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Tafsir: Al-Anbiya 21:24

21:24
ام اتخذوا من دونه الهة قل هاتوا برهانكم هاذا ذكر من معي وذكر من قبلي بل اكثرهم لا يعلمون الحق فهم معرضون ٢٤
أَمِ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ ءَالِهَةًۭ ۖ قُلْ هَاتُوا۟ بُرْهَـٰنَكُمْ ۖ هَـٰذَا ذِكْرُ مَن مَّعِىَ وَذِكْرُ مَن قَبْلِى ۗ بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ٱلْحَقَّ ۖ فَهُم مُّعْرِضُونَ ٢٤
أَمِ
ٱتَّخَذُواْ
مِن
دُونِهِۦٓ
ءَالِهَةٗۖ
قُلۡ
هَاتُواْ
بُرۡهَٰنَكُمۡۖ
هَٰذَا
ذِكۡرُ
مَن
مَّعِيَ
وَذِكۡرُ
مَن
قَبۡلِيۚ
بَلۡ
أَكۡثَرُهُمۡ
لَا
يَعۡلَمُونَ
ٱلۡحَقَّۖ
فَهُم
مُّعۡرِضُونَ
٢٤
Or have they taken other gods besides Him? Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “Show ˹me˺ your proof. Here is ˹the Quran,˺ the Reminder for those with me; along with ˹earlier Scriptures,˺ the Reminder for those before me.”1 But most of them do not know the truth, so they turn away.
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You are reading a tafsir for the group of verses 21:24 to 21:26

هَـٰذَا ذِكْرُ‌ مَن مَّعِيَ وَذِكْرُ‌ مَن قَبْلِي (Here is the Message for those with me and the Message for those before me. - 21: 24) One explanation of this verse on which the translation is based is that ذِکر means Message and "Message for those with me" refers to Qur'an, while "the Message for those before me" refers to Torah, Injil (Evangel) and Zabur (Psalms), the earlier divine books. According to this interpretation, the meaning of the verse is that neither the Qur'an (which is the Book for the Holy Prophet ﷺ and his followers) nor the older books contain anything to suggest worship of anyone else but Allah. Despite the fact that the texts of Torah and Injil (Evangel) have been altered, it is not suggested in either of them that Allah has partners with whom he shares His authority. Another explanation of the verse is given in Al-Bahr ul-Muhit according to which the word (dhikr) means here "description", and the sense is that this Qur'an is a description for the people who were in the days of the Holy Prophet ﷺ which describes for them the rules of Shari'ah and invites them to the correct way of life. At the same time it is a description of those who were before the Holy Prophet ﷺ because it keeps alive the stories and the traditions of people long gone by.