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Elisha
Chosen and Preferred · Al-Yasa · اليسع
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Al-Yasa, peace be upon him, is named twice in the Quran, and Allah says he was preferred over the worlds and counted among the outstanding. The Quran is the final revelation, and it is the measure by which earlier books are read, including the account of Elisha.
Named in the Quran
1.
“And Ishmael and Elisha and Jonah and Lot - and all [of them] We preferred over the worlds.”
Elisha is among those Allah preferred over the worlds.
2.
“And remember Ishmael, Elisha and Dhul-Kifl, and all are among the outstanding.”
Counted among the outstanding, with Ishmael and Dhul-Kifl.
In earlier scripture
The Quran
The final word
“That is the guidance of Allah by which He guides whomever He wills of His servants. But if they had associated others with Allah, then worthless for them would be whatever they were doing. Those are the ones to whom We gave the Scripture and authority and prophethood. But if the disbelievers deny it, then We have entrusted it to a people who are not therein disbelievers.”
The verses that follow the list of prophets that names him, in Surah al-An‘am.
The Bible
Where the Bible tells of him · Kings, in the King James Version
1 Kings 19:19
“So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.”
2 Kings 2:9
“And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.”
2 Kings 2:15
“And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.”
2 Kings 5:14
“Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.”
Christians and Jews read these Bible passages differently. This page presents them as the Quran frames them, with the Quran as the final revelation and the measure for what came before.