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(109) وَ أَقْسَمُوا بِاللَّهِ جَهْدَ أَيْمانِهِمْ لَئِنْ جاءَتْهُمْ آيَةٌ
لَيُؤْمِنُنَّ بِها قُلْ إِنَّمَا الْآياتُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ وَ ما يُشْعِرُكُمْ
أَنَّها إِذا جاءَتْ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ
109. " And they swore by Allah with the strongest of their oaths, that if a
sign came to them they would most certainly believe in it. Say: ' Signs are only
with Allah '. And what should make you know that when it comes they will not
believe ? "
Commentary :
Once a group of pagans of the Quraysh (1) came to the Prophet
(p.b.u.h.) and said that he should bring some miracles like those of Moses and
Jesus (a.s.) , so that they could believe in him. The Messenger of Allah
(p.b.u.h.) asked them what action he should do. They answered him that he should
change the Safa mount (located in Mecca) into gold, restore the dead to life,
show them the Lord and the angels, and so on. They swore that in that case they
would believe.
Gabriel came down and revealed the verse to the Messenger of Allah (p.b.u.h.)
indicating that miracles are done according to Allah's Will, not according to
their desires.
Moreover, some suggestions that some ignorant people offer are sometimes
opposite to human intelligence. It is not such that the world become the hall of
exhibition and the system of existence changes with the desires of some pagans.
Gabriel brought the divine message to the holy Prophet (p.b.u.h.) indicating
that if the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) wished, his invitation would be accepted; but if
they did not believe in Islam, all of them would be
(1) The Quraysh were the noblest tribe of Arabia, the tribe to which the
holy Prophet himself (p.b.u.h.) belonged. They had the custody of the Ka'bah,
the central shrine of Arabia.
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