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Maeda 82-86
82- YOU WILL FIND THE JEWS TO HAVE THE WORST ANIMOSITY TOWARDS THOSE WHO BELIEVE, AND YOU WILL FIND THE MOST AMICABLE TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE ARE THOSE WHO SAY: “WE ARE NAZARENES”, FOR OF THEM THERE ARE PRIESTS AND MONKS AND AS THEY ARE NOT ARROGANT.
83- AND WHEN THEY HEAR WHAT WAS SENT DOWN TO THE MESSENGER, YOU SEE THEIR EYES FILL UP WITH TEARS BECAUSE OF THE TRUTH THEY HEARD, AND THEY SAY: “OUR LORD, WE BELIEVE, WRITE US DOWN WITH THE WITNESSES.
84- AND WHY SHOULD WE HOPE OUR LORD TO TAKE US IN WITH THE RIGHTEOUS IF WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN ALLAH AND THE TRUTH HE SENT US.
85- ALLAH REWARDED THEM BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY SAID WITH GARDENS WITH RIVERS FLOWING UNDERNEATH, WHERE THEY ABIDE FOREVER, SUCH IS THE RECOMPENSE OF THE CHARITABLE RIGHTEOUS.
86- AS FOR THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE AND REJECT OUR AYAHS, THEY ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE HELL-FIRE.
History; both distant and recent, have shown us the great animosity the Jews hold for the Muslims. Allah the Highest mentioned the Jews before the disbelievers, for we find that the animosity of the Jews to the Muslims is often greater than that of the disbelievers. They see the Muslims as enemies, or so do the majority of them.
On the other hand, the Christians do not hold such animosity to the Muslims, and indeed, some of them can be friendly and amicable. This is because their priests, scholars and monks, see the Islamic teachings to be very close to their teachings. There is another condition to this, which is that they are not arrogant. Those who are arrogant of their priests and monks will never admit to the truth.
A sign of this is that when they hear Allah’s words, they will be moved by what they hear and their eyes fill up with tears.
I would like to narrate a personal experience concerning this. My wife is an only child to her Christian parents, and her father was an only child too. When her father (my father in law) died, the time of the funeral was arranged for 1pm on a Friday, which was about the time for the Friday Prayer. They belonged to a Methodist church, which was one of the first to ordain women priests. The woman priest asked me to prepare a brief word for the ceremony, and when I reminded her of being a Muslim, she still asked me to go ahead.
I stood in the church saying my little speech in which I spoke about death being the first step of the Hereafter. Then I went on about Resurrection, and Judgement, and how every one will have to face Allah the Highest and look at the book of his or her deeds, without defense or support from anyone, and that the purpose of our life is to prepare for that day. I quoted Ayahs of the Quran and verses of the Hadith throughout my preaching. I finished and looked at the lady priest, and her cheeks were running with tears.
The Nagashi (King) of Abyssinia, during the time the Muslims migrated there was one of those described in the Ayah. It is also reported that there were several occasions when this happened with Christians who went to see Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him and hear from him.
“AND WHY SHOULD WE HOPE OUR LORD TO TAKE US IN WITH THE RIGHTEOUS IF WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN ALLAH AND THE TRUTH HE SENT US”.
This Ayah Allah the Highest is showing us that it is not logical to expect the Paradise in the Hereafter, which is the place Allah the Highest reserved for the righteous of his people, if we do not believe in Him. Why should people who do not believe in Allah the Highest, expect His rewards.
Those who do good deeds while they do not believed, are reward in this life in full, but have no share in the Hereafter. Allah the Highest said: “THOSE WHO DESIRE THE LOWER LIFE AND ITS PLEASURES, WE WILL RECOMPENSE THEM IN FULL THEREIN, AND THEY WILL NOT BE UNDERPAID THERE * THEY ARE THOSE WHO WILL HAVE NOTHING IN THE HEREAFTER EXCEPT THE FIRE” (S:11 A:15-16)
The recompense of those who believe and do good deeds is stated again to be the Gardens of Paradise, with rivers flowing through them, while those who disbelieve and reject Allah’s Ayahs are destined to the Hell-Fire. It is interesting that Allah the Highest reminds us very often of the reward of Paradise with its delights, and the punishment of the Hell-Fire and its horrors.
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