The ruling on the establishment of the argument against creation before the sending of the messengers
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Question:
Is the argument based on creation valid before they are created? And is that what is intended by the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-A'raf 7:172] meaning that no one should be deceived by their ignorance regarding matters of timing? I hope you will clarify this.
Answer:
The argument is not established against creation merely by taking the covenant; rather, the argument is established against creation by sending the messengers and sending down the books. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Isra 17:15] That is because there was not [Al-Qasas 28:59] So the argument is not established except for those who kill the messengers. As for taking the covenant from people while they were in the wombs of their mothers, the argument is not established by that. Rather, this is a reminder to them of the fitrah (the innate natural disposition) upon which Allah created them.
Is the argument based on creation valid before they are created? And is that what is intended by the saying of Allah the Exalted:
And [mention] when your Lord took from the children of Adam - from their loins - their descendants
وَإِذْ أَخَذَ رَبُّكَ مِن بَنِي آدَمَ مِن ظُهُورِهِمْ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْAnswer:
The argument is not established against creation merely by taking the covenant; rather, the argument is established against creation by sending the messengers and sending down the books. Allah the Exalted said:
And never would We punish until We sent a messenger.
وَمَا كُنَّا مُعَذِّبِينَ حَتَّىٰ نَبْعَثَ رَسُولًاyour Lord have destroyed the cities until He had sent to their mother a messenger reciting to them Our verses
رَبُّكَ مُهْلِكَ الْقُرَىٰ حَتَّىٰ يَبْعَثَ فِي أُمِّهَا رَسُولًا يَتْلُو عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتِنَا
Source
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