Page 209 - Learning from the Qur'an

That is their repayment for rejecting Our Signs and saying, 'What,
when we are bones and crumbled dust, will we then be raised up
as a new creation?' (Qur'an, 17:98)
Those are the people who reject their Lord's Signs and the meeting
with Him. Their actions will come to nothing and, on the Day of
Rising, We will not assign them any weight. That is their
repayment – Hell – because they did not believe and made a
mockery of My Signs and of My Messengers. (Qur'an, 18:105-106)
If you were to obey a human being like yourselves, you would, in
that case, definitely be the losers. Does he promise you that when
you have died and become dust and bones you will be brought
forth again? What you have been promised is sheer nonsense!
What is there but our life in this world? We die and we live and we
will not be raised again. What is he but a man who has invented
a lie against Allah? We do not believe in him.' (Qur'an, 23:34-38)
No, their knowledge stops short of the hereafter. In fact they have
doubts about it. In fact they are blind to it. Those who do not
believe say, 'When we and our fathers are turned to dust will we
then be brought forth again? (Qur'an, 27:66-67)

THEY FEEL HATRED TOWARDS ALLAH,
THE RELIGION AND THE BELIEVERS
You who believe! Do not take any outside yourselves as intimates.
They will do anything to harm you. They love what causes you
distress. Hatred has appeared out of their mouths, but what their
breasts hide is far worse. We have made the Signs clear to you if
you use your intellect. There you are, loving them when they do
not love you, even though you believe the whole of the Book.
When they meet you, they say, 'We believe.' But when they leave
they bite their fingers out of rage against you. Say, 'Die in your
rage.' Allah knows what your hearts contain. (Qur'an, 3:118-119)
He created man from a drop of sperm and yet he is an open
challenger! (Qur'an, 16:4)

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