seekeroftruth
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Quran 26:192. It is a revelation from the Lord of the Worlds.
193. The Honest Spirit came down with it.
194. Upon your heart, that you may be one of the warners.
195. In a clear Arabic tongue.
196. And it is in the scriptures of the ancients.
197. Is it not a sign for them that the scholars of the Children of Israel recognized it?
198. Had We revealed it to one of the foreigners.
199. And he had recited it to them, they still would not have believed in it.
200. Thus We make it pass through the hearts of the guilty.
I had to cut today's verses because the commentary is way too long.
The Faithful Spirit is the angel Gabriel, who brought the Divine revelation to the Holy Prophet. The Prophet himself was known in Makkah as al-Amßn or the Faithful one before revelation came to him.
The addition of the words on thy heart is to indicate that the Prophet’s heart, being the receptacle of the mighty revelation, was no doubt truly responsive to the great truths contained in it. The high morals and the broad humanitarian truths which the Qur’ån contains give us a true picture of the great mind. This is referred to in one of the earliest revelations: “And surely thou hast sublime morals” (68:4). The pithy but most beautiful statement of ‘Å’ishah, the Prophet’s wife, than whom none was more familiar with the recipient of the Quranic revelation, remains unsurpassed in depicting the character of the Holy Prophet. When asked about it she replied: His character is the Qur’ån. She thus intimated in brief words that all those wonderful pictures of moral sublimity drawn in the Holy Qur’ån were pictures of the noble mind to which the Qur’ån was revealed.
The prophecies relating to the advent of the Prophet Mu√ammad, as met with in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, are referred to very often in the Holy Qur’ån. The statement made here is, however, more comprehensive: They are met with in all ancient scriptures. See 3:81, where a covenant is spoken of as being made through all the prophets of the world with regard to the Prophet’s advent. There is a reference in the next verse to the learned men of the Children of Israel in particular because the Jews and the Christians had long been in contact with the Arabs. Such references are of frequent occurrence in the early Makkan revelations, and there is not the least ground for the statement that because of the mention of the learned men of the Children of Israel, these verses must have been revealed at Madßnah.
Because prophecy plainly showed that the Arabs were to be the recipients of the revelation: “Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit”. In the Old Testament, Kedar, the son of Ishmael, stands for the Arab nation. Hence earlier prophecy required that the final revelation should be granted to an Arab.
The meaning is that the Qur’ån was made to enter into their hearts by reason of the convincing proof of its truth; but they rejected it, as the next verse shows.
So tomorrow I'll start with their rejection of the prophecies... God Willing... that is.
Back in the days when Captain George Athey was alive.... the great great great great whatever grandfather of my mother..... there was tension in the churches. He was a Protestant.... and no one who was did not maintain a relationship with the church of England could do business. The Athey's were Irish, you see, and they were also merchants. So Captain Athey signed on as an indentured body guard to Sir William Dent.... and he left Ireland for the US.... where he worked in Prince George's and St. Mary's counties. His family built the first Primitive Baptist church..... St. Johns. My grandfather's family built the church up there in Front Royal Virginia... Rebecca Athey was quite a fund raiser. It was because my family believed. Today.... Captain Athey's family is strewn all over the country.
My dad's side of the family were from France.... and they traveled to the US to get away from the French Revolution. they arrived about a hundred years after the Athey family... the Nance family left France for the US to escape the turmoil of politics. They planted themselves in North Carolina and then traveled west. My uncle became a Presbyterian Minister..... because the family believed.
What happens in one country can affect the whole world. What happens in one family causes changes down the line that affect the whole world.
God made a promise to Hagar and Ishmael.... it's in the Bible... Genesis 16.
These verses tell me that God did indeed make a promise to Hagar.... and His promise was to watch over Ishmael and his family.
These verses show how God is including Ishmael's kids.
