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3:86-91 THE LAST MESSENGER - ABSOLUTE
3:86 “ How can Allah guide a (type) of people, who disbelieved after
they believed and they did testify that the Messenger (Muhammad -
peace be upon him) is definitely (and absolutely) true and when cleat
signs came to them? And Allah does not guide the people, who are
‘zalimun’ (i.e. who do not mend their ways, oppressors, hypocrites,
stubborn in their disbelief).”*
* [Al-Quran states at another place:
“ Indeed, those who believed and then disbelieved, believed again
and then disbelieved and went on adding to (their) disbelief, Allah
will never forgive them, nor guide them to the (Right) Way.” (4:137)
3:87 “ They are those, whose punishment is that the curse of Allah, of
the angels and of mankind must fall upon them.”*
* [This is because they refused to believe, when the truth became clear to them.]
3:88 “ They shall live therein (i.e. in the Hell) - where the torment will
neither be reduced for them nor there shall be any break in it for them.”
3:89 “ Except to those, who repented after it and rectified (themselves)
(i.e. accepted Islam and performed good deeds). Of course, Allah is
Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.”
3:90 “ Indeed, those who disbelieved after they believed, and then
added to (their) disbelief (in the Holy Quran and the Holy Prophet
),
their repentance shall never be accepted (because they repented only
by their tongues and not from their hearts because of their hypocrisy).
And they are those, who went astray.” (See the Noble Quran - 3:90)
3:91 “ Of course, those who disbelieved and they died as unbelievers,
even all the gold equivalent to the size of entire earth shall not be
accepted from any of them in the form of ransom for liberation. They
are the people for whom there is a painful torment, and for them there
will be none from the supporters.” *
(See also5:36; 54:10)
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* The Holy Prophet said
* “ A disbeliever will be brought on the Day of Judgement and will be
questioned: ‘ Look! Had you been in possession of gold, equivalent
to the size of entire earth, will you give it in ransom (for your
liberation)?’. He will reply affirmatively. It will then be said to him:
‘You were asked to do the much easier thing than this (i.e. do not
commit ‘shirk’ and accept Islam) (but you did not do it)’”.
(Bukhari: 6173) (See also Bukhari:6189)
* TRUTHFULNESS OF THE HOLY PROPHET
It has been stated in Verse 3:86 that the disbelievers continued to stick to disbelief in spite of the fact that they did testify the truthfulness of the Holy Prophet
1. Safiya (the respectable wife of the Holy Prophet and mother of the believers) stated the following:
“ When the Holy Prophet
and stayed in Quba’, my father (Hayy bin Akhtab) (who was a religious
scholar as well as leader of the Jewish tribe) and my uncle (AbuYassir
bin Akhtab) went to see him. They returned home quite late after
sunset, being exhausted and depressed. I heard them talking, as below:
My uncle: “ Is he the same Prophet (as mentioned in the Torah)?
My father: “ By Allah! Yes.”
My uncle: “ Have you realized him as the same Prophet and have
confirmed his qualities (mentioned in the Torah)?”
My father: “ Of course (yes).”
My uncle: “ What do you then intend to do (i.e. will you accept Islam)?”
My father: “ So long as I am alive, my enmity with him will continue unabated.”
(They did not accept Islam because of their jealousy, since our Holy Prophet
[Seerat-un-Nabi by Ibn Hashsham, Vol. I, pages 576, 577, Sheikh Ghulam Ali & Sons, Lahore.)
