Page 107 - Communication and Argument in the Qur'an

ARGUMENT IN THE QUR’AN

Humanity was created to serve and worship Allah, win
His favor, receive His mercy, and attain Paradise. Believers
direct their actions toward these goals by basing their life
on the Qur’an’s moral teachings.
People experience many hardships while alive. To over-
come them, they must act according to Qur’an’s moral
teachings, for doing so will enable them to escape the
traps set by satan, their main antagonist. His first strategy
is to make believers forget about religion and prevent them
from following the true path.
One of satan’s strategies is to incite arguments among
people to divert them from the true path. Although “argu-
ment” has several connotations in the Qur’an, there is a
basic common meaning: to be superficial, lacking spiritual
insight, and engaging in pointless deeds. To argue means
to speak when silence would be better, to prolong a dis-
cussion by creating a charged atmosphere, and to ignore
what is good. Those who argue seek to undermine the
truth of Islam, which Allah sent down with many proofs, as
well as of the Qur’an and holy, religious concepts by
attempting to prove their opposites.
Among people there is one who argues about Allah

Harun Yahya