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Surah ar-Ra`d (The Thunder ) 13 : 38

وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا رُسُلًا مِّن قَبْلِكَ وَجَعَلْنَا لَهُمْ أَزْوَٰجًا وَذُرِّيَّةً ۚ وَمَا كَانَ لِرَسُولٍ أَن يَأْتِىَ بِـَٔايَةٍ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ ۗ لِكُلِّ أَجَلٍ كِتَابٌ

Translations

 
 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
And We have already sent messengers before you and assigned to them wives and descendants. And it was not for a messenger to come with a sign except by permission of Allāh. For every term is a decree.

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(13:38:1)
(13:38:2)
arsalnā
We sent
(13:38:3)
rusulan
Messengers
(13:38:4)
(13:38:5)
qablika
before you
(13:38:6)
wajaʿalnā
and We made
(13:38:7)
(13:38:8)
azwājan
wives
(13:38:9)
wadhurriyyatan
and offspring
(13:38:10)
(13:38:11)
kāna
was
(13:38:12)
lirasūlin
for a Messenger
(13:38:13)
(13:38:14)
yatiya
he comes
(13:38:15)
biāyatin
with a sign
(13:38:16)
illā
except
(13:38:17)
bi-idh'ni
by the leave
(13:38:18)
l-lahi
(of) Allah
(13:38:19)
likulli
For everything
(13:38:20)
ajalin
(is) a time
(13:38:21)
kitābun
prescribed

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Explanatory Note

Anyone who objects to the fact that God’s Messenger is a human being should remember that all past messengers were human beings as well. If the objection has something to do with him not producing a physical miracle, then that is something over which he has no control. It is determined by God. He determines miracles when He wills and according to His wisdom. If there are differences in the details of what is revealed to the Prophet Muĥammad and the revelations given earlier, these differences are due to the fact that every period of time has a suitable book. The Qur’ān is the final one to be revealed by God. He annuls what has served its purpose and confirms what is of benefit.

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7. Period of Revelation

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The internal evidence (v. 27-31 and v. 34-48) shows that this Surah was revealed in the last stage of the Mission of the Prophet at Makkah and during the same period in which Surah 7: al-A’raf (The Elevations), Surah 10: Yunus (Jonah) and Surah 11: Hud (Hud) and were sent down.

On the one hand the Prophet’s opponents had been scheming different devices to defeat him and his Mission and on the other his followers had been expressing a desire that by showing a miracle the disbelievers might be brought to the Right Way. In answer, God impressed on the Believers that it is not His way to revert people by this method and that they should not lose heart if He is giving the enemies of the Truth a rope long enough to hang themselves. Otherwise, He is able to show such signs as may bring the dead out of their graves and make them speak (v. 31). But even then these obdurate people will invent an excuse to explain this away. All this decisive evidence clearly proves that this Surah was revealed during the last stage of the Prophet’s Mission at Makkah.

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