Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 729
ATTEMPTS TO PHILOSOPHICALLY JUSTIFY. THE FINALITY OF NON-LAW-BEARING PROPHETHOOD do away with the curse of prophethood altogether. What deliverance! What redemption! Good riddance is the other name for it!. But it should be clearly understood that this logic is applicable as much to the past as it is to the future. Why was Jesus as sent by God before the Holy Prophetsa? Does not the Holy Quran categorically denounce the Jewish people as accursed for the crime of denying him? And what happened to earlier peoples? Did they not defy the Divine messengers sent to them and mock and ridicule them? A sad reflection on human arrogance indeed! Thus declares the Holy Quran: يُحَسْرَةً عَلَى الْعِبَادِ مَا يَأْتِيْهِمْ مَنْ رَسُولٍ إِلَّا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِعُوْنَ * 36:31. Woe to mankind. Never does a prophet come to them, but they scorn him and ridicule him!4. It is amazing why God did not think of bringing this curse to an end earlier in time. What happened to the. Jewish people throughout the long history of their encounters with the prophets? Were they not cursed at the tongue of Davidas? What happened to the people of the. Book between the time of Moses as and Jesus Christas?. Was this universal human trend of treating all messengers of God inhumanly not sufficient to make God realize that prophethood was more of a curse than a blessing? Why was Noahas sent and why Abrahamas and why Lotas? Did their rejection not cause the wrath of Allah to befall upon their people? But for some insignificant few, were they not obliterated from the face of the earth? Still, the idea that struck Maudoodi did not strike God. Was it because it was Maudoodi's mind which had fabricated this 687