And when the ambitions were cut off from their response out of hope for following or fear of refusal, some of them said: If he were a prophet, his prophethood would have occupied him from excessive marriage. This was the expected place for the news about what was for the messengers in this regard. So Allah, the Most High, said: ﴿And We have certainly sent﴾ meaning with what we have of greatness ﴿messengers﴾. And since the times of the messengers are not general for the time before, He included the preposition and said: ﴿before you﴾ meaning: and We did not make them angels, but We made them humans. And We burdened their backs with what calls for diplomacy and peace by pleasing the nations in some of their desires, or the resolution of the matter when the confrontation is realized by fulfilling the promise that We “made” meaning by Our greatness ﴿for them spouses﴾ meaning women whom they marry; and the spouse is the companion of male and female, and here it refers to the female. “And offspring” is the group that is dispersed by birth from one father in general. And their nations treated them as you are treated with mockery, so none of them followed anything from the desires of his nation. “And We did not make it for them to bring what the obstinate propose of signs as a collection for them, but ﴿and it was not for a messenger﴾ meaning any messenger ﴿to bring a sign﴾ that is proposed or a sign that abrogates a ruling from the rulings of his Sharia or a Sharia from before him or otherwise ﴿except by permission of Allah﴾ meaning the All-Encompassing in knowledge and ability. For the matters with Him are not [in] disorder nor excessive in it, nor is anything of it lost [rather] ﴿for every term﴾ meaning the end of a matter He has decreed alone to have a matter of the matters “a book” in which He has established that such and such will be at such and such a time of reward and punishment and rulings and the coming of signs and others, affirming and abrogating according to what wisdom necessitates. And wisdom necessitated that prophethood is sufficient in its establishment by one miracle, and whatever exceeds that is subject to the will.