Surah Al-Anaam, Verse 83 and 84

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*Surah Al-Anaam, Verse 83:*

وَتِلْكَ حُجَّتُنَا آتَيْنَاهَا إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَلَىٰ قَوْمِهِ نَرْفَعُ دَرَجَاتٍ مَّن نَّشَاءُ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ حَكِيمٌ عَلِيمٌ

And that was Our Proof which We gave Ibrahim (Abraham) against his people. We raise whom We will in degrees. Certainly your Lord is All-Wise, All-Knowing.

#COMMENTARY

The spiritual education of Abraham raised him many degrees above his contemporaries, and he was expected to use that knowledge and dignity for preaching the truth among his own people.

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*Surah Al-Anaam, Verse 84:*

وَوَهَبْنَا لَهُ إِسْحَاقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ كُلًّا هَدَيْنَا وَنُوحًا هَدَيْنَا مِن قَبْلُ وَمِن ذُرِّيَّتِهِ دَاوُودَ وَسُلَيْمَانَ وَأَيُّوبَ وَيُوسُفَ وَمُوسَىٰ وَهَارُونَ وَكَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُحْسِنِينَ

And We bestowed upon him Ishaque (Isaac) and Ya'qub (Jacob), each of them We guided, and before him, We guided Nuh (Noah), and among his progeny Dawud (David), Sulaiman (Solomon), Ayub (Job), Yusuf (Joseph), Musa (Moses), and Harun (Aaron). Thus do We reward the good-doers.

#COMMENTARY

We have now list of eighteen Prophets in four groups, covering the great Teachers accepted among the three great religions based on Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad (Peace be upon them). The first group to be mentioned is that of Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob. Abraham was the first to have a Book. His Book is mentioned in Qur-ān chapter lxxxvii, verse 19, though it is now lost. They were therefore the first to receive Guidance in the sense of a Book.

In the second group, we have the great founders of families, apart from Abraham, viz., Noah, of the time of the Flood: David and Solomon, The real establishers of the Jewish monarchy: job, who lived 140 years, saw four generations of descendants, and was blessed at the end of his life with large pastoral wealth (job xlii, verses 16-12); Joseph, who as Minister of state did great things in Egypt and was the progenitor of the two Tribes; and Moses and Aaron, the leaders of the Exodus from Egypt. They led active lives and are called "doers of of good."