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CH. 21 AL-ANBIYA' PT. 17 الْحَقَّ فَهُمْ مُّعْرِضُونَ ) not the truth, and so they turn away. 2365 وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ مِنْ رَّسُولٍ And We sent no Messenger. 26 إِلَّا نُوحِيَ إِلَيْهِ أَنَّهُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنَا him, saying, “There is no God فَاعْبُدُونِ before thee but We revealed to but I; so worship Me alone. '2366 begun in the previous verse. It also signifies that God's authority is supreme while all other beings and things are subject to His authority. This constitutes another argument against polytheism. 2365. Commentary: The verse gives another argument about the Unity of God. The Holy Prophet here is enjoined to ask his people to go through the Quran and other revealed Scriptures and then tell him whether they find in them any deferential reference to polytheism or to permission to worship other gods besides the One True God. "This is the constant doctrine of all the sacred Books," says Sale in his "Introduction to the Quran," "not only the Quran, but also those Scriptures which were revealed in former ages, all of them bear witness to the great and fundamental truth of the Unity of God. " Taking in the sense of honour, eminence etc. (see 15:7), the verse would mean that the Quran is a source of honour for those with the Holy Prophet and for those before him i. e. it will raise its followers from depths of degradation to great heights of honour and eminence, and it has cleared Divine Prophets and other righteous servants of God of the 2078 charges and accusations that were imputed to them in former Scriptures. 2366. Commentary: and favour of the Unity of God. It The verse gives a third argument in purports to say that all the Divine Messengers and great religious reformers who appeared among different nations and countries at different times testified with one voice to the Oneness of God which was their common mission. In spite of the fact that with the passage of time the teachings of these Prophets became tampered with and were subjected to distortions interpolations, the belief in the Unity of God continued to be the basic principle of all these teachings. These Prophets and Messengers appeared among all nations and peoples and the greatest of all, the Holy Prophet Muḥammad, appeared at a time when the whole world was immersed in the Cimmerian darkness of moral turpitude, and idol worship was rife among every people and country in one form or another and was practised in its most heinous form in Arabia where the Holy Prophet preached his message of the Oneness of God. He carried on such an effective and relentless campaign