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CH. 35 FĂŢIR PT. 22 إِنْ أَنْتَ إِلَّا نَذِيرٌ 24. "Thou art only a Warner. إِنَّا أَرْسَلْتُكَ بِالْحَقِّ بَشِيرًا وَنَذِيرًا وَإِنْ Verily, We have sent thee. 25 with the truth, as a bearer of glad tidings and as a Warner; and there is no people to whom a Warner has not been sent. 3195 26. And if they treat thee as a liar, those who were before them also treated their Messengers as liars. Their Messengers came to them with clear Signs, and with the Scriptures, and with the illuminating Book. 3 3196 مِنْ أُمَّةٍ إِلَّا خَلَا فِيْهَا نَذِيرُ وَإِن تُكَذِّبُوكَ فَقَدْ كَذَّبَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ جَاءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُهُمْ بِالْبَيِّنَتِ وَبِالزِّبُرِ وَبِالْكِتُبِ الْمُنِيرِ “11:13; 13:8. 2:120; 5:20; 11:89; 11:3; 25:57; 48:9, 10:48; 13:8; 16:37. d6:35; 22:43; 40:6; 54:10. €16:45. apply to the spiritually dead disbelievers. The verse means to say that it is not possible for a Prophet of God to make those who have deliberately shut their hearts and ears, to listen to and accept the Divine Message. Such people are spiritually as dead and defunct as those buried in the graves. 3195. Commentary righteousness. This great and noble principle leads to the belief in the Divine origin of all religions, and in their Founders as Divine Messengers, and thus it becomes an article of faith with a Muslim to believe in and equally respect and revere all of them. By giving to the world this sublime truth, Islam has sought to create an atmosphere of amity and goodwill among different creeds, and to remove and banish that rancour and bitterness which has embittered relations between the followers of also 10:48. 3196. Commentary: After mentioning that the Holy Prophet has been sent "as a Bearer of glad tidings and as a Warner" the verse proceeds to unfold a great truth which had remained unknown to the these creeds all over the world. See world till the Quran revealed it. It says that it is not the Holy Prophet Muḥammad alone who has been sent as a Divine Messenger to call men to God but there had been sent to every people in the past a Divine Messenger who preached to them the same message of truth and 2636 The verse continues the theme of the preceding verses and consoles and comforts the Holy Prophet by saying that it is a tragedy of human affairs that the very people who are called to God by their Prophets reject and