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flimsy to merit serious consideration. This is like saying that because some Medinite Surahs are almost devoid of any mention of disbelievers, therefore, no fighting had taken place between Muslims and disbelievers in the Medinite period. Connection with the Preceding Surah core. The preceding Surah, An-Nur, had ended on a note about the very great importance and usefulness of the Islamic Organization. That Sūrah had also stated that certain Muslims were unacquainted with its great potentialities and were afraid of the organization of disbelievers, which was rotten to the The present Surah gives the reasons why the fear of the weak-minded people is but an illusion and a figment of their own diseased imagination and does not exist in reality. The argument proceeds thus: The Quran claims to have been sent as a warning for the whole world and as its teaching is in perfect harmony with the laws of nature, those who defy it would not only be guilty of defying a revealed teaching, but would also be contravening nature itself. So neither the followers of any religious system nor the inhabitants of any country could successfully withstand Muslims who believed the Quran to be the revealed Word of God and acted upon its teaching, because it is not possible to defy the laws of nature. When such is the case, those of weak faith among Muslims who fear the organization of disbelief are afraid of an imaginary thing and their fear is unreal. Subject Matter The Surah opens with the categorical statement that the Message of the Quran is meant for the whole of mankind. It proceeds to say that the Almighty God Who has revealed the Quran is the sole and undisputed Master of the heavens and the earth. He is One and has no peer. He is the sole Creator of every atom of the universe. His Word, therefore, is and must be in perfect harmony with the laws of nature, hence its acceptance or rejection does not merely mean the acceptance or rejection of a revealed Law but amounts to submission to or violation of the laws of nature itself. The Surah further says that whereas disbelievers find it difficult to deny the excellence and superiority of the teaching of the Quran, they take refuge behind the subterfuge that it is not the work of a single individual but is the result of the combined effort of many persons. They further allege that its teaching has been plagiarized from old scriptures. But these pleas of disbelievers possess no substance because, the Surah says, if the Quran had been the work of collective human effort, it could not have possessed a teaching which is beyond the power of man to produce. And if it had been merely a copy of the ancient scriptures, those scriptures should also have 2299