seekeroftruth
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Quran 40:In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
1. Ha, Meem.
2. The sending down of the Scripture is from God the Almighty, the Omniscient.
3. Forgiver of sins, Accepter of repentance, Severe in punishment, Bountiful in bounty. There is no god but He. To Him is the ultimate return.
4. None argues against God’s revelations except those who disbelieve. So do not be impressed by their activities in the land.
5. Before them the people of Noah rejected the truth, as did the confederates after them. Every community plotted against their messenger, to capture him. And they argued with falsehood, to defeat with it the truth. But I seized them. What a punishment it was!
6. Thus the sentence of your Lord became realized against those who disbelieve, that they are to be inmates of the Fire.
7. Those who carry the Throne, and those around it, glorify their Lord with praise, and believe in Him, and ask for forgiveness for those who believe: “Our Lord, You have encompassed everything in mercy and knowledge; so forgive those who repent and follow Your path, and protect them from the agony of the Blaze.
8. And admit them, Our Lord, into the Gardens of Eternity, which You have promised them, and the righteous among their parents, and their spouses, and their offspring. You are indeed the Almighty, the Most Wise.
Here's the commentary.Note that the coverings of the hearts, the deafness of the ears and the hanging of the veils are used simply to indicate their own determined rejection of the Truth. They resolved neither to open their hearts, lest the Truth should enter them, nor to lend their ears so that they might even hear the preaching of the Prophet. In fact, it was their own act which brought about that consequence.
I am growing really tired of the justification chapters in the Quran. I know they had a reason to be so long winded about their justification. It was 650 AD and the Christian Church was entrenched. The printing press and the Crusades were still about 500 years away. Ignorance abounded. Humans make up their own minds. Humans have a relatively short attention span.... they always want to "remember" what their elders did.... but humans generally "forget" what their elders did... when it comes to religion and war. Humans have a hard time learning from their mistakes. They are so willing to "forgive and forget" that they "forget" who gave them the right way in the first place. Moses... Moses.... Moses.... was given the civil law so humans could live alongside each other and worship God. Humans forget where the law came from.
