That is interesting. I did not know that. The idea of a God Who would maliciously mislead us, sinners or not, is confusing to me. I prefer to believe in a God of kindness and love only - a God I can trust.
God does not wrong anyone; He dislikes wrong-doers.
To God belong the most fair or excellent names like:
Most Gracious,
Most Merciful,
Most Kind,
Most Compassionate .. this is to people in general.
And He is at the same time: the Most severe in punishing the disbelievers, the ungrateful, the disobedient, the wrong-doers.
God loves the repentant, the one who asks forgiveness, and loves the one doing charity and helps the weak and the poor; but He dislikes the one who transgresses on the orphans, widows, the weak, the poor and needy.
Quran 5: 98, which means:
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Know that God is Terrible in retribution a, and God is Most Forgiving b, Most Merciful c.}
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a To those who associate or join others with Him and contradict His commands.
b To those who devote themselves to God alone, when they repent.
c To those who regret.
But the adversaries of the Quran, spread their propaganda claiming that God in the Quran is cruel and is a wrong-doer .. glory be to God and exalted is He above the words of the falsehood followers.
While this meaning that God dislikes the wrong-doing and the wrong-doer is cited in a large number of the Quran ayat.
Like His saying - be glorified - in the
Quran 10: 44, which means:
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God wrongs not people in anything, but it is people who do wrong themselves.}
And His saying in the
Quran 4: 40, which means:
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Surely, God does not wrong [people] so much as the weight of a minute particle,
and if it a be a good [deed b], He will multiply it [for its doer c], and give from Him [in the Next Life] a great recompense [for the doer of the good deed.]}
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a i.e. the good deed.
b the weight of a minute particle.
c i.e. God will increase it for its doer, so that He gives him his reward in this life of the World and in the Next Life.
The interpretation is by Mohammed-Ali Hassan Al-Hilly.
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replying to NancyDL: Don't worry about it, it's not true.
Your words are the untrue. In fact, you are a devil who conceals the truth so as to spread his falsehood.
And you are one of the leaders to falsehood.
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Not according to my conscience selfsame, ethics and morality don't enter into it. It's about but what science has learned over the last 400 years or so about how things really work and how to test the truth content of claims. The claim that there's a next life is an empirical claim about the nature of reality, essentially that some part of the personality survives the death of the body and goes on to another place. If that's true there should be some evidence for it, but there isn't. There is nothing that doesn't admit of much simpler and more prosaic explanations, so the claim deserves to be rejected as almost certainly not true according to what we know now. If in future some convincing evidence comes to light, I will gratefully change my position, and my life, but until then, I won't accept the truth of anything you claim about it, because you have not made the case. All you've got is a 1400 year old text from a superstitious, pre-scientific, and largely pre-literate, age, and an interpretation of it from a man who was completely ignorant of what science knew even in his own time, never mind what we know now. It seems impossible to me that you, basing your views on such sources, could be right.
I mean according to your conviction: don't you think that there should be the Next Life?
See rivers like Tigris, Euphrates, Nile, Mississippi, Amazon and others .. flowing since thousands of years ago without finishing .. and towns and cities and people live there on the banks of these rivers: rivers with sweet palatable water for drinking of people and animals .. if there was no purpose, then such rivers would change at any time, but it is on purpose that water-springs come out of the earth in a stated measure, and will combine in tributaries until they reach the main river and people live there since thousands of years ago.
The dry land: desolate and barren with no plant or animal or man, and only when profuse rain will come after the drought, then the life will issue with its various forms: the plant, the birds come in addition to reptiles, rodents and other animals.
So as the plant lives with the rain water, without which it will wither, in the same way the material body cannot be living without the spirit, on the departure of which and on its leaving the body, the body will perish and decay.
http://quran-ayat.com/man/#Some_observations_proving_the_existence_
Moreover, see thousands of past generations passed away in the same pattern and new generations came in stead of the past ones .. what does this indicate? All this is aimlessly? No, of course, and if you say yes claiming it is the science; this has no relation to science in any way, and no scientific man can deny the Next Life claiming he depends on the science.
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this is in the
Quran 39: 21 about the existence of souls:
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Have you d not seen that God sends down [rain] water from the sky, and causes it to percolate through the earth [then to come out] as water-springs e,
and [God] afterwards produces thereby plant different in color f, then it will be affected by the hot winds [of summer], and you will see it yellowish g, then it will be broken pieces h.
Surely, that i indicates an admonition for men of understanding. j}
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d The denier of the existing of spirits.
e The ‘water-spring’ exists below the mountain or in between the mountains. The water-spring forms from the rain or from the snow which falls on mountains in the winter season, which will percolate through their cracks and hollows, then the water will flow underground until it will find an exit out of which it will come, and this is called a water-spring.
If that water spring is from the mountain on which snow accumulates, the water will be very cold; while if it is from the rain, the coldness will be moderate.
Moreover, the water coming from the water-spring, being palatable or not, depends according to the goodness of the land inside which the water flows: if it is good without salts, the water comes palatable for drinking, while if the land contains salts, the water will come out salt or bitter.
f Because when water comes out of the water-spring, it will make its way on the ground to form a flowing river, by which the plants will grow, flowers will blossom and fruits will come forth, so that beautiful colors will be formed by that plant: green, red, yellow, white and other colors of the flowers of spring time.
g Because of the drought and heat.
h Under the feet of people and the hoofs of beasts.
i Breaking into pieces.
j This is a parable which God – be glorified – expounds to those who deny the existence of souls (or spirits), and He says: Look to the plant, how it plants and forms because of the existence of water, and it will have beautiful colors and nice flowers, then when summer comes and the hot wind afflicts it, the water in the plant will evaporate, so it will wither, dry up and break up because of its depletion of the water.
Therefore,
the plant will not grow and live unless with the water; and similarly man will not be formed unless by the existence of the spirit, and the cause of his death is only because of its getting out of his body; so if you have minds, then you may think and realize and understand this parable.
The interpretation is by Mohammed-Ali Hassan Al-Hilly.