Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Holy Quran Text. Translation & Commentary (volume One) God's Greatest Favour (verse No. 164) This alludes to the greatest favour of Allah to man; which is the raise of a Messenger who is by nature a man as any other man, but [ 443 ] inspired with Divine inspiration and with a three fold task on account of people: 1) To rehearse unto them the revelations and signs of God through the verses of Qur?n. 2) To sanctify them.
3.And to teach them the Scriptures and Wisdom, entering in people's heart the facts of God's true religion. All the world in general, and all the people of the Arabian Peninsula in particular, were in manifest error before the advent of the Messenger of God. Mohammad (AS). All were struggling in the misfortune and calamities of ignorance and moral defilement when the Messenger of God started his heavenly mission, and recited to people his Message that was from God!
As to the question; why the BELIEVERS are addressed here, while the prophet's message was for all mankind? We say that it is the believer who gains from the prophet, and makes use of his message, and has allocated the prophet's Doctrine to himself.
أَوَلَمَّآ أَصَـابَتْكُم مُّصِيبَةٌ قَدْ أَصَبْتُم مِّثْلَيْهَا قُلْتُمْ أَنَّى هَـذَا قُلْ هُوَ مِنْ عِندِ أَنفُسِكُمْ إِنَّ اللهَ عَلَى كُلّ ِ شَىْء قَدِيرٌ(( 165 )) 165- THEN WHEN AN AFFLICTION BEFELL YOU, (IN THE BATTLE OF OHUD) ALTHOUGH YOU AFFLICTED (YOUR ENEMY IN THE BATTLE OF BADR) WITH TWICE AS MUCH OF THAT; YOU SAID: `WHENCE (FROM WHICH SOURCE OR CAUSE) IS THIS?
SAY: `THIS IS FROM YOUR OWNSELVES, THAT ALLAH HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS.' [ 444 ] THE COMMENTARY ANOTHER PHASE OF STUDYING THE INCIDENT OF OHUD (VERSE NO. 165) Some of the Muslims were sad for the reverse of fortune in Ohud, and were anxious about their future. Through this verse, (No.
165.God notifies three important points which follows: You should not be confounded, and anxious for the results of the fight, because you had afflicted your enemy in the battle of Badr, with twice as much of that which they have afflicted you in Ohud. They slew seventy of your men in Ohud, but they could not take any captives. In the battle of Badr, you killed seventy of your enemies, and also you took seventy captives of them.
2.You want to know what has gone wrong, and from which source or cause that calamity and affliction came to you?