seekeroftruth
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Quran 32:23. We gave Moses the Book; so do not be in doubt regarding His encounter; and We made it a guidance for the Children of Israel.
24. And We appointed leaders from among them, guiding by Our command, as long as they persevered and were certain of Our communications.
25. Your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection regarding everything they had disputed.
26. Is it not a lesson for them, how many generations We have destroyed before them, in whose habitations they walk? Surely in that are signs. Do they not hear?
27. Do they not see how We conduct the water to a dry land, and with it We produce vegetation, from which their livestock eat, and themselves? Do they not see?
28. And they say, “When is this victory, if you are truthful?”
29. Say, “On the day of victory, the faith of those who disbelieved will be of no avail to them, and they will not be granted respite.”
30. So turn away from them, and wait. They too are waiting.
Here's commentary.To bring about the meeting with God — to make men live in God — is the real aim of religion, and here it is pointed out that to make men attain this object a Book was given to Moses for the Israelites, as a Book is now given for the whole world. This object will be attained notwithstanding opposition, which will be brought to naught, as made clear in v. 26.
The question makes it clear that the above verses speak of the triumph of Islåm over all opposition, then and now, in metaphorical language; hence they ask, when will the victory come? The driving of the water to a dead land, a land having no herbage, is a clear hint that the dead earth will receive life
We are quite clever.... we humans. We can pull irrigation and produce a garden, check out the work of the Romans, Greeks and Egyptians. God doesn't need a bunch of Civil Engineers to design and develop the plans and then lots of bulldozers and loaders and shovels to dig it out to the proper depth, pitch, and width. God tells the water.... "go there" and it does. It's like that with preachers too. Check it out... I've been wondering who "We" is in the Quran. Yesterday I heard that a priest has been run out of the priesthood because he used the words "We baptize you...." instead of "I baptize you.... " If the people of We were to baptize anyone.... would that make We a Baptist? He's been busy getting people to know God through Baptism and the church threw him out for using the wrong pronoun! What? Priests have to follow the rules too. God doesn't have to play by the rules. He tells the sun to shine and it does. He tells the earth to blossom and bloom and it does. Who is We?
What good is eternal life if it's got to be eternally bland? What good is owning a plot of ground if it doesn't give us shelter, food, or safety? What good is a garden if it's dead? What good is a cup... if there's never any coffee to pour in it? What good is a priest if he isn't spreading the Gospel? Those who "have an ear to hear".... that's used a lot in the Bible. Here in the Quran it seems the phrase is changed but the meaning may be the same....
In verse 26.... he says "do you hear me?"
Warning... mind wandering..... Hubby and I watch a lot of Westerns on H&I. Josh Randall on Wanted Dead or Alive.... keeps saying "hear me?" "hear me?".
Anyway.... Isaac's side of the family have been given the rules to live by.... God gave them to Moses. The Quran says Ishmael's family used the same rules.
There is only One True Living God!
God gave us rules just like He directed the Nile or the Mississippi to carve their unique meandering river bed.
It's all about "what God wants"
You've got ears... listen!
