Verse 42:23 and how to interpret it, disciplines of interpreting Quran.

[Mystic]

MK, why God is blackmailing people with hell? Why all that beautiful talk spins around such craziness?

The reason is quite simple, he is compassionate and is using their own god they made (we care about ourselves more than anything else) to free them from that idol, into the love of God through the path of love of those designated as the beautiful name of God, the family of the reminder.

He wishes to reverse their diseases through their disease.  And if we hate God to the extent we don't care if we go to hell or not and won't cease our rebellion to the proofs of God that God has taken upon himself to manifest and show, that is some next level of evil.

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The creed is "the guidance of God is the guidance" and the compassion of God to that degree is to manifest his guidance "say the hiding (of the sign) is for God so wait we too are of those who wait" and "for every people there is a guide", and that guide is name of God (Samuel means name of God), "by the name of God is it's sailing and anchoring" and the number of the creed is Twelve "And we took the covenant of the children of Israel and raised from them Twelve Captains..." and to mix leaders not appointed by God is disbelief "Do they have a share in the authority" but rather such authority belongs to the chosen family of the reminder of which a past instance was the family of Abraham "Do they envy the humans for what God has given them out of his grace? So we gave the family of Abraham the book and wisdom, and gave them a great authority". And said "O you who believe obey God and obey the Messenger and those who possess the Authority from you", and among the things we dispute and God knew would be a primary dispute in religion if things went wrong is primarily who these leaders are, referring to God means of the clear signs in Quran and the Sunnah means agreed upon Sunnah because the disputes aren't about which movie we should watch or something like that but that which pertains to obeying God and obeying the Messenger and those who possess the Authority from us, and indeed, all of that is matter of safety and fear, "you are but a warner", and "And if a matter of safety and fear comes to them they spread it abroad and had they referred to the Messenger or to the Possessors of the Authority from them...." and May God guide our hearts to the family of the reminder, those designated each to be the beautiful name of God, "In houses God has permitted to be risen and his name remembered therein" and attach ourselves to them and call God through them, and Worship God and seek his help through them, and love humans and his creation through them, "Say: no wage do I ask except who wants, to take a path to their Lord", as loving nearness to God is already given to the one responding to the wage, Al-Qurba doesn't mean nearness (to God) as some people assert as that is implied already as the want of the want who would respond to the wage in 25:57, but rather the whole emphasis and context of Quran and the Surah it is in and the flow, shows, 42:23 is about the near kin of Mohammad the seal of the Prophets, and it also means what is goodness but loving the true means of appreciating and loving God and his creation, those who are channels of his and are morality and it's command, they who guide by God's command. And those who heart shiver in awe and crave God's appointed King when he says "Indeed I am making you a Leader for humans" and turn aside from the Jibt and Taghut lest they value obedience to them as much as obedience to God, and set up rivals to God, may they all enter heaven and may God include me among them and among their servants who serve such honorable believers.