Allah the Exalted commands His Messenger to convey His Message to His
servants and remind them of His revelation that has been sent down to him. Next,
Allah refutes the false accusations that the liars and sinners accused the
Prophet of,
[فَذَكِّرْ فَمَآ
أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِكَـهِنٍ وَلاَ مَجْنُونٍ ]
(Therefore, remind. By the grace of Allah, you are neither a Kahin nor a
madman.) Allah says, `by the grace of Allah, you, O Muhammad, are not a Kahin,
as the ignorant Quraysh idolators claim.' A Kahin is the soothsayer who receives
information from the Jinns that the Jinns are able to eavesdrop on news from
heaven,
[وَلاَ
مَجْنُونٍ]
(nor a madman) whom Shaytan has possessed with insanity. Allah the Exalted
said, while chastising the pagans for uttering false statements about the
Prophet ,
[أَمْ يَقُولُونَ
شَاعِرٌ نَّتَرَبَّصُ بِهِ رَيْبَ الْمَنُونِ ]
(Or do they say: "A poet! We await for him some calamity by time!'') They
said, `We await a disaster to strike him, for example, death. We will be patient
with him until death comes to him and we, thus, get rid of his bother and from
his Message.' Allah the Exalted said,
[قُلْ تَرَبَّصُواْ
فَإِنِّى مَعَكُمْ مِّنَ الْمُتَرَبِّصِينَ ]
(Say: "Wait! I am with you among those who wait!'') `wait and I too will wait
with you, and you will come to know to whom the good end and triumph shall be
granted in this life and the Hereafter.' Muhammad bin Ishaq reported that
`Abdullah bin Abi Najih said that Mujahid said that Ibn `Abbas said, "When the
Quraysh gathered in the Dar An-Nadwah (their meeting place) to discuss the
matter of the Prophet, one of them said, `Jail him in chains. Then we will wait
and in time, a calamity will strike him; he will die just as the poets before
him died, such as Zuhayr and An-Nabighah, for he is a poet just like them.'
Allah the Exalted said in response to their statement,
[أَمْ يَقُولُونَ
شَاعِرٌ نَّتَرَبَّصُ بِهِ رَيْبَ الْمَنُونِ ]
(Or do they say: "A poet! We await for him some calamity by time!'')'' Allah
the Exalted said,
[أَمْ تَأْمُرُهُمْ
أَحْلَـمُهُمْ بِهَـذَآ]
(Or do their minds command them this), `do their minds command them to tell
these lies against you (O Muhammad), even though they know in their hearts that
they are untrue and false,'
[أَمْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ
طَاغُونَ]
(or are they people transgressing all bounds) `surely, they are misguided,
stubborn and unjust people, and this is why they say what they say about you (O
Muhammad). ' Allah the Exalted said,
[أَمْ يَقُولُونَ
تَقَوَّلَهُ]
(Or do they say: "He has forged it'') They said, `he has forged this Qur'an
and brought it from his own.' Allah the Exalted responded to them,
[بَل لاَّ
يُؤْمِنُونَ]
(Nay! They believe not!), meaning, their disbelief drives them to utter these
statements,
[فَلْيَأْتُواْ
بِحَدِيثٍ مِّثْلِهِ إِن كَانُواْ صَـدِقِينَ ]
(Let them then produce a recitation like unto it if they are truthful.)
meaning, if they are truthful in their statement that Muhammad has forged this
Qur'an and brought it of his own, then let them produce something similar to
what he has brought forth, as in this Qur'an! And even if they combine their
strength to that of the people of the earth, Jinns and mankind alike, they will
never produce something like the Qur'an, or ten Surahs like it, or even one
Surah!
[أَمْ خُلِقُواْ مِنْ
غَيْرِ شَىْءٍ أَمْ هُمُ الْخَـلِقُونَ - أَمْ خَلَقُواْ السَّمَـوَتِ وَالاٌّرْضَ
بَل لاَّ يُوقِنُونَ - أَمْ عِندَهُمْ خَزَآئِنُ رَبِّكَ أَمْ هُمُ
الْمُسَيْطِرُونَ - أَمْ لَهُمْ سُلَّمٌ يَسْتَمِعُونَ فِيهِ فَلْيَأْتِ
مُسْتَمِعُهُم بِسُلْطَـنٍ مُّبِينٍ - أَمْ لَهُ الْبَنَـتُ وَلَكُمُ الْبَنُونَ -
أَمْ تَسْـَلُهُمْ أَجْراً فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمٍ مُّثْقَلُونَ - أَمْ عِندَهُمُ
الْغَيْبُ فَهُمْ يَكْتُبُونَ - أَمْ يُرِيدُونَ كَيْداً فَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ
هُمُ الْمَكِيدُونَ - أَمْ لَهُمْ إِلَـهٌ غَيْرُ اللَّهِ سُبْحَـنَ اللَّهِ عَمَّا
يُشْرِكُونَ ]
(35. Or were they created by nothing Or were they themselves the creators)
(36. Or did they create the heavens and the earth Nay, but they have no firm
belief.) (37. Or are with them the treasures of your Lord Or are they the
tyrants with the authority to do as they like) (38. Or have they a stairway (to
heaven), by means of which they listen Then let their listener produce some
manifest proof.) (39. Or has He only daughters and you have sons) (40. Or is it
that you ask a wage from them so that they are burdened with a load of debt)
(41. Or that the Unseen is with them, and they write it down) (42. Or do they
intend a plot But those who disbelieve are themselves plotted against!) (43. Or
have they a god other than Allah Glorified be Allah from all that they ascribe
as partners.)
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