Current Affairs: "Where are those you used to invoke besides Allah ?" [al A’raf 7:37]

October 21, 2011 — salafstories

  إِذَا جَاءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُنَا يَتَوَفَّوْنَهُمْ قَالُوا أَيْنَ مَا كُنتُمْ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ ۖ قَالُوا ضَلُّوا عَنَّا وَشَهِدُوا عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا كَافِرِينَ

..when Our messengers come to them to take them in death, they will say, “Where are those you used to invoke besides Allah ?” They will say, “They have departed from us,” and will bear witness against themselves that they were disbelievers. [al A’raf 7:37]



وَقِيلَ ادْعُوا شُرَكَاءَكُمْ فَدَعَوْهُمْ فَلَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا لَهُمْ وَرَأَوُا الْعَذَابَ ۚ لَوْ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا يَهْتَدُونَ
And it will be said, “Invoke your ‘partners’ ” and they will invoke them; but they will not respond to them, and they will see the punishment. If only they had followed guidance! [Qassas 28:64] 
In these aayaat, Allah is showing irony to the disbelievers. The disbelievers torture the Muslims in the past, and they even torture them today* in the secret dungeons/prisons – and they sarcastically say to the believers – ‘pray to your Allah to help you now!’ [even Pharoah said this about Moses: surah Ghafir 40: 26-27]
So when Allah takes these unrepentant people at death, He makes the harsh angels shout to them; Call upon your partners! [those they called for help in the worldly life] So they will call upon them (in desperation). And they will not respond to them…


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*He [Babar Ahmad] said (6th May 2011): “One of the officers said ‘you are in prayer now’. All the others began to laugh and it was like they were laughing at me.

“One said ‘where is your God now?’. And another said ‘pray to him’.
So when Allah takes these unrepentant people at death, He makes the harsh angels shout to them; Call upon your partners! [those they called for help in the worldly life] So they will call upon them (in desperation). And they will not respond to them…

وَقِيلَ ادْعُوا شُرَكَاءَكُمْ فَدَعَوْهُمْ فَلَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا لَهُمْ وَرَأَوُا الْعَذَابَ ۚ لَوْ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا يَهْتَدُونَ
And it will be said, “Invoke your ‘partners’ ” and they will invoke them; but they will not respond to them, and they will see the punishment. If only they had followed guidance! [Qassas 28:64]


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