The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 375
Punishment in this World 375. Imposture is Punished in this World. The Holy Qur'an repeatedly proclaims that God Almighty does not spare one who fabricates a lie against. Allāh. He punishes such a one in this very life and destroys him; Allāh the Exalted refers to it in the verse: 157 قَدْ خَابٌ من افترى ". That is, he who fabricates a lie shall perish. . At another place it is said: 158 وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ افْتَرى عَلَى اللهِ كَذِبًا اَوْ كَذَّبَ بِايَتِهِ *. Who is guilty of greater wrong than one who fabricates a lie against God or gives the lie to His signs?. It is thus clear that those who gave the lie to the word of. God on the occasion of the advent of God's Prophets were not spared by God and were destroyed by diverse types of torments. Observe what was the end of the people of Noah and of ‘Ād and Thamūd and the people of Lot and of Pharaoh and the Meccan enemies of the. Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be on him). . Thus when those who rejected the truth were chastised in this world, how can he escape who fabricates a lie against Allāh and who is mentioned in the first place in the verse just cited. Would God treat the righteous and the false alike and is there no punishment in this life from. God Almighty for impostors? 159 ما لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ ) 157. Tā Hā, 20: 62 [Publisher] 158. Al-An'ām, 6:22 [Publisher] 159 What is the matter with you? How judge ye!'-Al-Qalam, 68:37 [Publisher]