The Qur’an For All Humanity
Knowledge and Ignorance
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KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE
When harm is done to man, he prays to his Lord
and turns to Him in repentance; yet no sooner
does He bestow on him His favour than he forgets
what he had prayed and sets up equals to Him, in
order to lead men away from His path.
Say: ‘Enjoy your unbelief awhile; but you shall
surely be consigned to Hell. Can he who passes his
night in adoration, standing up or on his knees,
who dreads the terrors of the life to come and hopes
to earn the mercy of his Lord, (be compared to the
unbeliever)? Are the wise and ignorant equal?’
Truly, none will take heed but men of
understanding.
(The Qur’an 39:8-9)
Everyone experiences moments of helplessness,
when the things treated by him as props fail to help
him. In moments of adversity, man then turns away
from all material support and begins to invoke the
Almighty. It is as if he has come to realise that there
is no god but the one God. But no sooner he is clear
of adversity than he reverts to his previous state.
