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al-Aḥqāf 46:10

The Qurʾān · Sūra 46: al-Aḥqāf · verse 10

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

46/10

وَشَهِدَ شَاهِدٌ مِّنۢ بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ عَلَىٰ مِثْلِهِۦ فَـَٔامَنَ وَٱسْتَكْبَرْتُمْ

"A witness from the Children of Israel bore witness to the like of it and believed; but you were arrogant."

The verse gives the second answer to the demand for "an earlier Book" in the fourth verse: the testimony of someone who knows that Book.

Who the witness is is not said in the verse. Various names are transmitted in the classical commentaries; I do not pass these on as certain knowledge. Since the verse itself gives no name, I record that the verdict is tied not to a name but to a stance: fa-āmana wa'stakbartum — one believed, the others grew proud.

ٱسْتَكْبَرْتُمْ — Form X: to see oneself as great, to lay claim to greatness. Its opposite is not faith but surrender. The verse ties the ground of the refusal not to a lack of knowledge but to a stance — and read together with the fourth verse of the sūra this is a consistency: when evidence comes to the side that demanded evidence, what appears is not a discussion of evidence.


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