The stampede of people in this worldly life is due to the laws of Allah Almighty in His creation...
Selections from the Book The King Prophets...
Written by Dr. Ali Muhammad Al-Sallabi...
Episode (17)
- {And if it were not for Allah checking [some] people by means of others, the earth would have been corrupted, but Allah is full of bounty to the worlds} [Al-Baqarah: 251]:
The verses followed the battle and its outcome, by mentioning a law of Allah’s laws, which is the law of Stampede among people that results in the disappearance of the weak and the survival of the strong, and the meaning of this miraculous Qur’anic sentence, as Muhammad Rashid Reda mentioned: Had it not been for the fact that Allah Almighty repels the people of falsehood with the people of truth, and the people of corruption on earth with the people of reform, the people of falsehood and corruption on earth would have prevailed and wronged the righteous, and brought them down, until they had authority alone and the earth would be corrupted by their corruption. It was from Allah’s favor to the worlds, and His benevolence to all people, that He permitted the people of His true religion, the reformers of the earth, to fight the corruptors therein of the unbelievers and transgressors. The people of truth wage war against the people of falsehood at all times, and Allah supports them, as long as they support the truth and want reform on earth.
Sheikh Muhammad Abu Zahra - may Allah have mercy on him - said in the Almighty’s saying: {but Allah is full of bounty to the worlds}: This noble conclusion indicates three things:
The first is that this wise organization is a result of Allah’s grace and mercy, and His blessings upon His creation, and this is not an obligation on Him, Glory be to Him. This is because He created people, and He created with them minds with which they know their good and evil. If they walk in the path of goodness and success, they will have what they intended for, and if they walk in the path of evil and corruption, then they will go to the abyss, and upon them is the calamity of their affairs, and the outcome of their work is only from His grace, and he indicated this conclusion by the Almighty’s saying: {but Allah is full of bounty to the worlds}, he described this as a bounty from the Lord of the worlds, The Creator of all mankind.
The second matter: The great grace of Allah Almighty, and the abundance of bounty is indicated by the indefiniteness in the Almighty’s saying: {full of bounty} meaning the possessor of much bounty; Its value is not understood, its nature is not known, and it is not limited by a quantity in order to be known and specified by definition.
The third matter: The blessing that Allah has bestowed upon His creation in repelling corruption is bestowed upon believers and polytheists, the evil and the righteous. Because if corruption spreads, no one is safe from it, and when goodness is achieved, it spreads to everyone. Sheikh Muhammad indicated this meaning by the Almighty’s saying: {to the worlds}, Allah did not say; "to the believers or the pious", but rather goodness spread to all people to indicate that sublime meaning.
This is the story of the Children of Israel who prevailed over their affairs and then they replaced glory with humiliation, and it is a story that reveals the laws of meeting and wars, and the most important ways of government.
Episode references:
- Ali Muhammad Al-Sallabi, The King Prophets, pp. 98-100.
- Flower of Interpretations (2/913)..
For further information and review of the sources for the article, see:
The Book of King Prophets on the official website of Sheikh Dr. Ali Muhammad Al-Sallabi:
