Oath of God
- [I swear by] Alif.Laam.Raa. That is of signs of the scripture and a clarifying Quran (15:1).
Note: By taking oath referring to a set of Quranic initials: Alif.Laam.Rah, God has confirmed that this set is one of the signs of a scripture and a clarifying Quran to have no doubt about it in the hearts of the believers while we know that the Quranic initials have multiple roles. Thus, 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:
Note: The occurrence of these three Arabic letters is maintained at frequency of 499 in the Arabic text of five surahs, which is a lower level factual that the Quran is from God and a divine guard to exist the pure Quran against any attempt of distortion of the guidance to be the straight path for the believers until the end of the world.
Those who have disbelieved wish that they have been submitters
- Perhaps those who disbelieved will wish, if they have been submitters (15:2). Let them eat, and enjoy, and distract them in the hope; then they will know (15:3).
Note: The disbelievers wish that they are submitters while they enjoy and hope being distracted from the truth, but they will know what they have done and would not be able to escape the punishment of their Lord.
God does not destroy any town except its appointed time
- And we have not destroyed any town except for it has been a deterimed decree (15:4). Not a community can advance its term nor can it delay (15:5). They said, “O you whom the reminder has been sent down to him; indeed, you are surely a mad (15:6). “Why do you not bring us of the angels, if you have been of the truthful ones?” (15:7). We do not send down the angels except with the truth, and they have not been, then, delayed (15:8).
Note: God has not destroyed any town to punish its wicked people except when the punishment is due, while He had not destroyed any town without sending His messenger with the reminder giving it as an opportunity to repent and reform. Even the messenger is sent with the truth but the wicked people denied the messenger with an excuse instead of following the reminder sent to the messenger.
Divine promise to protect the revealed Quran from any distortion
- Indeed, we have sent down the reminder; and indeed, we are surely protectors of it (15:9).
Note: The divine promise to protect the Quran from any distortions is directly connected to the reminder of mathematical coding of Quran that we know now, while there is a myth around the traditional Muslim arena that the invisible force (angels) will come down to protect it when any extraneous materials are attempted to inject into it.
The disbelievers makes it a business to deny a messenger from the past
- And that certainly, we have sent from before you (Muhammad) into the parties of the former people (15:10). And no messenger came to them, except that they had been mocking with him (15:11). Thus we causes it to enter into the hearts of the criminals (15:12). They do not believe in him, and certainly, has passed a system of the former people (15:13). And if we had opened for them a gate from the sky, so they continued to ascend in it, (15:14); they would have surely said, “Our eyes have only been dazzled. Nay, we are a bewitched people.” (15:15).
Note: God has sent many messengers before Muhammad but every time a messenger came to them, they had mocked with him, thus entering it into hearts of the criminals becoming a system.
Gathering before God Who controls all matters
- And certainly, we have made constellations in the sky, and have decorated them for the observers (15:16). And we have protected them from every stoned evil (15:17). xcept he who sneaks the hearing, then pursues him an illuminating burning flame (15:18). And the earth, we have spread it, and have cast in it stabilizers, and have caused to grow in it from everything measured (15:19). And we have made in it means of living for you, and for whoever you have not been providers for it (15:20). And there is not a thing except its storehouses are with us, and we do not send it down except with a determined measure (15:21). And we have sent the winds as pollinators, then we have sent down water from the sky, so we gave it to you to drink; while you are not retainers of it (15:22). And indeed we, we surely give life and cause death, and we are the inheritors (15:23). And certainly, we have known the preceding ones among you, and certainly, we have known the lagging ones (15:24). And indeed, your Lord, He will gather them. Indeed, He is Wise, Knower (15:25).
Note: God has made the earth as a means of our living and has provided what we need here giving us life and death while He will gather us all to be answerable to Him what we done here.
The Satan is a great enemy of the human being
- And certainly, we have created the human being from a sounding clay of altered black mud (15:26). And the jinn, we have created it before from the fire of scorching heat (15:27). And when your Lord said to the angels, “I am creating a human being from a sounding clay of altered black mud (15:28). Then when I have designed him and have breathed into him from My spirit that you shall fall down to him as prostrators.” (15:29). Then the angels had prostrated, all of them together (15:30). Except Iblis. He had refused to be with the prostrators (15:31). He said, “O Iblis, what is for you that you would not be with the prostrators?” (15:32). He said, “I am not that I will prostrate to a human, You have created him from a sounding clay of altered black mud.” (15:33). He said, “Then you shall get out from here; as indeed, you are expelled (15:34). And indeed upon you the curse until a Day of the Judgment.” (15:35). He said, “My Lord, then give me a respite until a day they are raised.” (15:36). He said, “Then indeed, you are with the respited ones (15:37). Until a day of the well-known Time.” (15:38). He said, “My Lord, since You have misled me, that I will surely make fair-seeming (their deed) for them in the earth and that I will surely mislead them all (15:39). Except Your servants from them, the sincere ones.” (15:40).
Note: God has created the human from clay and the jinn from fire while the fallen angel, Iblis also known as the Satan has been included with the jinn being made from fire as well. The Satan who has been given a respite until a day of the Resurrection, will make fair seeming our evil deeds in the earth misguiding us to make most of us losers except the sincere servants of God.
Compensation for the misguided and the guided ones
- He said, “This is a straight path to Me (15:41). Indeed, My servants, there has not been for you any authority over them, except whoever has followed you of the strayers (15:42). And indeed, Hell is surely their promised place, all of them together (15:43). For it are seven gates; for each gate of them is an assigned portion.” (15:44). Indeed, the righteous will be in gardens and springs (15:45). Enter it in peace, secure ones (15:46). And we removed whatever is in their breasts of hatred, as brothers on couches, facing each other (15:47). No fatigue will touch them in it, nor will they be removed from it (15:48). Inform My servants that I am the Forgiving, the Merciful (15:49). And that My punishment, it is the painful punishment (15:50).
Note: Those who follow the path of Satan will enter Hell, which has seven gates to share their portion of wickedness while the guided ones staying in the God’s path will enter gardens with springs to enjoy peace. God has reminded us that He is forgiving and merciful but He is also severe in enforcing punishment. Thus, the reminder sent by Him to humanity for its guidance includes both good news for the believers and warning for the disbelievers.
The angels visited to Abraham with a good news of a son
- And inform them of the guest of Abraham (15:51). When they had entered to him, they said, “Peace.” He said, “Indeed, we are afraid.” (15:52). They said, “Do not fear; we bring good news to you of a knowledgeable son.” (15:53).He said, “Do you bring me good news upon that old age has touched me? Then with what do you bring good news?” (15:54). They said, “We have given you good news with the truth; so, you would not be with the despaired ones.” (15:55). He said, “And who despairs from a mercy of his Lord except the strayers.” (15:56). He said, “What is your mission, O the sent ones?” (15:57). They said, “Indeed, we have been sent to a guilty people (15:58). Except a family of Lot; indeed, we will surely be saving them all (15:59). Except his wife; We have destined that indeed she is surely with those who are lagging behind.” (15:60).
Note: The angels visited to Abraham with a good news of a knowledgeable son and a bad news of punishing the guilty people of Lot except his family but not his wife being in his family, while Abraham had a son at his old age, which has been a mercy from his Lord being pleased with him.
The angels visited to Lot with a bad news of destruction of the guilty
- Then when the sent ones had come to a family of Lot (15:61). He said, “Indeed, you are a unknown people.” (15:62). They said, “Nay, we have come to you with what they have been disputing about in it (15:63). And we have come to you with the truth, and indeed, we are surely truthful (15:64). So travel with your family in a part of the night, and follow their backs, and let not anyone of you look back, and go on as you are commanded (15:65). And We decreed to him that command: that the root of these ones is to be cut off at morning (15:66). And there had come the people of the city rejoicing (15:67). He said, “Indeed, these are my guests; so you do not embarrass me (15:68). And fear God, and you do not disgrace me.” (15:69). They said, “Did we not forbid you from the other people?” (15:70). He said, “These are my daughters, if you had been doers.” (15:71). By your life; indeed, they were in their intoxication, wandering blindly (15:72). So, the disaster had seized them at sunrise (15:73). Then we have made its upside its down and have rained upon them stones of a baked clay (15:74). Indeed, in that there are signs for those who perceive (15:75). And indeed, it has been on an established path (15:76). Indeed, in that there is a sign for the believers (15:77).
Note: The angels extended their visit from Abraham to Lot with a news of the destruction of his wicked people who practiced homosexually except his family excluding his wife from his family. The disaster of hail storm seized them at sunrise, being an established system of God to punish the wicked, which is a lesson for the believers as well.
Destruction of a people of the wood
- And indeed, the companions of the wood had been surely wrongdoers (15:78). So We had taken retribution from them; and indeed, they both are surely on a clear highway (15:79.
Note: The people of the wood were also punished being leader in the wrongdoing.
Destruction of a people of Al-Hij’r
- And certainly, the companions of al-Hij’r had denied the sent ones (15:80). And we had given them our signs, then they had been turners from them (15:81). And they had been carving houses from the mountains, secure ones (15:82). Then the blast had seized them at sunrise (15:83). So, it did not avail them — what they had been earning (15:84).
Note: The people of al-Hij’r who had denied those who have been sent to them, God destroyed them even they had made them secure curving houses on the mountains.
God has given seven pairs in the Quran to know time for the end of the world
- And we have not created the heavens and the earth, and whatever is between them except with the truth. And indeed, the Hour is surely coming; so overlook with a beautiful overlooking (15:85). Indeed your Lord, He is the Creator, the Knower (15:86). And certainly, we have given you seven of the pairs and the great Quran (15:87).
Note: God has given us a hint to predict when the Hour (the end of the world) will come from 7 pairs referring to 14 sets of Quranic initials prefixed to 29 surahs in the great Quran and the total occurrences of these initials is 30, which is consistent what is stated in (20:15) that He will almost remain hidden it, and also what is stated in (47:18) that do they wait except for the Hour that it should come to them all on a sudden? While we know that there is a prediction around us unveiled by God’s messenger of the covenant authorized by Him being His system to unveil the future (72:27) that the world will come to an end in 2280 A.D. or 1710 A.H. but the traditional Muslims believe that the time for the end of the world is only known to God and will remain hidden from the people until a day of the occurrence of it, while their interpretation of the verse, 15:87 does not make any sense for translating the Arabic word, al-mathaanee to “the oft-repeated” in the verse being the misinterpretation.
Punishment for the dividers while prophet has been a clarifying warner
- Do not extend your eyes to what we have bestowed enjoyment upon them with it, nor do you grieve over them. And you shall lower your wing for the believers (15:88). And say, “Indeed, I am a clarifying warner.” (15:89). Like that we have sent down (punishment) upon the dividers (15:90). Those who have made the Quran in parts (15:91). So, by your Lord, we will surely question them all (15:92). About what they have been doing (15:93).
Note: Prophet has been a clarifying warner, which means he recites to the people what God has revealed to him, while God will punish those who for what they have done to accomplish disregarding the message given to him accepting some of it and rejecting some of it.
Commandment for the prophet to succeed
- So, proclaim what you are commanded, and turn away from the idolaters (15:94). Indeed, we have sufficed you against the mockers (15:95). Those who make with God another god, then they will come to know (15:96). And certainly, we know that your breast straitens from what they say (15:97). So, glorify with praise of your Lord, and be with the prostrators (15:98). And worship your Lord, until the certainty comes to you (15:99).
Note: God reminded the prophet to do what he has been commanded to do and informed him about the consequence of taking another god with Him. He asked him to glorify and praise Him until death to become successful in the Hereafter staying away from the idolaters.
Surah al Hij’r (The Rocky Valley) may be reviewed reflecting that: (1) the surah is very special for the sum of surah number and the total number of verses in the surah being 114 (15 + 99), which equals the total number of surah (114) in the Quran, (2) alif.laam.reh, a set of Quranic initials is a sign of a scripture and a clarified Quran that plays multiple roles in the guidance, (3) the disbelievers wish that they are submitters but cannot escape the punishment when they meet their Lord, (4) God has promised to be Protector of the reminder referring to the Quran which He has revealed while He has given us a way in the Quran to maintain a pure Quran until the end of the world, (5) the angels visited to Abraham with a good news and Lot with a bad good news, (6) denying a messenger is made a business by the disbelievers from the past, (7) the Satan being a great enemy of human being makes his utmost efforts to make most of them losers in the Hereafter, (8) God has given 7 pairs referring to 14 sets of Quranic initials being their total occurrences 30 prefixed to 29 surahs in the Quran to predict when the world will come to an end, (9) there are people who accept certain verses of Quran while disregard many of its crucial verses, (10) God has ensured punishment for the dividers, (11) prophet has been a clear warner and he has no concern who were guided or misguided and (12) direction to the prophet to be successful in the Hereafter being aware the consequence of taking another god with God and staying away from the idolaters.
Peaceful Friday, salaam and God bless.
Tafazzal (06/18/2021).