Page 29 - Signs of the End Times in Surat Al-Kahf

HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)

So remind them. You are only a reminder. You cannot compel
them [to believe]. But as for anyone who turns away and is an
unbeliever, Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.
Certainly it is to Us that they will return. Then their reckoning is
Our concern. (Surat al-Ghashiya, 21-26)
Only Allah can bestow faith and make someone a believer. Many
other verses, some of which are listed below, state this fact:
If your Lord had willed, all people on Earth would have be-
lieved. Do you think that you can force people to be believers?
No one can believe except with Allah's permission. (Surah
Yunus, 99-100)

You cannot guide those whom you would like to guide, but
Allah guides those whom He wills to guide. He knows best
those who are guided. (Surat al-Qasas, 56)
Surah Yusuf also discusses this subject. Irrespective of how genuine
the call to faith is, people who have not been guided cannot believe. The
Muslims are responsibile for calling and advising, and after doing this
are to leave the person's status as a believer or an unbeliever to Allah. All
of their efforts in this respect will be recorded and rewarded by Allah's
will, while those who persist in their opposition to the truth will be pun-
ished. Allah reveals this truth in Surah Yusuf:
But most people, for all your eagerness, are not believers. You do
not ask them for any wage for it. It is only a reminder to all be-
ings. How many Signs there are in the heavens and Earth! Yet
they pass them by, turning away from them. Most of them do not

believe in Allah without associating others with Him. Do they
feel so secure that the all-enveloping punishment of Allah will
not come upon them, or that the Last Hour will not come upon
them all of a sudden, when they least expect it? Say: "This is my
way. I call to Allah with inner sight, I and all who follow me.
Glory be to Allah! I am not one of the idolaters!" (Surah Yusuf,
103-108)

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