented by AIlah and His Messenger and the Qur'an." Here, as the context itself shows, by "the Light that We have sent down", is mant the Qur'an Just as light itself is clearly seen and reveals everything that was hidden in darkness around it, so is the Qur'an a Light whose being based on the truth is self-evident ; in its Light man can solve and understand every problem that he cannot solve and understand exclusively by means of his own knowledge and in tellect Anyone who has the Light can clearly see the straight path of Truth out of the countless, crooked paths of thought and action, and can follow the Straight Path throughout life in such a way that at every step he can know where the crooked by-paths are misleading and where the pitfalls of destruction are situated on the way, and what is the path of safety and security among them.