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Surah ar-Ra`d (The Thunder ) 13 : 43

وَيَقُولُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَسْتَ مُرْسَلًا ۚ قُلْ كَفَىٰ بِٱللَّهِ شَهِيدًۢا بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَكُمْ وَمَنْ عِندَهُۥ عِلْمُ ٱلْكِتَٰبِ

Translations

 
 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
And those who have disbelieved say, "You are not a messenger." Say, [O Muhammad], "Sufficient is Allāh as Witness between me and you, and [the witness of] whoever has knowledge of the Book."

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(13:43:1)
wayaqūlu
And say
(13:43:2)
alladhīna
those who
(13:43:3)
kafarū
disbelieve
(13:43:4)
lasta
You are not
(13:43:5)
mur'salan
a Messenger
(13:43:6)
qul
Say
(13:43:7)
kafā
Sufficient
(13:43:8)
bil-lahi
(is) Allah
(13:43:9)
shahīdan
(as) a Witness
(13:43:10)
baynī
between me
(13:43:11)
wabaynakum
and between you
(13:43:12)
(13:43:13)
ʿindahu
[he] has
(13:43:14)
ʿil'mu
knowledge
(13:43:15)
l-kitābi
(of) the Book

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Explanatory Note

The sūrah concludes by mentioning the fact that the unbelievers deny God’s message given to the Prophet Muĥammad (peace be upon him). Its opening confirms the truth of his message. Thus the beginning and the end address the same point. God’s testimony is called for, and it is certainly sufficient. After all, He has absolute knowledge of this book, or divine writ, and of all other revealed books.

Thus ends the sūrah which has taken us along a trip to discover the great horizons of the universe and to show us some of the inner aspects of the human soul. It makes profound and lasting impressions on our hearts and minds, leaving the final testimony to God, which is made at both the beginning and the end. It is a testimony to put an end to all arguments.

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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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