 | N. J. Dawood - 1990 - 644 pages
...and He makes sterile whom He will. Omniscient is God, and mighty. It is not vouchsafed to any mortal that God should speak to him except by revelation, or from behind a veil, or through a messenger sent and authorized by Him to make known His will. Exalted is He, and wise.... | |
 | Paul Kurtz - 428 pages
...Mohammed's revelations are central to Islam. The Koran itself explains that "It belongs not to any mortal that God should speak to him, except by revelation, or from behind a veil, or that he should send a messenger and he reveal whatsoever he will."4 4. The fourth case of revelation... | |
 | Rein Fernhout - 1994 - 364 pages
...contact between Allah and a human possible? The Koran itself denies it: "And it belongs not to any mortal that God should speak to him, except by revelation, or from behind a veil, or that He should send a messenger ..." (K. 42:51). " Yet the Koran provides us with a hermeneutical... | |
 | Stefan Wild - 1996 - 324 pages
...dangerous, can even be deadly. This is expressly stated in the Qur'an: "It belongs not to any mortal that God should speak to him, except by revelation, or from behind a veil, or that He should send a messenger and reveal whatever He will by His leave" (sura 42, 51: wa-mä käna... | |
 | A. J. Arberry - 1996 - 708 pages
...makes whom He will barren. Surely He is All-knowing, All-powerful. 50 It belongs not to any mortal that God should speak to him, except by revelation, or from behind a veil, or that He should send a messenger and he reveal whatsoever He will, by His leave; surely He is All-high,... | |
 | 1997 - 462 pages
...He wishes sterile. Indeed, He is All-Knowing, Ail-Powerful. It is not given to any mortal that Allah should speak to him, except by revelation or from behind a veil. Otherwise, He sends forth a messenger who reveals by His permission whatever He wishes. He is, indeed,... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...the prophets. Amos, 3, 7 2 I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 Corinthians, 12, 1 3 It belongs not to any human being that God should...to him except by revelation or from behind a veil. Koran, 42, 50 4 When God revealed the Torah, no bird chirped, no fowl beat its wings, no ox bellowed,... | |
 | William C. Chittick - 2001 - 375 pages
...messages" in respect of being joined with the Third Soul. 43 Thus He says, It belongs not to any mortal that God should speak to him, except by revelation, or from behind a veil, or He should send a messenger, and he should reveal whatsoever He will [42:51]. The doors from which... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2002 - 428 pages
...in how God speaks to man? The response here of the Koran is cautious. "lt belongs not to any mortal that God should speak to him. except by revelation, or from behind a veil, or that He should send a messenger and he reveal whatsoever He will, by His leave; surely He is All-high.... | |
 | James Windrow Sweetman - 2002 - 372 pages
...indicated by the word of the Most High (Sura xlii. 50 f.), ' It belongs not to any mortal that Allah should speak to Him except by revelation or from behind a veil, or the sending of a messenger to reveal what He will, by His permission '. Wahi is the occurrence of... | |
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