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Have you then no sense '" Commentary : In this verse the Qur'an brings a reason for the Divine order by commanding the Prophet to say that his ideas do not have the slightest role in this Holy Book, and had Allah wanted, he would not have read the Qur'an to them and they would not have been made aware of it. The verse says: " Say: 'Had Allah so willed, I would not have recited it to you, nor would He have taught it to you. ..." I have lived among you a long time before this.

It provides reason for what I claim, for you have never heard me saying such things before. If the verses had come from me, you should have heard me saying them during the past forty years as they would have been at the tip of my tongue, or at least parts of it might have been heard by someone in the past. How can you not notice such an obvious matter The verse continues saying: "... Indeed I have lived amongst you a lifetime before it.

" Commentary : In order to emphasize the point, the Prophet(p.b.u.h.) adds that, being well aware that the worst kind of evil is that someone falsely attributes a lie to Allah, how could he then commit such a sin on the earth The verse says: "Who is then more unjust than he who forges a lie against Allah, or belies His Signs ..." And he who denies the Divine verses, his action is also the most cruel and unjust of all actions.

If the unbelievers are unaware of the scope and volume of the severity and greatness of the sin of forging a lie to the Divine verses, the Prophet, on the contrary, is not so unaware. At any event, this action of theirs is a grave offence and those who perpetrate it will never be saved. The verse says: "... Verily the guilty ones will never prosper.