Eternal Words 7- Sura Al-'A'raf Verse37
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(37) فَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ افْتَرى عَلَى اللَّهِ كَذِباً أَوْ كَذَّبَ بِآياتِهِ أُولئِكَ يَنالُهُمْ نَصِيبُهُمْ مِنَ الْكِتابِ
حَتَّى إِذا جاءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُنا يَتَوَفَّوْنَهُمْ قالُوا أَيْنَ ما كُنْتُمْ تَدْعُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ قالُوا ضَلُّوا عَنَّا
وَ شَهِدُوا عَلى أَنْفُسِهِمْ أَنَّهُمْ كانُوا كافِرِينَ
37. " Who is then more unjust than he who forges a lie against Allah or belies His Signs ? Those shall receive their share (of destiny) from the Book (in the world) until when Our messengers come to them to take them away, they would say: ' Where are those which you used to call upon besides Allah ? ' They would say: ' They have departed from us;' and they will bear witness against themselves that they were disbelievers."
Commentary :
Now, in this verse, the Qur'an pays to threatening the rejectors, where it says :
" Who is then more unjust than he who forges a lie against Allah or belies His Signs ? ..."
This question is to emphasize the mentioned matter, as well as the reality of the information. It implies that none is more unjust than the one who forges a lie against Allah, or the one who belies His revelations. These signs are some clear evidences unto Unity and prophecy.
The verse continues saying :
"...Those shall receive their share (of destiny) from the Book (in the world) ..."
Such persons will receive and taste their share from the divine chastisement.
In this statement, the word 'Book' has been used instead of the sense of the term 'chastisement', since it is the Book which informs them of their punishment.
Some commentators have said that the objective meaning of it is that they will enjoy the share of lifetime, sustenance, and whatever has been recorded and decreed by Allah for them. These things will not be ceased from them until death reaches them.
"... until when Our messengers come to them to take them away, they would say: " Where are those which you used to call upon besides Allah ? ' ..."
Then, after passing their lifetime, and that their days are numbered, when the messengers of Allah, i.e. the angels, refer to them in order to take their souls, they tell them where their idols, which they used to worship, are.
The purpose of this question is to reprimand them. It addresses them and asks them why those idols do not come and help them to save them from the punishment.
Some commentators have said that the purpose of it is not their death, but the purpose is the Day of Resurrection when the angels come to take them into Hell.
"... They would say: ' They have departed from us;' and they will bear witness against themselves that they were disbelievers."
In answer to the question of the angels, they say that the idols have departed from them and can not defend them. They acknowledge that their worshippings, that they performed for them, are totally nullified and dissipated. They confess that they have been disbelievers.
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