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Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 1–3“The distinguisher” is the literal translation of ‘al-furqan’, which is the criterion for distinguishing between truth and falsehood.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 4–6Those who denied the truth used to denigrate the Quran as a false testament, but in fact the target of their allegation was the Prophet Muhammad.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 7–9Every preacher giving the call for Truth has had to face the same experience, as that of a Prophet.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 10–16The opponents of Truth frequently make the character of the preacher of Truth their target.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 17–19The Quranic commentator Ibn Kathir explains the reminder when he writes,Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verse 20The initial addressees of the Quran were those who accepted as their prophets Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Moses and others.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 21–24Those who demand, as a precondition, the physical appearance of God and His angels, before they accept a missionary’s message, are not really sincere about it.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 25–31Whenever a preacher of the Truth calls for its acceptance, those who represent untruth in the name of Truth, become his enemies.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 32–34When the Quran was revealed, it was not revealed all at once, but part by part over a period of 23 years.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 35–40The names of many of the prophets to whom the Quran refers again and again do not find a place in the recorded history of humanity.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 41–42The response of those who fail to accept the truth shows that the reason for their being steadfast in their faith, was their prejudice and not the force of any argument.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 43–44According to a tradition the Prophet is reported to have said, ‘Among all the deities besides God being worshipped under the sky, the most serious before God is that desire which is followed.’Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 45–49The phenomenon which in the present age is known as the axial rotation of the earth has been set down here in layman’s language.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 50–52In the Quran, the topics of the unity of God and the Hereafter have been described again and again in a number of different ways.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 53–54When two rivers meet or a river flows down into the sea, at the point of confluence, in spite of coming together, the two waters remain separate and a line of demarcation can be seen for quite a distance.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 55–57God has placed man in a world in which every thing and indeed the entire atmosphere bear testimony to the unity of God.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 58–60Here ‘six Days’ means six Days of God.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 61–62This passage possibly refers to what is known as the solar system.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 63–67A man’s way of walking symbolises his whole personality.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 68–71Three sins have been mentioned in this verse—polytheism, the killing of a person without justification and adultery.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 72–74In the present world, Satan has been at pains to glamourize wrongdoing and has taught the worshipper of untruth to present his case in the most appealing way.Chapter 25, The Criterion (Al-Furqan) · verses 75–77Those who had humbled themselves in this world for the sake of Truth, will be lodged in the loftiest dwellings of paradise.