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PT. 28 AȘ-ṢAFF CH. 61 وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ افْتَرى عَلَى اللهِ But who does greater wrong. 8 than one who forges a lie الْكَذِبَ وَ هُوَ يُدْعَى إِلَى الْإِسْلَامِ against Allah while he is called وَاللهُ لَا يَهْدِى الْقَوْمَ الظَّلِمِينَ to Islam? Allah guides not the wrongdoing people. 4227 يُرِيدُونَ لِيُطْفِئُوا نُورَ اللهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ They desire to extinguish the. 9 light of Allah with the breath وَاللهُ مُتِمُّ نُورِهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَفِرُونَ of their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light, however much the disbelievers hate it. 4228 هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَى وَدِيْنِ He it is Who has sent His. 10 Messenger with the guidance الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَلَوْكَرِهَ and the Religion of Truth, that He may cause it to prevail over "6:22; 10:18; 11:19. 9:32. 9:33; 48:29. the Holy Prophet, the third verse of the next Surah Al-Jumu'ah pointedly refers. It may be mentioned here that a prophecy about the Holy Prophet is also clearly stated in Gospel of Barnabas which is treated by the Church as apocryphal but which has as much claim to be accepted as authentic as any of the four Gospels. 4227. Commentary: they belonged to that class of people who in the Quran have been called forgers of lies against God (6:138- 141). But if the prophecy be taken to apply to the Promised Messiah the expression, "he is called to Islam," would signify that the Promised Messiah would be invited by the so- called defenders of Islam to recant, repent and be a Muslim like them, for, according to them, by his claim to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi he would cease to be one. 4228. Commentary: The preceding verse having been applied to the Holy Prophet, the expression "who can be more unjust than one who forges a lie against The Holy Prophet has been Allah while he is called to Islam" repeatedly called the "Light of Allah," would refer to those Rejecters of in the Quran (4:175; 5:17; 64:9). All Truth to whom he addressed his the efforts of the enemies of Islam to Message, since he was the Inviter extinguish this divine light has (b) and they the invitees (20:109 & signally failed and Islam has gone on 33:47), and having rejected his from strength to strength and will one Message and by intentionally day embrace in its fold the major misinterpreting divine prophecies enlightened part of all mankind. 3147