Araf 100-102
100- DO THOSE WHO INHERIT THE EARTH AFTER ITS PREVIOUS PEOPLE REALIZE THAT IF WE WILL, WE WOULD PUNISH THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS, AND SEAL THEIR HEARTS SO THAT THEY WILL NOT HEAR.
101- WE NARRATE TO YOU THE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THESE VILLAGES, THEIR MESSENGERS WENT TO THEM WITH THE MANIFEST SIGNS, BUT THEY WOULD NOT BELIEVE IN WHAT THEY REJECTED BEFOREHAND, THIS IS HOW ALLAH SEALS THE HEARTS OF THE DISBELIEVERS.
102- AND WE DID NOT FIND THAT MOST OF THEM KEEP THEIR COVENANT, BUT WE FOUND MOST OF THEM TO BE WICKED.
In this life, we inherit each other. Things pass from one person to another, from one generation to another and from one nation to another. Countries change hands, and land changes hands. There is an important morale lesson in this, in that nothing would have come to you, had it lasted with another person. Money has to go from one person to another, work, ownership of land and houses etc. Everything we have, we have only temporarily, and it was with others before us and will go to others after us.
However, this applies to our life on Earth only, for everything here is temporary, including our very existence, and including the existence of the Earth itself. This is to the contrary to the Hereafter which is all eternal.
Allah the Highest sent prophets and messengers to people with clear signs and evidence. Yet belief was not forthcoming. Even those who believe, they do not fulfill the covenants of believing. Starting with Adam peace upon him, who did not keep his covenant and ate from the tree, and ending with the believers at our present day and age.
Whenever someone embraces a faith, they enter into covenant with Allah the Highest to believe and to observe the rules set by Allah the Highest, but only few of us keep their covenant, particularly observing Allah’s rules and commands. The same happens whenever one joins a club or a political party, he/she is committing themselves to observing their rules.
Allah the Highest took from the Children of Adam a covenant and a testimony very early indeed, He said: “AND AS YOUR LORD TOOK FROM THE CHILDREN OF ADAM, HE TOOK THEIR OFFSPRING FROM THEIR BACKS AND MADE THEM BEAR WITNESS OVER THEMSELVES: “AM I NOT YOUR LORD?” THEY SAID: “YES INDEED WE TESTIFY”, SO THAT YOU MAY NOT SAY ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION: “WE WERE UNAWARE OF THAT” * OR SAY: “BUT OUR FOREFATHERS TOOK PARTNERS TO WORSHIP BEFOREHAND AND, AND WE WERE THEIR CHILDREN TO FOLLOW THEM, ARE YOU TO DESTROY US BECAUSE OF WHAT THE WRONG DOERS DID?” (S: 7 A: 172-173)
As to how we made such testimony at that stage it is not known to us, but it happened for Allah the Highest says that it did. This is all in Allah’s knowledge, and we need not hypothesis about it.
The elements of belief have been in us before our coming into being as full human beings.
100- DO THOSE WHO INHERIT THE EARTH AFTER ITS PREVIOUS PEOPLE REALIZE THAT IF WE WILL, WE WOULD PUNISH THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS, AND SEAL THEIR HEARTS SO THAT THEY WILL NOT HEAR.
101- WE NARRATE TO YOU THE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THESE VILLAGES, THEIR MESSENGERS WENT TO THEM WITH THE MANIFEST SIGNS, BUT THEY WOULD NOT BELIEVE IN WHAT THEY REJECTED BEFOREHAND, THIS IS HOW ALLAH SEALS THE HEARTS OF THE DISBELIEVERS.
102- AND WE DID NOT FIND THAT MOST OF THEM KEEP THEIR COVENANT, BUT WE FOUND MOST OF THEM TO BE WICKED.
In this life, we inherit each other. Things pass from one person to another, from one generation to another and from one nation to another. Countries change hands, and land changes hands. There is an important morale lesson in this, in that nothing would have come to you, had it lasted with another person. Money has to go from one person to another, work, ownership of land and houses etc. Everything we have, we have only temporarily, and it was with others before us and will go to others after us.
However, this applies to our life on Earth only, for everything here is temporary, including our very existence, and including the existence of the Earth itself. This is to the contrary to the Hereafter which is all eternal.
Allah the Highest sent prophets and messengers to people with clear signs and evidence. Yet belief was not forthcoming. Even those who believe, they do not fulfill the covenants of believing. Starting with Adam peace upon him, who did not keep his covenant and ate from the tree, and ending with the believers at our present day and age.
Whenever someone embraces a faith, they enter into covenant with Allah the Highest to believe and to observe the rules set by Allah the Highest, but only few of us keep their covenant, particularly observing Allah’s rules and commands. The same happens whenever one joins a club or a political party, he/she is committing themselves to observing their rules.
Allah the Highest took from the Children of Adam a covenant and a testimony very early indeed, He said: “AND AS YOUR LORD TOOK FROM THE CHILDREN OF ADAM, HE TOOK THEIR OFFSPRING FROM THEIR BACKS AND MADE THEM BEAR WITNESS OVER THEMSELVES: “AM I NOT YOUR LORD?” THEY SAID: “YES INDEED WE TESTIFY”, SO THAT YOU MAY NOT SAY ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION: “WE WERE UNAWARE OF THAT” * OR SAY: “BUT OUR FOREFATHERS TOOK PARTNERS TO WORSHIP BEFOREHAND AND, AND WE WERE THEIR CHILDREN TO FOLLOW THEM, ARE YOU TO DESTROY US BECAUSE OF WHAT THE WRONG DOERS DID?” (S: 7 A: 172-173)
As to how we made such testimony at that stage it is not known to us, but it happened for Allah the Highest says that it did. This is all in Allah’s knowledge, and we need not hypothesis about it.
The elements of belief have been in us before our coming into being as full human beings.
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