Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 637
UNVEILING OF THE 'UNSEEN' BY THE QURAN - A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE create the impression that the whole world is squeezed into one community of a single township. . Before proceeding further it would be appropriate to mention another prophecy which also relates to the subject of the bringing together of people. That prophecy speaks of the return of the Children of Israel to the Promised Land in the latter days: وَقُلْنَا مِنْ بَعْدِهِ لِبَنى اسْرَائِيلَ اسْكُنُوا الْأَرْضَ فَإِذا جَاءَ وَعْدُ الْآخِرَةِ جِئْنَا بِكُمْ لَفِيفًا * 17:105. And after him We said to the children of Israel, 'Dwell ye in the land; and when the time of the promise of the latter days comes, We shall bring you together out of various peoples. 33. The destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, by the Romans tolled the bell for the death of the Jewish state. From then on the Jews were scattered throughout the world moving on from country to country. It is this state of ultimate diaspora to which the above verse refers when it declares that one day the Jews will be gathered from all over the world and once again they will be assembled in the Holy Land. It is a covenant of God which shall be fulfilled. We have already seen the fulfilment of this promise on such a wide scale as has never been witnessed by man before. Never in the history of the Jewish people after any diaspora were they brought back from all the countries of the world as it happened in the recent past after the creation of the state of. Israel. . Returning to Surah Al-Takwir from which we digressed for a while, let us now take up verse 9 which follows. This verse as well as the next, describe the same 597