QURAN CHAPTER - 21
Al-Anbiya - The Prophets
Revealed - Meccan
Ruku - 7
Ayat - 112
Theme - The following have been discussed in this Surah:
- The objection of the disbelievers that a human being could not be a Messenger and therefore they could not accept Muhammad (SWS) as a Prophet, has been refuted.
- Their wrong conception of life has been proved to be false because it was responsible for their indifferent and heedless attitude towards the Message of the Holy Prophet. They believed that life was merely a sport and pastime and had no purpose behind or before it and there was no accountability or reward or punishment.
- The main cause of the conflict between the disbelievers and the Holy Prophet was their insistence on the doctrine of shirk and antagonism to the Doctrine of Tauheed. So the doctrine of skirk has been refuted and the Doctrine of Tauheed reinforced by weighty and impressive though brief arguments.
- Arguments and admonitions have been used to remove another misunderstanding, they presumed that Muhammad (SWS) was a false prophet and his warnings of a scourge from God were empty threats, just because no scourge was visiting them in spite of their persistent rejection of the Prophet.
- Instances have been cited from the important events of the life stories of the Prophets to show that all the Prophets, who were sent by God, were human beings and had all the characteristics of a man except those which were exclusive to Prophethood.
- All the Prophets had to pass through distress and affliction; their opponents did their worst to thwart their mission, but in spite of it they came out successful by the extraordinary succour from Allah.
- All the Prophets had one and the same 'way of life', the same as was being presented by Muhammad (SWS), and that was the only Right Way of Life and all other ways invented and introduced by mischievous people were utterly wrong.
- It has been declared that only those who follow the Right Way, will come out successful in the final judgment of God and those who discard it shall meet with the worst consequences.
The people have been told that it is a great favor of Allah that He has sent His Messenger to inform them beforehand of this Reality and that those, who consider his coming to be an affliction instead of a blessing, are foolish people.
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