52:39. Or has He only daughters (5073) and ye have sons? 5073 Cf. 16:57-59, and n. 2082. To the gospel of Unity it is repugnant to assign begotten sons or daughters to Allah. But the Arab superstition about angels being the daughters of Allah was particularly blasphemous as the Pagan Arabs hated to have daughters themselves and considered it a mark of humiliation! (see also 53:21). 52:40. Or is it that thou dost ask for a reward, (5074) so that they are burdened with a load of debt?- 5074 The Prophets of Allah ask for no reward to preach the Message of Allah and direct men to the right Path. Why then do men shun them and persecute those who seek to bring blessings to them? (Cf. n. 5627). 52:41. Or that the Unseen (5075) in it their hands, and they write it down? 5075 The Unseen in the spiritual world is a subject of Revelation, though it works through the common everyday life of man. The men who reject Revelation simply because it is outside their own experience ought on the contrary to try to learn about it and seek to understand it. 52:42. Or do they intend a plot (against thee)? (5076) But those who defy Allah are themselves involved in a Plot! 5076 Shallow men who plot against Good are themselves the willing victims of insidious plots laid by Evil. 52:43. Or have they a god (5077) other than Allah. Exalted is Allah far above the things they associate with Him! 5077 This is the final and decisive question: Is there really any god other than Allah the One True God? Every argument points to the negative. A series of questions has been asked pointing to the negative of the superstitions of the godless. The gospel of Unity, Revelation, and the Hereafter had thus been preached by a searching examination of the position of the Unbelievers. And the Surah ends with an exhortation to leave alone those who will not believe because they wish not to believe, and to let Time work out the web and pattern of Allahs Plan.
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