Does God never guide disbelievers?
September 22, 2012 at 1:36 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2012 at 1:39 pm by Mystic.)
There is a lot of verses that state God doesn’t guide the disbelieving people. Other verses state that God doesn’t guide the unjust people.
Now these verses can be interpreted that God will not guide them while they disbelieve/don’t believe/are unjust, and would guide them if they leave that state, but even this is problematic because according to Islam leaving the state of disbelief or unjust state to just state would be “guidance”. It also stated no soul believes unless God wills it and that nothing happens without God’s will.
And some verses are promises that disbelievers will never believe, like the following:
In fact, being deaf, dumb, and blind is for the purpose of not returning:
Basically, they are hopeless, in the darkness, will never understand the book, deaf to hear the call.
Then we have Suratal Kaffiroon, which states, that they will not worship what Mohammad Worships.
Now this can be said to refer to disbelievers in that area of that time, but even then, it’s problematic. This is because disbelievers came into the religion (see Suratal Nasr) per Quran after the victory, and there are verses that talk about reward of those whom spend money in the way of God after and fought, and those whom did before, and they would all be rewarded good. So you can see, they became believers, even if initially when they converted outwardly, they were not believers.
This verse summarizes it perfectly:
But they ended up following.
And if we look at some of the verses, they are describing people whom disbelieve in general and the verses are general about whomever rejects God’s guidance. Therefore you have this additional problem.
Now these verses can be interpreted that God will not guide them while they disbelieve/don’t believe/are unjust, and would guide them if they leave that state, but even this is problematic because according to Islam leaving the state of disbelief or unjust state to just state would be “guidance”. It also stated no soul believes unless God wills it and that nothing happens without God’s will.
And some verses are promises that disbelievers will never believe, like the following:
In fact, being deaf, dumb, and blind is for the purpose of not returning:
Basically, they are hopeless, in the darkness, will never understand the book, deaf to hear the call.
Then we have Suratal Kaffiroon, which states, that they will not worship what Mohammad Worships.
Now this can be said to refer to disbelievers in that area of that time, but even then, it’s problematic. This is because disbelievers came into the religion (see Suratal Nasr) per Quran after the victory, and there are verses that talk about reward of those whom spend money in the way of God after and fought, and those whom did before, and they would all be rewarded good. So you can see, they became believers, even if initially when they converted outwardly, they were not believers.
This verse summarizes it perfectly:
But they ended up following.
And if we look at some of the verses, they are describing people whom disbelieve in general and the verses are general about whomever rejects God’s guidance. Therefore you have this additional problem.
