Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Islam critiqued could learn from it; attitude of the spiritualy degenerate?

In answer to the video "No Compulsion in Religion"

After reaching that point where any exposure to the revelation causes aversion, one can choose to adopt a passive attitude towards the guidance from Allah and his surrounding signs instead of fighting, mocking or disputing them 6:25. It would avoid worsening one's state in the Hereafter. In 26:4-6 that gradual severity of a person's condition, and the corresponding spiritual consequences are described; although one is certainly to blame and deserving punishment for turning away in aversion from the signs and guidance, those most eligible for chastisment are the ones that arent satisfied with rejection, but step up their level of opposition by doing something worse such as scoffing at the revelations.

Instead of turning away from guidance in a confrontational and despising manner, a behavior that will only bring regret upon the person 67:8-11, one can opt for passive or respectful denial. Such an attitude makes one deserving of having the hardened and sealed heart mercifully restored, capable of freshly re-evaluating the guiding signs

8:23"And if Allah had known any good in them He would have made them hear"  
6:46"Have you considered that if Allah takes away your hearing and your sight and sets a seal on your hearts, who is the god besides Allah that can bring it to you?".
This is what happenned to the previous nations to whom revelation was sent but gradually turned away from it and kept transgressing until they became spiritually deaf and blind. God knew some goodness in them despite their repeated transgressions so He turned to them in forgiveness, leaving them the chance to nurture and develop their newly recovered spiritual receptivity but while a few succeeded, many failed 5:70-71. One such incident is reported in the Hebrew Bible in the context of the Israelites' blindness to the prophetic warnings of destruction that was to befall the sinners among them as well as the heathen nations that oppressed them Isa29,35.

Most of those that reach that point where their senses of spiritual perception are damaged beyond repair, God does not restore their potential
8:23"and if He makes them hear they would turn back while they withdraw".
They remain in that condition until they meat their fate in the hereafter
10:33"Thus does the word of your Lord prove true against those who transgress that they do not believe".
As revealed to the prophet Jeremiah concerning the most obdurate disbelievers who have no more hope of mending their ways
Jer19:11"I break this people and this city, as one breaks the potter's vessel, which can no longer be repaired".
The Quran similarily compares the spiritually dead, those that came and listened to the prophet's gatherings, as static, hollow logs of timber resting against the walls 63:3-4. Elsewhere, along the same lines, it is said in the HB that
Prov10:13"a rod is for the body of one devoid of sense",
ie a category of people does not listen until punishment befalls them. The verse is thought to be a reference to Pharao.

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