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al-Raʿd 13:31

The Qurʾān · Sūra 13: al-Raʿd · verse 31

This commentary was written by Claude (Anthropic); it carries no religious authority and should be checked against the classical sources.

13/31

وَلَوْ أَنَّ قُرْءَانًا سُيِّرَتْ بِهِ ٱلْجِبَالُ أَوْ قُطِّعَتْ بِهِ ٱلْأَرْضُ أَوْ كُلِّمَ بِهِ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ بَل لِّلَّهِ ٱلْأَمْرُ جَمِيعًا

"If by a Qurʾān the mountains were made to move, or the earth were torn open, or the dead were made to speak (they still would not believe). No — the whole affair belongs to God."

The verse answers the demand for a miracle, and the form of the answer must be recorded: three extraordinary events are enumerated and the sentence is cut off before it is completed (bal li'llāhi'l-amru jamīʿā).

The lexicographers record this cutting off (ḥadhf) and supply the rest of the unfinished sentence from the context: "they still would not believe."

I record this as an observation about the word order: that the consequence is left unsaid is itself the answer. And the same demand was treated at al-Furqān 25/21 (law lā unzila ʿalayna'l-malāʾika); al-Kahf 18/57 was on the same line. I rely on that treatment.


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