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CH. 28 PT. 20 AL-QAŞAŞ been of the believers?' We should not have sent thee as Messenger. 2910 49. But when the truth has come to them from Us, they say, а like of what was given to فَلَمَّا جَاءَهُمُ الْحَقُّ مِنْ عِنْدِنَا قَالُوا لَوْلَا أُوتِيَ مِثْلَ مَا أُوتِيَ مُوسى أَوَلَمْ Why has he not been given the“ يَكْفُرُوا بِمَا أُوتِيَ مُوسَى مِنْ قَبْلُ قَالُوا Moses? Did they not reject that ۚ سِحْرُنِ تَظْهَرَا وَقَالُوا إِنَّا بِكُلِّ which was given to Moses before? They say, 'Two works of sorcery-the Torah and the Quran that back up each other. ' And they say, disbelieve in all. '2911 'We كفِرُونَ "6:125. very Prophet had also rejected him in 2910. Commentary: The sense implied in the verse is spite of the fact that he had shown the God's that by their iniquities and transgressions the disbelievers render themselves deserving of punishment but as it is inconsistent with His justice and mercy to punish them without first giving them an opportunity to reform themselves, so He raises a Prophet among them so that when punishment should overtake them they might not say that they were not given an opportunity to reform themselves by following the Divine Prophet if one had appeared among them. 2911. Commentary: It is customary with disbelievers in the time of every Prophet that they demand from him signs and miracles which had been shown by a previous Prophet, while the disbelievers of that 2449 same miracles which disbelievers in the time of the later Prophet demanded. The verse exposes the absurdity of this worn out demand of disbelievers and purports to say that they demand from the Holy Prophet the same teachings which were given to Moses while the spiritual needs and requirements of the Holy Prophet's time are different from those of Moses and, therefore, their demand is foolish. Yet when they are told that prophecies which were made by Moses have been fulfilled in the person of the Holy Prophet and that the teachings of the Quran in many respects support and corroborate the teachings of Torah, they say that both the Quran and the Torah are two pieces of magic that support each other.