إِنْ أَنْتُمْ إِلَّا بَشَرٌ مِثْلُنَا
You are only human beings like us.
Rejecters of the messengers used their humanity as an objection to their prophetic claims. The restriction has a relative polemical force: an acknowledged human attribute is treated as excluding messengership.
The response need not deny their humanity. It rejects the mistaken inference that human nature rules out revelation or a prophetic mission. A true description and a false conclusion from it must be kept separate.
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Restriction by Fronting and the Rhetorical Contrast of Qasr Methods
إِنْ أَنْتُمْ إِلَّا بَشَرٌ مِثْلُنَا
You are only human beings like us.
Rejecters of the messengers used their humanity as an objection to their prophetic claims. The restriction has a relative polemical force: an acknowledged human attribute is treated as excluding messengership.
The response need not deny their humanity. It rejects the mistaken inference that human nature rules out revelation or a prophetic mission. A true description and a false conclusion from it must be kept separate.