Page 226 - Learning from the Qur'an

THEY SUPPOSE THEY ARE WISE
Pharaoh sent marshals into the cities: 'These people are a small
group and we find them irritating and we constitute a vigilant
majority.' (Qur'an, 26:53-56)
When they are told, 'Believe in the way that the people believe,'
they say, 'What! Are we to believe in the way that fools believe?'
No indeed! They are the fools, but they do not know it. (Qur'an,
2:13)

THEY THINK SIMPLY AND SUPERFICIALLY
They say, 'What is the matter with this Messenger, that he eats
food and walks in the market-place? Why has an angel not been
sent down to him so that it can be a warner along with him? Why
has treasure not been showered down on him? Why does he not
have a garden to give him food?' The wrongdoers say, 'You are
merely following a man who is bewitched.' See how they make
comparative judgements about you. They are misguided and
cannot find the way. (Qur'an, 25:7-9)
They know an outward aspect of the life of this world but are
heedless of the hereafter. (Qur'an, 30:7)
Wherever you are, death will catch up with you, even if you are
in impregnable fortresses. If a good thing happens to them, they
say, 'This has come from Allah.' But if a bad thing happens to them,
they say, 'This has come from you.' Say, 'Everything comes from
Allah.' What is the matter with these people that they scarcely
understand a single word? (Qur'an, 4:78)
What then of Him who is standing over every self seeing
everything it does? Yet still they associate others with Allah! Say:
'Name them! Or would you inform Him of something in the earth
He does not know, or are they words which are simply guesswork
on your part?' However, the plotting of those who do not believe
seems good to them and they bar the way. Anyone misguided by
Allah has no guide. (Qur'an, 13:33)

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