your understanding is flawed Eucharisted. In some cases it is the result of an incomplete translation, a translation that doesn’t portray the complete meaning of the verses. The reason for this is because often times meanings are lost in translation. in other cases it is a result of conjecture, presupposition and ignorance on your part.
[23.11] Who shall inherit the Paradise; they shall abide therein.
How redundant can you get?
There is an explicit (forever) appended to they shall abide therein. The Arabic word used for they shall abide therein implies a place of permanence. In other words, it is not a temporary place, there are no tests or trials where one can lose his place in paradise, rather, it is a permanent place where those who inherit it will abide in forever.
Abdulah yusuf Ali, gives the correct meaning by adding the word forever in brackets. he did this because the word “khalidun” in the original arabic of this verse means forever.
[Yusufali 23:11] Who will inherit Paradise: they will dwell therein (for ever).
[2.111] And they say: None shall enter the garden (or paradise) except he who is a Jew or a Christian. These are their vain desires. Say: Bring your proof if you are truthful.
This is laughable for two reasons: Jews believe that everyone - Jew and non-Jew - goes to Heaven, and Christians believe every righteus soul - Christian and non-Christian - goes to Heaven.
, perhaps that is the case now in our time after many leading Christian and Jewish theologians helped to form this view.I highly doubt this was the belief of most christians and jews in 600.A.D. I havn’t seen any evidence from that time period to substantiate your view.
[2.121]Those to whom We have given the Book read it as it ought to be read. These believe in it; and whoever disbelieves in it, these it is that are the losers.
So Christias and Jews do read the Bible corectly - and here I thought the Bible was corrupted. (The Book is the Bible, and this is proven by surah 2.113)
I don’t know whether to laugh or pity you here, if you read the verse carefully, it says those to whome we have given “
the book”. The singular noun is used to describe 1 book, not 2, not 3. Jews and Christians don’t share a common book, Jews have the Torah, and Christians have the Gospel or OT + NT, while there is overlap it is not a single book shared by both. You should have been able to figure out from the language alone that this verse is refering to the Qur’an and not the bible. Second, the Quran nowhere refers to the bible or the torah in the singular noun “the book”, and finally all the books of commentary whether sunni or shia agree that this verse is describing the quality of those who read the Qur’an correctly.
[6.39] And they who reject Our communications are deaf and dumb, in utter darkness; whom Allah pleases He causes to err and whom He pleases He puts on the right way.
Allah is the cause of guidance and of error? Okay.
you understood wrong, this is a common misunderstanding so don’t feel bad as you’re not alone.
For Allah (swt) to put someone “on the right way” means that someone is guided by Allah (swt). The absence of Allah’s guidance leads the person to become lost and to fend for himself. If it were the way you suggest, the unbelievers and sinners would come up with any excuse to say “Oh God, we wanted your guidance but you caused us to go astray”
Therefore, from the very beginning, Allah leads everyone to happiness, felicity and the right path and in this stage there can be no misguidance. But if someone willfully does not accept this call and turns his back towards it. then in this case he incurs Allah’s misguidance, which means He cuts off His guidance from that person and leaves him to fend for himself. The result is that person becomes lost on the path of guidance. Being lost or in error then, is caused by not having Allah’s guidance.
Think Allah’s misguidance as a type of punishment. In other words the bad people have gone astray and have been afflicted with misguidance by their own choice. Therefore in reality, initial misguidance is ascribed to the creatures, and the misguidance that is a punishment pertains to the Creator.
