Ayat 7. And We sent not before you (O Muhammad 
 
[SAWW](PBUH) ) but men to whom We inspired, so ask the people of the Reminder 
[Scriptures - the Taurat (Torah), the Injeel (Gospel)] if you do not know. 
Ayat 8. 
And We did not create them (the Messengers, with) bodies that ate not food, 
nor were they immortals, 
Ayat 9. 
Then We fulfilled to them the promise, and We saved them and those whom We 
willed, but We destroyed Al-Musrifun (i.e. extravagant in oppression, 
polytheism and in 
sin). 
[Tafseer] 
Before thee, also, the 
messengers We sent were but men, to whom We granted inspiration: If ye realize 
this not, ask of those who possess the Message. See 16:43 This answers the 
Unbelievers' taunt, "he is just a man like ourselves!" True, but all messengers 
sent by Allah were men, not angels or another kind of beings, who could not 
understand men or whom men could not understand. Nor did We give them bodies that ate 
no food, nor were they exempt from death. As men they were subject to the laws 
governing the physical bodies of men. They ate and drank, and their bodies 
perished in death (Cf. 7:148 and 25:7). In the end We fulfilled to them Our 
Promise, and We saved them and those whom We pleased, but We destroyed those who 
transgressed beyond bounds. But, however difficult (or impossible) their mission may have 
appeared to them, or to the world at first, they won through eventually, even 
those who seemed 
to have been defeated. Examples 
are given in the latter part of this Surah, especially in 21:51 -93. They were 
delivered from the Wrath which overtook the Unbelievers, as were those with them 
who accepted Allah's Message and placed themselves in conformity with His Will 
and Plan. That is the meaning of "whom We 
pleased". 
Hazrat Ubadah bin As-Samit (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of 
Allah 
 
[SAWW](PBUH) said, "He 
who bears witness that there is no true god except Allah, alone having no 
partner with Him, that Muhammad is His slave and His Messenger, that `Isa 
(Jesus) is His slave and Messenger and he (Jesus) is His Word which He 
communicated to Maryam (Mary) and His spirit which He sent to her, that Jannah 
is true and Hell is true; Allah will make him enter Jannah accepting whatever 
deeds he accomplished". 
Another narration in Muslim is: the Messenger 
of Allah 
 [SAWW](PBUH) said, "Whosoever testifies that there is no true 
god except Allah and that Muhammad 
 [SAWW](PBUH) is the Messenger of Allah, Allah (SWT) saves him 
from the Fire (of 
Hell)". 
[Muslim Hadith # 
43] 
Lesson : as 
mentioned above in Surah Al-Anbiya' Ayat 07."We sent not before 
you (O Muhammad 
 [SAWW](PBUH) ) but men" This Hadith confirms that all Prophets of Allah were men and thus refutes 
those who attribute divinity to them and exclude them from the category of men 
or regard them a part of Allah, as Christians believes Prophet `Isa (Jesus to be 
Christ) by regarding him Allah or His son, or the Jews do Prophet Uzair by 
venerating him as son of Allah.  

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