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LOYALTY DESCRIBED IN THE QUR'AN
would prove, to their ignorant minds, that these messengers had
truly been entrusted with this great mission. Before they would be-
lieve the words of the messengers, and obey their call to accept true
religion, they expected them to perform miracles, to make proof of

their superiority. Allah tells us in the Qur'an about that which these
disbelievers expected:
They say, "We will not believe you until you make a spring
gush out from the earth for us; or have a garden of dates
and grapes which you make rivers come pouring through;
or make the sky, as you claim, fall down on us in lumps; or

bring Allah and the angels here as a guarantee; or possess a
house built out of gleaming gold; or ascend up into
heaven—and even then we will not believe in your ascent
unless you bring us down a book to read!" Say: "Glory be to
my Lord! Am I anything but a human messenger?" (Surat
al-Isra', 90-93)
Allah tells us in another part of the Qur'an that these insincere
individuals, who were looking for excuses not to believe, wanted
our Prophet (saas) to perform miracles. He answered:

Say: "I do not say to you that I possess the treasuries of
Allah, nor do I know the Unseen, nor do I say to you that I
am an angel. I only follow what has been revealed to me."
Say: "Are the blind the same as those who can see? So will
you not reflect?" (Surat al-An‘am, 50)
We can see that the miracles they asked our Prophet (saas) to
perform, in order to confirm what they had said, were beyond
human capacity. According to their faulty reasoning, whoever they

followed and listened to would have to be superior to them, but ac-

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