Bigotry: The Dark Danger
Learning from the Quran
Allah's Questions To The UnbelieversDoes man reckon he will be left to go on unchecked? Was he not a drop of ejaculated sperm, then an alaq (embryo) which He created and shaped, making from it both sexes, male and female? Is He Who does this not able to bring the dead to life? (Qur'an, 75:36-40) How can you reject Allah, when you were dead and then He gave you life, then He will make you die and then give you life again, then you will be returned to Him? (Qur'an, 2:28) Do they not know that Allah knows what they keep secret and what they make public? (Qur'an, 2:77) They say, 'The Fire will only touch us for a number of days.' Say, 'Have you made a contract with Allah—then Allah will not break His contract—or are you rather saying about Allah what you do not know?' (Qur'an, 2:80) When they are told, 'Follow what Allah has sent down to you,' They say, 'We are following what we found our fathers doing.' What, even though their fathers did not understand a thing and were not guided! (Qur'an, 2:170) Or do those who do bad actions imagine they can outstrip Us? How bad their judgement is! (Qur'an, 29:4) Is it other than the religion of Allah that you desire, when everything in the heavens and earth, willingly or unwillingly, submits to Him and to Him you will be returned? (Qur'an, 3:83) Who is there who could provide for you if He withholds His provision? Yet still they obstinately persist in insolence and evasion. (Qur'an, 67:21) What harm would it have done them to have believed in Allah and the Last Day and to have given of what Allah has provided for them? Allah knows everything about them. (Qur'an, 4:39) Or do they indeed really own a portion of Allah's kingdom? In that case they do not give so much as a scrap to other people! (Qur'an, 4:53) Will they not ponder the Qur'an? If it had been from other than Allah, they would have found many inconsistencies in it. (Qur'an, 4:82) Do those who take the unbelievers as protectors, rather than the believers, hope to find power and strength with them? Power and strength belong entirely to Allah. (Qur'an, 4:139) Have they not seen how many generations We destroyed before them which We had established on the earth far more firmly than We have established you? We sent down heaven upon them in abundant rain and made rivers flow under them. But We destroyed them for their wrong actions and raised up further generations after them. (Qur'an, 6:6) Does not man see that We created him from a drop yet there he is, an open antagonist! (Qur'an, 36:77) Say: 'What do you think? If Allah's punishment were to come upon you or the Hour, would you call on other than Allah if you are being truthful? (Qur'an, 6:40) Say: 'Can any of your partner-gods bring creation out of nothing and then regenerate it?' Say: 'Allah brings creation out of nothing and then regenerates it. So how have you been perverted?' (Qur'an, 10:34) Say: 'What do you think? If Allah took away your hearing and your sight and sealed up your hearts, what god is there, other than Allah, who could give them back to you?' Look how We vary the Signs, yet still they turn away! (Qur'an, 6:46) What are they waiting for but for the angels to come to them or for your Lord Himself to come, or for one of your Lord's Signs to come? On the day that one of your Lord's Signs does come, no faith which a self professes will be of any use to it if it did not believe before and earn good in its faith. Say: 'Wait, then; We too are waiting.' (Qur'an, 6:158) Have they not looked into the dominions of the heavens and the earth and what Allah has created, and seen that it may well be that their appointed time is near? In what discourse after this will they believe? (Qur'an, 7:185) Do you feel secure against Him causing the shore to swallow you up or sending against you a sudden squall of stones? Then you will find no one to be your guardian. (Qur'an, 17:68) Say: 'Who provides for you out of heaven and earth? Who controls hearing and sight? Who brings forth the living from the dead and the dead from the living? Who directs the whole affair?' They will say, 'Allah.' Say, 'So will you not guard against evil?' (Qur'an, 10:31) What are they waiting for but the angels to come to them or your Lord's command to come? That is like what those before them did. Allah did not wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (Qur'an, 16:33) Do they feel secure that the all-enveloping punishment of Allah will not come upon them, or that the Last Hour will not come upon them all of a sudden when they least expect it? (Qur'an, 12:107) Or do you feel secure against Him taking you back into it another time and sending a violent storm against you and drowning you for your ingratitude? Then you will find no one to defend you against Us. (Qur'an, 17:69) Say: 'Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?' Say: 'Allah.' Say: 'So why have you taken protectors apart from Him who possess no power to help or harm themselves?' Say: 'Are the blind and seeing equal? Or are darkness and light the same? Or have they assigned partners to Allah Who create as He creates, so that all creating seems the same to them?' Say: 'Allah is the Creator of everything. He is the One, the All-Conquering.' (Qur'an, 13:16) Do those who plot evil actions feel secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them up or that a punishment will not come upon them from where they least expect? (Qur'an, 16:45) Do they imagine that, in the wealth and children We extend to them, We are hastening to them with good things? No indeed, but they have no awareness! (Qur'an, 23:55-56) Do they not see that Allah, Who created the heavens and earth, has the power to create the like of them, and has appointed fixed terms for them of which there is no doubt? But the wrongdoers still spurn anything but disbelief. (Qur'an, 17:99) They say, 'Why have no Signs been sent down to him from his Lord?' Say: 'The Signs are with Allah. I am only a clear warner.' Is it not enough for them that We have sent down to you the Book which is recited to them? There is certainly a mercy and reminder in that for people who believe. (Qur'an, 29:50-51) Do they not ponder these words? Has anything come to them that did not come to their ancestors the previous peoples? (Qur'an, 23:68) Say: 'What do you think? If Allah made it permanent night for you till the Day of Rising, what god is there other than Allah to bring you light? Do you not then hear?' (Qur'an, 28:71) Say: 'What do you think? If Allah made it permanent day for you till the Day of Rising, what god is there other than Allah to bring you night to rest in? Do you not then see?' (Qur'an, 28:72) We created you so why do you not confirm the truth? (Qur'an, 56:57) Have you thought about the water that you drink? Is it you who sent it down from the clouds or are We the Sender? If We wished We could have made it bitter, so will you not give thanks? (Qur'an, 56:68-70) Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of those before them? They had greater strength than them and cultivated the land and inhabited it in far greater numbers than they do. Their Messengers also came to them with the Clear Signs. Allah would never have wronged them; but they wronged themselves. (Qur'an, 30:9) Say: 'Praise be to Allah and peace be upon His servants whom He has chosen.' Is Allah better, or what you associate with Him? (Qur'an, 27:59) They will shout out in it, 'Our Lord! Take us out! We will act rightly, differently from the way we used to act!' Did We not let you live long enough for anyone who was going to pay heed to pay heed? And did not the warner come to you? Taste it then! There is no helper for the wrongdoers. (Qur'an, 35:37) Mankind! Remember Allah's blessing to you. Is there any creator other than Allah providing for you from heaven and earth? There is no god but Him. So how have you been perverted? (Qur'an, 35:3) Does He Who created the heavens and earth not have the power to create the same again? Yes indeed! He is the Creator, the All-Knowing. (Qur'an, 36:81) Or were they created out of nothing, or are they the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? No, in truth they have no certainty. (Qur'an, 52:35-36) Have you thought about the sperm that you ejaculate? Is it you who create it or are We the Creator? (Qur'an, 56:58-59) Who is there who could provide for you if He withholds His provision? Yet still they obstinately persist in insolence and evasion. (Qur'an, 67:21) Or do you ask them for a wage so they are weighed down with debt? Or is the Unseen in their hands so they can write out what is to happen? Or do they desire to dupe you? But the duped ones are those who do not believe. Or do they have some god other than Allah? Glory be to Allah above any idol they propose. (Qur'an, 52:40-43) Have you thought about what you cultivate? Is it you who make it germinate or are We the Germinator? If We wished We could have made it broken stubble. You would then be left devoid of crops, distraught: (Qur'an, 56:63-65) Have you thought about the fire that you light? Is it you who make the trees that fuel it grow or are We the Grower? (Qur'an, 56:71-72) Does he imagine that no one has power over him? He says, 'I have consumed vast quantities of wealth.' Does he imagine that no one has seen him? Have We not given him two eyes, and a tongue and two lips (Qur'an, 90:5-9) Would We make the Muslims the same as the evildoers? What is the matter with you? On what basis do you judge? Or do you have a Book which you study, so that you may have anything in it you choose? Or do you have oaths which bind Us, extending to the Day of Rising, that you will have whatever you decide? Ask them which of them stands as guarantor for that! Or do they have Divine partners? Then let them produce their partners if they are telling the truth! (Qur'an, 68:35-41) If you ask them, 'Who created the heavens and the earth and made the sun and moon subservient?' they will say, 'Allah.' So how have they been perverted? (Qur'an, 29:61) And how is it with you that you do not give in the Way of Allah, when the inheritance of the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah? Those of you who gave and fought before the Victory are not the same as those who gave and fought afterwards. They are higher in rank. But to each of them Allah has promised the Best. Allah is aware of what you do. (Qur'an, 57:10) Does not man recall that We created him before when he was not anything? (Qur'an, 19:67) You have known the first formation, so will you not pay heed? (Qur'an, 56:62) Say: 'What do you think? If, one morning, your water disappears into the earth who will bring you running water?' (Qur'an, 67:30) Those who adulterate Our Signs are not concealed from Us. Who is better—someone who will be thrown into the fire or someone who will arrive in safety on the Day of Rising? Do what you like. He sees whatever you do. (Qur'an, 41:40) Say: 'What do you think? If it is from Allah and you reject it, who could be more misguided than someone entrenched in hostility to it?' (Qur'an, 41:52) We left it as a Sign. But is there any rememberer there? How terrible were My punishment and warnings! We have made the Qur'an easy to remember. But is there any rememberer there? (Qur'an, 54:15-17) Who is better guided: he who goes grovelling on his face or he who walks upright on a straight path? (Qur'an, 67:22) Have they not looked into the dominions of the heavens and the earth and what Allah has created, and seen that it may well be that their appointed time is near? In what discourse after this will they believe? (Qur'an, 7:185) Those are Allah's Signs We recite to you with truth. In what discourse, then, after Allah and His Signs, will they believe? (Qur'an, 45:6) They say, 'Why was this Qur'an not sent down to one of the great men of the two cities?' Is it, then, they who allocate the mercy of your Lord? We have allocated their livelihood among them in the life of this world and raised some of them above others in rank so that some of them are subservient to others. But the mercy of your Lord is better than anything they amass. (Qur'an, 43:31-32)
We destroyed those of your kind in the past. But is there any rememberer there? (Qur'an, 54:51) SOME OF THE CAUSE AND EFFECT
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