GOD'S FINAL ISSUE VERSES NO.4-6

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Verses 7-9Verses 4-6

      The reference here is to obstinate persons who dispute about Allah, and are not willing to know the truthِIn their dispute they rely on no knowledge, no faith, and neither any evidence! Very often ignorance and faithlessness makes people to dispute about Allah. This is where we are all surrounded by the signs of Allah and His Infinite knowledge has encompassed everything.

      It is true that such disputers might have some power, a rank and position, or be him a wealthy, having to and from visiting in the towns; or strut here and there, but these apparent advantages should not delude us, and make us to think too much of them. As a matter of fact, they are like a bubble that forms upon water and soon after cracks and reduces to nothing!

      The confederates who belied their apostles after Noah seems to have been the people of ÄdِThamudِLotِand Pharaoh. They were parties that united against their apostles and God seized them in their blasphemy.

      They disputed stubbornly with the apostles of God and their followers, and adhered in their dispute to sophistry and fallacy, and without any reasoning to satisfy the conditions of logical proof. They deluded and deceived some simple minded people, and imposed their false ideas upon them.

      Truth was not in their intention. Their aim was only to overcome and vanquish the others in order to establish their own power.

      Therefore when they were busy in their evil business, God seized them out of a sudden, and destroyed them and all that they had including their houses and households. Only some traces were left behind them for future lessons to be taken:-

      ``And so was the word of your lord proved to be right, against those who disbelievedِthat they weer the companions of the Fire.''

      The Arabic, ``JADAL'' translated to dispute, literally means every kind of discussion, right or wrong, good or bad. Its other shades of meanings or synonyms are to contend in argumentِto debate or to argue irritably. It might be to oppose some idea by argument, or an assertion to deny a truth or the validity of something.

      If we follow an offensive way in our dispute, and try to injure the feelings of our opponent, to overcome him in the contend; it is not agreeable with the spirit of Qurän, and it is considered to be an indecent act, because we have tried to vanquish a truth by falsehood.

      As to disputing with the people of the Book, such as the Jews-Christians or Zoroastrians, we must be more careful, because we have it in QuränِS 29:46:-

      ``And dispute not with the people of the Book except by a way which is the best-unless they be of those who have oppressed.''

      Say:- ``We believe in what has been sent down to us and to youِour God and your God is one, and we have submitted to Him.''

      When we dispute with some one, particularly with those people who have a Divine Book we must discuss with self-confidence, but we should not be aggressively confident. We must chase the truth with kindness and sincerity. We will have always to show our genuine anxiety for the good of others.

      We had better not to insist on our truthful assertion to be accepted as our own idea and guidance by our counterpart. Let him think that he himself has reached that conclusion. We should not pave the way for him in our dispute to become obstinate. We must always observe the rules of justice and never think to despise the other side of dispute.

      Of course, if they are deliberately trying to wrong or injure us, then we will have to stand firmly in front of them.

 

 

 

 

 

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