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  • Quran 33:72 – Was Every Soul Asked Before Being Sent Into Test Of This World?

    Shamir updated 2 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 9 Replies
  • Ahsan

    Moderator June 30, 2022 at 2:03 pm

    Yes Quran is very clear abt it.

    Refer to following Discussion 31120

  • Ahsan

    Moderator June 30, 2022 at 2:03 pm
  • Shamir

    Member June 30, 2022 at 2:37 pm

    JazakAllah brother

  • Umer

    Moderator July 1, 2022 at 8:59 am

    This is in accordance with Quran 33:72-73:

    إِنَّا عَرَضْنَا الْأَمَانَةَ عَلَى السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَالْجِبَالِ فَأَبَيْنَ أَنْ يَّحْمِلْنَهَا وَأَشْفَقْنَ مِنْهَا وَحَمَلَهَا الْإِنْسَانُ إِنَّهُ كَانَ ظَلُوْمًا جَهُوْلًا. لِّيُعَذِّبَ اللَّهُ الْمُنَافِقِيْنَ وَالْمُنَافِقَاتِ وَالْمُشْرِكِيْنَ وَالْمُشْرِكَاتِ وَيَتُوْبَ اللَّهُ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِيْنَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ غَفُوْرًا رَّحِيْمًا.

    [This demand of obedience is on the basis of the power to exercise their will that We blessed human beings with.] We had presented this trust [141] before the earth, the heavens and the mountains but they had declined and became scared of it but human beings bore it [142]. In reality, they are very unjust and ones who are overwhelmed with emotions [143]. It was presented so that God [as its essential consequence] punish hypocrite men and hypocrite women and idolatrous men and idolatrous women and bless believing men and believing women with His favours [144] God is forgiving, ever-merciful [145] (Quran 33:72-73)

    (Excerpt from Quranic Exegesis: Javed Ahmed Ghamidi)

    (Translation by Dr. Shehzad Saleem)

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    [141]. The power to exercise one’s will has been called “trust” because it is primarily something which belongs to God. He has given it to human beings. Mankind should use it by considering it to be God-given. Thus before sending human beings into this world a promise was taken from them to abide by it and later also for several centuries prophets came to revive it and to remind people of it. Human beings are the custodians of this trust and will be held answerable for it.

    [142]. This regret of the earth, heavens and the mountains could have been expressed in words and it could also have been an expression of the situation. Examples of the latter style include: “I ask my feet but they refuse to take me there,” or “Would like to go but my nature feels aversion to it,” “I try to eat but my stomach refuses to accept it.” In other words, the implication is that though human beings are outwardly feeble and ordinary living creatures, but are so strong with respect to their inner capabalities and marvels that the burden they have borne cannot be borne by the earth, the heavens and the mountains.

    [143]. This is a mention of the nature of human beings because of which they bore this burden. Thus when things which a person loves as knowledge, beauty, power, eternal life, status and wealth etc are presented before him, at times, he becomes so overwhelmed by them that he goes as far as to give up his life to attain them and in this way becomes unjust. All anecdotes of research and scholarship, inspiration and revelation, valour and steadfastness, greediness and desire bear witness that the love a thing can infatuate him. All the advancements of human beings whether they relate to this world or the next are because of this infatuation. The words ظَلُوْمًا جَهُوْلاً of the verse are used precisely for this purpose. In the words of Imam Hamid al-Din Farahi: فاجترأ على أمر عظيم فظلم نفسه و أورداها مهالك. (Ta‘liqat fi tafsir al-Qur’an, vol. 2, 99). The implication is that when the power to exercise will and authority which is among the attributes of God was presented before human beings, they leaped to acquire it disregarding any of its consequences. This is because innately found in their nature is the drive that the love of something can make them mad and they can go as far as to be unjust to their souls to acquire it.

    [144]. The word يَتُوْبَ occurs in the verse. The preposition عَلى with it incoporates the meaning of “blessings and favours” in it as well. The implication is that if human beings were entrusted with the power to exercise their will and authority, it was because they will be held answerable for it. And if they will be held answerable for it, then regardless of their gender, the purpose will be to punish those who misused this power and to reward and bless those who rightly used it. This is only a necessary consequence of bearing this trust.

    [145]. Though the responsibility is very heavy, the Being who has imposed it is forgiving and merciful. If people slip while treading the correct path and then try to get up, He will help them and accept their repentance.

  • Umer

    Moderator July 1, 2022 at 8:59 am

    Please also refer to the video below from 24:59 to 27:50

    https://youtu.be/sxJid62ad4E?t=1499

  • Umer

    Moderator July 1, 2022 at 8:59 am

    Please also refer to the video below from 23:58 to 29:19

    https://youtu.be/Zd-R9n-GeUQ?t=1438

  • Umer

    Moderator July 1, 2022 at 9:00 am

    Please also refer to the video below from 1:53:23 to 1:55:55

    https://youtu.be/WFuFbzoeALs?t=6803

  • Umer

    Moderator July 1, 2022 at 9:00 am
  • Shamir

    Member July 1, 2022 at 10:09 am

    JazakAllah Umer Bhai..

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