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Whether explicitly or allusively, the Quran dwells too much on divine unity, the hereafter, and God's judgment of men and draws attention to them in innumerable places, in every sura, on every page and on every occasion, what is the divine reason for this ?
If,
in order to remove countless
doubts concerning the Divine
disposal of the changes,
upheavals and revolutions in the
physical world and in the life
of the universe, and to break
the most obstinate resistance to
confirming it; and if, in order
to instruct mankind who
shouldered the Greatest Trust
and the rule of the earth
according to Divine laws, in the
mightiest and most important
aspects of their duties
concerning their eternal
happiness or doom, the Quran
drew their attention to those
matters not thousands, but
millions of times, it would
still not be waste of time or
words, and they would be read
and studied in the Quran
millions of times without
causing any boredom.
The
Quran seeks to establish belief
in afterlife in minds
For
example, the verse, Those who
believe and do righteous deeds,
theirs will be Gardens
underneath which rivers flow
(al-Buruj, 85.11),
teaches the reality and gives
the good news that death, which
always stands before wretched
mankind, is, in fact, something
which saves both man himself and
his world and all his beloveds
from eternal non-existence and
causes them to gain magnificent,
eternal life. If, then, this
verse were repeated billions of
times and as much importance
attached to it as to the
universe, it would not be
excessive and devalue it. In
teaching countless, invaluable
matters of this sort and trying
to prove and establish in minds
awesome revolutions which will
destroy and change the universe
as though it were a house, the
Quran will certainly draw
attention to those matters
explicitly or allusively and do
so thousands of times. Rather
than being excessive, since
those matters are bounties like
bread, air, light, and medicine,
which man always needs and which
require renewal and refreshment,
their reiterations are a grace
of the Quran.
Unbelief
means violation of most of the
creatures in the universe
Again,
for example, the Quran
reiterates severely, angrily and
emphatically such verses of
threat as As for those who do
not believe, for them is fire of
Hell (al-Fatir,
35.36), and For wrong-doers
is painful chastisement (Ibrahim,
14.22). The reason for this is
that the unbelief of mankind is
such a strong violation of the
rights of most of the creatures
in the universe that it makes
the earth angry and brings the
elements to fury, so that they
smite the unbelievers with
floods. As explicitly stated in
the verses When they are
flung therein (in Hell) they
hear its roaring as it boils up,
as if it would burst with rage (al-Mulk,
67.7-8), Hell is so furious with
the rebellious unbelievers that
it is as if it would burst with
rage. If, in the face of such a
comprehensive crime and a
boundless aggression, and from
the perspective of not physical
insignificance but the greatness
of the unbeliever’s crime of
wrongdoing and the awesomeness
of his aggression of unbelief,
and in order to show the
importance of the rights of His
subjects and the infinite
ugliness in the unbelief and
iniquities of deniers, the King
of the Universe had repeated in
His Decree most angrily and
severely that crime and its
punishment thousands, millions,
or even thousands of millions of
times, it would still not be a
defect. The fact that millions
of people have been reading them
every day for fourteen centuries
most eagerly and without showing
any boredom and lack of need,
demonstrates that it is not a
defect at all.
Humanity
needs always remembering the
Oneness of God
Every
day, all the time, for everyone,
a world disappears and the door
of a new world is opened to
them. So, by repeating There
is no god but God a thousand
times out of need and with
longing in order to illuminate
each of his transient worlds, a
man makes each There is no god
but God a lamp for each of the
changing scenes. Likewise, so as
to appreciate through reading
the Qur’an, the punishments
for those crimes and the severe
threats of the Eternal King,
which break people’s obduracy,
and so as to try and free
himself of the rebelliousness of
his carnal self and thereby not
to darken the changing scenes
and ever-recruited worlds, and
make ugly their images reflected
in the mirror of his life, and
turn against him the fleeting
scenes which will probably bear
witness in his favor in the
Hereafter, the Qur’an
reiterates its threats in an
extremely meaningful way. Even
Satan refrains from imagining as
out of place the Qur’an’s
repetition of its threats so
severely and forcefully. It
demonstrates that the torments
of Hell are pure justice for the
deniers who do not heed them.
The
Quran uses the stories of
previous Prophets
as
an evidence for the Prophethood
of Muhammad
As
a further example, in repeating
many times the stories of the
Prophets, upon them be peace,
particularly that of Moses, upon
him be peace, which contains
many instances of wisdom and
benefits like the staff of
Moses, the Quran shows the
Prophethood of all the previous
Prophets as an evidence of the
Messengership of Muhammad, upon
him be peace and blessings, and
means that, from the viewpoint
of truth, no one can deny the
Messengership of that blessed
person unless one denies all the
other Prophets. Also, since
everyone is not able to recite
the whole of the Quran at all
times, together with the
essentials of faith, which are
of great importance, it includes
those stories in almost all of
the long and medium-length suras,
thus making them each like a
small Quran. This is not a
superfluity but the requirement
of eloquence, and in order to
teach that the affair of
Muhammad, upon him be peace and
blessings, is the most important
phenomenon of humankind and the
mightiest matter of the
universe.
The
Quran gives the highest position
to the person of Muhammad, upon
him be peace and blessings, and
holds Muhammad is the Messenger
of God, one of the two pillars
of the affirmation of belief,
which contains four essentials
of faith, equal to the pillar There
is no god but God.
Therefore, the Messengership of
Muhammad, upon him be peace and
blessings, is the greatest
reality of the universe, and the
person of Muhammad is the most
noble of creatures, and his
universal collective personality
and sacred rank, known as the Muhammadan
Truth, is the brightest sun
of both worlds. One of those
thousands of evidences and signs
is this:
According
to the rule The cause is like
the doer, The equal amount
of the rewards gained for all
Muslims is added to the Prophet
Muhammad’s record of good
deeds
According
to the rule The cause is like
the doer, the equal amount
of the rewards for the whole of
the good deeds which the whole
of his community have so far
done and will do in the future,
is added to his record of good
deeds, and since by virtue of
illuminating all the realities
of the universe with the light
he brought, all that is
contained by the earth and the
heavens including plants,
animals, jinn, men, and angels,
are indebted to him, he
incessantly receives the prayers
and blessings of all of the
creatures. Furthermore, together
with innumerable spirits,
millions of righteous ones among
his community have been invoking
God’s peace and blessings on
him for centuries and asking God
to give to him their spiritual
rewards and the merits of their
prayers. He also has in his
record of good deeds countless
lights from his community
members’ recitation of the
Quran, each of its about three
hundred thousand letters brings
as many as ten, a hundred or a
thousand rewards. Thus, knowing
beforehand that the collective
personality of that being, the
Muhammadan Truth, would be like
a blessed, elaborate tree of
Paradise in the future, the
Knower of the Unseen has
attached to him that greatest
importance in His Quran, and
introduced in His Decree
obedience to him and being
honored with his intercession
through following his way, as
the most important question for
man.
Thus,
since the truths reiterated in
the Quran are all of such great
value, anyone with sound nature
will testify that in all its
repetitions there is a powerful
and extensive miracle of
meaning, unless he is afflicted
with a disease of the heart and
malady of the conscience due to
the pestilence of materialism,
and is included under the rule-a
man may deny the light of the
sun due to disease of eye; and
the mouth may deny the taste of
water due to sickness.
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