Tafheem ul Quran
Surah 21 Al-Anbya, Ayat 7-8
وَمَاۤ اَرۡسَلۡنَا قَبۡلَكَ اِلَّا رِجَالًا نُّوۡحِىۡۤ اِلَيۡهِمۡ فَسۡـئَلُوۡۤا اَهۡلَ الذِّكۡرِ اِنۡ كُنۡتُمۡ لَا تَعۡلَمُوۡنَ
﴿21:7﴾
وَمَا جَعَلۡنٰهُمۡ جَسَدًا لَّا يَاۡكُلُوۡنَ الطَّعَامَ وَمَا كَانُوۡا خٰلِدِيۡنَ
﴿21:8﴾
(21:7) (O Muhammad), even before you We never sent any other than human beings
as Messengers, and to them We sent revelation.9 Ask the People of
the Book10 if you do not know. (21:8) We did not endow the Messengers with bodies that would need no food;
nor were they immortals.
Notes
9. This is the answer to their objection: This man is no more than a human
being like yourselves, and therefore, cannot be a Messenger of God. They have
been told that the former Prophets, too, whom you also recognize as Prophets,
were human beings and were blessed with revelations from Allah.
10. That is, you may have it testified by the Jews, who are the enemies of
Islam like you, and are teaching you the ways to oppose it, that all the Messengers
including Prophet Moses (peace be upon him) were human beings.