Truth of Divine knowledge- never be destroyed by disbelief or ignorance Surah Al-Baqarah (ayah 76-81)
Abstract
Keywords:
Truth,
Divine knowledge, disbelief, ignorance, faith
Lies veil the truth but can’t change the truth
The Jews recognized the Prophet Muhammad
(pbuh) as the Last Messenger, his personality matched the description present
in their Book -the Torah. When they would meet the common Muslims or the
Companions, they would acknowledge the prophecy of the Final Messenger.
But when the common Jews would return to
their people, their Rabbis would rebuke them for revealing the truth. And when they
meet those who believe (in Muhammad) they say: “We too believe in him.” But in
their intimate meetings they say to one another: “How foolish! Why should you
intimate to them what Allah has revealed to you, for they will use it as
argument against you before your Lord?” (Quran 2: 76). When the Jews talked
among themselves they asked their co-religionists to disclose to the Muslims
neither the prophesies about the Prophet, nor those verses of the Scriptures on
the basis of which they could be reproached for their evil conduct; they
thought that the Muslims would make use of scriptural arguments against them
before Allah, and would thus have them pronounced guilty. These were the depths
to which Jewish religious decadence had sunk. They were convinced that if they
could succeed in concealing their guilt in this world, they would be saved from
censure in the Next. For this reason, they were asked if they considered Allah
to be unaware of their deeds, either apparent or hidden. “Are they unaware that Allah knows all that
they hide and all that they disclose?” (Quran 2: 77). Meaning the One Who took
a covenant from them, the One Who revealed the Torah, the One who revealed the
Qur’an, and Who sent Muhammad (pbuh) is fully aware of their secret
acknowledgement and public denial of the truth. We can hide the truth from the
people, but how can we hide from Allah.
This life has mostly thrown us in front
of those who acted true to our face, but it was so unusual to find the ones who
remained true behind our back. But somehow those few loyal people did surprise
us, the fake ones couldn’t prove to have that caliber. Our lies could veil the truth
for so long, but failed to change the truth. How could we even think of being
successful in running with a lie? When we knew that we couldn’t hide from the
truth. It’s always on the march and it finally catches us. So we play a game of
deception with our selves, not realizing that the only most important
relationship of us in our lives is with ourselves, and we don’t prove to be
true there, hiding so much from our own selves. But how good is this that our
deepest hidden secrets and inner feelings are not hidden from the All-Knowing
Allah. He knows the whispers of the souls, the half mumbled duas, the
brokenness of our hearts, the scars left by the people and the disappointments
left by the expectations. We better know that He knew what was, what is and
what will be (Alyona et al., 2016).
Then how can we even think that the
world of creation would come about without an All-Knowing Creator? The existing
order of everything in this universe bears witness to this fact. He encompasses
everything. Allah knows it all (Harun Yahya, 2014). The lies that we speak to
us and to others are always contrary to the faith. How sad is this to believe
in our own lies and the stories that we make in our heads while these lies
leave us only at the edge of ignominy. So why not attain to the heights of
salvation and dignity by being truthful. We should learn to falsify our desires
that are mere deceptions, only present to keep us in deceit.
Divine
knowledge – a proof of Unity of knowledge infused into consciousness by the One
source
Among the People of the Book are those
who have no knowledge of what is in the Book, and base their religion on false
statements, wishes or hopes. They have false ideas about Allah and thus utter
false statement with their tongues. “And there are among them unlettered people
who have no real knowledge of the divine writ, (following) only wishful beliefs
and depending on nothing but conjecture” (Quran 2:78). This was what the Jewish
masses were doing, due to their ignorance of the principals of faith, rules and
teachings of conduct, enunciated by Allah in His book which otherwise were of
fundamental importance for their salvation. Thus they out of their desires and
illusions, fabricated a whole religion. The
rabbis were not contented with the divine scripture so they mixed the divine and
their own superstitious ideas, stories from history, philosophical doctrines
and legal rules. This all was due to their false impression of being the chosen
ones.
“Woe, then, unto those who write down, with their own hands, (something which
they claim to Be) divine writ, and then say. "This is from God," in
order to acquire a trifling gain thereby. woe, then, unto them for what their
hands have written, and woe unto them for all that they may have gained!”
(Quran 2:79). The scholars responsible for
corrupting the text of the Bible claiming that the entire thing was divine,
thus misleading their ignorant followers in order to get a slight trivial
benefits of this small life. If one keeps on committing
the sins without seeking repentance,
these sins get accumulated and finally destruction takes over them.
Divine books containing the divine
knowledge are the connections between the Divinity and mankind. They don’t
contain the ordinary
type of knowledge that human beings have, these message are true
and completely pure. They are the most convincing proof of the Unity of
knowledge, given to prophets each living in different times, speaking different
languages, belonging to different cultures but proclaimed the same universal
message. It was as if the mighty Pen wrote on the consciousness of these men an
identical message even though they lived centuries apart. The logical
conclusion is that sublime Knowledge was infused into their consciousness by
the One Source. These messages like the clouds of mercy have rained upon the
planes of hearts, bringing to fruit the seeds of knowledge, wisdom and virtues.
Those who fail to accept the guidance of law are excluded by Allah from His
existential guidance, mercy and blessings and are left to fend for themselves;
and it is this that let the man be lost on the path.
The enemies of the truth are right
there within our own hearts separating us from faith, good thoughts and
actions, certitude and determination, preventing us from attaining to peace.
Our own evil self is ever ready to protect our own whims and earthly interests.
If we failed in taming these desires, the whole moral frame work of ours be
effected. It’s the fear and love of Allah that enables a man to submit himself
to Him. This submission perfects the man’s behavior and will not only help him
earn merit for his own life in the hereafter but will also make him
instrumental in freeing the world from its self-interested and selfish nature.
We all do commit sins but the crux of the
matter would be to accept them and simply reflect and repent upon them. Since
we can’t delete our life history from Allah, so better offer a sincere
repentance. The sun may rise tomorrow but we may not. So let’s repent today and
keep repenting for as long as we live as Allah loves to forgive and He never
stops forgiving (Ibn al Uthaymin, 2016).
Lack
of understanding, disbelief or ignorance cannot destroy the truth
Despite doing all the wrong things, the
Jews claimed that the Fire will not touch them except for a few days. This is a misconception entertained
by all Jews, laymen as well as rabbis. They felt sure that no matter what they
did, they would remain immune from hell-fire just by virtue of being Jews! The
worst they could conceive of, was the possibility of a transient punishment
before they were transported to heaven as they believed that they were the
chosen people. “They say: “The Fire will certainly not touch us except for a
limited number of days.” Say (to them): “Have you received a promise from Allah
– for Allah never breaks His promise – or do you attribute to Allah something
about which you have no knowledge?” (Quran 2:80). Allah
refutes their statement by asking if they have taken a covenant with Him that
He will never break. Rather, what they say, about Allah, they have no knowledge
of and they thus utter a lie about Him. “Those who earn evil and are
encompassed by their sinfulness are the people of the Fire, and there will they
abide” (Quran 2:81). These are the sins that a person commits without seeking
repentance and correcting his ways. When the sins accumulate and the person
does not stop committing evil, finally destruction takes over him. One need to
seek forgiveness for the sins that he knows and those that he doesn’t know,
forgiveness for the sins that are committed intentionally and those that are
committed unintentionally.
The misconceptions are always harmful
and there will be nothing more dangerous for a new truth than an old
misconception. These misconceptions have to be removed and that will only be
possible through knowledge. And if we are genuinely looking forward to acquire
knowledge, then unless and until we don’t change what is within us-we will
never get it. And that something within us that has to be changed is our soul; the
seat of knowledge. This soul will acquire knowledge through the perception of
change which it will learn through reasoning or cognitive faculty.
Thus this soul becomes the prime actor in the drama of life and all action is
subject to the control of the Soul. If one is able to direct it wisely on the
stage of life then nothing will stop it from ascending to the heavens but if
one failed to do so, it will simply fall to the lowest of the low. This
makes us the owner of our own free will, the creator of our own destiny.
Our actions determine our future and we will be judged by the consequences of
our actions (Abdulsalam, 2018). However, all our matters are arranged by Allah,
we can’t carry out anything unless and until Allah enables us to do so and we
can only fulfill our proposition according to His Will.
It’s the death of the heart that keep us
ignorant, but knowledge proves to be the receding mirage in an expanding desert
of ignorance. It’s the light that Allah
places in the heart. The more we will know, the more we will believe, and the
more we be worshipping Him, because it’s through this knowledge that we get to
know the One Who has the infinite knowledge. And that’s the ultimate truth, and
it’s this knowledge of truth that elevates those who seek knowledge for the
sake of Allah. The best thing about the truth is that nothing destroys it, it
remains and prevails, regardless of the lack of understanding, disbelief, or
ignorance.
We seldom ask ourselves that if we repent,
will our Allah forgive us? It’s the other way round, it’s when Allah forgives
us, only then we repent. If we r genuinely seeking repentance, then in fact
it’s the repentance that is seeking us. A true repentance is not to cry about
what we did, but it’s a change of mind, which changes the heart and ultimately
the actions. This change involves turning from sins and a turning to Allah.
References
Holy Quran. Surah
Al-Baqarah. 2: (verse 76-81)
Alyona, B., Tursun, G, Akmaral, M, Saira, S. 2016. Spiritual understanding of human rights in muslim culture (The problem of “Ruh” – “Spirit”). Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 217: 712 – 718
Harun Yahya, 2014. Quran and Science. Where religion meets
science. Allah has power over everything.
Ibn al Uthaymin, 2016.
Repentance. Purification of soul. Sunnah on line.com
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