Essence of the Holy Qur’an — Page 92
Essence of the Holy Qur’ ā n 92 far as to shift the responsibility for their idolatrous practices to God, brazenly saying that if God had so willed, they would not have worshipped idols. The plea is against human intelligence and common sense, and no Divine Scripture supports it. The real cause of the disbelief of disbelievers lies in their pride and conceit because the Qur’ a n, as they say, has not been revealed to a great man. In answer to this arrogant assumption of superiority the disbelievers receive a severe rebuke that what they call greatness carries no weight in the sight of God. Were it not that the obliteration of disparity of wealth, position and status would have rendered social order impossible and would have created chaos, God would have given to disbelievers tons of gold and silver so much so that even the staircases of their houses would have been made of gold, because these things are nothing in God’s sight. As stated above the main theme of the S u rah is the unsparing denunciation of idolatry. But while the Qur’ a n condemns idol- worship it respects Jesus who, according to Christians, is an object of worship, as a great and noble Messenger of God, adding that he invited his people to the worship of One God, but they ignored his teachings and deified him. So the fault lay with them and not with him. The S u rah ends on a brief but most clear and convincing discourse on Divine Unity.