Maariful Quran - Mufti Shafi Usmani RA - Vol - 5 - Page

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Commentary
The first doubt expressed by these disbelievers was: If Allah does not
like our Kufr and Shirk and other unlawful deeds, why would He not
stop us from doing so by force?
The absurdity of this doubt was all too evident. Therefore, instead of
answering it, just saying words of comfort for the Holy Prophet was
considered sufficient, so that he does not feel sad about such senseless
questions. The reason why their doubt was absurd is also obvious. Allah
Ta'Zlila has set up the system of this world on the basic arrangement that
human beings have not been kept under compulsion totally. A kind of
power to choose was given to them. If they use this choice in obedience to
Allah, they have their reward for it; and if they use it to disobey Him,
then, there stands His promise of punishment. That there will be a day
of Judgment when the dead shall be resurrected and called to account
for their deeds are the consequential outcome of this early warning. If
Allah Tam5 had decided that He would force everyone to obey Him, who
then would have dared to remain outside the fold of obedience to Him?
But, His wisdom so required that such compulsion was not appropriate.
Therefore, choice was given to human beings. Now, if the disbelievers
were to say - had Allah disliked our ways, why would He not stop us by
force? - it is an absurd and hostile question.
Has a Ras'til of Allah appeared in India and Pakistan too?
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raise a messenger among every people), as well as from verse 24 of SErah
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35 (And there is no group of people among whom
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there has not been a Warner - 35:24), it outwardly appears that messengers
may have also been sent to areas now known as India and Pakistan
- whether residents of the area, or located in another country whose deputies
or emissaries had reached there. Then, there is the verse of SErah
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Al-Qasas: >,i; 2 L: c$;@, (SO that you may warn a people unto whom
came no Garner - 28:46). The sense released by the verse is that no warner
had come before him to the people unto whom the Holy Prophet @
was sent. This can be answered by saying that this obviously refers to
the people of Arabia who became the first addressees of the prophetic
mission of SayyidnZ Muhammad al-MustaE - the fact being that no
prophet since SayyidnZ Isma'il had appeared among them. There-