Miracles Foretold Doom
Qur’aanic Verse 17.59:
Transliteration:
59. Wama manaAAana an nursila bial-ayati illa an kaththaba biha al-awwaloona waatayna thamooda alnnaqata mubsiratan fathalamoo biha wama nursilu bial-ayati illa takhweefan
Translation:
59. And nothing prevented Us from sending miracles except that the ancients rejected them. And We gave Samood the she-camel - a manifest miracle - but they wronged her.12 And We do not send miracles but to warn.13
Study Notes:
12. See Verse 7.73.
13. Earlier peoples like those to whom Prophets Salih (Samood/Thamood), Moses (Pharaoh’s) and Jesus (Jews) were given some extraordinary signs (miracles). The miracles were not sent, but as warnings. Upon their disregarding the warnings, the Thamood and Pharaoh’s people were destroyed. The Jews too were substantially destroyed in A.D. 70, and the remnants were banished from their homeland to live as insignificant minorities in different parts of the world. The remnants were given another chance to redeem themselves. Would they?
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The above is extracted from yet-to-be-published Qur’aanic Studies - Volume XXVIX. It will be published, in due course, inshaAllah on the website INVITATION TO SALVATION, in continuation of Volumes I to XXVIII already published and freely available thereon.
Mohammad Shafi
Author of ‘ISLAM & INTEREST‘