[The people of Mecca came to God's messenger, and said: "Hasn't God found any apostle other than you? We don't see anyone believe your words; we also have asked Jews and Christians about you, and they said that you are not foretold to them; so tell us who testify that you are God's messenger as do you claim?
Therefore, this aya was revealed:]
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Quran 6: 19. Say [Mohammed to these unbelievers]: "What thing a bears a most serious witness
[: words of God or words of people? For God knows better than people about everything]"
Say: "God is a Witness between me and you [that He has sent me to you, and His words: the Quran, testify that I am God's messenger to you];
and this Quran has been revealed to me to warn you therewith [of God's punishment if you do not believe and abandon the idolatry];
and [to warn] anyone reaching [his age of adulthood. b]
Is it so that you give witness that there are other gods besides God!?"c
Say: "I do not give such witness."
Say: "There is only One God, and indeed I am clear of all that you associate [with Him.]"}
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a Some commentators of the Quran say:" In this aya, there is an indication that God may be called a 'thing'."
I say: This is not allowed, because the word شيء or thing, means the matter, and God is Superior to the matter; God said in the Quran 42: 11, that which means:
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There is not, as His likeness, anything [material or spiritual]; He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.)
b i.e. and I warn all those whom the Quran reaches and they hear it: including all the adults responsible about their acts, from now till Doomsday.
c This question is for denial and rebuking; it implies: How can you testify that there are other gods besides God, even after the evidences have been clarified and the argument for His Oneness has been established!?
The interpretation is by Mohammed-Ali Hassan Al-Hilly.
So the people who had no faith said unless you bring a written copy from God himself
we will not believe you. So Mo whipped up a book on paper and said here God sends
you a message. How the hell do you get people to swallow the kool-aid? Then again
we see a whole religion where God himself never wrote anything put into a book the
people believe is the word of God and take every word litterally.
I am starting to question the mental condition of those then and now.
Don't believe everything you read in a book or see on TV or the net
I proclaim the the truth of the world will be revealed if we all stare and believe in the
Number 17 Seventeen will give you all the things you need just by believing in the
Number 7 praise 17
See anyone can peddle this crap and someone will believe it
You are confused, damngrumpy.
And have not read this carefully.
The idolaters demanded a book written on paper to be sent down from heaven, so that they might then believe.
but their request was not answered.
God did not and had not done such a thing before, but He reveals to the prophet and the prophet tells his people about that; God only inscribed on the stone Tablets the Ten Words for Moses, and even though many of his people had not believed, unless after the mountain split and was about to fall on them.
so it is not a matter of miracles: the miracle will almost be denied by people, who will say: This is only a magic, and the messenger has enchanted us and deluded our sights.
Therefore, it is a matter of guidance: God guides whomever He pleases, and misguides whomever He wants to misguide because the latter is a wrong-doer; while the duty of the messenger is only to convey the message.
And what is such 7 and 17!?
