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and do not differentiate between any of them, changing the Words of Allah. And news of other
We will pay them their wages. Allah is Ever- Messengers has come to you. (6:34)
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:152) When a Sign comes to them, they say, ‘We will
There are Messengers We have already told you not believe until we have been given the same as
about and Messengers We have not told you the Messengers of Allah were given.’ Allah
about; and Allah spoke directly to Musa. (4:164) knows best where to place His Message.
Messengers bringing good news and giving Debasement in the sight of Allah and a severe
warning, so that people will have no argument punishment will strike those who did wrong for
against Allah after the coming of the Messengers. the plots that they concocted. (6:124)
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (4:165) Company of jinn and men! Did not Messengers
People of the Book! Our Messenger has come to come to you from among yourselves relating My
you, making things clear to you, after a period Signs to you and warning you of the encounter of
with no Messengers, lest you should say, ‘No one this Day of yours? They will say, ‘We testify
came to us bringing good news or warning.’ against ourselves.’ The life of this world deluded
Someone has come to you bringing good news them and they will testify against themselves that
and a warning. Allah has power over all things. they were disbelievers. (6:130)
(5:19) Children of Adam! If Messengers come to you
Then Allah sent a crow which scratched at the from among yourselves, recounting My Signs to
earth to show him how to conceal his brother’s you, those who guard against evil and put things
corpse. He said, ‘Woe is me! Can I not even be right, will feel no fear and will know no sorrow.
like this crow and conceal my brother’s corpse?’ (7:35)
And he became one of those who suffer bitter re- We will strip away any rancour in their hearts.
morse on account of that. So We decreed for the Rivers will flow under them and they will say,
tribe of Israel that if someone kills another per- ‘Praise be to Allah Who has guided us to this! We
son–unless it is in retaliation for someone else or would not have been guided, had Allah not
for causing corruption in the earth–it is as if he guided us. The Messengers of our Lord came
had murdered all mankind. And if anyone gives with the Truth.’ It will be proclaimed to them:
life to another person, it is as if he had given life ‘This is your Garden which you have inherited
to all mankind. Our Messengers came to them for what you did.’ (7:43)
with Clear Signs but even after that many of them What are they waiting for but its fulfilment? The
committed outrages in the earth. (5:31-32) Day its fulfilment occurs, those who forgot it be-
The Messiah, the son of Maryam, was only a fore will say, ‘The Messengers of our Lord came
Messenger, before whom other Messengers came with the Truth. Are there any intercessors to inter-
and went. His mother was a woman of truth. cede for us, or can we be sent back so that we
Both of them ate food. See how We make the can do something other than what we did?’ They
Signs clear to them! Then see how they are per- have lost their own selves and what they in-
verted! (5:75) vented has forsaken them. (7:53)
On the day Allah gathers the Messengers to- These cities–We have given you news of them.
gether and says, ‘What response did you re- Their Messengers came to them with Clear Signs,
ceive?’ they will say, ‘We do not know. You are but they were never going to believe in what they
the Knower of unseen things.’ (5:109) had previously rejected. That is how Allah seals
Messengers before you were also mocked, but up the hearts of the disbelievers. (7:101)
those who jeered were engulfed by what they Has the news of those who came before them not
mocked. (6:10) reached them the people of Nuh and ‘Ad and
Messengers before you were also denied but they Thamud, and the people of Ibrahim and the in-
were steadfast in the face of the denial and injury habitants of Madyan and the overturned cities?
they suffered until Our help arrived. There is no Their Messengers brought them the Clear Signs.
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