Editing Screen: Surah al-An`am 6 : 21

Editing: al-An`am

Description <p><strong>Explanatory Note</strong></p> <p>God denounces all this and describes it as the worst injustice: “<strong>Who is more wicked than one who invents a falsehood about God or denies His revelations? The wrongdoers shall never achieve success.</strong>” Reference is made here to idolatry as injustice in order to enhance its most horrible image. Indeed, it is the most frequent description of idolatry in the Qur’ān. Moreover, it is accurate since idolatry is an act of injustice perpetrated against the truth, against oneself and against mankind in general. It is an offence against God’s own right to be worshipped alone, without partners, and against oneself as it leads the perpetrator to ruin. It is also an offence against mankind who are thus led away from the path of submission to God alone in order to establish regimes and conditions that ruin human life altogether. As such, idolatry is a great injustice, as it is described by the Lord of all the worlds. Neither idolatry nor the idolaters will, however, achieve any success: “<strong>The wrongdoers shall never achieve success.</strong>” Here God states the full facts and the end result of idolatry and the idolaters, or injustice and the wrongdoers. What short-sighted people may see of the affluence that some enjoy in the short run cannot be described as success or prosperity because it is no more than a short-lived situation which leads to eventual ruin. Who can be more truthful than God?</p>

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