Answering Questions Through The Holy Qur'an: Does God deceive?

Does God deceive?

31:33 O mankind, fear your Lord and fear a Day (when) no father can avail anything for his son nor a son can avail anything for his father. Indeed, the Promise of Allah is True, so let not deceive you the life of the world nor let the deceiver deceive you about Allah.

(In this Verse, the deceiver is the one who deceives about Allah)(Allah knows best)

4:142 Indeed, the hypocrites (seek to) deceive Allah and (it is) He Who deceives them. And when they stand for prayer, they stand lazily, showing off to the people and they do not remember Allah except a little.

(Verse 4:142 does not say that God deceives about Himself/God, so there is no contradiction between Verse 31:33 and 4:142, because in Verse 31:33 the deceiver deceives about God, while in Verse 4:142, the hypocrites are deceived because of their hypocrisy, so because of themselves)(God does not deceive those who believe. God is faithful to His promise (9:111))(Allah knows best)

2:9 They seek to deceive Allah and those who believe, and they do not deceive except themselves, and they do not realize (it).

(According to Verse 4:142, the hypocrites are deceived because of their hypocrisy, so because of themselves. So, there is no contradiction between Verse 4:142 and Verse 2:9)(Allah knows best)

24:50 Is (there) a disease in their hearts or do they doubt or do they fear that Allah will be unjust to them and His Messenger? Nay, those (are) the wrongdoers.

16:34 Then they were struck by the evil of what they did, and they were surrounded by what they used to mock.

10:44 Indeed, Allah does not wrong the people (in) anything, but the people wrong themselves.

3:182 That is because of what your hands sent forth and that Allah is not unjust to slaves.

9:111 Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their wealth, because for them is Paradise. They fight in the way of Allah, they slay and they are slain. A true promise upon Him, in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Qur’an. And who is more faithful to his promise than Allah? So rejoice in your transaction which you have contracted. And that is the great success.

3:160 If Allah helps you, then none can overcome you; and if He forsakes you, then who is the one who can help you after Him? And on Allah let the believers put (their) trust.

12:87 O my sons, go and find out about Joseph and his brother and despair not of the Mercy of Allah . Indeed, no one despairs of the Mercy of Allah except the disbelieving people."

82:6 O man, what has deceived you concerning your Lord, the Most Noble, … 82:9 Nay! But you deny the Judgment.

(Some disbelievers wrongly say that God deceives, while they deceive themselves; e.g., they deny the Judgment (82:9); most of them are averse to the truth (23:70))(Allah knows best)

23:70 Or they say, "In him (is) madness?" Nay, he brought them the truth, but most of them (are) averse to the truth. 23:71 But if the truth (had) followed their desires, surely, the heavens and the earth and whoever (is) therein (would) have been corrupted. Nay, We have brought them their reminder, but they (are) turning away from their reminder.

3:108 These (are the) Verses (of) Allah. We recite them to you in truth. And Allah (does) not want injustice to the worlds.

22:6 That is because, Allah - He is the Truth. And that He gives life to the dead and that He is over every thing All-Powerful.

22:62 That is because Allah, He is the Truth, and that which they invoke besides Him, it is falsehood. And that Allah, He is the Most High, the Most Great.

6:122 Is (one) who was dead and We gave him life and We made for him light, whereby he walks among the people, [similar to him] like (one) who (is) in the darknesses, he (does) not come out of it? Thus is made fair-seeming to the disbelievers what they were doing.

4:157 And for their saying, "Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah." And they did not kill him nor did they crucify him; but it was made to appear so to them. And indeed, those who differ in it are surely in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the following of assumption. And certainly they did not kill him.

(According to the Bible, Jesus was only sent to the Children of Israel, not to the whole mankind. The Qur'an says that "it was made to appear so to them". Who are "them"? The ones who said "Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah." (4:157). So, it was made to appear that Jesus was crucified to the wrongdoers. God doesn't deceive the believers. But another point is that the Qur'an doesn't say "God made to appear...", but it says "it was made to appear". Who made it to appear so? If Pilate had released "Barabbas" instead of the Messiah, Pilate would have been sentenced to death, because Barabbas fought the Romans. So, Pilate might have wanted to make to appear so to the people, though it is not said in the Qur’an)(See the link below, “Did Jesus die for the sins of mankind? Was Jesus crucified?”)(Allah knows best)

6:26 And they forbid (others) from it and they keep away from it. And they do not destroy except themselves, and they do not perceive.

(In regard to why God allows, for example, the Bible to be corrupted, or allows people going astray, or sinning: people have free will, so people is able to wrong themselves. God is free of need, and He is not to be blamed for what they do to themselves (e.g. people disobey God after clear proofs came to the them (30:9)). So, God does not guide the wrongdoers (22:18, 3:40, 14:27). Another point is that God does what He wills (14:27). He is a Guardian over the Qur’an (15:9); and actually the Qur’an is a guardian over the Bible (5:48), and a Criterion (25:1, 3:4), in order to know what is true. And the Qur’an is for the whole mankind, including Jews and Christians, so they do not have an excuse, but, even if the Bible was corrupted, they have the Qur’an. So, people were not left in darkness, but after people corrupted the Bible, there was a new revelation for the whole mankind: the Qur’an, which explains that in which they differed (16:64))(God does not want injustice to the people (3:108, 68:52, 3:164, 81:27))(Allah knows best)

35:5 O mankind, indeed, the promise of Allah is true. So (let) not the life of the world deceive you, and (let) not the Deceiver deceive you about Allah. 35:6 Indeed, Satan is an enemy to you, so take him as an enemy. He only invites his party to be among the companions of the Blaze. 35:7 Those who disbelieve, for them (will be) a severe punishment, and those who believe and do righteous deeds, for them (will be) forgiveness and a great reward.

35:40 Say, "Have you seen your partners [those] whom you call besides Allah?" Show Me what they have created from the earth, or for them/(have they) a share in the heavens. Or have We given them a Book so they (are) on a clear proof therefrom? Nay, the wrongdoers promise some of them (to) others/(each other) not/(nothing) except/(but) delusion.

16:101 And when We substitute a Verse in place of a Verse, and Allah is most knowing of what He sends down they say, "You are only an inventor." Nay, most of them do not know. 16:102 Say, "The Holy Spirit has brought it down from your Lord in truth, to make firm those who believe and as guidance and glad tidings to the Muslims."

(Some people interpret that disbelievers said about the Prophet “you are only an inventor”, because the disbelievers thought that the Qur’an relates a story in different words at different places. An answer to this objection is that the Verses of the Qur’an are not mutually exclusive, but complement each other, and there is no contradiction in the Qur’an. There is nothing wrong about a Verse adding details of one theme, or explaining it, or using different words (The Qur’an uses the words it does for a purpose, see the link below “The Qur’an and Mathematics”). And it is irrelevant whether a Verse was recited in one place, and another Verse was recited in a different place, about the same theme. See the link below, “Is there any contradiction in the Qur'an?”)(Another interpretation of Verse 16:101 is that “a Verse in place of a Verse” is done within the same “Scripture”, then the previous verse is not included in the “Scripture” anymore. But, there is nothing wrong about it, and it also has a purpose. For example, Verse 2:143 says, “And We didn’t make the direction of prayer which you were used to except that We make evident (he) who follows the Messenger from (he) who turns back on his heels”, so it is interpreted as a test to the people, to make evident who follows the Messenger. Another point is that “the Book” (the Mother of the Book (13:39)) remains unchanged, the Qur’an is from that Book (18:27))(Allah knows best)

13:39 Allah eliminates and confirms what He wills, and with Him is the Mother of the Book.

18:27 And recite what has been revealed to you of the Book of your Lord. None can change His Words, and never will you find a refuge besides Him.

Answering Questions Through The Holy Qur'an

Index

Index (Answering questions through the Holy Qur’an)

Friday, January 27, 2017

Does God deceive?

No comments:

Post a Comment