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Al-Baqarah 2: 105–7

A painful chastisement awaits the unbelievers. (105) The unbelievers, be they the People of the Book or those who associate others with Allah in His Divinity, do not wish that any good should be sent down upon you from your Lord. But Allah chooses for His mercy whomsoever He wills. Allah is Lord of Abounding Bounty.

(106) For whatever verse We might abrogate or consign to oblivion, We bring a better one or the like of it.37 Are you not aware that Allah is All- Powerful? (107) Are you not aware that the dominion of the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah, ▶

used words which had double meanings, one innocent and the other offensive. The particular expression referred to here – which the Muslims were asked to avoid using since it lent itself to abuse – was employed by the Jews when they conversed with the Prophet (peace be on him). Whenever they wanted to request a short pause in which to finish whatever they wanted to say, they used the expression ra[ina, which meant “kindly indulge us” or “kindly lend (your) ear to us.” It is, however, because of the possibility of the word also being used in other meanings, some of which were evil and irreverential, that Muslims were asked to avoid it and to use instead the straightforward expression unzurna, meaning “kindly favour us with your attention” or “kindly grant us a moment to follow (what you are saying).”

37 This is in response to a doubt which the Jews tried to implant in the minds of Muslims. If both the earlier Scriptures and the Qur’an were revelations from God, why was it – they asked – that the injunctions found in the earlier scriptures had been replaced by new ones in the Qur’an?

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