123وَإِنَّ إِلياسَ لَمِنَ المُرسَلينَMuhammad AsadAND, BEHOLD, Elijah [too] was indeed one of Our message-bearers1The Hebrew prophet Elijah (Ilyas in Arabic) is mentioned in the Bible (I Kings xvii if. and 11 Kings i-ii) as having lived in the Northern Kingdom of Israel during the reigns of Ahab and Ahaziah - i.e., in the ninth century B.C. - and having been succeeded by Elisha (Al-Yasa in Arabic). The above stress on his, too, having been "one of the message-bearers" (min al-mursalin) recalls the Qur'anic principle that God makes "no distinction between any of His apostles" (cf. 2:136 and 285, 3:84, 4:152, and the corresponding notes).