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No. Q108
Commentary on the Koran: Surah 108 “Abundance”
(Edition 1.5 20180602-20201229)
The Prophet had no children in the early years at Becca and was ridiculed for having no posterity for the
faith.
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Commentary on the Koran: Surah 108 “Abundance”
Pickthall
Translation; Bible Quotes are from the English Standard Version unless
otherwise noted.
Introduction
Al-Kauthar takes its name from a word in the first verse. The Prophet
was taunted by the Beccans because he had no children.
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108.1. Lo! We have given thee
Abundance;
108.2. So pray unto thy Lord, and
sacrifice.
108.3. Lo! it is thy insulter
(and not thou) who is without posterity.
Abundance comes in the form
of physical and spiritual blessings and are conditional on keeping the
commandments and testimonies of God (Rev. 12:17; 14:12).
Read Deuteronomy 28:1-14 for
more details. Ayat 2 mentions prayer and the sacrifice of one’s life to that
cause.
Refer to:
Revelation 20:6 in Commentary
on the Koran: Surah 11 (No. Q011) at ayat 108; Micah 6:8 in Commentary on the
Koran: Surah 22 (No. Q022) at ayat 54; 1Peter 2:9 in Commentary on the
Koran: Surah 24 (No. Q024) at ayat 36; Romans
12:1-2 in Commentary on the
Koran: Surah 32 (No. Q032) at ayat 16; Revelation
5:10 in Commentary
on the Koran: Surah 33 (No. Q033) at ayat 29; Deuteronomy 10:12-13 in Commentary on the
Koran: Surah 38 (No. Q038) at ayat 29 and Isaiah 45:3; Ephesians 1:7-11
and Romans 8:29-30 in Commentary on the Koran: Surah
62 (No. Q062) at ayat 4.
Malachi 3:10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
Deuteronomy 28:11-12 And the LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. 12The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Isaiah 33:6 and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.
Revelation 3:21 The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Romans 15:27 For they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
Psalm 37:28 For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalm 37:38 But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.
Proverbs 2:22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
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