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ATTRIBUTES OF DISBELIEVERS
IN THE QUR'AN

W hereas Allah has described believers in the Qur'an
with the best of names, He has found disbelievers,
W idolaters and hypocrites deserving of the most dis-
honorable ones since disbelievers are guilty. The offence they commit
is the most serious offence ever. It is the most serious offence in the
universe to be disobedient and ungrateful to Allah, Who created and
gave one. Man is created to be a servant to Allah and will be repaid for
it if he rejects his reason for existence. Allah debases that person both
spiritually and physically to the most contemptible level. And that
person is referred to with the basest names. Allah describes disbeliev-
ers in the Qur'an as follows:
But do not obey any vile swearer of oaths, any backbiter, slander-
monger, impeder of good, evil aggressor, gross, coarse and further-
more, despicable, (Surat al-Qalam, 10-13)
... like panicked donkeys, fleeing from a lion? (Surat al-Mud-
daththir, 50-51)
Cursed be the Companions of the Pit. (Surat al-Buruj, 4)
We offered the Trust to the heavens, the earth and the mountains but
they refused to take it on and shrank from it. But man took it on. He is
indeed wrongdoing and ignorant. This was so that Allah might pun-
ish the men and women of the hypocrites, and the men and women of
the idolaters, and turn towards the men and women of the believers.
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Surat al-Ahzab, 72-73)
The Companions of the Left: how wretched the Companions of the
Left? (Surat al-Waqi'a, 9)
And the Companions of the Left: how wretched the Companions of
the Left? (Surat al-Waqi'a, 41)
When the most unfortunate of them broke forth with, (Surat ash-
Shams, 12)
And are begrudging towards you. Then when fear comes, you see
them looking at you, their eyes rolling like people scared to death. But