Editing Screen: Surah Ale-Imran 3 : 151

Editing: Ale-Imran

Description <p><strong>Explanatory Note </strong></p> <p>A promise from God, the Almighty, to strike terror into the hearts of the unbelievers is sufficient guarantee to bring the battle to a decisive victory for the believers who support Him, against His enemies. It is a promise which holds true in every confrontation between belief and disbelief. Every time the unbelievers come face to face with the believers, fear overcomes them, because God strikes that feeling into their hearts. What is important for this feeling to surface is that the believers themselves truly feel their faith. They must genuinely submit themselves to God alone, and have total confidence in God’s help and entertain no shred of doubt that victory will be given to God’s soldiers and that God will accomplish His will and that the unbelievers can never frustrate what God wants to accomplish. Sometimes, appearances may suggest the contrary, but the believers have to trust in God’s promise because it will always come true, regardless of what people may see with their own eyes or judge with their own minds. The unbelievers will feel terror in their hearts, because they do not rely on any firm support. They have<br /> no power of their own, and they do not enjoy the support of any other powerful source. They have  attributed to  God  partners  who  have  no  authority  or  power  of  their  own, because God has never bestowed any warrant on them.</p> <p>The  expression  <strong>“something  for  which  He  has  never  granted  any  warrant,” </strong> is particularly significant. It is frequently used in the Qur’ān, sometimes to describe the partners associated with God, and at other times to describe false beliefs. It points to a basic and fundamental principle. An idea, a principle, a person or an organisation can live, survive and be effective only according to what it enjoys of real force. Such force is always commensurate with its share of the truth. This means that it is only powerful in direct proportion to its concordance with the basic principle which constitutes the foundation of the universe and with the laws God has set in operation in the universe. It is only when such harmony is achieved that God gives it effective force, which enables it to work. Otherwise, it remains shaky, false, powerless, though it may appear at times tempting and mighty.<br />  <br /> As those idolaters associate with God partners for whom He has never granted any authority, they have no firm support to rely upon. They will always be weak and they will experience terror whenever they come face to face with the believers, who rely on the mighty truth.<br />  <br /> This  promise  always  comes  true  in  any  confrontation  between  truth  and falsehood. Many a time, falsehood has every type of armament when it confronts the truth, which may have little or no weaponry. Nevertheless, falsehood mobilises its forces, and feels a shiver go through its constitution. It shudders at every movement and at every shout. If the truth makes a sudden attack, confusion will spread within the ranks of falsehood, even though it may have great numerical superiority. All this takes place in fulfilment of God’s true promise: “We shall strike terror in the hearts of the unbelievers because they associate partners with God [something] for which He has never granted any warrant.” All this takes place in this life. As for the hereafter, a dismal and sorrowful destiny awaits the wrongdoers:<strong> “Their abode is the fire, and evil indeed is the dwelling place of the wrongdoers.”</strong></p>

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