Mercy
- philhoraia
- Aug 22, 2024
- 2 min read
This short post looks at Isa and Allah's boss as a mercy.
Chronological order:
S 19:21 (44th) He said: Thus said your lord: It is easy for me. And that we make him a sign for people and a mercy from us. And it was a decided matter.
Isa would be a sign to people and a mercy from 'us'. No limitation as to what people he was a sign, and presumably a mercy, for.
S 28:46 (49th) And you were not at the side of the tur when we called. But as a mercy from your lord that you may warn a people whom no nadhir has come to before you; perhaps they will remember.
Regarding 'tur', see my post Tawd
The verse seems somewhat unclear. Was Allah's boss (so 'mercy' is understood to refer to) not at the side of a mountain as an act of mercy in order for him to warn people who had received no warner before?
S 21:91 (73rd) And the one who guarded her private part and we blew into her from our spirit and we made her and her son a sign to the ‘alamin.
S 21:107 And we did not send you but as a mercy to the ‘alamin.
The addressee is the author and supposedly not sent but as a mercy to the worlds. Just like Isa, apparently. But how might a messenger, which Allah's boss supposedly was, be sent to the worlds when a messenger was only supposed to go to his own people? One might argue that Isa, being Allah's word and spirit, was exempt from this rule, and so could be a mercy to the worlds. In any event, how might Allah's word and spirit, if Islam is true (I deny it), be limited to one people or time?
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