Commentary on the Koran: Surah 6 (No. Q006)

Pickthall translation, RSV biblical quotes unless otherwise noted.

Introduction

Surah 6 derives its name “Livestock” or “Cattle” from a word in v. 137 repeated in vv. 139, 140 where cattle are mentioned in relation to superstitious practices, as we saw from S.5 with the four categories of cattle used by the paganised Arabs. The main thrust in those texts refers to the murder of the Children of the people whilst in the bellies of the women and condemns abortion and the sacrifice of the children which was a standard practice at Becca and the Middle East over the millennia both before and after Christ and very nearly ended the life of the Prophet as we see here. The term “livestock” really refers to the sheep and the goats and shows the extension of the unity of God to the salvation of mankind as the sheep of the Resurrection.

The sheer immensity of the conversions saw that the pagans overran Islam and corrupted it with their practices, as they did in Christianity. However, the purity of the message is able to be retained by the strict adherence to the Scriptures on which the Qur’an is built.

Pickthall holds that with the possible exception of nine verses, which some authorities, such as Ibn Salamah, ascribe to the Madinah period, the whole of this surah belongs to the year before the Hijrah. Ibn Abbas claims that it was revealed on the authority of one visitation.

It follows the Fifth Surah here because it deals with the sequence of the divine revelation concerning the place of the Messiah in the faith and then the allocation of the priesthood under Messiah as high priest in the Service of the One True God and the faith in His Service.

The Surah is concerned with the Divine Unity. There is only One True God Eloah and He sent Jesus Christ (Jn. 17:3). Eloah created the heavens and the earth (Job 38:4-7 and then sent Christ for the recreation in Genesis 1 when the earth became Tohu and Bohu for He did not create it that way, as we are told in Isaiah 45:18.

The Surah is held to be a late Beccan Surah. Some hold that the note of certain triumph sounded in the circumstances of the struggles of 13 years which saw the prophet and the body at Becca forced to flee Becca and seek help in the hands of strangers at Medina, to be quite remarkable. Most do not appear to understand the spirituality and core unity of the faith.

This Surah is a reprimand to the people of Becca and the half converted Arabs and a warning of that which is to come. Whilst they made a later pretence, they are yet to face the nexus of the Law of God under the Witnesses and the wrath of the Messiah and the Councils of the Church of God to come.

Becca and the pagan Arabs never got rid of the idolatry at Becca, which was in the hands of the Arabicised Arabs of Ishmael. Nor did the Baal worshippers of Israel and the Mother goddess system of Easter ever eradicate their idolatry from the lands to which they moved all over the world.

The god Hubal most prominently appeared at Mecca, [Becca – Ed.] where an image of him was worshipped at the site of the Kaaba (or Kaabah). According to Karen Armstrong, the sanctuary was dedicated to Hubal, who was worshipped as the greatest of the 360 idols the Kaaba contained, which probably represented the days of the year.^{[1] The Wikipedia record.}

The shrine reportedly contained many idols internal to it. Hubal as a name is associated with Baal worship. Philip K. Hitti, who relates the name Hubal to an Aramaic word for spirit, suggests that the worship of Hubal was imported to Mecca [Becca – Ed.] from the north of Arabia, possibly from Moab or Mesopotamia.^[8] Hubal may have been the combination of Hu, meaning "spirit" or "god", and the Moab god Baal meaning "master" or "lord". Outside South Arabia, Hubal's name appears just once, in a Nabataean inscription;^[9]

Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi's Book of Idols describes the image as shaped like a human, with the right hand broken off and replaced with a golden hand.^[2] According to Ibn Al-Kalbi, the image was made of red agate, whereas Al-Azraqi, an early Islamic commentator, described it as of "cornelian pearl". Al-Azraqi also relates that it "had a vault for the sacrifice" and that the offering consisted of a hundred camels. Both authors speak of seven arrows, placed before the image, which were cast for divination, in cases of death, virginity, and marriage.^[2]

The deity seems to have originated in Iraq at Hit and the process of using arrows for divination, a practice followed by the pagan Arabs, was used in the Second and First millennia BCE.

The Ka’aba (or Kaabah) is to this day used for the pagan practice of the Seven circumambulations of the shrine used as the axis mundi or centre of rotations according to the mystical rites of the animist pagans of Arabia posing as Islam (cf. the work Cox W.E, Mysticism CCG Publishing 2000).

According to Ibn Al-Kalbi, the image was first set up by Khuzaymah ibn-Mudrikah ibn-al-Ya's' ibn-Mudar, but another tradition, recorded by Ibn Ishaq, holds that Amr ibn Luhayy, a leader of the Khuza'a tribe, put an image of Hubal into the Kaabah, where it was worshipped as one of the chief deities of the tribe.^[3] The date for Amr is disputed, with dates as late as the end of the fourth century AD suggested, but what is quite sure is that the Quraysh later became the protectors of the ancient holy place, supplanting the Khuza'a. The prophet himself was of the Quraysh.

A tale recorded by Ibn Al-Kalbi has Muhammad's grandfather Abdul Mutallib vowing to sacrifice one of his ten children. He consulted the arrows of Hubal to find out which child he should choose. The arrows pointed to his son Abd-Allah, the future father of Muhammad. However, he was saved when 100 camels were sacrificed in his place. According to Tabari, Abdul Mutallib later also brought the infant Muhammad himself before the image.^[4]

After defeat by Muhammad's forces at the Battle of Badr, Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, leader of the Quraysh army, is said to have called on Hubal for support to gain victory in their next battle, saying "Show your superiority, Hubal".^[5] When Muhammad conquered Mecca [Becca - Ed.] in 630, he removed and had destroyed the statue of Hubal, along with the other 360 images at the Kaaba(h), and dedicated the structure to Allah.^[6]

There may be some foundation of truth in the story that Amr travelled in Syria and had brought back from there the cults of the goddesses ʻUzzāʼ and Manāt, and had combined it with that of Hubal, the idol of the Khuza'a.^[7] According to Al-Azraqi, the image was brought to Mecca [Becca and later transported to Mecca – Ed.]

There is no connection whatsoever between the origin of the names of these pagan deities and the name of Allah’ which derives from the Eastern Aramaic and the prior Biblical Chaldean Elahh and the Hebrew Eloah from which the Western Aramaic originated (see the paper the Name of God in Islam (No. 054)).

We see from the text that the One True God Eloah or Allah’ created the heavens and the earth (cf. Job 38:4-7) and the heavenly host of the sons of God and the Morning Stars were present there. Genesis 1:1 shows that it was The One true God that was creator but that the earth became tohu and bohu or waste and void (v 2). God says through Isaiah that God did not create it waste and void. It became that way. The elohim were then sent to earth to reform it and create Adamic mankind.

Eloah or Allah’ was alone and singular and the name admits of no plurality. Then He decided to create and He created the Sons of God as elohim and thus became Ha Elohim or the God as the centre of a plural entity as the family of God (see the paper How God Became a Family (No. 187)).

He extended Himself and through the Holy Spirit He became Elohim as the central power as Ha Elohim or The Elohim or Yahovih (SHD 3069) and all of the elohim bore the name Yahovah when they became Messengers to mankind after their creation as “He causes to be” or Yahovah (SHD 3068). They were named as Malak or “malaikat” meaning Messengers which became Aggleos in Greek and hence became termed Angels. This became a noun as a name for the Angelic Host. The Sons of God as elohim were created beings of Eloah or Allah’ as One True God who alone was immortal (1Tim. 6:16).

Both Christ and Gabriel were created sons of God as was Satan or Iblis. Iblis objected to the creation of mankind as the second element of the Host. Iblis, Azazel or Satan interfered with the creation and condemned man to death and the Resurrection through the death and resurrection of Christ. These acts were predestined from before the foundation of the world.

In this Surah we see the sequence from the creation of the earth to the creation of mankind and the position of the Heavenly host and the place of Christ and the sons of Adam as the “Sheep” or “Livestock” of the creation that proceed from the First Resurrection with the “Goats” of the world moving to the “Second Resurrection”.

These Surahs move from the Beginning in Surahs 1 and 2 under the Messiah and the Sanctification of the Elect and the Temple of God. It proceeds through the Reddish or Adamic Heifer and then Golden Heifer through the process we saw with Moses before the Angel of the Presence in Sinai who was Christ (1 Cor. 10:4). The text then goes to the sequence of the Priesthood at Surah 3 from The Family of Imram and then to the place of the church at Surah 4 in families. Surah 5 “The Feast” or “Table Spread” deals with the Sacraments of the church among the elect at the Lord’s Supper and Passover and the death of Christ. In Surah 6 we proceed to the Unity of God that prepares us all to become elohim as we are shown in Psalm 82:6 and Zechariah 12:8 and John 10:34-36. We are all to become elohim or the plurality of the sons of God, as gods or elahhin in the Chaldean, from which the Arabic is developed, through the Eastern Aramaic. We are all enabled in this process by the Holy Spirit. In this process we are all the Sheep of the Host as the body of Christ and the Surahs explain this process with its cross references to the Scriptures.

Surah 7: “The Heights” then goes on to the opposition to God’s Will by Satan and then through the sequence of Creation.

The outline of the plan of Salvation is also developed through subsequent surahs, such as The Ranks and those who set the Ranks.

The Hadith was designed to destroy this understanding and separate the Scriptures from the Qur’an. It was designed by the Jews and the paganised Arabs with the major attacks on the Pauline documents aided by the post-Exilic Jews and the Talmud and Hillel. It is about to be destroyed completely as a system.

So also the Gnostics and the Baal and Easter Sunday worshippers have done their best to destroy the understanding of the Faith and the Law of God and the Testimony. Anyone who says that they are Christians or Muslims (which should be interchangeable terms) and the law is done away and that when they die they go to heaven are not to be believed. They are neither Muslims nor Christian (cf. also Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, LXXX).

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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent the Merciful.

Proverbs 10:24 What the wicked dreads will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted. (ESV)

Becca had rejected the faith and the Message of the Prophet and the church and they were forced to flee and seek refuge at Madinah. They understand nothing of the faith and rejected it because of the paganism of Becca and the idolatry of the Kaabah.

6.6. See they not how many a generation We destroyed before them, whom We had established in the earth more firmly than We have established you, and We shed on them abundant showers from the sky, and made the rivers flow beneath them. Yet we destroyed them for their sins, and created after them another generation.

God destroyed the Nephilim during Noah’s day and the entire creation other than Noah’s family and even that was not spared the fourth son according to the text.

In Genesis chapter 19 it was the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. In Deuteronomy 29:16-18 the Israelites were instructed to destroy the people of the land of Canaan. In Joshua it was the city of Jericho. God did not spare Benjamin and almost destroyed them, save 600 and gave them different wives from which to breed. In 1Samuel 15:1-35 Saul was ordered to wipe out the Amalekites. That is a few generations of so many of years gone by.

6.7. Had we sent down unto thee (Muhammad) (actual) writing upon parchment, so that they could feel it with their hands, those who disbelieve would have said: This is naught else than mere magic.

6.8. They say: Why hath not an angel been sent down unto him? If We sent down an angel, then the matter would be judged; no further time would be allowed them (for reflection).

6.9. Had we appointed him (Our messenger) an angel, We assuredly had made him (as) a man (that he might speak to men); and (thus) obscured for them (the truth) they (now) obscure.

Only those called and chosen by God believe at this time the rest will not believe. We know from Revelation that people will not repent when Christ is here to subjugate the nations. The sons of Keturah and Hagar will believe in these last days or they will die.

6.10. Messengers (of Allah) have been derided before thee, but that whereat they scoffed surrounded such of them as did deride.

The prophets are mocked as was Qasim here at Becca but God has the power to make those of the faith do what they were sent to do and the detractors are overcome, especially now in the last days.

2Chronicles 36:16 But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against his people, until there was no remedy. (ESV)

Nehemiah 9:30 Many years you bore with them and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. (ESV)

1Thessalonians 2:15 who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who have persecuted us, and who please neither God nor any group of people, (ISV)

6.11. Say (unto the disbelievers): Travel in the land, and see the nature of the consequence for the rejecters!

6.12. Say: Unto whom belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and the earth? Say: Unto Allah. He hath prescribed for Himself mercy, that He may bring you all together to the Day of Resurrection whereof there is no doubt. Those who ruin their souls will not believe.

6.13. Unto Him belongeth whatsoever resteth in the night and the day. He is the Hearer, the Knower.

Psalm 145:20 The LORD preserves all who love him; but all the wicked he will destroy.

Exodus 34:6 The LORD passed before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

Psalm 103:19 The LORD has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.

2Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. (ESV)

Daniel 12:2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. (ESV)

Deuteronomy 10:14 Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it. (ESV)

Job 28:24 For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens. (ESV)

Psalm 139:4 Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O LORD, You know it all. (NAS)

6.14. Say: Shall I choose for a protecting friend other than Allah, the Originator of the heavens and the earth, Who feedeth and is never fed? Say: I am ordered to be the first to surrender (unto Him). And be not thou (O Muhammad) of the idolaters.

6.15. Say: I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the retribution of an Awful Day.

6.16. He from whom (such retribution) is averted on that day, (Allah) hath in truth had mercy on him. That will be the signal triumph.

Psalm 121:7 The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.

Psalm 94:22-23 But the LORD has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge. ²³He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out.

Psalm 145:15 The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. (ESV)

Revelation 1:8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” (ESV)

God is the Almighty. He is self-sufficient. He has chosen to have mercy so we can be saved.

6.17. If Allah touch thee with affliction, there is none that can relieve therefrom save Him, and if He touch thee with good fortune (there is none that can impair it); for He is Able to do all things.

Isaiah 43:13 "I am God, and also henceforth I am He; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work and who can hinder it?"

Deuteronomy 31:8 It is the LORD who goes before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you or forsake you; do not fear or be dismayed."

Jeremiah 32:17 Ah Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You. (NAS)

6.18. He is the Omnipotent over His slaves, and He is the Wise, the Knower.

Daniel 4:35 all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing; and he does according to his will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, "What doest thou?"

Psalm 147:5 Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure. (ESV)

6.19. Say (O Muhammad): What thing is of most weight in testimony? Say: Allah is Witness between me and you. And this Qur'an hath been inspired in me, that I may warn therewith you and whomsoever it may reach. Do ye in sooth bear witness that there are gods beside Allah? Say: I bear no such witness. Say: He is only One God. Lo! I am innocent of that which ye associate (with Him).

6.20. Those unto whom We gave the Scripture recognise (this revelation) as they recognise their sons. Those who ruin their own souls will not believe.

6.21. Who doth greater wrong than he who inventeth a lie against Allah or denieth His revelations? Lo! the wrongdoers will not be successful.

6.22. And on the day We gather them together We shall say unto those who ascribed partners (unto Allah): Where are (now) those partners of your make-believe?

6.23. Then will they have no contention save that they will say: By Allah, our Lord, we never were idolaters.

6.24. See how they lie against themselves, and (how) the thing which they devised hath failed them!

1John 5:9-10 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. ¹⁰Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. (ESV)

Romans 1:20-23 Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse; ²¹for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened. ²²Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ²³and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.

Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! (NAS)

1Corinthians 8:5-6 For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth--as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"-- ⁶yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

James 2:19 You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. (NAS)

Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned, each of us, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. (ISV)

2Timothy 4:4 They will refuse to listen to the truth and will turn to myths. (ISV)

John 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. (ESV)

Psalm 119:160 The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever. (ESV)

6.25. Of them are some who listen unto thee, but We have placed upon their hearts veils, lest they should understand, and in their ears a deafness. If they saw every token they would not believe therein; to the point that, when they come unto thee to argue with thee, the disbelievers say: This is naught else than fables of the men of old

Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."

2Thessalonians 2:10-12 and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. ¹¹Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, 12so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

6.26. And they forbid (men) from it and avoid it, and they ruin none save themselves, though they perceive not.

6.27. If thou couldst see when they are set before the Fire and say: Oh, would that we might return! Then would we not deny the revelations of our Lord but we would be of the believers!

2Timothy 4:4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths.

Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. . (ESV)

Romans 2:6-8 For he will render to every man according to his works: ⁷to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; ⁸but for those who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury

6.28. Nay, but that hath become clear unto them which before they used to hide. And if they were sent back they would return unto that which they are forbidden. Lo! they are liars.

6.29. And they say: There is naught save our life of the world, and we shall not be raised (again).

6.30. If thou couldst see when they are set before their Lord! He will say: Is not this real ? They will say: Yea, verily, by our Lord! He will say: Taste now the retribution for that ye used to disbelieve.
6.31. They indeed are losers who deny their meeting with Allah until, when the Hour cometh on them suddenly, they cry: Alas for us, that we neglected it! They bear upon their backs their burdens. Ah, evil is that which they bear!

6.32. Naught is the life of the world save a pastime and a spot. Better far is the abode of the Hereafter for those who keep their duty (to Allah). Have ye then no sense?

6.33. We know well how their talk grieveth thee, though in truth they deny not thee (Muhammad) but evil-doers flout the revelations of Allah.

Proverbs 28:13 He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Isaiah 29:15 Woe to those who hide deep from the LORD their counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?"

1Corinthians 4:5 Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then every man will receive his commendation from God.

Luke 12:2-3 Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. ³Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, (ESV)

Daniel 12:2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. (ESV)

Romans 2:6-8 He will render to each one according to his works: ⁷to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; ⁸but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. (ESV)

James 4:14 whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Isaiah 2:22 "Stop trusting in human beings, whose life breath is in their nostrils, for what are they really worth?" (ISV)

Psalm 53:1 Fools say to themselves "There is no God." They are corrupt and commit iniquity; not one of them practices what is good. (ISV)

6.34. Messengers indeed have been denied before thee, and they were patient under the denial and the persecution till Our succour reached them. There is none to alter the decisions of Allah. Already there hath reached thee (somewhat) of the tidings of the messengers (We sent before).

6.35. And if their aversion is grievous unto thee, then, if thou canst, seek a way down into the earth or a ladder unto the sky that thou mayst bring unto them a portent (to convince them all)! - If Allah willed, He could have brought them all together to the guidance - So be not thou among the foolish ones.

Messengers were ridiculed, persecuted and often murdered. The purpose of God will stand. No one can change that fact. Signs and wonders will not make them change as God has set a seal on the hearts of men so they cannot understand and obey the message unless called through the Holy Spirit.

6.36. Only those can accept who hear. As for the dead, Allah will raise them up; then unto Him they will be returned.

John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment,

John 5:28-29 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice ²⁹and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. (ESV)

It is clear that all are dead and in the grave and resurrected to judgment. The First Resurrection are under judgment now or are judged and resurrection to eternal life.

6.37. They say: Why hath no portent been sent down upon him from his Lord? Say: Lo! Allah is Able to send down a portent. But most of them know not.

Matthew 12:39 But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Why were the Jews looking for a sign? Christ did so many around them. The Sign of Jonah is the sign of the faith under the Messiah and no other sign will be sent to the world and the faith.

6.38. There is not an animal in the earth, nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are peoples like unto you. We have neglected nothing in the Book (of Our decrees). Then unto their Lord they will be gathered.

Ecclesiastes 3:19 For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts; for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. (ESV)

The entire message of Scripture was given to the Arabs under the prophet Qasim and the Council of the Muhammad. Here they were told and they will be gathered to the Resurrection.

6.39. Those who deny Our revelations are deaf and dumb in darkness. Whom Allah will sendeth astray, and whom He will He placeth on a straight path.

Romans 1:20 Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;

John 12:40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.” (ESV)

Romans 9:15 For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

6.40. Say: Can ye see yourselves, if the punishment of Allah come upon you or the Hour come upon you, (calling upon other than Allah)? Do ye then call (for help) to any other than Allah? (Answer that) if ye are truthful.

6.41. Nay, but unto Him ye call, and He removeth that because of which ye call unto Him, if He will, and ye forget whatever partners ye ascribed unto Him.

They can’t avert the punishment by calling on any other gods.

Isaiah 42:17 They shall be turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, "You are our gods."

Jeremiah 10:5 Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good. (ESV)

Becca was full of idol worshippers and the Kaabah had over 360 idols removed at one time after the return aswe see above.

6.42. We have sent already unto peoples that were before thee, and We visited them with tribulation and adversity, in order that they might grow humble.

6.43. If only, when Our disaster came on them, they had been humble! But their hearts were hardened and the devil made all that they used to do seem fair unto them!

Deuteronomy 8:2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

Proverbs 16:25 There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death

2Corinthians 4:4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (NAS)

6.44. Then, when they forgot that whereof they had been reminded, We opened unto them the gates of all things till, even as they were rejoicing in that which they were given, We seized them unawares, and lo! they were dumbfounded.

6.45. So of the people who did wrong the last remnant was cut off. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds!

Numbers 11:33 While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.

Hebrews 3:16-17 Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? ¹⁷And with whom was he provoked forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

6.46. Say: Have ye imagined, if Allah should take away your hearing and your sight and seal your hearts, Who is the God Who could restore it to you save Allah? See how We display the revelations unto them! Yet still they turn away.

Mark 4:12 so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven.

Matthew 13:15 For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.'

It was as if their sight and hearing had been taken away and these could only be restored by Allah and not by any other god. Becca was turning its back on God and it rejects Allah to this day as it does at Mecca where the Ka’aba was transferred, as does Baal worshipping Trinitarianism.

6.47. Say: Can ye see yourselves, if the punishment of Allah come upon you unawares or openly? Would any perish save wrongdoing folk?

Psalm 37:1-2 Fret not yourself because of the wicked, be not envious of wrongdoers! 2For they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

6.48. We send not the messengers save as bearers of good news and warners. Whoso believeth and doeth right, there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve.

Psalm 37:3-6 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so you will dwell in the land, and enjoy security. ⁴Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. ⁵Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act. ⁶He will bring forth your vindication as the light, and your right as the noonday.

6.49. But as for those who deny Our revelations, torment will afflict them for that they used to disobey.

Psalm 37:9 For the wicked shall be cut off; but those who wait for the LORD shall possess the land.

6.50. Say (O Muhammad, to the disbelievers): I say not unto you (that) I possess the treasures of Allah, nor that I have knowledge of the Unseen; and I say not unto you: Lo! I am an angel. I follow only that which is inspired in me. Say: Are the blind man and the seer equal? Will ye not then take thought?

1Corinthians 11:1 Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

Philippians 3:17 Brethren, join in imitating me, and mark those who so live as you have an example in us.

Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

1Corinthians 2:9-10 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. ¹⁰But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. (KJV)

6.51. Warn hereby those who fear (because they know) that they will be gathered unto their Lord, for whom there is no protecting ally nor intercessor beside Him, that they may ward off (evil).

Psalm 37:27-28 Depart from evil, and do good; so shall you abide for ever. ²⁸For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. The righteous shall be preserved for ever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

6.52. Repel not those who call upon their Lord at morn and evening, seeking His Countenance. Thou art not accountable for them in aught, nor are they accountable for thee in aught, that thou shouldst repel them and be of the wrong-doers.

Romans 14:12 So each of us shall give account of himself to God.

Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

6.53. And even so do We try some of them by others, that they say: Are these they whom Allah favoureth among us? Is not Allah best Aware of the thanksgivers?

Matthew 18:7 Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes! (ESV)

Luke 17:1 And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! (ESV)

Psalm 5:12 For thou dost bless the righteous, O LORD; thou dost cover him with favor as with a shield.

6.54. And when those who believe in Our revelations come unto thee, say: Peace be unto you! Your Lord hath prescribed for Himself mercy, that whoso of you doeth evil through ignorance and repenteth afterward thereof and doeth right, (for him) lo! He is Forgiving, Merciful.

Ezekiel 18:21-22 But if a wicked man turns away from all his sins which he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. ²²None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness which he has done he shall live.

1John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (ESV)

Proverbs 28:13 Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy. (ESV)

6.55. Thus do We expound the revelations that the way of the unrighteous may be manifest.

Ezekiel 18:26-27 When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die for it; for the iniquity which he has committed he shall die. ²⁷Again, when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is lawful and right, he shall save his life.

6.56. Say: I am forbidden to worship those on whom ye call instead of Allah. Say: I will not follow your desires, for then should I go astray and I should not be of the rightly guided.
6.57. Say: I am (relying) on clear proof from my Lord, while ye deny Him. I have not that for which ye are impatient. The decision is for Allah only. He telleth the truth and He is the Best of Deciders.
6.58. Say: If I had that for which ye are impatient, then would the case (ere this) have been decided between me and you. Allah is Best Aware of the wrong-doers.

Joshua 24:15 And if you be unwilling to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Psalm 40:4 Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after false gods!

Isaiah 46:8-10 Remember this and consider, recall it to mind, you transgressors, ⁹remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, ¹⁰declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,'

2Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. (ESV)

Psalm 37:9-10 For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land. ¹⁰In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there. (ESV)

6.59. And with Him are the keys of the Invisible. None but He knoweth them. And He knoweth what is in the land and the sea. Not a leaf falleth but He knoweth it, not a grain amid the darkness of the earth, naught of wet or dry but (it is noted) in a clear record.

6.60. He it is Who gathereth you at night and knoweth that which ye commit by day. Then He raiseth you again to life therein, that the term appointed (for you) may be accomplished. And afterward unto Him is your return. Then He will proclaim unto you what ye used to do.

Colossians 1:16 for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities--all things were created through him and for him.

God knows everything. He is Omniscient from Psalm 139.

Hebrews 4:13 And before him no creature is hidden, but all are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

2Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. (ESV)

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. (ESV)

6.61. He is the Omnipotent over His slaves. He sendeth guardians over you until, when death cometh unto one of you, Our messengers receive him, and they neglect not.

6.62. Then are they restored unto Allah, their Lord, the Just. Surely His is the judgment. And He is the most swift of reckoners.

Job 42:2 I know that thou canst do all things, and that no purpose of thine can be thwarted.

Jeremiah 32:17 Ah Lord GOD! It is thou who hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thy outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for thee,

Psalm 34:7 The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation?

After death mankind will be resurrected to face judgement. So also will the elect judge angels (1Cor. 6:3).

6.63. Say: Who delivereth you from the darkness of the land and the sea? Ye call upon Him humbly and in secret, (saying): If we are delivered from this (fear) we truly will be of the thankful.

6.64. Say: Allah delivereth you from this and from all affliction. Yet ye attribute partners unto Him.

6.65. Say: He is able to send punishment upon you from above you or from beneath your feet, or to bewilder you with dissension and make you taste the tyranny one of another. See how We display the revelations so that they may understand.

Psalm 34:19 A righteous person will have many troubles, but the LORD will deliver him from them all. (ISV)

Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other gods before me. . (ESV)

Psalm 34:16 The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth. (ESV)

Job 34:20-22 In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand. ²¹For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps. ²²There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves. (ESV)

Job 24:19 Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned. 20 The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree (ESV)

2Thessalonians 1:8 inflicting vengeance upon those who do not know God and upon those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

6.66. Thy people (O Muhammad) have denied it, though it is the Truth. Say: I am not put in charge of you.

1Corinthians 2:14 The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Jeremiah 17:10 “I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” (ESV)

6.67. For every announcement there is a term, and ye will come to know.

6.68. And when thou seest those who meddle with Our revelations, withdraw from them until they meddle with another topic. And if the devil cause thee to forget, sit not, after the remembrance, with the congregation of wrong-doers.

Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

Isaiah 55:6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near;

6.69. Those who ward off (evil) are not accountable for them in aught, but the Reminder (must be given them) that haply they (too) may ward off (evil).

6.70. And forsake those who take their religion for a pastime and a jest, and whom the life of the world beguileth. Remind (mankind) hereby lest a soul be destroyed by what it earneth. It hath beside Allah no protecting ally nor intercessor, and though it offer every compensation it will not be accepted from it. Those are they who perish by their own deserts. For them is drink of boiling water and a painful doom, because they disbelieved.

Mark 16:15 And he said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, as a testimony to all nations; and then the end will come.

James 1:27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Matthew 24:24 For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

Psalm 49:8 for the ransom of his life is costly, and can never suffice,

Eloah has extended the Host to include the elohim as sons of God and has appointed Messiah to act as High priest of the order of Melchisedek and he alone acts as mediator between God and men. So also the Holy Spirit alone is intercessor making pleas for us in prayer. He who blasphemes the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven (Mat. 12:31; Lk. 12:10) for it is the Holy Spirit that teaches us (Lk. 12:12).

6.71. Say: Shall we cry, instead of unto Allah, unto that which neither profiteth us nor hurteth us, and shall we turn back after Allah hath guided us, like one bewildered whom the devils have infatuated in the earth, who hath companions who invite him to the guidance (saying): Come unto us? Say: Lo! the guidance of Allah is Guidance, and we are ordered to surrender to the Lord of the Worlds,

6.72. And to establish worship and be dutiful to Him, and He it is unto Whom ye will be gathered.

6.73. He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in truth. In the day when He saith: Be! it is. His Word is the Truth, and His will be the Sovereignty on the day when the trumpet is blown. Knower of the Invisible and the Visible, He is the Wise, the Aware.

Habakkuk 2:18 What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For the workman trusts in his own creation when he makes dumb idols!

Zephaniah 1:5 those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the LORD and yet swear by Milcom, 6those who have turned back from following the LORD, who do not seek the LORD or inquire of him.” (ESV)

James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

2Chronicles 20:6 and said, "O LORD, God of our fathers, art thou not God in heaven? Dost thou not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? In thy hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. (ESV)

John 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. (ESV)

It is God Almighty that created the heavens and the earth from the beginning and he summoned all the Sons of God and the Morning Stars to be there at the beginning of its creation and Satan was among them (Job 38:4-7; 1:6; 2:1).

The Trumpet here is the archangel’s trumpet of Daniel 12 and the Trumpet at the Return of Messiah.

6.74. (Remember) when Abraham said unto his father Azar: Takest thou idols for gods? Lo! I see thee and thy folk in error manifest.

6.75. Thus did We show Abraham the kingdom of the heavens and the earth that he might be of those possessing certainty:

6.76. When the night grew dark upon him he beheld a star. He said: This is my Lord. But when it set, he said: I love not things that set.

6.77. And when he saw the moon uprising, he exclaimed: This is my Lord. But when it set, he said: Unless my Lord guide me, I surely shall become one of the folk who are astray.

6.78. And when he saw the sun uprising, he cried: This is my Lord! This is greater! And when it set he exclaimed: O my people! Lo! I am free from all that ye associate (with Him).

6.79. Lo! I have turned my face toward Him Who created the heavens and the earth, as one by nature upright, and I am not of the idolaters.

6.80. His people argued with him. He said: Dispute ye with me concerning Allah when He hath guided me? I fear not at all that which ye set up beside Him unless my Lord willeth aught. My Lord includeth all things in His knowledge. Will ye not then remember?

6.81. How should I fear that which ye set up beside Him, when ye fear not to set up beside Allah that for which He hath revealed unto you no warrant? Which of the two factions hath more right to safety? (Answer me that) if ye have knowledge.

Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other gods before me. (ESV)

Genesis 12:1, 7 1Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.

^7Then the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 17:9 And God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. (ESV)

Genesis 18:19 For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him. (ESV)

Ayats 6.74 to 6.81 are held to describe happenings in Haran when he lived with his parents before God called him to leave his country.

6.82. Those who believe and obscure not their belief by wrongdoing, theirs is safety; and they are rightly guided.

6.83. That is Our argument. We gave it unto Abraham against his folk. We raise unto degrees of wisdom whom We will. Lo! thy Lord is Wise, Aware.

6.84. And We bestowed upon him Isaac and Jacob; each of them We guided; and Noah did We guide aforetime; and of his seed (We guided) David and Solomon and Job and Joseph and Moses and Aaron. Thus do We reward the good.

6.85. And Zachariah and John and Jesus and Elias. Each one (of them) was of the righteous.

6.86. And Ishmael and Elisha and Jonah and Lot. Each one (of them) did We prefer above (Our) creatures,

6.87. With some of their forefathers and their offspring and their brethren; and We chose them and guided them unto a straight path.

6.88. Such is the guidance of Allah wherewith He guideth whom He will of His bondmen. But if they had set up (for worship) aught beside Him, (all) that they did would have been vain.
6.89. Those are they unto whom We gave the Scripture and command and prophethood. But if these disbelieve therein, then indeed We shall entrust it to a people who will not be disbelievers therein.
6.90. Those are they whom Allah guideth, so follow their guidance. Say (O Muhammad, unto mankind): I ask of you no fee for it. Lo! it is naught but a Reminder to (His) creatures.

God calls and guides whom He wills.

John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Proverbs 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; (ESV)

Exodus 19:5-6 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; ⁶and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel. (ESV)

Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. (ESV)

He lists those to whom he gave the scripture, the laws and commandments and the prophethood. As we know they completed their mission. The prophet encourages us to follow in their footsteps. So also the prophets are sent for us in the Last Days (Jer. 4:15-16; Rev. 11:3ff).

6.91. And they measure not the power of Allah its true measure when they say: Allah hath naught revealed unto a human being. Say (unto the Jews who speak thus): Who revealed the Book which Moses brought, a light and guidance for mankind, which ye have put on parchments which ye show, but ye hide much (thereof), and (by which) ye were taught that which ye knew not yourselves nor (did) your fathers (know it)? Say: Allah. Then leave them to their play of cavilling.

The OT and the NT had been revealed unto mankind before the arrival of the Arabian prophet and the church council of the Muhamad. He read the Scriptures and was educated by the Faith of the Church of God in Arabia. Everything the Koran claims is derived from the Scriptures and the circumstances of the Church of the Seventh Century.

Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. (ESV)

John 1:17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (ESV)

Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. (ESV)

2Peter 3:16 speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.

2John 1:7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.

6.92. And this is a blessed Scripture which We have revealed, confirming that which (was revealed) before it, that thou mayst warn the Mother of Villages and those around her. Those who believe in the Hereafter believe herein, and they are careful of their worship.

The Qu’ran was confirmation of the OT and the NT that was revealed earlier. It was to warn the mainstream churches who had twisted and distorted scripture as Judah had done and now the Hadith has done.

6.93. Who is guilty of more wrong than he who forgeth a lie against Allah, or saith: I am inspired, when he is not inspired in aught; and who saith: I will reveal the like of that which Allah hath revealed? If thou couldst see, when the wrong-doers reach the pangs of death and the angels stretch their hands out (saying): Deliver up your souls. This day ye are awarded doom of degradation for that ye spake concerning Allah other than the truth, and used to scorn His portents.

6.94. Now have ye come unto Us solitary as We did create you at the first, and ye have left behind you all that We bestowed upon you, and We behold not with you those your intercessors, of whom ye claimed that they possessed a share in you. Now is the bond between you severed, and that which ye presumed hath failed you.

2Timothy 4:3-4 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, ⁴and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (ESV)

2Peter 2:1-3 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. ²And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. ³And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. (ESV)

Luke 8:17 For nothing is hid, that shall not be made manifest; nor anything secret, that shall not be known and come to light.

Revelation 21:8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death."

Job 1:21 And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return; the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."

1Timothy 6:7 for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world;

6.95. Lo! Allah (it is) Who splitteth the grain of corn and the date-stone (for sprouting). He bringeth forth the living from the dead, and is the bringer-forth of the dead from the living. Such is Allah. How then are ye perverted?

1Corinthians 3:7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. (ESV)

1Samuel 2:6 The LORD kills and gives life, he brings people down to where the dead are and he raises them up. (ISV)

Romans 8:11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit which dwells in you.

1Corinthians 15:35-38 But some one will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"³⁶You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. ³⁷And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. ³⁸But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.

2Timothy 4:4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (ESV)

6.96. He is the Cleaver of the Daybreak, and He hath appointed the night for stillness, and the sun and the moon for reckoning. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Wise.

Psalm 104:19,23 ¹⁹Thou hast made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting.

²³When the sun rises, they get them away and lie down in their dens.

Genesis 1:14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,

Psalm 147:5 Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure. (ESV)

6.97. And He it is Who hath set for you the stars that ye may guide your course by them amid the darkness of the land and the sea. We have detailed Our revelations for a people who have knowledge.

Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.

Numbers 24:17 I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh: a star shall come forth out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab, and break down all the sons of Sheth.

Matthew 2:9-10 When they had heard the king they went their way; and lo, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came to rest over the place where the child was. ¹⁰When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy;

Ephesians 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, (ESV)

Christ is the Morning Star that comes out of Jacob.

6.98. And He it is Who hath produced you from a single being, and (hath given you) a habitation and a repository. We have detailed Our revelations for a people who have understanding.

Thus the creation was for a purpose and the Scriptures were issued for a purpose. The will of God cannot be thwarted in that purpose and those who claim the Scriptures are lost blaspheme Eloah as the One True God of prophecy in the Scriptures and the Qur’an.

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."

Isaiah 11:2 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. (ESV)

John 16:13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. (ESV)

Physically we come from Adam, spiritually we originate from Christ. Revelations from God are for the elect to understand and the Church of God to teach.

6.99. He it is Who sendeth down water from the sky, and therewith We bring forth buds of every kind; We bring forth the green blade from which We bring forth the thick-clustered grain; and from the date-palm, from the pollen thereof, spring pendant bunches; and (We bring forth) gardens of grapes, and the olive and the pomegranate, alike and unlike. Look upon the fruit thereof, when they bear fruit, and upon its ripening. Lo! herein verily are portents for a people who believe.

Isaiah 55:10 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, (ESV)

Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations. (ESV)

Job 12:7-9 But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you; ⁸or the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. ⁹Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

Romans 1:20 Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;

The believers can observe miracles all around them but the rest of mankind take all things around them for granted.

6.100. Yet they ascribe as partners unto Him the jinn, although He did create them, and impute falsely, without knowledge, sons and daughters unto Him. Glorified be He and High Exalted above (all) that they ascribe (unto Him).

6.101. The Originator of the heavens and the earth! How can He have a child, when there is for Him no consort, when He created all things and is Aware of all things?

6.102. Such is Allah, your Lord. There is no Allah save Him, the Creator of all things, so worship Him. And He taketh care of all things.

Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.

Job 2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD.

Job 38:7 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

God has many sons created by command (Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:4-7; Deut 32:8). Satan is a son of God just as Christ is a son of God. He said the word and they came to be. Physical man is the result of union between man and his wife. Not so with God. Some blasphemers have elevated the angels created by the One True God to be equal to Him.

6.103. Vision comprehendeth Him not, but He comprehendeth (all) vision. He is the Subtile, the Aware.

Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD. ⁹For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Romans 11:33 O how deep are God's riches, and wisdom, and knowledge! How unfathomable are his decisions and unexplainable are his ways! (ISV)

6.104. Proofs have come unto you from your Lord, so whoso seeth, it is for his own good, and whoso is blind is blind to his own hurt. And I am not a keeper over you.

6.105. Thus do We display Our revelations that they may say (unto thee, Muhammad): "Thou hast studied," and that We may make (it) clear for people who have knowledge.

John 12:40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.” (ESV)

Ephesians 1:18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints (ESV),

Acts 26:18 to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me. (ESV)

Deuteronomy 6:24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day. (ESV)

6.106. Follow that which is inspired in thee from thy Lord; there is no Allah save Him; and turn away from the idolaters.

6.107. Had Allah willed, they had not been idolatrous. We have not set thee as a keeper over them, nor art thou responsible for them.

6.108. Revile not those unto whom they pray beside Allah lest they wrongfully revile Allah through ignorance. Thus unto every nation have We made their deed seem fair. Then unto their Lord is their return, and He will tell them what they used to do.

2Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, . (ESV)

Deuteronomy 4:35 To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him. (ESV)

1Corinthians 8:6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. (ESV)

1Corinthians 5:11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. (ESV)

Ezekiel 18:20 The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. (ESV)

Jude 1:9 But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!" (NAS)

Proverbs 16:25 There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. (NAS)

Mankind will face the resurrection and their deeds will be explained to them. Each are selected for calling in their own time and to the First or Second Resurrection as they are fit and able. Many are called but few are chosen.

6.109. And they swear a solemn oath by Allah that if there come unto them a portent they will believe therein. Say; Portents are with Allah and (so is) that which telleth you that if such came unto them they would not believe.

6.110. We confound their hearts and their eyes. As they believed not therein at the first, We let them wander blindly on in their contumacy.

6.111. And though We should send down the angels unto them, and the dead should speak unto them, and We should gather against them all things in array, they would not believe unless Allah so willed. Howbeit, most of them are ignorant.

Luke 16:31 "But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.'" (NAS)

Romans 1:21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. (ESV)

Ephesians 4:18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. (ESV)

John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. (ESV)

Those not predestined to be called and chosen according to God’s plan cannot come to understanding. Proofs of His existence have always been there for those who can see, if they can see it will be good for them. If they close their eyes it will be to their ruin. All of their so called gods cannot be equal to the Most High God.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.

They will not believe whatever came their way as their hearts have been sealed. Christ was an angel sent to them and he gave the law to Moses. Gabriel was sent to Mariam and Zechariah and Elisabeth, the apostles and Qasim the Arabian Prophet and the later prophets. So also Satan established their adversaries as they were allowed.

6.112. Thus have We appointed unto every prophet an adversary - devils of humankind and jinn who inspire in one another plausible discourse through guile. If thy Lord willed, they would not do so; so leave them alone with their devising;

6.113. That the hearts of those who believe not in the Hereafter may incline thereto, and that they may take pleasure therein, and that they may earn what they are earning.

James 1:2-4 Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, 3for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Matthew 18:7 Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the man by whom the temptation comes!

2Thessalonians 2:11-12 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, ¹²in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (ESV)

6.114. Shall I seek other than Allah for judge, when He it is Who hath revealed unto you (this) Scripture, fully explained? Those unto whom We gave the Scripture (aforetime) know that it is revealed from thy Lord in truth. So be not thou (O Muhammad) of the waverers.

6.115. Perfected is the Word of thy Lord in truth and justice. There is naught that can change His words. He is the Hearer, the Knower.

James 4:12 There is one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you that you judge your neighbor?

Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 119:160 The sum of thy word is truth; and every one of thy righteous ordinances endures for ever.

John 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth.

God hears all things and knows everything – a reference to Psalm 139. How can anyone claiming the faith deny the Scriptures?

6.116. If thou obeyedst most of those on earth they would mislead thee far from Allah's way. They follow naught but an opinion, and they do but guess.

6.117. Lo! thy Lord, He knoweth best who erreth from His way; and He knoweth best (who are) the rightly guided.

Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world--he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Matthew 24:24 For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

2Corinthians 11:13-15 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. ¹⁴And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. ¹⁵So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds. (ESV)

Psalm 119:118 You reject all who wander from your statutes, since their deceitfulness is vain. (ISV)

Psalm 4:3 But know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself; the LORD hears when I call to him. (ESV)

6.118. Eat of that over which the name of Allah hath been mentioned, if ye are believers in His revelations.

6.119. How should ye not eat of that over which the name of Allah hath been mentioned, when He hath explained unto you that which is forbidden unto you unless ye are compelled thereto. But lo! many are led astray by their own lusts through ignorance. Lo! thy Lord, He is Best Aware of the transgressors.

1Timothy 4:3-4 who forbid marriage and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. ⁴For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving;

Philippians 3:19 Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. (ESV)

Romans 16:18 For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive. (ESV)

6.120. Forsake the outwardness of sin and the inwardness thereof. Lo! those who garner sin will be awarded that which they have earned.

Psalm 19:12 But who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.

1Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from every form of evil. (ESV)

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

6.121. And eat not of that whereon Allah's name hath not been mentioned, for lo! it is abomination. Lo! the devils do inspire their minions to dispute with you. But if ye obey them, ye will be in truth idolaters.

1Corinthians 10:28 However, if someone says to you, "This was offered as a sacrifice," don't eat it, both out of consideration for the one who told you and also for the sake of conscience. (ISV)

6.122. Is he who was dead and We have raised him unto life, and set for him a light wherein he walketh among men, as him whose similitude is in utter darkness whence he cannot emerge? Thus is their conduct made fairseeming for the disbelievers.

2Corinthians 6:14-16 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? ¹⁵What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? ¹⁶What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (ESV)

Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! (ESV)

6.123. And thus have We made in every city great ones of its wicked ones, that they should plot therein. They do but plot against themselves, though they perceive not.

Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. (ESV)

Proverbs 30:12 There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth. (ESV)

Job 4:8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. (ESV)

6.124. And when a token cometh unto them, they say: We will not believe till we are given that which Allah's messengers are given. Allah knoweth best with whom to place His message. Humiliation from Allah and heavy punishment will smite the guilty for their scheming.

John 4:48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.” (ESV)

Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (ESV)

Isaiah 2:12 For the LORD of hosts will have a day of reckoning against everyone who is proud and lofty and against everyone who is lifted up, That he may be abased. (NAS)

6.125. And whomsoever it is Allah's will to guide, He expandeth his bosom unto the Surrender, and whomsoever it is His Will to send astray, He maketh his bosom close and narrow as if he were engaged in sheer ascent. Thus Allah layeth ignominy upon those who believe not.

6.126. This is the path of thy Lord, a straight path. We have detailed Our revelations for a people who take heed.

6.127. For them is the abode of peace with their Lord. He will be their Protecting Friend because of what they used to do.

Romans 8:28-30 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. ²⁹For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. (ESV)

Romans 9:18 So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. (ESV)

One group baptised and keeping the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper practicing righteousness is entitled to eternal life, the other is going to the Second Resurrection to face corrective training to lead them to repentance. The way that seems right leads to ruin and humiliation.

6.128. In the day when He will gather them together (He will say): O ye assembly of the jinn! Many of humankind did ye seduce. And their adherents among humankind will say: Our Lord! We enjoyed one another, but now we have arrived at the appointed term which Thou appointedst for us. He will say: Fire is your home. Abide therein for ever, save him whom Allah willeth (to deliver). Lo! thy Lord is Wise, Aware.

6.129. Thus We let some of the wrong-doers have power over others because of what they are wont to earn.

6.130. O ye assembly of the jinn and humankind! Came there not unto you messengers of your own who recounted unto you My tokens and warned you of the meeting of this your Day? They will say: We testify against ourselves. And the life of the world beguiled them. And they testify against themselves that they were disbelievers.

6.131. This is because thy Lord destroyeth not the townships arbitrarily while their people are unconscious (of the wrong they do).

Revelation 12:9 states that Satan with his demons (the jinn or djinn) has deceived the whole world i.e. the vast majority. His minions oppressed the elect and profited from each other. They deserve the Second Resurrection and the intensive corrective training they will get (see the paper Judgment of the Demons (No. 080)).

The messengers were sent to warn them of the consequences of their wrong deeds. They will bear witness against themselves that the life of the world deceived them.

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?

Romans 8:5-8 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ⁶To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, indeed it cannot; ⁸and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

1John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world.

God does nothing save that first He warns those people by his servants (2Chr. 19:10; Ezek. 3:18-21; 33:3, 7-9; Acts 20:31; 1Thes. 5:14).

Revelation 20:12-15 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. ¹³And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. ¹⁴Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. (ESV)

6.132. For all there will be ranks from what they did. Thy Lord is not unaware of what they do.

Romans 2:6 For he will render to every man according to his works:

Jeremiah 17:10 "I the LORD search the mind and try the heart, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings."

Thus all are awarded responsibilities over time

6.133. Thy Lord is the Absolute, the Lord of Mercy. If He will, He can remove you and can cause what He will to follow after you, even as He raised you from the seed of other folk.

Matthew 3:9-10 Don't think you can say to yourselves, 'We have father Abraham!' because I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones! ¹⁰The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree that isn’t producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. (ISV)

Romans 11:17-22 Now if some of the branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive branch, have been grafted in their place to share the rich root of the olive tree, ¹⁸do not boast about being better than the other branches. If you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. ¹⁹Then you will say, "Branches were cut off so that I could be grafted in." ²⁰That's right! They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you remain only because of faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid! ²¹For if God did not spare the natural branches, he certainly will not spare you, either. ²²Consider, then, the kindness and severity of God: his severity toward those who fell, but God's kindness toward you—if you continue receiving his kindness. Otherwise, you too will be cut off. (ISV)

6.134. Lo! that which ye are promised will surely come to pass, and ye cannot escape

Psalm 119:140 Thy promise is well tried, and thy servant loves it.

If God has promised good it will come to pass, if He has promised punishment He is able to bring it about.

6.135. Say (O Muhammad): O my people! Work according to your power. Lo! I too am working. Thus ye will come to know for which of us will be the happy sequel. Lo! the wrong-doers will not be successful.

Revelation 22:11-12 Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy." ¹²"Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense, to repay every one for what he has done.

6.136. They assign unto Allah, of the crops and cattle which He created, a portion, and they say: "This is Allah's" - in their make-believe - "and this is for (His) partners in regard to us." Thus that which (they assign) unto His partners in them reacheth not Allah and that which (they assign) unto Allah goeth to their (so-called) partners. Evil is their ordinance.

6.137. Thus have their (so-called) partners (of Allah) made the killing of their children to seem fair unto many of the idolaters, that they may ruin them and make their faith obscure for them. Had Allah willed (it otherwise), they had not done so. So leave them alone with their devices.

6.138. And they say: Such cattle and crops are forbidden. No-one is to eat of them save whom we will - in their make-believe - cattle whose backs are forbidden, cattle over which they mention not the name of Allah. (All that is) a lie against Him. He will repay them for that which they invent.

6.139. And they say: That which is in the bellies of such cattle is reserved for our males and is forbidden to our wives; but if it be born dead, then they (all) may be partakers thereof. He will reward them for their attribution (of such ordinances unto Him). Lo, He is Wise, Aware.

6.140. They are losers who besottedly have slain their children without knowledge, and have forbidden that which Allah bestowed upon them, inventing a lie against Allah. They indeed have gone astray and are not guided.

Matthew 22:21 They said, "Caesar's." Then he said to them, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

These are the pagan practices that they use to subvert the Tithes and Offerings of the faith. Their eating of the dead is another sin and so is their slaying of the young contrary to the laws of God in the allocation of the Firstborn and a number of ordinances.

All that there is belongs to God. He just requires a tenth so that He can bless us. What have these so called gods done that these deceived give them God’s tenth as well.

Leviticus 18:21 You shall not give any of your children to devote them by fire to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

Deuteronomy 12:31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God; for every abominable thing which the LORD hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

Ephesians 4:18 they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart;

Proverbs 21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart.

1Timothy 4:3-5 who forbid marriage and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. ⁴For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving; ⁵for then it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

Deuteronomy 4:2 You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you. (ESV)

Revelation 22:18-19 I warn every one who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if any one adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, ¹⁹and if any one takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

Those who add to His words will suffer ruin. Those who remove from His words will lose their lives. Both groups end up in the Second Resurrection.

6.141. He it is Who produceth gardens trellised and untrellised, and the date-palm, and crops of divers flavour, and the olive and the pomegranate, like and unlike. Eat ye of the fruit thereof when it fruiteth, and pay the due thereof upon the harvest day, and be not prodigal. Lo! Allah loveth not the prodigals.

Genesis 1:29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. (ESV)

The requirement to tithe is stated here (cf. the paper Tithing (No. 161)).

6.142. And of the cattle (He produceth) some for burdens, some for food. Eat of that which Allah hath bestowed upon you, and follow not the footsteps of the devil, for lo! he is an open foe to you.

Genesis 9:3-4 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. ⁴But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. (ESV)

1Peter 5:8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. (ESV)

James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (ESV)

6.143. Eight pairs: Of the sheep twain, and of the goats twain. Say: Hath He forbidden the two males or the two females, or that which the wombs of the two females contain? Expound to me (the case) with knowledge, if ye are truthful.

6.144. And of the camels twain and of the oxen twain. Say: Hath He forbidden the two males or the two females, or that which the wombs of the two females contain; or were ye by to witness when Allah commanded you (all) this? Then who doth greater wrong than he who deviseth a lie concerning Allah, that he may lead mankind astray without knowledge. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.

Romans 16:18 For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive. (ESV)

Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies. (ESV)

6.145. Say: I find not in that which is revealed unto me aught prohibited to an eater that he eat thereof, except it be carrion, or blood poured forth, or swineflesh - for that verily is foul - or the abomination which was immolated to the name of other than Allah. But whoso is compelled (thereto), neither craving nor transgressing, (for him) lo! thy Lord is Forgiving, Merciful.

6.146. Unto those who are Jews We forbade every animal with claws. And of the oxen and the sheep forbade We unto them the fat thereof save that upon the backs or the entrails, or that which is mixed with the bone. That we awarded them for their rebellion. And lo! we verily are truthful.

6.147. So if they give the lie to thee (Muhammad), say: Your Lord is a Lord of All-Embracing Mercy, and His wrath will never be withdrawn from guilty folk.

Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 provide information on clean and unclean food (see the papers The Food Laws (No. 015)). The texts here refer to the law of Kashrut that were brought up by Judah and originally stemmed from Egypt. The Hadith uses the texts to eat every vile and unclean thing.

Acts 15:20 but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood.

This text comes in initialy from the Acts Conference and applies to slaves who are the property of other nations and not of the faith (see the paper The Acts 15 Conference (No. 069)).

The next applies to Gnostics and their false doctrines.

1Timothy 4:3-4 who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. ⁴For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving (ESV)

Leviticus 7:22-27 The LORD said to Moses, ²³"Say to the people of Israel, You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat. ²⁴The fat of an animal that dies of itself, and the fat of one that is torn by beasts, may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it. ²⁵For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of which an offering by fire is made to the LORD shall be cut off from his people. ²⁶Moreover you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwellings. ²⁷Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people."

1Corinthians 10:28 But if anyone says to you, "This is meat sacrificed to idols," do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience' sake; (NAS)

6.148. They who are idolaters will say: Had Allah willed, we had not ascribed (unto Him) partners neither had our fathers, nor had we forbidden aught. Thus did those who were before them give the lie (to Allah's messengers) till they tasted of the fear of Us. Say: Have ye any knowledge that ye can adduce for Us? Lo! ye follow naught but an opinion, Lo! ye do but guess.

6.149. Say - For Allah's is the final argument - Had He willed He could indeed have guided all of you.

6.150. Say: Come, bring your witnesses who can bear witness that Allah forbade (all) this. And if they bear witness, do not thou bear witness with them. Follow thou not the whims of those who deny Our revelations, those who believe not in the Hereafter and deem (others) equal with their Lord.

6.151. Say: Come, I will recite unto you that which your Lord hath made a sacred duty for you: That ye ascribe no thing as partner unto Him and that ye do good to parents, and that ye slay not your children because of penury - We provide for you and for them - and that ye draw not nigh to lewd things whether open or concealed. And that ye slay not the life which Allah hath made sacred, save in the course of justice. This He hath command you, in order that ye may discern.

6.152. And approach not the wealth of the orphan save with that which is better, till he reach maturity. Give full measure and full weight, in justice. We task not any soul beyond its scope. And if ye give your word, do justice thereunto, even though it be (against) a kinsman; and fulfil the covenant of Allah. This He commandeth you that haply ye may remember.

6.153. And (He commandeth you, saying): This is My straight path, so follow it. Follow not other ways, lest ye be parted from His way. This hath He ordained for you, that ye may ward off (evil).

6.154. Again, We gave the Scripture unto Moses, complete for him who would do good, an explanation of all things, a guidance and a mercy, that they might believe in the meeting with their Lord.
6.155. And this is a blessed Scripture which We have revealed. So follow it and ward off (evil), that ye may find mercy.

Deuteronomy 5:7-8 'You shall have no other gods before me. ⁸"'You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

You shall not bow down to them or worship them.

Man was given free choice without which we would all be robots all designed to go just as the designer wants us to do.

Isaiah 33:22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our ruler, the LORD is our king; he will save us.

Exodus 23:2 You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; nor shall you bear witness in a suit, turning aside after a multitude, so as to pervert justice;

2Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? (ESV)

2Corinthians 4:4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God. Who is the image of God.

1Timothy 5:4 If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn their religious duty to their own family and make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Ephesians 5:11-12 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. ¹²For it is a shame even to speak of the things that they do in secret;

Isaiah 1:17 learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

1Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Psalm15:4 The one who despises those who are utterly wicked, but who honors the one who fears the LORD, who keeps his word even when it hurts and does not change, (ISV)

Mark 12:31 The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

2Timothy 3:16-17 All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, ¹⁷that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

6.156. Lest ye should say: The Scripture was revealed only to two sects before us, and we in sooth were unaware of what they read;

6.157. Or lest ye should say: If the Scripture had been revealed unto us, we surely had been better guided than are they. Now hath there come unto you a clear proof from your Lord, a guidance and mercy; and who doeth greater wrong than he who denieth the revelations of Allah, and turneth away from them? We award unto those who turn away from Our revelations an evil doom because of their aversion.

6.158. Wait they, indeed, for nothing less than that the angels should come unto them, or thy Lord should come, or there should come one of the portents from thy Lord? In the day when one of the portents from thy Lord cometh, its belief availeth naught a soul which theretofore believed not, nor in its belief earned good (by works). Say: Wait ye! Lo! We (too) are waiting.

This was a prophecy that was fulfilled by the Hadithic Muslims who denied the Scriptures and say to this day they are lost. They will be destroyed by the Messiah.

Matthew 12:39-42 But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. ⁴⁰For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. ⁴¹The men of Nineveh will arise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. ⁴²The queen of the South will arise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

Matthew 11:20-24 Then he began to upbraid the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent. ²¹"Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Beth-saida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. ²²But I tell you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. ²³And you, Caperna-um, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. ²⁴But I tell you that it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you."

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Only those truly called and chosen will believe in the revelations, to the others they are just words that do not make sense. Once the prophesied event is fulfilled it may be too late for some. This is evident from the paper on The Sign of Jonah and the History of the Reconstruction of the Temple (No. 013).

6.159. Lo! As for those who sunder their religion and become schismatics, no concern at all hast thou with them. Their case will go to Allah, Who then will tell them what they used to do.

Romans 16:17-18 I appeal to you, brethren, to take note of those who create dissensions and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you have been taught; avoid them. ¹⁸For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by fair and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.

They will be dealt with in the Second Resurrection and their misunderstandings cleared up and corrected.

6.160. Whoso bringeth a good deed will receive tenfold the like thereof, while whoso bringeth an ill-deed will be awarded but the like thereof; and they will not be wronged.

2Corinthians 9:6 The point is this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

6.161. Say: Lo! As for me, my Lord hath guided me unto a straight path, a right religion, the community of Abraham, the upright, who was no idolater.

Isaiah 58:11 And the LORD will guide you continually, and satisfy your desire with good things, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

Isaiah 26:7 The way of the righteous is level; thou dost make smooth the path of the righteous.

6.162. Say: Lo! my worship and my sacrifice and my living and my dying are for Allah, Lord of the Worlds.

Romans 12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Romans 14:8 if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

6.163. He hath no partner. This am I commanded, and I am first of those who surrender (unto Him).

1Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that in due time he may exalt you.

Romans 14:11 for it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God."

1Corinthians 8:5-6 For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, ⁶yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him. (NAS)

6.164. Say: Shall I seek another than Allah for Lord, when He is Lord of all things? Each soul earneth only on its own account, nor doth any laden bear another's load. Then unto your Lord is your return and He will tell you that wherein ye differed.

Psalm 115:3 Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases.

Isaiah 40:23 who brings princes to nought, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.

Galatians 6:5 For each will have to bear his own load. (ESV)

Romans 14:12 So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. (ESV)

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.

6.165. He it is Who hath placed you as viceroys of the earth and hath exalted some of you in rank above others, that He may try you by (the test of) that which He hath given you. Lo! Thy Lord is swift in prosecution, and Lo! He verily is Forgiving, Merciful.

Luke 12:48 But he who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, shall receive a light beating. Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be required; and of him to whom men commit much they will demand the more.

Numbers 14:18 ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’ (ESV)

Daniel 9:9 "To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him; (NAS)

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