Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 272
DIVINE REVELATION AND RATIONALITY. Say, 'He has power to send punishment upon you from above you or from beneath your feet, or to confound you by splitting you into sects and make you taste the violence of one another. ' See how We expound the Signs in various ways that they may understand! 15 266 قُلْ لَّوْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ مَا تَلَوْتُهُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَلَا أَدْرَائِكُمْ بِهِ فَقَدْ لَبِثْتُ فِيْكُمْ عُمُرًا مِّنْ قَبْلِهِ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ* 10:17. Say, 'If Allah had so willed, I should not have recited it to you nor would He have made it known to you. I have indeed lived among you a whole lifetime before this. Will you not then understand?" 16 يُقَوْمِ لَا أَسْتَلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ أَجْرًا إِنْ أَجْرِى إِلَّا عَلَى الَّذِي فَطَرَنِي أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ 11:52 ‘O my people, I do not ask of you any reward therefore. My reward is not due except from Him. Who created me. Will you not then understand?'17 اَمِ اتَّخَذُوا مِنْ دُوْنِةٍ أَلِهَةٌ قُلْ هَاتُوا بُرْهَانَكُمْ هَذَا ذِكْرُ مَنْ مَّعِيَ وَذِكْرُ مَنْ قَبْلِى بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُوْنَ الْحَقَّ فَهُمْ مُّعْرِضُونَ* 21:25. Have they taken gods beside Him? Say, 'Bring forth your proof. Here is the Book of those with me, and the Book of those before me. ' Nay, most of them know not the truth, and so they turn away. 18