As-Saaffaat (Those drawn up in Ranks)

Verse 170

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    170. “Then they disbelieved in it, so soon they will know.”

    We must be careful of the end of the affairs, because being neglectful unto the future can be the cause of disbelief and denial.

    There has been narrated from Imam Baqir (as) who said that the polytheists of Mecca and the pagans of Quraysh used to curse the Jews and the Christians who belied their prophets.

    They swore by Allah that if they had had one of the heavenly Books of old with them, they would have believed in it, but when the holy Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, (S) was appointed as a Divine prophet, they disbelieved in him and denied him.

    The verse says:

    “Then they disbelieved in it, so soon they will know.”