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15. followed by unbelief
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16. and charity
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ANCIENTS:
6:25 - Of them there are some who (pretend to) listen to thee; but We have thrown veils on their
hearts so they understand it not and deafness in their ears; if they saw every one of the Signs
not they will believe in them; in so much that when they come to thee they (but) dispute with
thee; the unbelievers say: "These are nothing but tales of the ancients."
8:31 - When Our signs are rehearsed to them they say: "we have heard this (before): if we wished
we could say (words) like these: these are nothing but tales of the ancients." 1204
15:13 - That they should not believe in the (Message); but the ways of the ancients have passed
away. 1947
1947 Sects, divisions, and systems invented by men tend to pass away, but Allah's pure Truth of Unity endures for ever.
This we see in history when we study it on a large scale. Cf. the parable in xiv. 24-26 Khalat: I have translated it here
in the same sense as in xiii. 30 x. 102, and other places. Some Commentators give it a slightly different shade of
meaning. The other meaning is seen in xlviii. 23. (15.13)
16:24 - When it is said to them "What is it that your Lord has revealed?" They say "Tales of the
ancients!" 2047
2047 When the arrogant Unbelievers are referred to some definite argument or illustration from Scripture, they dismiss it
contemptuously with the remark: "Tales of the ancients!" In this, they are not only playing with their own conscience,
but misleading others, with perhaps less knowledge than themselves. (16.24)
18:55 - And what is there to keep back men from believing now that Guidance has come to them
nor from praying for forgiveness from their Lord but that (they ask that) the ways of the
ancients be repeated with them or the Wrath be brought to them face to face? 2399
2399 But man's obstinacy or contrariness asks or calls for a repetition of what happened to the wicked and those who
rejected Faith in ancient times. Out of curiosity, or by way of challenge, they seem to court the Punishment and ask
that it be brought to pass at once. But it will come soon enough, and then they will think it too early! Cf. xiii. 6 and n.
1810. (18.55)
23:81 - On the contrary they say things similar to what the ancients said. 2926
2926 And they are the more culpable, as they have received a later and completer revelation. Why should they now stand
on the primitive ideas of their ancestors? (23.81)
23:83 - Such things have been promised to us and to our fathers before! They are nothing but tales
of the ancients!"
25:5 - And they say: "Tales of the ancients which he has caused to be written: and they are dictated
before him morning and evening." 3058
3058 In their misguided arrogance they say: 'We have heard such things before; they are pretty tales which have come
down from ancient times; they are good for amusement, but who takes them seriously?' When the beauty and power
of the Revelation are pointed out, and its miracle as coming from an unlearned man, they again hint at other men who
wrote them, though they could not produce any one who could write anything like it. (25.5)
26:137 - "This is no other than a customary device of the ancients 3202
3202 They said, as many of our modern enemies of religion say, "you are only reviving an ancient superstition, a dope of
the crowd; there is no such thing as a Hereafter, or the sort of punishments you denounce!" (26.137)
27:68 - "It is true we were promised this we and our fathers before (us): these are nothing but tales
of the ancients."
35:43 - On account of their arrogance in the land and their plotting of Evil. But the plotting of Evil
will hem in only the authors thereof. Now are they but looking for the way the ancients were
dealt with? But no change wilt thou find in Allah's way (of dealing): no turning off wilt thou find
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