In answer to the video "What Does Kafir (Really) Mean?"
When Allah "mocks" certain people, he does not do so by laughing or joking, but with concrete, appropriate actions 9:79,2:15.
God's word in the next world either abases with utter humiliation or elevates and dignifies, as echoed both in the HB Ps75:8 and the Quran 3:26. The process in the Hereafter is thus not in need of empty mockeries, as in laughter and finger pointing, as one imagines when this word appears. For such anthropomorphisms, a God in Heaven looking down mocking, laughing while his punishment is inflicted, one needs not look further than the depictions of the HB
Ps2:2-4"Kings of a land stand up, and nobles take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed?...He Who dwells in Heaven laughs; the Lord mocks them"
Prov1:26-27"I, too, will laugh at your calamity, I will scoff when what you fear comes; when your fear comes like a storm, and your calamity comes like a whirlwind; when trouble and straits come upon you".God mocking or humiliating in the Quran is always linked to Him delivering verdicts and punishments, facts and evidence. His mocking IS His verdict, not dissociated from it. During their judgement, the earthly mockers and deniers will be proven wrong on various points that were the subject of their mockeries such as hell and the resurrection 83:17. A major humiliation will be when they are asked to call those whom they thought would be their saviors, and then realize their error 28:62-66. Again, this is no arbitrary setting that they will be made to experience, but a humiliating answer to their earthly abuse of the True God
16:27"Then on the resurrection day He will bring them to disgrace and say: Where are the associates you gave Me, for whose sake you became hostile?".The innocent and oppressed of this world who could not defend themselves and whose pleadings were silenced and suppressed will be represented by God Himself at the divine court. He will be the prosecutor on their behalf, claiming justice for them and facing their tormentors who are now ashamed and abased 3:161,81:8-9. Allah mocks, not by sitting and laughing, but by delivering a judgement whose truth will be so manifest that the former deniers and mockers cannot but feel humiliated.
Abasement is not an injustice when it results from presenting the truth. Abasement and humiliation is unfair when one is the victim of inappropriate, unjust words or deeds. When the mockers are presented all the truths they used to mock and deny, God's mockery wont be inappropriate or unjust. Their long and difficult reckoning will be in itself a humiliation;
Firstly with their inability to physically bend their knees and kneel to demonstrate their worldly obedience 68:42-3, then ironically, at one point their knees will be free to bend, not to worship, but to beg to be spared the entry in hell 19:72, just as they will beg in vain to be relieved from it later on from the punishment 40:49-50, chained 14:49,69:30-31, gathered
25:34"on their faces"ie in total spiritual abasement, shamefully holding their book of deeds behind their backs 84:10. They will witness a different spectacle on the plain of resurrection, which in itself is a type of abasement
66:8"on the day on which Allah will not abase the Prophet and those who believe with him; their light shall run on before them and on their right hands".In contrast, this group will be upholding proudly their book of deeds 69:19,83:18,84:7. Their humiliation will continue, as they witness the elevation, and honoring of those they disgraced on earth being praised and dignified by entities called ashaab al aaraf, right before their admission to heaven 7:46-49, begging them for water to be relieved from the distress of that Day 7:50, asking a share of the light beaming on the righteous while they stand in darkness
57:13-15"Wait for us so that we may acquire light from your light. It will be said (to them): Go back behind you and seek a light. And a wall would be struck between them with a door, its interior containing mercy, but on its outside, there will be torture".Their faces will be blackened 3:106,39:60 as if literally
10:27"covered with slices of the dense darkness of night",their whole being engulfed by a thick and burning smoke driving them inside of hell 44:10-11,77:30-4. The absence of light upon the wicked on the day of judgement is alluded to in the Hebrew Bible, including in Job38:14-15. The mocking faces they were making in this life, will be reproduced in the hereafter, but not by their will and desire, rather the violence and intensity of the fire that will come in contact with their faces will cause them contortion in their facial expressions and scaling back of their lips from the heat 23:104. Such descriptions conform with the Quranic notion of there being a physical connection between this world's deeds and the experiences of the hereafter.
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