Chapter 3: Surat Aal-'Imran (The House 'Imran), verse 18-22
Translation:
God bears witness that there is no god but Him, and so do the angels and the sages. He is the Executor of Justice, the Only God, the Mighty, the Wise One. The only true faith in God's sight is Islam. Those to whom the Scriptures were given disagreed among themselves, through insolence, only after knowledge had been vouchsafed them. He that denies God's revelations should know that swift is God's reckoning. If they argue with you, say: 'I have submitted to God and so have those that follow me.' To those who were given the Scriptures and to the Gentiles say: 'Will you submit to God?' If they become Muslims they shall be rightly guided; if they pay no heed, then your only duty is to warn them. God is watching all His servants. Those that deny God's revelations and slay the prophets unjustly and kill the men who preach fair dealing - warn them of a woeful scourge. Their works shall come to nothing in this world and in the world to come, and these shall be none to help them. (18 - 22)
Commentary:
The God of
the universe is one and he likes justice. All revealed scriptures in their
original form are pronouncing it. The vast universe run by its Master through
His unseen agents (angels) is exactly what it ought to be (as perfect as it can
be). According to the established knowledge the universe seems to be completely
a unitary system. This shows that there is a single Planner of the universe.
Similarly everything in the universe being in its right place is a proof that
its Lord loves justice and righteousness rather than injustice. Then how can
God, who has maintained justice in the vaster universe, give His consent/accept
injustice in human matters.
Each
and every part of the universe is completely ‘Muslim’, that is, all its
activities/functions are performed in accordance with the fixed/appointed plan
of God. Exactly the same attitude is required from man. Man must recognize his
Lord and mould his life in accordance with God’s plan. Making anyone else,
save God, the center of his attention or nurturing the thought that God’s judgment
can be based on anything else but justice is so baseless a thing that it has no
room in the present universe.
The
call of the Qur’an is the call of the same true version of Islam (as was
revealed to all other prophets). Those who differ from this do so not because
its truth is not clear to them but it is because of their haughtiness.
Acknowledging its veracity amounts, as they see it, to accepting the
intellectual superiority of the caller/da'i of the Qur’an. And their
psychology of jealousy and arrogance does not allow them to be ready for such an
acknowledgment. However, this is not possible in this world of God. All their
plans to effect censorship on the Da'is tongue will fail and when God’s scales
of justice will be put in place they will see the valueless ness of their
actions which had given them the conviction of securing success and salvation.
True argument is one of God’s signs. One who does not bow to a true argument
is as if he failed to bow to God. Such people will be raised in the next world
divested from all support.