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62:2 - It is He Who has sent amongst the Unlettered an apostle from among themselves to
rehearse to them His Signs to sanctify them and to instruct them in Scripture and Wisdom
although they had been before in manifest error 5451545254535454
5454 Previous ignorance or error is no bar to a person or nation receiving the blessings of Allah's revelation, provided such
person or nation has the will to come to Allah and the capacity to bear His Message. For an instance of incapacity
through arrogance, see verse 6 below. (62.2)
93:11 - But the Bounty of thy Lord Rehearse and proclaim! 6187
6187 Besides the petitioners, who ask for help, there is the case of those who do not ask but are nevertheless poor-poor
but contented in worldly goods, or poor in knowledge or resources and not even knowing that they are poor. If you are
bountifully endowed by Allah, your duty is to make that Bounty spread far and wide. Proclaim it and share it, as the
holy Prophet always did. We all receive Allah's grace and guidance in some degree or other. We all owe it as a duty to
our fellow-men to be kind and helpful to those less endowed in any respect than ourselves. (93.11)
REJECT:
2:6 - As to those who reject Faith it is the same to them whether thou warn them or do not warn
them; they will not believe. 30
30 Kafara kufr, kafr, and derivative forms of the word, imply a deliberate rejection of Faith as opposed to a mistaken idea
of God or faith, which is not inconsistent with an earnest desire to see the truth. Where there is such desire, the grace
and mercy of God gives guidance. But that guidance is not efficacious when it is deliberately rejected and the
possibility of rejection follows from the grant of free will. The consequence of the rejection is that the spiritual faculties
become dead or impervious to better influences. See also n. 93 to ii.88. (2.6)
2:18 - Deaf dumb and blind they will not return (to the path).
2:24 - But if ye cannot and of a surety ye cannot then fear the fire whose fuel is Men and Stones
which is prepared for those who reject Faith. 43
43 If by your own efforts you cannot match the spiritual light, and yet contumaciously reject spiritual Faith, then there will
be a fire in your souls, the Punishment that burns up all your cherished idols. Perhaps you will at least fear this
penalty, which your self-loving souls can understand. This fire consumes both the worshippers of the False and the
Idols which they falsely worship. Can this bring them to their senses? Its power is not only over the feeling,
palpitating heart of man (heart in a spiritual sense, as it persists long after the physical heart), but he cannot escape
from it even if he imagines himself reduced to inertness like sticks or stones; for it is all-devouring. (2.24)
2:26 - Allah disdains not to use the similitude of things lowest as well as highest. Those who
believe know that it is truth from their Lord; but those who reject Faith say: "What means Allah
by this similitude?" By it He causes many to stray and many He leads into the right path but
He causes not to stray except those who forsake (the path). 45
45 The word for "the lowest" in the original Arabic means a gnat, a byword in the Arabic language for the weakest of
creatures. In xxix 41, which was revealed before this Sura, the similtutde of the Spider was used, and similarly in xxii
73, there is the similitude of the Fly. For similitudes taken from magnificent forces of nature, expressed in exalted
language, see ii. 19 above. To God all His creation has some special meaning appropriate to itself, and some of what
we consider the lowest creatures have wonderful aptitudes, e.g., the spider of the fly. Parables like these may be an
occasion of stumbling to those "who forsake the path"; in other words those who deliberately shut their eyes to God's
Signs, and their Penalty is attributed to God, the Cause of all causes. But lest there should be misunderstanding, it is
immediately added that the stumbling and offence only occur as the result of the sinner's own choice of the wrong
course. Verses 26 and 27 form one sentence and should be read together. "Forsaking the path" is defined in ii. 27,
viz., breaking solemn covenants which the sinner's own soul had ratified, causing division among mankind, who were
meant to be one brotherhood, and doing as much mischief as possible in the life on this earth, for the life beyond will
be on another plane, where no rope will be given to evil. (2.26)
2:28 - How can ye reject the faith in Allah? Seeing that ye were without life and He gave you life;
then will He cause you to die and will again bring you to life; and again to Him will ye return. 46
46 In the preceeding verses God has used various arguments. He has recalled His goodness (ii. 21-22); resolved doubts
(ii. 23); plainly set forth the penalty of wrong-doing (ii. 24); given glad tidings (ii. 25), shown how misunderstandings
arise from a deliberate rejection of the light and breach of the Covenant (ii. 26-27). Now (ii. 28-29) He pleads with His
creatures and appeals to their own subjective feelings. He brought you into being. The mysteries of life and death
are in His hands. When you die on this earth, that is not the end. You were of Him, and you must return to Him.
Look around you and realize your own dignity; it is from Him. The immeasurable depths of space above and around
you may stagger you. They are part of His plan. What you have imagined as the seven firmaments (and any other
scheme you may construct) bears witness to His design of order and perfection, for His knowledge (unlike yours) is
all-comprehending. And yet will you deliberately reject or obscure or deaden the faculty of Faith which has been put
into you? (2.28)
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