A Gift for An-Nadwah — Page 10
A Gift for An-Nadwah Quranic verses لَوْ تَقَوَّلَ and وَإِنْ يَّكَ كَاذِبًا فَعَلَيْهِ كَذِبُهُ nor does he want to. Rather they are rejected in Qat'ul-Watīn and, in his and Muhammad Dīn's view, the following verses are also abrogated and of scant significance: 6 وَقَدْ خَابَ مَنِ افْتَرَى - إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَفْتَرُونَ عَلَى اللَّهِ الْكَذِبَ لَا يُفْلِحُوْنَ۔ فَبَدَّلَ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا قَوْلاً غَيْرَ الَّذِي قِيلَ لَهُمْ فَأَنْزَلْنَا عَلَى الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا رِجْرًا مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ All these verses, including the verse in which God says that if the Prophetsa had attributed lies to Him, He would have seized him and cut his jugular vein, are seemingly dismissed in Qatʻul-Watīn. Thus, according to Hafiz Şāhib, the warnings God issued in them are inva- lid and even if some Prophets had made false claims— God forbid-they would not have been destroyed. He 2 [The verses say] And if he had falsely attributed even a trivial statement to Us, We would surely have seized him by the right hand,—Al-Haqqah, 69:45-46 [Publishers] 3 And if he be a liar, on him will be the sin of his lie;-Al- Mu'min, 40:29 [Publishers] 4 And surely, he who forges a lie shall perish. —Tā Hā, 20:62 [Publishers] 5 Surely, those who forge a lie against Allah do not prosper. -An-Nahl, 16:117 [Publishers] 6 The transgressors changed it for a word other than that which was said to them. So We sent down upon the trans- gressors a punishment from heaven, —Al-Baqarah, 2:60 [Publishers] 10