Transliteration:( Aw yakoona laka baitum min zukhrufin aw tarqaa fis samaaa'i wa lan nu'mina liruqiyyika hatta tunazzila 'alainaa kitaaban naqra'uh; qul Subhaana Rabbee hal kuntu illaa basharar Rasoolaa (section 10) )
192. In that an angel should appear before us and gives a completed book to you .e. we should be able to see the angel as well as him handing the book over to you. This entire nonsensical talk was spoken without any intention of bringing faith but rather for the sake of amusement and jest.Â
Even if these demands were fulfilled they would not have declared faith
193. The purpose of this answer is not to show was that the Holy Prophetصلى الله عليه وآله وسلم incapable of fulfilling any of these demands, but rather to show that your demands are unacceptable because after having seen any of these miracles, if you still fail to declare faith then you will be destroyed as is the Divine practice.Â
This means the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم at the power to perform allÂ
these miracles, but was not given the permission to show these to them. The fire did not burn Hazrat Ebrahim (On whom be peace).the knife did not slaughter Hazrat Ismail. simply because they were not given the permission to act. Such is the nature of the power of the Holy Prophet's that he made the stones to recite the Kalima. let fountains of water flow from his blessed fingers, many times angels appeared before the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم whom the Companions, too, had seen.Â
In short, not to do is not the same as unable to do. It should be remembered that if the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم himself says that he is a human, it is his high degree of excellence, but if we say this to claim equality with him, we would go out of the fold of Islam. Prophets have called themselves cruel and in error out of their humility, but we have no right to use such words for them
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The tafsir of Surah Al-Isra verse 93 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Isra ayat 90 which provides the complete commentary from verse 90 through 93.
(17:93) or that there come to be for you a house of gold, or that you ascend to the sky – though we shall not believe in your ascension (to the sky) – until you bring down a book for us that we can read.” Say to them, (O Muhammad): “Holy is my Lord! Am I anything else than a human being, who bears a Message[106] (from Allah)?”
106. This is the second answer to the demand of the disbelievers for a miracle. The first answer is contained in (Surah Al-Isra, ayat 59). The eloquence of this concise answer is above praise: You demand from me that I should cause a spring to gush forth, or in the twinkling of an eye should bring into being a garden in full bloom with canals flowing in it: or I should cause the heaven to fall into pieces on those of you who are rejecting the message: or I should cause to build a furnished palace of gold: or I should call Allah and the angels to stand before you and testify to this effect: We Ourselves have sent down Muhammad as Our Messenger: or I should go up to the sky in your presence and bring down, addressed to you, the letter of authority of my appointment duly signed by Allah so that you may touch it with your hands and read it with your own eyes. The concise answer to these big demands was this: My Lord be glorified! Have I ever claimed to be anything more than a human Messenger? It may be expanded like this: O people, have I claimed to be God that you are demanding such things from me? Did I ever say that I am all powerful and am ruling over the earth and the Heavens? From the very first day my claim has been that I am a human being who is bringing the Message from God. Therefore, if you want to judge the authenticity of my claim, you may judge it from my message. If you are convinced that it is based on the truth and is absolutely rational, then you should believe in it without making foolish demands. On the other hand, if you find any defect in it, you may reject it. If you want to test whether my claim is based on truth, you should judge it by the standard of my conduct and morals as a human being and my mission. Is it not a folly that, instead of this, you are demanding from me to cleave the earth and cause the sky to fall? Is there any connection whatsoever of Prophethood with things like that.
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