ayat 83 -ayat 92
THE ARABS ACCEPTED ISLAM WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY, but once they embraced it they promoted and defended it with all their power and will. devoting themselves to spreading it all over the world. Their faith was based on a pure unadulterated tawhid, in contrast to the prevalent Christian belief that Jesus was God and that the Archangel Gabriel was also God, leading to the emergence of the Christian doctrine of the " trinity ' which remains in existence to this day. The Qur'an rejected these notion and refuted them by asserting that Jesus and Gabriel were but His 'honoured slaves slaves' :
And they say: The Beneficent hath taken unto Himself a son. Be He glorified! Nay, but (those whom they call sons) are honoured slaves; (26) They speak not until He hath spoken, and they act by His command. (27) He knoweth what is before them and what is behind them, and they cannot intercede except for him whom He accepteth, and they quake for awe of Him. (28) And one of them who should say: Lo! I am a God beside Him, that one We should repay with hell. Thus We Repay wrong-doers. (29)
The irony in these words is unmistakable. No genuine God can be threatened in this way and remain passive. But none of the so-called gods had come up to defend their integrity, because none existed.
There can be only one supreme omnipotent God in this world, with a total and absolute sovereignty and authority over all its affairs. The surah says:
Unto Him belongeth whosoever is in the heavens and the earth. And those who dwell in His presence are not too proud to worship Him, nor do they weary; (19) They glorify (Him) night and day; they flag not. (20) Or have they chosen Gods from the earth who raise the dead? (21) If there were therein Gods beside Allah, then verily both (the heavens and the earth) had been disordered. Glorified be Allah, the Lord of the Throne, from all that they ascribe (unto Him). (22)
All of the prophets advocated tawhid: "And We sent no messenger before thee but We inspired him, (saying): There is no God save Me (Allah), so worship Me " (25). Where are the alleged gods? What signs or proof are there for their existence? The fact is that there are none but God Almighty.
" A Thematic Commentary On The Qur'an "
Reflection and commentary by Shaykh Abdul Nasir Jangda :
ayat 47 to ayat 49 :
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