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can, but His Plan is different, and in any case it is not for a Teacher to force any one to accept the truths which he is
inspired to preach and proclaim. (6.107)
3:64 - Say: "O people of the Book! come to common terms as between us and you: that we
worship none but Allah; that we associate no partners with Him; that we erect not from among
ourselves Lords and patrons other than Allah." If then they turn back say: "Bear witness that
we (at least) are Muslims (bowing to Allah's will)." 402
402 In the abstract the People of the Book would agree to all three propositions. In practice they fail. Apart from doctrinal
lapses from the unity of the One True God, there is the question of a consecrated Priesthood (among the Jews it was
hereditary also), as if a mere human being-Cohen, or Pope, or Priest, or Brahman, could claim superiority apart from
his learning and the purity of his life, or could stand between man and Allah in some special sense. The same remarks
apply to the worship of saints. They may be pure and sincere, but no one can protect us or claim Lordship over us
except Allah. For Rabb, see i. 2. n. Abraham was a true Prophet of Allah, but he could not be called a Jew or a
Christian as he lived long before the Law of Moses or the Gospel of Jesus was revealed. (3.64)
3:192 - "Our Lord! any whom thou dost admit to the fire truly thou coverest with shame and never
will wrong-doers find any helpers.
4:89 - They but wish that ye should reject faith as they do and thus be on the same footing (as
they): but take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (from what is
forbidden). But if they turn renegades seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and
(in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks. 607
607 Flee: the verbal form which the noun hijrat is derived. Bukhari interprets this rightly as fleeing from all that is forbidden.
This would include hijrat in the technical sense of leaving a place in which the practice of religion is not allowed. But it
is more general. In time of war, if a man is willing to submit to discipline and refrain from infringing orders issued, he
has proved his fidelity and may be treated as a member of the community at war. On the other hand if he by false
pretences comes into the inner counsels merely to betray them, he may rightly be treated as a traitor or deserter and
be punished for his treason or desertion; or if he escapes, he can be treated as an enemy and is entitied to no mercy.
He is worse than an enemy: he has claimed to be of you in order to spy on you, and been all the time helping the
enemy. (4.89)
18:51 - I called them not to witness the creation of the heavens and the earth nor (even) their own
creation: nor is it for Me to take as helpers such as lead (men) astray! 2396
2395 Out of the limited free-will that man has, if he were to choose Evil instead of Good, Satan instead of Allah, what a
dreadful choice it would be! It would really be an evil exchange. For man is Allah's creature, cared for and cherished
by Him. He abandons his Cherisher to become the slave of his enemy! (18.50)
22:31 - Being true in faith to Allah and never assigning partners to Him: if anyone assigns partners
to Allah he is as if he had fallen from heaven and been snatched up by birds or the wind had
swooped (like a bird on its prey) and thrown him into a far-distant place. 2806
2806 A parable full of meaning. The man who falls from the worship of Allah, The One True God, is like a man who falls
from heaven, His being taken up with false objects of worship is like the failing man being picked up in the air by birds
of prey. But the false objects of worship cannot hold him permanently in their grip. A fierce blast of wind-the Wrath of
Allah-comes and snatches him away and throws him into a place far, far away from any place he could have
imagined-into the hell of those who defied Allah. (22.31)
30:29 - Nay the wrong-doers (merely) fellow their own lusts being devoid of knowledge. But who
will guide those whom Allah leaves astray? To them there will be no helpers. 3539
3539 The wrong-doers-those who deliberately reject Allah's guidance and break Allah's Law-have put themselves out of the
region of Allah's mercy. In this they have put themselves outside the pale of the knowledge of what is for their own
good. In such a case they must suffer the consequences of the personal responsibility which flows from the grant of a
limited free-will. Who can then guide them or help them? (30.29)
6:110 - We (too) shall turn to (confusion) their hearts and their eyes even as they refused to believe
in the first instance: We shall leave them in their trespasses to wander in distraction. 938939
938 Where there is sheer obstinacy and ridicule of faith, the result will be that such a sinner's heart will be hardened and
his eyes will be sealed, so that he cannot even see the things visible to ordinary mortals. The sinner gathers impetus
in his descent towards wrong. (6.110)
939 Cf. ii. 15. God's grace is always ready to help human weakness or ignorance and to accept repentance and give
forgiveness. But where the sinner is in actual rebellion, he will be given none, and it will be his own fault if he wanders
about distractedly, without any certain hope or refuge. (6.110)
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