Page 15 - Commonly Disregarded Qur'anic Rulings

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prayers, he will earn the rewards for those acts of worship in
the Hereafter. Yet, if one intentionally disregards and neglects
other commandments in the Qur’an, then his acts of worship
may well become unacceptable in the Sight of Allah. For this
very reason, Allah warns all believers against the danger and
summons them to abandon the misconceptions of religion
they have inherited from their forefathers, which were
shaped by a superstitious conception and ignorant reasoning:
“When they are told, ‘Follow what Allah has sent
down to you,’ They say, ‘We are following what we
found our fathers doing.’ What, even though their
fathers did not understand a thing and were not
guided!” (Surat al-Baqara; 170)
Yet some people, despite having been given guidance,
insist on this kind of superstitious conception.
The purpose of this book is to serve as a reminder to
those who have not realized their error or considered the
penalty such an attitude will entail and to summon them to
live by the true principles of Islam. Allah declares that man is
responsible for all the commandments in the Qur’an.
Someone who becomes distracted by everyday matters—
who ignores numerous verses of the Qur’an, assuming that
Islam means merely praying five times a day and fasting—will
not dare to say in the Hereafter, “I was unaware of those
verses” or offer excuses to justify his negligence in learning
the commandments of the Qur’an. Allah describes the situa-
tion of such people:
Do you, then, believe in one part of the Book and
reject the other? What repayment will there be for