In the next verse...

In the next verse, the Qur’an explains the main aim of the descent of the Qur’an, as follows: “That you may warn a people whose fathers were not warned, hence they are heedless.” The purpose of this people is certainly the pagans of Arab, and if someone says that, as they believe, there has not been any nation without a Warner, and the earth will never be empty of Allah’s ir, No.

35, verse 24: “…Authority, and, moreover, we recited is Surah Al-Fat and there was not a people but a Warner having gone in them (in the past)” there is, of course, an answer for it. In answer we will say that the purpose of the verse under discussion is the manifest Warner and a great prophet whose name is heard everywhere, else, in any time, there exists Divine authority for those who eagerly seek him.

And if we see that the course between the time of Hadrat Messiah (as) and the advent of the Prophet of Islam (S) has been counted as the course of intermission, it does not mean that there has not absolutely been any Divine Authority for them, but this interval had been from the point of the appointment of great prophets or arch-prophets.

Imam Amir-ul-Mu’mineen Ali (as) in this regard says: “Verily Allah appointed Muhammad (S) when neither one of Arabs used to read a heavenly Book, nor (anyone) claimed prophesy.” [^3] However, the aim by sending down the Qur’an was to make the negligent people aware and to awaken those who were asleep. It intended to remind them the dangers that had surrounded them, and the sins they were involved in and the Polytheism and immorality, they were polluted by.

“Verily, we have put chains on their necks, and these reach up to their chins, so their heads are raised.” Allah puts chains on the pagans’ necks, but they themselves have provided its preparation.