Why Messengers (20:133 – 20:135)
Quran Talk Blog · Article · November 20, 2017
Why Messengers?
20:133 They said, “If he could only show us a miracle from his Lord!” Did they not receive sufficient miracles with the previous messages?
20:134 Had we annihilated them before this, they would have said, “Our Lord, had You sent a messenger to us, we would have followed Your revelations, and would have avoided this shame and humiliation.”
20:135 Say, “All of us are waiting, so wait; you will surely find out who are on the correct path, and who are truly guided.”
God’s Messengers Challenged
17:90 They said, “We will not believe you unless you cause a spring to gush out of the ground. “Or unless you own a garden of date palms and grapes, with rivers running through it. “Or unless you cause masses from the sky, as you claimed, to fall on us. Or unless you bring GOD and the angels before our eyes. “Or unless you own a luxurious mansion, or unless you climb into the sky. Even if you do climb, we will not believe unless you bring a book that we can read.”* Say, “Glory be to my Lord. Am I any more than a human messenger?”