Page 122 - Signs of the End Times in Surat Al-Kahf

SIGNS OF THE END TIMES IN SURAT AL-KAHF

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( (Surat al-Kahf, 55) )
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who persisted in their unbelief even after being invited to
H H the Qur’an’s morality and advised by the Messengers to
follow the righteous path. Overcome by their conceit, they would not
repent and ask for forgiveness. Rather, they were waiting for Allah to
send a disaster. This suggests that they considered it highly unlikely
that Allah would send a disaster, that they had little fear, or even no fear,
of Allah.
When the Messengers whom Allah had sent to earlier nations invited
their people to faith and to live by religion’s morality, they encountered
similar forms of denial and rejection. Every nation that did not fear
Allah persisted in its denial, and thus its people inevitably merited pun-
ishment. The Qur’an reveals that Allah’s eternal law prescribes punish-
ment for those who persist in their unbelief. Some of these verses are
given below:
Say to those who do not believe that if they stop, they will be
forgiven what is past; but if they return to it, they have the pat-
tern of previous peoples in the past. (Surat al-Anfal, 38)
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