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Surah ar-Ra`d (The Thunder ) 13 : 30

كَذَٰلِكَ أَرْسَلْنَٰكَ فِىٓ أُمَّةٍ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِن قَبْلِهَآ أُمَمٌ لِّتَتْلُوَا۟ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَيْكَ وَهُمْ يَكْفُرُونَ بِٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ۚ قُلْ هُوَ رَبِّى لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ عَلَيْهِ تَوَكَّلْتُ وَإِلَيْهِ مَتَابِ

Translations

 
 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
Thus have We sent you to a community before which [other] communities have passed on so you might recite to them that which We revealed to you, while they disbelieve in the Most Merciful. Say, "He is my Lord; there is no deity except Him. Upon Him I rely, and to Him is my return."

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(13:30:1)
(13:30:2)
arsalnāka
We have sent you
(13:30:3)
(13:30:4)
ummatin
a nation
(13:30:5)
(13:30:6)
khalat
have passed away
(13:30:7)
(13:30:8)
qablihā
before it
(13:30:9)
umamun
nations
(13:30:10)
litatluwā
so that you might recite
(13:30:11)
(13:30:12)
alladhī
what
(13:30:13)
awḥaynā
We revealed
(13:30:14)
ilayka
to you
(13:30:15)
(13:30:16)
yakfurūna
disbelieve
(13:30:17)
bil-raḥmāni
in the Most Gracious
(13:30:18)
qul
Say
(13:30:19)
(13:30:20)
rabbī
(is) my Lord
(13:30:21)
(13:30:22)
ilāha
god
(13:30:23)
illā
except
(13:30:24)
(13:30:25)
(13:30:26)
tawakkaltu
I put my trust
(13:30:27)
wa-ilayhi
and to Him
(13:30:28)
matābi
(is) my return

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Explanatory Note

Conversely, those who demand a sign are those who have deprived themselves of the contentment, comfort and happiness of faith. They live in worry, and it is this anxiety that makes them demand miracles and signs. The verse then tells the Prophet that he is not the first messenger to preach the divine message to his people. This means that they should not find the matter too strange. Before them there were numerous communities and many messengers. If they persist with their rejection of the divine faith, you, the Prophet, should continue to follow your own way, putting your trust in God alone.

What is extremely odd is that they refuse to believe in God, the Most Gracious, in the remembrance of whose mercy people find inner comfort and contentedness. God’s Messenger is being told that all his task requires is that he read to them what God has revealed to him. This is the purpose for which God has given him this message. If they persist in rejecting it, he has to make it clear to them that he places his trust in God alone, and that he turns to Him, seeking help from no one else.

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7. Period of Revelation

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The internal evidence (v. 27-31 and v. 34-48) shows that this Surah was revealed in the last stage of the Mission of the Prophet at Makkah and during the same period in which Surah 7: al-A’raf (The Elevations), Surah 10: Yunus (Jonah) and Surah 11: Hud (Hud) and were sent down.

On the one hand the Prophet’s opponents had been scheming different devices to defeat him and his Mission and on the other his followers had been expressing a desire that by showing a miracle the disbelievers might be brought to the Right Way. In answer, God impressed on the Believers that it is not His way to revert people by this method and that they should not lose heart if He is giving the enemies of the Truth a rope long enough to hang themselves. Otherwise, He is able to show such signs as may bring the dead out of their graves and make them speak (v. 31). But even then these obdurate people will invent an excuse to explain this away. All this decisive evidence clearly proves that this Surah was revealed during the last stage of the Prophet’s Mission at Makkah.

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