please click here to login first
Explanatory Note
The source of these signs is emphasized here, ‘from Us’, to show clearly their terrible offence when they describe as ‘clear sorcery’ the truth sent to them by God. It is with limitless arrogance that they thus describe the truth without any evidence to support their claim. The statement sounds as if it is a standard one reiterated by all those who deny God’s messages. As reported at the beginning of the sūrah, the pagan Arabs in Makkah said the same thing, despite the wide difference in time and place between the two communities and the great difference between the signs delivered by Moses and the Qur’ān.