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   Quran /11- HUD HUD Meccan/
 
Introduction
In The Name of Allah AL-Rahman and AL-Rahim (The Merciful) This Surah supplements the preceding Surah Yunus (Jonah); the former Yunus leaned to mercy whereas the latter Hud dealt with punishment of sin when Allah's grace is defiantly resisted. The Surah alludes to certain particulars in the narratives of some of the prophets in such a manner as to supplement what has been narrated in the preceding Surah. It is interesting to note that the story of Hud and his tribe, the Adites is not mentioned in the Jewish Scriptures, a fact that annuls the allegation that the Prophet Muhammad has copied his discourse from Hebrew Scriptures. Allah makes a reference here to His Throne when it Was set upon the water, a fact which directs one's mind to two processes: one is cosmic related to the process of the creation of the universe before the final stage of solidification*, the other is biological related to the creation of all animate beings from water**. We find also in this Surah that the idolaters have been challenged to produce ten Surah Instead of one -in Jonas- in the case of the one Surah the challenge applied to man's inability to discourse of things and phenomena of which he is totally ignorant; whereas in the case of the ten Surahs, the challenge centered on words and the methods of combining them for the expression of thought. Those Arabs were magniloquent in the art of speaking and writing. But how could they produce ten Surahs each of which bearing reference to a different aspect of the same thought *see introductionC.7 **see V.30, C.21
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In The Name of Allah AL-Rahman and AL-Rahim (The Merciful) This Surah supplements the preceding Surah Yunus (Jonah); the former Yunus leaned to mercy whereas the latter Hud dealt with punishment of sin when Allah's grace is defiantly resisted. The Surah alludes to certain particulars in the narratives of some of the prophets in such a manner as to supplement what has been narrated in the preceding Surah. It is interesting to note that the story of Hud and his tribe, the Adites is not mentioned in the Jewish Scriptures, a fact that annuls the allegation that the Prophet Muhammad has copied his discourse from Hebrew Scriptures. Allah makes a reference here to His Throne when it Was set upon the water, a fact which directs one's mind to two processes: one is cosmic related to the process of the creation of the universe before the final stage of solidification*, the other is biological related to the creation of all animate beings from water**. We find also in this Surah that the idolaters have been challenged to produce ten Surah Instead of one -in Jonas- in the case of the one Surah the challenge applied to man's inability to discourse of things and phenomena of which he is totally ignorant; whereas in the case of the ten Surahs, the challenge centered on words and the methods of combining them for the expression of thought. Those Arabs were magniloquent in the art of speaking and writing. But how could they produce ten Surahs each of which bearing reference to a different aspect of the same thought *see introductionC.7 **see V.30, C.21
 
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