A set of Quranic initials prefixed to the Surah is an oath of God
- Aleef.Laam.Reh. That is of signs (Quranic initials) of the scripture, the wise (10:1).
Note: By taking oath referring to a set of Quranic initials: Alif.Laam.Rah being a sign of the wise scripture, while this set of Initials is found prefixed to 5 surahs and their total count in the Arabic text of 5 surahs is a multiple of 19 => 9481 (19x499) as shown in the table below, which is a lower level factual that the Quran is from God:
Note: The occurrence of these three Arabic letters is maintained at frequency of 499 in the Arabic text of five surahs, which is a divine guard to exist the pure Quran against an attempt of any distortion as guidance to be the straight path for the believers until the end of the world.
What is revealed to Muhammad is a warning and good news for the people
- Has it been a wonder for the people that We have revealed to a man from them that you shall warn the people and shall give good news to those who have believed that for them there is a foundation of truth at their Lord? Said the disbelievers, “Indeed, this is surely a clear magician!” (10:2).
Note: By taking oath referring to alif.laam.reh, a sign of the scripture, the wise, God affirms that Muhammad has not been a magician, and what is given to him has been a warning for the people and a good news for the believers to attain honorable position with their Lord.
Compensation of believers and disbelievers
- Indeed, your Lord is God, the One who has created the heavens and the earth in six days, then He has established Himself on the Throne, disposing the affair. There is no intercessor except after His permission. That is God, your Lord; so you shall worship Him. Will you then not take heed?” (10:3). To Him is your return all together, a promise of God in truth. Indeed, He originates the creation, then He repeats it that He may recompense those who have believed and have done righteous deeds with justice; while those who have disbelieved, for them is a drink of boiling fluids and a painful punishment for what they had been disbelieving.” (10:4).
Note: God has created the heavens and the earth, and He disposes all matters while to Him is our return, which is His true promise. Thus, He originates the creation and repeats it to reward those who have believed and have done the righteous deeds with the justice while those who have disbelieved, for them there is a drink of boiling fluid and a painful punishment for what they have done as disbelievers.
God has given us signs to reflect while He guides us to the Paradise
- He is the One who has made the sun a radiance, and the moon a light and has determined for it phases that you may know the number of the years and the counting. God has not created that, except with the truth. He explains the signs for a people who know (10:5). Indeed, in the alternation of the night and the day, and what God has created in the heavens and the earth, are surely signs for a people who fear (10:6). Indeed, those who do not expect Our meeting, and are pleased with the life of the world and have found satisfaction in it, and those—they are heedless of Our signs (10:7); Those – their abode is the Fire for what they had been earning (10:8). “Indeed, those who have believed and have done the righteous deeds, their Lord guides them by their faith; the rivers flow from their underneath in gardens of the Bliss (10:9). Their prayer therein is: “Glory is Yours, O God,” and their greeting therein is: “Peace,” and the end of their prayer is that: “All praise is to God, Lord of the worlds.”(10:10).
Note: God has given many signs, and those who are heedless to them, their abode is Hell while those who can perceive them expecting their meeting with Him, He guides them based on their faiths and deeds to the Paradise flowing the rivers underneath, wherein they will be greeted with peace, and their end prayer is all praise to God, Lord of the worlds.
The extravagant are foul weather friends
- And if God hastens the evil for the people as their hastening for the good, surely has been decreed to them their term. Thus, We leave those who do not expect Our meeting in their transgression to wander.(10:11). And when the adversity had touched the human being, he called Us on his side, or sitting, or standing. Then when We have removed his adversity from him, he has passed on as if he had not called Us for an adversity that touched him. Thus it has been made fair-seeming for the extravagant what they had been doing (10:12).
Note: When God hastens an evil for the people for their good as their term ends leaving the transgressors in wander who do not expect to meet their Lord. When adversity touches the people have called their Lord being sincere but when it has passed as if they do not call their Lord for what had touched them for making them fair-seeming their deeds for the extravagant
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God has made successors on earth destroying the guilty people
- And certainly, We have destroyed the generations from before yourselves when they had wronged and had come to them their messengers with the clear proofs, and they had not been to believe. Thus We recompense the people who are the criminals (10:13). Then We have made you successors in the earth after themselves that We see how you do (10:14).
Note: God has replaced many generations of people on earth destroying the wicked people to see how the next generation of people do, which may be a lesson for us to do the righteous deeds expecting His meeting.
Evil is whoever has denied God’s revelations or has invented lie about Him
- And when is recited Our clear revelations to them said those who do not expect Our meeting, “Bring us a Quran other than this, or change it.” Say, “It would not be for me that I can change it on behalf of myself. I do not follow except what is revealed to me. Indeed, I fear the punishment of a great Day if I had disobeyed my Lord.”(10:15). Say, “If God had willed, I would not have recited it to you, nor would He have made known to you about it. Then certainly, I have stayed a lifetime among you from before of it. Will you then not think?”(10:16). So who is more evil than him whoever has invented a lie about God, or has denied in His revelations? Indeed, it is not (that) the criminals will succeed (10:17). And they worship other than God what does not harm them and does not benefit them, and they say, “These are our intercessors with God.” Say, “Do you inform God of what He does not know in the heavens and not in the earth?” Glory is His and He has exalted Himself above what they associate (10:18). And mankind has not been except one community, but they differed. And if not for a word that had preceded from your Lord, surely it would have been judged between themselves concerning what they are differing in it (10:19). And they say, “Why has not been sent down a sign upon him from his Lord?” Then say, “Indeed, the hidden belongs only to God; so wait; indeed, I am with you among the waiters.” (10:20). And when We have given a taste of mercy to the people from after an adversity had touched them, then they have a plot against Our revelations. Say, “God is more swift in planning.” Indeed, Our messengers record what you plot (10:21).
Note: The wicked people denied God’s message (Quran) with excuses even asking for a miracle that they wanted to see with the prophet and worshiped other than God even expecting intercessors while the prophet has been with His message and had followed it fearing Him. The wicked people also plotted against God’s revelations even they have been favored after the adversity.
The disbelievers are foul weather friends
- He is the One who makes you to travel in the land and the sea, until when you have been in the ship and they have sailed with them with a good wind and they have rejoiced with it; there has come to it a violent wind and has come to them the wave from every place and they have assumed that they have been surrounded. They have called God, being sincere to Him in the religion: “Surely if You have saved us from this, we will surely be among the grateful ones.” (10:22). Then when He has saved them, then they rebel in the earth without the truth. O the people, your rebellion is only against yourselves, an enjoyment of the life of the world. Then to Us is your return, then We will inform you of what you had been doing.” (10:23).
Note: The disbelievers are foul weather friends and they cannot realize that their rebellion is against themselves for the temporary enjoyment of the world while they will be informed what they had done when they return to God.
An analogy between the life of the world and the water sent from the sky to reflect
- The analogy of the life of the world is only like water We have sent it down from the sky, then the plants of the earth have mingled with it from which the people and the animals eat, until when the earth has taken its adornment and has beautified itself, and its people have thought that they have power over it; Our command has come to it by night or by day, then We have made it a harvest, as if it had not flourished yesterday. Thus We explain in detail the revelations for a people who reflect (10:24).
Note: God has cited an analogy between the life of the world and the water sent from the sky to reflect as He can make it barren at any time.
Recompense of the believers and the disbelievers
- And God calls to the abode of peace, and guides whomever He wills to a straight path (10:25). For those who have done good is the best and an increase. And neither darkness nor humiliation will cover their faces. Those are companions of the Paradise, they are dwellers in it forever (10:26).And those who have earned the evil deeds, a recompense of an evil deed is of like of it, and covers them a humiliation. There is no defender for them from God. As if it has been covered their faces with pieces from the night, dark. Those are companions of the Fire, they are dwellers in it forever (10:27).
Note: Those who God guides to a straight path will have the best reward being the dwellers of the Paradise having no darkness or humiliation on their faces while those who have done evil deeds, for them there is no defender and their faces will be covered with darkness being the dwellers of the Fire.
Consequence of those who associated partners with God
- And the Day We will gather them all together, then We will say to those who have associated partners, “Stay in your place, you yourselves and your partners.” Then We have separated between themselves, and their partners said, ‘You had not been worshipping us.” (10:28). So, it has sufficed with God as a Witness between ours and yours that we have been surely unaware of your worship (10:29). There, each soul will know what it had sent before, and they have been returned to God, their Protector, the Truth, and has vanished from them what they had been inventing (10:30).
Note: God Himself has been Witness of those who have associated partners with Him and each soul will know it when it has returned to Him.
Truth vs. conjecture
- Say, “Who provides for you from the sky and the earth? Or who controls the hearing and the sights? And who brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living? And who disposes the affair?” Then they will say, “God.” Say, “Will you then not fear?” (10:31). So that is God, your Lord, the Truth. So, what is there after the truth except the straying? Then how are you turned away?” (10:32). So that has proved true your Lord’s word upon those who have disobeyed that they do not believe (10:33). Say, “Is there any among your partners who initiates the creation, then he repeats it?” Say, “God initiates the creation, then He repeats it. Then how are you deviated?”(10:34).Say, “Is there any among your partners who guides to the truth?” Say, “God guides to the truth. Is then He whoever guides to the truth more worthy that He should be followed, or he whoever does not find guidance, except that he is guided? Then what is for you, how do you judge?” (10:35). And most of them do not follow except conjecture; indeed, the conjecture does not help anything from the truth. Indeed, God is Knower of what they do (10:36).
Note: God has taught the believers to follow the truth while the disbelievers do not follow except the conjecture, which cannot help them against the truth.
God is the author of the Quran
- And has not been this – the Quran that it is invented by other than God, but a confirmation of that which was before of it, and a detailed explanation of the scripture. There is no doubt in it, from the Lord of the worlds (10:37). Or do they say, “He has invented it?” Say, “Then bring a surah like of it, and call whomever you had been able other than God, if you have been truthful ones.” (10:38). Nay, they have denied in what they did not encompass of its knowledge, and not yet has come to them its interpretation. So that has denied those from before themselves. So, see how has been the end of the wrongdoers (10:39). And of them is him who believes in it, and of them is him who does not believe in it, and your Lord is Knower of the corrupters (10:40).
Note: God has revealed the Quran with a confirmation of what He has revealed before it and a scripture of detailed explanation, and anyone can be either a believer or a disbeliever of it, while the deniers could not encompass its knowledge nor could come to its correct interpretation.
Role of prophet was to recite the Quran to his contemporaries
- And if they have denied you, then say, “For me is my deed, and for you is your deed. You are free from what I do, and I am free from what you do.” (10:41). And of them is him who listens to you. Is it then you who makes the deaf hear, even if they had not been using any reason?” (10:42). And of them is him who looks at you. Is it then you who guides the blind, even if they had not been seeing?”(10:43). Indeed, God does not wrong the people in anything, but the people, they wrong themselves (10:44).
Note: Prophet has no other responsibility over those who have denied God’s message being deaf and blind to it except reciting to them while they have done wrong for themselves.
God has promised a day of gathering
- And the Day We will gather them, as if they had not remained except for an hour of the day, recognizing between themselves. Certainly, those who have denied in the meeting of God have lost, and they had not been guided ones (10:45). And whether We show you a part of that which We promise them, or We cause you to die, then to Us is their return. Then God is a Witness over what they do (10:46).
Note: God has promised a day of return for all of us when it would be thought that we had been in the earth for an hour while He has been Witness over those who have denied in His meeting about what they have done to accomplish.
When the term comes cannot be delayed or advanced an hour
- And to every community there is a messenger; so when has come their messenger, has been judged between of them with justice, and they are not wronged (10:47). And they say: “When is this – the promise, if you have been truthful ones?” (10:48). Say, “I do not possess for myself any harm nor any benefit except what God has willed.” For every community there is a term. When has come their term, then they do not remain behind an hour, nor do they precede (10:49). Say, “Have you seen if His punishment has come to you by night or by day, what from it the criminals hasten?” (10:50).
Note: God has sent messenger to every community informing that He will judge with the justice between themselves, which is a true promise, and the messenger does not possess any power even for himself to harm or to benefit, while if the term comes to them, they cannot stay behind or advance by an hour whether it comes in a day or night.
Equitable judgment without accepting any ransom from the wicked
- Is then when it had occurred, have you believed in it? Now? And certainly, you had been with it seeking to hasten (10:51). Then it has been said to those who have wronged, “Taste the everlasting punishment. Are you recompensed except for what you had been earning?” (10:52). And they ask you to inform: “Is it truth?” Say, “Yes, by my Lord. Indeed, it is surely truth, and you are not to be of escaping ones.” (10:53). And if that for every soul had wronged whatever is in the earth, surely it would have sought to ransom with it, and they would have confided the regret when they have seen the punishment. And there has been judged between themselves with justice, and they are not wronged.” (10:54). No doubt; indeed, to God belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth. No doubt; indeed, the promise of God is truth, but most of them do not know (10:55). He gives life and causes death, and to Him you are returned (10:56).
Note: The wicked wish to hasten the Hour but they cannot encompass the everlasting punishment for what they had done to achieve while no ransom from whatever is in the earth will be accepted from anyone of them when they have returned to their Lord.
What is in Quran is better than what people hoard
- O mankind, certainly there has come to you an instruction from your Lord and a healing for what is in the breasts, and a guidance and a mercy for the believers (10:57). Say, “In the grace of God and in His mercy, so with that then let them rejoice. It is better than what they gather.” (10:58).
Note: It has been God’s grace and mercy upon mankind that He has given Quran having instruction and healing for what is in their hearts as guidance and mercy for the believers to rejoice, which is better than what they hoard for themselves.
God is the One who had made what is lawful and unlawful for the believers
- Say, “Have you seen what God has sent down of provision for you, then you have made from it unlawful and lawful?” Say, “Has God permitted for you, or do you invent about God?” (10:59). And what is the assumption of those who invent the lie about God on the Day of the Resurrection? Indeed, God is surely Possessor of bounty for the people, but most of them do not appreciate (10:60).
Note: God is a Possessor of provision and bounty, and He has made what is lawful and unlawful for the believers. Thus, if anyone other than Him makes anything lawful or unlawful for them will invent lies about God. However, He has specified what is unlawful for the believers and has ordered the believers to eat what is lawful and good for them upon revelation of the Quran (5:3) about 1455 years ago (A.H.) that we do not say: “eat this, do not eat that” to make us liar or to make us equal to God.
God is a Witness of what we do and Knower of what happens
- And you do not be in any situation, nor do you recite of it from Quran, nor do you do any deed except we have been witnesses over you when you get engaged in it. And do not escape a weight of atom from your Lord whether is in the earth or in the heavens, nor smaller than that, nor greater except being in a clear record (10:61).
Note: God is witnessing every one of us what we are doing and He is a Knower of everything what is happening in the earth or in the heavens, which is being in a clear record as well.
God has promised a great success for the believers
- No doubt; indeed, the allies of God – there is no fear upon them, nor do they grieve (10:62). Those who have believed and had been fearing (10:63). For them is the good news in the life of the world and in the Hereafter. There is no change for the words of God. That is the great success.” (10:64).
Note: God has promised a great success of His allies in the world as well as in the Hereafter for those who have believed Him and have done in fearing Him.
Those who invoke partners other than God follow the conjecture
- And let not their utterance grieve you. Indeed, the honor belongs to God entirely. He is the Hearer, the Knower (10:65). No doubt; indeed, to God belongs whoever is in the heavens and whoever is in the earth. And there do not follow those who call partners other than God. They do not follow except the conjecture, and they do not except guess (10:66).
Note: Prophet has been informed that all honor as well as whoever is in the heavens and the earth belongs to God, and he should not grieve over the insult from the idolaters.
Those who said God has taken a son have invented a lie about Him
- He is the One who has made for you the night that you may rest in it, and the day giving sight. Indeed, in that are surely signs for a people who listen (10:67). They said, “God has taken a son.” Glory is His. He is the Rich. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth. Not with yourselves is any authority for this. Do you say about God what you do not know? (10:68). Say, “Indeed, those who invent the lie about God do not succeed (10:69). An enjoyment in the world, then to Us is their return, then We cause them to taste the severe punishment for what they had been disbelieving (10:70).
Note: Those who cannot reflect on signs that God has made for the people have invented a lie about God. They will not succeed and will suffer a severe punishment upon their return to Him for their disbelief.
Saving of the people of Noah but drowning of the deniers
- And recite upon them the news of Noah when he said to his people, “O my people, if my stay and my reminder with the revelations of God has been difficult upon you, then upon God I have put my trust. So gather your affair and your partners. Then let not your affair be a source of doubt upon you, then carry out your judgment toward me and do not respite me (10:71). So if you have turned away, then I have not asked you any reward. My reward is not except upon God, and I have been commanded that I be among the submitters.” (10:72). Then they had denied him, so We saved him and whoever was with him in the ship, and We made them successors, and We drowned those who had denied in Our revelations. So, see how was the end of the warned ones (10:73).
Note: God saved Noah and those who had believed with him to make them successors while He drowned those who had denied in His revelation to wipe out the wicked people, which strengthened the faith for the believing people of Noah as well as the warning for the disbelieving people of later generations.
God seals hearts of the transgressors
- Then We had raised from after of him messengers to their people, so they came to them with the clear proofs, so they had not been to believe in what they had denied in it from before. So that We seal upon the hearts of the transgressors (10:74).
Note: God sent messengers after Noah with the clear proofs but they had been denied, and He sealed the hearts of those who had denied. Thus, the transgressors are blocked by Him because of disbelief that they cannot see the proofs sent with His messengers.
Moses and Aaron were sent to Pharaoh and his people with God’s signs
- Then We had sent from after them Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh and his chiefs with Our signs, but they were arrogant and they were a criminal people (10:75). So when there had come to them the Truth from Us, they said, “Indeed, this is surely evident magic!” (10:76).Moses said, “Do you say about the Truth when it had come to you, ‘Is this magic?’ whereas the magicians do not succeed.” (10:77). They said, “Had you come to us to turn us away from what we had found upon it our forefathers, and that there should be for you two the greatness in the land? And we are not, in you two, believers.” (10:78).
Note: Pharaoh and his people were arrogant and criminal, and had denied God’s signs considering them magic and continued what they had found with their forefathers.
God had nullified the magic and had established the truth
- And Pharaoh said, “Bring to me every knowledgeable magician.” (10:79. So when the magicians had come, Moses said to them, “Cast whatever you are going to cast.” (10:80). Then when they had cast, Moses said, “What you had come with it is the magic. Indeed, God will nullify it. Indeed, God does not amend the work of the corrupters.” (10:81). And God establishes the Truth with His words, even if the criminals disliked it (10:82). So none had believed in Moses except descendants of his people for fear of Pharaoh and their leaders, lest he persecute them. And indeed, Pharaoh was surely tyrannical in the land, and indeed, he was surely among the transgressors (10:83).
Note: Pharaoh was a great tyrant in the earth, who brought the knowledgeable magicians to defeat the God’s signs while God nullified a deed of magicians establishing the truth with His words.
A good news for a people of Moses who had believed
- And Moses said, “O my people! If you had believed in God, then upon Him put your trust, if you had been Submitters.” (10:84). Then they said, “Upon God we had put our trust. Our Lord, do not make us a test for the wrongdoing people. (10:85). And save us with Your mercy, from the disbelieving people.” (10:86). And We had inspired to Moses and his brother, “That you two shall settle for the people of you two in Egypt houses, and you all shall make your houses a sanctuary, and you all shall establish the salat prayer, and you shall give good news to the believers.” (10:87).
Note: God permitted those who had believed with Moses and Aaron to observe salat prayer in their houses making them places of worship, and here is an indication being an opportunity for the believers to observe the congregational prayer in their houses when God’s Masjids are not found around.
Drowning of the Pharaoh and his people in the sea but saving of his body as a sign
- And Moses said, “Our Lord, indeed, You had given Pharaoh and his leaders splendor and wealth in the life of the world. Our Lord, so that they mislead from Your path. Our Lord, wipe out their wealth, and harden their hearts so that they will not believe until they see the painful punishment.” (10:88). He said, “There had certainly been answered the invocation of both of you; so both of you shall stand straight, and both of you shall certainly not follow the path of those who do not know (10:89). And We had taken across the Children of Israel the sea; then Pharaoh and his troops followed them in rebellion and enmity, until when the drowning overtook him, he said, “I have believed that there is no god except the One in whom the Children of Israel had believed, and I am among the Submitters.” (10:90). Now? While certainly you had disobeyed before, and you had been among the corrupters (10:91). So today We will save you in your body, that you would be a sign for whoever is after yourself. And indeed, many among the people are surely heedless of Our signs (10:92). And that certainly, We had settled the Children of Israel with an honorable settlement, and We had provided them from the good things; and they had not differed until there had come to them the knowledge. Indeed, your Lord will judge between themselves on the Day of Resurrection in what they had been in it differing (10:93).
Note: God had made the children of Israel across the sea to save them, while the Pharaoh and his people were drowned in the sea when Pharaoh had believed in God at the time of his drowning whose body had been saved as a sign. Thus, He settled the children of Israel an honorable settlement and provided them with the good things. In June 1975 the Pharaoh Merneptah’s mummified body was examined using endoscopy upon identifying Merneptah, son of Ramesses II being the Pharaoh of the Exodus, and reported that he most probably died either from drowning or from very violent shocks preceding the moment when he was drown, or from both at once being his death is a fact to be a sign for the people.
We all need God’s guidance including His prophet
- So if you had been in doubt of what We had sent down to you, then you shall ask those who read the scripture from before yourself. That certainly, there had come to you the Truth from your Lord; so you shall certainly not be among the doubters (10:94), And you shall not certainly be among those who have denied God’s revelations, then you would be among the losers (10:95).
Note: God has informed His prophet that truth has come to him from Him and has warned him not to be with the doubters and the deniers of His revelations. Thus, He guided His prophet to stay in the straight path not to be with the losers. However, we may reflect that if the prophet had stated what the so called scholars assigned to him, he would be with the losers being the misguided one.
None can believe in God’s revelation except His permission
- Indeed, those upon them there has been justified [the disbelief] the word of your Lord will not believe (10:96). Even if there had come to them every sign, until they see the painful punishment. (10:97). So why had there not been a town that had believed, so that its faith benefited it, except a people of Jonah? When they had believed, We removed from them a punishment of the disgrace in the life of the world, and We granted them enjoyment for a while (10:98).And if your Lord had willed, surely believed whoever is in the earth, all of them together. Do you then compel the people until they would be believers? (10:99). And it had not been for any soul that it will believe except by permission of God, and He makes the wrath upon those who do not think (10:100).
Note: Those who have deserved a promise of God would not believe even if every sign comes to them from their Lord until they see the painful punishment. If God had willed, all people would have believed in the earth while no soul can believe except His permission and He has wrath upon those who do not think.
God’s system is to save His messengers and those who believed with them
- Say, “Look at what is in the heavens and the earth,” but the signs and the warners do not avail a people who do not believe (10:101). Then do they wait except the like of the days of those who had passed away from before themselves? Say, “Then wait; indeed, I am with you among those who are waiting.”
(10:102). Then We save Our messengers and those who have believed. Thus, it is an obligation upon us, We save the believers (10:103).
Note: Even the signs and warning sent with the messengers do not work for the most people but God had saved His messengers and those who believed with them.
Monotheism is a religion for the believers
- Say, “O you people! If you have been in doubt of my religion, then I do not worship those whom you worship other than God, but I worship God, the One who causes death to you, and I have been commanded that I would be among the believers.” (10:104). And that you shall stand yourself for the religion of monotheism, and you shall not certainly be among the idol worshipers (10:105). And do not call other than God, what cannot benefit you nor can it harm you. So if you have done so, then indeed, you will be among the wrongdoers (10:106). And if God touches you with adversity, then there is no remover of it except He. And if He intends for you with any good, then there is no repeller of His bounty. He bestows with it whomever He wills among His servants. And He is the Forgiving, the Merciful (10:107).
Note: God decreed monotheism as a religion for prophet Muhammad and those who had believed with him forbidding him and them from calling other than God, which could not harm or benefit them as well as cannot be remover of adversity if it touches nor can be repeller of bounty if it is bestowed. However, in later revelations of Quran Monotheism is mapped to Submission (Islam) being its practices. Thus, from the time of Abraham until the time of the revelation of Quran those who have followed God’s revelations and practiced rites given to Abraham are monotheist submitters.
Everyone is responsible to guide himself on the truth from God
- Say, “O you people! Certainly, there has come to you the truth from your Lord. So whoever has been guided, then he is only guided for his soul; and whoever has gone astray, then he only goes astray against it, and I am not over you a guardian (10:108). And you shall follow what is revealed to you, and you shall be patient until God judges, and He is the best Judge (10:109).
Note: God has revealed the truth through prophet Muhammad, and everyone including him who wants to guide himself should follow it. Thus, a guidance what has been sent for the believers is also a guidance for those through whom it has been revealed.
Upon review of surah Yuunus (Jonah) we may reflect that: Alif.Laam.Ra, a set of Quranic initials is a sign of the wise scripture, God confirms that what is given to Muhammad has been a good news and warning for the people, the wicked people denied God’s message (Quran) with excuses even asking for a miracle that should come to the prophet with the message and worshiped other than God expecting intercessors, the believers follow the truth while the disbelievers follow the conjecture, God is an author of the Quran and prophet had no power to change it except to recite and follow it, prophet had no power to harm or benefit himself and he had no knowledge of when the Hour is coming, God guides the believers to the Paradise while the disbelievers have done evil deeds to go to the Hell, and He has sent messenger for every community to let them know that there will be equitable judgment for all upon their return to Him and no ransom will be accepted from anyone of the wicked to relieve their everlasting punishment in the Fire, and He has given the Quran, which is a scripture of a detailed explanation but the deniers could not encompass its knowledge, nor could they come to its correct interpretation.
God has given the Quran having instruction and healing in it to rejoice as guidance and mercy for the believers, He is the only One who can make things lawful and unlawful and has completed it in the religion for the people with the revelation of the Quran, He is Witness of what we are doing and Knower of what is happening in the heavens and the earth, those who invoke partners other than God follow the conjecture, those who said that God has taken a son, has invented a great lie about God, God had answered the invocation of Moses and Aaron and made the Children of Israel to cross the sea while the Pharaoh and his people were made to drown in the sea but his body was saved as a sign, we all need God’s guidance including messengers and prophets to stay in the straight path, none can believe except God’s permission, God has taken it as a responsibility to save His messengers and those who have believed with them, He decreed Monotheism as a religion for prophet Muhammad and those who had believed with him to eliminate any doubt about the religion of prophet and those who had believed with him, and He has made responsible everyone including His prophet to guide himself before the death comes to him for secure return to Him.
However, the ultimate tragedy is that if a person’s heart is locked by arrogance, neither historical monuments nor the beauty of the cosmos will matter.
Peaceful Friday, salaam and God bless.
Tafazzal (06/25/21 and 07/02/2021)).