Commentary on the Koran: Surah 43 (No. Q043)

Pickthall Translation; English Standard Version Bible Quotes throughout unless otherwise noted.

Introduction

Surah XLIII Az-Zukruf or “The Gold Ornaments” or adornments (also called “Ornaments of Gold” from the word meaning “Golden Ornaments” in verse 35. These refer to the disbelievers that seek the riches of this world such as the “doors of silver” and the “ornaments of gold” to no avail.

It is the Fourth of the Ha Mim Surahs written in the Middle Group of Beccan Surahs. It refers to the Scriptures and is here summarised to be made plain to the Arabs as a Quran. This word is translated as “lecture” as it makes clear that the Scriptures are rendered as a Quran to the Arabs in Arabic so they might understand. However, only the called will understand as the texts show again and again. The Hadithic Imams pretend that the Scriptures were lost and the terms refer only to the Koran which is false.

The text attacks the false teachings of the idolatrous Arabs and their failure to follow the Scriptures. The Prophet reinforces the roles of Moses and Jesus, the Messiah, who gave the laws and commandments of God (v. 63). He also reiterates (in v. 81) that the Benificent One had no son (meaning by procreation, in that the Messiah was one of the creation born by divine fiat as we see in the previous Surahs).

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43.1 Ha. Mim.

43.2. By the Scripture which maketh plain,

43.3. Lo! We have appointed it a Lecture, in Arabic that haply ye may understand.

43.4. And Lo! in the Source of Decrees, which We possess, it is indeed sublime, decisive.

Refer to Matthew 5:17-18 at ayat 30.30 Commentary on the Koran: Surah 30 (No. Q030) and Psalm 119:160 at ayat 33.40 Commentary on the Koran: Surah 33 (No. Q033).

Also see Nehemiah 9:31 at ayat 41.2 and Isaiah 42:21 at ayat 41.4 in Surah 41 above.

Psalm 116:5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful.

Psalm 138:2 I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.

Deuteronomy 4:6 Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'

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

So then we see that God sent the prophets to the men of old and they ignored them or mocked them or worse.

43.5. Shall We utterly ignore you because ye are a wanton folk?

43.6. How many a prophet did We send among the men of old!

43.7. And never came there unto them a prophet but they used to mock him.

43.8. Then We destroyed men mightier than these in prowess; and the example of the men of old hath gone (before them).

See also the Fate of the Twelve Apostles (No. 122B) and 2Chronicles 36:16 at ayat 10.39 in Commentary on the Koran : Surah 10 (No. Q010).

Ezra 5:12 But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.

Nehemiah 9:26 Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.

Isaiah 65:12 I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because, when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes and chose what I did not delight in.

Proverbs 6:15 therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

Psalm 33:16 The king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.

1Corinthians 10:11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

43.9. And if thou (Muhammad) ask them: Who created the heavens and the earth, they will surely answer: The Mighty, the Knower created them;

Isaiah 37:16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

Romans 11:33-36 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! ³⁴"For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?" ³⁵"Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?" ³⁶For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

43.10. Who made the earth a resting-place for you, and placed roads for you therein, that haply ye may find your way;

Acts 17:26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Genesis 11:8-9 So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. ⁹Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

43.11. And Who sendeth down water from the sky in (due) measure, and We revive a dead land therewith. Even so will ye be brought forth;

Acts 14:17 Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.

Psalm 65:10 You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth.

Isaiah 26:19 Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

Psalm 71:20 You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.

The rain brings about new life after the earth has dried up and is considered dead. In a similar way God will give us new life after our death.

43.12. He Who created all the pairs, and appointed for you ships and cattle whereupon ye ride.

43.13. That ye may mount upon their backs, and may remember your Lord's favour when ye mount thereon, and may say: Glorified be He Who hath subdued these unto us, and we were not capable (of subduing them);

43.14. And lo! unto our Lord we surely are returning.

Genesis 5:2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.

Genesis 6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

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 heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Nehemiah 2:12 Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode.

Psalm 107:23 Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters;

Psalm 107:8 Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!

Luke 23:46 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" And having said this he breathed his last.

Refer to Ecclesiastes 12:7 at ayat 19.40 Commentary on the Koran: Surah 19 (No. Q019).

43.15. And they allot to Him a portion of His bondmen! Lo! man is verily a mere ingrate.

Romans 1:25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

Nehemiah 9:17 They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.

Colossians 2:18 Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,

43.16. Or chooseth He daughters of all that He hath created, and honoureth He you with sons?

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?

Psalm 127:3 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Psalm 127:5 Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Psalm 144:12 May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;

God commanded and the angelic Host were created by divine fiat. There is no sexuality among the Host. They are all spiritual bodies. Mankind has attached a lesser value on females as they do not have the same strength as males and are more vulnerable in battle or in difficult circumstances. It is not so with God.

43.17. And if one of them hath tidings of that which he likeneth to the Beneficent One, his countenance becometh black and he is full of inward rage.

43.18. (Liken they then to Allah) that which is bred up in outward show, and in dispute cannot make itself plain?

Deuteronomy 4:16-17 beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, ¹⁷the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,

Romans 1:22-23 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ²³and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

Psalm 115:4-7 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. ⁵They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see. ⁶They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell. ⁷They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat.

1Samuel 12:21 And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.

43.19. And they make the angels, who are the slaves of the Beneficent, females. Did they witness their creation? Their testimony will be recorded and they will be questioned.

See Job 38:7 at ayat 43.16 above.

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

Daniel 6:22 My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.

Psalm 103:20 Bless the LORD, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word!

Note the comments at ayat 43.16 above.

43.20. And they say: If the Beneficent One had (so) willed, we should not have worshipped them. They have no knowledge whatsoever of that. They do but guess.

God gave them free choice. He does not want robots.

Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

Joshua 24:15 And if it is evil in your eyes 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.

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

(See also the Surah “Al Tarikh” for these many titles.)

43.21. Or have We given them any scripture before (this Qur'an) so that they are holding fast thereto?

43.22. Nay, for they say only: Lo! we found our fathers following a religion, and we are guided by their footprints.

43.23. And even so We sent not a warner before thee (Muhammad) into any township but its luxurious ones said: Lo! we found our fathers following a religion, and we are following their footprints.

43.24. (And the warner) said: What! Even though I bring you better guidance than that ye found your fathers following? They answered: Lo! in what ye bring we are disbelievers.

43.25. So We requited them. Then see the nature of the consequence for the rejecters!

Refer to 2Chronicles 36:16 at ayat 10.39 in Commentary on the Koran: Surah 10 (No. Q010) and see also Isaiah 65:12 at ayat 43.8 above.

Mark 7:9 And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!

God destroyed them as He said he would because they refused to heed the warnings of the prophets sent to them and mend their evil ways. They just went along in the traditions of their ancestors who knew no better and worshipped the gods of the nations around them. The idolaters at Becca retained their traditions and rejected the Commandments of God and the Faith and Testimony of Moses and the Messiah and the prophets. For that they are again warned and if they do not repent they will be destroyed.

43.26. And when Abraham said unto his father and his folk: Lo! I am innocent of what ye worship

43.27. Save Him Who did create me, for He will surely guide me.

43.28. And he made it a word enduring among his seed, that haply they might return.

43.29. Nay, but I let these and their fathers enjoy life (only) till there should come unto them the Truth and a messenger making plain.

43.30. And now that the Truth hath come unto them they say: This is mere magic, and lo! we are disbelievers therein.

See 2Chronicles 36:16 at ayat 10.39 in Commentary on the Koran: Surah 10 (No. Q010).

Ezekiel 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.

Psalm 48:14 that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.

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.

Luke 16:31 He said to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.'

Refer to Nehemiah 9:30 at ayat 22.49 Commentary on the Koran: Surah 22 (No. Q022).

43.31. And they say: If only this Qur'an had been revealed to some great man of the two towns?

43.32. Is it they who apportion thy Lord's mercy? We have apportioned among them their livelihood in the life of the world, and raised some of them above others in rank that some of them may take labour from others; and the mercy of thy Lord is better than (the wealth) that they amass.

See Daniel 4:17 at ayat 40.29 in Surah 40 above.

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."

Psalm 136:1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.

Proverbs 11:28 Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

Psalm 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

43.33. And were it not that mankind would have become one community, We might well have appointed, for those who disbelieve in the Beneficent, roofs of silver for their houses and stairs (of silver) whereby to mount,

43.34. And for their houses doors (of silver) and couches of silver whereon to recline,

43.35. And ornaments of gold. Yet all that would have been but a provision of the life of the world. And the Hereafter with your Lord would have been for those who keep from evil.

Refer to 1John 2:16-17 at ayat 18.8 Commentary on the Koran: Surah 18 (No. Q018).

Luke 12:15 And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

2Corinthians 4:17-18 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, ¹⁸as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

1Peter 3:3-4 Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— ⁴but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.

Here we see that the demons are allowed to take over the influence of those who disbelieve (cf. also 1Cor. 5:5). In this way they might be saved in the retraining of the Second Resurrection.

43.36. And he whose sight is dim to the remembrance of the Beneficent, We assign unto him a devil who becometh his comrade;

43.37. And lo! they surely turn them from the way of Allah, and yet they deem that they are rightly guided;

43.38. Till, when he cometh unto Us, he saith (unto his comrade): Ah, would that between me and thee there were the distance of the two horizons - an evil comrade!

43.39. And it profiteth you not this day, because ye did wrong, that ye will be sharers in the doom.

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 image of God.

Ephesians 2:2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—

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

Refer to John 5:28-29 at ayat 20.55 Commentary on the Koran: Surah 20 (No. Q020).

43.40. Canst thou (Muhammad) make the deaf to hear, or canst thou guide the blind or him who is in error manifest?

Isaiah 6:9 And he said, "Go, and say to this people: "'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.'

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

43.41. And if We take thee away, We surely shall take vengeance on them,

43.42. Or (if) We show thee that wherewith We threaten them; for lo! We have complete command of them.

Psalm 94:1-2 O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! ²Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!

Hebrews 10:30 For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people."

Deuteronomy 32:35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.

43.43. So hold thou fast to that which is inspired in thee. Lo! thou art on a right path.

43.44. And lo! it is in truth a Reminder for thee and for thy folk; and ye will be questioned.

1Thessalonians 5:21-22 but test everything; hold fast what is good. ²²Abstain from every form of evil.

Philippians 1:9-11 And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, ¹⁰so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, ¹¹filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Colossians 1:10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

43.45. And ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before thee: Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped beside the Beneficent?

Genesis 5:22 Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 6:9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

Genesis 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,

Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other gods before Me.

Psalm 81:9 There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.

43.46. And verily We sent Moses with Our revelations unto Pharaoh and his chiefs, and he said: I am a messenger of the Lord of the Worlds.

43.47. But when he brought them Our tokens, behold! they laughed at them.

43.48. And every token that We showed them was greater than its sister (token), and We grasped them with the torment, that haply they might turn again.

Exodus 4:21 And the LORD said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.

Exodus 7:10-12 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent. ¹¹Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts. ¹²For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

43.49. And they said: O wizard! Entreat thy Lord for us by the pact that He hath made with thee. Lo! we verily will walk aright.

43.50. But when We eased them of the torment, behold! they broke their word.

Exodus 8:10-15 And he said, "Tomorrow." Moses said, "Be it as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God. ¹¹The frogs shall go away from you and your houses and your servants and your people. They shall be left only in the Nile." ¹²So Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the LORD about the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh. ¹³And the LORD did according to the word of Moses. The frogs died out in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields. ¹⁴And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank. ¹⁵But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

43.51. And Pharaoh caused a proclamation to be made among his people saying: O my people! Is not mine the sovereignty of Egypt and these rivers flowing under me? Can ye not then discern?

Egypt was ruled by Pharaoh because God had placed him in that position.

See Daniel 4:17 at ayat 40.29 in Surah 40 above.

43.52. I am surely better than this fellow, who is despicable and can hardly make (his meaning) plain!

1Corinthians 1:25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Here we see one base leader looking down on the messenger from the Almighty God.

43.53. Why, then, have armlets of gold not been set upon him, or angels sent along with him?

John 4:48 So Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe."

The miracles took place in their midst yet had no effect on them. They wanted to see Moses with an entourage of angels alongside him.

43.54. Thus he persuaded his people to make light (of Moses), and they obeyed him. Lo! they were a wanton folk.

43.55. So, when they angered Us, We punished them and drowned them every one.

43.56. And We made them a thing past, and an example for those after (them).

See 1Corinthians 10:11 at ayat 43.8 above.

Exodus 15:4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.

43.57. And when the son of Mary [Maryam] is quoted as an example, behold! the folk laugh out,

Refer to Luke 1:32-35 at ayat 19.34 Commentary on the Koran: Surah 19 (No. Q019).

Mark 6:2-4 And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? ³Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary [Maryam] and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. ⁴And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.”

43.58. And say: Are our gods better, or is he? They raise not the objection save for argument. Nay! but they are a contentious folk.

43.59. He is nothing but a slave on whom We bestowed favour, and We made him a pattern for the Children of Israel.

John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 16:16 Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

John 11:27 "She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.

John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. (KJV)

John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

See Acts 4:12 at ayat 42.6 in Surah 42 above.

All beings generated by God Almighty are pleased to be His slaves. They prefer to be slaves to righteousness as they want to serve God wholeheartedly. Christ set the standard for us by being obedient unto death. God gives us everything good and cares for us in an awesome way. Being a slave to a wonderful beneficent God is a blessing.

43.60. And had We willed We could have set among you angels to be viceroys in the earth.

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

Psalm 91:11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.

Angels carry out their assigned duties for the benefit of the elect. The elect have a part to play to work out their salvation with fear and trembling.

43.61. And lo! verily there is knowledge of the Hour. So doubt ye not concerning it, but follow Me. This is the right path.

Mark 13:32 But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Proverbs 3:5-7 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ⁶In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. ⁷Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil.

Romans 8:13-14 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. ¹⁴For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Philippians 3:17 Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.

1Thessalonians 1:6 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

43.62. And let not Satan turn you aside. Lo! he is an open enemy for you.

See 2Corinthians 4:4 at ayat 43.39 above.

2Corinthians 2:11 so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

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

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

43.63. When Jesus came with clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty), he said: I have come unto you with wisdom, and to make plain some of that concerning which ye differ. So keep your duty to Allah, and obey me.

43.64. Lo! Allah, He is my Lord and your Lord. So worship Him. This is a right path.

See Isaiah 42:21 at ayat 41.4 in Surah 41 above.

Refer to Matthew 5:17 at ayat 30.30 Commentary on the Koran: Surah 30 (No. Q030).

Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.

Mark 12:29-30 Jesus answered, "The most important is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. ³⁰And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'

John 20:17 Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. ¹⁴For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

43.65. But the factions among them differed. Then woe unto those who do wrong from the doom of a painful day.

43.66. Await they aught save the Hour, that it shall come upon them suddenly, when they know not?

1Corinthians 11:19 for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.

1John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

Psalm 37:38 But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalm 73:19 How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!

Isaiah 13:6 Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!

43.67. Friends on that day will be foes one to another, save those who kept their duty (to Allah).

43.68. O My slaves! For you there is no fear this day, nor is it ye who grieve;

43.69. (Ye) who believed Our revelations and were self-surrendered,

43.70. Enter the Garden, ye and your wives, to be made glad.

43.71. Therein are brought round for them trays of gold and goblets, and therein is all that souls desire and eyes find sweet. And ye are immortal therein.

43.72. This is the Garden which ye are made to inherit because of what ye used to do.

43.73. Therein for you is fruit in plenty whence to eat.

Refer to Revelation 20:6 at ayat 18.31 Commentary on the Koran: Surah 18 (No. Q018).

Romans 2:6-7 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;

Revelation 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.

43.74. Lo! the guilty are immortal in hell's torment.

43.75. It is not relaxed for them, and they despair therein.

43.76. We wronged them not, but they it was who did the wrong.

43.77. And they cry: O master! Let thy Lord make an end of us. He saith: Lo! here ye must remain.

43.78. We verily brought the Truth unto you, but ye were, most of you, averse to the Truth.

43.79. Or do they determine any thing (against the Prophet)? Lo! We (also) are determining.

43.80. Or deem they that We cannot hear their secret thoughts and private confidences? Nay, but Our envoys, present with them, do record.

Psalm 98:9 before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

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

Psalm 37:12-13 The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him, ¹³but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.

See Ezekiel 18:4 at ayat 43.30 above and refer to Jeremiah 17:10 at ayat 17.1 and Revelation 20:11-15 at ayat 17.15 Commentary on the Koran: Surah 17 (No. Q017).

43.81. Say (O Muhammad): If the Beneficent One hath a son, then, I shall be first among the worshippers. (But there is no son).

They then say ‘But there is no son’ which is false.

This text has been added by the Hadithic scholars. It is directly contrary to the Koran and the Scriptures. The refutation and implications are that the idolaters claim the Host under God had to procreate for God to have sons. Yet the Koran says clearly God creates the Host by divine fiat.

See Job 1:6; Job 2:1 and Job 38:7 at ayat 43.16 above.

43.82. Glorified be the Lord of the heavens and the earth, the Lord of the Throne, from that which they ascribe (unto Him)!

Exodus 18:11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, because he delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians, when they dealt arrogantly with them. (RSV)

Psalm 97:9 For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.

Psalm 83:18 that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.

Psalm 146:6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever;

43.83. So let them flounder (in their talk) and play until they meet the Day which they are promised.

Daniel 12:10 Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.

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 with me, to repay each one for what he has done.

43.84. And He it is Who in the heaven is God, and in the earth God. He is the Wise, the Knower.

43.85. And blessed be He unto Whom belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, and with Whom is knowledge of the Hour, and unto Whom ye will be returned.

Refer to Isaiah 46:9-10 at ayat 17.111 Commentary on the Koran: Surah 17 (No. Q017) and 1Chronicles 29:11-12 at ayat 30.28 Commentary on the Koran: Surah 30 (No. Q030).

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

1Timothy 6:15 which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

Matthew 24:36 But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

Refer to Ecclesiastes 12:7 at ayat 19.40 Commentary on the Koran: Surah 19 (No. Q019).

43.86. And those unto whom they cry instead of Him possess no power of intercession, saving him who beareth witness unto the Truth knowingly.

This statement ‘saving him who beareth witness unto the Truth knowingly’ is the Messiah who was sent to be the witness to the truth.

See Isaiah 59:16; Acts 4:12 and 1Timothy 2:5 at ayat 42.6 in Surah 42 and Romans 1:22-23 at ayat 43.18 above.

Deuteronomy 32:17 They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.

Jonah 2:8 Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.

43.87. And if thou ask them who created them, they will surely say: Allah. How then are they turned away?

43.88. And he saith: O my Lord! Lo! these are a folk who believe not.

43.89. Then bear with them (O Muhammad) and say: Peace. But they will come to know.

Genesis 5:2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.

Hebrews 3:12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

Romans 12:18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

Hebrews 12:14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."

Hebrews 8:11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

We will re-train the entire Human Host that have ever lived in the Second Resurrection and all those who do not understand and are in conflict will be given to understand.

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