fdjohan wrote: Surah 103 revealed in Mecca.
There were no evidences Prophet(saw) read the NT in time he was in Mecca.

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The main message of Surah 103 is "DON"T MESS WITH TIME"

for this verse, Ibn Katsir commented:
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Al-`Asr is the time in which the movements of the Children of Adam occur, whether good or evil. Malik narrated from Zayd bin Aslam that he said, "It is the evening.'' However, the first view is the popular opinion. Thus, Allah swears by this, that man is in Khusr, which means in loss and destruction.

The first verse of surah 103 is where you can find ALLAH swears by his creation ---TIME.

Three of the translators translated as:
103.001
YUSUFALI: By (the Token of) Time (through the ages),
PICKTHAL: By the declining day,
SHAKIR: I swear by the time,

An Islamic Scholar Abu AbdisSalam commented:
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When Allaah says 'By the ‘Asr', He is making an oath. So Allaah is swearing byal-'Asr. Allaah can swear by anything He wants, as He can use anything to be His witness. However, we as Muslims, are not allowed to swear by anything or anyone except by Allaah, His Names or His Attributes.

Summary of 103.1:

The first surah is one of the Quranic oaths. Here ALLAH SWEARS by TIME.

From his exegesis, Apple formed this verse:

103.1 And/by the time during which peoples pass away and become extinct.

Relate them with these passages.

REV 14
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14 I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one "like a son of man" with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.
15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe."
16 So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
17 Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
18 Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe."
19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath.
20 They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.


And this one
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REV 19
15And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.


With our own rational brain, Those are all nothing to do with his own translation or the sense of "TIME" which is the CORE MESSAGE of surah 103.

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Summary of 103.1:

• In Revelation, John describes the vision of Jesus coming on a cloud to reap the harvest of believers, on Earth, that have faith in Him
• Revelation tells us that this will occur at a certain definite time, via the noun “hora”
• Jesus gathers His faithful followers unto Himself
• Revelation also informs us that an angel will come to “gather the clusters of the vine of the earth”
• This is due to the “staphule”, or grapes, being ripe
• The grapes are then cast into God’s “lenos”, or winepress
• These are the ones not having faith in Jesus


There is no sense of TIME there.

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• 103.1 begins with “waal” which can be taken as a swearing by a thing


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• The juxtaposed “al” informs us that “it is also used to indicate something which has already been mentioned or a concept of which is in the mind of the writer or reader”


So,
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• Further, “al” has the signification of “anything which has a quality requiring it to be regarded as sacred, or inviolable; which has some right pertaining to it”
• Hence the material in this sura is not only very important, and sacred, but it relates to something that is already known
• 103.1 elaborates on what is already known and sacred, by affixing the noun “asri”, which tells us of a certain time “during which peoples pass away and become extinct”

Then?
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• The root “asara” is defined as “he pressed grapes”


Why do we have to talk about the root “he pressed grapes” if we are talking about TIME?

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• Further, the root “asara” has the definition of “he took, or collected, the produce of the earth”


Where is is the sense of TIME if we talk about the root of it?

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• Surveying all five Koranic usages of the root derivatives, shows a couple more instances where grapes are being placed into a winepress


But we are talking about TIME.

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• Thus, it is clear that 103.1 is referencing the time when the unbelievers will be cast into the winepress of God Almighty, just as stated in the Book of Revelation


They are not the same.

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• Further, Revelation tells us that it is Jesus Himself who treads God’s winepress – further exemplifying Jesus as God via deity interchangeability


Surah 1 wants us to concern about time.
Which part of those things related?

Google the definition of the Arabic word that is bothering you…


Go on…


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