Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 615
UNVEILING OF THE ‘UNSEEN' BY THE QURAN – A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE. Holy Prophetsa. A few of them relate to his return to Mecca after his forced exile. All such verses were revealed even before his migration to Medina thus simultaneously prophesying both his departure and subsequent return. The following verse belongs to a Surah (Al-Qaşaş) which was revealed before Hijra (the Prophet's a migration from. Mecca to Medina). sa اِنْ الَّذِي فَرَضَ عَلَيْكَ الْقُرْآنَ لَرَادُكَ إِلى مَعَادُ قُلْ رَّبِّي أَعْلَمُ مَنْ جَاءَ بِالْهُدَى وَمَنْ هُوَ فِي ضَلالٍ مُّبِينٍ * 28:86. Most surely He Who had made the teaching of the. Quran binding on thee will bring thee back to thy place of return. Say, 'My Lord knows best who brings the guidance, and who is in manifest error. 4. To predict his return to Mecca before his migration to. Medina is in fact a twofold prophecy. In view of the constantly worsening situation which made life progressively impossible for him and his followers in. Mecca, migration may seem to some readers a mere logical conclusion. But it should not be forgotten that the element of surprise and wonder in this part of the prophecy is not about the suggestion of migration. The element of wonder is in the open defiance to the will and might of the Meccans who would not permit the predicted migration to take place. . Again the ever hardening determination of the Meccans not to permit the Prophets to escape are the factors which highlight the unlikelihood of such a prophecy to have been made by the Prophets himself in his state of utter helplessness. . Another Divine promise that he would most certainly return to Mecca with manifest truth was vouched to him in the following verse: 577