The Qur’an For All Humanity
In the Hereafter
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IN THE HEREAFTER
‘Jinn and men! Did there not come to you apostles
of your own who proclaimed to you My revelations
and warned you of this day?’ They will reply: ‘We
bear witness against our own souls.’ Indeed, the
life of this world beguiled them. They will testify to
their own faithlessness. Your Lord will not destroy
a nation without just cause and due warning.
(The Qur’an 6:131-132)
By drawing man towards him through attractive
temptations, Satan actually wants to prove the truth
of the challenge which he gave to God at the
beginning of man’s creation, that he would
overpower all but a few of his descendants (17:61).
Those who are lured by Satan have clear material
interests before them. There are some who engage
themselves in the pursuit of magic in the name of
genies, while others establish their superiority over
the gullible public by linking their poetry or
soothsaying to a genie patron, that is, they claim to
have been inspired by a genie. In the Hereafter, it
will be evident that those who went astray, or those
