Surah al-Ra`d (Surah 13: Revelation Order 96)

Oath of God

[I swear by] Alif. Laam. Meem. Reh. That is of the signs of the scripture. And that which has been sent down to you from your Lord is the truth, but most of the people do not believe.” (13:1).
Note: Alif. Laam. Meem. Reh is one of 14 sets of quranic initials, which is an oath of God being at the beginning of the surah affirms that what has been revealed to Muhammad is the truth from his Lord, but most of the people do not believe; while Alif. Laam. Meem. Reh as a set of quranic initials provides a lower level physical proofs of the numerical structure of Quran occurring at certain frequencies in the Arabic text of the surah being the sum of them is a multiple of 19 => 605 (Alif) + 480 (Laam) + 260 (Meem) + Reh (137) = 1482 = 19 x 78 shown details below:

Note: Count obtained from https://submission.org/verify_updated_count_ALMR_ALMS.html.

God has given many signs for a people to reflect on His sovereignty

God is the One who has raised the heavens without pillars that you see; then He has established Himself upon the Throne. And He has subjected the sun and the moon, each running for an appointed term. He manages the matter; He details the revelations that you believe with certainty in the meeting of your Lord (13:2). And He is the One who has expanded the earth and has placed in it mountains and rivers. And from every kind of fruit, He has made pairs of two in it. He causes the night to cover the day. Indeed in that there are signs for a people who reflect (13:3). And in the earth are neighboring tracts, and gardens of grapevines, and crops, and date-palms—growing from a single root and not from a single root—watered with one water; and We cause each of them to excel over the other in fruit. Indeed, in that are signs for a people who understand (13:4).
Note: God has established His kingship over His dominion creating the heavens without pillars and has given many signs that we can reflect to understand His existence and sovereignty.

The disbelievers want to see the punishment before the good

And if you wonder, then wondrous is their saying: “When we have been dust, will we indeed be in a new creation?” Those are the ones who have disbelieved in their Lord, and those will have shackles upon their necks, and those are the companions of the Fire; they are in it eternal dwellers (13:5). And they ask you to hasten the evil before the good, while there have already occurred from their before the exemplary punishments. And indeed, your Lord is full of forgiveness for the people despite their wrongdoing, and indeed, your Lord is severe in penalty (13:6). And those who have disbelieved say, “Why has a sign not been sent down to him from his Lord?” You are only a warner, and for every people there is a guide (13:7).
Note: There is not only wonder in the saying of the disbelievers in their Lord about the resurrection but they also want to see the punishment before the good and the miracle what has been sent down with the prophet like the people in the past while the prophet has been a warner, and it is thus that every community is given a guide.

Nothing is hidden from God being the Knower, the greatest High

And those who have disbelieved say, “Why has a sign not been sent down to him from his Lord?” You are only a bearer of warning, and for every community there is a guide (13:8). Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, the Great, the High (13:9). It is the same among you: whoever has concealed the saying and whoever has declared it, and whoever is hidden by night and going forth by day (13:10).
Note: God knows women’s pregnancy period including its miscarriage while He is Knower of the unseen and the seen whether it is in the darkness of the night or visible in light in the day time.

God does not change the evil what is with the people

For him are successive guards of his before and of his behind, guarding him by the command of God. Indeed, God does not change what is with a people until they change what is with themselves. And when God has willed an evil for a people, then there is no turning back of it, and they have no protector besides Him(13:11).
Note: God has made us responsible for our own souls. Unless we do not take initiatives to change our evil behavior, God will not change it while when He has willed a misfortune, there is none who can prevent it from its occurring. Thus there is no protector for us other than Him.

What the disbelievers invoke is misguidance

He is the One who shows you the lightning for fear and hope, and He brings up the heavy clouds (13:12). And the thunder glorifies with His praise, and the angels from fear of Him. And He sends the thunderbolts and strikes with them whomever He wills, while they dispute about God; and He is severe in contriving (13:13). To Him is the call of truth. And those whom they call upon other than Him do not respond to them with a thing, except like one who stretches forth his hands toward water to reach his mouth, but it is not going to reach it. And the call of the disbelievers is not except in error (13:14).
Note: Even the thunder glories God and the angels fear Him but the disbelievers dispute about Him and whom they invoke cannot respond being their invocation like an analogy of their hands towards the water but cannot reach their mouths.

God is Creator of all things being the One, the Supreme

And to God prostrates whoever is in the heavens and the earth in willingness and in unwillingness, and their shadows in the mornings and the afternoons (13:15). Say, “Who is Lord of the heavens and the earth?” Say, “God.” Say, “Have you then taken other than Him protectors, who do not possess for themselves benefit nor harm?” Say, “Are the blind and the seer equal? Or are the darknesses and the light equal?” Or have they made partners for God who have created like His creation so that the creation has appeared similar to them? Say, “God is Creator of all things, and He is the One, the Supreme.” (13:16). He has sent down water from the sky, so valleys have flowed according to their measure, then the torrent has carried a rising foam. And from that which they heat in the fire seeking ornaments or utensils is a foam like it. Thus God strikes the truth and the falsehood. Then as for the foam, it passes away as scum; and as for that which benefits the people, it remains in the earth. Thus God strikes the analogies (13:17).
Note: God has created all things and has set examples for the people to reflect but still the disbelievers have taken protectors other than Him being the blind, who cannot benefit or harm them.

A terrible reckoning for those who do not respond to God

For those who have responded to their Lord is the best. And those who have not responded to Him—if they had all that is in the earth and the like of it with it, they would surely ransom themselves with it. Those will have a terrible reckoning, and their abode is Hell, and it has been miserable as a resting place (13:18). Then is he who knows that what has been sent down to you from your Lord is the truth like him who is blind? Only possessors of understanding pay heed (13:19).
Note: Those who do not respond to God are the blind and their terrible reckoning without accepting any ransom from them is Hell, which is a miserable resting place while what has been revealed to prophet is the truth from his Lord and the possessors of the understanding pay heed to it.

Recompense to fulfill of a pledge to God and to break of it

Those who fulfill the covenant of God and do not break the pledge (13:20). And those who join what God has commanded to be joined, fear their Lord, and dread the terrible reckoning (13:21).And those who have been patient seeking the countenance of their Lord, and have established the salat prayer and have spent from what We have provided them in secret and public, and repel the evil with the good; those, for them is the ultimate outcome of the Home (13:22). Gardens of Eternity they enter them and whoever has been righteous among their fathers, and their spouses, and their children. And the angels will enter upon them through every gate (13:23). Peace upon you for what you have endured, so excellent has been the final outcome of the Abode (13:24). And those who break the pledge to God after its covenant, and sever what God has commanded to be joined, and spread corruption in the earth; those, for them is the curse and for them is the evil outcome of the home (13:25).
Note: For those who have fulfilled a pledge to God, and have established the salat prayer and have spent from what has been provided to them while have been patient seeking their Lord’s pleasure are Gardens of Eden but for those who have broken of pledge to God and have severed His commandment and have spread corruption in the earth are the curse in the earth and an evil of the abode in the Hereafter.

God lets go astray whomever He wills, and guides whoever turns to Him

God increases the provision for whomever He wills, and restricts it. And they have rejoiced in the life of the world, whereas the life of the world is nothing but a temporary enjoyment in regard to the Hereafter (13:26). And those who have disbelieved say, “Why has a sign not been sent down to him from his Lord?” Say, “Indeed, God leaves to stray whomever He wills, and He guides to Himself whoever has turned.” (13:27).

Note: The life of the world is an enjoyment for the disbelievers while they claim that they would be the believers if the miracle has been sent down to the prophet.

The hearts of the believers rejoice in remembering of God

Those who have believed and whose hearts find rest in remembering God. Unquestionably, in remembering God do hearts find rest (13:28). Those who have believed and have done righteous deeds—for them is a blessing and a beautiful place of return (13:29).

Note: The hearts of the believers rejoice in remembering of God while there is a blessing and a beautiful place of return for them for doing the righteous deeds.

Prophet has recited what has been inspired to him

Thus We have sent you to a community before which other communities have certainly passed away, so that you recite to them what We have inspired to you, while they disbelieve in the Gracious. Say, “He is my Lord; there is no god except He. Upon Him I have put my trust, and to Him is my return.” (13:30).
Note: Prophet has recited what has been revealed to him but those who disbelieve, they disbelieve in the Gracious while he has informed them that God is his Lord, there is no god except He and upon Him he has put his trust and to Him is his return. This is one of many proofs in the Quran that he has not stated any hadiths or sunnahs to disobey God.

Quran is a wonder from God

And if that a Quran, could have been moved the mountains by it, or could have been cloven asunder the earth by it, or could have been spoken to the dead by it—rather, to God the command entirely. Have then not realized those who have believed that if God had willed, surely He would have guided mankind all together? And does not cease those who have disbelieved, strikes them because of what they have done a calamity, or it descends near to their home, until comes the promise of God. Indeed, God does not break the promise (13:31). And there had certainly been mocked messengers before yourself; so I gave respite to those who had disbelieved, then I had seized them. How had been My retribution!” (13:32).
Note: A Quran has been recited by prophet to his community is a wonder that the mountains, the earth and the dead would respond for fear of God if it had been revealed on them, but a disaster will strike the disbelievers for what they have done while God has given a respite to them, then He seized them, which He has done with a people of the previous generations for mocking of His messengers.

The end is the Paradise for the believers and the Fire for the disbelievers

Is then He Whoever—He is a Maintainer of every soul for what it has earned, while they have made partners to God? Say, “You shall name them! Or do you inform Him of what He does not know in the earth, or of being apparent from any of the utterances?” Nay, it has been made fair-seeming—their plotting—to those who have disbelieved, while they have been hindered from the path. And whomever God lets go astray, then there is no guide for him (13:33). For them there is a punishment in the life of the world, while the punishment of the Hereafter is more severe. And for them there is no defender against God (13:34). An allegory of the Paradise which has been promised for the righteous: rivers flow underneath it; its food is everlasting, and so is its shade. That is the end of those who have feared, and the end of the disbelievers is the Fire (13:35).

Note: God is a Maintainer of every soul while He has made fair-seeming the deeds of the disbelievers. Thus He lets go astray whomever He wills and guides whoever turns to Him. The punishment of the disbelievers will be harder in the Hereafter while both the Paradise and the Hell have been mentioned allegorically

God has sent down Quran in Arabic as an authority to be followed by all

And those whom We have given the scripture rejoice at what has been sent down to you; while of the parties there is whoever denies a part of it. Say, “I have only been commanded that I worship God, and I do not associate partners with Him. To Him I call, and to Him is my return.” (13:36). And thus We have sent down it an Arabic directive; and surely, if you have followed their desires after what has come to you of knowledge, there is no protector for you against God, nor any advocate (13:37). And We have certainly sent messengers before yourself and We have made for them wives and children. And it has not been for a messenger that he comes with a sign except by permission of God. For every time there is a decree (13:38). God eliminates whatever He wills and He sets, and with Him is the Mother of the Scripture (13:39).
Note: What God has revealed to prophet in Arabic is an authority with a commandment of worshiping Him without associating partners with Him and of following it disregarding the desires of the idol worshipers while the people of scripture should rejoice in it being it in a Master scripture.

Prophet has been responsible for the conveyance of the message

And whether We show you a part of what We promise them, or We cause you to die, then only upon you is the conveyance, and upon Us is the reckoning (13:40). Do they then not see that We come to the earth, reducing it of its ends? And God judges; there is no adjuster of His judgment. And He is swift in the reckoning (13:41). And certainly, those who were before themselves have plotted, then to God belongs all the plot entirely. He knows what every soul earns, and the disbelievers will know for whom is the final outcome of the Abode (13:42). Those who have disbelieved say, “You have not been a sent one.” Say, “It has sufficed with God as a Witness between of me and between of you, and whoever with him is knowledge of the scripture.” (13:43).
Note: Prophet has no responsibility other than the conveyance what has been revealed to him while upon God is the reckoning. God is bringing the earth closer to the end, and He will judge and there is no adjuster of His judgment as He knows what has earned every soul while there is master record with Him and those who are knowledgeable of the scripture are aware that prophet has been sent one being God Himself is a Witness of it.

Al-Ra`d