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The Gnostic's Proof - Hamza ibn Ali ibn Shu'ba al-Harrani

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Its meaning: A body for a body 1.

And He, Mighty and Majestic, said: "Before We obliterate faces and turn them toward their backs" 2.

And it came in the Tafsir [interpretation]: He made for its state an ear [aware] of it.

And He said: "Say, 'Be you stones or iron * Or [any] creation of that which is great within your breasts'" 3.

It came in the Tafsir: They are gold and silver.

And He, Mighty and Majestic, said: "And He made of them apes and pigs" 4.

And He, Mighty and Majestic, said: "So We said to them, 'Be apes, despised.' And We made it a deterrent punishment for those who were present and those who succeeded [them] and a lesson for the righteous" 5.

And verses in the Qur'an like this are many; we have limited ourselves from them to [what serves] the place of need.

If you say: "Why does the human not remember the transfer by which he transfers from a body to a body, so that it would be more emphasized and complete in argument, and be apparent?"

Footnotes

1A body from a body
2Surah An-Nisa – Verse 47
3Surah Al-Isra – Verses 50-51
4Surah Al-Ma'idah – Verse 60
5Surah Al-Baqarah – Verses 65-66
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