Page 117 - Communication and Argument in the Qur'an

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Arguments between believers and unbelievers normally
break out after a believer tries to introduce religion. Either
because they see that the believer presents an undistorted
and superior religion, or because they arrogantly reject reli-
gious morality even though they are equipped by nature
and conscience to accept it, unbelievers are drawn into
loud arguments instead of engaging in a civilized and use-
ful exchange of ideas. Generally, their examples are unten-
able and are brought forward just for the sake of argument.

When an example is made of the son of Maryam, your
people laugh uproariously. They retort: “Who is better
then, our deities or him?” They only say this to you for
argument’s sake. They are indeed a disputatious peo-
ple. (Surat az-Zukhruf: 57-58)
When encountering such people, Allah’s advice is to
walk away before they can say another word:
It has been sent down to you in the Book that when
you hear Allah’s Signs being rejected and mocked at
by people, you must not sit with them until they start
talking of other things. If you do, you are just the same
as them. Allah will gather all the hypocrites and unbe-
lievers into Hell. (Surat an-Nisa’: 140)
We can see that such people really know nothing about
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Unbelievers try to win an argument by bringing their
power or material wealth to bear, or on the basis that most
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