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Contradiction In Quran: Quresh Will Not Accept Islam
I have a couple of questions regarding Surah Yasin (36:6–7) for which I have not yet found a satisfactory answer.
The verses are:
لِتُنذِرَ قَوْمًا مَّا أُنذِرَ آبَاؤُهُمْ فَهُمْ غَافِلُونَ
لَقَدْ حَقَّ الْقَوْلُ عَلَىٰ أَكْثَرِهِمْ فَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَAs I understand it, according to Ghamidi Sb, verse 6 refers to Bani Ismail i.e. the Quraysh who were being addressed by the Prophet Muhammad.
However, verse 7 states that:
“The decree has become binding upon most of them, so they will not believe.”
This raises two questions for me:
- If “most” of the Quraysh would not believe, then according to the principle of itmam al-hujjah, those who persisted in rejection after the truth had been conclusively established against them should have become liable to divine punishment. Historically, however, it does not appear that most of the Quraysh were destroyed or punished in that manner. How is this to be understood? If most of Quraysh didn’t believe according to this verse, then “most” of Quraysh should have been killed according to Qanoon of itmam al hujjah. But this is not true historically.
- This also seems difficult to reconcile with Surah al-Nasr, which indicates that large numbers of people eventually entered Islam. Historically, many Quraysh accepted Islam, especially around and after the conquest of Makkah. If verse 7 is referring to the same group mentioned in verse 6, how can it be said that “most of them will not believe”?
How should we understand the relationship between verses 6 and 7? The natural reading seems to be that the phrase “most of them” (أكثرهم) in verse 7 refers back to the people mentioned in verse 6.
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