RE: [Quranic Reflection]: is being closed minded the cause of disbelief ?
February 1, 2021 at 6:58 am
(February 1, 2021 at 5:36 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: According to that verse, the cause of disbelief is Allah, and nothing else. It says that we can only believe if Allah gives us permission to do so, but he'll punish us for not believing.
What a fucking monster.
Boru
Indeed, Quran is clear in many places that Allah purposely created many people and jinns for hell with their "hearts closed" and their "eyes that can not see". So many people are predestined to go to Hell because Allah wants it that way.
Here are just some of these verses:
(7:179) And certainly We have created for Hell many of the jinn and mankind; they have hearts with which they fail to understand; and they have eyes with which they fail to see; and they have ears with which they fail to hear. They are like cattle - indeed, even more astray. Such are utterly heedless.
(28:56) Indeed, you [Prophet] do not guide whome you like, but Allah guides whome He wills.
16:37 Allah certainly does not guide those He leaves to stray, and they will have no helpers.
18:17 Whoever Allah guides is truly guided. But whoever He leaves to stray, you will never find for them a guiding mentor.
6:125 Whoever Allah wills to guide, He opens their heart to Islam. But whoever He wills to leave astray, He makes their chest tight and constricted as if they were climbing up into the sky. This is how Allah dooms those who disbelieve.
2:6-7 Indeed, those who disbelieve - it is all the same for them whether you warn them or do not warn them - they will not believe. Allah has set a seal upon their hearts and upon their hearing, and over their vision is a veil. And for them is a great punishment.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
