Many royal families have laid claim to godhead of the second category and, in order to consolidate their claim, they have pretended to be the offspring of gods in the former sense | The two subsequent examples are those of two people who clung to God as their support, and God drew them out of darkness so that they were enabled to perceive directly those realities which are beyond the reach of man's perception |
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中国语文 - Ma Jian : 难道你没有看见那个人吗?真主把国权赏赐他,故他与易卜拉欣争论他的主。 Karena itu, bingung dan terdiamlah orang kafir itu tidak dapat memberikan jawaban atau dalih lagi dan Allah tidak memberi petunjuk kepada orang-orang yang aniaya karena kekafirannya, yakni petunjuk ke jalan hidayah | Polytheists of all ages have either wrested this godhead from God altogether, or they have had this godhead distributed, in addition to God, among many others such as royal dynastics, religious divines and the venerated personalities of society, whether they belonged to the past or to their own times |
However, the whole story occurs in the Talmud and is largely in harmony with the Qur'anic version.
17To accept the Truth which Abraham had made crystal clear by his argument meant that Nimrod ought to part with his absolutist despotism | Maka tatkala dilihatnya raja itu seorang yang tolol, Ibrahim berkata sambil meningkat kepada alasan yang lebih jelas lagi, "Sesungguhnya Allah menerbitkan matahari dari timur, maka terbitkanlah olehmu dari barat |
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One of these belongs to the supernatural stratum | Nimrod did not claim for himself that he held the reins of the entire realm of causation in his hands; he claimed rather that he was the absolute sovereign of Chaldaea and its inhabitants, that in his realm his word was law, that there was no authority superior to his own to which he was answerable |
The devil within him was not prepared for that.