In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
Extract from QUR’AANIC
STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:
170. Wa-itha
qeela lahumu ittabiAAoo ma anzala Allahu qaloo bal
nattabiAAu ma alfayna AAalayhi abaana awa
law kana abaohum la yaAAqiloona shay-an wala
yahtadoona
2:170. And when they are
asked to follow what Allah has sent down, they say, "But we follow what we
found our forefathers doing." Even if their forefathers had understood
nothing, nor had they been guided!?278
278. This loaded question, divinely posed over 1400
years ago, is still valid for people today, including most Muslims! Even though
the Muslims have with them the divinely protected Qur'aan, they hardly refer to
this invaluable Book of guidance, and choose instead to follow what they have
found their forefathers doing. So, they call dead saints to their aid in
worldly matters and visit their graves, even though the Qur'aan categorically tells
them that such acts of shirk would be unpardonable sins [Q: 4:116].
Friday, the 19th
of July 2019.
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