Verse. 1745

١٣ - ٱلرَّعْد

13 - Ar-Ra'd

وَلَقَدْ اَرْسَلْنَا رُسُلًا مِّنْ قَبْلِكَ وَجَعَلْنَا لَہُمْ اَزْوَاجًا وَّذُرِّيَّۃً۝۰ۭ وَمَا كَانَ لِرَسُوْلٍ اَنْ يَّاْتِيَ بِاٰيَۃٍ اِلَّا بِـاِذْنِ اؘ۝۰ۭ لِكُلِّ اَجَلٍ كِتَابٌ۝۳۸
Walaqad arsalna rusulan min qablika wajaAAalna lahum azwajan wathurriyyatan wama kana lirasoolin an yatiya biayatin illa biithni Allahi likulli ajalin kitabun

English

Ahmed Ali

We sent many apostles before you, and bestowed on them wives and children, but it was not for any apostle to come up with a miracle unless by the leave of God. For every age there is a law.

38

Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (and verily we sent messengers (to mankind) before thee) just as we have sent you, (and we appointed for them wives) more than you have of wives, such as david and solomon (and offspring) more than your offspring, such was the case with abraham, isaac and jacob. this verse was revealed about the jews because they said: had muhammad been a prophet, he would have been too preoccupied to get married, (and it was not (given) to any messenger that he should bring a portent) a sign (save by allah's leave) save by allah's command. (for everything there is a time prescribed) an appointed time.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and when they derided him for having many wives, the following was revealed: and indeed we sent messengers before you, and we assigned to them wives and seed, children — and you are like them; and it was not for any messenger, from among them, that he should bring a sign, save by god’s leave, because they are servants enthralled [by him]. for every term, period, there is a book, wherein is inscribed its delimitation.

Ali ibn Ahmad al-Wahidi

تفسير : (and verily we sent messengers (to mankind) before thee, and we appointed for them wives and offspring…) [13:38]. said al-kalbi: “the jews insulted the messenger of allah, allah bless him and give him peace, saying: ‘this man has no aspiration except for women and marriage. if he was really a prophet, as he claims to be, the matter of prophethood would have preoccupied him from women’, and so allah, exalted is he, revealed this verse”.