| Somali - Abduh : Wuxuuna Siibay Gacantiisii markaasay soo Baxday iyadoo u Cad Dadka Eegi• Melayu - Basmeih : Dan Nabi Musa mengeluarkan tangannya tibatiba tangannya menjadi putih bersinarsinar bagi orangorang yang melihatnya• On the one hand, they are not inclined to believe in a Book which abounds in narrations of a supernatural kind | It is impossible for those who respond in the affirmative to the first question to accept the idea of miracles |
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| As we have mentioned earlier, whenever the Prophets introduced themselves as God's Message-bearers, people asked them to produce some miraculous sign, to perform something supernatural | Such an approach can hardly be considered reasonable |
Did God, after creating the universe and establishing a system of natural causations therein, suspend Himself such that it is no longer possible for Him to interfere in the workings of the universe?.
| Now, there are those who believe that serpents can come into being only through one process - the known biological process | Let us take the instance mentioned in verse 107, namely, that the rod of Moses turned into a serpent |
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| Swahili - Al-Barwani : Na akatoa mkono wake mara ukawa mweupe kwa watazamao• On the contrary, if you are fully convinced that it is God's command alone which causes life to arise from lifeless matter, and that God has full power to confer whichever kind of life He wills, the transformation of the rod into a serpent and its subsequent reversion to its original state is no stranger than the transformation of any other lifeless matter into a living entity | Honesty demands that instead of indulging in far-fetched explanations of Qur'anic statements on miracles, such people should clearly declare that they do not believe in the Qur'an |
What it does demonstrate, however, is how such people can be pulled in two opposite directions.
15| Bosanski - Korkut : i izvadi ruku svoju — ona za prisutne postade bijela• The fact that the latter happens virtually every day whereas the former took place only a few times in history is not enough to declare the first as incredibly, strange and the second as 'natural' | Such people are bound to reject the statement that Moses' rod changed into a serpent and later reverted to its original shape |
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| Indonesia - Bahasa Indonesia : Dan ia mengeluarkan tangannya maka ketika itu juga tangan itu menjadi putih bercahaya kelihatan oleh orangorang yang melihatnya• English - Sahih International : And he drew out his hand; thereupon it was white [with radiance] for the observers• Moses was granted these two miraculous signs in order to provide testimony to his being a Messenger of God, the creator and sovereign of the universe | Or does He still hold the reins to His realm in His owns Hands so that His command is enforced every moment, and He does retain the power to alter the shape of things and the normal course of events - either partially or fully, - as and when He wills? On the other hand, being born followers of their ancestral religion, they are not inclined to reject the Book which carries supernatural narrations |