Is understanding the argument a condition for its being conveyed, or not?
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The questioner : There are verses in the Qur'an that clarify that Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, places a barrier between the disbelievers and the Qur'an, so they do not understand what He, Blessed and Exalted is He, says. As He, the Exalted, said: [Al-Isra 17:45] So here, when the turning away from listening to it and understanding it, and understanding the argument, is the cause of not understanding the argument, then the argument is established in such evidence. And if he did not understand it, but the establishment of the argument here is due to the turning away.
The Shaykh : First: This placement is a legislative placement, not a natural one. Perhaps this distinction is clear to you. That is, the cause of this placement is the disbelief of this person and his striving toward disbelief, and not opening his heart to the truth if it comes to him. And I will now give you an example after the detail I mentioned earlier. It is supposed that the one who warns or conveys the message establishes the argument against him if he understands it. Why did we say this? Because we are the nation of the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers, so there is no messenger after him. So who will convey this call? It is the followers of this Messenger. As we explained earlier, among the followers of this Messenger are students of knowledge and beginners, and so on. Now, I will frame your previous question in a very narrow way: Can we imagine a messenger, or rather a prophet, who conveyed the Shari'ah of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, to his people, and as He, Mighty and Majestic, said:[Ibrahim 14:4] Yet we imagine an ordinary person who did not understand the argument from that prophet? Is this possible?
The questioner : No.
The Shaykh : So the argument of Allah is by its nature established against every person, but I have set a condition: a natural person, meaning one not afflicted with any of the afflictions of madness or unconsciousness regarding understanding, or the like. So any people and any individual who is sound in understanding and intellect, the argument of Allah is established against him, and there is no doubt that he understood it. But we are now not in the position of the messenger, or rather the prophet, in that we are good at establishing the argument against any sect, group, or individual. So from here, if we cannot imagine, as I said earlier, that the argument of Allah is established against everyone to whom the argument was conveyed, due to the possibility that the conveyance was not sound, it was incomplete. And the examples now are many and very many. I think all our brothersThose present : know that there are groups deviant from Islam, either entirely or partially or in part, who call to Islam actively so that Jews and Christians enter their Islam, and I do not say enter Islam, like the Qadiyyah, for example. These people convey to them Islam with their deviant concept of correct Islam. So, for example, they convey to them that the Messenger, peace be upon him, is not the Seal of the Prophets in the meaning understood by the people of the Sunnah, but rather in the meaning understood by the Qadiyyah. The Seal of the Prophets means the adornment of the prophets, whereas there are prophets after the Messenger, may Allah's prayers and blessings be upon him, and one of them came, they claim, and he is Mirza Ghulam Ahmad al-Qadiyani, and others will come as well in their claim. So this Christian who embraced Islam while holding this belief is not a Muslim in the correct sense, because the argument was not presented to him with the correct concept, such as in His saying, the Exalted:[Al-Ahzab 33:40] And the mass-transmitted hadith also means: .
Similarly, they deny many of the unseen matters, such as, for example, the jinn as a creation of Allah, like the angels. They deny that there are people from the creation of Allah who are obligated to obey like humans and forbidden from sinning, namely the jinn. They do not deny all these truths, but these people call to Islam, calling to the testimony that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, may Allah's prayers and blessings be upon him, and they believe in the five pillars of Islam, and so on. But their Islam is not correct. So those who are called by the Qadiyyah, the argument of Allah is not established against them with the correct Islam. And therefore, I do not imagine that on the Day of Resurrection it will be said to them: Why did you say that there are prophets after me, and the Qur'an says such and such, because they are non-Arabs who do not understand the Qur'an, and the Qur'an was translated for them with a wrong meaning, and so on.
And when you recite the Qur'an, We put between you
وإذا قرأت القرآن جعلنا بينك ...The Shaykh : First: This placement is a legislative placement, not a natural one. Perhaps this distinction is clear to you. That is, the cause of this placement is the disbelief of this person and his striving toward disbelief, and not opening his heart to the truth if it comes to him. And I will now give you an example after the detail I mentioned earlier. It is supposed that the one who warns or conveys the message establishes the argument against him if he understands it. Why did we say this? Because we are the nation of the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers, so there is no messenger after him. So who will convey this call? It is the followers of this Messenger. As we explained earlier, among the followers of this Messenger are students of knowledge and beginners, and so on. Now, I will frame your previous question in a very narrow way: Can we imagine a messenger, or rather a prophet, who conveyed the Shari'ah of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, to his people, and as He, Mighty and Majestic, said:
And We did not send any messenger except [speaking] in the language of his people to state clearly for them
وما أرسلنا من رسول إلا بلسان قومه لبين لهمThe questioner : No.
The Shaykh : So the argument of Allah is by its nature established against every person, but I have set a condition: a natural person, meaning one not afflicted with any of the afflictions of madness or unconsciousness regarding understanding, or the like. So any people and any individual who is sound in understanding and intellect, the argument of Allah is established against him, and there is no doubt that he understood it. But we are now not in the position of the messenger, or rather the prophet, in that we are good at establishing the argument against any sect, group, or individual. So from here, if we cannot imagine, as I said earlier, that the argument of Allah is established against everyone to whom the argument was conveyed, due to the possibility that the conveyance was not sound, it was incomplete. And the examples now are many and very many. I think all our brothersThose present : know that there are groups deviant from Islam, either entirely or partially or in part, who call to Islam actively so that Jews and Christians enter their Islam, and I do not say enter Islam, like the Qadiyyah, for example. These people convey to them Islam with their deviant concept of correct Islam. So, for example, they convey to them that the Messenger, peace be upon him, is not the Seal of the Prophets in the meaning understood by the people of the Sunnah, but rather in the meaning understood by the Qadiyyah. The Seal of the Prophets means the adornment of the prophets, whereas there are prophets after the Messenger, may Allah's prayers and blessings be upon him, and one of them came, they claim, and he is Mirza Ghulam Ahmad al-Qadiyani, and others will come as well in their claim. So this Christian who embraced Islam while holding this belief is not a Muslim in the correct sense, because the argument was not presented to him with the correct concept, such as in His saying, the Exalted:
but [he is] the Messenger of Allah and last of the prophets
ولكن رسول الله وخاتم النبيينBut there is no prophet after me
ولكن لا نبي بعديSimilarly, they deny many of the unseen matters, such as, for example, the jinn as a creation of Allah, like the angels. They deny that there are people from the creation of Allah who are obligated to obey like humans and forbidden from sinning, namely the jinn. They do not deny all these truths, but these people call to Islam, calling to the testimony that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, may Allah's prayers and blessings be upon him, and they believe in the five pillars of Islam, and so on. But their Islam is not correct. So those who are called by the Qadiyyah, the argument of Allah is not established against them with the correct Islam. And therefore, I do not imagine that on the Day of Resurrection it will be said to them: Why did you say that there are prophets after me, and the Qur'an says such and such, because they are non-Arabs who do not understand the Qur'an, and the Qur'an was translated for them with a wrong meaning, and so on.
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