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وَإِذَا تُتۡلَىٰ عَلَيۡهِمۡ ءَايَاتُنَا بَيِّنَٰتٖ قَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَرۡجُونَ لِقَآءَنَا ٱئۡتِ بِقُرۡءَانٍ غَيۡرِ هَٰذَآ أَوۡ بَدِّلۡهُۚ قُلۡ مَا يَكُونُ لِيٓ أَنۡ أُبَدِّلَهُۥ مِن تِلۡقَآيِٕ نَفۡسِيٓۖ إِنۡ أَتَّبِعُ إِلَّا مَا يُوحَىٰٓ إِلَيَّۖ إِنِّيٓ أَخَافُ إِنۡ عَصَيۡتُ رَبِّي عَذَابَ يَوۡمٍ عَظِيمٖ
[2309] This passage and the next catalogue how poorly they fared in God’s sight. This passage deals with how scornful they were of the Message itself.
[2310] They hated the parts of the Qur’an that were not to their liking and did not conform to their erroneous way of life (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn ʿAṭiyyah, al-Shawkānī).
[2311] The following potent answer sets the matter aright by showing that Divine revelation is sacrosanct and is not to be tampered with (cf. al-Wāḥidī, al-Basīṭ, al-Baiḍāwī). The answer addresses human reason and evokes matters of Faith.
[2312] This is a proportionately pious, God-fearing answer indeed, one which stands in stark contrast to the Deniers’ demand which belies their characteristically disdainful mindset: “O people! Fear your Lord, verily the quaking of the Hour is surely a grave thing. *The Day you see it, every nursing mother will abandon what she is nursing, and every pregnant woman will deliver her burden ˹prematurely˺. And you will see people drunk, though they will not be drunk; but the Punishment of Allah is ˹terribly˺ severe” (22: 1-2).
قُل لَّوۡ شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ مَا تَلَوۡتُهُۥ عَلَيۡكُمۡ وَلَآ أَدۡرَىٰكُم بِهِۦۖ فَقَدۡ لَبِثۡتُ فِيكُمۡ عُمُرٗا مِّن قَبۡلِهِۦٓۚ أَفَلَا تَعۡقِلُونَ
[2313] This is another facet of the answer alluding to their claim that the Noble Messenger (ﷺ) was a liar (cf. al-Rāzī, Ibn ʿĀshūr). The Qurayshites had known the Messenger (ﷺ) very closely for forty long years before the Message came to him and he was commanded to deliver it. They knew very well that he was no liar, no poet and no man of letters (cf. al-Rāzī). How would he then, out of all the artistically inspired people who could easily come up with lies, be the one to concoct such an elaborate narration? Had it not been God’s Own will, he would have never been able to produce a glorious Qur’an like the one he recited: “Do they not recognize their Messenger? So they are in denial of him. *Or do they say: “He is possessed!” Nay but he came to them with the Truth; most of them are ˹indeed˺ haters of the Truth!” (23: 69-70). Ibn ʿAbbās relates the interaction that took place between the then Qurayshite leader Abū Sufyān and Heraclius, the Byzantine Emperor. In a long narration, the emperor asked Abū Sufyān if they had known Muhammad (ﷺ) as a liar and the answer was in the negative. To that (among many questions he posed) he commented: “I asked you: “Did you accuse him of being a liar before he said what he said?” You said: “No!” Then I am fully aware that he would not abandon lying to people only then to lie about God!” (al-Bukhārī: 7; Muslim: 1773).
فَمَنۡ أَظۡلَمُ مِمَّنِ ٱفۡتَرَىٰ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا أَوۡ كَذَّبَ بِـَٔايَٰتِهِۦٓۚ إِنَّهُۥ لَا يُفۡلِحُ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمُونَ
[2314] The conclusion makes a point of drawing a line under the one thing that the Prophet’s interlocutors lacked, i.e. sincere Faith, which breeds humbling piety.
وَيَعۡبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا يَضُرُّهُمۡ وَلَا يَنفَعُهُمۡ وَيَقُولُونَ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ شُفَعَٰٓؤُنَا عِندَ ٱللَّهِۚ قُلۡ أَتُنَبِّـُٔونَ ٱللَّهَ بِمَا لَا يَعۡلَمُ فِي ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَلَا فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِۚ سُبۡحَٰنَهُۥ وَتَعَٰلَىٰ عَمَّا يُشۡرِكُونَ
[2315] “Who is more astray than one who calls, apart from Allah, upon such as who would not answer him, until the Day of Judgement; they are heedless of their calling!” (46: 5).
[2316] Their reprimand because of their idol worship is an example of what they hated about the Qur’an (cf. al-Rāzī). This is also another aspect of their straying from the straight path (cf. Ibn ʿĀshūr).
[2317] That is, that He, Glorified be Him, has Associates and that they are of a position to intercede with Him (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn ʿAṭiyyah, al-Khāzin).
وَمَا كَانَ ٱلنَّاسُ إِلَّآ أُمَّةٗ وَٰحِدَةٗ فَٱخۡتَلَفُواْۚ وَلَوۡلَا كَلِمَةٞ سَبَقَتۡ مِن رَّبِّكَ لَقُضِيَ بَيۡنَهُمۡ فِيمَا فِيهِ يَخۡتَلِفُونَ
[2318] This explains how people came to stray and worship idols; they differed over Faith and disobeyed God (cf. al-Rāzī, al-Biqāʿī, Naẓm al-Durar).
[2319] Ibn ʿAbbās (رضي الله عنه) narrated: “The time between Adam and Noah was ten centuries. Throughout these, people were on the right path of God, but then they started disputing ˹over matters of Faith˺. So, God sent Prophets bearing glad tiding – and cautioning”. (al-Ḥākim, al-Mustadrak: 2:546, cf. also al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī, al-Shinqīṭī): “Mankind was one nation, then Allah sent the Prophets bearing good tidings and cautioning, and He sent down with them the Book with Truth so as to arbitrate between people in what they dispute over. It was only disputed over by those to whom it was given after the clear Signs came to them, out of contravention one against the other. But Allah leads the Believers to the Truth, which they disputed over, with His Will—Allah guides those He wills to a straight path” (2: 213)
[2320] That He, Glorified be Him, gives respite to the rebellious until the Day of Judgement (cf. Ibn ʿAṭiyyah, al-Saʿdī): “Had it not been for a Word, already passed, they would already have been destroyed; ˹but˺ their time has been set. *So be patient ˹Muhammad˺ with what they say; glorify the praises of your Lord before sunrise and before its setting, and glorify Him in the hours of the night and at ˹both˺ ends of the day, so that you may be pleased” (20: 129-130).
وَيَقُولُونَ لَوۡلَآ أُنزِلَ عَلَيۡهِ ءَايَةٞ مِّن رَّبِّهِۦۖ فَقُلۡ إِنَّمَا ٱلۡغَيۡبُ لِلَّهِ فَٱنتَظِرُوٓاْ إِنِّي مَعَكُم مِّنَ ٱلۡمُنتَظِرِينَ
[2321] That is a miracle (cf. al-Ṭabarī, al-Qurṭubī, Ibn Kathīr); being deliberately heedless to the greatest miracle of all, the Glorious Qur’an: “We have certainly diversified for the people in this Qur’an from every ˹kind˺ of example, but most of the people refused ˹anything˺ except Denying. *They said: “We will not Believe you ˹Muhammad˺ until you make a spring gush out of the ground for us; *or till you have a garden of date palms and grapevines, and you make streams gush forth in the midst of it; *or cause the sky to fall upon us in pieces, as you have claimed, or bring Allah and the angels before us, face to face; *or have a house made of gold; or ascend into the sky. Even then, we will not believe in your ascension until you send a ˹real˺ book down for us to read”. Say: “Glory be to my Lord! Am I anything but a mortal, a Messenger?”” (17: 89-93)
[2322] Miracles are a matter of ghayb (the Unseen) and only God Almighty knows and controls the Unseen (Ibn ʿAṭiyyah, al-Qurṭubī, Ibn ʿĀshūr): “They ˹the Deniers˺ had sworn by Allah with their most solemn oaths that if a Sign were to come to them, they would surely Believe in it. Say ˹Muhammad˺: “Indeed Signs are from none but Allah!” How would you ˹Believers˺ know that when they ˹the Signs˺ come, they would ˹still˺ not Believe?” (6: 109).
[2323] “Do they wait for nothing but the like of the days of those bygone before! Say ˹Muhammad˺: “Wait then! I shall be with you among those who wait!” *Then, We deliver Our Messengers and those who Believe; like so it is incumbent upon Us to deliver the Believers” (10: 102-103).
