IS THERE ANY DOUBT IN GOD? (VERSES NO. 8 - 10)

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Verses 11-12Verses 8-10

      The first of the above group of verses imply that if you give thanks for what Allah has bestowed upon you it is for your own good, and your gratitude serves to increase God's favour and bounties, but if you turn away and blaspheme in your disbelief, it ends to your own loss. No one can ever harm Allah, and people's disobedience, and rejection will cause their own perdition. In other word, if all men gather together against Allah, they cannot detract from His infinite power an electron weight. God does not depend upon his creation and creatures for anything, and His glory and dignity cannot be questioned by anyone.

      Then the next verse applies to the destiny of the past nations, such as the people of Noah, Äd and Thamud whose life and fate can teach man, many useful lessons:ِ

      ``.... Their Messenegers came to them with evidences, but they held their hands on their mouths and said:ِ We believe not in what you have been sent to!''

      Many Messengers have been sent to man, but the life story of most of them are unknown to us, and even we do not know the names of most of them. It is narrated that Allah has sent 124 thousand apostles in order to guide mankind and lead them from darkness to light:ِ

      ``The people of Noah, Äd, Thamud, and those after them, whom no one knows except Allah.'' ``.... They said you are no more than mortals like ourselves, who want to prevent us from what our fathers worshipped....''

      That is to say; even if we admit that there exist a God and we have to worship him; ok; our father's ways of worship satisfy our spiritual needs. What authority do you have to turn us away from the creed of our fathers!?

      The Arabic, SHAKK and RAIB are to some extent synonyms and we therefore have translated them to doubt and suspicion. The unbelievers related their disbelief to doubt and suspicion, and thus in the next verse the apostles ask them:ِ

      ``Is there any doubt about Allah who is the Creator of the heavens and the earth?''

      This implies that if we study the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the wonderful order which is enforced throughout the universe, not only God's existence can easily be proved, His attributes too can be known with enough evidences.

      So the object of the prophet's mission is also mentioned in the same verse (NO.10) that:ِ

      ``.... Calls you to forgive you your sins, and defer you up to your appointed term.''

      In fact, there are two aims in the missions of the apostles. The first one is to clean those who follow them with their round about from sins and guilts so as to entitle them to the forgiveness of God and His salvation. The second object of the prophet's mission is to help man to live long enough up to his appointed and natural term down here in this life, so that he might have the chances of developing his spiritual faculties. These two said objects are cause and effect because man's unnatural deaths are more than his natural deaths! According to a tradition narrated from Imam Sadiq (AS), those people who die by their sins, guilts, oppression and evil deeds, are far more in number than those who die a natural death and live long up to their appointed term.

 

 

 

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