Those Who Set The Ranks
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[37:123]
AND, BEHOLD, Elijah [too] was indeed one of Our message-bearers

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* v.123 : The Hebrew prophet Elijah (Ilyās in Arabic) is mentioned in the Bible (I Kings xvii ff. and II Kings i-ii) as having lived in the Northern Kingdom of Israel during the reigns of Ahab and Ahazīah – i.e., in the ninth century B.C. – and having been succeeded by Elisha (Al-Yasa‘ in Arabic). The above stress on his, too, having been “one of the message-bearers” (min al-mursalīn) recalls the Qur’anic principle that God makes “no distinction between any of His apostles” (cf. 2:136 and 285, 3:84, 4:152, and the corresponding notes).