4. An-Nisaa

And because of their taking usury when they had been forbidden it in the Torah and their consuming people’s wealth through falsehood through bribes in adjudications and We have prepared for the disbelievers among them a painful chastisement.

But those of them who are firmly rooted established in knowledge like ‘Abd Allāh b. Salām and the believers the Emigrants and the Helpers believing in what has revealed to you and what was revealed before you of scriptures and those who observe the prayer wa’l-muqīmīna l-salāta is in the accusative because it is a laudative; it is also read in the nominative wa’l-muqīmūna l-salāta; and pay the alms and those who believe in God and the Last Day — to them We shall surely give nu’tīhim is also read yu’tīhim ‘He shall surely give’ a great wage namely Paradise.

We have revealed to you as We revealed to Noah and the prophets after him and as We revealed to Abraham and his two sons Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob the son of Isaac and the Tribes his Jacob’s children and Jesus and Job and Jonah and Aaron and Solomon and We gave to his father David the Inscribed Book read zabūran it would denote the name of the revealed Book cf. the Psalms; read zubūran would make it a verbal noun meaning mazbūran that is to say maktūban ‘inscribed’.

And We sent messengers We have told you of before and messengers We have not told you of it is related that God sent eight thousand prophets in total four thousand of them from the Children of Israel and the remaining four thousand from other peoples as stated by the Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Mahallī in his commentary on sūrat Ghāfir Q. 4078; and God spoke directly without mediation to Moses

messengers rusulan substitutes for the previous rusulan ‘messengers’ bearing good tidings of reward for those that believe and warning of punishment for those that disbelieve; We sent them so that people might have no argument to make against God after the sending of the messengers to them and say Our Lord why did you not send a messenger to us so that we might follow Your signs and be among the believers Q. 2847; thus We sent them to pre-empt such excuses. God is ever Mighty in His kingdom Wise in His actions.

Surely those who disbelieve in God and bar people from the way of God from the religion of Islam by concealing the descriptions of Muhammad (s) and these are the Jews they have indeed gone far astray from the truth.

Surely those who disbelieve in God and who have done wrong to the Prophet by concealing his descriptions it is not for God to forgive them neither to guide them to any path whatever

except for the path of Hell that is to the path that leads to it abiding it is decreed for them to abide therein once they enter it forever; and for God that is an easy matter.

O people of Mecca the Messenger Muhammad (s) has now come to you with the truth from your Lord; so believe in him and seek what it is better for you than that which you are presently seeking. And if you disbelieve in him then surely to God belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth as possessions creatures and servants and your disbelief will not harm Him; and God is ever Knowing of His creation Wise in what He does with them.