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PT. 19 AL-FURQAN CH. 25 W لِنُحْيِ بِهِ بَلْدَةً مَّيْتًا وَنُسُقِيَهُ مِمَّا That We may thereby give. 50 life to a dead land, and give it for drink to Our creation cattle and men in great numbers. 2682 51. And We have explained it to them in diverse ways that they may take heed, but most men would reject everything but disbelief. خَلَقْنَا أَنْعَامًا وَأَنَاسِي كَثِيرًا وَلَقَدْ صَرَّفْنَهُ بَيْنَهُمْ لِيَذَّكَرُوا فَأَنِّي اَكْثَرُ النَّاسِ إِلَّا كُفُورًا have surely raised a Warner in every city. 2683 وَلَوْ شِئْنَا لَبَعَثْنَا فِي كُلِّ قَرْيَةٍ نَذِيرَاةٌ If We had pleased, We could. 52 KOREJELOJ فَلَا تُطِعِ الْكَفِرِيْنَ وَجَاهِدُهُمْ بِهِ جِهَادًا كَبِيرًا 53. So obey not the disbelievers and strive against them by means of it (the Quran) a great striving. 2684 God's mercy and elsewhere in the Quran the Holy Prophet has also been referred to as i. e. mercy for all the worlds (21:108). 2682. Commentary: Arabia before the Holy Prophet's appearance was a spiritually dead land. Heavenly rain in the form of the Quranic revelation descended upon it and the whole country began to pulsate and vibrate with a new life and in turn imparted a new life to the world around it. The words, "cattle and men" refer to two classes of men. Those who had become morally so depraved as apparently to be beyond redemption have been described as "cattle" and those who were spiritually somewhat better have been described as "men" in this verse. The former have already been referred to in v. 45 above. Both these classes of people drank deep at the fountain which the Holy Prophet caused to flow and by drinking of the Quranic elixir they got a new and everlasting life. 2683. Commentary: The Holy Prophet's Message was for the whole world. The verse purports to say that God could have raised a Messenger in every town but the Holy Prophet's time was not the time for raising tribal Prophets, because by the improvement in the means of communication nations of the world had become united into one people. The oneness of humanity required one Prophet for the whole of mankind and such was Muḥammad, the Holy Prophet of Islam. 2323 2684. Commentary: This verse throws a flood of light