seekeroftruth
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Quran 6:65. Say, “He is Able to send upon you an affliction, from above you, or from under your feet. Or He can divide you into factions, and make you taste the violence of one another. Note how We explain the revelations, so that they may understand.”
66. But your people rejected it, though it is the truth. Say, “I am not responsible for you.”
67. For every happening is a finality, and you will surely know.
68. When you encounter those who gossip about Our revelations, turn away from them, until they engage in another topic. But should Satan make you forget, do not sit after the recollection with the wicked people.
69. The righteous are in no way accountable for them; it is only a reminder, that they may be careful.
70. So leave alone those who take their religion for play and pastime, and whom the worldly life has deceived. But remind with it, lest a soul becomes damned on account of what it has earned. It has no helper or intercessor besides God. Even if it offers every equivalent, none will be accepted from it. These are the ones who are delivered to perdition by their actions. They will have a drink of scalding water, and a painful punishment, because they used to disbelieve.
Ah short and sweet this morning. I hope this commentary spices it up a tad.
The three forms of punishment were witnessed by the Prophet’s opponents later on. A punishment from above took the form of a storm, witnessed in the well-known battle of the Allies, when an army between ten and twenty thousand strong, which could easily have destroyed the small body of entrenched Muslims, took to flight merely on account of a great storm; a punishment from beneath took the form of a drought which brought great affliction upon the people of Makkah for seven years; while they were made to taste the violence at the hands of the Muslims in the battles which they themselves started and which brought about the final disruption of the power of the Quraish. By the two first, some understand a punishment at the hands of the leaders and a punishment at the hands of the servants (I‘Ab-Rz); in other words, the tyranny of the bourgeois and the tyranny of the proletariate. It should be noted that these three forms of punishment are meant as well for the later opponents of the Prophet. The material civilization of the West has in fact produced the very evils which are spoken of in this verse as being the punishment of those who pay no heed to the spiritual or higher values of life. The capitalists at first had the upper hand and they tyrannized labour; and socialism, or bolshevism, is now wreaking vengeance on the capitalist countries. To Tthese two punishments is now added a third. The whole world is now divided into parties which aim at each other’s destruction and the violence of man against man has reached a peak unthought of by the world. Whole cities with their millions of residents are turned into graves in the twinkling of an eye, and this wholesale destruction of man by man is considered as the greatest feat of material civilization. Perhaps man was never so savage as he is today.
Wow.... ya think?!
There are people who think church is a place to go to be around others. I'm pretty sure that has been so since the beginning of the colonies here in America. People use to work all day and late into the night. Farms don't work themselves. One day a week they were grateful for having to go to church. It was a way to be around others.... to eat and play.... and of course pray.
All that pulpit beating some have done on camera lately, has turned the church mean.
I saw a lot of people online who were afraid to go to church. They were afraid to go because they didn't want to get sick. They were afraid to go because their church wouldn't let them wear masks. They were afraid because their church had become a Super Spreader. A lot of them were put back by the actions of a few.
Back in the days when this Quran was written, murder was profitable. Killing off the Muslims took out all the opposition. There was no one there to question the divination of certain human Bible Characters. That made the church happy which in turn made the capitalist happy because he was once again in charge of the church.
When this commentary was written, humans were growing meaner. Humans were willing to kill when people were at work or at home. Now humans are willing to kill in church. Men wear their guns to church. We're just mean.
