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the sea Arabian Gulf in a straight line! Yet he talks of a flood like the Sea! All material civilisations pride themselves on
their Public Works and their drainage schemes. And here was a fellow relying on Allah! But did not their narrow pride
seem ridiculous also to the Prophet of Allah! Here were men steeped in sin and insolence! And they pit themselves
against the power and the promise of Allah! Truly a contemptible race is man! (11.38)
1532 The Arabic Aorist may be construed either by the present tense or the future tense, and both make good sense here.
Following Zamakhshari, I construe in the present tense, because the future is so tragic for the sinners. For the time
being the worldly ones looked down on the Believers as they always do: but the Believers relied on Allah, and pitied
their critics for knowing no better!-for their arrogance was really ridiculous. (11.38)
23:110 - "But ye treated them with ridicule so much so that (ridicule of) them made you forget My
Message while ye were laughing at them! 2947
2947 Literally, 'they made you forget My Message'. The ungodly were so occupied in the backbiting and ridicule of the godly
that the godly themselves became the unconscious cause of the ungodly forgetting the warnings declared by Allah
against those who do not treat His Signs seriously. Thus evil often brings about its own ruin through the
instrumentality of those whom it would make its victims. (23.110)
23:111 - "I have rewarded them this day for their patience and constancy: they are indeed the ones
that have achieved Bliss..."
31:6 - But there are among men those who purchase idle tales without knowledge (or meaning) to
mislead (men) from the Path of Allah and throw ridicule (on the Path): for such there will be a
humiliating Penalty. 3584
3584 Life is taken seriously by men who realize the issues that hang upon it. But there are men of a frivolous turn of mind
who prefer idle tales to true Realities and they are justly rebuked here. In the time of the holy Prophet there was a
pagan Nadhr ibn al-Harith who preferred Persian romances to the Message of Allah, and turned away ignorant men
from the preaching of Allah's Word. (31.6)
34:7 - The Unbelievers say (in ridicule): "Shall we point out to you a man that will tell you when ye
are all scattered to pieces in disintegration that ye shall (then be raised) in a New Creation?
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3794 This is a taunt against the holy Prophet, and it is applicable to all who preach the doctrine of a Future Life. How is it
possible, say the Unbelievers, that when a man's body is reduced to dust and scattered about, the man should rise
again and become a new Creation? They add that such a preacher is inventing a deliberate falsehood or is demented.
(34.7)
37:12 - Truly dost thou marvel while they ridicule 4042
4042 It is indeed strange that unregenerate man should forget, on the one hand, his lowly-origin, and on the other hand, his
high Destiny, as conferred upon him by the grace and mercy of Allah. The indictment of him here comprises four
counts: (1) they ridicule the teaching of Truth; (2) instead of profiting by admonition, they pay no heed; (3) when
Allah's Signs are brought home to them, they ridicule them as much as they ridiculed the teaching of Truth: and (4)
when they have to acknowledge incontestable facts, they give them false names like "sorcery", which imply fraud or
something which has no relation to their life, although the facts touch the inner springs of their life intimately. (37.12)
38:63 - "Did we treat them (as such) in ridicule or have (our) eyes failed to perceive them?"
43:57 - When (Jesus) the son of Mary is held up as an example behold thy people raise a clamor
thereat (in ridicule)! 4659
4659 Jesus was a man, and a prophet to the Children of Israel, "though his own received him not." Some of the churches
that were founded after him worshipped him as "God" and as "the son of God", as do the Trinitarian churches to the
present day. The orthodox churches did so in the time of the holy Prophet. When the doctrine of Unity was renewed,
and the false worship of others besides Allah was strictly prohibited, all false gods were condemned, e.g., at xxi. 98.
The pagan Arabs looked upon Jesus as being in the same category as their false gods, and could not see why a
foreign cult, or a foreign god, as they viewed him, should be considered better than their own gods or idols. There was
no substance in this, but mere mockery, and verbal quibbling. Jesus was one of the greater prophets: he was not a
god, nor was he responsible for the quibbling subtleties of the Athanasian Creed. (43.57)
49:11 - O ye who believe! let not some men among you laugh at others: it may be that the (latter)
are better than the (former): Nor let some women laugh at others: it may be that the (latter) are
better than the (former): nor defame nor be sarcastic to each other nor call each other by
(offensive) nicknames: Ill-seeming is a name connoting wickedness (to be used of one) after
he has believed: And those who do not desist are (Indeed) doing wrong. 49294930
4929 Mutual ridicule ceases to be fun when there is arrogance or selfishness or malice behind it. We may laugh with
people, to share in the happiness of life: we must never laugh at people in contempt or ridicule. In many things they
may be better than ourselves! (49.11)
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