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Surah ash-Shura (Consultation ) 42 : 24

أَمْ يَقُولُونَ ٱفْتَرَىٰ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا ۖ فَإِن يَشَإِ ٱللَّهُ يَخْتِمْ عَلَىٰ قَلْبِكَ ۗ وَيَمْحُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْبَٰطِلَ وَيُحِقُّ ٱلْحَقَّ بِكَلِمَٰتِهِۦٓ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ عَلِيمٌۢ بِذَاتِ ٱلصُّدُورِ

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 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
Or do they say, "He has invented about Allāh a lie"? But if Allāh willed, He could seal over your heart. And Allāh eliminates falsehood and establishes the truth by His words. Indeed, He is Knowing of that within the breasts.

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(42:24:1)
am
Or
(42:24:2)
yaqūlūna
(do) they say
(42:24:3)
if'tarā
He has invented
(42:24:4)
(42:24:5)
l-lahi
Allah
(42:24:6)
kadhiban
a lie
(42:24:7)
(42:24:8)
yasha-i
Allah willed
(42:24:9)
l-lahu
Allah willed
(42:24:10)
yakhtim
He would seal
(42:24:11)
(42:24:12)
qalbika
your heart
(42:24:13)
wayamḥu
And Allah eliminates
(42:24:14)
l-lahu
And Allah eliminates
(42:24:15)
l-bāṭila
the falsehood
(42:24:16)
wayuḥiqqu
and establishes
(42:24:17)
l-ḥaqa
the truth
(42:24:18)
bikalimātihi
by His Words
(42:24:19)
(42:24:20)
ʿalīmun
(is) All-Knowing
(42:24:21)
(42:24:22)
l-ṣudūri
(is in) the breasts

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Explanatory Note

This verse tackles the last excuse the unbelievers offer to justify their attitude to revelation: "Do they say, 'He has invented a lie about God?'" (Verse 24) Is this why they do not believe the Prophet, claiming that God has not revealed anything to him? Such a claim is invalid. God would not allow anyone to fabricate lies about Him, claiming to receive revelations from Him when he does not, without taking that person to task. He is easily able to seal such a person's heart rendering him incapable of saying anything like the Qur'an. He is also able to expose the falsehood such a person says and establish the truth: "If God so willed, He could seal your heart and blot out all falsehood, and establish the truth by His words." (Verse 24) All Muhammad's thoughts are known to God, even before Muhammad (peace be upon him) expresses them: "He has full knowledge of what is in people's hearts." (Verse 24)

This last excuse is, thus, seen to be hollow and unfounded. Moreover, it is contrary to what is well established of God's knowledge of everyone's inner thoughts, His ability to accomplish what He wills and His law that remains in operation, establishing the truth and blotting out all falsehood. Thus, the revelation of the Qur'an is truly from God, and what Muhammad (peace be upon him) says is the truth. Claiming anything different from this is no more than a false allegation, one that is immersed in error.

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Although it could not be known from any authentic traditions, yet one feels after a study of its subject matter that this Surah might have been sent down consecutively after Surah 41: Fussilat (Presented In Detail), for it seems to be, in a way, a supplement to it. This will become clear to every person who first studies Surah 41: Fussilat carefully and then goes through this Surah. He will see that, in that Surah the Quraysh chiefs had been taken to tack for their deaf and blind opposition so that anyone in Makkah and in its out-skirts, who had any sense of morality and nobility left in him, should know how unreasonably the chiefs of the people were opposing Muhammad, and as against them, how serious he was in everything he said, how rational was his standpoint and how noble his character and conduct. Immediately after that warning this Surah was sent down, which did full justice to teaching and instruction, and made the truth of the Prophet’s message plain in such an impressive way that anyone who had any element of the love of the truth in him and who had not been blinded by the errors of ignorance, could not help being influenced by it.

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Overview (Verses 24)

God's Word of Truth

Once more the surah refers to the basic fact behind its central theme: Do they say, 'He has invented a lie about God?' If God so willed, He could seal your heart and blot out all falsehood, and establish the truth by His words. He has full knowledge of what is in people's hearts. (Verse 24)

This verse tackles the last excuse the unbelievers offer to justify their attitude to revelation: "Do they say, 'He has invented a lie about God?'" (Verse 24) Is this why they do not believe the Prophet, claiming that God has not revealed anything to him? Such a claim is invalid. God would not allow anyone to fabricate lies about Him, claiming to receive revelations from Him when he does not, without taking that person to task. He is easily able to seal such a person's heart rendering him incapable of saying anything like the Qur'an. He is also able to expose the falsehood such a person says and establish the truth: "If God so willed, He could seal your heart and blot out all falsehood, and establish the truth by His words." (Verse 24) All Muhammad's thoughts are known to God, even before Muhammad (peace be upon him) expresses them: "He has full knowledge of what is in people's hearts." (Verse 24)

This last excuse is, thus, seen to be hollow and unfounded. Moreover, it is contrary to what is well established of God's knowledge of everyone's inner thoughts, His ability to accomplish what He wills and His law that remains in operation, establishing the truth and blotting out all falsehood. Thus, the revelation of the Qur'an is truly from God, and what Muhammad (peace be upon him) says is the truth. Claiming anything different from this is no more than a false allegation, one that is immersed in error.

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