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Surah ar-Ra`d (The Thunder ) 13 : 9

عَٰلِمُ ٱلْغَيْبِ وَٱلشَّهَٰدَةِ ٱلْكَبِيرُ ٱلْمُتَعَالِ

Translations

 
 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
[He is] Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, the Grand, the Exalted.

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(13:9:1)
ʿālimu
Knower
(13:9:2)
l-ghaybi
(of) the unseen
(13:9:3)
wal-shahādati
and the witnessed
(13:9:4)
l-kabīru
the Most Great
(13:9:5)
l-mutaʿāli
the Most High

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Explanatory Note
 
No abstract concept or unqualified true statement comes near to the Qur’ānic description of God’s absolute knowledge. Our imagination starts to follow every female in this whole universe: every female in rural and urban areas, amongst nomadic tribes and city dwellers, in houses, caves, shanty towns and forests. We then consider that God follows every pregnancy carried in every womb, and knows every drop of blood that moves in or out of all these wombs.

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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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