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CH. 28 AL-QAŞAŞ PT. 20 وَمَا كُنْتَ بِجَانِبِ الطُّورِ إِذْ نَادَيْنَا وَلَكِنْ And thou wast not on the. 47 side of the Mount with Moses رَّحْمَةً مِنْ رَّبِّكَ لِتُنْذِرَ قَوْمًا مَّا أَتُهُمْ مِنْ when “We called to him. But We have sent thee as a mercy from thy Lord, that thou mayest warn a people to whom no Warner had come before thee, that they may reflect. 2909 نَّذِيرٍ مِّنْ قَبْلِكَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ وَلَوْلَا أَنْ تُصِيبَهُمْ مُّصِيبَةٌ بِمَا قَدَّمَتْ And were it not that if an. 48 affliction should befall them أَيْدِيهِمْ فَيَقُوْلُوْا رَبَّنَا لَوْلَا اَرْسَلْتَ إِلَيْنَا because of what their hands رَسُوْلًا فَنَتَّبِعَ أَيتِكَ وَنَكُونَ مِنَ Lord الْمُؤْمِنِينَ have sent before them, they would say, "Our wherefore didst Thou not send a Messenger to us that we might have followed Thy Signs, and "20:12-13; 79:17. b32:4; 36:7. 20:135. where he was born and brought up, to Midian where for ten long years he lived among a strange people, and then went back to Egypt, armed with Divine authority to free and reclaim his depressed people, from the bondage of Pharaoh. Likewise the Prophet of Islam had to leave Mecca where he was born and brought up and then for ten years he lived in Medina among a people who were not of his kith and kin, and again in pursuance of Divine command marched forth to conquer Mecca at the head of an army of ten thousand saints to fulfil another prophecy of the Bible (Deut. 33:2). 2909. Commentary: The present verse continues the theme of the preceding two verses and purports to say that God spoke to Moses at the side of Mount Sinai, giving him the glad tidings that a Prophet like unto him would appear among the brethren of the Israelites (Deut. 18:18). It further implies that it was not possible for the Holy Prophet first to have caused Moses to make a prophecy concerning him and then to have claimed to have come in fulfilment of that prophecy. The verse emphasizes the fact that one Prophet (Moses) made a prophecy concerning another Prophet (the Holy Prophet) about two thousand years ago in a place far away from the scene of the activities of the latter, and that that prophecy was literally fulfilled in him. It proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that the maker of the prophecy, and he about whom the prophecy was made were both true Prophets of God. 2448