Surat Al Ma'idah (111-120)

{وَإِذْ أَوْحَيْتُ إِلَى الْحَوَارِيِّينَ أَنْ آمِنُواْ بِي وَبِرَسُولِي قَالُوَاْ آمَنَّا وَاشْهَدْ بِأَنَّنَا مُسْلِمُونَ} [المائدة: 111]

111- And remember the favor of Allah on you, O Christ, when I inspired the disciples from among your Companions who are the elite of the Children of Israel to believe in Me and in the Prophethood of Jesus son of Mary. They said: We believed and responded and testified that we submitted to Your Command and devoted ourselves to your religion.

{إِذْ قَالَ الْحَوَارِيُّونَ يَا عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ هَلْ يَسْتَطِيعُ رَبُّكَ أَن يُنَزِّلَ عَلَيْنَا مَآئِدَةً مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ قَالَ اتَّقُواْ اللّهَ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ} [المائدة: 112]

112- From the favors of Allah on you, the news of the Banquet, so, mention what the disciples said to you. Does your Lord respond to you if you ask Him to send down a dining table from the sky?

Jesus (peace be upon him) said to them: Fear Allah and do not ask about this, perhaps it will lead to a great sedition if you are true faithful after I had sent down to you enough miracles.

{قَالُواْ نُرِيدُ أَن نَّأْكُلَ مِنْهَا وَتَطْمَئِنَّ قُلُوبُنَا وَنَعْلَمَ أَن قَدْ صَدَقْتَنَا وَنَكُونَ عَلَيْهَا مِنَ الشَّاهِدِينَ} [المائدة: 113]

113- They said: Our question is not for disabling you, but we would like to eat there from, to comfort our hearts by increasing certainty if we see sustenance comes down from sky, and to know for sure that you affirmed our faith in your prophethood and testify that it was a sign from Allah and clear sin for the truthfulness of your prophethood, moreover, we shall inform those who do not attend the banquet.

{قَالَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّنَا أَنزِلْ عَلَيْنَا مَآئِدَةً مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ تَكُونُ لَنَا عِيداً لِّأَوَّلِنَا وَآخِرِنَا وَآيَةً مِّنكَ وَارْزُقْنَا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ الرَّازِقِينَ} [المائدة: 114]

114- Jesus, son of Mary (peace be upon him) called to Allah in Khushu` (the heart being attuned to the act of worship) and humility after he had seen that the Disciples wanted him to supplicate Allah:

O Allah! send down to us from sky a dining table so that we may take the day in which the banquet was revealed a festival we and those who will come after us would glorify it. It will be a proof to your ability and your respond to my call in order that they believe my words and what I brought to you from my Lord. O Allah, make it a good sustenance and you are the best Provider of Sustenance, for you are the Creator of sustenance and the One Who gives it.

{قَالَ اللّهُ إِنِّي مُنَزِّلُهَا عَلَيْكُمْ فَمَن يَكْفُرْ بَعْدُ مِنكُمْ فَإِنِّي أُعَذِّبُهُ عَذَاباً لاَّ أُعَذِّبُهُ أَحَداً مِّنَ الْعَالَمِينَ} [المائدة: 115]

115- Allah (may He be Exalted) says: I will send down to you a banquet, so whoever denies it after it was sent down to you I would torture him severely because of his disbelief.

Narrations differed in the descent of banquet or not. It was said that disciples feared of torture and stopped asking it therefore, it did not descend.

However, other narrations mentioned the descent of the banquet. As a result, the promise and the warning of Allah was truthful and those who denied that great miracle were deformed as monkeys and pigs.

It was mentioned that the news of the banquet was not mentioned in the Bible, and if the banquet was mentioned there, the Bible would have mentioned it and that festival would have remained until the Day of Recompense. However, there is a story in the bible looks like this from different views which the owner of "Al Zhilal" mentioned.

Most commentators adopt the view that it was truly revealed.

{وَإِذْ قَالَ اللّهُ يَا عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ أَأَنتَ قُلتَ لِلنَّاسِ اتَّخِذُونِي وَأُمِّيَ إِلَـهَيْنِ مِن دُونِ اللّهِ قَالَ سُبْحَانَكَ مَا يَكُونُ لِي أَنْ أَقُولَ مَا لَيْسَ لِي بِحَقٍّ إِن كُنتُ قُلْتُهُ فَقَدْ عَلِمْتَهُ تَعْلَمُ مَا فِي نَفْسِي وَلاَ أَعْلَمُ مَا فِي نَفْسِكَ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ عَلاَّمُ الْغُيُوبِ} [المائدة: 116]

116- Allah (may He be Exalted) said to Jesus son of Mary on the Day of Recompense as reproach and censure for the Christians: Did you say to the people: Take me and my mother as gods other than Allah?

Jesus answered in glorification to Allah: Glory be to You, You do not have a partner. It is not entitled for me or to anyone to claim this and if I said that, You would have known it before. You know what is in my conscious, how about what I said publically? I do not know the hidden and the public matters of Your Affairs while you know what was in the past and what will be in the future.

{مَا قُلْتُ لَهُمْ إِلاَّ مَا أَمَرْتَنِي بِهِ أَنِ اعْبُدُواْ اللّهَ رَبِّي وَرَبَّكُمْ وَكُنتُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيداً مَّا دُمْتُ فِيهِمْ فَلَمَّا تَوَفَّيْتَنِي كُنتَ أَنتَ الرَّقِيبَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَأَنتَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَهِيدٌ} [المائدة: 117]

117- I did not say to the people but what You had commanded me: to direct yourselves to Allah Alone and do not associate anyone with Him in worship because He is my Lord and yours. I was a witness to their conditions: belief and disbelief, and I used to advise them to act according to Your Command. However, when You lifted me to sky, You were the Ever-Preserving, the Watcher over them, and the Well-Acquainted of my message to them and their false claims after my ascension.

{إِن تُعَذِّبْهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ عِبَادُكَ وَإِن تَغْفِرْ لَهُمْ فَإِنَّكَ أَنتَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ} [المائدة: 118]

118- If you torture them, there will be no objection to Your Judgment because You are the absolute Owner Who controls them as He wants. They are Your Servants, under Your Control, and deserve this because they have disobeyed Your Commands. If You forgive them, it will not be out of disability to torture them, but You are the Ever-Powerful Who is Able to reward and punishment, Who does not reward or punish but out of wisdom.

Verily, You are the One Who does what He wills and nobody can ask You about what You do, but they are.

{قَالَ اللّهُ هَذَا يَوْمُ يَنفَعُ الصَّادِقِينَ صِدْقُهُمْ لَهُمْ جَنَّاتٌ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا أَبَداً رَّضِيَ اللّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُواْ عَنْهُ ذَلِكَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ} [المائدة: 119]

119- Allah (may He be Exalted) says on the Day when He shall gather the messengers: The faith of those who were truthful in their faith in the world will benefit them today. Their reward shall be high paradises underneath are rivers flow. They will reside there forever, Allah will be pleased with them, and they shall be pleased with these rewards. Nothing is dearer than His Pleasure (Glory be to Him), which is success in the Hereafter.

{لِلّهِ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ وَمَا فِيهِنَّ وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ} [المائدة: 120]

120- Everything in heavens, on earth, and everything in between are owned by Allah and under His Control and Dominance. He is Able to do whatever He wants and nothing fails Him, but all things subject to His Will and subjugated by His Command.