okay ..here’s an excerpt from another discussion that took place a long time ago.
[Long list of mostly irrelevancies deleted]
What I have deleted, is quotations of 2:281, 20:15, 2:286, 99:7-8, 16:111, 46:19, 35:18, 33:5, 2:62.
Here we go again, same old dead horse is being resurrected.
Mr.Tufail operates on the principle that if you just talk
long enough, you might actually look like you know what you
are talking about. His half-truths on this issue have been
exposed at least a couple of times before, and it gives me
no pleasure to repeat what I have said before. But I am not
going to let this one go by.
2:281: “And fear the day when you shall be brough back to God Then shall every soul be paid what it earned, and none shall
be dealt with unjustly”
The rest of the verses (except 2:62) basically say the same
thing. For the umpteenth time, let me repeat Mr.Tufail that
what is unjust and unjust is also to be defined within the
framework of the Qur’an and Hadith; not your whim or the
caprice of any other self-styled “Allama” whose only qual- -ification is having browsed through an English translation
of the Qur’an. Okay, here we go again with the quotations
that you conveniently ignore.
9:30: The Jews call Uzair a son of God and Christians call
Christ the son of God. That is a saying from their mouth;
they but imitate what the Unbelievers of old used to say.
God’s curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the
truth.
5:19 They disbelieve (“kafara”) who say that God is Christ son of Mary. …
5:75-76. “They disbelieve who say God is Christ son of Mary … Whoever joins other Gods with God, God will forbid him
The garden (jannah) and the fire will be his abode.”
They disbelieve who say God is one of three: for there is
no god except one God. If they desist not from their word,
verily a grevious penalty will befall the blasphemers among
them. "
4:150-151:
"Those who deny God and his Apostles, and (those) who wish
to separate God from His apostles, saying: “We believe in
some but reject others”: And those who wish to take a course midway.
They are in truth unbelievers (kafiroon) and we have prepared
for unbelievers a humiliating punishment. "
A word about 2:62, that Mr.Lomax also quoted.
Commentators agree (and I have Beidhawi’s “Anwar al tanzeel wa asraar al ta’weel” right in front of me as an example) that 2:62 holds for those Jews, Christians and Sabeans who adhered
to their faith BEFORE Islam the abrogating religion was offered
to them. It does NOT hold for those who reject Islam. There is
an explicit Hadith in Saheeh Muslim to the effect that the belief in the Prophethood of Muhammad is a necessary condition for
salvation. I don’t have that here, but will gladly furnish
reference upon request.
Rules of Day of Judgement are very simple and just based on the Qur’an
and based
om any Hadid that does not contradict the Qur’an.
It is common among the armchair scholars to assume that
the initial writers of tafseer and the compilers of Hadith
were idiots. They were not. They took Hadith as a tool to
interpret the Qur’an. What they didn’t do (like Mr.Tufail
is doing here) is read a translation, interpret it in the
most obtuse way, and go back and start rejecting traditions
because they contradict your own interpretation of the Qur’an.
My conclusion: everyone including Mother Therasa, Gandhi, Jimmi Carter,
Lenin etc will get to know our good and bad deeds and will “shall be
paid what
it earned” and "will get every good that it earned and suffer every ill
that it
Good or bad deeds as per Shari’ah definition, not your own
fancy.