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Tafheem-ul-Quran - Abul Ala Maududi translation for Surah Ash-Shu'ara — Ayah 197

26:197
أَوَلَمۡ يَكُن لَّهُمۡ ءَايَةً أَن يَعۡلَمَهُۥ عُلَمَٰٓؤُاْ بَنِيٓ إِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ ١٩٧
Is it not a Sign to them � (to wit, the Makkans) � that the learned men of the Children of Israel know that?1
Footnotes
  • [1] Qira’at: Hisham—in one of his recitations—read it as: “And never should he think of those killed in the . . .”
  • [2] That is, the learned men of the Israelites know that the teachings of the Quran are the same as of the former Scriptures. Though the people of Makkah themselves were un-initiated in the knowledge of the Book, there were many scholars among the Israelites living in the surrounding areas, who fully understood that the Quran did not bring a novel message, which was being presented by Muhammad bin Abdullah for the first time, but it was the same message which had been brought and preached by Prophets of Allah one after the other since thousands of years. Is it not then a convincing proof of the fact that the Quran has been sent down by the same Lord of the universe Who sent down the former Books.