Quran chapter 16 surah 16.
Those who are patient by giving forgiveness instead of retaliating will be rewarded by God in the hereafter (Quran 16:126).
In the hereafter Jewish people will be judged on their observance of the Sabbath Day (Quran 16:124).
Updated.
21 August 2020 (1442 AH).
INDEX:
Quran chapter 16.
Quran surah 16.
Quran sura 16.
Koran chapter 16.
Koran surah 16.
Koran sura 16.
Persecution of Muslims in Mecca Arabia.
Persecution of Muslims in Makkah Arabia.
Persecution of Muslims in Makah Arabia.
Persecution of Muslims by the stone idol worshippers in Arabia.
See Quran 16:41, 16:110
Prayer to anyone except God is like praying to stone idols.
See Quran 16:1
Who is the Spirit?
Who is the Spirit of inspiration?
Who is the Spirit of revelation?
Who is the Holy Spirit?
Who is the Holy Ghost?
What is the Holy Spirit?
What is the Holy Ghost?
See Quran 16:2
Space travel.
God has given permission for space travel.
God creates things of which you have no knowledge.
See Quran 16:8
Why is Jesus not God?
Why is Isa not God?
Why are stone idols not God?
The time of the Day of Resurrection.
Both Jesus and stone idols do not know the hour of the Day of Resurrection.
Both Isa and stone idols do not know the hour of the Day of Resurrection.
See Quran 16:21 comments.
Why does the Koran contain the stories of the people of the past?
Why does the Quran contain the stories of the people of the past?
See Quran 16:24 comments.
The angels take the souls of the dead wrong doers.
See Quran 16:28 – 16:29
The angels take the souls of the dead good doers.
See Quran 16:30 – 16:32
Paradise is for those who reject evil.
See Quran 16:30 – 16:32
The consequences of evil come to humans in the Hereafter.
The results of evil come to humans in the Hereafter.
See Quran 16:34
What is a messenger of God?
What is a prophet of God?
See Quran 16:35
God has determined who is guided and who is misguided.
See Quran 16:37, 16:125
Most people do not know that they shall be resurrected from death back to life.
See Quran 16:38
God revealed the scripture to Prophet Moses.
God revealed the scripture to Prophet Musa.
God revealed the scripture to Prophet Jesus.
God revealed the scripture to Prophet Isa.
God revealed the scripture to Prophet Muhammad.
God revealed the Torah Taurat to Prophet Moses.
God revealed the Torah Taurat to Prophet Musa.
God revealed the Gospel Injil to Prophet Jesus.
God revealed the Gospel Injil to Prophet Isa.
God revealed the Koran Quran to Prophet Muhammad.
See Quran 16:43 – 16:44
Mercy is for those who ask forgiveness.
See Quran 16:47
There is only one God.
Fear God only.
See Quran 16:51 – 16:52
The invention of idol worship.
See Quran 16:56
Stone idol worshippers bury alive their unwanted female babies.
See Quran 16:57 – 16:60
Stone idol worshippers say that angels are God’s daughters.
Stone idol worshippers say that angels are daughters of God.
See Quran 16:57
The falsehood of stone idol worship in Mecca Makkah Arabia.
See Quran 16:62
The devil makes evil deeds seem attractive.
Satan makes evil deeds seem attractive.
Shaitan makes evil deeds seem attractive.
Shaitaan makes evil deeds seem attractive.
Shayatin makes evil deeds seem attractive.
Shaytan makes evil deeds seem attractive.
Shaaytan makes evil deeds seem attractive.
See Quran 16:63
Why did God reveal the scriptures to Prophet Mohammad?
Why did God reveal the Koran to Prophet Mohammad?
Why did God reveal the Quran to Prophet Mohammad?
See Quran 16:64
The grace of God that sustains all of creation.
See Quran 16:71
If the people turn away then your duty Prophet Muhammad is only to deliver the message.
See Quran 16:82
Disbelief in God by those who believe in stone idol worship.
See Quran 16:83
No forgiveness for idol worship is given in the Hereafter.
See Quran 16:84
There is no pardon in the Hereafter for the sin of praying to someone other than God.
See Quran 16:85
All things that God has created are a creation that has no power to hear prayer.
See Quran 16:86
Praying to anyone except God shall fail to be of any help in the Hereafter.
See Quran 16:87
The Quran is revealed to Prophet Muhammad.
The Quran is as an explanation of all things necessary to understand God.
The Quran is guidance in the affairs of humans.
The Quran is a mercy to humans.
The Quran is the good news of resurrection after death.
The Quran is the good news of Paradise for those who have submitted to God.
See Quran 16:89
God orders justice and good conduct and helping relatives.
God forbids immorality.
God forbids bad behaviour.
God forbids bad conduct.
God forbids wickedness.
See Quran 16:90
Oaths in the name of God cannot be broken because you are using God as your guarantee that you speak the truth.
Oaths in the name of God cannot be broken because you are using God as your witness that you speak the truth.
See Quran 16:91
Do not break a treaty after you have given an oath in the name of God.
Do not make false oaths in the name of God for worldly concerns.
See Quran 16:92, 16:94, 16:95.
If God willed God could have made all humans follow one religion.
In the Hereafter humans shall be questioned about what they used to do.
See Quran 16:93
What is with humans shall end.
What is with God of your good deeds shall endure.
See Quran 16:96
The power of Satan.
The power of the devil.
The power of Shaitan.
The power of Shaitaan.
The power of Shayatin.
The power of Shaytan.
The power of Shaaytan.
See Quran 16:98 – 16:100
Prophet Muhammad is doing nothing but inventing verses.
See Quran 16:101
The Holy Spirit brought the revelations of God to Prophet Muhammad.
Ruh Al-Qudus brought the revelations of God to Prophet Muhammad.
See Quran 16:102
Only a man teaches Prophet Muhammad.
Only a Christian blacksmith teaches Prophet Muhammad.
The Quran is in clear Arabic.
See Quran 16:103
Lies against God.
Lies against Prophet Muhammad.
See Quran 16:105
Stone idol worshippers force Muslims to declare disbelief in God.
The threat of death to Muslims in Mecca who do not declare disbelief in God.
The threat of death to Muslims in Makkah who do not declare disbelief in God.
The threat of death to Muslims in Makah who do not declare disbelief in God.
The threat of death to Muslims in Arabia who do not declare disbelief in God.
See Quran 16:106
Why are disbelievers in God punished in the Hereafter?
See Quran 16:107
The disbelievers in God.
See Quran 16:104 – 16:109
The people of Mecca rejected Prophet Muhammad.
The people of Makkah rejected Prophet Muhammad.
The people of Makah rejected Prophet Muhammad.
See Quran 16:112 – 16:113
Music in Islam.
Singing in Islam.
God does not forbid music in Islam.
God does not forbid singing in Islam.
God does not forbid musical instruments in Islam.
God does not forbid musical instruments, singing and music in Islam.
Music, singing, musical instruments are not prohibited in Islam.
Do not say falsely with your own tongues, "This is lawful and this is unlawful”.
Do not say falsely with your own tongues, "This is allowed and this is forbidden”.
See Quran 16:116 – 16:117 comments.
Kosher food and Halal food.
Kosher food.
Kosher food in Judaism.
Kosher Jewish food.
Halal food.
Halal food in Islam.
Halal Muslim food.
See Quran 16:118
God’s forgiveness is obtained by asking God for forgiveness.
See Quran 16:119
God revealed to Prophet Muhammad to follow the religion of Prophet Abraham.
God revealed to Prophet Muhammad to follow the religion of Prophet Ibrahim.
See Quran 16:123
In the hereafter Jewish people will be judged on their observance of the Sabbath Day.
The Jewish Sabbath day.
The Christian day of rest.
Friday congregational prayers in Islam.
Hadith Quran 16:124
Tafsir Quran 16:124
Explain Quran 16:124
See Quran 16:124
God revealed discuss God with the disbelievers.
See Quran 16:125
Give punishment that is equivalent or better still be patient.
See Quran 16:126
God is with those who keep their duty to God.
God is with those who do what is good.
See Quran 16:128
Information: The Quran chapter 16.
Order of Revelation: 70 (1 is the first revelation and 114 is the last revelation).
Place of Revelation: Mecca (Makkah, Arabia today Saudi Arabia).
Number of Verses: 128 verses.
The Quran.
Chapter 16.
The Bee (An-Nahl).
English interpretations of the Quran.
The Quran Chapter 16 The Bee (Al-Nahl, An-Nahl, Nahl, The Honey Bees) in English.
Chapter : Verse.
(Information in brackets is added to assist readers in the interpretation of the verse).
Quran 16:0 Koran 16:0 Verse 16:0 Ayah 16:0 Ayat 16:0 Aya 16:0 In the name of God, The Most Kind, The Most Merciful.
Quran 16:1 Koran 16:1 Verse 16:1 Ayah 16:1 Ayat 16:1 Aya 16:1 The commandment of God shall happen so do not be impatient to hasten (accelerate) it. Exalted is He (God) above all that they (the people of Mecca Makkah Arabia today in Saudi Arabia) associate with Him (with God through their worship of stone idols).
Comment 1. God the creator is the only one with the power to hear prayer.
Prayer to anyone other than God is like inventing an idol and then saying that idol has the same power as God.
No one but God has the power to hear prayer.
Prayer to anyone except God is like praying to stone idols that have no power to hear your prayer and no power to help you.
Comment 2. Since God has predetermined everything in God’s creation no one can make what God has predetermined come ahead of its predetermined time. For the same reason no one can delay what God has predetermined.
Quran 16:2 Koran 16:2 Verse 16:2 Ayah 16:2 Ayat 16:2 Aya 16:2 He (God) sends down His (God’s) angels with The Spirit (The Spirit of inspiration, The Spirit of revelation) taking His (God’s) Command to whom He (God) pleases of His (God’s) servants (saying), "Warn humans that there is no God but Me (God) so do your duty to Me (by praying only to the one God that created you)."
Comment 1. Who is the Spirit? Who is the Spirit of inspiration? Who is the Spirit of revelation?
Who is the Holy Spirit?
Who is the Holy Ghost?
What is the Holy Spirit?
What is the Holy Ghost?
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/who-is-the-holy-spirit
Comment 2. The Holy Spirit is the same in the Gospel and Koran.
The Holy Spirit is the same in the Gospel and Quran.
The Holy Spirit is the same in the Injil and Quran.
See 1. Gospel of Mark. Injil of Isa by Mark.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/the-gospel-of-mark-1-5
See 2. Gospel of Matthew. Injil of Isa by Matthew.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/the-gospel-of-matthew-1-7
See 3. Gospel of Luke. Injil of Isa by Luke.
See 4. Gospel of John. Injil of Isa by John.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/the-gospel-of-john-chapters-1-3
Quran 16:3 Koran 16:3 Verse 16:3 Ayah 16:3 Ayat 16:3 Aya 16:3 He (God) has truly created the heavens and the earth. He (God) is high above all that they (the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah Arabia) associate with Him (God).
Comment 1. See Quran 16:1 comments.
Quran 16:4 Koran 16:4 Verse 16:4 Ayah 16:4 Ayat 16:4 Aya 16:4 He (God) has created humans from a (male) sperm-drop (that is inserted into the female egg) and yet humans (such as the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah Arabia) become an open opponent (to God).
Quran 16:5 Koran 16:5 Verse 16:5 Ayah 16:5 Ayat 16:5 Aya 16:5 And He (God) created the cattle from whom you have warm clothing and which you eat.
Quran 16:6 Koran 16:6 Verse 16:6 Ayah 16:6 Ayat 16:6 Aya 16:6 And in them (cattle) is pleasure for you, when you bring them home (in the evening) and when you take them out to pasture (in the morning).
Quran 16:7 Koran 16:7 Verse 16:7 Ayah 16:7 Ayat 16:7 Aya 16:7 And they (the cattle) carry your loads for you to lands you could not reach except with great trouble to yourselves. Your Lord (God) is full of kindness and most merciful.
Quran 16:8 Koran 16:8 Verse 16:8 Ayah 16:8 Ayat 16:8 Aya 16:8 And (God created) horses and mules and donkeys (asses so) that you may ride and use for enjoyment. And He (God) creates (other) things of which you have no knowledge.
Comment 1. God has created other life of which humans have no knowledge.
Quran 36:36 Verse 36:36 Exalted is He (God) who created all the sexual pairs (of creatures) on the earth including them (the humans) and others (meaning, other life forms) which they (the humans) do not know about.
Comment 2. God has given humans permission to explore space.
Quran 55:33 Verse 55:33 O company of jinn and humans, if you are able to pass beyond the regions of the heavens and the earth, then pass. You shall never be able to pass them except with (God’s) authority (and with the knowledge that is given by God).
Comment 3. Why has Alah given permission to travel in the heavens?
God might want humans and jinn to see more of what God has created.
God might want humans and jinn to meet the other life that humans do not know exist.
12 people have travelled from the Earth and walked on the Moon.
Putting the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil and Koran Quran on the Moon and Mars.
See https://sites.google.com/view/quran-tanakh-gospel/man-on-the-moon
Quran 16:9 Koran 16:9 Verse 16:9 Ayah 16:9 Ayat 16:9 Aya 16:9 And God determines the way (the path that is taken in life), and some (paths that are taken in life) are not straight (meaning, the misguided paths of wrongdoing that take a person away from what God has commanded). And if He (God) had willed then He (God) would have led all of you (humans) on the right path (meaning, the path of doing the good and not doing the evil as God has commanded).
Quran 16:10 Koran 16:10 Verse 16:10 Ayah 16:10 Ayat 16:10 Aya 16:10 It is He (God) who sends down rain from the sky, from which you drink and from which (grow) the vegetation on which you send your cattle to pasture (to eat).
Quran 16:11 Koran 16:11 Verse 16:11 Ayah 16:11 Ayat 16:11 Aya 16:11 With it (the rain) He (God) causes to grow for you, the crops, the olives, the date-palm, the grapes and all kinds of fruit. This is indeed a sign (of God) for people who think (about it).
Quran 16:12 Koran 16:12 Verse 16:12 Ayah 16:12 Ayat 16:12 Aya 16:12 And He (God) has made the night and the day and the Sun and the Moon and the stars to be of service to you (humans), with His (God’s) command. Here indeed are signs (of God) for people who have understanding.
Quran 16:13 Koran 16:13 Verse 16:13 Ayah 16:13 Ayat 16:13 Aya 16:13 And whatever He (God) has created for you on the earth of various colours (in nature and in the living), indeed is a sign (of God) for people who take notice (by looking and thinking).
Quran 16:14 Koran 16:14 Verse 16:14 Ayah 16:14 Ayat 16:14 Aya 16:14 And it is He (God) who has made the sea to be of service so that you can eat soft meat (fish) from it (the sea), and bring out ornaments (peals) which you wear. And you can see the ships sailing through it (the sea) so that you (humans) may seek from His (God’s) bounty (in the sea) and so that you (humans) may give thanks (to God for everything God provides for you).
Quran 16:15 Koran 16:15 Verse 16:15 Ayah 16:15 Ayat 16:15 Aya 16:15 And He (God) has put on the earth for you firm mountains in case it should move with you (like water and sand move with you when you travel across them), and streams and roads so that you may travel (on the land).
Quran 16:16 Koran 16:16 Verse 16:16 Ayah 16:16 Ayat 16:16 Aya 16:16 And landmarks (for travel in the day), and by the stars (for travel in the night which) they (the humans can use to) find the way.
Quran 16:17 Koran 16:17 Verse 16:17 Ayah 16:17 Ayat 16:17 Aya 16:17 Is He (God) who creates like the one (the stone idols) who does not create? Shall you then not remember (God your creator)?
Quran 16:18 Koran 16:18 Verse 16:18 Ayah 16:18 Ayat 16:18 Aya 16:18 And if you should count the favours of God (that God gives to you), you would never be able to count them (because the number is so large). Truly God is forgiving and merciful.
Quran 16:19 Koran 16:19 Verse 16:19 Ayah 16:19 Ayat 16:19 Aya 16:19 And God knows what you keep hidden and what you reveal.
Quran 16:20 Koran 16:20 Verse 16:20 Ayah 16:20 Ayat 16:20 Aya 16:20 Those (stone idols) to whom they (the people in Mecca Makkah Arabia) pray to instead of praying to God (is mistaken because the stone idols) have not created anything but are themselves created.
Comment 1. See Quran 16:1 comments.
Quran 16:21 Koran 16:21 Verse 16:21 Ayah 16:21 Ayat 16:21 Aya 16:21 (Those stone idols are) dead, not living. And they (the stone idols) do not know when they (the humans) shall be raised (on the Day of Resurrection).
Comment 1. Both Jesus Isa and stone idols do not know the hour of the Day of Resurrection.
Jesus is not God because no one including Jesus knows the hour of the Day of Resurrection because only God knows.
Isa is not God because no one including Isa knows the hour of the Day of Resurrection because only God knows.
Gospel of Mark 13:32 (Jesus Isa who was the prophet and messenger of God 2000 years ago said) "But as to that day or that hour (of the Day of Resurrection), no one knows, not even the angels in heaven (the Holy Spirit and the other angels who are servants of God), not even the Son (Jesus Isa who is a servant of God), but only the Father (God who is the creator of every creation).
Note 1. If God is one then the Gospel would teach that Jesus does not know the hour.
Note 2. If God is three in one then the Gospel would teach both Jesus and God know the hour.
Note 3. In the Gospel Jesus is not God because Jesus does not know the hour meaning the teaching that Jesus is God or part of God contradicts the Gospel meaning Trinity was invented after the time of Jesus and after the writing of the Gospels.
Note 4. There is only one God because no one is equal to God not Jesus and not the angels.
Note 5. Jesus is like the angels and other creations meaning Jesus is not like God.
In the Gospel Jesus is not God or part of God because Jesus does not know “the hour” because only God knows “the hour” meaning “God is one’ not three in one.
Note 6. What does Son mean?
Son means servant of God.
The Quran warns against misunderstanding the meaning of son because some Christians thought that son was a real biological son instead of correctly knowing that son means servant of God.
Gospel of Matthew 24:36 (Jesus Isa who was the prophet and messenger of God 2000 years ago said) But as for that day and hour (of the Day of Resurrection), no one knows it except the Father (God) alone; not even the angels of heaven (the Holy Spirit and the other angels who are servants of God), not even the Son (Jesus Isa who is a servant of God).
Note 1. If God is one then the Gospel would teach that Jesus does not know the hour.
Note 2. If God is three in one then the Gospel would teach both Jesus and God know the hour.
Note 3. In the Gospel Jesus is not God because Jesus does not know the hour meaning the teaching that Jesus is God or part of God contradicts the Gospel meaning Trinity was invented after the time of Jesus and after the writing of the Gospels.
Note 4. There is only one God because no one is equal to God not Jesus and not the angels.
Note 5. Jesus is like the angels and other creations meaning Jesus is not like God.
In the Gospel Jesus is not God or part of God because Jesus does not know “the hour” because only God knows “the hour” meaning “God is one’ not three in one.
Note 6. What does Father mean?
Father means God.
God is the father of every creation.
Quran 6:59 Verse 6:59 (Muhammad who was the prophet and messenger of God 1400 years ago said) And with Him (God) are the keys of the unseen (future). None but He (God) knows them (the future). And He (God) knows what is in the land and the sea. Not a leaf falls that He (God) does not know about. There is not a grain in the darkness of the earth or anything fresh (and green) or dry (and wilted), that is not (inscribed by God) in a clear record (called the Book of the Decrees of God).
Note 1. Only God knows everything.
Humans including Jesus Isa and Muhammad and angels including the Holy Spirit are servants of God they are not God.
Quran 7:187 Verse 7:187 They ask you (Prophet Muhammad) about The Hour (of the Day of Resurrection) and when it shall come. Say, “Knowledge of this is with my Lord (God) only. He (God) alone shall make it happen at the proper time. It lays heavily on the heavens and the earth (because of the greatness of that event). It shall come to you suddenly. They question you as if you might be well informed of it. Say, “Knowledge of it is with God only, but most of the people do not know that (because they think others have this knowledge).”
Note 1. Only God knows the hour of the Day of Resurrection.
The Holy Spirit revealed to Muhammad that only God knows the hour of the Day of Resurrection therefore Moses Musa and Jesus Isa and Muhammad are not God and the Holy Spirit is not God because both the humans (Moses Musa and Jesus Isa and Muhammad) and the angels (the Holy Spirit of God angel Gabriel Jibril) are created by God.
Comment 2. What does son of God mean?
Son of God means servant of God in the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil and the Koran Quran.
Humans are children of God meaning servants of God in the Torah Taurat and in the Gospel Injil and the Koran Quran.
In the Torah and the Gospel and the Quran every human is a servant of God.
Quran 19:93 verse 19:93 There is no one in the heavens and the earth who does not come to the Most Merciful (God) except as a servant.
Comment 3. What does Father mean?
God is the father of every creation.
Every creation is a servant of God.
Son of God means believer in God.
Children of God means believers in God.
God in the Quran warned 1400 years ago against misunderstanding the word son of God to mean anything other than a servant of God.
Tanakh Jewish scripture.
Torah Exodus 4:22 And you (Moses Musa) shall say to Pharaoh Firon, The Lord (God) says, “Israel is My son, My first born.” (Meaning, Israel is God’s servant because they believe in God).
Torah Exodus 4:23 And I (God) have said to you (Pharaoh Firon), “Let My son (meaning My servant) go so that he may serve Me (God) and you (Pharaoh Firon) have refused to let him go…”)
Note 1. In the Torah Taurat all the children of Israel are called the son of God meaning the servant of God because they believe in God.
Note 2. Jesus Isa is one of the children of Israel therefore Jesus Isa is a son of God meaning a servant of God because Jesus Isa believes in God.
Note 3. The Gospel Injil is the story of one of the children of Israel named Jesus Isa who is a son of God meaning a servant of God.
God in the Quran warned 1400 years ago against misunderstanding the word son of God to mean anything other than a servant of God.
Quran 19:93 verse 19:93 There is no one in the heavens and the earth who does not come to the Most Merciful (God) except as a servant.
Comment 4. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat and explains the story of Jesus in the Gospel Injil.
A. Prophet Muhammad in the Torah Taurat and Gospel Injil.
See Quran 7:157 comments in Quran chapter 7.
B. Every prophet of God is “the Word of God made flesh” meaning the word of God comes out of the mouth of every prophet of God in Deuteronomy 18:18.
See Quran 5:116 comments in Quran chapter 5.
C. How did God save Jesus.
See 1. Quran 4:157 and Quran 4:158 comments in Quran chapter 4.
See 2. Quran 29:57 comments in Quran chapter 29.
D. The second coming of Jesus and every other human is on the Day of Resurrection.
See Quran 79:7 comments in Quran chapter 79.
E. Examples of hadith stories which contradict the teachings of God in the Quran.
See Quran 25:30 comments in Quran chapter 25.
F. God protects the Quran, Gospel Injil and the Torah Taurat as proof God is real.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/god-protects-the-torah-gospel-and-koran
G. Jews and Christians who follow their Book and also believe the Quran will be rewarded twice in the hereafter.
See Quran 28:54 comments in Quran chapter 28.
Quran 16:22 Koran 16:22 Verse 16:22 Ayah 16:22 Ayat 16:22 Aya 16:22 Your God is One God. But those (stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah Arabia) whose hearts refuse to know (God) do not believe in the Hereafter because they are full of their own pride.
Quran 16:23 Koran 16:23 Verse 16:23 Ayah 16:23 Ayat 16:23 Aya 16:23 Certainly God knows what they (the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah Arabia) keep hidden and what they reveal. He (God) does not love the (people who are) arrogant.
Comment 1. Satan Shaitan was so proud of himself that when God told him to bow down in front of Adam, Satan Shaitan refused because he felt humiliated to do such a thing since he believed that he was superior to Adam. Satan Shaitan was full of pride in himself and only interested in himself.
Quran 16:24 Koran 16:24 Verse 16:24 Ayah 16:24 Ayat 16:24 Aya 16:24 And if asked to them (the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah Arabia), "What has your Lord (God) sent down (to Prophet Muhammad)?" They (the stone idol worshippers) say, "(Only) the stories of the people from the past."
Comment 1. Why does the Koran contain the stories of the people of the past?
Why does the Quran contain the stories of the people of the past?
What is the truth?
Truth means these are not invented stories.
Truth means these are the stories inspired by belief in God.
Truth means these stories can be found in the Books of God, the Torah Taurat Jewish Bible and/or the Gospel Injil Christian Bible and/or other inspired writings.
Quran 12:111 Verse 12:111 "... It (the Quran) is not an invented story but it is a confirmation of what came before it (in the Scriptures of the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil) ..."
Quran 26:196 Verse 26:196 It (the revelations from God in the Quran) is (also) in the Scriptures of the people of the past (in the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil).
Quran 41:43 Verse 41:43 Nothing is said (by God) to you (Prophet Muhammad) except what has already been said to the messengers before you. Your Lord (God) is the possessor of forgiveness and severe punishment.
See 1. God protects the Quran, Gospel Injil and the Torah Taurat as proof God is real.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/god-protects-the-torah-gospel-and-koran
Quran 16:25 Koran 16:25 Verse 16:25 Ayah 16:25 Ayat 16:25 Aya 16:25 They (the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah Arabia) shall bear their own burdens (for their sins) in full on the Day of Resurrection, and also (something) of the burdens of those whom they unknowingly misguided. Evil is what they shall bear (in their soul).
Comment 1. Misguiding people away from God by doing evil instead of doing good is a sin.
Quran 16:26 Koran 16:26 Verse 16:26 Ayah 16:26 Ayat 16:26 Aya 16:26 Those (people of Noah, A'ad, Thamud, Midian, Sodom) from (times) before them (the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah Arabia also) plotted (against the way of God), but God struck at the foundation of their building, and then the roof fell down on them with a punishment that was sudden and unexpected.
Comment 1. Who were the people of the past?
Quran 9:70 Verse 9:70 Have the stories of the people (who lived) before them not reached them? (The stories of) the People of Noah Nuh, and (the tribe of) A'ad `Aad and (the tribe of) Thamud Samood, the People of Prophet Abraham Ibrahim (and Prophet Lot Lut and Sodom and Gomorrah), the people that lived in Midian Madyan and the (people of the) destroyed cities (of the past that can be seen today scattered across the landscape in ruin). To them came their messengers with clear revelations (from God). It is not God who wrongs them, but they wrong their own souls (by rejecting God who is their creator).
1a. Who were the people of Prophet Abraham Ibrahim and Prophet Lot Lut?
Torah Genesis 18:24 If there are fifty innocent people in the city, will you (God) destroy the whole city? Won't you spare it in order to save the fifty?
Torah Genesis 18:25 Surely you (God) won't kill the innocent with the guilty. That's impossible! You (God) can't do that. If you did, the innocent would be punished along with the guilty. That is impossible. The judge of all the earth (God) has to act justly.”
Torah Genesis 18:26 The Lord (God) answered, “If I (God) find fifty innocent people in Sodom, I (God) will spare the whole city for their sake.”
Torah Genesis 18:27 Prophet Abraham Ibrahim spoke again: “Please forgive my boldness in continuing to speak to you, Lord (God). I am only a man and have no right to say anything.
Torah Genesis 18:28 But perhaps there will be only forty-five innocent people instead of fifty. Will you (God) destroy the whole city because there are five too few?”
The Lord (God) answered, “I (God) will not destroy the city if I (God) find forty-five innocent people.”
Genesis 18:29 Prophet Abraham Ibrahim spoke again: “Perhaps there will be only forty.”
He (God) replied, “I (God) will not destroy it if there are forty.”
Torah Genesis 18:30 Prophet Abraham Ibrahim said, “Please don't be angry, Lord, but I must speak again. What if there are only thirty?”
He (God) said, “I (God) will not do it if I find thirty.”
Torah Genesis 18:31 Prophet Abraham Ibrahim said, “Please forgive my boldness in continuing to speak to you, Lord. Suppose that only twenty are found?”
He (God) said, “I (God) will not destroy the city if I find twenty.”
Torah Genesis 18:32 Prophet Abraham Ibrahim said, “Please don't be angry, Lord, and I will speak only once more. What if only ten are found?”
He (God) said, “I will not destroy it (the city) if there are ten (innocent people).”
Torah Genesis 18:33 After he had finished speaking with Prophet Abraham Ibrahim, the Lord went away, and Prophet Abraham Ibrahim returned home.
Note 1. In the Torah Taurat human actions that will result in the sudden killing of innocent people together with wrongdoers is not acceptable in the sight of God.
Quran 48:25 Verse 48:25 They (the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia today Saudi Arabia) are the ones who disbelieved (in God) and turned you (Prophet Muhammad) away from the Sacred Mosque (Al-Masjid-al-Haram in Mecca Makkah) and your offerings (of 70 camels to God for the feeding of the poor which) were prevented from reaching their place of sacrifice. (You would have been allowed to enter Mecca Makkah and fight for the sake of God to worship God at God’s Sacred Mosque in Mecca Makkah) if it were not that there were believing men and women who you did not know that you may have trampled (with your offerings of 70 camels that would have killed both the believers who you did not know and the non believers because of a stampede by those animals caused by fighting that God knew would occur) and so unknowingly you would have an evil deed against you, (However God stopped you from entering Mecca Makkah) so that God might bring to His (God’s) mercy whom He (God) willed (by preventing you from making sin through your actions which would have killed innocent people). If they (the believers who you did not know and the wrongdoers who had sinned against God) had been apart (so that only the wrongdoers who had sinned against God were present) then We (God) would have punished those of them who disbelieved with a painful punishment (by allowing you into Mecca Makkah and allowing the animal stampede to occur to punish the stone idol worshippers who forbid your worship of God at the Sacred Mosque Al-Masjid-al-Haram in Mecca Makkah).
Note 1. In the Koran Quran human actions that will result in the sudden killing of innocent people together with wrongdoers is not acceptable in the sight of God.
Quran 16:27 Koran 16:27 Verse 16:27 Ayah 16:27 Ayat 16:27 Aya 16:27 Then on the Day of Resurrection He (God) shall disgrace them (the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah Arabia) and shall say, “Where are My (God’s) partners (the stone idols to whom you prayed) for whose sake you opposed (God’s guidance)?” Those who have been given the knowledge (of God’s punishment to the disbelievers) shall say, “Disgrace and evil are on the disbelievers on this day (The Day of Resurrection).” – (Continued Quran 16:28).
Quran 16:28 Koran 16:28 Verse 16:28 Ayah 16:28 Ayat 16:28 Aya 16:28 – "For those whose lives the angels (of Death) took while they were doing wrong (by disbelief in God by praying to someone other than God and by evil deeds)." Then, they shall make (false) submission (saying), "We were not doing any evil." (The angels shall reply), "Yes (you did evil and) indeed it is God who surely knows everything about what you used to do.” – (Continued Quran 16:29).
Quran 16:29 Koran 16:29 Verse 16:29 Ayah 16:29 Ayat 16:29 Aya 16:29 – So enter the gates of Hell to live there forever, an evil living place for the arrogant.
Comment 1. What is arrogance?
Satan Shaitan was so proud of himself that when God told him to bow down in front of Adam, Satan Shaitan refused because he felt humiliated to do such a thing since he believed that he was superior to Adam. Satan Shaitan was full of pride in himself and only interested in himself.
See: Haman in the Quran.
4. Lessons about Pharaoh Firon and every arrogant person in Quran chapter 79.
4.1 The arrogance of Pharaoh Firon.
4.2 The arrogance of Haman.
4.3 The arrogance of Korah Qarun.
4.4 The arrogance of Hitler.
4.5 What happens to arrogant people?
4.6 The evil of arrogance and hate.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/haman-in-the-koran
Quran 16:30 Koran 16:30 Verse 16:30 Ayah 16:30 Ayat 16:30 Aya 16:30 And when it is asked to those (righteous) who reject evil, "What is it that your Lord (God) has sent down?" They (the believers) say, "All that is good." For those who do good, there is good in this world, and the home of the Hereafter shall be better. And excellent shall be the home (in Paradise) for those (the righteous) who reject evil.
Comment 1. For those who do good, there is good in this world, and the home of the Hereafter shall be better.
Quran 16:31 Koran 16:31 Verse 16:31 Ayah 16:31 Ayat 16:31 Aya 16:31 Treed gardens under which rivers flow shall be their eternal residence where they (the righteous) shall have all that they wish. This is how God rewards those who reject evil.
Quran 16:32 Koran 16:32 Verse 16:32 Ayah 16:32 Ayat 16:32 Aya 16:32 Those (souls) whom the angels take in death who are blameless (of wrong doing). They (the angels) say, “Peace is to you, Enter the Garden (of Paradise) because of what (good) you used to do.”
Quran 16:33 Koran 16:33 Verse 16:33 Ayah 16:33 Ayat 16:33 Aya 16:33 Do they (the disbelievers) wait for nothing but that the angels should come to them (at the time of their death to take their souls), or that there should come the command (for the end of the Earth and the Day of Resurrection and Judgement or of punishment in this life) from your Lord (God)? So did those before them (not also wait with disbelief?). And God did not wrong them, but they wronged themselves. – (Continued Quran 16:34).
Comment 1. Who were the people of the past?
See Quran 16:26 comment.
Quran 16:34 Koran 16:34 Verse 16:34 Ayah 16:34 Ayat 16:34 Aya 16:34 – So that the consequences of the evils that they did came to them and what they used to mock (when they mocked the belief in God then) surrounded them (when their time of death came and they could no longer escape from the judgement of God).
Quran 16:35 Koran 16:35 Verse 16:35 Ayah 16:35 Ayat 16:35 Aya 16:35 And the idol worshippers say, "If God had willed then we and our fathers would not have worshipped anyone but Him (God), nor would we have forbidden anything without (command from) Him (God)." So did those before them (not also say the same thing when the messengers of God came to them?). So then are the messengers (of God) sent for any purpose other than to clearly deliver the message (of God)?
Comment 1. What are the messengers of God?
What are the prophets of God?
The messengers of God clearly deliver the message of God.
The prophets of God clearly deliver the message of God.
Every prophet of God is “the Word of God made flesh” meaning the word of God comes out of the mouth of every prophet of God in Deuteronomy 18:18.
See Quran 5:116 comments in Quran chapter 5.
Comment 2. Who were the people of the past?
See Quran 16:26 comment.
Quran 16:36 Koran 16:36 Verse 16:36 Ayah 16:36 Ayat 16:36 Aya 16:36 And certainly We (God) sent into every nation a messenger, (saying), “Worship God and avoid the false deities.” Then some among them God guided (to God) and some of them were deservedly led astray (away from God). So travel on the earth and see (the Nabataean Thamud monuments such as the buildings carved into the mountain in Petra Raqmu Al-Batra in Jordan and the Nabataean Thamud monuments such as the buildings carved into the mountain south of Petra in Al-Hijr known earlier as Hegra in the Province of Al Madinah, Al-Hejaz, Saudi Arabia in Quran 7:74, Quran 15:82 and Quran 89:9 and the statues and the pyramids in Egypt that were made to false gods and which no people worship today and see) what happened in the end to the deniers (of belief in God the creator of every creation. Did the buildings in Petra Raqmu Al-Batra in Jordan and south of Petra in Al-Hijr known earlier as Hegra in the Province of Al Madinah, Al-Hejaz, Saudi Arabia and the statues and the pyramids in Egypt which no people worship today and which you can still see on the land today help them in Quran 7:78, Quran 15:83 – 15:84, and Quran 89:6 – 89:13? Those people and their offspring cannot be seen today. Indeed the Quran explains that such monuments have been left on the earth to confirm what God has revealed so protect the signs of God for every generation of humans see http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1293 )
Quran 16:37 Koran 16:37 Verse 16:37 Ayah 16:37 Ayat 16:37 Aya 16:37 Even if you (Prophet Muhammad) desire their correctly guidance, still God shall not guide the person whom He (God) makes to go astray. And they (who are misguided) shall have no helpers (in the Hereafter to save them from God’s punishment).
Comment 1. No one can guide the person that God sends astray.
See Apostasy in Islam.
In the Quran God ordered freedom of religious belief 1400 years before the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
However incorrect understanding of the Quran and the hadith can cause wrongful killing of people in the name of God and in the name of human hadith stories.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/apostasy-in-islam
Quran 16:38 Koran 16:38 Verse 16:38 Ayah 16:38 Ayat 16:38 Aya 16:38 And they (the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah Arabia) swear by God their strongest oaths (that) God shall not raise the one who dies (back to life). Yes (God shall), it is a true promise from Him (God), but most people do not know (that they shall be resurrected from death back to life). – (Continued Quran 16:39).
Comment 1. In the Quran what is the truth?
In the Koran what is the truth?
What is the truth?
Truth means these are not invented stories.
Truth means these are the stories inspired by belief in God.
Truth means these stories can be found in the Books of God, the Torah Taurat Jewish Bible and/or the Gospel Injil Christian Bible and/or other inspired writings.
Quran 12:111 Verse 12:111 "... It (the Quran) is not an invented story but it is a confirmation of what came before it (in the Scriptures of the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil) ..."
Quran 26:196 Verse 26:196 It (the revelations from God in the Quran) is (also) in the Scriptures of the people of the past (in the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil).
Quran 41:43 Verse 41:43 Nothing is said (by God) to you (Prophet Muhammad) except what has already been said to the messengers before you. Your Lord (God) is the possessor of forgiveness and severe punishment.
See 1. God protects the Quran, Gospel Injil and the Torah Taurat as proof God is real.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/god-protects-the-torah-gospel-and-koran
Quran 16:39 Koran 16:39 Verse 16:39 Ayah 16:39 Ayat 16:39 Aya 16:39 – (In the hereafter) He (God) will show them the truth of where they differ (in their beliefs about God) and those who disbelieved (in God) will know that they were mistaken (in their belief).
Comment 1. Only God has the power to hear prayer.
Quran 4:116 Verse 4:116 God does not forgive (the sin of) setting up partners (such as mistakenly praying to the people that God created such as sons or saints or mistakenly praying to the things that God has created such as wooden or stone idols) in worship instead of (correctly praying only to) Him (God who is the creator of every creation. Only God the one creator has the power to hear human prayer. All creations such as sons, saints and other idols cannot hear prayer because only God who is the creator of everything has the power to hear prayer) but He (God) forgives the sins that are less than that (forgives the sins that are less sinful than the great sin of praying to anything except God) to whom He (God) pleases. Whoever sets up partners (by praying to sons, saints and idols) in worship with God has indeed strayed far away (from God).
1a. In the Gospel Jesus said he is not God.
In the Gospel Isa said he is not God.
In the Injil Jesus Isa said he is not God.
Gospel of Matthew 23:9 And call no one on earth your father (God), because there is only one father (God) for you, the heavenly one.
Note 1. God is not in one place but to show that Jesus Isa who is speaking on the Earth is not God the expression God in heaven is used.
1b. Jesus warned people not to pray to Jesus.
Isa warned people not to pray to Isa.
Gospel of John 14:13 (God through the Holy Spirit angel Gabriel Jibril revealed to the heart of Jesus Isa that) Indeed, whatever you (the disciples of Jesus Isa) shall request (of God) in my name (Jesus Isa, when a human says “I pray to God in the name of Jesus Isa who is the messenger of God”), this I (God, the Holy Spirit angel Gabriel Jibril reveals to Jesus Isa that God) will do, so that the Father (God) may be glorified (honoured) in the Son (the servant Jesus Isa, by granting the request every time a disciple of Jesus Isa asks God in the name of Jesus Isa to grant a miracle as a sign of the existence of God and as a sign of the truthfulness of Jesus Isa and as a sign of the truthfulness of the disciples of Jesus Isa who will continue the work of Jesus Isa on the Earth).
Gospel of John 14:14 (God through the Holy Spirit angel Gabriel Jibril revealed to the heart of Jesus Isa that) if you (the disciples of Jesus Isa) ask me (God, the Holy Spirit angel Gabriel Jibril reveals to Jesus Isa that if you ask God) for something in my name (Jesus Isa, when a human says “I pray to God in the name of Jesus Isa who is the messenger of God”), I (God) will do it.
Gospel of John 14:15 "If you love me (Jesus Isa the messenger of God), you will keep my commandments (revealed by God through the Holy Spirit angel Gabriel Jibril to the heart of Jesus Isa).
Gospel of John 14:16 And I (Jesus Isa the messenger of God) will ask the Father (God, what God has decreed), and he (God, answered Jesus Isa through the Holy Spirit that God) will give you (humans) another Counselor (another Comforter, another prophet messenger so), that he (the guidance of that comforter, counsellor, messenger) may be ever (forever, through what that next messenger reveals, be left) with you (humans, this is forever because that prophet will be the last messenger of God),
Gospel of Luke 24:19 “… Jesus Isa the Nazarene, who was a prophet powerful in deed and in word, in the eyes of both God and all the people;
Note 1. All pray goes to God not to the prophets of God.
Note 2. All pray goes to God not to the messengers of God.
Note 3. All pray goes to God not to dead people.
Note 4. All pray goes to God not to dead saints (dead righteous people).
Gospel of John 14:28 "You heard how I (Jesus Isa) said to you (the disciples of Jesus Isa), 'I (Jesus Isa) am going away, and will be coming to you (the disciples of Jesus Isa).' If you (the disciples of Jesus Isa) loved me (Jesus Isa the messenger of God), you would rejoice that I (Jesus Isa) am going to the Father (God), for the Father (God) is greater than I (Jesus Isa, because God is the creator and Jesus Isa is a created human).
Note 1. Jesus Isa is not God because God is greater than Jesus Isa.
Note 2. Jesus Isa is not God because God created Jesus Isa.
1c. Jesus Isa was created by God without a father like God created Eve Hawa without a mother and like God created Adam without a father and without a mother.
Gospel of John 1:1 In the beginning (before anything was created) was the Word (which God had decreed), and the Word (which God had decreed) was with God, and the Word (which God had decreed) was God (meaning everything is decreed by God).
Note 1. Before anything was created God already existed.
Note 2. Before anything was created God had decreed the past and the present and the future.
Gospel of John 1:2 He (meaning everything that God had decreed) was with God in the beginning (meaning God decreed the past and the present and the future before anything was created).
Note 1. Before anything was created God had decreed the past and the present and the future.
Note 2. The decree of the past present and future for every creation was with God in the beginning.
Gospel of John 1:3 Through him (God) all things were made, and without him (God) not one thing was made that has been made.
Note 1. There is not one creation that God has not created therefore God created every creation including the Holy Spirit angel Gabriel Jibril and Jesus Isa who is a human and a prophet who foretells the future and a messenger who delivers the Gospel Injil and a messiah anointed as a righteous servant of God.
Comment 2. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat and explains the story of Jesus in the Gospel Injil.
See Quran 16:21 comments.
Quran 16:40 Koran 16:40 Verse 16:40 Ayah 16:40 Ayat 16:40 Aya 16:40 Whatever We (God) will (to happen), We (God) say the word, “Be (created, decreed to happen)”, and it is (done, created, fulfilled without failure, decreed).
Quran 16:41 Koran 16:41 Verse 16:41 Ayah 16:41 Ayat 16:41 Aya 16:41 And as for those (believers) who emigrated for the cause of God (away from their homes in Mecca Makkah Arabia) after suffering oppression (from the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah only because the Muslims said they believed in God and refused to return to stone idol worship), We (God) shall certainly settle (those that emigrated out of Mecca Makkah) in a good place in this world (which is in Yathrib Arabia later known as Medina Arabia today known as Madinah in Saudi Arabia), but indeed the reward of the Hereafter shall be greater, if they only knew (how much greater shall be their reward in Paradise). – (Continued Quran 16:42).
Comment 1. Quran 16:110 Verse 16:110 Your Lord (God) is indeed forgiving and merciful to those who emigrated (away from their homes in Mecca Makkah Arabia) after they had been persecuted (by the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia only because the Muslims said they believed in God and refused to return to stone idol worship) and then afterwards fought (in the cause of God) and were patient (in their trust in God).
Quran 16:42 Koran 16:42 Verse 16:42 Ayah 16:42 Ayat 16:42 Aya 16:42 – (They are) those who remained patient and put their trust in their Lord (God).
Quran 16:43 Koran 16:43 Verse 16:43 Ayah 16:43 Ayat 16:43 Aya 16:43 And We (God) did not sent (as God’s messengers) before you (Prophet Muhammad) anyone but humans whom We (God) inspired (to invite humans to believe in God who is the One creator of everything). So ask of those (knowledgeable Jews and Christians) who know the Scripture (of Prophet Moses Musa in the Torah Taurat and of Prophet Jesus Isa in the Gospel Injil), if you (the people of Mecca Makkah) do not know (that God makes revelation through a human messenger).
Comment 1. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat and explains the story of Jesus in the Gospel Injil.
See Quran 16:21 comments.
Quran 16:44 Koran 16:44 Verse 16:44 Ayah 16:44 Ayat 16:44 Aya 16:44 (God sent God’s messengers) with clear signs (of their truthfulness) and the scriptures (of Prophet Moses Musa with the Torah Taurat and Prophet Jesus Isa with the Gospel Injil). And We (God) revealed to you (Prophet Muhammad) the message (of God in the Quran) so that you may clearly explain to humans what is sent down to them so that they might think (about it).
Comment 1. See Quran 16:43 comments.
Quran 16:45 Koran 16:45 Verse 16:45 Ayah 16:45 Ayat 16:45 Aya 16:45 Do those who plan evil deeds feel secure that God shall not cause the earth to swallow them or that punishment (from God) shall not come on them from where they do not know (suddenly and unexpectedly}?
Comment 1. Punishment from God suddenly and unexpectedly.
Torah Deuteronomy 18:20 But a prophet that shall speak a word presumptuously (meaning speaking for himself and not for God) in My name (in the name of God), which I have not commanded him (the prophet) to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
Quran 69:43 Verse 69:43 (The Quran is) a revelation from the Lord of the Worlds (of humans and jinn).
Quran 69:44 Verse 69:44 And if he (Prophet Muhammad) were to invent any sayings in Our (God’s) name,
Quran 69:45 Verse 69:45 We (God) would have seized him (Prophet Muhammad) by the right hand -
Quran 69:46 Verse 69:46 And We (God revealed to Prophet Muhammad by the Holy Ghost Angel Gabriel Jibril) would have cut off his (Prophet Muhammad’s) Aorta (the artery of his heart and given him death).
Note 1. Cutting the Aorta results in immediate death so the death God gives to a false prophet is sudden and immediate and unexpected).
Note 2. Prophet Muhammad died a natural death.
Note 3. Prophet Muhammad did not die from a sudden unexpected immediate death.
Quran 69:47 Verse 69:47 And not one of you (humans) could have prevented Us (God revealed to Prophet Muhammad by the Holy Spirit Angel Gabriel Jibril) from (punishing) him (Prophet Muhammad).
Quran 16:46 Koran 16:46 Verse 16:46 Ayah 16:46 Ayat 16:46 Aya 16:46 Or (do the evil doers think) that He (God) shall not seize them when they are going here or there so that there is no escape for them (from God’s punishment)?
Quran 16:47 Koran 16:47 Verse 16:47 Ayah 16:47 Ayat 16:47 Aya 16:47 Or that He (God) shall not seize them (who do evil) to suffer a gradual loss? Your Lord (God) is full of kindness and merciful (to those who ask for forgiveness).
Quran 16:48 Koran 16:48 Verse 16:48 Ayah 16:48 Ayat 16:48 Aya 16:48 Have they (the humans) not thought about the things that God has created and how their shadows slant to the right and to the left, making prostration to God while they (everything that God has created) are humble (to God who is their creator)?
Quran 16:49 Koran 16:49 Verse 16:49 Ayah 16:49 Ayat 16:49 Aya 16:49 And whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth of living creatures and the angels (all) prostrate (bend down, submit) to (the will of) God and they (all the angels) are not proud (not arrogant by thinking that they are superior to the will of God). – (Continued Quran 16:50).
Quran 16:50 Koran 16:50 Verse 16:50 Ayah 16:50 Ayat 16:50 Aya 16:50 – They (who believe in God) fear their Lord (God) above them and they do what they are commanded.
Quran 16:51 Koran 16:51 Verse 16:51 Ayah 16:51 Ayat 16:51 Aya 16:51 God has said, “Do not worship two gods (meaning, do not pray to anyone but God). There is only One God. So fear only Me (God).”
Quran 16:52 Koran 16:52 Verse 16:52 Ayah 16:52 Ayat 16:52 Aya 16:52 To Him (God) belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth and to Him (God) is due constant worship. Shall you then fear anyone other than God?
Quran 16:53 Koran 16:53 Verse 16:53 Ayah 16:53 Ayat 16:53 Aya 16:53 And whatever blessing (favour, good things) you have, it is from God. Then, when misfortune comes to you, to Him (God) you cry for help.
Quran 16:54 Koran 16:54 Verse 16:54 Ayah 16:54 Ayat 16:54 Aya 16:54 And after, when He (God) has removed the misfortune from you then some of you (people in Mecca Makkah Arabia) attribute (stone idols as) partners with your Lord (God, by praying to thank stone idols instead of praying to thank God). – (Continued Quran 16:55).
Quran 16:55 Koran 16:55 Verse 16:55 Ayah 16:55 Ayat 16:55 Aya 16:55 – So (by praying to stone idols) they deny what We (God) have given them. Then enjoy (the short) life (on the earth), for you shall come to know (the truth of the evil you did in the Hereafter).
Quran 16:56 Koran 16:56 Verse 16:56 Ayah 16:56 Ayat 16:56 Aya 16:56 And they (the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia) assign a portion of what We (God) have provided them (the people of Mecca Makkah) to what they (the stone idols) do not know (by giving thanks in prayer to idols that gave them nothing). By (the truth from) God, you (stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah) shall certainly be questioned (in the Hereafter) about what you used to invent (by praying to stone idols instead of praying to God).
Comment 1. The sin of idol worship.
The sin of idol worship is praying to idols instead of praying to God.
The sin of idol worship is praying to a creation instead of praying to God who created every creation.
Gospel of Matthew 23:9 And call no one on earth your father (God), because there is only one father (God) for you, the heavenly one.
Note 1. God is not in one place but to show that Jesus Isa who is speaking on the Earth is not God the expression God in heaven is used.
1a. What does Father mean?
God is the father of every creation.
Every creation is a servant of God.
Son of God means believer in God.
Children of God means believers in God.
God in the Quran warned 1400 years ago against misunderstanding the word son of God to mean anything other than a servant of God.
Quran 19:93 verse 19:93 There is no one in the heavens and the earth who does not come to the Most Merciful (God) except as a servant.
Comment 2. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat and explains the story of Jesus in the Gospel Injil.
See Quran 16:21 comments.
Quran 16:57 Koran 16:57 Verse 16:57 Ayah 16:57 Ayat 16:57 Aya 16:57 And they (the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia) assign daughters to God the glorious (by saying that angels are God’s daughters because the idol worshipping people do not want female babies, they want to return their new born daughters to God), but for themselves (the idol worshipping people assign) what they desire (which is male babies, sons). – (Continued Quran 16:58).
Quran 16:58 Koran 16:58 Verse 16:58 Ayah 16:58 Ayat 16:58 Aya 16:58 – And if one of them (of the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia) receives news of the birth of a female (baby daughter), their face becomes dark (they are not happy) and they feel sad (because the baby is not a son). – (Continued Quran 16:59).
Quran 16:59 Koran 16:59 Verse 16:59 Ayah 16:59 Ayat 16:59 Aya 16:59 They (the stone idol worshipper of Mecca Makkah Arabia) hide them self from the people because of the bad news (of the birth of a female baby, asking them self), Shall I keep (the female baby) in humiliation or bury it (alive) in the ground. Their judgment (to bury alive unwanted female babies) is truly evil.
Comment 1. On the day of Judgement the innocent shall testify against their killer.
Quran 17:40 Verse 17:40 Has your Lord (God) preferred for you (the idol worshippers of Mecca Arabia today Makkah Saudi Arabia) sons (whom you desire), and then (while you hate to have daughters you say that God has) taken (adopted) for Himself daughters from among the angels. Certainly what you say is a terrible saying (against God).
Quran 53:23 Verse 53:23 They (your stone idol gods named Lat and Uzza and Manat) are only names that you have named, you and your fathers and for which God has sent no authority (for you to do). They (the stone idol worshippers in Makkah) follow only speculation and their desire (for their children to be born male). Now guidance from their Lord (God) has come to them (the stone idol worshippers in Makkah Arabia forbidding the killing of new born female babies who they bury alive as an offering to their stone idols).
Quran 81:9 Verse 81:9 “For what crime were you (the baby girl) killed? (The baby girl shall say in the hereafter, “They killed me on the earth without a just reason”).
Quran 16:60 Koran 16:60 Verse 16:60 Ayah 16:60 Ayat 16:60 Aya 16:60 Those (stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia) who do not believe in the Hereafter set the worst examples (in life), while to God belong the highest (the best) examples (in life). He (God) is the all mighty and the wisest.
Comment 1. The behavour of stone idol worshippers and Muslims.
See Quran 16:59
Quran 16:61 Koran 16:61 Verse 16:61 Ayah 16:61 Ayat 16:61 Aya 16:61 If God were to impose blame on the people (the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia) for their wrongdoing then He (God) would not have left any creature (on the earth) but He (God) defers them to a predetermined time, and when their time comes they cannot delay (that time by even) an hour nor (can they) advance (it so that it comes quickly to them).
Quran 16:62 Koran 16:62 Verse 16:62 Ayah 16:62 Ayat 16:62 Aya 16:62 And they (stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia) assign to God what they dislike (when they say God has daughters because the stone idol worshippers dislike having daughters) and they say falsely that the better portion belongs to them (when they say God does not need the animals they offer in worship to God and so they take the best ones back for themselves). Certainly for them is the Fire (of Hell in the Hereafter) and they shall be the first to go into it.
Comment 1. Those that tells lies about God will be the first to enter Hell in the Hereafter.
Note 1. Quran 17:60 Verse 17:60 “.... We (God) warn (people to do what is good and avoid what is evil) and make them afraid (of God by describing the home for evil doers in Hell Fire in the Hereafter) but it only increases them (some of the humans) in nothing but greater disobedience against God (and the commandment to do what is good and avoid what is evil).
Quran 16:63 Koran 16:63 Verse 16:63 Ayah 16:63 Ayat 16:63 Aya 16:63 By (the truth from) God, We (God) certainly sent messengers to the communities before you (Prophet Muhammad) but Satan Shaitan made their (evil) deeds seem attractive to them (communities in the past). So he (Satan Shaitan) is (for the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia) their ally today, and theirs shall be a painful punishment (in the Hereafter).
Quran 16:64 Koran 16:64 Verse 16:64 Ayah 16:64 Ayat 16:64 Aya 16:64 And We (God) have revealed the Scripture to you (Prophet Muhammad) only so that you may explain it to them (the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah) to show them where they differ (in what they do compared to what God in the scripture commands them to do) and as a guidance and a mercy for people (the Jews, Christians, Muslims and others) who believe (in God).
Quran 16:65 Koran 16:65 Verse 16:65 Ayah 16:65 Ayat 16:65 Aya 16:65 God sends down rain from the sky and it gives life to the earth after it (the earth) had been lifeless (without life). In this is indeed a sign (of God) for people who listen.
Quran 16:66 Koran 16:66 Verse 16:66 Ayah 16:66 Ayat 16:66 Aya 16:66 And surely in the cattle there is a lesson for you; We (God) give you drink (the milk) that is in their bellies and from between the excretion and the blood comes pure milk that is palatable to those who drink it.
Quran 16:67 Koran 16:67 Verse 16:67 Ayah 16:67 Ayat 16:67 Aya 16:67 And of the fruits of the date-palm and grapes from which you obtain strong (alcoholic) drink and (also) good nourishment. In those is indeed a sign (of God) for people who have understanding.
Note 1. Quran 16:67 was revealed before the later prohibition on the drinking of alcoholic drinks.
Quran 16:68 Koran 16:68 Verse 16:68 Ayah 16:68 Ayat 16:68 Aya 16:68 And your Lord (God) inspired the bee, saying: Construct your homes (bee hives) on trees in the mountains.
Quran 16:69 Koran 16:69 Verse 16:69 Ayah 16:69 Ayat 16:69 Aya 16:69 Then eat from all the fruits (made available for bees), and follow the ways that your Lord (God) laid down (for bees). There comes from their bellies a drink (honey) of various colours in which there is healing for people. In that is indeed a sign (of God) for people who think (about it).
Quran 16:70 Koran 16:70 Verse 16:70 Ayah 16:70 Ayat 16:70 Aya 16:70 And God created you and then causes you to die. And among you is the person who goes back to the most decrepit (old) age so that that person knows nothing after (having had) knowledge (when they were younger). God is all-knowing and all-powerful.
Quran 16:71 Koran 16:71 Verse 16:71 Ayah 16:71 Ayat 16:71 Aya 16:71 And God has favoured some of you above others in provisions (that are given to you). Now those who are more favoured (because they are given more) do not give their provisions (their wealth) to those whom they legally possess (as servants) so that they (their servants) may be equal with them (in wealth). (Just as the master does not consider his possessions (the servant) as equal to him how can a creation consider itself equal to God by denying God who is the owner of all creation?). Is it then the grace of God (that is given by God to sustain all of creation) that they (the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia) deny?
Comment 1. A creation cannot be equal to the creator.
Gospel of Matthew 23:9 And call no one on earth your father (God), because there is only one father (God) for you, the heavenly one.
Note 1. God is not in one place but to show that Jesus Isa who is speaking on the Earth is not God the expression God in heaven is used.
1a. What does Father mean?
God is the father of every creation.
Every creation is a servant of God.
Son of God means believer in God.
Children of God means believers in God.
God in the Quran warned 1400 years ago against misunderstanding the word son of God to mean anything other than a servant of God.
Quran 19:93 verse 19:93 There is no one in the heavens and the earth who does not come to the Most Merciful (God) except as a servant.
Gospel of John 14:28 "You heard how I (Jesus Isa) said to you (the disciples of Jesus Isa), 'I (Jesus Isa) am going away, and will be coming to you (the disciples of Jesus Isa).' If you (the disciples of Jesus Isa) loved me (Jesus Isa the messenger of God), you would rejoice that I (Jesus Isa) am going to the Father (God), for the Father (God) is greater than I (Jesus Isa, because God is the creator and Jesus Isa is a created human).
Note 1. Jesus Isa is not God because God is greater than Jesus Isa.
Note 2. Jesus Isa is not God because God created Jesus Isa.
1b. Jesus Isa was created by God without a father like God created Eve Hawa without a mother and like God created Adam without a father and without a mother.
Gospel of John 1:1 In the beginning (before anything was created) was the Word (which God had decreed), and the Word (which God had decreed) was with God, and the Word (which God had decreed) was God (meaning everything is decreed by God).
Note 1. Before anything was created God already existed.
Note 2. Before anything was created God had decreed the past and the present and the future.
Gospel of John 1:2 He (meaning everything that God had decreed) was with God in the beginning (meaning God decreed the past and the present and the future before anything was created).
Note 1. Before anything was created God had decreed the past and the present and the future.
Note 2. The decree of the past present and future for every creation was with God in the beginning.
Gospel of John 1:3 Through him (God) all things were made, and without him (God) not one thing was made that has been made.
Note 1. There is not one creation that God has not created therefore God created every creation including the Holy Spirit angel Gabriel Jibr
il and Jesus Isa who is a human and a prophet who foretells the future and a messenger who delivers the Gospel Injil and a messiah anointed as a righteous servant of God.
Comment 2. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat and explains the story of Jesus in the Gospel Injil.
See Quran 16:21 comments.
Quran 16:72 Koran 16:72 Verse 16:72 Ayah 16:72 Ayat 16:72 Aya 16:72 And God has made for you (humans) from yourselves (Adam and Eve Hawa) spouses (husband and wives) and made for you from your spouses sons and grandsons, and has provided for you from the good things. Then is it that in the things that are false (such as the stone idols) they believe but in the grace of God (that is given by God to sustain all of creation) they (the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia) disbelieve?
Quran 16:73 Koran 16:73 Verse 16:73 Ayah 16:73 Ayat 16:73 Aya 16:73 Yet they (the people of Mecca Makkah Arabia) worship others (such as stone idols) who cannot provide any provision for them from the heavens or the earth nor do they have any power to do so.
Quran 16:74 Koran 16:74 Verse 16:74 Ayah 16:74 Ayat 16:74 Aya 16:74 Do not attribute (human or other) similarities (likeness) for God (because there is nothing comparable to God). God knows (all) but you do not know.
Quran 16:75 Koran 16:75 Verse 16:75 Ayah 16:75 Ayat 16:75 Aya 16:75 God gives an example (of two humans, one with faith in God and another without faith in God); (one is) a slave (with no faith in God) who has no control over anything and (the other) a human (with faith in God) to whom We (God) have bestowed a good provision from Us, and he (the human with faith) spends it (what God gave them) secretly and openly (in charity). Are they (the human with faith and the human without faith) equal (in their deeds)? (The answer is no). (All) praise is to God but most of them (the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia) do not know (God).
Comment 1. There is a difference between the life of a human and the deeds of a human.
Quran 16:75 Verse 16:75 ",,, Are they (the human with faith and the human without faith) equal (in their deeds)? ..."
Note 1. Human life.
Human life is sacred.
Life is sacred because it is created by God.
Note 2. Human deeds.
Human deeds are judged.
God shall judge the deeds of humans on the Day of Judgement.
On the day of Judgement the innocent shall testify against their killer.
Quran 81:9 Verse 81:9 “For what crime were you (the baby girl) killed? (The baby girl shall say in the hereafter, “They killed me on the earth without a just reason”).
1. The life of a human.
Whoever kills an innocent life has committed a terrible crime in the sight of God.
Quran 5:32 Verse 5:32 Ayah 5:32 From that time (humans were warned not to murder and) We (God) decreed on the children of Israel (through the inspiration of the teachers of the Jewish Talmud and confirmed for the Muslim in Quran 6:151) that whoever kills a soul (kills a life, kills a person) it is as if he has killed all of humankind (so that humans understand the great value and preciousness of one human life and to warn humans against the great evil of killing one human soul) unless it is in retaliation for murder or for misbehaviour in the land. And whoever saves it (saves a life, saves a soul, saves a person) it is as if he has saved all of humankind (so that humans understand the great value and preciousness of one human life and to teach humans the great goodness in the saving of one human soul). Our (God’s) messengers came to them (the children of Israel) with clear arguments but still after that many of them continued to commit great crimes (by killing humans unlawfully) in the land (so this is a message from God to the human not to commit the great crime of killing human life but instead to work to save human life).
Note 1. In the Judgment of God the saving of one human life is a great deed because in the Judgment of God it is like saving every human life on the earth.
Note 2. On the Day of Judgment whoever saved a life will be rewarded with a reward fitting for a person who had saved all humankind if God wills.
Note 3. On the Day of Judgment whoever destroyed a life will be punished with a punishment fitting for a person who had destroyed all humankind if God wills.
Note 4. Human life is equal in the sight of God. Those who save all human life are among the righteous if God wills.
Note 5. Human deeds are not equal in the sight of God. Those who do good deeds to all people are among the righteous if God wills.
Note 6. The saving of one life in this world no matter if that person is Muslim or non Muslim or the saving of one life by guiding a person to goodness so that they are successful in the hereafter is a great deed of goodness in the sight of God.
Note 7. Whoever kills a person it is a crime equal to killing all of mankind (Quran 5:32).
Note 8. Whoever saves a life has done a deed that is equal to saving all of mankind (Quran 5:32).
1a. Why is the life of a disbeliever very important?
Quran 9:6 Verse 9:6 And if any of the idol worshippers asks for your protection (because they do not want to fight Muslims), then (Prophet Muhammad) protect that person (the idol worshipper) so they may hear the Word of God and afterward take that person to their place of safety (to their home which is located with their people so that they might think about God). That (introduction to the word of God) is because they are a people who do not know (God).
Note 1. God orders the protection of disbelievers during fighting.
Muslims must protect stone idol worshippers who do not fight against them.
Muslims must protect all people both believers and disbelievers who do not fight against them.
Muslims must protect all civilians both believers and disbelievers because they are not fighting.
Note 2. God gives every human both the believer and the disbeliever a life time to discover the meaning of life.
The life of a disbeliever is very important because the disbeliever is given a life time to discover the purpose of life.
God forgives every sin including the sin of idol worship if humans ask for God’s forgiveness.
In Islam this life is very important because this life determines what shall happen in the hereafter.
Note 3. The life of a disbeliever is very important because while they have life they have the chance to find correct guidance.
Quran 5:8 Verse 5:8 “... do not let (your) hatred of a people make you act unjustly. Act justly, that is nearer to righteousness and fear God. God is aware of what you do.”
Quran 8:32 Verse 8:32 And they (the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah) said, “O God, If this is the truth from you then rain down stones on us or bring on us some painful punishment.”
Quran 8:33 Verse 8:33 But God would not punish them (the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah) while you (Prophet Muhammad) were with them, nor shall He (God) punish them while they (might) seek forgiveness.
1b. What is the purpose of life?
See Quran 44:38 comments in Quran chapter 44.
2. The deeds of humans.
The difference between humans is in their deeds.
2a. God has not ordered believers in God to kill disbelievers who are not fighting.
God has not ordered believers in God to kill men and women and children who are not fighting.
God has not ordered believers in God to kill journalists who are not fighting.
God has not ordered believers in God to kill humanitarian aid workers who are not fighting.
God has not ordered believers in God to kill people only because they disbelieve.
God has not ordered believers in God to kill civilians.
Quran 2:256 Verse 2:256 There is no compulsion in religion (meaning, religion must come voluntarily from the human heart and not from the fear of humans or by force) ..."
Quran 18:29 Verse 18:29 And say, “The truth (of the Quran) is from your Lord (God)" so whoever wishes let them believe and whoever wishes let them disbelieve. …”
a. Muslim mercy and forgiveness to the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah.
Prophet Muhammad takes Mecca Makkah without a fight and Prophet Muhammad tells the stone idol worshipers in Mecca Makkah "you are free."
When Prophet Muhammad captured Mecca Makkah without a fight Prophet Muhammad said to the people of Mecca Makkah you are free.
Prophet Muhammad had fought against stone idol worship and when he captured Mecca Makkah he said to the stone idol worshipers you are free.
b. Muslim mercy and forgiveness to the Christians in Jerusalem Al-Quds.
After a siege Saladin takes Jerusalem Al-Quds and Saladin tells the Christians in Jerusalem Al-Quds "you are free".
When the Christians captured Jerusalem Al-Quds there was a terrible loss of life.
When Saladin (Salah Ad-din Yusuf Ibn Ayyub) re-captured Jerusalem Al-Quds from the Christians he said "you are free."
c. Muslims invite the Jews to resettle in Jerusalem Al-Quds.
When Saladin recaptured Jerusalem Al-Quds Saladin invited the Jews to resettle in Jerusalem Al-Quds.
When the Christians captured Jerusalem Al-Quds the Jews were not welcome in Jerusalem Al-Quds.
When Saladin (Salah Ad-din Yusuf Ibn Ayyub) re-captured Jerusalem Al-Quds from the Christians Saladin invited the Jews to resettle in Jerusalem Al-Quds.
Quran 16:76 Koran 16:76 Verse 16:76 Ayah 16:76 Ayat 16:76 Aya 16:76 And God (also) gives this example (of two humans, one with faith in God and another without faith in God); Of the two humans, one of them is dumb (with no faith in God) and unable to do anything and he is a burden on his master so that wherever he sends him, he returns without any good (result). Is such a human equal with one (with faith in God) who follows justice and the straight path (of good behaviour)?
Comment 1. There is a difference between the life of a human and the deeds of a human.
See Quran 16:75 comment.
Quran 16:77 Koran 16:77 Verse 16:77 Ayah 16:77 Ayat 16:77 Aya 16:77 And to God belongs the unseen (knowledge) of the heavens and the earth (which is knowledge that is unknown to humans), The matter of the Hour (of the Day of Resurrection in the hereafter) will be like the blinking of an eye or even shorter (in time meaning it will come suddenly in one moment in time). God is able to do all things.
Comment 1. God has created other life of which humans have no knowledge.
Quran 36:36 Verse 36:36 Exalted is He (God) who created all the sexual pairs (of creatures) on the earth including them (the humans) and others (meaning, other life forms) which they (the humans) do not know about.
See Quran 16:8 comments.
Comment 2. Why is Jesus not God?
Why is Isa not God?
Why are stone idols not God?
Both Jesus Isa and stone idols do not know the time of the Day of Resurrection.
Jesus is not God because no one including Jesus knows the hour of the Day of Resurrection because only God knows.
Isa is not God because no one including Isa knows the hour of the Day of Resurrection because only God knows.
See Quran 16:21 comments.
Quran 16:78 Koran 16:78 Verse 16:78 Ayah 16:78 Ayat 16:78 Aya 16:78 And God has brought you from the wombs of your mothers (with you) knowing nothing and gave you hearing and sight and hearts (intelligence) so that maybe you might give thanks (to God).
Quran 16:79 Koran 16:79 Verse 16:79 Ayah 16:79 Ayat 16:79 Aya 16:79 Do they not see the birds held high in the sky? Nothing holds them up except God. Here surely are signs (of God) for people who believe.
Comment 1. Today God holds aircraft high in the sky.
Today God propels spacecraft from Earth into space.
See Quran 16:8 comments.
Quran 16:80 Koran 16:80 Verse 16:80 Ayah 16:80 Ayat 16:80 Aya 16:80 And God has given you homes to live in, and given you from the hides of animals tents that are convenient for days of travelling and camping, and from their wool, fur and hair you make domestic articles and goods that last a certain time.
Quran 16:81 Koran 16:81 Verse 16:81 Ayah 16:81 Ayat 16:81 Aya 16:81 And from what God has created He (God) has given you shade, and shelter in the mountains and cloths for protection from the heat, and coats (of armor) to protect you in battle. This is how He (God) gives His (God’s) favour (grace) to you so that you may be grateful to Him (God).
Quran 16:82 Koran 16:82 Verse 16:82 Ayah 16:82 Ayat 16:82 Aya 16:82 If they (the people of Mecca Makkah Arabia) turn away, then your duty (Prophet Muhammad) is only deliverance (of God’s message).
Comment 1. Later God would reveal the order to fight against the stone idol worshippers for their continuous persecution of the believers of God.
a. Muslim mercy and forgiveness to the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah.
Prophet Muhammad takes Mecca Makkah without a fight and Prophet Muhammad tells the stone idol worshipers in Mecca Makkah "you are free."
When Prophet Muhammad captured Mecca Makkah without a fight Prophet Muhammad said to the people of Mecca Makkah you are free.
Prophet Muhammad had fought against stone idol worship and when he captured Mecca Makkah he said to the stone idol worshipers you are free.
b. Muslim mercy and forgiveness to the Christians in Jerusalem Al-Quds.
After a siege Saladin takes Jerusalem Al-Quds and Saladin tells the Christians in Jerusalem Al-Quds "you are free".
When the Christians captured Jerusalem Al-Quds there was a terrible loss of life.
When Saladin (Salah Ad-din Yusuf Ibn Ayyub) re-captured Jerusalem Al-Quds from the Christians he said "you are free."
c. Muslims invite the Jews to resettle in Jerusalem Al-Quds.
When Saladin recaptured Jerusalem Al-Quds Saladin invited the Jews to resettle in Jerusalem Al-Quds.
When the Christians captured Jerusalem Al-Quds the Jews were not welcome in Jerusalem Al-Quds.
When Saladin (Salah Ad-din Yusuf Ibn Ayyub) re-captured Jerusalem Al-Quds from the Christians Saladin invited the Jews to resettle in Jerusalem Al-Quds.
Quran 16:83 Koran 16:83 Verse 16:83 Ayah 16:83 Ayat 16:83 Aya 16:83 They (the people of Mecca Makkah Arabia) recognise the favour of God and then deny it. Most of them are not grateful (to God because they disbelieve in God by their belief in stone idol worship).
Quran 16:84 Koran 16:84 Verse 16:84 Ayah 16:84 Ayat 16:84 Aya 16:84 And (mention Prophet Muhammad) the Day (The Day of Judgement) when We (God) raise up from each nation a witness (their messenger from God), then those who disbelieved shall not be allowed to make excuses nor shall they be allowed to (return to earth and) repent (for forgiveness).
Comment 1. In Quran 16:84 no forgiveness for idol worship is given in the Hereafter because anyone returned to earth would be returned with no knowledge of any promise they made in the Hereafter and they would repeat the sins they had made before. This is why any promise in the Hereafter to repent is a promise that cannot be fulfilled.
Quran 39:69 Verse 39:69 And the earth (meaning, the land in the hereafter) shall shine with the light of its Lord (God, when God shall come to judge men and women on the Day of Resurrection and Judgement) and the Book (of their good and bad deeds) shall be shown. (In the judgement of each person) the Prophets (the messenger of God in the time of that person or the messenger of God that the person claimed to follow) and the witnesses (the Holy angels including the Holy Spirit angel Gabriel Jibril and humans) shall be brought and it (the good and bad deeds of men and women) shall be judged between them (the Prophets and the witnesses and the Book of their good and bad deeds) with (the) truth (as God decreed) and they (those who are judged) shall not be wronged (by any incorrect judgement of what they did during their lifetime on the Earth).
Note 1. The prophet who is the messenger of God that each person claimed to follow or who lived during their time will be present at their judgement on the Day of Judgement.
1a. Why is Jesus Isa not returning to the Earth?
Why is Isa not returning to the Earth?
The second coming of Jesus and every other human is on the Day of Resurrection.
See Quran 79:7 comments in Quran chapter 79.
Quran 16:85 Koran 16:85 Verse 16:85 Ayah 16:85 Ayat 16:85 Aya 16:85 And when those (people of Mecca Makkah Arabia) who did wrong (by their stone idol worshipping) see the punishment (in the Hereafter) it (their punishment) shall not be reduced for them nor shall they be pardoned (of the sin of praying to someone other than God).
Comment 1. Since only God the creator has the power to hear prayer, prayer to anyone except God is to disbelieve in God and so it is a sin directly against God.
This is the reason why idol worship is not forgiven by God for those who died in the belief in idol worship.
The life of a disbeliever is very important because they are given a life time to find the meaning of life and ask God for forgiveness.
Disbelievers are forgiven by God if they ask God for forgiveness in this life.
Asking God for forgiveness in this life is a sign of belief in God.
See Quran 16:75 comments.
Quran 16:86 Koran 16:86 Verse 16:86 Ayah 16:86 Ayat 16:86 Aya 16:86 And when those who pray to others (to idols) instead of praying to God see (in the Hereafter) those (idols) to whom they prayed, they shall say, “Our Lord (God) these are those (idols) to whom we prayed instead of (praying to) You (God).” But they (the idols) shall reject what they say, saying “You are surely liars” (because only God the creator has the power to hear prayer and all things that God has created are a creation that have no power to hear prayer). – (Continued Quran 16:87)
Quran 16:87 Koran 16:87 Verse 16:87 Ayah 16:87 Ayat 16:87 Aya 16:87 – And on that Day (the Day of Judgement) they (who prayed to others instead of praying to God) shall submit (themselves openly to the reality) of God and all the things they use to invent (such as praying to anyone except God) shall have failed (to be of any help to) them (in the Hereafter).
Quran 16:88 Koran 16:88 Verse 16:88 Ayah 16:88 Ayat 16:88 Aya 16:88 For those who disbelieved and hindered (people) from the path of God, We (God) shall add more punishment to their punishment because they used to spread corruption (by disobeying God and ordering others to also disobey God).
Quran 16:89 Koran 16:89 Verse 16:89 Ayah 16:89 Ayat 16:89 Aya 16:89 And (mention) the Day (the Day of Resurrection) when We (God) shall resurrect among every nation a witness from their own people (their messenger from God, their prophet from God), and We (God) shall bring you (Prophet Muhammad) as a witness (on the Day of Resurrection and Judgement to your nation). And We (God) have reveal the Scripture (the Quran) to you (Prophet Muhammad) as an explanation of everything (necessary to understand God) and as guidance (in the affairs of humans) and as a mercy (to humans) and as good news (of resurrection after death and Paradise) for the Muslims (Muslim is an Arabic word meaning those who submit, to the will of God. Islam is an Arabic word meaning submission, to the will of God. Muslims submit to God in Quran 47:19 “…there is no God except God …” and Jews submit to God in Torah Exodus 20:2 “.... You shall have no other gods before Me God” and Christians submit to God in the Gospel of Jesus Isa by Luke 4:8 “… You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve” because God inspired the same belief in the one creator of every creation among many communities of God throughout history as explained in Quran 5:48 where God said He could have made humans to be one community of God but made more than one community of God and gave laws to each community of God and told them to strive for all that is good so that God can show who are the best in behaviour within and between the different communities of God such as the Jews and Christians and Muslims and others. God inspired submission which in Arabic is the word Islam in Prophet Noah Nuh in Quran 42:13, Prophet Abraham Ibrahim and his sons Prophet Ishmael Ismail and Prophet Isaac Ishaq in Quran 22:78, Prophet Moses Musa and Prophet Jesus Isa and Prophet Muhammad in Quran 42:13 and in all the other prophets and messengers of God in human history. Prophet Abraham Ibrahim was not a Jew or a Christian but a Muslim meaning he submitted to the will of God in Quran 3:67. Prophet Jesus Isa the Jew was Muslim meaning he submitted to the will of God when he was born to a Jewish mother Mary Maryam. Prophet Noah Nuh is Muslim in Quran 10:72, Prophet Abraham Ibrahim is Muslim in Quran 3:67, Prophet Lot Lut is Muslim in Quran 51:36, The Children of Israel are Muslims in the time of Prophet Joseph Yusuf in Quran 12:101, The Egyptian magicians are Muslims in the time of Prophet Moses Musa in Quran 7:126, The Pharaoh Firon while he is drowning in the Red Sea swears an oath that he is one of the Muslims in Quran 10:90, Jews are Muslims in the time of Prophet Moses Musa in Quran 10:84, Jews are Muslims in the time of Prophet Solomon Sulaiman in Quran 27:42, Jews are Muslims in the time of Prophet Jesus Isa in Quran 3:52 and Quran 5:111. Among the Jinn are Muslims in the time of Prophet Muhammad in Quran 72:14. The name Muslim applies to the new Muslims 1400 years ago and until the Day of Judgement and the meaning of Muslim which is “those who submit meaning those who submit to God” include the Jews and the Christians and others today and all humans in all times in the past and the present and the future until the Day of Judgement as confirmed in Quran 5:48 "And to you Prophet Muhammad We revealed the Scripture the Quran with the truth that confirmed the Scripture that was before it in the Gospel Injil and in the Torah Taurat and for you Prophet Muhammad to be a guardian over the Quran. So judge between them the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims by what God has revealed to you Prophet Muhammad and do not let their desires move you away from the truth that has come to you. For each community of Jews, Christians and Muslims God has appointed a divine law and a way of religion. If God willed He could have made you the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims one community. But God tests you the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims by what God has given you in the Torah Taurat and in the Gospel Injil and in the Koran Quran to show who is best in behaviour. So strive for all that is good. To God you shall all return and God shall then inform you in the Hereafter about the correctness of the religious matters in which you the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims argue among each other.").
Comment 1. The Quran explains everything necessary to understand God and is a guide for the affairs of humans.
Comment 2. If Jesus Isa is not God then what will be the role of Jesus Isa on the Day of Judgement?
What will be the role of Isa on the Day of Judgement?
What will be the role of Jesus on the Day of Judgment?
What will be the role of Isa on the Day of Judgment?
Quran 16:89 Verse 16:89 And (mention) the Day (the Day of Judgement) when We (God) shall resurrect among every nation a witness from their own people (their messenger from God, their prophet from God), ..."
Quran 39:69 Verse 39:69 And the earth (meaning, the land in the hereafter) shall shine with the light of its Lord (God, when God shall come to judge men and women on the Day of Resurrection and Judgement) and the Book (of their good and bad deeds) shall be shown. (In the judgement of each person) the Prophets (the messenger of God in the time of that person or the messenger of God that the person claimed to follow) and the witnesses (the Holy angels including the Holy Spirit angel Gabriel Jibril and humans) shall be brought and it (the good and bad deeds of men and women) shall be judged between them (the Prophets and the witnesses and the Book of their good and bad deeds) with (the) truth (as God decreed) and they (those who are judged) shall not be wronged (by any incorrect judgement of what they did during their lifetime on the Earth).
Note 1. The prophet who is the messenger of God that each person claimed to follow or who lived during their time will be present at their judgement on the Day of Judgement.
Quran 16:90 Koran 16:90 Verse 16:90 Ayah 16:90 Ayat 16:90 Aya 16:90 God orders justice and good conduct and giving (help) to relatives and forbids immorality and bad conduct and wickedness. He (God) warns you so that you may take notice.
Quran 16:91 Koran 16:91 Verse 16:91 Ayah 16:91 Ayat 16:91 Aya 16:91 Fulfill the covenant of God (the agreement made in the name of God) when you swear to it and do not break your oaths after you have confirmed them because you have made (the name of) God as your guarantee (and God as your witness that you shall honestly fulfill your agreement). God knows about everything that you do.
Comment 1. When you become a Muslim you swear your belief in the name of God.
Quran 2:256 Verse 2:256 There is no compulsion in religion (meaning, religion must come voluntarily from the human heart and not from the fear of humans or by force) ..."
Quran 18:29 Verse 18:29 And say, “The truth (of the Quran) is from your Lord (God)" so whoever wishes let them believe and whoever wishes let them disbelieve. …”
1a. When you become a Muslim it is God who decides if you remain a Muslim or if you return to disbelief.
Quran 9:51 Verse 9:51 Say, “Nothing happens to us except what God has decreed for us. He (God) is our protecting friend. In God let the believers put their trust.
1b. Punishment for losing belief in God comes from God not from humans.
In this life humans are free to believe in God or disbelieve in God until humans find their true belief.
God does not accept belief in Islam that is based on fear of other humans.
God only accepts belief in Islam that is based on the fear of God.
See Apostasy in Islam.
In the Quran God ordered freedom of religious belief 1400 years before the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
However incorrect understanding of the Quran and the hadith can cause wrongful killing of people in the name of God and in the name of human hadith stories.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/apostasy-in-islam
Quran 16:92 Koran 16:92 Verse 16:92 Ayah 16:92 Ayat 16:92 Aya 16:92 And do not be like the woman who untwists her threads after it was spun to be strong (meaning, do not break a treaty after you have given a strong oath in the name of God), like making oaths as (a way of) deceit among you because one community (of people) is more plentiful (in population or wealth) than another community (meaning, do not make strong oaths in the name of God and then break your oath for worldly concerns). God tests you by it (by how you keep your oath made in God’s name). And He (God) shall explain to you on the Day of Resurrection the things about which you differed (among each other).
Quran 16:93 Koran 16:93 Verse 16:93 Ayah 16:93 Ayat 16:93 Aya 16:93 If God had willed He (God) could have made all of you one religion but He (God) sends astray whom He (God) will and guides whom He (God) will, and (in the Hereafter) you shall be questioned about what you used to do (in the life that God gave to you).
Comment 1.
God has decreed that the people of the Earth will always have many religions (beliefs) and in the hereafter each human will be questioned about what they did with the life God gave to them.
Quran 16:94 Koran 16:94 Verse 16:94 Ayah 16:94 Ayat 16:94 Aya 16:94 And do not take your oaths (in the name of God) to make deceit between yourselves, in case a foot slips after it had been firmly placed so that you taste the evil (consequences in this world) for having diverted (humans away) from the path of God and you would have (in the Hereafter) a great punishment.
Quran 16:95 Koran 16:95 Verse 16:95 Ayah 16:95 Ayat 16:95 Aya 16:95 And do not exchange the price (meaning, the great value) of God’s covenant (agreements sworn in the name of God) for a small (worldly) gain. What God has is better for you (in the Hereafter) if only you could know (how much better it is).
Quran 16:96 Koran 16:96 Verse 16:96 Ayah 16:96 Ayat 16:96 Aya 16:96 What you have shall end and what is with God (of your good deeds) shall endure. And to those who are patient, We (God) shall surely reward them in proportion to the best of what they used to do.
Quran 16:97 Koran 16:97 Verse 16:97 Ayah 16:97 Ayat 16:97 Aya 16:97 Whoever works righteously whether male or female while he (or she) is a believer, We (God) shall give a good life (in this world) and We (God) shall give them their reward (in Paradise in the Hereafter) in proportion to the best of what they used to do (of good deeds in the life God gave to them).
Quran 16:98 Koran 16:98 Verse 16:98 Ayah 16:98 Ayat 16:98 Aya 16:98 So when you recite the Quran, (first) seek refuge in God from Satan Shaitan the accursed (who lost the mercy of God for his evil behavour and has God's promise of Hell Jahannam in the hereafter).
Comment 1. Satan Shaitan has a false belief in God because Satan Shaitan does not do good deeds.
Satan Shaitan is not going to Paradise Jannah because Satan Shaitan has a false belief in God.
Satan Shaitan believes in God but it is a false belief because Satan Shaitan does not do good deeds.
Satan Shaitan believes in the hereafter but that shall not save him from Hell Jahannam in the hereafter.
Quran 6:158 Verse 6:158 "... belief in it (God and the Day of Resurrection and Judgement) shall not help any soul …. if in belief (he or she) did not earn good (by doing righteous deeds in their life). ....”
Quran 41:8 Verse 41:8 “For those who believe and do good deeds, for them is an everlasting reward (in Paradise Jannah).”
Quran 16:99 Koran 16:99 Verse 16:99 Ayah 16:99 Ayat 16:99 Aya 16:99 He (Satan Shaitan) has no power over those who believe and who put trust in their Lord (God).
Quran 16:100 Koran 16:100 Verse 16:100 Ayah 16:100 Ayat 16:100 Aya 16:100 His (Satan’s Shaitan’s) power is only over those who make a friend of him (Satan Shaitan), and those who pray to creations instead of praying to Him (God, the creator and the only one with the power to hear prayer).
Quran 16:101 Koran 16:101 Verse 16:101 Ayah 16:101 Ayat 16:101 Aya 16:101 And when We (God) replace one verse (in the Quran) by another verse (meaning reveal verse after verse in the Quran about similar matters, these verses do not abrogate each other but together they add more details and understanding) and God knows best what He (God) should reveal, they (the stone idol worshippers in Makkah) say, “You (Prophet Muhammad) are an inventor (of the Quran and of verses because God would have revealed His command in one verse on one day because God needs no time to think instead of several verses on different days which a human would do because a human needs time to think).” But most of them (the stone idol worshippers of Makkah Arabia) do not understand (the way God reveals His verses which is explained in Quran 16:102).
Comment 1. Are there abrogated verses in the Quran?
Quran 16:101 - Quran 16:103 is addressing the accusations of the stone idol worshippers in Makkah who are claiming the Quran is invented by Prophet Muhammad and that another man is helping him.
The Quran was revealed verse after verse in public recitations and some verses are very similar with some small differences and to the ear of the stone idol worshippers sounded like one verse (heard on one day) replacing another verse (heard on another day).
For example
Quran 6:51 Koran 6:51 “… there is no protecting ally or intercessor except for Him (God) …”
Quran 20:109 Koran 20:109 “… there shall be no intercession except by him to whom the Most Merciful (God) has given permission and whose word He (God) has permitted (to be spoken).
Note 1. In this example the words spoken will be the words God has put into the mouth of a person or an angel meaning it does not contradict with what is reveled in Quran 6:51 which says all intercession comes from God.
Does one verse in the Quran abrogate another verse in the Quran?
Does one ayah in the Quran abrogate another ayah in the Quran?
Nasikh and Mansukh. Nasikh wal Mansukh.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/abrogation-in-the-koran
Quran 16:102 Koran 16:102 Verse 16:102 Ayah 16:102 Ayat 16:102 Aya 16:102 Say (Prophet Muhammad, to the people), “The Holy Spirit (Ruh Al-Qudus, Angel Gabriel Jibril) has descended it (meaning brought down from heaven the revelations in the Quran) from your Lord (God) with the truth, in order to strengthen (the faith of) those who believe and as a guidance and Good News to the Muslims (Muslim is an Arabic word meaning those who submit, to the will of God. Islam is an Arabic word meaning submission, to the will of God. Muslims submit to God in Quran 47:19 “…there is no God except God …” and Jews submit to God in Torah Exodus 20:2 “.... You shall have no other gods before Me God” and Christians submit to God in the Gospel of Jesus Isa by Luke 4:8 “… You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve” because God inspired the same belief in the one creator of every creation among many communities of God throughout history as explained in Quran 5:48 where God said He could have made humans to be one community of God but made more than one community of God and gave laws to each community of God and told them to strive for all that is good so that God can show who are the best in behaviour within and between the different communities of God such as the Jews and Christians and Muslims and others).
Comment 1. Who is the Spirit?
Who is the Holy Spirit?
Who is the Holy Ghost?
What is the Holy Spirit?
What is the Holy Ghost?
Who is the Spirit of inspiration?
Who is the Spirit of revelation?
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/who-is-the-holy-spirit
1a. The Spirit in the Koran is the same Spirit in the Gospel.
The Spirit in the Quran is the same Spirit in the Gospel.
The Spirit in the Quran is the same Spirit in the Injil.
See Quran 16:2 comments.
Comment 2. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat and explains the story of Jesus in the Gospel Injil.
See Quran 16:21 comments.
Quran 16:103 Koran 16:103 Verse 16:103 Ayah 16:103 Ayat 16:103 Aya 16:103 And We (God) know that they (the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Arabia today Makkah Saudi Arabia) say, “Only a man teaches him (Prophet Muhammad)”, but the speech of whom they suggest (when they say that a Christian blacksmith named Barbarous taught Prophet Muhammad the Quran forget that the Christian blacksmith’s language) is foreign (speech) while this (revelation, the Quran) is in clear Arabic speech (so if Prophet Muhammad is not a professional writer and the foreigner is not a native Arabic speaker then who revealed the clear Arabic verses? The answer is that the Quran came from the inspiration and revelations of God).
See 1. Quran 25:5 shows that the people of Makkah knew that Prophet Muhammad can read and write meaning the idea that Prophet Muhammad cannot read and write is not from God and not from Prophet Muhammad and not from the Quran but came from people who did not understand the meaning of lettered meaning educated in the scripture of God and unlettered meaning not educated in the scripture of God.
See Quran 25:5 comment in Quran chapter 25.
See 2. What does Ummi mean?
What does lettered and unlettered mean?
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/what-does-ummi-mean
See 3. Can Prophet Muhammad read and write?
Can Prophet Muhammad read?
Can Prophet Muhammad write?
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/can-prophet-muhammad-read-and-write
Quran 16:104 Koran 16:104 Verse 16:104 Ayah 16:104 Ayat 16:104 Aya 16:104 Those (the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia) who do not believe the revelations of God are not (rightly) guided by God, and for them shall be a painful punishment (in the Hereafter).
Quran 16:105 Koran 16:105 Verse 16:105 Ayah 16:105 Ayat 16:105 Aya 16:105 Those (the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia) who do not believe in God’s revelations only invent falsehood (with their belief in stone idols) and they tell lies (against God).
Quran 16:106 Koran 16:106 Verse 16:106 Ayah 16:106 Ayat 16:106 Aya 16:106 Whoever disbelieves (in God) except for the person who is forced (to declare disbelief in God against their will because of the threat of death from the stone idol worshippers in Makkah Arabia) but whose heart still has faith (in God they are forgiven for declaring disbelief in God). But whoever (willingly) disbelieves in God after they had believed on them is the wrath (anger) from God and for them is a great punishment (in the hereafter) – (Continued Quran 16:107).
Comment 1. Changing religion is punished or rewarded by God, not by humans.
Note 1. The Jew who disbelieves in God after they believed is punished in the hereafter.
Note 2. The Christian who disbelieves in God after they believed is punished in the hereafter.
Note 3. The Muslim who disbelieves in God after they believed is punished in the hereafter.
Note 4. Anyone who disbelieves in God after they believed is punished in the hereafter.
Note 5. Anyone who returns to belief because of a sincere belief before their death will find God forgiving because God is the one who determines who believes and when they believe.
See Quran 16:91 comments.
Quran 16:107 Koran 16:107 Verse 16:107 Ayah 16:107 Ayat 16:107 Aya 16:107 – because they have chosen the life of the world rather than the Hereafter and because God does not (rightly) guide the people who disbelieve (in God). – (Continued Quran 16:108).
Quran 16:108 Koran 16:108 Verse 16:108 Ayah 16:108 Ayat 16:108 Aya 16:108 – Those (who disbelieve in God) are the ones whose hearts and ears and eyes have been sealed by God and they are the ones that do not heed (the message from God).
Quran 16:109 Koran 16:109 Verse 16:109 Ayah 16:109 Ayat 16:109 Aya 16:109 Certainly they (who disbelieve in God) shall be the losers (of God’s mercy and the gainers of God’s punishment) in the Hereafter.
Quran 16:110 Koran 16:110 Verse 16:110 Ayah 16:110 Ayat 16:110 Aya 16:110 Your Lord (God) is indeed forgiving and merciful to those who emigrated (away from their homes in Mecca Makkah Arabia) after they had been persecuted (by the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia only because the Muslims said they believed in God and refused to return to stone idol worship) and then afterwards fought (in the cause of God) and were patient (in their trust in God).
Comment 1. Quran 16:41 Verse 16:41 And as for those (believers) who emigrated for the cause of God (away from their homes in Mecca Makkah Arabia) after suffering oppression (from the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah only because the Muslims said they believed in God and refused to return to stone idol worship), We (God) shall certainly settle (those that emigrated out of Mecca Makkah) in a good place in this world (which is in Yathrib Arabia later known as Medina Arabia today known as Madinah in Saudi Arabia), but indeed the reward of the Hereafter shall be greater, if they only knew (how much greater shall be their reward in Paradise).
Comment 2. Those who do not understand that the Quran has verses of history that include history about fighting translate the Quran as if those commands are for me and you to fight today.
No those are not commands for me and you to fight today.
They are commands given by God to Prophet Muhammad addressed to those people who lived in the time of the prophet 1400 years ago.
We need to know that the verses about fighting are connected to issues that occurred in history.
See Quran 9:5 comment in Quran chapter 9.
Quran 16:111 Koran 16:111 Verse 16:111 Ayah 16:111 Ayat 16:111 Aya 16:111 The Day (of Judgement) will come when every soul will plead (for mercy) for itself and every soul shall be paid in full (in reward or in punishment) for what it did (in their life), and they shall not be wronged (by injustice in the hereafter).
Quran 16:112 Koran 16:112 Verse 16:112 Ayah 16:112 Ayat 16:112 Aya 16:112 God gives an example; (Imagine) a town that was safe and secure with abundant provisions coming to it from every location, but it (the people) denied the favours of God (by praying to thank stone idols instead of praying to thank God who is the only one with the power to hear prayer). So God made them taste hunger and fear (of starvation) because of that (evil of stone idol worship) which they (its people) used to do (even after receiving warnings from God’s messenger).
Quran 16:113 Koran 16:113 Verse 16:113 Ayah 16:113 Ayat 16:113 Aya 16:113 And certainly there had come to them (the people of that town) a messenger from among them, but they rejected him and so the punishment (of God, the famine) took them while they were wrongdoers.
Quran 16:114 Koran 16:114 Verse 16:114 Ayah 16:114 Ayat 16:114 Aya 16:114 Eat the lawful and good food which God has provided for you and be thankful for the favour (grace) of God if indeed you worship Him (God).
Quran 16:115 Koran 16:115 Verse 16:115 Ayah 16:115 Ayat 16:115 Aya 16:115 He (God) has forbidden for you only (the eating of) carrion (creatures found dead) and blood and swine (pig) and whatever has been slaughtered in the name of anyone other than God. But whoever is forced (by necessity such as hunger which is) neither by desire nor for transgressing (the law) then God is forgiving and merciful.
Quran 16:116 Koran 16:116 Verse 16:116 Ayah 16:116 Ayat 16:116 Aya 16:116 And do not say falsely with your own tongues, "This is lawful (allowed) and this is unlawful (forbidden)," so that you invent a lie against God (by saying something that God did not say). Those who invent a lie against God shall not succeed (in the Hereafter).
Comment 1. Music in Islam.
1. Music, singing, musical instruments are not prohibited in Islam.
Music in Islam is not prohibited by God in the Koran Quran or the Gospel Injil or the Torah Taurat.
The Psalms Zabur of David Dawud are sung with string musical instruments.
Singing and Music are a wonderful gift from God.
To tell a human not to enjoy music or singing is like telling a bird not to enjoy singing.
Prophet Muhammad teaches us to be moderate in our behaviour in all things including music and singing.
Bukhari, Book 15, Hadith 70 is narrated by Aisha (the wife of Prophet Muhammad) who said that, “Prophet Muhammad came to my house while two girls were singing beside me the songs of Buath (a story about the war between the two tribes of the Ansar, the Khazraj and the Aus, before the time of Islam).
Prophet Muhammad lay down and turned his face to the other side.
Then Abu Bakr came and spoke to me (Aisha, the wife of Prophet Muhammad) harshly saying, "musical instruments of Satan Shaitan near the Prophet?"
Prophet Muhammad turned his face towards him (Abu Bakr) and said (to Abu Bakr), "Leave them (alone)."
When Abu Bakr became inattentive, I (Aisha, the wife of Prophet Muhammad) signaled to those girls to go out and they left.
It was the day of 'Id, and the Black people were playing with shields and spears; so either I (Aisha) requested the Prophet Muhammad or he (Prophet Muhammad) asked me whether I would like to see the display. I replied “Yes”.
Then Prophet Muhammad made me stand behind him and my cheek was touching his cheek and he was saying, "Carry on! O Bani Arfida," until I got tired.
Prophet Muhammad asked me, "Are you satisfied (Is that sufficient for you)?" I replied “Yes” and he told me to leave.
2. Musical notes and the alphabet are the same thing.
There is no sin in the alphabet A to Z in the same way as there is no sin in each musical note.
There is no sin in the notes of music in the same way as there is no sin in the alphabet A to Z.
3. Singing and speech are the same thing.
Good speech is the same as good singing.
There is no sin in good singing in the same way as there is no sin in good speech.
Bad speech is the same as bad singing.
There is sin in bad singing in the same way as there is sin in bad speech.
4. Music and singing is a gift from God to humans.
Quran 5:87 Verse 5:87 All you who have faith (in God), do not forbid the good things (like music and singing) that God has made lawful for you and do not break the law. God does not love law breakers.
Quran 55:32 Verse 55:32 So which of the favours of your Lord (God) do you deny (is a favour from God to you)?
Video 1: Malaki brings them to tears then to their feet and back to tears because singing and music is a gift from God that the ear can hear and the heart can feel and the eyes can see:
Complete https://www.facebook.com/watch/?extid=SEO----&v=350744421799862
Complete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGUPYjhraK8
Shorter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt6-q5kwMr4
Video 2: Amira Willighagen - O Mio Babbino Caro - for English-speaking viewers
singing and music is a gift from God that the ear can hear and the heart can feel and the eyes can see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDqTBlKU4CE
Video 3: Kasey Chambers sings Is God Real?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rh62aWp5Ow
5. God does not forbid musical instruments, singing and music in Islam.
Do not say falsely with your own tongues, "This is lawful (allowed) and this is unlawful (forbidden)”.
Some people ask if things like Music are prohibited in Islam even though Music is not prohibited in God’s Quran.
Quran 5:101 Verse 5:101 All you who have faith (in God), do not ask about things that (have not been revealed because) if they were made known they might be a burden to you. But if you ask questions when the Quran is being revealed then they shall be answered. God gives his pardon for (those that did) this (before this revelation came to them). God is forgiving and tolerant.
6. Some people say Music is prohibited even though God has not prohibited music in God’s Quran.
Quran 5:87 Verse 5:87 All you who have faith (in God), do not forbid the good things (like beliefs, deeds, food, things, persons etc) that God has made lawful for you and do not break the law. God does not love law breakers.
7. Those that say God forbids music in Islam when God has made no such prohibition in God’s Quran.
Quran 6:21 Verse 6:21 And who commits a greater sin than the person who invents a lie against God (by saying that God ordered things that God did not order such as you can pray to statues, the Sun, the Moon, dead people, saints, prophets and anything that God created when in fact only God who is the creator of every creation has the power to hear prayer) or denies His (God’s) revelations (by saying that God ordered things that God did not order in what God has described as God’s completed and protected Quran)? Those wrongdoers shall not be successful (in the hereafter).
8. Those that say God forbids music in Islam.
Quran 7:9 Verse 7:9 And those whose scale is light (with good deeds, few good deeds compared to their evil deeds) their souls shall carry the loss (that shall make them unsuccessful in the hereafter) because they used to treat Our (God’s) revelations wrongfully.
9. Those that say God forbids music in Islam.
Quran 7:32 Verse 7:32 (Prophet Muhammad) say (to humans), “Who has forbidden the adornments (things of beauty) of God which He (God) has created for His (God’s) servants (the humans) and the good things that He (God) provides (for humans to see, to hear, to think, to feel, to eat)?” Say, “These (good things from God to humans) are for the believers in the life of this world and exclusively for them on the Day of Resurrection. We (God) explain Our (God’s) revelations for people who have understanding (because they are the people that shall profit in this life and in the hereafter from this knowledge).”
10. Those that say God forbids music in Islam.
Quran 7:33 Verse 7:33 Say (to humans), “Our Lord (God) has only forbidden (things like) indecencies such as (indecencies) that can be seen (in public) or (indecencies) that are hidden, and sin (that comes from disobedience to God) and unjust oppression (to God’s creations, men, women and children), and that which you associate with God (when you pray to something or someone instead of praying only to God) because no authority has been revealed (to pray to anyone except God, your creator), and to say about God things that you do not know (such as God prohibited this or that when you do not know).
11. Those that say God forbids music in Islam.
Some people say we are not sure if this or that is illegal even when God’s perfected and completed Quran keeps telling humans not to invent things and then say it is an order from God when God has already said everything illegal is clearly explained in the Quran and that it is humans who invent more illegal things that are not declared by God to be illegal in God’s perfected and completed Quran.
Who would tell God I did not follow your Quran because a human told me something else that is not in God’s Quran?
Which human shall be rewarded by God, the human that avoided what the Quran said is illegal or the human that followed what other humans said is illegal but is not mentioned by God as illegal in God’s Quran?
Which of those two humans believes in God and which believes humans more that they believe in God?.
Quran 10:59 Verse 10:59 Say, “Have you considered the provisions that God has sent down for you and how you have made some of it lawful and (some of it) unlawful? Has God given you permission to do that or do you invent a lie concerning God (by saying that God made something unlawful when you do not know)?
12. Everything unlawful is clear in God’s perfected and completed Quran.
So do you believe what is in God’s perfected and completed Quran or do you listen to the word of humans when humans say that something is illegal that God has not declared illegal in God’s perfected and completed Quran?.
Quran 10:60 Verse 10:60 And what do those who invent a lie concerning God (think shall be their situation) on the Day of Resurrection? (Do they think they shall not be punished by God?) God is truly bountiful toward humans (giving humans everything that exists) but most of them give no thanks.
13. Humans disagree in the matter of religion because some believe the word of humans more than the word of God.
Quran 11:119 Verse 11:119 – (but the humans continued to disagree in the matter of religion) except those to whom your Lord (God) has given mercy (so that they do not disagree in religion), ..."
14. Musical notes and the alphabet are the same thing.
There is no sin in the alphabet A to Z in the same way as there is no sin in each musical note.
There is no sin in the notes of music in the same way as there is no sin in the alphabet A to Z.
15. Singing and speech are the same thing.
Good speech is the same as good singing.
There is no sin in good singing in the same way as there is no sin in good speech.
Bad speech is the same as bad singing.
There is sin in bad singing in the same way as there is sin in bad speech.
Video 1: Shaikh Habib Ali al-Jifri on the question of Music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZLFbOpBrkQ
Copy https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=983757088388875
See more in Quran 5:87, Quran 5:101, Quran 16:116 – 16:117 and Quran 31:33.
16. The Quran warns against extreme ideas.
The Quran repeats 31 times one question in Quran chapter 55: “Which of the blessings of God will you deny?” so as to warn us against extreme ideas that come from humans and not from the orders of God in the Quran.
God asks humankind and jinn 31 times in Quran chapter 55, “From everything that God has provided to you which of them will you deny?”
What will you say is not from God?
What will you say God has prohibited to you when in fact it is not prohibited to you by God?.
Quran 55:13, Quran 55:16, Quran 55:18, Quran 55:21, Quran 55:23, Quran 55:25, Quran 55:28, Quran 55:30, Quran 55:32, Quran 55:34, Quran 55:36, Quran 55:38, Quran 55:40, Quran 55:42, Quran 55:45, Quran 55:47, Quran 55:49, Quran 55:51, Quran 55:53, Quran 55:55, Quran 55:57, Quran 55:59, Quran 55:61, Quran 55:63, Quran 55:65, Quran 55:67, Quran 55:69, Quran 55:71, Quran 55:73, Quran 55:75, Quran 55:77
Which of the favours of God shall you deny?
Which of all the things that God gives you shall you deny by saying they did not come from God? or by saying that God has prohibited things to you that God has not prohibited to you?
Quran 5:87 Verse 5:87 All you who have faith (in God), do not forbid the good things (like music and singing) that God has made lawful for you and do not break the law. God does not love law breakers.
Quran 55:77 Verse 55:77 So which of the favours of (the many blessings that have come to you from) your Lord (God) will you both (the humans and the jinn) deny (is a favour from God to you)?
Quran 16:117 Koran 16:117 Verse 16:117 Ayah 16:117 Ayat 16:117 Aya 16:117 (For those that claim that God said something that God did not say there is) a brief enjoyment (in life) but for them shall be a painful punishment (in the Hereafter).
Comment 1. Do not say falsely with your own tongues, "This is lawful (allowed) and this is unlawful (forbidden)”
See Quran 16:116 comments.
Quran 16:118 Koran 16:118 Verse 16:118 Ayah 16:118 Ayat 16:118 Aya 16:118 And to those who are Jews We (God) have forbidden (some good things such as some foods) that We (God) have already revealed to you (Prophet Muhammad). And We (God) were not unjust to them (by forbidding some good things to them), but they (the Jews) wronged themselves (by their continual disobedience to God).
Kosher food and Halal food.
Comment 1. God’s Quran revealing that good things such as some foods were forbidden to the Jews as a punishment by God is confirmed in God’s Torah Taurat.
Torah Deuteronomy 9:24 Prophet Moses Musa (who revealed the Jewish Laws) said to the children of Israel, “You (the children of Israel) have been rebellious against the Lord (God) from the (very first) day that I (Prophet Moses Musa) knew you”.
Comment 2. Quran 4:160, Verse 4:160 For the wrong doing done by the Jews, We (God through angel Gabriel Jibril recited to Prophet Muhammad) prohibited for them some good foods which had been lawful to them (in the past and to remember to obey God in future), and also, for their hindering of many people from following in the (righteous) way of God (by their hypocrisy of saying they believe in God but not following God’s commands). – (Continues in Quran 4:161).
Quran 4:161, Verse 4:161 – And for their (the Jews of Yathrib Arabia later known as Medina Arabia today Madinah Saudi Arabia) taking of interest (riba, usury) that they are forbidden to take (as ordered in the Torah Taurat) and their use of people’s wealth through falsehood We (God) have prepared for the disbelievers among them a severe punishment (in the hereafter).
Quran 6:146, Verse 6:146 To those who are Jews We (God) prohibited (for eating) every animal with undivided hoofs (hoof without a split in the middle). And of the oxen and the sheep We (God) prohibited to them (the Jews) its fat except what is on their backs or the entrails, or that which is mixed with the bone. That was a punishment to them (the children of Israel) for rebelling (against God’s commands). And surely We (God) are truthful.
Quran 16:118 Verse 16:118 And to those who are Jews We (God) have forbidden (some good things such as some foods) that We (God) have already revealed to you (Prophet Muhammad). And We (God) were not unjust to them (by forbidding some good things to them), but they (the Jews) wronged themselves (by their continual disobedience to God).
Comment 3. The Camel is not Kosher (blessed Jewish food) because its hoofs are not divided (the hoof does not have a split in the middle.
Comment 4. All Kosher Jewish food is blessed in the name of God and so it can be eaten by Muslims when no halal food is available.
Comment 5. Jews who accept Islam are no longer required to observe the restrictions of Jewish Kosher foods and instead accept God’s blessing which removed some restrictions so that more foods may be enjoyed.
Comment 6. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat and explains the story of Jesus in the Gospel Injil.
A. Prophet Muhammad in the Torah Taurat and Gospel Injil.
See Quran 7:157 comments in Quran chapter 7.
B. Every prophet of God is “the Word of God made flesh” meaning the word of God comes out of the mouth of every prophet of God in Deuteronomy 18:18.
See Quran 5:116 comments in Quran chapter 5.
C. How did God save Jesus.
See 1. Quran 4:157 and Quran 4:158 comments in Quran chapter 4.
See 2. Quran 29:57 comments in Quran chapter 29.
D. The second coming of Jesus and every other human is on the Day of Resurrection.
See Quran 79:7 comments in Quran chapter 79.
E. Examples of hadith stories which contradict the teachings of God in the Quran.
See Quran 25:30 comments in Quran chapter 25.
F. God protects the Quran, Gospel Injil and the Torah Taurat as proof God is real.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/god-protects-the-torah-gospel-and-koran
G. Jews and Christians who follow their Book and also believe the Quran will be rewarded twice in the hereafter.
See Quran 28:54 comments in Quran chapter 28.
Quran 16:119 Koran 16:119 Verse 16:119 Ayah 16:119 Ayat 16:119 Aya 16:119 For those who do wrong in ignorance and then repent (by asking God for forgiveness) and then correct themselves, (to them), your Lord (God) is indeed forgiving (of their sin) and merciful (to those that sincerely ask for God’s forgiveness).
Comment 1. Asking God for forgiveness.
Quran 16:120 Koran 16:120 Verse 16:120 Ayah 16:120 Ayat 16:120 Aya 16:120 Prophet Abraham Ibrahim was (the example of a religious leader to) a community (his family who were) obedient to God (and he was) righteous and he was not one of those who worshipped idols (or disbelieved or prayed to anyone except God).
Comment 1. See Quran 2:124, 2:132, 2:134 - 2:137, 16:123
Quran 16:121 Koran 16:121 Verse 16:121 Ayah 16:121 Ayat 16:121 Aya 16:121 He (Prophet Abraham Ibrahim was) grateful for His (God’s) favours (and so) God chose and guided him (Prophet Abraham Ibrahim) on the right (straight, correct) path
Quran 16:122 Koran 16:122 Verse 16:122 Ayah 16:122 Ayat 16:122 Aya 16:122 And We (God) gave him (Prophet Abraham Ibrahim) good in the world, and in the Hereafter he shall be among the righteous.
Quran 16:123 Koran 16:123 Verse 16:123 Ayah 16:123 Ayat 16:123 Aya 16:123 And We (God) revealed to you (Prophet Muhammad to), “Follow the religion of Prophet Abraham Ibrahim who turned to what was true and he did not pray to anyone except God.”
Quran 16:124 Koran 16:124 Verse 16:124 Ayah 16:124 Ayat 16:124 Aya 16:124 The Sabbath (Day) was only decreed for those (children of Israel , the Hebrew people, the Jewish people) who differed in (observing) it (in Quran 2:65 – 2:66, Quran 5:60, Quran 7:163 – 7:166 meaning the Sabbath Day was decreed for the Jewish people of whom some obeyed and some did not obey). Your Lord (God) shall judge between them (the Jewish people) on the Day of Resurrection in what they used to differ in (observing the Sabbath Day which the Jewish people are commanded in the Ten Commandments of God in Deuteronomy 5:12, to observe the Sabbath Day forever in Exodus 31:13, by observing the Sabbath Day in every generation in Exodus 31:16, to observe the Sabbath Day as a sign forever between God and the children of Israel in Exodus 31:17 in the Torah covenant in Deuteronomy 31:9, Deuteronomy 4:13, Deuteronomy 28:69, Deuteronomy 4:31, Deuteronomy 7:9 – 7:12 commanding that no one shall add or subtract from the Torah in Deuteronomy 4:2 and Deuteronomy 13:1 in Jewish Tanakh or Deuteronomy 12:32 in a Christian Bible and forever in Deuteronomy 5:10, Deuteronomy 29:28 in Jewish Tanakh or Deuteronomy 29:29 in a Christian Bible, Psalm 111:9, Isaiah 59:21 is the promise to the Jewish people who are mentioned in Isaiah 36:11, Isaiah 36:13, Gospel of Matthew 5:17 – 5:20 and Quran 2:40 – 2:41).
Note 1. Jews who observe the Sabbath Day are submitting to God.
Note 2. Jews who follow the Torah Taurat are following the message delivered to them by Prophet Muhammad and every prophet after Prophet Moses Musa reminding the Jewish people to follow the Torah Taurat forever because it is the covenant agreement between God and the Jewish people.
Note 3. The Jewish people will be judged concerning their observance of the Sabbath Day which is an everlasting covenant agreement between God and the Jewish people in Quran 2:40 – 2:41.
Note 4. Quran 16:124 is confirmed in Quran 2:106 where God has not abolished anything in the Torah for the Jewish people meaning the Jewish people must follow the Torah as the Torah has commanded it must be followed forever.
Note 5. Quran 16:124 is confirmed in Quran 13:39 where God eliminates from the Quran the laws which are only binding on the Jewish people such as the Sabbath Day.
Note 6. In Judaism Saturday is the day of rest from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.
In Christianity Sunday is the day of rest except for a few Christian sects whose day of rest is on Saturday.
In Islam Friday is the day of rest. After midday on Friday is the time of Friday congregational prayers at the mosque and after those prayers Muslims can return to work if they wish..
Comment 1. In the Hereafter the Jewish people will be judged concerning their observance of the Sabbath Day in Quran 16:124 which is an everlasting covenant agreement between God and the Jewish people in Quran 2:40 – 2:41.
Quran 16:124 is confirmed in Quran 2:106 where God has not abolished anything in the Torah for the Jewish people meaning the Jewish people must follow the Torah as the Torah has commanded it must be followed forever.
Quran 16:124 is confirmed in Quran 13:39 where God eliminates from the Quran the laws which are only binding on the Jewish people such as the Sabbath Day.
Comment 2. In Judaism the Sabbath Day is decreed forever in the Torah Taurat.
The Sabbath Day in the Torah Taurat is decreed forever for the children of Israel and confirmed in Isaiah 59:21 which is the promise to the Jewish people who are mentioned in Isaiah 36:11 and Isaiah 36:13.
The Jews observe the Sabbath on Saturday (Friday sunset to Saturday sunset)
Jewish people are commanded to observe the Sabbath Day in the Ten Commandments of God in Deuteronomy 5:12.
Jewish people are commanded to observe the Sabbath Day forever in Exodus 31:13.
Jewish people are commanded to observe the Sabbath Day in every generation in Exodus 31:16.
Jewish people are commanded to observe the Sabbath Day as a sign forever between God and the children of Israel in Exodus 31:17.
Isaiah 59:21 And as for Me (God), this is My covenant with them (the Jewish people who are mentioned in Isaiah 36:11 and Isaiah 36:13), said the LORD; My spirit that is on you (the Jewish people), and My words (the Torah) which I (God) have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed (off-spring), nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed (descendants), said the LORD, from now and forever.
Note 1. The promise of God that the Torah is protected forever.
Isaiah 36:11 Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh: 'Please speak to your servants in the Aramaic language, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in the Jews' language, (in case it is heard) in the ears of the people that are on the wall (surrounding Jerusalem).
Note 1. The word Jew is used by Prophet Isaiah meaning the promise of God in Isaiah 59:21 that the Torah Taurat is protected forever is to the Jewish people.
Note 2. See the future of the Jewish people explained in Isaiah 53.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/isaiah-53-explained
Isaiah 36:12 But Rabshakeh (the officer representing Sennacherib the King of Assyria) said: 'Has my master (the King of Assyria) sent me to your master (the King of Judah), and to you (the representatives of the King of Judah), to speak these words? Has he (the King of Assyria) not sent me to (speak to) the (Hebrew) men that sit on the wall (surrounding Jerusalem, and speak these words in Hebrew to them warning that our Army will blockade Jerusalem and that they will have) to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine with you (if you do not give Jerusalem to us)?'
Isaiah 36:13 Then Rabshakeh (the officer representing the King of Assyria) stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language (of Hebrew to the men on the wall surrounding Jerusalem), and said: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
Note 1. The word Jew is used by Prophet Isaiah meaning the promise of God in Isaiah 59:21 that the Torah Taurat is protected forever is to the Jewish people.
Note 2. The past and present and future of the Jewish people explained in Isaiah 53.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/isaiah-53-explained
Deuteronomy 5:12 (The Fourth of the Ten Commandments from God) Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.
Note 1. The Sabbath is a covenant agreement between the children of Israel and God forever in every generation.
Exodus 31:13 (Moses) speak to the children of Israel, saying: You shall keep My (God’s) Sabbaths, for it is a sign between Me (God) and you throughout your generations, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctify you (by showing you holy behaviour).
Exodus 31:16 So the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath and observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual (never ending) covenant (agreement with God).
Exodus 31:17 It (the Sabbath) is a sign between Me (God) and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD (God) made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He (God) ceased from work and rested (rested means completed the creation and this is why the Sabbath is a day of rest and remembrance of God on every seventh day).'
Comment 3. The Torah Taurat commandments.
In Quran 2:40 – 2:41 God tells the Jewish people to follow what is with them in the Torah Taurat because it is their covenant with God where God commanded them not to add or subtract from what God commanded in the Torah Taurat meaning God will never change any of the commandments in the Torah Taurat because God does not change His word and His promises and His covenant agreements as proof He is God meaning only humans change their word and their promises and their covenant agreements.
God forbids anyone adding or subtracting from the laws in the Torah Taurat in Deuteronomy 4:2 and Deuteronomy 13:1 in Jewish Tanakh or Deuteronomy 12:32 in a Christian Bible.
All true prophets reminded the Jews to follow only the Torah Taurat laws.
After Moses Musa there was not one prophet who added or removed one law in the Torah Taurat.
Anyone like Paul who added and subtracted from the Torah Taurat is a false prophet.
Anyone like Jesus and Muhammad who reminded the Jewish people to only follow the Torah Taurat are true prophets because they are doing what every true prophet after Moses did reminding the Jewish people that they made a covenant to follow the Torah Taurat laws forever in each generation and not to add or subtract from it.
Deuteronomy 5:12 (The Fourth of the Ten Commandments from God) Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.
Note 1. The Sabbath is a covenant agreement between the children of Israel and God forever in every generation.
Quran 3:93 Verse 3:93 “… Say (Prophet Muhammad, to the Jews of Yathrib), "Bring the Torah Taurat here and recite it (to me as evidence) if what you say is true."
Note 2. Quran 4:136 Verse 4:136 “... and whoever has no faith in … His (God’s) Books, … then he has strayed far away (from God).
Exodus 31:13 (Moses) speak to the children of Israel, saying: You shall keep My (God’s) Sabbaths, for it is a sign between Me (God) and you throughout your generations, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctify you (by showing you holy behaviour).
Note 1. The Sabbath is a covenant agreement between the children of Israel and God forever in every generation.
Quran 3:93 Verse 3:93 “… Say (Prophet Muhammad, to the Jews of Yathrib), "Bring the Torah Taurat here and recite it (to me as evidence) if what you say is true."
Note 2. Quran 4:136 Verse 4:136 “... and whoever has no faith in … His (God’s) Books, … then he has strayed far away (from God).
Exodus 31:16 So the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath and observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual (never ending) covenant (agreement with God).
Note 1. The Sabbath is a covenant agreement between the children of Israel and God forever in every generation. Quran 3:93 Verse 3:93 “… Say (Prophet Muhammad, to the Jews of Yathrib), "Bring the Torah Taurat here and recite it (to me as evidence) if what you say is true."
Note 2. Quran 4:136 Verse 4:136 “... and whoever has no faith in … His (God’s) Books, … then he has strayed far away (from God).
Exodus 31:17 It (the Sabbath) is a sign between Me (God) and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD (God) made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He (God) ceased from work and rested (rested means completed the creation and this is why the Sabbath is a day of rest and remembrance of God on every seventh day).'
Note 1. The Sabbath is a covenant agreement between the children of Israel and God forever in every generation. Quran 3:93 Verse 3:93 “… Say (Prophet Muhammad, to the Jews of Yathrib), "Bring the Torah Taurat here and recite it (to me as evidence) if what you say is true."
Note 2. Quran 4:136 Verse 4:136 “... and whoever has no faith in … His (God’s) Books, … then he has strayed far away (from God).
Comment 4. God is never tired so what does God rested on the seventh day mean?
The Tanakh Jewish Scripture and the Quran explain that resting on the seventh day means completed the creation.
God commanded the Hebrew people to stop creating on the seventh day of each week as a sign between God and the children of Israel forever meaning as a sign of remembrance of the existence of God in every generation of the Jewish people until the Day of Judgement.
Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made; and He rested (meaning completed His work and stopped creating) on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.
Genesis 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy; because in it He rested (meaning completed His work and stopped creating) from all His work which God in creating had made.
Note 1. “God rested” means God completed the creation and stopped creating.
Note 2. In the same way as God created daily work for humans so also on the seventh day God created the Sabbath day meaning a day of rest from work when humans stop creating.
Quran 2:255 Verse 2:255 “… He (God) is never sleepy and He (God) does not sleep” …. “He (God) never feels tired …”
Quran 10:3 Verse 10:3 Your Lord is God who created the Heavens and the Earth in six Days, then He (God) established Himself on the Throne (of authority over His creation), directing all things ..."
Comment 5. Hadith story claiming "the Jews were told to glorify THE FRIDAY as the holy day."
Any hadith story which contradicts the Quran is a false hadith story.
God commanded the Jews to observe the Sabbath Day forever which Jews have observed for 3200 years since the days of Moses.
In Islam there is no Sabbath Day but only a Friday congregational prayer after midday.
The Quran tells the Jews to follow the Sabbath Day which they are commanded by God to follow forever in the Torah Taurat meaning the hadith claiming God changed His commandment which was “forever” and gave the Jews a new commandment cancelling the Sabbath Day or moving the Sabbath Day is a false hadith story.
See. Examples of hadith stories which contradict the teachings of God in Quran chapter 25.
See Quran 25:30 comments in Quran chapter 25.
Comment 6. Jews and Christians who follow their Book and believe the Quran will be rewarded twice in the hereafter.
Quran 28:54 Verse 28:54 They (the Jews who truly believe the Torah Taurat and the Christians who truly believe the Gospel Injil and also believe the Quran) shall be given their reward twice (in Quran 28:54 meaning twofold in Quran 34:37 meaning double in Quran 57:28) because they are steadfast (in their belief in God) and they repel evil with good (deeds) and they spend (in charity) from what We (God) have provided to them. (Jews and Christians who follow their Book in Quran 5:68 and also believe the Quran will receive a double reward in the hereafter in Quran 28:54, Quran 34:37 and Quran 57:28 meaning the reward for every good deed they do will be doubled because they believed the Quran which tells the Jewish people to follow the Torah Taurat which is their eternal covenant between God and the Hebrew people forever and tells the Christian people to follow the Gospel Injil which is explained in the Quran and tells the Muslim people to follow the Quran in Quran 2:40, Quran 2:41, Quran 2:62, Quran 2:106, Quran 3:93, Quran 4:123, Quran 5:43, Quran 5:47, Quran 5:48, Quran 5:69 and Quran 13:39).
Note 1. Jews and Christians who follow their book and also believe the Quran will receive their reward twice in the Hereafter.
The good news message from God for Jews and Christians delivered 1400 years ago by Prophet Muhammad in Quran 28:54, Quran 34:37 and Quran 57:28.
1. Jews and Christians who follow their Book and also believe the Quran shall receive a double reward in the hereafter in Quran 28:54, Quran 34:37 and Quran 57:28.
2. Jews who follow the Tanakh Jewish scripture and believe the Quran are correctly observing the Torah Taurat.
3. Christians who follow the Gospels and believe the Quran are correctly observing the Gospel Injil.
4. Muslims who follow the Quran so that it agrees with the Tanakh Jewish scripture and the Gospel Injil are correctly observing the Quran.
Comment 7. God explains why there is more than one community submitting to God.
Quran 5:48 Verse 5:48 “… We (God) have appointed a divine law and a way (of religion). If God willed He (God) could have made you (the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims) one community. But He (God) tests you (the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims) by what He (God) has given you (in the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil and the Koran Quran to show who is best in behaviour). So strive for all that is good. To God you shall all return and He (God) shall then inform you (in the Hereafter) about (the correctness of) the religious matters in which you (the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims) argue among each other.
Comment 8. In Christianity some sects have a day of rest on Saturday but most are on Sunday.
Comment 9. Muslim Friday congregational prayers.
Muslim men are required to attend the Friday after midday prayers.
Muslim woman may also attend if they wish.
After the prayers and sermon the Friday is a free day with social activities but there is nothing to forbid business activities after the Friday prayers have ended.
Muslims pray in remembrance of God five times every day at home or at work or in the open or in a mosque (before sunrise (5 am), after midday (12.30 pm), afternoon (3.30 pm), after sunset (6 pm) and in the evening (7.30 pm)..
Quran 62:9, Verse 62:9 (Listen) you who believe, when (the adhan, call for prayer) is called on the day (a time after midday) of prayer on Friday (Juma, Jumu'ah) then go for the remembrance of God (to pray together in congregation in the mosque) and leave (your business) trade. That is better for you, if you only knew (how much is the reward from God when God is praised at the Friday congregation.
Quran 62:10, Verse 62:10 And when the (after midday Friday congregational) prayer has been concluded, disperse and seek from the bounty of God throughout the land and remember God often so that you may succeed (in the Hereafter).
Comment 10. The Books of God.
Stories claiming the Torah Taurat is corrupted contradict all the teachings in the Quran telling us that the Jewish people have the Torah and telling us that the Torah is from God and telling us that no one can change the word of God because that is the proof that God is real for every human until the Day of Judgement.
The Jewish people judge scripture as true if it confirms the Torah Taurat.
Many Muslims say the Quran does not agree with the Torah Taurat and therefore to a Jew it means the Quran cannot be from God.
If Muslims said the Quran confirms the Torah Taurat it would mean the Quran is from God but this is not what many Muslims are telling the Jewish people today.
1400 years ago Prophet Muhammad said the Quran confirms the Torah Taurat meaning confirms the Torah Taurat is correct as proof the Quran is from God but this is not the message many Muslims say to Jewish people today.
Rabbi Tovia Singer has studied the Torah Taurat and Gospel Injil and Quran and explains that the Jews have the scripture and therefore whenever anyone claims they also have the scripture the Jewish person compares their scripture to all other scriptures and if another scripture agrees with the Jewish scripture the Jew will applaud it in other words Jews are not asking if someone is or is not a prophet but a Jew asks do scriptures like the Gospel and the Quran which both say they confirm the Torah Taurat agree or disagree with the Jewish scripture.
When a Jew reads in the Quran that God is only one the Jew applauds it meaning it agrees with the Torah.
When a Jew reads some Christian opinions that God is a Trinity the Jew does not applaud it meaning it disagrees with the Torah Taurat.
See 1. Quran 28:52 comments in Quran chapter 28.
See 2. Quran 28:53 comments in Quran chapter 28.
See 3. Quran 28:54 comments in Quran chapter 28.
See 4. Quran 4:162 comments in Quran chapter 4.
Comment 11. Evidence for the truth is the Quran confirming the Torah Taurat is correct.
Quran 3:93 Ayah 3:93 “… Say (Prophet Muhammad, to the Jews of Yathrib), "Bring the Torah Taurat here and recite it (to me as evidence) if what you say is true."
Note 1. The proof of truth according to the Quran is the Torah Taurat meaning no one changed the Torah Taurat.
Note 2. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat is with the Jewish people and the Quran confirms no one can change the word of God.
Note 3. God tells the Jews to recite the Torah Taurat meaning the Jews have the Torah Taurat and no one changed it.
Note 4. If anyone can prove the Torah Taurat was changed then they have found the proof that God does not exist.
Note 5. God says the proof of truth is the Quran confirming what is with the Jewish people in the Torah Taurat meaning there are no contradictions between the Quran which is with the Muslim people and the Torah Taurat which is with the Jewish people.
Quran 2:41 Ayah 2:41 And believe in what I (God) have revealed (in the Quran) confirming that which is with you (the Jewish people in the Torah Taurat as proof to the stone idol worshipers of Makkah in Quran 6:114, Quran 46:10 and Quran 10:94 that the Quran is not an invented story) ..."
Note 1. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat which is with the Jewish people forever.
Quran 4:136 Ayah 4:136 “... and whoever has no faith in … His (God’s) Books, … then he has strayed far away (from God).
God protects the Quran, Gospel Injil and the Torah Taurat as proof God is real.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/god-protects-the-torah-gospel-and-koran
Quran 16:125 Koran 16:125 Verse 16:125 Ayah 16:125 Ayat 16:125 Aya 16:125 (Prophet Muhammad) invite (humans) to the way of your Lord (God) with wisdom (of the Quran) and good teaching and discuss with them (about God) in the way that is best. Your Lord (God) knows who has strayed away from His (God’s) path, and He (God) is best aware of who are (correctly) guided.
Quran 16:126 Koran 16:126 Verse 16:126 Ayah 16:126 Ayat 16:126 Aya 16:126 And if you retaliate, then retaliate (in a way that is) equivalent to what (harm) you received (meaning do not give more harm than the harm which was inflicted on you). But if you are patient (in enduring the harm done to you for the sake of God for example by forgiveness), surely (it) is better for those who are patient (because in the hereafter God rewards the patient and those who forgive the harm that was done to them).
Comment 1. What is the benefit of you forgiving anyone?
God forgives you if you forgive others (Quran 39:53, Quran 42:43, Quran 45:14 and Quran 64:14).
Love your neighbour (Quran 42:43).
Love your enemy (Quran 41:34 – 41:36, Quran 42:43 and Quran 60:7).
Forgive your enemy (Quran 41:34 – 41:36 and Quran 42:43. God will forgive even those who mocked Prophet Muhammad and those who plotted to kill Prophet Muhammad if they repent and ask God for forgiveness in Quran 8:30 – 8:33).
Forgive your neighbour (Quran 42:43).
Forgive disbelievers (Quran 45:14).
Forgive believers (Quran 49:10).
Forgive Jews (Quran 5:13).
Forgive the killer (Quran 5:45 and Quran 85:10).
Exploding bombs in crowds is forbidden by God (Quran 48:25).
Fighting today is not in the cause of God (Quran 48:25 comments).
If you pardon what people have done and overlook the faults of people and forgive people then God is forgiving and merciful to you (Quran 39:53, Quran 42:43, Quran 45:14 and Quran 64:14).
Quran 16:127 Koran 16:127 Verse 16:127 Ayah 16:127 Ayat 16:127 Aya 16:128 And be patient (Prophet Muhammad), your patience is from (the help of) God (so it is most fitting to be patient. Those who are correctly guided by God are the patient). And do not grieve for them (the stone idol worshippers of Makkah Arabia from whom you are an off-spring) and do not distress because they conspire (against the word of God which you deliver to them).
Comment 1. God is the most patient so people who are patient are closest to the way of God.
See Quran 27:70 comments.
Quran 16:128 Koran 16:128 Verse 16:128 Ayah 16:128 Ayat 16:128 Aya 16:128 God is with those who keep their duty to Him (God) and those who do what is good.
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