Why do they not study the Quran carefully?
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Since the Quran is God’s message to all the people, regardless
of their languages, the sincere believ-ers who do not know Arabic
know the Quran better than the Arabic-speaking disbelievers. (See
41:44). God Himself is the teacher of the Quran (55:1-2). He teaches
us what we need at the time He sees fit. “We” here means
the students of the Quran who are sincere. The insincere readers
of the Quran, who read Quran to find fault with it, are divinely
kept away from it. (7:146). They may be directed to find what they
asked for:
As for those who reject our revelations, we lead
them on without them ever realizing it. I will even encourage them;
My scheming is formidable (7:182-183).
Quite scary, is it not? This is because many of them treat the
Quran as if it were just an ordinary book or novel and read its
pas-sages casually, as if they were reading newspapers. Thus, they
are kept confused by it. We would examine to see how easy it is
for the insincere readers of the Quran to be led on and to draw
their own conclusions from verses that seem to conflict. The following
are some five samples of such verses. We will use the Quran itself
in reconciling what appear to flow in collision course in these
verses. Those, with other than the Most Gracious as their teacher
of Quran, would negate the fact that Quran is indeed a flawless
numerical scrip-ture.
1. The death of Jesus (4:157-158)
As we read in 4:157 of the Quran, Jews claimed: “…that
they killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary,
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the messenger of God.”
But God says it is not true, and He gives the answer in the same
verse and the next.
…In fact, they never killed him, they never
crucified him - they were made to think that they did. All factions
who are disputing in this matter are full of doubt concerning this
issue. They possess no knowledge; they only conjecture. For certain,
they never killed him. (4:157)
Instead, God raised him to Him; God is Almighty,
Most Wise. (4:158)
As we mentioned above, those who are not allowed the access of
the Quran would easily conclude from the above verses that Jesus’
life was never terminated here on earth. Thus, some storytellers
invent baseless hadith to claim that Jesus was substituted with
one of his friends who betrayed him dur-ing the process of his crucifixion,
that he was instead crucified instead of Jesus. And Jesus himself
was taken to the third heaven to wait until some time near the end
of the world, when he will come back to this earth to complete the
Sunnah of Mohammad. Therefore, he must come back here just before
the end of the world to complete the Sunnah.
However in the next verse, God explains what really happened.
Everyone among the people of the scripture was required
to believe in him before his death. On the Day of Resurrection,
he will be a witness against them. (4:159)
God is the only living witness for what really happened at the
time, and He is the author of this book to give us the accurate
account of the issue. We learned from the verses, therefore, that
just as in the
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death of any righteous person, Jesus
the human being was put to death. However, his real self, the soul,
was raised to God. Additionally, we noted that Jesus would not come
back here until the Day of Judgment when he will serve as a witness
against his enemies. Since the Quran is a fully detailed scrip-ture,
if we are not completely sat-isfied with the explanation in this
particular verse, there is informa-tion that is more detailed in
the following supporting verses:
God will say, “O Jesus, son of Mary, did you
say to the people, `Make me and my mother idols beside God?”
He will say, “Be You glorified. I could not utter what was
not right. Had I said it, You already would have known it. You know
my thoughts, and I do not know Your thoughts. You know all the secrets.
I told them only what You commanded me to say, that: ‘You
shall worship God, my Lord and your Lord.’ I was a witness
among them for as long as I lived with them. When You terminated
my life on earth, You became the Watcher over them. You witness
all things.” (5:116-117)
Also we read in another verse:
Thus, God said, "O Jesus, I am terminating your
life, raising you to Me, and ridding you of the disbelievers”…(3:55)
Therefore, there is no ambiguity regarding the death of Jesus.
2. No one’s life is cut short (35:11)
…Whenever a messenger went to them with anything they disliked,
some of them they rejected, and some they killed. (5:70).
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