Allah tells His Messenger to say to the idolators:
[أَرَءَيْتُمْ
شُرَكَآءَكُمُ الَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ]
(Have you considered your partners whom you call upon besides Allah) the
idols and rivals.
[أَرُونِى مَاذَا
خَلَقُواْ مِنَ الاٌّرْضِ أَمْ لَهُمْ شِرْكٌ فِى السَّمَـوَتِ]
(Show Me what they have created of the earth. Or have they any share in the
heavens) meaning, they have nothing at all of that, they do not possess even the
membrane covering the stone of a date.
[أَمْ ءَاتَيْنَـهُمْ
كِتَـباً فَهُمْ عَلَى بَيِّنَةٍ مِّنْهُ]
(Or have We given them a Book, so that they act on clear proof therefrom)
meaning, `have We revealed to them a Book on which they base their Shirk and
disbelief' This is not the case at all.
[بَلْ إِن يَعِدُ
الظَّـلِمُونَ بَعْضُهُم بَعْضاً إِلاَّ غُرُوراً]
(Nay, the wrongdoers promise one another nothing but delusions.) means, they
are merely following their own whims, opinions and wishes which are their
personal desires, and they are no more than misguidance and falsehood. Then
Allah tells us of His mighty power, by which the heavens and the earth stand by
His command, and the forces that He has placed between them to hold them. He
says:
[إِنَّ اللَّهَ
يُمْسِكُ السَّمَـوَتِ وَالاٌّرْضَ أَن تَزُولاَ]
(Verily, Allah grasps the heavens and the earth lest they should move away
from their places,) means, lest they should shift from where they are. This is
like the Ayat:
[وَيُمْسِكُ
السَّمَآءَ أَن تَقَعَ عَلَى الاٌّرْضِ إِلاَّ بِإِذْنِهِ]
(He withholds the heaven from falling on the earth except by His leave)
(22:65), and
[وَمِنْ ءَايَـتِهِ
أَن تَقُومَ السَّمَآءُ وَالاٌّرْضُ بِأَمْرِهِ]
(And among His signs is that the heaven and the earth stand by His command)
(30:25).
[وَلَئِن زَالَتَآ
إِنْ أَمْسَكَهُمَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِّن بَعْدِهِ]
(and if they were to move away from their places, there is not one that could
grasp them after Him.) means, no one can make them stay and preserve them except
Him. He is Ever Most Forbearing and Oft-Forgiving because He sees His servants
disbelieving in Him and disobeying Him, yet He is patient and gives them time,
He waits and does not hasten the punishment, and He conceals the faults of
others and forgives them. He says:
[إِنَّهُ كَانَ
حَلِيمًا غَفُورًا]
(Truly, He is Ever Most Forbearing, Oft-Forgiving.)
[وَأَقْسَمُواْ
بِاللَّهِ جَهْدَ أَيْمَـنِهِمْ لَئِن جَآءَهُمْ نَذِيرٌ لَّيَكُونُنَّ أَهْدَى
مِنْ إِحْدَى الاٍّمَمِ فَلَمَّا جَآءَهُمْ نَذِيرٌ مَّا زَادَهُمْ إِلاَّ نُفُوراً
- اسْتِكْبَاراً فِى الاٌّرْضِ وَمَكْرَ السَّيِّىءِ وَلاَ يَحِيقُ الْمَكْرُ
السَّيِّىءُ إِلاَّ بِأَهْلِهِ فَهَلْ يَنظُرُونَ إِلاَّ سُنَّةَ آلاٌّوَّلِينَ
فَلَن تَجِدَ لِسُنَّةِ اللَّهِ تَبْدِيلاً وَلَن تَجِدَ لِسُنَّةِ اللَّهِ
تَحْوِيلاً ]
(42. And they swore by Allah their most binding oath that if a warner came to
them, they would be more guided than any of the nations; yet when a warner came
to them, it increased in them nothing but flight (from the truth).) (43. (They
took to flight because of their) arrogance in the land and their plotting of
evil. But the evil plot encompasses only him who makes it. Then, can they expect
anything (else) but the Sunnah (way of dealing) of the peoples of old So, no
change will you find in Allah's Sunnah, and no turning off will you find in
Allah's Sunnah.)
ICTruth.info