Answers From The Qur'an To The Questions The Unbelievers Ask The Believers
ABOUT ALLAH
Pharaoh said, 'What is the Lord of all the worlds?' He said, 'The Lord of the heavens and the earth and everything between them if you knew for sure.' (Qur'an, 26:23-24)
Allah is not ashamed to make an example of a gnat or of an even smaller thing. As for those who believe, they know it is the truth from their Lord. But as for those who do not believe, they say, 'What does Allah mean by this example?' He misguides many by it and guides many by it. But He only misguides the deviators. (Qur'an, 2:26)
They said, 'Have you brought us the truth or are you playing games?' He said, 'Far from it! Your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, He Who brought them into being. I am one of those who bear witness to that. (Qur'an, 21:55-56)
ABOUT RELIGION, THE QUR'AN AND THE PROPHET
They ask, 'Why has no Sign been sent down to him from his Lord?' Say, 'Allah has the power to send down a Sign.' But most of them do not know it. (Qur'an, 6:37)
Those who do not believe say of those who believe, 'If there was any good in it, they would not have beaten us to it.' And since they have not been guided by it, they are bound to say, 'This is an antiquated falsehood.' But before it there was the Book of Musa as a model and a mercy. And this is a corroborating Book in the Arabic tongue so that you may warn those who do wrong, and as good news for the good-doers. (Qur'an, 46:11-12)
He (Pharaoh) said, 'What about the previous generations?' He said, 'Knowledge of them is with my Lord in a Book. My Lord does not misplace nor does He forget.' (Qur'an, 20:51-52)
They said, 'Have you come to us to divert us from our gods? Bring us what you have promised us if you are telling the truth.' He said, 'All knowledge is with Allah. I only transmit to you what I have been sent with.But I see that you are a people who are ignorant.' (Qur'an, 46:22-23)
They said, 'Shu'ayb, do your prayers instruct you that we should abandon what our fathers worshipped or stop doing whatever we want to with our wealth? You are clearly the forbearing, the rightly-guided!' He said, 'My people! What do you think? If I do possess a Clear Sign from my Lord and He has given me His good provision, I would clearly not want to go behind your backs and do something I have forbidden you to do. I only want to put things right as far as I can. My success is with Allah alone. I have put my trust in Him and I turn to Him. (Qur'an, 11:87-88)
They say, 'Why have no Signs been sent down to him from his Lord?' Say: 'The Signs are with Allah. I am only a clear warner.' (Qur'an, 29:50)
They say, 'Why has an angel not been sent down to him?' If We were to send down an angel, that would be the end of the affair and they would have no reprieve. And if We had made him an angel We would still have made him a man, and further confused for them the very thing they are confused about! (Qur'an, 6:8-9)
Or do they say, 'He has invented it'? Say: 'If I have invented it, then you possess no power to help me against Allah in any way. He knows best what you hold forth about. He is witness enough between me and you. He is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Merciful.' (Qur'an, 46:8)
Or do they say, 'He has invented it'? Say: 'If I have invented it the crime will be laid at my door, but I am innocent of the crimes which you commit.' (Qur'an, 11:35)
ABOUT THE DAY OF RESURRECTION
They say, 'When will this promise be kept if you are telling the truth? Say: 'I possess no power to harm or help myself except as Allah wills. Every nation has an appointed time. When their appointed time comes, they cannot delay it a single hour or bring it forward.' (Qur'an, 10:48-49)
They say, 'When will this promise be fulfilled if you are telling the truth?' Say: 'It may well be that some of what you are anxious to hasten is right on your heels.' (Qur'an, 27:71-72)
Asking, 'When is the Day of Judgement?' On the Day they are tormented by the Fire: 'Taste your torment! This is what you were trying to hasten.' (Qur'an, 51:12-14)
They say, 'When will this promise come about if you are telling the truth. Say: 'The knowledge is with Allah alone and I am only a clear warner.'When they see it right up close, the faces of those who do not believe will be appalled and they will be told, 'This is what you were calling for.' (Qur'an, 67:25-27)
They say, 'When will this promise come about if you are telling the truth?' Say: 'You have a promised appointment on a Day which you cannot delay or advance a single hour.' (Qur'an, 34:29-30)
People will ask you about the Last Hour. Say: 'Only Allah has knowledge of it. What will make you understand? It may be that the Last Hour is very near.' (Qur'an, 33:63)
ABOUT RESURRECTION
They say, 'When we have been absorbed into the earth, are we then to be in a new creation?' In fact they reject the meeting with their Lord. Say: 'The Angel of Death, who has been given charge of you, will take you back and then you will be sent back to your Lord.' (Qur'an, 32:10-11)
Nonetheless they are amazed that a warner should have come to them from among themselves and those who do not believe say, 'What an extraordinary thing! When we are dead and turned to dust? That would be a most unlikely return!' We know exactly how the earth eats them away. We possess an all-preserving Book. (Qur'an, 50:2-4)
They say, 'What! When we are bones and crumbled dust, will we then be raised up as a new creation!' Say: 'It would not matter if you were rock or iron, or indeed any created thing that you think is harder still!' They will say, 'Who will bring us back again?' Say: 'He Who brought you into being in the first place.' They will shake their heads at you and ask, 'When will it happen?' Say: 'It may well be that it is very near.' (Qur'an, 17:49-51)
That is their repayment for rejecting Our Signs and saying, 'What, when we are bones and crumbled dust, will we then be raised up as a new creation?' Do they not see that Allah, Who created the heavens and earth, has the power to create the like of them, and has appointed fixed terms for them of which there is no doubt? But the wrongdoers still spurn anything but disbelief. (Qur'an, 17:98-99)
